skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The imaginary self is the lie. And so is the perceived kinship. Empathy is liminal or a contract with conditions. "It's not the dogs fault" doesn't matter when he tries to rip off the finger-tip of a stranger who smelled like bad intentions. That's why people put dogs on leashes and or train them.

You are surrounded by people with imaginary selves, usually no more than one or two selves, so it's not really pathological and no cause for worry. And we all enlist others in the promotion of the in-group, which is an agreed upon imaginary construct we call collective.

And you are correct: most of 'them' have no empathy, most of them don't understand other beings well enough to be empathetic. Think productive people and hustlers and low earners who watch more TV than they learn after work.

But anyone understands their perceived kin. Even if the kinship breaks. Which brings me to

THE dominating and least perceived anxiety: will they betray me?

My partners, my colleagues, my wife, my customers, my boss, my government, the person I'm having a random conversation with, the producer of drug xyz, that salesman, my ISP, that news anchor and all of the individuals involved in those teams that make up departments and whole corporations and institutions. Will someone fuck up? All of that causes a build up of stress and, once the individual threshold is reached, anxiety.

But the average threshold is hard to reach because of defense mechanisms and compensations. Thus the amygdala gets trained and well nourished while the modulators loop through rollercoaster after rollercoaster.
Ask HN: Why doesnt windows require password for biometric auth?
Apple (and I believe Samsung) devices require atleast one password auth before allowing finger/face auth. In Apple devices, if you fail bio auth a certain amount of times, they will strictly require password auth.

On windows this is not so, in my experience. I can instantly use my face or password on system boot, and failing bio auth multiple times just requires me to click a couple buttons till I can try again. Do they believe in their auth so far? Or is it just a feature of Fastboot?(as in the fact that the password was verified once upon a time is flagged in fast boot)
Gotcha, thanks! I'm not in the Apple Developer Program, but I'm tempted to do it just to be able to experiment with sideloading all sorts of LÖVE programs.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The constricted center accelerates the flow upward. And the wider top helps promote mixing of the hot humid air with the cooler air outside. But, really, these are secondary benefits. The main reason for the shape is structural.

> [...] the double curvature of a hyperboloid stiffens the shell against vertical loads like the structure’s own weight and horizontal loads like wind.
hm

reminds me of "what have the romans ever done for us?"

but thx for elaborating.
Moving software "backwards" is hard, but not impossible. There are ways to structure both data and code that make it easier. A change being "rollback-safe" can be an important question in designs and code reviews.
Lingering Mac Office 2008 workaround (2023)
Though the blog post was written last year regarding macOS Ventura, the same hack is still present in the Sequoia code base[1,2]:

> M I C R O S O F T H A C K !

> It turns out that the Mac Office (2008) rolled their own solution to roots. The X509Anchors file used to hold the roots in old versions of OSX. This was an implementation detail and was NOT part of the API set. Unfortunately, Microsoft used the keychain directly instead of using the supplied APIs. When the X509Anchors file was removed, it broke Mac Office. So this file is now supplied to keep Office from breaking. It is NEVER updated and there is no code to update this file. We REALLY should see if this is still necessary

[1] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...

[2] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/security_certific...
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People have been growing plants in space stations since 1982. I don't see how growing plants in an isolated greenhouse on Moon would be much different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_in_space#Space_station_...
The oldest non-colonal tree is in California at 4800 some years old.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(pine_tree)
So why did every company in the world start auto-deleting emails ~10 years ago? I don't believe many people were sued for fraud. These days cloud services have auto-delete based on time functionality?

It's called "object lifecycle management", because I guess fraud was too catchy.
Usually if the police are raiding your business they have had to support their request for a search warrant.

If a large company installs data onfuscating kill switches in the event of a police raid, it's fair to believe that it's not to protect customer data.
Except that's not what NATO has been doing (nor is there any evidence that it ever had that intent) -- and it certainly isn't the reason Russia's current regime (not Russia as a country) started this war. It's just the message it projects, mostly for internal propaganda purposes -- to rile up its masses, and get them to sign up for the meat grinder; and to mollify opposition abroad.

If you believe that stuff, then you definitely start thinking more critically about whatever sources you've been pulling from.
I've never bought this distinction between code and data. They are two distinct things but they are inseparable. Neither outlasts the other.
Why AI agents keep disappointing us
> Why would you assume that?

I thought too highly of modern compiler string literal obfuscation.
It's weird to frame this as some imposition and that you're doing a favor to everyone by being a thoughtful communicator. Language is all about thinking about how what you say is going to be reflected in the minds of others. If you aren't already doing that constantly you are a bad communicator. You can choose to say things that sting intentionally if you want, but doing so because you haven't thought about it is just poor form.
The location of the source of the mud is a closely held family secret, but I bet the OSI geolocating people could find it quickly based on this video[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYXWL1lt_7Y
Most software hardly moves at all. Consumer hardware moves backwards though, I can no longer get a phone with all the features I had in 2012, removable battery, headphone jack, and an sd-card slot.
This, or cannot AND doesn't want to. The man works in advertising, if this was about magic slimming butter the FDA would have stripped his licence and drummed him out of the butter factory. It just amazes me that shareholders can be sucked into a shell game of future expectations because 'leader is genius' and not wake up to find he did a rug-pull AND IT HAS NO CONSEQUENCES.
Just on Chapter 3 but if an AI wrote this we are well and truly fucked.
https://maps.umn.edu/LSL/
I haven’t but watched a video doing it with this framework.

With captcha, worst case scenario is using a service to do it as part of the agent flow. See 2captcha service
Who Says You Can't Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?
Could you please make your substantive points thoughtfully and avoid name-calling and ideological battle? We're trying for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep, this is another great callout. Desktop GPUs are (in my experience) often heavily memory limited, and that's with their big high bandwidth memory chips. The latency is a problem, but latency hiding means overall throughput is good and it works out in practice.

iGPUs have less latency, but also much less bandwidth. So all those global memory fetches in modern GPU algorithms become much slower, when looking at a birds-eye level of overall throughput across the dispatch. It's why things like SSAO are way more expensive on iGPUs, despite needing to operate at a lower resolution.
It's never okay to crop the y-axis, except when it is
How are state changes consistently tracked?
Why Do People Knock on Wood for Luck?
The RTOS is just a scheduler (no memory mngmt)
C++20 my ass! You have to ve lucky to get working C++14 features. The output code is SLOW!
How about you open a new company with your low performing buddies and form union with them elsewhere?
Fields where skill disparity is extreme, only low performing leeches or lazy ones want union so they can leech off of colleagues who do real work.
My father grew up on a farm and I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, this is a step in the right direction but the goal is still a long ways off. Farmers don't have a spare $50k sitting around to build hobbyist IC fabs in the barn.
It kinda sounds like you can't raid Uber / Netflix without hackers, Ghost in the shell type raid. Which is probably the future of raids.
Can someone explain the title? I get that it's a reference to Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech [0], but why "buttery"? Does it have some particularly significance with regards to Oxford?

0: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-fin...
First of all calm down. Read what is there, not what you imagine to be there, or what you would like to be there so you can enter your rage trance.

I never said we shouldn't be making the vaccines or curing diseases or making airplines safer, just suggested that the death rate could remain constant.
If I were to put myself in Elon's head, my objective would be to leverage the wealth from Tesla (he holds 13% of outstanding shares), propped up by investor enthusiasm, to accomplish my goals for as long as possible before the market realizes the goals are aspirational. Tesla is on autopilot (hah), leaving Elon to do Elon Things.

That is not to say Tesla isn't going to continue to do well in vehicles and energy storage, just that there is no point in the org striving harder to scale faster when Elon can do the equivalent of "rest and vest." Why work hard when you can distort reality and achieve the same wealth game outcome?
Wow, I totally missed that. Sorry.
How about we let them flash the ICs that they have first? Or allow them to change the maximum speed on the vehicle without having to go to the service center and paying 300 to 500$.

Why are we talking about low cost at home IC development for farmers while we don't let them do even that.
> it's more often than or not that they are different forms of the same word or closely related

Correct, but what I'm saying is that frequently etymologies are nothing more than fun exercises that would actually mislead you as to the modern definition because the word has changed so much. In those cases it's amusing to identify the shared root but you should be careful about blindly translating from one to the other. The original sense is often somewhere in the middle of the two modern meanings.

Taking your example of Genesis: if I know that Genesis means "the first book in the Bible" that doesn't help me derive the definition of "genetic" all by itself. Likewise if I know the "genetic" means "relating to the structures that encode traits in living organisms", I won't be able to arrive at "the first book in the Bible". At best I might come up with some folk etymology explaining that Genesis has to do with life, which is close but not fully accurate.

The correct understanding of the shared root of "creation" is only possible if you understand both concepts and triangulate to what they have in common. It cannot be derived from only one of the two definitions.
Do you have millions of strings that need to be manipulated in the same way at the same time?
Atomic gardens:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
TextLap: Customizing Language Models for Text-to-Layout Planning
Hydroponics, being mostly based on water and sunlight, are unlikely to boost the nutrient profile as much as healthy soil, depending on what feed you add to the water.

My understanding is

Water < industrial fertilized, quickly grown / plowed soil < healthy topsoil
>A wealthy person making 200k a year could contribute 100k to their 401k and more than halve their total income tax paid.

They'll pay it when they take it back out. At best they're saving the difference between the bracket rates in exchange for letting your money slosh around the markets for your working life.
The credentials are stored as a string so you can search the binary for a pattern matching what the credential looks like and it will be in there somewhere.

In client server architecture, the client is always untrusted. An executable shouldn't need to authenticate itself to the server. The executable should authenticate as a user or account using details provided by the person.

In cases like telemetry these endpoints usually accept unauthenticated or lightly authenticated data and perform layers of validation to prevent abuse (and are usually write/append only)
EA can get rekt. Their account suspension/banning process is obtuse and opaque. I bought a game, created an online account to play it with a friend, and was banned 2 days later (making my purchase useless.) I did absolutely nothing wrong and their team won't give any details other than "read the account agreement."
Even though I agree with you, if adding features meant keeping all existing features we'd never progress anywhere.
Yes. It's streaming on Paramount Plus. Part of the deal with the strike a few years back was hammering out the streaming rights that were not originally part of their contracts.
That’s quite a guess, and wrong.

But I don’t know how you construe performance reviews as anything other than external validation/invalidation.

My bank account cares if I give a shit what my boss thinks about my work.
You need to call an API to screenshot the page, then figure out the JavaScript code to execute it. It’s not as easy as it might sound.

Playwright and selenium automate the browser itself, but with the chrome extension you need to use the context of the current browser.

I’m not an expert in browser automation so found it challenging moving from playwright to make it completely browser based.
"lose the market" is I think, a rather "Intel everywhere" take on what market share means. He would not "own" it the way he owns Tesla's current segments, true. But in the long term he won't own Tesla's market share, because in the long term the other car manufacturers who do make onshore and won't be behind sanctions will compete.

This is like "Ford won't make a VW beetle competitor because .." battles of the 60s. Did it mean Ford lost the small car market? No. it shared it.

If our model is there is porche so we don't need any other sports cars, we're pretty close to a planned economy model no? Why are we making saloon cars if a truck can do it all? Why do we have SUV if a tractor and trailer can carry more people &c &c.

I do not expect to see headlines saying "Ford, GM, BMW and Renault have closed their factories because they can't compete, and why bother trying"
EfficientNet Enhances Breast Histopathology Classification
By creating a law for seizing the IT system of a company. “Provide everything”, and if we later find that any other document existed back at that time, then it’s contempt of court.
Yes, but more than a plan: there needs to be a well-tested schema migration process. Schemas can be upgraded. Sometimes you write to both the old table and the new table for a while. The best way to make this less painful is to get good at it, investing in the tools to make it easier.

You can’t anticipate all design changes, but you can get better at making them so they happen faster. This means getting practice at doing them.
I'm curious: do you use scrollbars to actually scroll pages, or just as a visual indicator of progress?

I don't think I've used a scrollbar to scroll (e.g. click-hold-drag) in over 10 years. Between trackpads and scroll wheels, I haven't had the need.
Got both as well (TI-89v2 and hp50g).

TI-89 preferred by far. hp50g UX is bad, particularly the latency makes me sick.
Writing and Getting from Zero to Done
I think you are right, banning would cause too many issues and be loud.

I think the real quiet $ maker would be stealing usernames instead.

Like if you wanted the EA gametag of jerf but someone else had it, you could steal it using OPs method if it was still unpatched. A pay service for this would be viable in low volume and on the EA side it would just look like the user did it.

The seller of service would have to implement some kind of checks to make sure for example they weren't stealing the username of a top streamer or etc which would bring heat.
The issue is that the defined benefit pension was replaced with a 401k, where your retirement income is subject to the vagaries and collusions of the market as well as your own investment choices and skills over time. The 401k just passes the risk from the employer to the employee, but the employee is playing the game at a significant disadvantage. Pension funds can afford to hire full time money managers to play this game, I cannot.

The other problem is that the investment choices in the 401k are extraordinarily limited. You get your choice of - two index funds that track the S&P and R2K, two "actively managed large / small company funds" that really just track the S&P and R2K but with higher fees. You can choose from 10 different target date funds with high fees and low returns. You can choose the company's own stock, if you did not learn the lesson of ENRON. There are also a few "international company funds" and "bond market index funds" and similar that consistently under perform all the other choices.

There's no way to invest in individual stocks other than the employer's stock, sector targeted mutual funds, REITs, SPACs, actual real estate, annuities, non-US companies, precious metals, or numerous other investment vehicles that leave one less exposed than just "Follow the DJIA". You can't even gamble your money away on Crypto.
Consider the string needs reversible obfuscation or it won't be usable. The only secure way is encryption but you'd need to properly secure the key (probably using some hardware facility that's physically locked down)
Plants grow, but not very well.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-...
well, you are working with low bandwidth sattelite connections often. these have some problems. i am no expert, but for example:

low bandwidth makes it hard to put TLS on everything.

the way sattelites communicate back is not a beam but rather a big surface area it sends the connection to (sometimes spanning 100s of miles if not more?)

there have been people able to intercept a lot of these broad beamed things and read out plantext transfer data / packets.

id say in general its a similar problem from normal cybersec, you got some it and ot on ships, id hope the ot connects to the it, and that connects out. in that case it might be possible with the right bandwidth to encrypt it all and be a little happier...

theres some interesting conference talks on youtube about such sattelite communications and unique hazards that come with it.
But no one said it wasn't. And also no one particularly cares, you can have your crown for king of terseness, the criticism isn't that.

You are being criticized for quality and your response is to fixate on one parameter being better. It's as if you were overweighing that parameter or ignoring the other million of parameters, which is what makes your proposal so out of place.

Suppose that you come to the world economic forum, and you propose a new coin you call the GeneThomas coin. When people criticize or laugh about your idea, you respond that "The coin IS greener! It really is and I can prove it". Man, you are just showing that you don't understand anything about what makes a currency good or popular.

Just find your niche in green coins, but don't try to compete with the US dollar or bitcoin cause you'll lose
None of that is factual. If it is - present evidence that:

1. all workers involved in this project are slaves, i.e. trafficked and sold into slavery and are owned as property.

2. OP justifies the deaths and not merely tries to add context and find a reasonable explanation for some of the deaths (which does not exclude possible human rights violations).
Do the inverse now. Generate the code from the diagram.
I am trying to imagine Andrew Carnegie saying "I have found a way to make steel for 2c per tonne, without coal, and it will be as strong as unobtanium" and the entire western shareholder class of the time sending them his money and then he says "ha ha sorry I can't so fuck you" and .. goes on being US steel and nobody gives a fuck.

We call that lying.
Why DX Doesn't Matter
china blames west. west blames china.

And battery-cars powered by coal-oil generated electricity is stupid.
Another problematic aspect is if one has poor eyesight and wishes to use a larger font size. One ends up having to scroll horizontally for each line of text for single column pages. For two-column pages, one has to scroll back a page after reading the first column.

Sometimes one can use a landscape-oriented display to avoid horizontal scrolling, but even if the same word count fits on the screen I seem to be annoyed by the low line count.

Providing large type and huge type PDFs would not entirely solve this problem as sometimes even one with poor eyesight might prefer a smaller font for scanning/skimming. Having to acquire two PDFs and switch between them based on mode of use seems suboptimal.

Fixed paged presentation has significant advantages for familiar reference material; some people seem to have a spatial memory that makes finding specific content by flipping pages faster than trying several search phrases (with the occasional benefit of serendipity).

Poetry often benefits from not reflowing lines and page breaking within a stanza is often more jarring than within a paragraph of prose. Yet a reader might prefer inferior typography over having to use a magnifying glass or carry a very large display.

One might be able to get some of the advantages of paged media for figures and tables by having header (or footer) pop-up links to such content when it is on the same "page" as the displayed text. This is not as low effort as moving one's eyes, but it might be better than inlined presentation on a small (relative to font size) display.

Even with print, there would be times when breaking the text to fit a figure is more disruptive than having the figure on a separate page. There would also be times when all the relevant figures would not fit on the same page as the related text.

Having a separate booklet of illustrations might make going back and forth between text and illustration easier, similar to having a lexicon or commentary open while reading. However, that also introduces position tracking in another book and other inconveniences.

Even when my vision was better, reading academic papers distributed as PDFs (usually 2-column) on a computer screen was less enjoyable than reading similar material in a reflowable format. Academic papers also do not seem to benefit as much from pagination as other writings.
you're spot on!

clearly a big part of why all these tech has been so succesful is also how it's all about investing a lot up front, but eventually being able to mass produce in a ridiculous scale, few industries have such a ratio (possibly pharma?)

so it's all about making chips by the hundreds of thousands. it requires a very different approach from any tech intended to make chips by the handful
What non technical people think is easy is usually inversely proportional to what programmers think is easy. Making things easy for the user is really fucking hard most of the time.
If they used any open or even popular compiler, then that wouldn't solve anything. Folks would have already figured out how it works, since such encoding would have to be deterministic.
Is it misleading if someone pulls half or more of it off later on?