skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody has the patience anymore to be presented to or read in any form other than bullet points and low information density charts.

I grew up before computers and learned to communicate in the absence of all the short attention span distractions that exist today. I remember the first time I picked up a Wired magazine and couldn’t tolerate the insane lack of continuity. I still cannot stand the video style of images projected for a fraction of a second one after the other.

But no one has the patience for my storytelling style. Congratulations if you got this far, most people gave up if they didn’t grok my point in the first two sentences.

Yes slideware is ugly and low information and boring and insulting to the audience, but some people, particularly in higher levels of management, just want to be spoon fed bullet lists and then feel like they’re making informed decisions.
Apparently permethrin can be used against bedbugs much as it can be used against ticks.
In practice faith/religion etc. fixes the problem on the ground but the problem is that no one buys any of it is real anymore. Many people are willing to ignore this dissonance given the benefits it brings them but most have a hard time.
Safari. Works great for me.
Some (most) large corporations designate VP titles to non-vp work as a means of attempting to bypass labor laws protecting overtime payments to workers. It is a mostly illegal practice but violations tend to be overlooked and the practice has become fairly widespread. IMO it speaks volumes about the (slave-like) working conditions one is likely to encounter in businesses engaging in such practices.
Great poetry.

It's timely that Oxford 'academics' have no idea what 'brain rot' means but Urban Dictionary (A wiki) gets it right.

https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Brainrot

Most Wikis don't work, it'd be interesting to work out what it takes. Starting list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis

Encyclopedia Dramatica (NSFW) is better than Conservapedia for instance.
My previous job was specifically to do glue work for the engineering team and it was my favorite job I've ever had by a mile. I loved doing things to smooth the other engineers jobs and they loved the productivity gains.

Company had to lay most of us off and my current job is similar but a way bigger company so the productivity gains are less apparent. But I will continue to seek out the glue work jobs as long as I can find them.
I’m a McKinsey consultant and this reads as kind of crazy. Nobody is ever doing anything with 50 distinct slides.

My general advice is a title that is a sentence that explains your point, then a visual that proves it and a sidebar of supporting insights so you don’t have to be an expert at reading the visual. Frankly I think it’s very effective and is very closely tied to writing guidelines. The important thing is getting your thesis up top. The title of a page needs to be the only thing people really need to read to understand what you’re trying to convey. The contents of the page are just the details of why you’re saying it.

Most people instinctively do this in reverse and have a page where they throw a visual onto the page and make the title of the page just an announcement of what the visual is; and then either verbally or with small text callouts explain why it matters.
Yeah but then how do you find what to watch next? Some of the most fun I have on YouTube is going down random rabbit holes and discovering new things. How do you do that without recommendations? There’s no way I want to start at the public recommendations/trending page. It’s always terrible.
Perhaps this belief contributed to your lack of a credibly titled career.
You really need one extra field for that though: uncertainty.
Sure, let's say that's true. The obvious implication is that these users actually don't care about whether they're running Windows 11 or not, and thus the Windows 11 TPM requirement is utterly irrelevant in their decision to buy a new computer.

I don't see how this supports the theory that this is all about revenue from Windows OEM licenses from forced hardware upgrades.
"Just" absolutely deserves its bad rap. There is nothing that you can say with it that you can't say without it. And the alternative is almost always strictly better.
It's tricky, as a lot of what makes Wikipedia good is an accumulation of policies and practices that force you to use its features. You can't just install MediaWiki or Confluence and expect it to be good.

As an example, orphan articles (ones not linked from any other pages) [1] are categorized and tagged on Wikipedia. There are many editors that spend their time trying to find places to link to orphaned articles, which improves discoverability of that information.

The best programming language-specific Wiki I've found is cppreference.com. They have a very nice stylistic approach to dealing with the different C++ standards.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan
There are a lot of gaming wikis but unfortunately a lot of them are hosted by Fandom, and it's hard for independent alternatives to compete with Fandoms SEO.
Rocket: Slack-style emoji selection for Mac
The Soviet empire was very much assimilative, so successfully that people sometimes overlook it. Its greatest leader was Georgian, while three others were Ukrainian. Parts of it ("Western Ukraine", Kaliningrad) were annexed outright after World War II, while other areas continued a Russification program that started under the tsars.

As for Poland, the Solidarity movement was quite effectively suppressed in 1981 and ceased to be an effective political force until the Polish government badly miscalculated and allowed it to reconstitute itself eight years later. The biggest mistake the Soviets made in Poland was in giving a large degree of autonomy to the Catholic Church.
You would get even further if you could learn to avoid tripping over your own ego.
I use Safari, Firefox, and Edge on macOS for work. I prefer Safari. Firefox has a more amateurish feeling user interface; it's just a bit awkward. Edge feels like this hulking monstrosity that takes a few seconds to load on Apple Silicon.
I wonder how these bots will impact their metrics reported to investors. Will they be filtered out or into a different bucket, or just included into the mau and similar.
That would make the answer "no". Putin's Russia will end with Putin because it has the same problem that all autocratic regimes have: succession.

After Putin, the oligarchs will scrabble about trying to get the most of what's left. If it gets really bad Russia will descend into civil war. Russia just recently had a mini-civil war with Prigozhin's rebellion.

If Russia ends up in civil war then China will invade Siberia under the guise of peace keeping to secure the resources it currently depends on from Russia.

China will cut deals with whichever oligarchs win out and part of the deal will be that China takes territory that they see as historically Chinese (such as Outer Manchuria).
It was a big deal when Vista was released, with coincided with a lot of generational change in home computers (Watching Blu-Ray on computer still seemed to be a thing to expect, HDMI with HDCP was introduced, etc).

There was a lot of talk about protected media path in Vista, how it linked with HDCP, how it killed hardware accelerated audio (including causing considerable death blow to promises made by OpenAL), etc.
Ugh, that explains why the Miraculous Ladybug wiki is so godawful.
Heh heh. I think that's wrong but well played.
No, it's not psychology.

These are metaphysical phenomena.
The gpt 4 paper said they only excluded benchmarks by exact text matches. That means discussion of them probably doesn't get excluded.
>even if a substantial portion of the internet would start poisoning, bots would likely just shift to disguising themselves so they can’t be identified as bots anymore.

Good questions to ask would be:

- How do they disguise themselves?

- What fundamental features do bots have that distinguish them from real users?

- Can we use poisoning in conjunction with traditional methods like a good IP block lists to remove the low hanging fruits?
Less than two years because total taxation is about $7 trillion (don’t forget state and local). Also, insofar as most of the $10 trillion in wealth is equity, it represents their share of expected corporate earnings decades into the future. The proper comparison for that is the $360-400 trillion in future federal revenues over 75 years, probably $500+ trillion accounting for state taxes.

So the share those billionaires will get of expected earnings 10, 20, etc., years from now is just 2% of what the government will bring in from taxing everyone over a similar time horizon.
I fully get the DRM hate.

Now I don’t really follow the Windows world but I thought the goal of the newer TPM stuff was to be able to provide a trusted boot chain the way Apple does. I’m under the impression that some of the earlier versions allowed the TPM module to be a separate piece of hardware from the CPU and thus exposed an hardware attack path where someone could snoop or man in the middle.

If you have a full trusted chain you can certainly use that to ensure that the DRM isn’t being tampered with. But I kind of doubt that’s the main reason behind all of it. There are enough good reasons they may want better security on the hardware outside of that it seems justifiable that they might push it.

I’m not arguing it’s good or bad, I just don’t think it’s 100% about DRM and the rest is a smoke screen.
CachyOS Handheld Edition?

https://cachyos.org/download/

https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_handheld/
All of those areas other than Kaliningrad were assimilated primarily during the Russian Empire, not the Soviet Union.

As for Solidarity, I suggest reading about its influence on the Soviet bloc as a whole. Again, even if it didn’t work, it was just another example of a resistance movement in Poland. Another one would have likely occurred a decade or two later.
It seems to me that pruning the watch history (vs just turning it off) has a noticeable effect on the recs.

You might even want to build an AI to optimize your watch history :)
With our current methods, feeding back even fairly small amounts of outputs back in as training data leads to declining performance.

Just think of it abstractly. The AI will be trained on the errors the previous generation made. As long as it keeps making new errors each generation, they will tend to multiply.
> The vast majority of users aren't going to have their laptop stolen by the CIA/NSA and have their DIMMs popped and cryofreezed.

That's kind of the point. The vast majority of users aren't going to have their laptop stolen at all, if they do it will 99% of the time be by someone who only wants to wipe it and fence it, and attempts to access data are most likely to be by unsophisticated family members who would be defeated by a simple password without any TPM.

Meanwhile there have been plenty of TPM vulnerabilities that don't require anything so esoteric and can often be attacked purely from software, so if a normal user was facing even so much as someone willing to watch some security conference talks, they're going to lose regardless. If the TPM doesn't make them more vulnerable to that, because it contains the secrets and is susceptible to attack, vs. FDE with a boot key stored in some cloud service secured with the user's password instead of a TPM, which can then rate limit attempts without being susceptible to physical access attacks and be revoked if the device is stolen.

Moreover, the more common threat to normal users is data loss, in which case you only want your laptop to be secure against your unsophisticated nephew and not the tech you want to recover your data after you forget your password.

> In as much as there are attacks against SMS 2FA, but for the vast majority of people, SMS 2FA is an acceptable level of security.

The current recommendation seems to be against SMS 2FA because the security of SMS really is that bad, so if you need 2FA, use an authenticator app or similar.

> FDE (w/ TPM) is part of defense-in-depth.

Any snake oil can be painted as defense-in-depth.
Career limiting thoughts.
Don't conflate economic mismanagement with the collapse of an evil empire. For me and my entire family the collapse was a gift that allowed us to finally leave. Staying in character even at the border by stealing what little we had in cash to punish us for leaving. The Soviet Union stole my grandparents and great grandparent's entire life's potential. Forcing them into a life time of servitude to barely scrape by for a shitty Soviet apartment and a shitty car that you needed to wait 10 years to get. It is bafflingly amusing that one would point at any illegality of anything a successor of a Soviet premier does when the reality was that they had absolute power to do whatever they want as is Russian tradition.
Wonder if ASCII porn is a viable OnlyFans niche
Kind of a roundabout way of saying that you can’t evolve a program without fully understanding the codebase
Chernobyl hastened the end. Not only was it an enormous ecological and economic disaster, that caused, as the article says, a loss of confidence in the central government, but it was a boost for the Ukrainian independence movement. And without Ukraine, there really is no Soviet Union, no empire. Just Russia and few satellite states.
> Apple won only after windows...

Apple won after Sony dropped the ball on HDD Walkmans and Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and Blackberry failed to reject carrier bloatware.

Macs are a side hustle for Apple, and MS is still the dominant player for desktop computing.
The threat model of password managers and encryption as a whole assumes that the adversary has the ciphertext. If the adversary can decrypt it, then the encryption algorithm is fundamentally broken.

There is literally no point to encryption if possession of the ciphertext is sufficient to extract the secret.
What does that even mean? Exercise burns calories much faster than inactivity. Less calories means less fat.
This is an analysis of 3-dimensional space. I'm waiting for the 4-dimensional analysis, which I'm sure will push it by orders of magnitude more
But if it doesn't get it correct every time, it doesn't "know".

By that standard humans know almost nothing.
I guess I did my part, then, without realizing it. I work on a dairy farm and I got my annual flu shot already.

Here's hoping our cows don't get sick.
Western Ukraine was pre-war Poland; the population was resettled to settle parts of Germany that were annexed to Poland post-war.

This is part of several massive ethnic cleansing campaigns under Stalin so successful that we forget about them today. But you are right that there was substantial continuity between imperial Russian and Soviet policy around russification of the various provinces.

With regard to Solidarity, there were plenty of resistance movements in Eastern Europe over the years; the real shocker around its 1988 incarnation was that it was allowed to peacefully assume power, and the Soviet Union didn't impose a red line enforced by tanks. That was new! It wasn't the return of Solidarity so much as Gorbachev openly saying "we're not going to intervene" that got the process of collapse rolling.
A. It didn’t explode at all. AT BEST it deflagrated. But really, it was set on fire to make a ham fisted political point. The car didn’t do anything on its own.

B. BusinessInsider isn’t a real site. It’s a political blog pretending to be legitimate on zero earned merit.

C. Why does it matter that it was rented? And how is this some stunning reveal of a Turo business flaw that the NOLA murderer also used the popular rental service?
I wonder why so many articles continue to say "exploded" and "caught fire" when by now it's clear that it was a deliberate act. I mean, it's not wrong, but it seems to insinuate that there's something wrong with the vehicle that caused the explosion, rather than someone intentionally stuffing it full of fireworks and explosives.
maybe it was a reference to two or three or N level deep nested tree structures. Those dont map as naturally using simple SQL relations.
You disputed the fact Russia is imperialistic.
> most people understand photons to be massless particles.

I suspect that most people have no opinion at all and are generally unaware of the properties of light.

That being said, a (perfectly reflective or otherwise steady state, e.g. black body at equilibrium) box of photons has mass due to those photons. You can stick it on a scale or a pendulum and measure it. It attracts other nearby objects according to GR or, in the appropriate limit, Newtonian gravity, in accordance with the relativistic mass of those photons.
We kept that mostly due to inertia and because it's the most profitable for the journals (everybody does their work for free and they don't have to invest in new systems), not because it's the best for science and scientists.
Okay, the name is a joke, but you just describe what program you need, and this program makes it happen.

I got tired of trying to make a working executable, so here's the executable python

The following must be installed to run the .py program

Python

The following python libraries must also be installed:

Flet,

CustomTkinter,

Requests,

WARNING: There are zero safety measures. This will wipe your hard disk if you ask it to. Use at your own risk!
I'm not sure what you'd be looking for in a better phone. They're bounded by current CPU, battery, and screen technology, and flagship phones are pretty close to the best that's possible. Unless you literally want a gold bezel.
I would rather get an anal probe with a cactus than ever go back to BigTech or any large company.

I’m 50 and I just don’t have the shit tolerance to put up with the politics.

I know what my responsibilities and expectations are as a “staff” and as long as my clients (cloud consulting) are happy and the projects I’m leading are done, on time, on budget and meets requirements, everyone is happy.

There is a clear dollar amount assigned to my work and downstream revenue.
> C. Why does it matter that it was rented? And how is this some stunning reveal of a Turo business flaw that the NOLA murderer also used the popular rental service?

Both were EV trucks rented through Turo and had explosives placed in them on the same day. Hell of a coincidence if not related.
You need a ton of exercise to burn just a couple hundred calories.

The saying is you can't outrun a bad diet.
If anything, it seems to have done a decent job of redirecting the explosion upwards.
I don’t understand. Presumably, this will create more engagement for the human users, because there is more content for the humans to interact with.

Why would they count an ai model as a monthly active user?
If you’re going to do something, I can see why you wouldn’t want to do it in your own car. I can also see why someone might think a “fringe“ rental service is less likely to work well with the police than Avis or Hertz.

Until further evidence, I agree it seems a lot like a coincidence.
My interpretation is that weight is an overrated measure of health.
Agreed. I’ve come to realize I don’t know anyone in my life who ever lost significant weight and actually kept it off permanently through exercise.

I go to the gym regularly and when I look around and see other women who have been working out for a long time, they are pretty much the same body shape I’ve always seen them.

Once you reach a new weight, that’s just your body’s new normal. I stress to people now that they should aim to never gain weight in the first place unless it’s muscle.
This is really why AI is going to hit s/w development so hard. It's not merely going to make code easier to write, it's going to be a massive knowledge repository that takes a team from initial conception, through product design and finally engineering design and coding.
After a few pages into Midnight's Children it made me a bit uncomfortable (not bored)- not for the story or characters like in other novels- where you identify with characters or feel for them, their plights, etc. It made me uncomfortable in reading the way the story was told. I wondered why was this book so loved, it does not seem like any good book I've read so far, in fact it somewhat destroys the ideas I have about how a good novel should be. And then a thought occurred that maybe it is because of those things- as
tirumaraiselvan (sibling comment) put it 'all conventional rules of literature are broken, it's just wildly creative'- that this book was loved. With that understanding I 'decided' I was going to be ok with the discomfort I felt till I finished the book. And then creativity became visible and the discomfort sort of went away.
yep! i recommend indie wiki buddy for discovering these sorts of community-led wikis.

the extension recognizes when you’re on fandom and recommends equivalent community wikis instead

fandom will not take down old wikis (that’d be bad for SEO), so the fandom content persists even after a full community migration.

just one of the many shitty things that company does.
The idea that exercise doesn’t lead to fat loss is obviously false. If you’re eating a small surplus and increase your exercise volume you will lose weight. Clearly diet is a bigger lever, but plenty of exercises burn a lot of calories. Swimming and cycling are great for this.
Sam Hughes is a man. Why are you referring to him as their?
Thankfully the reviewer feedback was of such low quality in general that it had little impact on my feelings, haha. I think that’s unfortunately common. My advisor told me “leave some obvious but unimportant mistakes, so they have something to criticize, they can feel good, and move on”. I honestly think that was good advice.
> But even with Apple, I can't sync stuff between my personal and work computer because they use different Apple IDs, even though the underlying true identity (me) is the same.

By design. This is what caused the ZenDesk, Atlassian, Disney and Sony hacks.
While that is a logical assumption, it’s not actually true. [1]

If you intake X calories, your body will use them to provide you energy for exercise. If you don’t exercise, you won’t always just turn it into fat - your body will find another find other uses of the calories such as producing stress hormones.

Exercise is important but will not make you lose weight alone.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5556592/
Not necessarily. That won't work if the backup uses apis that a pipe doesn't support, like seek or reading back from the file.
Well, personally I don’t forget about them because I actually have some Lemko ancestry, which are the group of people that got moved.

Again I don’t think as a whole the Soviets really did a great job assimilating cultures outside of historically Russified areas. Maybe they just didn’t have enough time to do so, but more in a broad geopolitical sense, I’m not sure it ever would have worked.
I personally filed bunch of bugs, they mostly were autoclosed because of no activity after 3 months. This is very discouraging, and I rather invest effort in looking for workarounds in the future.