skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to Lambda School was disappointing to say the least
I would like to make it very clear that this is my personal experience at Lambda School in the past year (Cohort: web 32). In the beginning it was great, the teams were happy and we learned/wrote code all day. The TL’s were slightly hit or miss but we had all the resources you would expect from an expensive bootcamp. Things were sailing along as I completed the front end units and it wasn’t until backend that I smelled something funny. At the time I went through the backend unit it was an absolute joke, the lectures were disjointed and or rushed and the assignments we were doing were too large for anyone to grasp the basics. It turned out the whole backend unit (one month) could be reduced to a medium article and a sleepless night, yikes. This is about where things took a turn for the worst. I tried repeatedly to redo or “flex” the backend unit so I could really have the material mastered, ask more questions etc, as I am somebody who doesn’t move on until I feel comfortable and they denied me multiple times. So much for students controlling their own pace. This was really concerning as it is specifically stated by lambda that students can choose to flex if they feel it is necessary. Enter the “improvements”, they called an all school assembly that turned out to be just one big gaslighting session as they tried to spin huge changes the students were vocally against as “improvements”. This was not just an update to the UI or one more form. It was a complete overhaul of the school removing all the parts that pushed me to to attend in the first place. I felt and feel taken advantage of. I am not against innovation or iteration as it is the diving force in all tech but not holding up your end of a bargain and screwing over real people is not an innovation.
Once you no longer run into performance issues, you start to run into other things.

Long story short - this game is a crystal clear example of what feature creep does to a project. It's also a good counterexample against the assumed infinite power of the day one patch.
It is always events like these that make me ponder if the Internet will devolve into regional Internets, which still wouldn't necessarily prevent or stop any determined attacker from performing these types of attacks. So perhaps it's never.
Create a system in which people almost always defer to the highest score and then blame the little guy for trying to game it. I don't blame them at all. Nearly everyone else is doing it, so not doing it means it's harder to feed your kids.

BTW, we're the ones who created these systems.
A 3070/3080 is only one piece of the puzzle, unlike a smartphone.
A quirk in the SUNBURST DGA algorithm
Can we please change the click bait headline to reflect what actually happened
And mm or cm would be wonderful too!
This is mind blowing. A supply chain attack that pivots to another supply chain attack. Crazy.
New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely
A more optimistic viewpoint: because of the popularity of Chromium based browsers (for better or worse), caniuse.com suggests some of these features have ~70% global browser support - not terrible in my opinion.

Also because of the nature of these features (depending on use case), you can use them in a progressively enhanced manner.
Your first is an appeal is an appeal to the extreme fallacy. A law like that would never pass in a functioning democracy, and if our democracy isn't functioning, then I would say we have bigger problems than a single person be taxed of all their earnings.

Your second point would matter if making income is that was how people became billionaires. That simply isn't the case. The vast, vast, majority of people with a 9-digit or more net wealth did not get there by income.

I also advocate for other taxes and methods of taxation that would handle high net-worth individuals/families.

I'm not looking for a perfect system, nor am I looking for a system that appeases everyone's idea of fairness, I'm advocating the system that I think is best for America moving through the 21st century and the threats it will face this century.
Politicians are really good at cherry picking their arguments.
The first site I stumbled on from this project offered to sell me instagram likes for $$.
Thc is found to increase deep sleep and reduce rem, which isn't ideal but significantly better than RX drugs like ambien and benzos.
Hopefully there are zero malicious websites here, but the metrics page shows a little over 10k stumbles since submission - https://service.stumblingon.com/metrics
Windows did it long time ago anyway.

The iso downloader you can find on windows site is actually a assembler that assemble the iso on your disk from files on mincrosft server.

And the windows update also use the same server except it uses a different file list.

So it is no really surprise that apple also do that. It is more surprise that apple didn't do it until now.
This is one of the problems of crunch and tight release dates. Management gets used to deliver thanks to the developers last moment heroic efforts.
But I don't think that Cyberpunk fits in a PS4. People are calling for more "optimization" like a magic wand that the developers use to fix all problems.
There are limits to what some hardware can do. I hope that improvements can make things somewhat better, but it cannot run a 2020 groundbreaking game into an old PS4.

You need 1 year, so I give you 4 weeks, break encryption but make it safe, optimize this game to run like mostly empty games in a PS4. That's not realistic.

I love this game, it is awesome. And launching it on PS4 without showing images it is a mistake, and probably bad will. CD Projekt Red could have crowned themselves as the best video games company in the world, they got complains instead.
Welp. Maybe I should just return my unopened PS4 hardcopy to Amazon and wait till next year when I get a PS5.

It was my plan anyway.

Or I just return it and never even consider buying it until maybe 3-4 years from now when it's in a bargain bin.
>video games were just getting started

It's also worth noting that the nature of video games have changed. Back then you'd pay $ for a cartridge and CD and that was it. There was little in the way of analytics.

Now it's all about DLC and ancillary monetization - with high power analytics. The model has shifted towards addiction.
[Edit: Question was answered in article]
Good thing people are all different eh?

I've completed the main story and is at my second play-through now. First play-through was main quests only basically, second is a few main and then every single non-main quest I can get at and only then main quests. It is by far the best made open-world game I have ever played and while there are a lot of bugs it is nowhere near "Bethesda level buginess". Fallout and Elder scrolls -some of my favorite games- was worse than this even after the first 5-10 updates, since at least 90% of the bugs I saw was game breaking, same-game-corrupting or crash-to-desktop stuff.

I have had zero crashes and zero bugs that required me to reload. 100% of bugs have been cars floating a few centimeter above ground, a weapon falling a few centimeters below ground (but I can still pick it up), the GPS not taking the fastest route, etc. Basically not a single bug that is cause for all the yelling and shouting I'm seeing. In a few patches it is everything GTA could only dream of and I'm sure this will be a cash-cow. A cash-cow for the only anti-DRM and customer-friendly big developer out there is a huge win.

That I can play it at high settings (using Digital Foundry's recommended settings) at my not at all brand new PC is just icing on the cake.
A five star review on Amazon is also a review in part of purchasing on Amazon. Amazon have an incentive to bump those scores up. They'll agressively remove any bad reviews on little pretext and ignore utterly bogus 5 star reviews.

This way, potential customers of Amazon are decieived into believing many more people are having excellent purchasing experiences using Amazon than is really the case.

It's systemic. It's a deliberate false and misleading practise. I don't know what the law states or which ones might apply but on any ethical basis a pursued policy of deception like that to get sales is fraud. It's one of the many ugly things Amazon do with their resources rather than paying tax and acting decently. But they do use computers so nobody involved in public policy, law and enforcement can think about it at all.

"I just mug them at the bus stop. It's legal because it's with a computer."

Then of course we get the overreaction the other way from policy makers, that also gets captured by the big players like amazon, so it makes it even harder for smaller businesses, who pay workers and pay tax to compete.

Libertarains and socialists have a lot in common to explore.
That's actually pretty similar. I know there's three "life backgrounds" that you can pick from and they were meant to influence the game much further than they currently do (extra dialog options that are largely meaningless); there's a lot of half- or non-implemented features in the game, that's just getting overshadowed by the fact that it's pretty thoroughly unplayable on roughly half of the platforms they released on
Cool idea but the first 3 websites I get are all parking sites.

I'm pretty sure with a simple keyword check, you can eliminate most of them. A small amount of fasle positives are ok in this case I guess.
They weren't verifying their build outputs against their build inputs. That or there was a rogue insider. We'll never get the full story.
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)
98% specificity. This comes from the FDA's information sheet on the Lucira test: https://www.fda.gov/media/143809/download

Interestingly, the Lucira test was 100% sensitive for all samples that had a PCR CT value of < 37.5 (n=45). The CT value is the number of times that the PCR test has to amplify (i.e. make copies of) the genetic material in the sample before there was enough material that it produced a positive test result. A low CT value means that there is a lot of viral RNA present; a high CT value means the opposite.

A CT value of 37.5 is exceptionally high; it corresponds to about 10 copies of virus per microliter. Someone only becomes infectious (it's believed) when the copies per microliter is in the hundreds of thousands. PS don't quote me on the precise numbers here as I am trying to remember them and it's a bit fuzzy.

On the information sheet, they say that, "Lucira achieved a 94% positive percent agreement (PPA) and a 98% negative percent agreement (NPA)."

Positive agreement is the proportion of comparative/reference method positive results in which the test method result is positive.

Negative agreement is the proportion of comparative/reference method negative results in which the test method result is negative.
They even call it out in the paper, I hadn’t given it a thorough enough reading. Damn, they must’ve been a bit miffed.

I think the novelty they're pitching is the lower resources, but I wonder how much of a problem that is in practice.
Exactly, saying intent is what makes the difference is all nice in theory. But faced with reviewing and watching actual shows/movies, true intent is never uncovered (unless the director admits to it). You can get cases where a person enjoys a film and another dislikes how they were 'manipulated'.

Take a example of a clueless director putting rise of the valkeryies on a chopper scene in his movie without knowing about the scene in 'apocalyse now'. He knows the song as certain qualities to it and his intent is to bring these emotions across. Yet, is the watcher being manipulated despite this genuine intent?

What's more useful than making a useless distinction between what's genuinely fake and what's manipulative is looking at execution. Is the director being clumsily formulaic (common with many netflix shows now) or does it fit coherently as a work.
If Microsoft's statement is honest, it certainly raises doubts about this story. What "people familiar with the matter" know more than Microsoft themselves?

Even if the information was discovered during a government or private investigation of the hacks that didn't include Microsoft, the investigators likely would have notified Microsoft immediately.
3) get a job at the startup
Human Rights Council: Elon Musk should apologize for mocking gender pronouns
> If you're going to exercise exceptional infringement on someone then you should be able to offer a solid rationale.

You're almost all the way there to thinking this through. Keep going!
Not quite sandbox or chemistry, but you might appreciate https://www.teardowngame.com/
Given that lots of people are reporting very similar compromises, traced back to a confirmed supply chain compromise, with similar TTPs and a uniformly very high level of tradecraft sophistication, I'd say the former. And that statement is how.
> I can’t even get linux to install. It won’t seem to boot to a usb.

Install rEFInd and look for Linux images that will boot on machines with 32-bit EFI. Debian has one.
I recommend just treating undefined and null as equivalent (since you can't control which one or ones third-party libraries will use). Everywhere you need to check for them do `!= null` or `== null` which is an idiomatic way to check for either.
Alternatively: the invasive ones are only supported by chromium browsers.
The only thing I can think of is this: https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/osma/nasa-gb-871913 (and the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014271 )

Also maybe check out RTOSs like ThreadX.
> I might be off base here, but does anyone really leverage social logins anymore?

I'm sure there are on tiktok and other popular social apps.
The most bitter arguments happen when people disagree about what the unwritten rules are; this naturally happens a lot when people from different cultures have to interact with each other.
It's about giving proper weight to each aspect. Giving a 1 star review to an otherwise 4 star experience is dishonest if you only have some issue with the shipping (or marketing tactics), just as an example.
If I may ask, how old are you? As I age I find that I can handle a little less sleep, but my ability to handle swings in amounts of sleep is way less; even if I can get by with :30 less per night than 5 years ago, 1:00 less on one night affects me WAY more than it did 5 years ago.

I'm in my 50's, FWIW.
Prosecuted and disqualified, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse
Wonder if someone uses this tech for monitoring entire ocean, not just narrow spots.

Similarly there's monitoring of AIS by Iridium, but pirates and drug lords turn those off.
Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools
I think I've seen some older content where the convention was reversed like this. Wikipedia's article on slashed zero claims that IBM and some other mainframes put their slash on the letter O instead of the number 0. However, in a bit of circularity, its citation (1) is this same BASIC manual. Checking an IBM manual (2) for punching cards, neither 0 nor O has a slash. The manual is undated, but documents the model 26 keypunch from 1949 and not the model 29 keypunch from 1964, so it's probably older than this BASIC manual.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero#cite_ref-9

2: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpunchedAnIntroducti... (page 4, 15)
Of course systems can have a racial element. How could a system that originated to catch runaway slaves -not- have a racial element?

Because systems are designed by individuals. If you put a bunch of not-racist police officers patrolling the Black part of town all day, guess what? They are going to arrest more Black people than white people even if white people are committing just as many crimes.

If your system has "stop and frisk" laws, then you are going to be stopping and frisking people who are walking and ignoring most everyone else that drives or takes a taxi (i.e. people with money and white, on average).

If your system rewards citations and arrests, then cops are going to tend towards neighborhoods where they can find more people out and about, i.e. urban centers, where people of color live and population is more dense. You aren't going to get many citations in the white suburbs where everyone gets in their cars to go anywhere and the population is all spread out.
I’m in better shape than I’ve ever been. Lots of cardio and a decent amount of lifting.
Will we ever run out of raw materials for Silicon?
> But she was posting amateur porn on Reddit way before she became a porn star.

Not really “way before”.

> This is going back to 2013-ish, she posted on r/cuckold and r/hotwife very detailed descriptions and photos of her first sexual encounter in her new open relationship with her husband at the time (or maybe it was fiancé?).

Wikipedia reports that occurred in 2014, the same year as her professional porn career started (and, if her account of only working in scenes for 3 months is true, the same year as essentially her entire professional porn career, which started that October and ended in January 2015, not counting 11 subsequent months as a camgirl.)

> A lot of this feels like having your cake and eating it too. You created this persona and you promoted it and shared with the world when it suited you and enjoyed the wealth and fame.

According to Khalifa she made $12K in porn @ $1000/scene, Bangbros claims $178K over two years; in either case not exactly notable wealth. And the fame included wider public death threats, being publicly disowned by her family, etc.

Really, it seems more like pursuing what you think is cake and discover fairly quickly is cow dung and regretting and fleeing from it, more than having your cake and eating it to.
Given the SEC implications of an officer of the company lying about something that could materially affect share prices, you can certainly believe that Microsoft thinks his statements are true. Literally anyone can tell a journalist that they're "familiar with the matter". Given reuters track record on security coupled with the lack of update about Microsoft's public statement, I'm inclined to be pretty skeptical about the quality of those sources.
Runs fine on OSX for me as well. No issues, pretty clear audio. Happy in general.
Sony will offer Cyberpunk 2077 refunds, pulling game from Playstation Store
It's not actually doing it's job, it only goes after certain types of easy targets:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/parliament-must-hold-th...

They also had a massive budget shortfall which meant they sent out what amounted to a protection racket letters demanding £40 per year from every UK business, even though almost none of those businesses should be paying it.

All this while simultaneously investigating the ad industry, finding it is egregiously breaking the law, but then doing nothing about it.

The UK's ICO is taking an extremely broad definition of who should be paying it, but an extremely narrow definition of who it should enforce against.

I might add that the £40 it is demanding is almost 3 times the normal £15 yearly fee for running a business in the UK.
I am not too privacy oriented like another post. I just don’t like having to go to my email to log in. It’s a hassle vs my saved password being auto filled or using an Oauth login. But Most other people seem to shrug it off and do it. So seems like it’ll keep becoming more common.
>Security cameras that record audio are illegal in California.

It depends.

The two-party consent rule applies when the audio being recorded is in a location where there is an expectation of privacy because the communication is considered confidential. Generally, this doesn't apply to cameras as long as their use doesn't violate community norms and they are used in an area without an expectation of privacy. Using a security camera on your porch is fine because there is no expectation of privacy, but if the microphone is powerful enough to pick up the conversation across the street on the neighbor's porch, that is illegal.

>Security cameras that are not clearly visible (i.e., with a sign pointing them out) are also illegal in CA.

Again, it depends.

There is no two-party consent rule for video recording. You are free to put security cameras anywhere on your property (inside or outside), without notification, including hidden cameras.

There are some exceptions:

1) Commercial operators of vehicles used to transport passengers require notification to passengers when using a video recording device.

2) It is illegal to use a video recording device in the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person. This doesn't include areas of a business used to count negotiable instruments.

3) It is illegal to use a video recording device to view the naked body or undergarments of a person, without their consent, under circumstances in which the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
3rd-party extensions for Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo infected with malware
if you're interested on learning more about it, read Why We Sleep. It talks about sleep aids and the importance of quality sleep
A little collection of cool Unix terminal/console/curses tools
What would be awesome is if the authorities were actually monitoring the group and basically supplying fakes with hidden "traps" in them (like microscopic etchings that say "congratulations, sucker").

Then after letting this scam run for a few years, they hold a conference and announce this, and where to look to see the "trap".
That's a tough question. The slash-0 (for decimal zero) had been in use long before the BASIC and the ASR-33 came along. (In ham radio for one.) Dartmouth or Teletype may have had a reason for trying this ... but it didn't last!

[Edit] OK, think I found the culprit.

"The rule which has the letter O with a slash and the zero without was used at IBM and a few other early mainframe makers; this is even more of a problem for Scandinavians, because it looks like two of their letters at the same time." -- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero#Telling_zero_and_the_...
I have a question for video game graphics experts:

Assuming a game has stealth mechanics, why do some games let you shoot out almost every light (Ghost Recon Wildlands, GTA 5), while others don’t (Far Cry 5, Cyberpunk)?

Is it a technical decision that needs to be made early on in the game process?

Perhaps being able to shoot any light out involves more work for world and mission designers?
If poor people eat so much of it that they get fat, then at a higher price point they will only afford less of the same stuff and thus get less fat.
2020 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks
A minimal and easy-to-use C testing framework, in plain C with no dependencies
This is just being lazy over customer experience.

I don't like having have to click the link, trash the email and close the previous login tab.

> I can use manual processes to verify the person

What does this mean?