skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other big one is making sure dwarves don't path to complicated places, or animals don't path at all. Needing to know about how the game is written to make it useable is not great, though.
From the title I understood this was a feature that had arrived in QEMU, seems like it could have it's place on development machines/etc where the only reason you're using a VM is to get access to some alt. architecture.
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No one using qemu in production with untrusted VMs should be using 9pfs, but does anyone except RHEL/CentOS actually leave it out of the binary?
https://www.passwordstore.org/
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But that's totally possible with a slight change in .vimrc. I would argue that since you can change it in .vimrc your proposed rebinding is still part of the vim "interface".
Not a spinner:

https://andreapaiola.name/2015-02-css-loading-animation/
More relevant, their latest game: https://www.kleientertainment.com/games/oxygen-not-included

System-driven space colony simulation, with a particular emphasis on maintaining breathable air.
I was replying to

> show me if security is improved!
> (which for Wordpress can't be that hard)

that is, to say that the concept of 'WordPress Security' isn't a single simple thing to 'improve'. Unfortunately. If you wrote a set of 10 jillion tests and proved that wordpress core has no possible security vulnerabilities (humour me), that still would not fix 'WordPress Security'.

From a theoretical point of view, you're absolutely right, and I agree with you.

From a practical point of view, WordPress is often 'good enough', and 'works well enough', and has 'few enough security issues', for many people.

Improving security is great, but it's a complex, perhaps impossible problem.
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I have played both, and while I got bored of RW as soon as I got to the siege stage, I had to force myself to stop playing DF even though I still had about a dozen ideas for lava traps. YMMV.

Edit: I still have to stop myself from re-downloading dwarf fortress about once per week because there is so much left to explore. I just barely scratched the surface of power stations and automated rail systems. You could spend thousands of hours just designing traps to kill goblins. The fun is in the complexity. Perhaps you just did not get deep enough into the game. Now I have to talk myself out of downloading DF again. The sheer maniacal glee of knocking a dozen goblins off a narrow path (use a rail car attached to a pressure plate) into a pit and filling it with lava after spending hours setting it up just can't be described.
I agree with most of these, but #2 doesnt apply to mobile apps, where screen space is at a premium.
I would love to play a DF equivalent on a dyson ring. The cooperative elements would be for ring maintenance - keeping the station-keeping thrusters in good health, keeping the trams between territories running, whatever. The balance of the world play could certainly be enough for anyone even dividing the ring up into per-player planet-sized chunks.
>it's that most users do not care much and are not willing to pay for privacy despite saying it's important for them.... Until then, people will just enjoy their free search engines, social networks, phone operating systems and will be content paying with their private data.

What's worse is that there are privacy-respecting alternatives available out there, all for free or close to it.

For search engines, you can use startpage.com and duckduckgo.com.

For social networks, you can use Diaspora. You might have to pay for a cheap hosting account though.

For phone operating systems, you can use LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod).

For PC/laptop OSes, you can use Linux.

But no one wants to bother with any of these things. They'd rather use whatever's mainstream, and they're perfectly happy to post all their private information on Facebook for the whole world to see.
> Broadcom _does_ deal in small quantities for them in support of the mission.

Rather: originally in support of the mission. :-)
MMM's posts are all from the perspective of someone who: 1) has a paid off house, 2) has a lot of money in the bank, can get a job with benefits easily on short-ish notice and has no-one with chronic illnesses in his household (= incredibly low health insurance costs). He also gains all kinds of savings by not being dependent on a 9-5, like having enormous choice in housing location, lower transportation expenses, and so on. This is the end state of someone who's made it, and spending at that level's not realistic for a family that's still working, because their spending is necessarily much higher due to having fewer options to reduce costs.

I like the general attitude of that blog, but after going on a reading binge of it a couple years ago I came away with the impression that it's subtly misleading and kinda scummy. Stuff like "how I thrive with no job (by already having a ton of money, and actually having 3 part-time jobs, one of which is getting you to click affiliate links on this very blog)", or "Why are you paying so much for health insurance, really guys, it's cheap (if you're in an exactly perfect life situation, what, are you not?)" Clickbaity humblebragging and condescending wankery mixed with good advice about frugality (some of which is actually useful to people who don't already have a ton of money in the bank), in service of making him money via one of his not-jobs.

> Normal employee copays for a famils are in the $200-$400 per month range.

No. Maybe for one person, not a family. Yes, there are companies that deliver great benefits on health care (I'm at one) but they're exceptional. $2000 seems high, but $200-400 is low by at least half.
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The criticism is not being dismissed. It is simply an opposing and simultaneous viewpoint.
A move following on the success of EA Access: https://www.ea.com/eaaccess/

The Playstation 4 has PS Now (https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationnow/), sorta. This press release throws a bit of shade:

> One of the best things about Xbox Game Pass is that you can discover and download the full titles directly on your Xbox One. That means continuous, full-fidelity gameplay without having to worry about streaming, bandwidth or connectivity issues.
> You have a point. I thought I was a night owl, until I figured out that if you wake up everyday (weekends too) at the exact same time, your body adjusts and naturally wakes up at 7am (for example) feeling well-rested, and you start getting drowsy at around 10pm.

So it worked for you. Maybe it doesn't work for everyone else.
Where do you live? You should move.
Eh... it works the other way, too. School is (maybe accidentally) also designed so that people can be productive while their children are too young to be responsible for themselves. Many of the main benefits of universal pre-K, for instance, overlap a lot with universal day care.

The standard work week (whether 30 hours or 40 hours) is about having a common cadence that everyone can plan things around. The counterexample to this is the plight of workers who have to juggle multiple part time jobs and the availability expectations of multiple bosses, their kids schools, and so on.
Something like https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 combined with a flavor of raspberry pi then. The linked product is barebones but the actually dangerous part has already been done for you.
The problem is that ground-level SOX gives you acid rain, and washes out too fast to be useful for GCC mitigation. Increasing volcanism would arguably be even iffier than nuclear sulfur blimps.
What language did you move to?
To be fair, computer programming itself doesn't really require a lot of math knowledge. Conceptual understanding of the programs does. But Logic is something that is basically required in both fields, so it's natural to see some similarities.
In the best case, firing a very expendable recent hire for a good reason is much less painful than getting rid of an important engineer, or even HR and top management. Fixing the problem would require company-destroying purges.
> We should be benefiting from automation, not punished by it

That's such a great point. It's a signal that something is wrong if automating tedious work away creates more misery instead of less.
Meanwhile I'm going through a mortgage refi and the mix of old and new technology is comical. I was hoping things had advanced since I last went through this a decade ago but not so much. This is through eRates Mortgage and you might think the "e" stands for electronic, but I'm not so sure.

So far I've had to:

- Fill out an online credit application form, which among other things ask me what year I started my last job and converted that to "years and months" but was off by one since it appeared to be doing math as if the current year is 2016. That was at one particular web site.

- On another web site, I was then able to e-sign about a dozen documents. However, about half a dozen documents I had to print out, sign, scan, then upload to a third web site.

- One of the forms had an error, so I received an email from a mortgage officer that read "You've received an encrypted message from XXX@financeofamerica.com. To view your message Save and open the attachment (message.html), and follow the instructions. Sign in using the following email address: me@example.org". This comically required me to register with live.com so that I could read the actual email and reply with a corrected version of the form via an outlook web interface.

- Yet another mortgage officer contacted me for additional forms, these were sent as PDF attachments that I had to print, sign, scan, and email back (over regular email this time) as further attachments.

- There is no online site I can use to track the progress of things. I just have to call or email periodically.

- The forms as you might imagine are a mix of ancient government mandated forms and sundry other requests that are from the loan company's underwriting department.

On a semi-related note, I also just rolled over a 401(k) which was also unable to be done electronically. The old 401(k) institution overnighted me a check which I had to combine with a form I printed out from the new 401(k) institution, then I had to overnight those to the new institution. 3+ days of lost market gains.
Total cost on the open market for that kind of plan is 1k - 1.2k, so your work basically has no health benefit? I have never had that experience...
I think the primary downside people find with QT is the language support. People want cross-platform, native UI (i.e. not GTK) in a statically typed language higher level than C++. Even Go versions require a long compile time and don't work w/ the msvc toolchain and (IIRC) QT quick and QML are a bit hamstrung if you want to do advanced things with controls.

I would love full QT with a modern, high-level static language that is not hobbled on Windows. .Net may be the first to get there with a quality cross platform UI (Mono's WinForms are a bit hobbled too).
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Python shouldn't be any slower than Node for crawling if you use the right tools.
How did Dwarf Fortress become popular?
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Except when a value has already been stored previously without JSON.stringify (in which case JSON.parse will throw), or you need a default value if unset (e.g `store.get('username', 'anonymous')`, or ... :) But I also see your point that sometimes the very quick and simple solution can be useful!
You can do it based on DNS.
excited. cant wait. literally.

you got a source for this?
I had the same initial thought too - but he said he's creating a crawler that is meant to be distributed - in which case it's fine to use Docker since it makes the deployment on multiple machines simpler.

However that ram usage though...ugh
> However that "metaprogrammer" term is probably not so common. How are metaprogrammers called otherwise? What are their job titles?

In places that use this approach the people filling that role are sometimes called Architects, Principal Engineers, and sometimes Product Managers or Technical Product Managers.
I was lucky enough to work for a "technical" non-profit for a few years. We worked 7 hours a day instead of a full 8. It was absolutely amazing. It was the perfect amount of time I felt. I noticed I slacked off less to get everything done in a day.

Honestly, if we worked that extra hour each day, it would of have been spent surfing the internet. Spending more time making coffee, chatting, lunch etc.
One of the things that I find interesting about Dwarf Fortress is that (to use programming jargon) it's sort of a declarative game rather than an imperative game. In e.g. StarCraft you select an individual unit and demand that it move to a specific point on the map; in Dwarf Fortress you configure which dwarves are allowed to perform certain tasks, then you place a task in a queue, and some dwarf somewhere will (eventually (hopefully)) take care of it (until they get distracted by a party, or decide to go fishing, or get hungry and wander off to the dining hall, or fall asleep in a stockpile, or drop anything they're carrying and run screaming from the forgotten beast hurtling down the hallway at them). It's a fascinating difference in paradigm, and I wish more games would explore the idea of actors in the world being chaotic/free agents which will only somewhat prioritize your wishes.
Capital is more than just cash. There is land, buildings, and equipment. I honestly don't know any details about the group's situation, but I am put in mind of a story: doubling the order cost four times the price for the simple reason that the supplier could handle the smaller order with the existing factory. In order to meet the larger order, however, he would need to build a new factory.
Mostly accurate, until you say '
"they'd rather use whatever's mainstream"

Ignoring that the options people do choose are vastly more capable, usable, convenient, reliable, supported, etc, than any of the options that would protect their privacy.

People are making tradeoff, but it has nothing to do with what is 'mainstream'. The mainstream choices are mainstream because they offer tremendous value in comparison to the privacy preserving alternatives.
> There is zero support in government for moving towards more environmentally sustainable practices

Zero support in the executive administration and the legislative majority, sure.

> and the Citizenry backs this change of course wholeheartedly

Election results and polling data do not support the idea of the citizenry supporting the current administration and/or legislative majority "wholeheartedly".
> How would an AI know the truth?

There's been some research on this. I think I even saw at least one article about it here on HN, though I can't find a link any more.

What I remember seeing is a kind of world (?) map of the Internet with a set of different-colored interconnecting webs of sites.

There is one set that deals mostly in verifiable facts, usually based on genuine, usually academic research. Universities are major nodes in this net, but you get some overlap with "mainstream" news sources, Wikipedia and so on.

There's another major set that includes InfoWars, Collective Evolution, Natural News, Deepak Chopra, Mercola and other Anti-Vaxxers, various AGW deniers, and other well-known sources of bullshit.

Both of those networks have many more connections within themselves than to the other clouds, and have their own frequent-viewer audiences who will frequent the one set more than the other.

There were, as I remember, other sets that were less significant.

Purely on probability, a story will be dramatically more likely to be true if originated and/or propagated in the first of those clouds than the second.

Mapping these webs is a pretty mundane mechanical task, yet it can provide an excellent filter for some classes of information.

Other stuff is "squishier" because it's more opinion than fact. Politics and policies will be found here, and you're likely to see (I don't remember if the article I have in mind showed this) "conservative" vs. "liberal" networks rather than "fact" vs. "bullshit". On the other hand, there are experts on many aspects of politics, and if you're looking for ideas on policy that are informed by history and research, you're more likely to get them from professors of history, economics and law than from Fox News or televangelist channels.

I suspect there are a lot more inferences that can be drawn, via probability or Bayes, from the Internet sources of information, its propagation behavior, and the shape of the networks it travels.

Similarly, there's a wealth of information to be gained from analyzing the language of an individual page. Emotional words vs. dispassionate ones; weasel words like "probably" or "it was said" as opposed to "according to" or links to other sources. Bullshit is often simplified for consumption by simple people, while academics often carelessly lapse into "high-bred" or technical language.

Some of those features could be gamed, simulated, faked, and certainly will be. Many bullshit articles in the health, field, for instance, now link to "outlier" or discredited papers in PubMed to enhance their credibility. But like our grandparent poster, I think AI, working patiently and dispassionately, will be able to continue to find hints to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.
>a ballooning threat surface that can never reliably be patched

Some would convincingly describe Microsoft Windows the same way.
A theme of this work is vulnerabilities in the "internal browser" some of the mobile password managers provide. Mobile password managers have internal browsers because it's not easy to extend the standard mobile browsers, and password managers want to automate the entry of passwords into form fields.

Don't use the internal browser of your password manager, no matter which one you use. There's too much that can go wrong, and the small convenience just isn't worth it.
> I think there will be a role emerging within Enterprises, (sort of like an "insurance broker" who finds the best coverage options among a sea of choices), that will be responsible for surveying new technologies that could potentially help the firm, and running pilot programs to see how they potentially help make the org. more efficient or more competitive.

You have just described my role. We're calling ourselves Emerging Technology Specialists for the time being.
Or maybe Singhal resigned because despite telling his management it was untrue, they didn't side with him despite his long term loyalty to the firm.

If you feel you've built the company with your own hands, and then the firm institutionally closes ranks against you because of a false accusation (or that's how you perceive it), then you'd probably be very bitter and want to leave anyway.
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What you're missing is that these security exploits are discovered, patched and disclosed. The same can't be said about most tech services / products. Security through obscurity is not a viable strategy.
I created an issue to investigate viability and usefulness :) https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js/issues/193
No, it means they run binaries compiled with source code from which this feature set has been removed.
> We should absolutely kill the 40 hour week and replace it with a 30 hour week.

How about this: we should absolutely become more flexible and let people find the workweek that works for themselves.
> I don't think they mean any harm.

It's not the intention, but the fact that they are causing harm. They are not properly trained is what she pointed out.

Minimal training, and lots of power... bad combination.

Edit: maybe not lack of training, but instead being trained improperly. They could easily have been trained very well at acting this way.
Thanks - yeah, there's a lot of optimisation still to do on load times. (We need some JS to let you write client-side code in Python, but we know we can load it a lot faster.)

I'm intrigued what smelt "overly engineered" to you, though. We're trying quite hard to keep the programming interface simple, so if something there offended you, that's good to know. (Or if it was another comment about load time, then...yeah. That just went up the bug tracker a bit.)
1) I'm not sure how well using a PGP encrypted file would fare in this sort of analysis. I suppose it depends heavily on the details on how it is done.

2) The analysis was done for Android applications, I suspect that on desktop the situation is generally bit better. I doubt you are doing PGP encrypted files on Android..

3) KeePass is notably absent from the list. I suppose its presence on Android might be bit smaller than on desktops, but considering how well-known it generally is I find the omission bit surprising.

4) Continuing with KeePass, afaik it has been fairly thoroughly scrutinized and the findings I've heard of have left a positive impression
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I wish people would think twice before wishing for millennials to get ass cancer...
It does indeed. :)
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There is a frequent pattern which concerns me of primarily justifying the desire for reduced work hours in terms of the alleged increase in productivity this will bring about (by allowing recharging, preventing burnout, etc.).

I worry that this already concedes too much. This allows for just as much stressful dominance of work over the rest of life, and shame over any deviation from this script, as maximizes productivity.

Even if my shorter-work-hours productivity doesn't match my longer-work-hours productivity, I'd still prefer shorter-work-hours, with no guilt over having those preferences. My goal in life is not to optimize everything I do for maximum benefit of my employer; I have my own priorities and trade-offs to worry about.
They are expertly trained. They did exactly what was needed, and it seems like they did an excellent job. Unfortunately the subject didn't need to be subjected to that for any reason other than random selection.

Edit: They were trained for exactly what the situation would necessitate. Even if they only pulled her in for random selection purposes, they can't not subject her to the same treatment. Otherwise they could get sued for not treating everyone who gets selected the same. Go figure.
The UX is a hurdle. There are inconsistencies and the last time I played, third-party utilities were pretty much mandatory in order to manage your dwarves effectively.

That said, the great thing about the UI is that once you've learned it you can discard it. If you know the commands you need, you can hide the 'commands' area to give you more information on the current gamestate.

FWIW, DF is absolutely fantastic at doing what it's designed to do. It's primarily a story generator not a game, which is partly why interactivity is almost an afterthought
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Irony: Blogging about data ownership and hosting the blog on medium.
just a guess: their product is stupid
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Why do you even need a motorized wheelchair, if you have 2 working legs? It doesn't matter how much something costs if you don't buy it.