skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tetris PDF could be in a 1 pixel iframe right on this page and you'd never know it. So it doesn't require any user action to download one.
This is purely history. If there are modern parallels to be found, that's just one of the ways history is useful, but still not "politics".
Can we compile qemu to a PDF?
Am I reading it correctly that you asked for a read only access token, never received the token or accessed the site with your software, and got a take down notice for your demo that only had fake data hours after asking if you could read data?
> preventable

Preventable via multiple methods, you've been downvoted presumably for seeming insensitivity, but it seems a valid question. Water is plentiful, it's a rich area. This stuff can be prevented. Why wasn't it?
It sounds to me like the university is using the threat of expulsion to steal or coerce you into giving over your site. I think you just got the best IRL education ever.
I've made plenty of vegan rouxs, but I also don't have much experience making non-vegan roux... so hard for me to give an honest comparison.

Margarine burns more easily but this hasn't been a problem for me, so I imagine you are talking mostly about flavor difference or?
This poem feels completely different now than in the 60s, I'm sure. Like it's advocating for a techno optimistic dystopia where nobody, not even animals, can be left alone by the countlessly pervasive benevolent machines of faceless masters.
The python code was running in the browser using pyodide before. It took a while to load and was kind of messy to use. But it worked well once loaded which was pretty cool.
Also, how identifiable is the data? Can a (US state) government agency subpoena data for individual users?

Does the app/company fall under HIPAA regulation? If it does, what security & privacy measures are in place to guarantee compliance? If it does not, what security & privacy measures are in place to prevent government fishing expeditions?

Finally, what security & privacy measures are in place to prevent app developer having a change of heart about selling the data? What if, say, United Healthcare offers to buy the app and the data for $1B?
You need to dump the database on the old PostgreSQL version and then load the dump on the new PostgreSQL version. Some other database servers can just use the old table data or migrate the data files on the fly transparently.
They are both super important and complimentary, true. But if you could only do one? Which one would you choose?

I see your point with tests as examples, but I would find those pretty hard to read/find compared to docs. And if the doc's examples are not backed by tests we get into the same problem as docs being outdated.
Not necessarily. Recalcitrance is the flip side of this coin. But it tends to break down when five different people are telling you in five different ways how you’re fucking things up for everybody by being stubborn.

I’ve learned to send the new guy to ask instead of parroting back why we aren’t going to be allowed to change something stupid. Because once in a while they disappear for an hour and then come back with news that we’re finally going to fix it.

We all have to look at the same code. The person who writes it specifically for their own tastes has an undue advantage over everyone else because the code exactly matches their crazy. But if you write code everyone else can also read, you only slow yourself down a little and double or triple everyone else’s productivity. Or you can keep being the selfish asshole who uses appeals to authority. Don’t be surprised if you start encountering coup attempts.
> You may only interact with someone professionally, but you never know what kind of person you are really working with. Sometimes people may seem nice, but are pure evil.

It's not even always a case of being evil. Large institutions/companies are full of polices and processes designed to protect the system at all costs and some nice people will turn their brain off and strictly follow those policies either because they feel they have to, because it's the easiest thing to do, or because they know that as long as they stick to the policies (or what they think the policies are) they'll be safe.
I think that is debatable and semantic. The tree didn’t kill them or cause them to die. It wasn’t the tree of life, it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God says if you eat from the tree of knowledge, you will die. In the King James Version, it is even “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die”. This indicates that eating from the tree will kill you, possibly even killing you the very day you do it. But the tree of knowledge does not kill you, it just gives you knowledge. God chose to kick them out of the garden (preventing them from eating from the tree of life and being immortal).

If someone tells me “You can have any drinks in the fridge but don’t drink that bottle under the sink, or you will die” means the bottle under the sink is poison, not that they plan on murdering you if you drink it. They can choose not to murder you, that is on them, not on the sink bottle. But when you are the all power supreme being, I guess you can say or do anything you want.
I think we can agree humans tend to see reducing suffering as a good thing, and that people who we believe have caused suffering are viewed with disdain. With that in mind, here's a framework: "given two choices, is there a choice that 1) reduces suffering, and 2) is not prohibitively expensive (or in some other way too difficult to make)". "Too difficult" or "too expensive" is obviously subjective, but I don't think having objective definitions is necessary here.

An analogy that I like to illustrate this is: going shopping for clothes vs going shopping for food. Both tend to have ethics attached to them, e.g. with child labor for production of clothing, and slaughtering of animals for production of food. If you walk into a store to buy new clothes, and there are 2 sections of the store, 1 for clothes that were produced using child labor, and 1 for clothes that weren't, and both sections had clothes of the same price and quality, the decision of which section to shop in is very logical. This is how I see going shopping for food- you have sections for food that were produced using factory farming, and sections for food that weren't. Both sources of food are the same price and quality. So the decision to make about which source of food to buy is, again, a logical one. It's also a decision that most people in the developed world have to make every week, at least people who live in cities and do their shopping at grocery stores.

While we unfortunately don't have visibility into whether our clothing is produced with child labor, many of us do know if our food comes from factory farms. In the US, the estimate is that over 95% of meat sold in grocery stores is factory-farmed. Why make the decision to buy that if you could easily avoid it?
and this is a problem why exactly? if you have three interviews on the same friday you may want to space that out :)
I see. Yeah, I pitch a scheme in a direct response to them where you can still let a magic link authenticate a session on another browser/device.
Several of your "safe" States are prone to extremely strong earthquakes.
North Korea didn’t join the 1886 Berne Convention until 2003… so it probably was a free for all until then.

I can just imagine some guy in Pyongyang sitting with fully legal copies of every copyrighted work up until 2003.
I spent a lot of time in the early 00s psytrance scene.

Most parties were on ranches or in the middle of nowhere state land.

We lugged generators and DJ equipment and the parties were a few hundred people.

We camped out - it was a blast.

It was a community - you shared your food, drugs etc.

I never enjoyed the massive raves, thought they were too commercial.

Gen Z now is more into festivals. Back in the day multi-artist festivals were rare.
It addresses the first point quite well, multiple times (it's even one of the first things discussed in the story, one of Hitler's coalition partners was bound to lose from elections).
> What a strange take. Why would the passage of a proposition redefine the reality of the situation?

If the proposition was passed, and the State acted in accord with it (as I stated before, not just the passage, but the action), then the labor would not be coerced, because the mechanisms by which it is currently coerced would be prohibited.

That was the whole point of the amendment, banning California continuing to exploit the penal servitude exception to the 13th Amendment ban on slavery and involuntary servitude.
I'm also surprised they already finished it. Without rushing, we're playing for many weeks now, not every evening but then during christmas holidays a lot so maybe that evens out, and are about to go to Aquilo (4th planet, or place to visit idk, out of the 6 new ones)
...and nary a mention of Extreme [1] or The Brothers Johnson [2].

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0
[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=huzYji2OAD4
LumonOS
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3lXoiiYxRY
GH: https://github.com/strawstack/TheFourTempers
Prisoners one day, hero firefighters earning a dollar an hour the next.

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-fire-inmate-firef...
it doesn't do anything on its own. Html tags are meant to be parsed and used by the underlying programming language that adds the actual functionality. Nobody is saying it's simple, or useless it's just not a programming language. I'd be surprised if it's even Turing complete, but even then it's still about how it's used and right now it's for browsers to create the DOM with C or C++, and then exposes this object to JS.

(I didn't see any real explanation in the article, it's more a of an HTML praise, which I get, I think it has done a lot for the web)
We do the same thing - take home - but we pay flat fee of $250 (via Visa Prepaid Card), more to show that we value candidates time than anything else… it should take about 4 hours to finish at worst.
How Zerodha Scaled Reporting with 7M PostgreSQL Tables
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Why post this paper? It says nothing, it's a waste of people's time to read.
There is a certain style of libertarian writing, and I include the author as well as the mercatus center posse as often using this syle, that I find quite off putting. It often feels like the primary purpose of most of their writing is to show how they are smarter than everyone else. This manifests in a writing style that is extremely confident and declarative which is an effective mask for the hollowness and one sidedness of their ideas.

I'll cherry pick just one example from this article. The author in one sentence dismisses the entire field of psychoanalysis. Yet I can't help but notice that his entire blog sure looks like he is unconsciously carrying out his own psychoanalysis in public. You can also see it in the grievances against the medical profession where he has to use his blog to guard against feelings of inadequacy because he didn't get into a top medical school or residency. But he gets to play it both ways because the fact that he writes these outrageously long, fluff filled pieces, that draw a large following he can then use as proof that he is actually in fact smarter than the people who previously rejected him.

I have some similar chips on my shoulder so I quickly recognize these patterns of behaviors in others. And perhaps I am misinterpreting him, but every single time I read one of his posts I am left with the main takeaway being that I am supposed to be impressed by his intelligence.

Other red flags in this piece include the references to the stupidity of the average person (again in implicit contrast to his penetrating intellect) as well as the lazy generalizations and vacuous statements about amorphous concepts such as wokeness along with the bizarre suggestion that wokeness somehow conquered most priesthoods even though the counterexamples are far, far too long to list. I'll leave it with one though: actual priests in the US can hardly be said to be woke even though their own sacred texts are far more aligned with progressive economics than consumer capitalism.
I don't have a problem with the program, or any prison labor program, as long as it's paying at or above market wages.

We sanction Chinese companies for using prison labor in their products because it's ethically wrong. We shouldn't be engaging in the same practice we sanction other countries for.

Depending on slave labor from prisoners also creates a conflict of interests for society because it creates incentives to imprison people rather than prevent crime. It should never be a smart financial move to imprison your citizens.
> Whenever you touch this kind of data, regulatory regimes like HIPAA apply,

My understanding is you're an actual attorney, yes?

Can you shed any light on this area...? My understanding is HIPAA and similar laws aren't applied as a result of a user disclosing their own information for their own purposes. For example, you can freely put your own personal medical information into Google Docs, Apple Notes, Facebook post, X tweet, Excel spreadsheet, etc.

I ask because Kate's App is similar in ways to my app BoldContacts, which is helps people care for their parents and disabled loved ones. I strongly believe that these kinds of apps need some kinds of privacy protections that are lighter-weight than HIPAA. I haven't yet found a perfect answer.

https://boldcontacts.org
Ditto for the Atari user group meetings I attended here in Vancouver in the mid 80's.
As a relatively straight-edge person, I enjoyed my first and only actual rave, but I really felt like I had to convince myself I was enjoying it compared to the people that were obviously on MDMA or whatever, especially after a few hours of basically similar tempos. Ironically, they also all burned out at a certain point and it got even less engaging as they sat on the floor and I wandered around as though I didn't get the memo.

I've been to more recent Hardstyle shows since then at less sketchy venues and that's been fun, but something maybe about the repetitiveness of non-progressive trance or whatever at the time was quite boring. Some part of me wonders what that music feels like after taking something, but I spend enough time around people over 30 who regularly take mdma, coke, K, (I know they're quite different) that it continues seeming like something I'd prefer not to introduce into my life; it seems like they kind of need it. Incidentally, I'm definitely the exception in almost any group, having not engaged in anything but weed+alcohol recreationally, and occasionally drop those for periods of time. People are generally surprised that I haven't tried psychedelics yet.
It's an employer's market. Why would an employer want to wait 3-4 weeks for someone to interview elsewhere when there's a dozen other candidates in the pipeline?
At zero temp there is still non-determism due to sampling and the fact that floating point addition is not commutative so you will get varying results due to parallelism.
> Taking the option away doesn't help anyone.

Except firefighters, prisoners, and society.
That's reasonable advice if he could cease to work on his project and status quo were resumed, but from his telling of events, it sounds like they're saying he can't study at all unless he works for them for free. Such a scenario would be extortion, and is worth taking the stand on IMO.
Who is on the board and what experience in the field do they have?

I couldn't find a privacy policy so it's likely to be criminal to supply this software to EU citizens.
I've been using yt-dlp to download the cc transcriptions that yt provides. Not sure if that would work for you. There is a npm library to interface with yt-dlp from node. I think it's yt-dlp-exec
Whoa missed this! Love it.
Yes. The chance to do wrong things with data increases with scale.
Not at all. Many old mjpeg IP cameras worked this way and they ended up on the open internet. Shodan is full of them, still.
Who needs an alarm clock when there's always the damn birds to tell you when it's bedtime
There's more than one browser. And neither the default chromium-esque browser in GrapheneOS nor Firefox let me do anything like that.(Firefox surely has some plugin but that's besides the point)
the escaping rules for windows are so complicated (and can vary with configuration) such that it's not possible to do it securely

vs. posix that just dumps the arguments directly into argv
This write up was also fantastic and has made the rounds at our org!
> It's just calling a LLM n-times with slightly different prompts

It can be, but ideally each agent’s model, prompts and tools are tailored to a particular knowledge domain. That way tasks can be broken down into subtasks which are classified and passed to the agents best suited to them.

Agree RE it being bruteforce and expensive but it does look like it can improve some aspects of LLM use.
I don't know enough about the players to comment, but:

"This work was supported by funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant no. NNF21OC0066330) to MNL, and from “SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI FARMACOLOGIA (SIF)” to MP. The funding agency had no involvement in the experimental design or interpretation of the results."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk_Foundation#Role_i...

"Concerns have been raised about the potential influence of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's agenda on the direction of scientific research. Critics express concerns about the potential effect of the foundation's allocation of funds on the diversity of research topics and perspectives within the Danish scientific community,[36] as it tends to prioritize projects that align with its strategic goals.[37]"
Unlike most of hte other commentators I also have personal experience fighting a college administration -- and winning. By threatening lawyers, too.

I got into an Honors Study Abroad thing through the school, but was worried about an incomplete grade screwing up my GPA or causing issues. Emailed the admin about it + study abroad office -- they said all good, it's kosher.

Turns out it wasn't, and after dropping 41k to lock in housing and study abroad they told me I couldn't go because I couldn't transfer credits. Well here is a lesson in "keep your emails" cuz I dug that out and picked a fight with the administration.

They eventually gave me all of my money back minus the $600 non-refundable deposit. I was ready to go to the mat for that, too, but they offered to get me a guaranteed slot for on campus housing and permanent first crack at class selection similar to athletes and disabled students. I was sick of commuting by that point and took the offer. I figured out it was a way to get more money out of me pretty quickly -- solve an issue and make money via housing -- but my RA in the on-campus apartments was super cool and basically let me and a roommate squat for multiple summers. Still friends with a lot of those folks I met living on campus too.

Worked out okay, all things considered. Lawyers won't be a guaranteed win, but don't assume that just giving up is a better deal.
I have been using https://raindrop.io/ for this and find it quite useful. Never end up reading everything I save but it keeps my browser less chaotic and adding bookmarks from the browser extension and on iOS is seamless.
> TBF having others edit posts is pretty key to SO. It's how, for instance, the site handles those still learning English - editors try to parse what the person meant and reframe the question or answer accordingly.

Right. Editing a message should be for stuff like typos, markup, bugs in example code, etc.
I joined a bit later but I remember a very similar atmosphere with "modified" playstations and games "alla duchesca" :)
Bush hid the facts
But prisoner firefighting isn't an involuntary work assignment covered by prop 6, it is a volunteer work assignment program of the type prop 6 allows.
Documenting the Saga of "Elon Musk's" Account
The page loads fine on all my devices and browsers. What are you seeing?
This is literally an app that asks for your confidential medical information. My not-a-lawyer interpretation of the law is that it probably is not covered by HIPAA (to be a "business associate" you need to have a direct financial relationship with a covered entity, i.e., a medical provider), but your snark is pretty reductionist.
I self host about 30 services. Each of them is in a docker container and I do not know what happens inside.

I only configure the startup in a YAML file and I am done. Works great.
The build up of lots dry vegetation (fuel load) ( in a drought) must have been a contribution to fire spread. The high winds certainly another trigger in it spreading quickly .. What could be done to prevent a re occurrence ?
The climate has been changing a long time. I’m a big fan of the XKCD about it.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Probably yes!
The Canadian passport application PDF has Javascript that updates a QR code in the top-right corner of the first page whenever you change or fill in a field.

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

Seems like a pretty genius way of avoiding transcription errors. When I dropped my passport application off yesterday the passport officer marked up a few things on the PDF and then scanned it in, so I assume that they use the QR code to automatically fill in the data as I entered it and then make any updates necessary from after-the-fact modifications manually.

Only seemed to work correctly in Acrobat Reader, but I haven't tried others (like Foxit) or anything.
I know the story of System R really well.

It was a breakthrough system is almost all aspects. It defined what dbs would look like both internally and externally for decades.

In many ways SQL is like C: good for what authors wanted it to be but severe consequences much later.

But the history doesn't care. SQL (and C) still have many-many years ahead of them.
Want to start a fight among virus experts? Ask about HIV's new name
Probably countries with working healthcare systems.
Apparently, and they'll never enter bankruptcy proceedings and get sold that way.
I'm a staff engineer with ADHD and extreme test anxiety. When looking for another job during COVID I was rejected by every company at the screening stage I spoke to. The only offer I got was for Netflix which gave me a take-home assignment. It was wonderful because I had confidence in my code when I brought it back to the interviewers and could explain very clearly what was going on.

I ended up not taking the job due to the combination of a counter-offer from my employer as well as being a little weirded out by their culture. But I was thankful to get the opportunity to show my skills in a way that worked for me.
Falling asleep with nicotine patches on results in wild dreams so it clearly screws up something in the brain!
Out of curiosity, why would it be mind-blowing if either of them were a rational number?
A lot of sweeterers used are synthatically created, and their long-term health effects are not well studied.

They could cause various diseases, or could confuse your metablic system, because your body thinks it is getting calories because the food is sweet, but then the calories are not there so you could actually get an energy drop from it.
Pumps, plural? I don't think we needed more than the default 1200 u/s that a single offshore pump gets (the one that you start out with) to scale from 0 until nuclear
Gzipped PostScript documents were fairly popular during the 90's and are functionally identical to PDFs for 99% of use cases. (PDF is essentially PostScript, but with more features.)
Not sure I understood you. You think that AVX-512 workload and store-load BW are irrelevant because main system memory (RAM) cannot keep up with the speed of CPU caches?