skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither can I, but you know what I can imagine? Walking away from Firefox because it yet again shows it has no interest in being a strong browser for the only folks that actually use it, namely power users who care about privacy, security, and controlling their own browser experience while enabling them to make the coolest shit with the latest, cutting edge Web APIs.

"Leaving Firefox" because of WebUSB would be silly, but "finally leaving Firefox" because they refuse to add yet another thing that intersects with your interests? Absolutely. At some point you just have to go "this is an abusive relationship holding me back".
I always saw Stoicism as “things around you are going to be really screwed up and panicking about it will make it worse”

The first part of that sentence is opposite to what the author here suggests.
> But if the user was going to do this anyways (flash some unvetted binary to their device), the web still provides MORE security than having the user download flasher.exe + badbinary.elf

I've very very often heard people complain (even some in this very thread!) that you can't get people to (or people outright refuse to) download programs and run them if they're not delivered by Steam or similar. I've also very often heard people complain that ordinary users of web browsers will click anything and everything standing between them and what they want to do without either reading it or bothering to think about what they're doing it.

Given these two points, I'd argue that giving direct access to USB devices to any random website is (from a security standpoint) disastrous for the average user. A user who clicks the "Yes, give access to this USB device to 'website.com'" prompt is almost never going to intend to -say- flash the firmware on that device... and would almost never have any idea if it was or was not possible to do so.

Relatedly; apparently even Google has locked down WebUSB because it substantially weakened client security: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362586>.
I've worked with a lot of brilliant people who know how to do the paperwork that they have to do, and then they do it. Don't believe me? Check out the paperwork that medical doctors have to do -- it's insane, and what these researchers are being asked to do (assuming it's admins who get laid off) is way less. Or how about software developers? We have to dot our i's and cross our t's all over the place -- design reviews, architecture reviews, code reviews, test writing, and lots of process, and then we get to maintain and debug our own code and sometimes even operate it.
Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide. There is a very, very low chance of there being another person with the same name. Chances of finding another person with the same name and the same year of birth are practically zero.

Edit: Seems like this particular combination is not unique after all. Found quite a few people of the same name. Perhaps they chose a victim which can't be found trivially.
Subreddit moderators are not reddit administrators. Reddit admins are employees (or perhaps contractors) of reddit and are the only ones that can issue site-wide bans or remove content ("[Removed By Reddit]").

But like moderators, they're inconsistent as hell as to how and what they remove or who they ban.

All around, reddit has become a trash factory. Not only running of the site, but the content. Extreme attention seeking users ("AIO", "AITAH", etc), or simply bots (pick any cat-related sub, all reposts, all bots).

Even some technical subs are full of blind fanboy-ism and ignorance. It's simply painful. Unfortunately it's still a good place to get US and local news, /r/aviation often being one of the first subs to report on incidents, like the DIA AA fire, with photos/videos from the sub's own users.
The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's great disrupter
Yes, the in-browser playback is quite finicky at the moment... for now the simple step-by-step and time travel buttons (next / previous) are safer...

Playback seems to be working on Chrome.. but I will make a note however for Firefox. Thanks for checking it out!
A keyboard with ten hundred keys [video]
Product Principles at Gitlab
I’ll speak only for iOS since that’s what I’m most familiar with.

The important thing to realise is that no one wanted alternative stores. Not really. What everyone wanted was for the existing store to not be stressful oppressive garbage. If Apple didn’t have draconian rules where they charge too high margins and repeatedly reject apps for stupid petty reasons, they wouldn’t have found themselves in this situation. The other big players would even likely accept having to sell via in-app purchases (offering better consistent protection to consumers) if Apple weren’t egregiously eating into their margins.

Don’t take my word for it, we have (now public) internal emails where Apple executives discuss these very issues and question how long they could keep it up.

Alternative stores were the next best thing. When it became clear that Apple wouldn’t fix their behaviour, the only choice was to fight for legislation where they don’t have as much of a say. Make no mistake, they (Tim Cook in particular) brought it on themselves.

As to your specific questions:

1. App discoverability has been unusable for years. The App Store is the last place where I look for apps.

2. The App Store is already filled with privacy-violating apps and scams. Apple ensures jack shit. Scammers don’t need to create fake stores, they are already doing pretty well for themselves in the main store selling flashlight apps with expensive weekly subscriptions.

Is this situation worse for non-technical users? Maybe. Right now there are big scary warning when trying to add third-party stores, and that does make some sense. But Apple will have to get off their ass and make better privacy protections at the OS level.
I was at NUWC Newport. Depending on the department, there was more or less programming to be done.
i can't believe the elon musk anti-hype train turned ketamine (which is pretty non-addictive as far as drugs go) into the posterchild drug, impressive
A difficulty developers have cited is that it isn't possible to have paid major version upgrades while keeping the same identity (links, reviews, etc...) for an app.
It's been interesting to watch and experience Techbros jump on different philosophical/religious trends over the years. Post 9/11 through the Great Financial Crisis New Atheism was all the rage. Once the tech boom was in full swing Stoicism became the dominant ideology.

Now, post Covid I see a hard pivot towards Christianity, but importantly, "traditional" forms of it. Protestant sects are being ignored and Catholicism, or if you are really intense, Orthodoxy seems to be in vogue.
They talk about how the love Luigi, post Luigi hats, and how Luigi should have been the one to hook up with Peach.
I suspect that screaming at a person who has done you wrong, in the vast majority of cases, has both the intended effect and a desirable one.

If you are in an elite position of leadership, and otherwise have more Machiavellian options, then you can always try to calculate revenge instead -- or forgive endlessly and be exploited.

I'd say in the majority of cases, for most adult people with some life experience, shouting when you want to shout is probably a healthy thing.

Though there are always cases of those who shout at the wrong people (displaced agression), or have to little life experience or no composure at all -- I dont think these are any where near the majority of cases. It's very rare. Though a perpetually (literally,) adolescent internet might make it seem so.

Almost no one ever shouts at me, though I'm very shoutable-at.
There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
So if I'm fortunate and blessed with wealth, I should feel guilty and be vocal about my guilt. So I make my life worse off and that of the people around me. People with heavy burden of guilt are often insufferable. And this will somehow make the world better off?

Notice these people making these arguments never argue for voluntary charitable giving which is actually encouraged by stoic philosophy as is promoting justice.

But the most important thing to some people is the signaling and guilt associated with any gift.
I think it's just one of the few therapeutic skills that are generally offered to men and that genuinely considers the problems that men face.

The problems and issues that men face are largely ignored or downplayed compared with women and there's little offered to men in dealing with it. The traditional outlets like men-only clubs and spaces have been torn down in the name of equality. In that environment, literally anything at all that attempts to address the problems men face will become popular among men.
The way reddit admins operate is madly arbitrary. From experience, I am willing to bet that some subreddit admins or moderators get money under the table from interested parties to look the other way or worse.
I know the moderator difference, I'm talking asking about admins.

The admin approach to policies have always seemed very individual to the admin with wildly different responses.
Why does Donald Trump have this much power to begin with?

Because regardless of the (numerous) faults of democracy in general, and American democracy in particular, 77 million people actively stood up and said "This is what I want". Tens of millions more knew perfectly well that this is what would happen, and chose not to intervene.

I would say that this is the root cause of the problem. Maybe in a better system, those 77 million people wouldn't have been the dominant force. But it's clear that this is not just one person exploiting a loophole. He has the support of tens of millions of people.

I'd also say that this is entirely about ending centralized power. The EPA only exists because the federal government compels it on everybody. This is ending federal involvement.
> Professors of stocism like to make a virute of dying quiety -- this i think absurd. If the plane is falling from the sky, i envy the people screaming -- they have the right levels of attachemnt to their own lives.

Not to sound flippant, but that strikes me as absurd. You don't gain anything by that. You're going to be just as dead, but with a lot of suffering in your final moments that didn't need to happen. It's a pure negative thing, not a virtue.
Consumers value domestic vanilla when informed, research shows
It does have an edge on being able to run large MoE models.
oh great, they are not using a confusing name anymore... wait, now they are using a stupid name!
> That's very reductionist to say that ALL labor is exploited, least of all privileged well paid white collar jobs in rich western countries, and undermines the actual labor exploitation going on out there.

All labour is exploited, even the most pampered employees. That's why it's important that even those most well-paid and well-treated employees lend their support to others through supporting unions and the global labour movement.

> Sure, you might consider yourself exploited with a measly 100k+/year wage because your CEO makes over 200x that, but the majority of the population will disagree and have no sympathy on that being remotely resembling exploitation.

Divide and conquer has been the oppressors' tactic of choice for millennia. The tried-and-tested counter is class solidarity. Don't fool yourself into thinking you aren't working class just because your wages are higher than others.
I agree, but I would be curious about cases where nature could reclaim habitat faster if we give it some tools for the job. I can't really think of what those tools might be off hand though--apart from some kind of weapon/disease that better keeps humans away at marginal detriment to the user/host.
I got through 16 seconds of "POP OUT".

I will go back to Audioslave and Nine Inch Nails.
I love when someone comes up with a good idea that becomes immediately obvious as soon as it is introduced
How many companies out there genuinely need an Ilya Sutskever to achieve their goals? Everything in this article is accurate for the 99.9% of companies and teams that aren't working at the bleeding edge of the industry. The mythical "10x engineer" is always a net negative on teams building a boring CRUD app. You always want a handful of "normal" engineers instead.
Too much hype x hyperbolic headline = lots of typing to explain why it’s wrong.

So much energy burnt to this.
Ask HN: Master's program in Cryptography/CS recommendations?
I'm looking for one that welcomes someone with no research experience and focuses on building said skill, i.e. a place that actually trains researchers, and not a paper mill or IT school (nothing wrong with IT schools, btw. I'm just not looking for them).

Currently, I’m using csrankings as a signal, but I’m aware that those are based on research outputs, so it may not correlate with teaching quality. Or does it?

What do you think?
you have to judge people for their actions, not their philosophical essays.

ycombinator (which, nota bene, also spawned sam) is nothing but distilled capitalism with a fig leaf to appeal to a subset of nerd culture and you all ate it up
Dolphin's were trained to bypass enemy underwater defenses to plant explosives on enemy ships while they were in there home port. They were also used to find mines and other underwater devices to be disarmed.

Most birds just aren't big enough to do real damage to barbed wire or razor wire defenses. Now if you could somehow train the birds to harass a herd of cattle into running down the fence, that might work. Sort of like the Hitchcock movie The Birds.
I've heard of a few of these in the US, but have not heard of any in the UK, where we also burned a lot of coal. Did we manage the ash differently? I have a vague idea that we have a different kind of coal, which produces less ash.

I couldn't find anything conclusive, but found this from 2015:

> Storage, whether in lagoons, silos or landfills, rather than re-use, is the default solution for coal ash management in most countries. The UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) estimates that, of the eight million tonnes of coal ash produced in the country each year, half is re-used, while over 300 million tonnes have been stored in lagoons or silos since the 1950s. [...] The American Coal Ash Association (ACAA) reports on US coal ash production and use each year. In 2013, 53 million tonnes of coal ash were generated, of which 23 million tonnes were re-used. Of the unused portion, the EPA says 36 per cent was stored in landfills, and 21 per cent in wet storage facilities. [...] Some countries are doing better, though: for example, the Netherlands recycles 100 per cent of its coal ash because landfill is not allowed in the country. In Germany, where around 10 million tonnes of coal ash are produced per year, around 97 per cent is re-used, with the rest stored only on a temporary basis. According to the European Coal Combustion Products Association (Ecoba), of the 48 million tonnes of coal ash produced in 15 EU countries in 2010 (the latest available figures), 13.8 million tonnes were re-used.

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/coal-fired/managing-coal...

The "re-use" is by processing it into materials which can be used for various construction and materials manufacturing processes. There's lots of other fascinating details about coal ash in there. Wikipedia is pretty good too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_combustion_products
- "Why can't I swap cloud backends on the mobile platforms?"
why would I make such system exist in the first place????

no one can stopping you to create such system tbh, but expecting others to follow your ideologies is insane

developing android and ios is come with a cost and they need to figure it out earn some of their money back and this is the "moat" that they have
I'm pretty sure the chief executive sees it that way.
I don't follow Tim Ferriss, but I heard him interviewed on a podcast I sometimes listen to (I forget which) and Ferris said he reads MA's writings at least yearly and has done so for decades, and credited it with helping him with his depression and other issues. I got the impression he mentions it and advocates that everyone should study them as well. The interviewer was equally enthusiastic about MA.

Considering the popularity of Ferriss, he is probably part of the reason. I suspect the type of people who read his books (eg the 4 hour work week) probably are into it too as it is a macho stance to take. Who the hell thinks it is good to sleep on a stone floor in order to toughen your mind so you don't get too attached to comforts? My philosophy is I'll deal with suffering when it comes, and not practice before then to get good at it.

It reminds me of an interview many years ago with Jim Rose, who put on a traveling sideshow circus. There were no tricks -- the performs just did strange, painful things for entertainment. One of his routines was his wife would throw darts, using Rose's back as the dartboard. The interviewer asked, "Do you practice this?" He replied something like, "Hell no! It hurts! I did it once to see if I could do it, but after that I only do it for the show, where I get paid!"
There are some people who are indeed asking for that and I have no problem with app stores taking a cut for publishing and marketing on their stores as long as there are other paths for people to get apps on devices.
Ahahahaha.

Sorry, but I just burst out laughing at my own comment, when I considered the technical difficulties in trying to teach a robot to handle the change of context needed to balance on its hands, rather than its feet, let alone walk around on them. Ahaha.
Philosophies are frameworks that help us make sense of the world. We can adopt them in ways that are maladjusted.

People with power often adopt stoic thinking as the nature of power comes with stresses that are difficult to manage. I’ve wielded power at a scale that was nothing like a president or ceo, but way beyond what the typical person experiences. It’s hard, and whatever you do, someone has a bad outcome in many cases.

Most people would characterize Marcus Aurelius or George Washington as wise rulers. They embraced stoicism. Yet Mussolini and Robespierre also identified as stoic-ish as well, and most people would objectively look at them with a harsher light.
Noise at 30km altitude probably points more towards a sensor issue than dust.
Excellent question
We don't need more PhDs. People foolish enough to have sought a PhD will benefit as they are now limited to a master's degree, with which their career will be much better.
There is no need for a new board form factor, because they have existed for many decades.

Below the mini-ITX format with a GPU slot, there are 3 standard form factors that are big enough for a full-featured personal computer that is more powerful than most laptops: nano-ITX (120 mm x 120 mm, for 5" by 5" cases; half the area of mini-ITX), 3.5" (from the size of the 3.5 inch HDDs, approximately the same area with nano-ITX, but rectangular instead of square) and the 4" x 4" NUC format introduced by Intel.

With a nano-ITX or 3.5" board you can make a computer not bigger than 1 liter that can ensure a low noise even for a 65 W power dissipation for the CPU+iGPU and that can have a generous amount of peripheral ports, to cover all needs.

Keeping the low noise condition, one could increase the maximum power-dissipation to 150 W for the CPU+iGPU in a somewhat bigger case, but certainly still smaller than 2.5 liter.

I expect that we will see such mini-PCs with Strix Halo, the only question is whether their price would be low enough to make them worthwhile.

The fabrication cost for Strix Halo must be lower than for a combo of CPU with discrete GPU, but the initial offerings with it attempt to make the customer pay more for the benefit of having a more compact system, which for many people will not be enough motivation to accept a higher price.
The guilt isn't due to the simple fact of being prosperous it's more about the prioritization of self-interest over that of a win-win option that helps the broader good.
Scaling Laws for DiLoCo
> But for all Seneca’s powerful advice about the big picture and the meaninglessness of wealth, he was also a slave-owner who, when alerted that his male slaves were sexually abusing his female slaves, set up a brothel in his estate so he could make his male slaves pay him for the privilege of abusing his female slaves–not quite the behavior we imagine when Seneca says money is meaningless and all living beings are sacred.

It could be argued that this policy was simply reasonable: the only alternatives being to either do nothing, or set up a police force to prevent and/or punish abuse.

Also, not sure if Seneca really believed "all living beings [were] sacred"; he despised games of gladiators because he thought the spectacles were vulgar and appealed to lower instincts, but he never expressed any form of compassion for the gladiators themselves.

Anyway, I knew that Seneca was the richest Roman in his time (and perhaps, of all times), but didn't hear that story before. Would like to know more. (Did slaves have money to spend?)
These aren't financial exchanges, they're a sports betting and an expense management system.

I share OPs skepticism. Market makers invest in microwave towers, FPGAs, etc. I would be surprised if sqlite backed by NVME is on the other end of all that specialized hardware.

Order matching is a single threaded thing though. I would be curious if anyone knows how electronic trading systems are actually implemented.
I agree from what I've observed. You can have topic X posted which gets removed, only for someone else in the same sub to defiantly post about topic X with a "reddit removed this!" and it will stay up.
Bias is universal. Being as open as you can with both yourself and others as to what those biases are is the foundation of honesty.

Said another way, all movie reviews are biased because we all have different tastes and preferences, we have all seen different movies which colors how we perceive new movies, we all have different values and limits, the list goes on. I like movie reviewers with a strong opinion, even/especially if that opinion does not agree with my own. Because I understand their strong opinions (their biases), I can easily apply my own analysis and decision-making to their opinion.
Seems OK to me, not great. I would have never made the connection to anus without you mentioning it, possibly due to the differing pronunciation.
If it were not for protectionism, BYD would be wiping the floor in the EU and US with customers who want affordable cars, never mind affordable electric cars.