skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.ph/dytZs

> I have proposed my own solution, which I call the “Certificate of Dumb Investment.” The idea is that anyone can go to the SEC and ask for the certificate, which says: I want to buy a dumb investment. I understand that the person selling it will almost certainly steal all my money, and that I would almost certainly be better off just buying index funds, but I want to do this dumb thing anyway. I agree that I will never, under any circumstances, complain to anyone when this investment inevitably goes wrong. I understand that violating this agreement is a felony.

I think the right answer is to limit the percentage of our wealth we can invest in something risky. A form of enforced diversification (which is as important for the middle class as it is for someone wealthy).

Again and again we see people that have invested 100% of their equity into a "dumb" investment and lost it all. They would sign the dumb declaration as a proof that it is a valuable risky investment!

Signing "I won't complain" doesn't protect, it helps protect against complaints of regret.

We all should be able to invest in crazy investments, but ideally we have a method to help prevent the "dumb" from losing their houses to the smart financial vampires.
I am fox on fire so Ctrl-W is tab close for me :) but yeah, there are ways (hacks) to make it run in web browser "natively" but only to some extend, I mean you can for sure rebind ctrl-w and other stuff or use chromium, but for me currently real LAN party is playing on electron :) web browser version is for testing and developing (for me at least)
Can it debug RPG? /s
> More expensive, harder to maintain and keep current...

Not necessarily so?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian

As of 2024, Xuntian is scheduled for launch no earlier than late 2026 on a Long March 5B rocket to co-orbit with the Tiangong space station in slightly different orbital phases, which will allow for periodic docking with the station.
time to start a consultancy that specializes in unfucking the mess made by generative AI
NextMaster: OSS ecommerce NextJS template inspired by McMaster-Carr
Welp, Business 101 would call that the Sunk Cost fallacy, throwing good money after bad.
It is not solely due to dislike of tech but rather the copyrights being violated and artists losing revenue to it.
Distributed data engine for unstructured data in Rust
Obligatory link: https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-...
Officially banning fake reviews to introduce liability is a good start, but the real challenge with reviews is the incentive structure.

For positive reviews, a business will figure out customers who they already know had a positive experience (quick delivery, continuous usage, etc) and only send them invites to review. This is perfectly legal and the fundamental business model of many review websites - selling the ability to push invites and “manage” reviews.

For negative reviews - no business wants these, and customers with bad experiences are likely to post them by themselves.

What gets left out is the average experience because reviews are essentially cherry picked from the head and tail ends of the normal curve of experiences. This doesn’t render reviews useless, of course. Having a large number of positive reviews is still a positive signal but it is nowhere close to free from manipulation.
It's a problem where regulating the number of people coming into the country today can help substantially. That very well may mean putting up walls and paying for enforcement officers, but at a minimum is must mean monitoring the rate of people entering the US and being able to keep our cities from being overwhelmed by economic migrants so that we're able to accommodate as many of the climate refugees as we can in a way that doesn't cause the same problem or further destroy the environment creating even more climate refugees and further displacement within US borders as our remaining resources grow increasingly strained.
I read the Hobbit, LotR, and all of the Silmarillion to my daughter when she was growing up. I'd read about an hour a night and often fall asleep while reading. I skipped the songs- sounded funny to read them.

My daughter asked why I was tearing up/choking up while reading "Ainulindalë" (the first chapter) and I told her "you have to understand... this is my origin story... it's like Genesis, but better"

"""There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. But for a long while they sang only each alone, or but few together, while the rest hearkened; for each comprehended only that part of the mind of Iluvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony."""
O+ and they bite me a lot too...
Thanks for these. Wonder how many people will use this at work to pretend that they are doing work while they listen to a podcast.
I need to say that I'm very impressed with the PDL project, a lot of things can be done in there.

https://github.com/IBM/prompt-declaration-language
Some freedom is productive, some freedom is not.
In theory you can't patent something that has already been described prior to the filing date. In practice I'm sure there's been things that've been patented that someone else independently invented beforehand. It's also not always clear if something is a new invention or not (e.g., some chemical has been known for a while but someone realized it could be used to treat some disease).
> Better: fines based on damages, trebled.

Except damages for data leaks are kind of hard to compute, since in practice they're $0 until some of the data is provably used to cause some non-$0 worth of damage down the line.
Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user's mouse cursor
It actually passed the will smith spaghetti test, this looks great!

https://x.com/noonescente/status/1848823459914387500
I'm sort of in the middle. I use Firefox container tabs, but only in the context of a few properties (Meta, Amazon), via browser extensions. I don't manually start new container tabs myself. I just rely on the extensions to open new container tabs when I hit those specific sites.

I wish there was an extension (or, much much better yet, something built-in) that would let me create "container groups" where I could list domain names or URL patterns, and always have them open in an isolated container group.
As an indie app developer this makes me really sad. We need reviews otherwise we won’t get enough downloads. Big companies can pay huge amounts on ads, we can’t and thus rely on positive reviews and ratings. Fact is that most users won’t rate unless asked.

If you really like an app give it a nice review.
maybe the boomer advice of "just go walk in with a resume and a firm handshake" will finally start being worth something
Swift and SwiftUI is fun for my own projects. I use Python and C++ for work.
It costs money? I was all ready to use it until it wanted money.
There are no metrics that show RTO is anything other than management trying to control people, all the metrics out there show WFH is way more productive and profitable. But companies have a perverse incentive to keep the executives who bought into the CRE bubble when it was already a zombie in 2006.
There is no serial number on the individual die, but TSMC has very unique test lines on the chip that would easily identify if it was in fact made at TSMC.
I am not sure I follow. Here is my attempt to respond to what you raised but feel free to redirect me if I misunderstood.

The following is a (simplified, abstracted) way to measure an arbitrary energy value.

1. Set the system up so that the carrier of the energy is a photon (e.g. let the two-level system decay[1] or use some form of transduction or whatever).

2. Send that photon to pass by two semi-transparent mirrors at a certain (continuously parameterized) distance between each other.

3. If the photon passes through both mirrors (as detected by a photon detector at the other side), it means its energy is equal to some known constant divided by the distance between the mirrors. If it does not pass it means it has a different energy.

4. Repeat the experiment many times as you slowly vary the distance between mirrors.

I guess in point 4 there is an issue that you need to repeat the experiment with a new realization of your photon each time. Does that have bearing on the initial point being discussed?

You are probably seeing this at this point, but just for completeness: this technique is no different from tuning a musical instrument with a tuning fork.

I papered over some details about whether we want to detect transmission or reflection and exactly what type of transparency the mirrors need to be, etc.

[1] Funnily, the usual way in which someone would prove that decay can happen at all does rely on the existence of a continuous spectrum of energies. This is the same topic I raised above when citing Quantum Optics textbooks.
I interact with wealthy retired elderly people every day. Yes, they are the #1 prey in our society. They are so harassed. Like wildebeests getting nibbled on by a pack of jackals.

Nibbled for their money, time, vote.
Good on you for being a nice human, peckerhead.
Usually this means the story is in the second-chance pool. I'm sure more information will come up if you search "second-chance pool", dang has posted about it before.

FYI `@dang` is a no-op. To contact dang send an email, he's quite responsive.
Sure... https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/mcdonalds-to-end-ibm-ai-driv...
> The idea was that in the future, once all books were digitized, you’d be able to map the citations among them, see which books got cited the most, and use that data to give better search results to library patrons.

You can do something similar to this already, by mapping which books are cited in Wikipedia articles. If you know how to do such a thing, because I don't.
https://archive.is/cd44k
Are these synthetic or real-world benchmarks?

Answering myself: ”Aider’s code editing benchmark asks the LLM to edit python source files to complete 133 small coding exercises from Exercism”

Not gonna start looking for a job any time soon
I serve 1Gb of /dev/null to every scraper that tries known CVE endpoints. Fuck 'em.
You have to wonder how much of the economy similarly relies on uncanceled opt-out services that this demographics never knew it subscribed to.
We can’t prevent the technology from being invented, it was always going to happen (video games and VR was practically going to have this AI generated worlds).

It is just a matter of doing it right the first time such as having license/agreements or company building it based on their own images.
Burning Zero Days: FortiJump FortiManager vulnerability used by nation state
There needs to be public funding of elections. That would go a long way.

If we really want reform, the system should be changed from a first-past-the-post presidential system to a parliamentary system with party-list proportional representation. Neither system is perfect, but the latter captures a wider range of views within society.

Germany is a stable constitutional federal republic with proportional representation and power vested in the Bundestag. No reason why the US can't have the same.
Firefox Profile user

I use KDE Plasma Desktop, and have a couple symlinks to /usr/bin/firefox in ~/bin/ which have different names. I've setup multiple 'Applications' for Firefox which use those symlinks as the 'program' and arguments of the format: -P [hardcodedprofilename] --new-window %u

Sadly, either KDE resolves the symlink, or Firefox does as the program forks.

If I ps axf | grep firefox I can't tell which firefox belongs to which process based on the command line arguments.

It would really be nice if the -P profile or -p profilepath(full) were the IMMEDIATE arguments after /usr/lib/firefox/firefox or similar. "Icons-and-Text Task Manager" isn't smart enough and only has TWO group options (Do not group) and (By Program Name), but I could see future support and/or other task group programs allowing group by firstN arguments or passing the PID off to another program to have it run commands and figure out a result.
I really enjoyed playing Return of the Precursors repeatedly. Every game was a new adventure, learning about the many levels of challenges. After two years of that, I switched to the fusion fork (which is always impossible at scale.)

Sigh, spending hours generating new games just to find a universe offering a fighting chance is an engrossing challenge.
> people who are a few years ahead of curriculum are a dime a dozen and will not stand out.

I'm not sure what you mean.

High school has a much lower, but broader, bar.

The number who can handle second year college math are a small fraction of those who can get straight A's at high school.

> There are plenty of software devs who are not getting hired to the potential of their raw development skills because they cannot communicate or collaborate productively.

These are behavioural issues and not knowledge issues. We do not address these kinds of issues at high school at all.

Getting an A in English doesn't prepare you in any way to be a team player.

In my ~15 year career the only people I've seen not hired because of a knowledge gap in this space have been non-native speakers.
~4-10% ! Jesus that's bad!
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When you pay $3000 for an Apple Silicon machine, you're not paying for the same things as this. Totally different machine, power budget, application, use-case.

edit: ie. sometimes you need a machine with 64+ cores running constantly at 3Ghz, that is very different from a MacBook
A year ago I started using them in the developer edition of Firefox on my Macbook, but then months later the Firefox developer edition started flaking out, e.g. I'd open a profile and it literally wouldn't navigate anywhere, or if it did it wouldn't last long. Bizarre. Even mentioned it to a college classmate who recently took a job at Mozilla but he's not working on anything close to that. So I started using profiles in Safari, and honestly, neither is perfect but some stuff worked a bit better in Firefox. I still go open up Firefox every now and then to retrieve a password I haven't yet migrated over to Safari. I probably should bite the bullet and get rid of Firefox developer edition and just install the regular build. I love using Firefox Focus on iOS since it feels faster than the other browsers.

edit: flaking out, since I can't think of a better way to describe what's happening :)
I used to. Now I use Firefox for work and Librewolf for personal.
Which block in the flowchart is the one which will try to sell me db2?
Does Stable Diffusion 3.5 make Stable Diffusion 3 obsolete?

There are quite a few different versions (SD1.5, XL, XL Turbo, SD3) of Stable Diffusion still in use because the newer ones didn't definitively supersede previous versions.
Yes! I’ve used Etymotic Research’s concert/motorcycle earplugs for a few years now but there are a few others on the market for mild noise reduction. It’s roughly a 10 dB reduction and makes a lot of loud sounds more tolerable (including toddler temper tantrums) while also still being able to have conversations. I keep a pair in every bag and find them pretty helpful in loud restaurants and bars. I keep my AirPods as a backup, sometimes with some brown and pink noise (slightly lower pitch than white noise).
Wireless Ship Act of 1910
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due to Association to Russia
One of those crap jobs I had when I was young was a temp worker in a lock box that processed political contributions (early 90's). There would be trays of mail coming in from various campaigns, for various orgs (3 or 4, both Democratic and Repubican). Surveys were big -- and people would write all over them. But the first thing that happened was the money was pulled out and deposited. The bundles of surveys might have been looked at.

It was depressing as hell. You could tell people were looking for someone to listen. And as far as I know, they only reached someone doing a buck over minimum wage, who had to process x hundred envelopes per hour.

Now, of course, it's been streamlined -- there aren't checks anymore so it's all that much faster for the more efficient clearing of the marks money.
Want me to work in the office? Offer me an office with a door.
I have five personal Google accounts. I use one as my "main" for "kitchen sink" type things, including any shopping/commerce/paying for stuff.

The other four accounts are for special purposes. Each hobby and volunteer concern I've split off to be separate and sort of siloed. I have Google One with a family plan, so my "family of five" consists of all my personal accounts, linked for the One benefits, such as extra Drive storage. But they've all got their separate Drive space, Photos, bookmarks and browser extensions/settings.

Unfortunately, I can only use browser profiles on the Windows 11 system. On my Android phone, and my Chromebook, browser profiles are not supported! For some of the accounts, I maintain a separate Chromebook login, but mostly I use both of these devices with my main Google account logged in, so the bookmarks and other browser profile features are wholly unavailable.

I am unsure why there's a lack of profile support from Google on these devices. I feel like they're trying to encourage separate sign-ins, and it's some kind of security concern, but I'm not entirely sure.
You're absolutely right. This page was originally written for people searching for POTS, so we assumed some context. I've updated the page to link to pages we've written on POTS diagnosis and the CHOP protocol, so that it stands alone a bit more.
If you want to have different preferences, bookmarks, extensions etc. set for different profiles.

For example, I might want to allow 3rd party cookies on a work profile but not on a personal profile.
When iOS + apps came out, Apple had a system whereby when an app got uninstalled it prompted the user for a star rating and review. Guess who was doing all the uninstalling? People that hated the apps, and app ratings reflected that.
i really want cursor to integrate this so it can look at the results of a code change in the browser and then make edits as needed until it's accomplished what i asked of it. same for errors in the console etc. right now i have to manually describe the issue or copy and paste the error message and it'd be nice for it to just iterate more on its own
Always so weird to see people threatened by something so trivial. I like offices! Sorry that frustrates you, pal.
I hear you. But I have wondered if there won't be a need to maintain certain like of software when you can just have it be rewritten for each iteration. Like some kind of schema evolution, yes but throwaway software at each iteration.
Ouch. My stereotypically-American US-centric bias is showing :)
Then maybe they should issue them at voting centers come election day.
Same argument could be brought against the printing press. In a sense, it was - that's how copyright became a thing in the first place.

Same for photocopiers, printers, general-purpose computers. If, at any point, some of that tech had "never have been invented or at the very least not released into the public", we wouldn't have e.g. photolitography and thus no modern microchips.

Copyright are a legal equivalent of a dirty hack to preserve some legacy behavior, that became a permanent fixture over time. Like with dirty hacks in code, you're going to get different responses from different people, depending on situation.
Thanks! Mentioned above -- I updated the page to link to dedicated articles on each of these.
Chrome profiles, for example, isolates browser extensions, bookmarks, browser settings, and saved passwords. I haven't used Firefox containers yet but, based on the docs and demo I watched, it doesn't look like it has that level of isolation.
I am once again asking you to advocate for the installation of EV chargers at businesses local to you.
Numerous civilizations, such as the Sumerians and Egyptians, did use base-12 math. We find the remnants of this in our timekeeping systems - 12 hours of day and night, 12 months in a year, 60 minutes per hour and 60 seconds per minute, etc.

Human mathematical prowess is in no way limited by the number of fingers on a human hand.
> Congress has repeatedly tried and failed to adopt a new Section 5 coverage formula, but there are signs that it is inching ever closer to success. In January 2022 the House passed a package of democracy reforms that included the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would have updated the Section 5 coverage formula. Though the package commanded the support of a majority of senators, it narrowly failed due to the inability of the body to reform its archaic filibuster rules.

-- [0]

The act would have set pre-clearance to occur based on a pattern of recent violations [1], and also made election day a holiday, promoted early-voting etc... So you can guess which party was for it and which was doing the filibustering.

Related, the NVRA has another section about how states aren't supposed to mass-purge voters right before an election [2] (whether it's blatantly discrimiantory or not) but without pre-clearance it may lack teeth.

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/prec...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-virgi...
That's to reduce bounce rate and keep you on the page for the ads. Notice that all the hyperlinks are same domain. Yes, it's annoying.
yeah - alongside other in-demand services. like apartment building management, corporate janitorial services, and public transportation bus drivers.
> Yes, /tmp/ is a security nightmare on multi-user systems, but those are a rarity nowadays.

What's not a rarity though is apps (or code in general) that you don't fully trust, and that you don't want to give a chance to exfiltrate all your data for example.

Sadly, the POSIX permission model is entirely ill-suited for that, precisely because it tries to solve the multi-user problem, wherein all code belonging to a single user is effectively treated omnipotent within that user's domain (i.e. the files the user owns). That's why iOS and macOS (the non-POSIX parts) has a container model with strong sandboxing, entitlements, etc.