skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?

I think these studies are all significantly flawed because successful people with dark personality traits learn to cover up their dark traits.

As a result, the cohort of people with "dark traits" in these observational studies will inevitably be skewed towards those who are less successful/intelligent/adaptable.

Possessing "dark traits" basically means you aren't limited by a moral compass. For any given decision, there's a universe of choices - some choices are moral and others are immoral. "Dark" people can choose from the entire universe of choices, while "light" people can only choose from the moral universe of choices.

It should be obvious, then, that people with "dark traits" are more likely to be successful iff they learn to cover up their dark traits. After all, having greater optionality in your actions is likely to lead to a more optimal path towards your goal.

From my experience working with people that run high in these "dark traits", it's not necessarily a bad thing as long as you put them in positions where their incentives are aligned with those around them.
It looks like there might be a bug or two that is getting ironed out. The many eyes are working!

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/84
sure, it will only help others
A trade ban would be enough to dissuade them from operating in the USA. It would basically be equivalent to a narrow trade sanction w/ a tariff or tax for any leaks.
Traffic accidents are the highest risk in normal years, followed by heart attacks. Those two reasons account for almost all of the on the job deaths for cops.
I think the sweet spot is around $100-$120. At this price point you also get the capability to easily replace cables and pads.

So essentially you buy a headphone for ever.

Some examples are Beyerdynamic custom, ATH-50, sennheiser 599, hd-25 etc
The Google File System (GFS) paper from 2003 mentions erasure codes. Which isn't to say they did it then, but rather that the technique of using erasure coding was known back then.
(And surely before GFS too, I just picked it as an example of a large data storage system that used replication and a direct predecessor to the systems you mentioned.)

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
There is no hole. The SVG is loaded as an image. If you find a hole, it would be in the browser’s handling of SVG images, which would be a pretty big hole.
The most reasonable board for hobby PCIe (< $100) right now is probably the SQRL Acorn, it was designed for mining but it turned out to be pretty useless for that purpose. There are cheaper FPGAs with PCIe support coming onto the market, but they tend to be low on fabric since they are designed for low end applications (Lattice Crosslink NX).

I think there are a few fundamental problems with FPGA compute offload. First is that, as niche products, FPGAs are always a node or two behind the leading edge, so their logic gates run slower than CPUs and GPUs; even their "hard" compute blocks are not as fast. Second, the fundamental nature of FPGAs as a "sea of logic" mean that routing delays reduce your max frequency, or make pipelining necessary thereby incurring latency. Third is memory; historically, FPGAs have not supported high-bandwidth GDDRx, and if you're crunching on something you generally want bandwidth. The latest high-end FPGAs do have HBM but they are quite expensive.

So why would anyone want something that's slower and more expensive? Well, you have to be doing something special, like a lot of custom parallel processing pipelines, or with hard realtime requirements. Basically, a niche, and that doesn't lend itself to economies of scale.
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It's definitely not just a brisk walk. Walking at that speed for extended periods of time is likely going to be painful and most people probably couldn't do it.
One word: patents. GPLv3 has wording which suggests that you need to give up rights to patents when you contribute. If you're a large company, with a large patent portfolio, this becomes an expensive endeavor. Either you give up patents (which might have value), or you do an exhaustive search to verify that no patents are being infringed.
If you drive any car in Canada, the US, or the EU built after 2014 then you already have something similar in mandated ESC.

The car will apply uncommanded brake inputs to assist in steering the car in what the car determines to be the intended direction.

Would I drive a 2014 or later model year Lamborghini? Yes, I absolutely would.

I do get your point.

But the whole reason for MCAS was so that it WOULD be identical.

They weren't selling a lambo as a taurus. They were selling a more efficient taurus with more seats and promising that it would drive just like the old one so you didn't have to retrain your drivers.
Just a UX suggestion for the site:

The header row of the table should be fixed when the user types in a game title at the top of the page. That way the column titles will be visible even as you scroll. When I typed in a game name and was immediately navigated to the table, I had to guess what the columns represented.
I don’t think that getting control is just about locking down. To really get control, you need to do more than locking down. You need a system by which anyone who should get tested can and does get tested, and the results need to be quick. You need to support people who need to isolate so that they can and do isolate. You need to get case counts low enough that contact tracing is useful and then trace contacts for real. You need to actively monitor to find new infections. Once your infection rate is lower than your neighbors, you need to control your borders to manage imported cases.

It’s plausible that some subset of this would work. But certainly just locking down will not work well enough. And doing random subsets of this like California seems to be doing right now is silly.
To be clear, that's a "you" problem.
> for malicious software you’re just looking for a process handing out high privilege handles
In the end, that is true.

But the thing is the way Fuchsia's implementation of the 'capability security model' is done. The capabilities a process (or, a 'component' in Fuchsia's model) use/consume are explicitly given to it. And this scheme is implemented in a way that is easy to see and account for where/from these capabilities are going to/from. An process can do nothing that is not provided by the capabilities it got during creation.

Of course, components might be buggy/malicious and leak capabilities. But the security holes bottleneck in this capability routing scheme, so even with buggy/malicious components, it's much easier to audit and fix. And from an attacker perspective, it's much harder to reach a component given the routing path of capabilities that it's received.
Huh? They say this:

> The whole process begins with clients that encrypt their query for the target using HPKE. Clients obtain the target’s public key via DNS, where it is bundled into a HTTPS resource record and protected by DNSSEC. When the TTL for this key expires, clients request a new copy of the key as needed (just as they would for an A/AAAA record when that record’s TTL expires). The usage of a target’s DNSSEC-validated public key guarantees that only the intended target can decrypt the query and encrypt a response (answer).

So this looks like relies on DNSSEC as a core part of its security, and that any resolvers willing to participate in this protocol would have to set up one.
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They did as everyone can just pay over the counter rates without issue, because you can ship anonymously.
People used to travel. In the old days. Before Covid.

Never did I say one should move to LA and never ever leave town. One can go skiing (nearby even!) or enjoy any kind of weather elsewhere.
Building EBS-like Network Block Device Storage from Scratch in Python
Would you ban tower rushers in starcraft/warcraft2/warcraft3?
A big hope it is a genuine resurgence, and not a GPE 2.0.

But without Android support, their chances are at least halved.
If contributing to your project requires much more than git commit --signoff — in Fuchsia's case, a full-on Google Account! — this will exclude many pseudonymous developers who conceive of things such as privacy in terms of capabilities (not pinky promises). Which seems relevant for a security-focused OS.
I have blocked 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 and noticed some devices behave very badly, often crashing or restarting. Debugging the issue, once I removed the firewall rule they behaved normally. Almost all of the affected devices were google related, Android TV for example.
Yep. I'm pretty sure the weird onboarding process for Apple Music -- tap bubbles that represent genres you like, or something like that -- was very close to Beats's original process. I'm not sure it still does that, since it was kind of weird and confusing. Beats Music had a real focus on human-curated playlists rather than solely algorithmic ones, something that Apple Music kept.
Multiple reasons:

1. Most people just want a website to work. (I know I do)
2. Because how are you gonna do support on a website when the website looks different for everyone involved? Are you only going to offer support for the basic text version? In that case, aren't you still kind off deciding how it looks, only now it looks ugly?
3. Branding. You want people to instantly recognize your product/brand.
4. To push features you want to be used, for better (handy new ones) or worse (advertising, generating bullshit metrics).

Probably a lot more than, but these just popped in my mind.
I have been reading the papers, I'm just giving you the benefit of the doubt of having read them and seen something I missed. I read scientific papers in biology all the time over the course of making a living, and I know how difficult they are to actually understand and interpret. I see PhDs and MDs make mistakes in interpreting them all the time. I make mistakes and miss things when reading them all the time. That's why graduate students, and professors, and medical residents, and doctors often read and discuss them in journal clubs, seminars, and conferences. The process is very similar to what we are doing right now.

I just read the paper you cited there. They're not determining titers of infectious virus in the upper respiratory tract with any other method than PCR. So, yeah, I'm right. I had just assumed you had read the papers and seen something I missed. You're making me second-guess myself, but I'm doing a pretty good job of cruising through these papers and understanding what they're actually doing.

Again, from the other paper you sent me, "RNA detection cannot be used to infer infectiousness."

The Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla is a 'business executive and veterinarian."

Uğur Şahin MD, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, and whose main fields of research are cancer and immunology, and whose company actually developed the underlying technology of the mRNA vaccine jointly released with Pfizer had this to say:

'"I'm very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine - maybe not 90% but maybe 50% - but we should not forget that even that could result in a dramatic reduction of the pandemic spread," he said.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54949799

No sterilizing immunity required.

I'm measuring my interpretation relative to actual scientists. Not just a random CEO who held a press conference. Albert, although he probably doesn't have as deep an understanding of the biology as Uğur, probably knows a hell of a lot more about manufacturing processes, and global distribution networks.

Imagine reducing asymptomatic transmission by 50%! That's insane. That's so awesome! It's going to cut transmission of this virus in half, even by a conservative estimate.

If I was able to sit down with Uğur, (who obviously has a much deeper understanding of the mechanism of action than I do) I'm willing to bet that his mechanism isn't so different than mine. Sounds like he and I agree on a lot!
I really like the idea of Nomad as a simpler alternative to Kubernetes. The documentation is great and provides a lot of examples, but I wish I could find a starter guide on how to deploy a complete application with it and Consul. Something like, here’s how to deploy a Rails app with Sidekiq workers and database migrations.

This along with Waypoint seems like a great solution for smaller side projects.
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> ACID transactions and database constraints make this kind of consistency easier to achieve than many alternatives.

If your company only runs one database.

> It's also easier to prove correctness

RDBMSs are wonderful and I don't consider them unreliable at all. But I can't prove the correctness of my teammate's actions. I want them to show their working by putting their updates onto an append-only ledger.
The driver might be on the payroll, but you need to hire someone else then to do whatever job the driver was doing before.

Oh, and better check with your insurance and local laws. When you pay someone to drive for you all sorts of regulations come into play.
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Why aren't they building or buying a proprietary software solution instead? Because the open source solution is cheaper, and adds more value to them that the proprietary alternatives. The GPL means that enhancements to Linux generally get contributed back to the core. That has allowed Linux to development faster, have better hardware support, etc., compared to operating systems that have a more permissive licensing scheme, such as BSD, and it's cheaper than a purely proprietary OS where one company has to shoulder the whole cost writing all of the software from scratch.

So companies use Linux because it provides a better cost/benefit solution than the alternatives. I will argue that the GPLv2 helps this situation by allowing Linux to get back the software investment made by other companies and merge them back to the core code. So I will be the first to argue that the GPL approach has its benefits. But it also, at the same time, makes companies uncomfortable. So it's simply a matter of nuance. The more value you can provide, the more you can insist that that companies "give back" to the community.

I believe the GPLv2, as, for at least some software projects, manage to achieve a balance which works for most of the stakeholders. And I don't consider this to be "the companies are taking advantage of free work from the community", because the companies are paying developers to work on Linux, so their are part of the community, and they are also contributing back to the community. We just need to make sure that the benefit is such that it is worthwhile for companies to continue to contribute to the community. The whole point is that this is not a zero-sum game, but that by enforcing cooperation, everyone wins.

But if the GPLv3 is too scary, such that no one wants to even try out the community model, then it's a losing proposition.
Couple the bad habit with a good habit. Then try to taper the bad habit down until only the good one remains, or live with a modest reduction in the bad habit.
If only they can read my dotfiles and create the theme just for me! ;)
Is there? Apache 2.0 includes clauses for patent indemnification and allowing sub-licensing derived work.
Please don't post like this here unless you have specific evidence. A Wikipedia link does not count as evidence.

It's not that there are no CIA shills. It's that it's impossible to distinguish them from internet user imagination about spies and shillage, which is an extremely prolific and low-quality activity. There's tons of past explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

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Edit: Separately but importantly, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines also.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
What do you mean it "doesn't prevent infection"? Trials showed vastly reduced infection rate amongst people who'd had the vaccine.
Thank you for bringing the Great Firewall into the discussion, because it is pretty important that we have that context. I think this is actually a lot more relevant to the conversation than any notion of seeking to negate a competitive advantage.

Recently, it occurred to me that the Great Firewall could be more of a tool for foreign policy, not domestic policy. If China for instance wanted to attack US's critical infrastructure, they could do so without damaging their own. Russia has recently employed such a system for their country's internet services, if I recall correctly.

It may very well be that this is what is motivating the TikTok madness here in the US. Left to their own devices, perhaps the fear is that China will weaponize TikTok against its US users, with no way to "great firewall" ourselves from those outcomes. Since we cannot use this strategy without angering the rest of the world on the "open internet" we have to resort to different measures.
Music for 18 Musicians is my favorite composition.

Some crazy post-grad at Rutgers convinced enough colleagues to make it her performance piece a few years ago, and it was free to boot, so I drove a couple hours with a friend to see it. It’s great on recordings, and much cooler to be in the room with it live.

I’ve also recently come to love (especially the first half/performance of) Terry Riley’s Persian Surgery Dervishes. With just an organ and a delay pedal, he builds such a trancelike, subdued and dark yet pleasant mood.
We're not blank slates when we're born, and it's well established that it's ~50% genetics and ~50% environment.

Edit: furthermore it's compounded by the fact that the environment changes the expression of the genes (Gene × Environment interaction) and the genes influence the environment (gene-environment correlation rGE)
Hey!

1. Yes, there is a Slack integration. You can search for channels (#general) or DMs (@ben) and hitting Enter switches you to the Slack app and jumps straight to that channel. Kind of like Slack's Cmd-K, but computer-wide. Over time, the app tracks internally which results you're launching frequently, so jumping back to a certain channel should be 2-3 keystrokes.

2. We'll have a pro tier and team pricing in time - rest assured this isn't a data aggregation or marketing data play. Your cloud data never leaves your laptop. All the indexing is local in an encrypted index. We want to eventually charge a reasonable price for pro users or enterprise/team use cases, similar to GitHub, Dropbox, models etc.
There’s nothing to report. For all intents and purposes SVG files are treated exactly like images. All interactivity and even the ability to load other resources is disabled.

FYI millions of readmes have had SVG badges for years.
Can't you get another monitor arm or maybe microphone arm that you can lock in place? Attach the keyboard to that and it should help.
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If you are waiting for a correction to buy stocks you shouldn’t be in stocks the first place. It’s because you are trying to time the market to begin with, which is one of the biggest mistake mind set of all for investing or trading
Yes exactly, I feel this could actually be further split to 3 mostly disjoint concepts:

1. Can I understand why person X would feel emotion Y in situation Z? People probably vary the most on this one when they themselves would not feel emotion Y in situation Z, because it becomes about how well they can put themselves in the shoes of someone with different values/priors (from a more cerebral perspective). There's also a difference between retroactive explanation and prediction of course, but without extensive knowledge on person X prediction can be very hard in the "gray areas" mentioned.

2. If I know that person X feels emotion Y, do I feel emotion Y myself? Again, most people probably have this for their closest friends/family, but the degree to which one has this for people they casually encounter seems to vary widely. Probably due to both inherent personality trait differences, and varying circumstances over time - for example if you currently have some intense mood for personal reasons it may be harder to feel an opposing mood because of someone else (but easier when it's the same mood maybe?)

My understanding is 1 is cognitive empathy and 2 is affective empathy, but I'm not as sure whether 2 encompasses all of affective empathy, because there is also:

3. Given limited information about the situation, can one still figure out the emotion someone is feeling? This allows empathy #2 to be applied more readily, and in cases where your actions are relevant (coworkers, friends, etc.) to investigate further and possibly apply empathy #1.

I'm not sure whether 3 is itself considered part of empathy, but certainly it is very important in being able to "use" your empathy in daily life, so it functionally is part of empathy. And this is likely the trait most frequently impaired in individuals on the spectrum, as it requires recognizing subtle, often non-verbal, behavioral cues. I'm not super up to date on the literature but I don't believe 1 or 2 above are considered to be impaired in most cases of Autism, and there definitely are articles out there about how it's incorrect to say those on the spectrum have low empathy.

It's hard to rate oneself accurately, but personally I would say I am above average at 1, average at 2, and below average at 3 (solid at little linguistic hints but horrible at picking up on facial expressions, posture, tone of voice, etc.)
Could we change the title to more clearly reflect that this is a license change from a permissive to a restrictive licence? Maybe "Mapbox GL JS v2 no longer uses a permissive license"? I initially thought by the title that Mapbox had removed the library from GitHub completely.