skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychological safety is being able to speak your mind without negative repercusions. Toxic positivity is not psychological safety.

Personally, I think psychological safety leads to another phenomenon: groupthink. By emphasizing harmony over everything else, groups suffering from groupthink apply self-censorship, silence is seen as agreement, and the ability to make rational decisions is lost. Not only that, but the group develops a strong identity and anyone who doesn't agree is seen as disloyal.

For a software engineering team, groupthink usually means becoming a death march towards failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Ask HN: Is it me or the captchas are becoming harder recently?
Go to 192.168.0.1, log into your router/modem and see if there's an admin "Event Log"...could find some answers there.
Why we started 0 Permission Zero Authority?
There may be a number of civil causes of action available...

But litigate against a multi-billion dollar tech company? good luck.

These companies are borderline immune to prosecution by the government, much less a small business.
"remember why you started"

This quote is near and dear to all crypto communities.
Bitcoin was created to protest the system that was built to keep governments, financial institutions, and wealthy in control monetary policies.
They're confusing a read-only property that can be overridden with one that's made final.
How does a European in Canada feel?
Thank you, but for the link provided it only says that these are the Fibonacci numbers and nothing more. Yes, you can click on this F(n) (how can you even know this is a link), but anyways.
Where we disagree is that I believe OWS should consider security advisories. This comes up multiple times if you read the whole thread linked in the top of this HN post (TFA). OWS wants to assume that users are normal people without much knowledge of opsec. They want the users to trust the engineers to guide them. Well, if everyone is saying “Signal is end to end encrypted and no one can read your chat” OWS might be able to help a lot of people by clarifying that while messages sent over the wire are encrypted, a compromised phone could still mean compromised conversations. This is painfully obvious to you or I, but regular people I speak to have no idea about things like this. Non technical folks I speak to still don’t understand the most basic opsec.
Factorization of arbitrarily large numbers? I doubt it.
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/digital-messiah
Welcome Zukerberg...
Very cool. I like that the interface is super simple and it seems to do what it claims to do, both with objects and OCR.

It might help to have an explanation somewhere in the app to explain that documents get saved as pdfs and photos as JPEG’s. Took me a while to work it out.

Oh, and the app icon is really fun too!
my only need for chrome is compatibility testing & node devtools.. please FF grow some node devtools !!
20 Years of FOIA Litigation by News Organizations and Reporters
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but at least around here thers RC Crown Cola, Solo, Farris, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Eplerose, Oscar Sylte Pærebrus, Monster energy, Red Bull, 7-up etc and I don't think I am special at all for knowing them.

In case it matters, a number of these don't advertise, at least not in the same league as coke (multiple national campaigns a year).
There can be appropriate levels of imprecision. Arguably all communication necessarily requires that. This is only a problem if it leads to an unnoticed miscommunication. For example, I suspect most of the time when an engineers refers to an algorithm as being in O(n^2) they intend to preclude the possibility that the algorithm is not in O(n).
Some of these articles describing the K2 'downclimb' seems crazier than the ascent; indescribably difficult, dangerous, skilled, exposed, etc.

https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/09/04/k2-descending-re...
https://i1.wp.com/www.alanarnette.com/blog/wp-content/upload...
https://i0.wp.com/www.alanarnette.com/blog/wp-content/upload...

Imagine your brain being basically dead from lack of oxygen, medical danger like HAPE.

It looks like it there are even (? fully ?) vertical fixed rope pitches and going up actual technical climbing one article says a 5.9 offwidth ?!?! In -50F windy winter conditions wearing giant bulky winter suits.

If you've ever been sport climbing can you image descending multiple miles on a rope, even if kind of crawling backwards using feet/hands?

Climbers forget to tie knots in the end ALL THE TIME. Brad Gobright was one of the best climbers who was known for free soloing here in the Front Range (e.g. no ropes at all, like Honnold up El Cap) recently died on a rope descent.

Imagine on multiple miles of roped descent many knots, transfers, while you can't think from no oxygen. It's an truly impressive almost inhuman feat.
Shouldn’t have blown all that money on a borderline alt-right Joe Roegan.
I find it funny that the question of whether a virus escaped from a Chinese virology lab can now be primarily considered a political one
Done, migrated 40 accounts to Aegis.

As I see, it backs up to the internal storage, so I have to use another app to sync the backup to a cloud of my choice
Half Life Alyx cannot run without Steam due to Steam DRM, like most other steam games.

It's very, very easy to remove the DRM yourself, though. It's more a legal formality than an attempt at DRM and is pretty much never updated.
I haven't had any issues with Logitech under Ubuntu or gentoo, imho it's better to stick with well known brands. Who knows what kind of poorly made junk you'll get from buying whatever is the cheapest on amazon
> The author's point seems to be that it is toxic to a person to (try to) exist in permanent state of positivity.

Yes. The article started out with the psychologist explaining how the client was looking for fake doctor's notes just to avoid going to work because the client didn't feel "totally positive" that day. That's toxic positivity, the feeling that you can't outwardly display anything less than complete cheerfulness, that you have to bottle up any problem inside and not let it out.
For a billion people, calories is the most important nutrition
I tend to see "toxic positivity" as an attempt to gaslight people, but with the presumption of good intentions, and that presumption of good intentions somehow washing away the deleterious effects of gaslighting people. Somewhat unsurprisingly it turns out it's the gaslighting that's the problem, not entirely the motivation for engaging in it. My experience has been that high-performing people gravitate toward being motivated by engagement with reality, not by suspending disbelief to engage in contrivance or farce. This is true on the other side of it as well. They won't tolerate "toxic negativity" either, which is just another form of gaslighting in an attempt to motivate by way manufactured crisis or exigency.
That's a refreshingly good example of "design by ...cabal..." actually working out pretty well. I think the key element is how the members actually had to implement their designs. If you just come up with a lazy compromise, it'll start haunting you immediately, and not just after the worker bees did their thing.

I think the "cabal" responsible for USB 3.1.1.1.gen2-420gig-whatever should have done the same, with each meeting ending in every member having to explain to their grandma why she can't connect her monitor to her laptop even though the cable fits perfectly, and that it's somehow _both_ the wrong cable and the wrong laptop port.
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Good point. You have extremely valid criticism, and I appreciate your writing them.

I loved the nation, when I lived there, and it had a profound impact on my life. Leaving was heartbreaking. I have "survivors' guilt" from that, as I suspect that all the kids I used to play with were probably killed. I still have items with bayonet holes in them, from when the soldiers were making sure that my father wasn't smuggling out his students (who were all killed). I sincerely wish you well in your continued growth and success. It has been worse.

Idi Amin and Milton Obote killed around a million folks; from the end of colonialism, through the mid 1970s. I remember -extremely well- public executions in the park in Kampala.

I also remember how rich, cosmopolitan and modern the nation was, in 1972, and how it collapsed -almost overnight- after Amin kicked out the Asians. From what I see, it has never regained that stature. It was in really good shape, pre-Amin. The income from tea, alone, made it the richest country in East Africa. The rich, volcanic soil, meant that you could grow almost anything there. It also has vast mineral wealth (my mother was a geologist, and I remember touring mines in the Southwestern part of the country). I still have samples of ore from those mines on my shelf.

The LRA has probably been the most horrifying thing for me.

You have my thanks and support. Good luck, and Godspeed.
Writing Groovy scripts in JMeter (for some custom requests) when doing distributed performance testing was a good way to enjoy pretty much anything else afterwards.

I suppose I should more accurately call that thing JSR223 + Groovy, all stored in an extensive XML file and edited through the JMeter UI..
There you go. The same old reasons are still applied and unsolved.
Going to jump on the shilling thread here and recommend Tyk.

Tyk is an open source API Gateway written in Go, it's also the most extensible OSS API gateway as it doesn't force you to learn Lua (Go, Python and Lua plugins are supported in-process) to extend it. In fact DO could have written their auth logic in rails with Tyk's gRPC plugin support.

It also has the same performance curve as OpenResty these days as it's been around for over 5 years and used in critical high-performance infrastructure projects.

https://tyk.io

/Shill
That's very interesting!

I have a pet theory that Informational Hygiene is going to be one of the most important classes in the upcoming years, taking a similar place to sex ed.

Are there any resources on classes in the space? I did a quick Google and didn't see anything that stood out.
Institutions and experts have always been inconsistent. Just look at nutrition science - we've gone from fats are bad, to no carbs are bad, to no wine is actually good. The expectation that the scientific community would find consensus on a novel virus in a matter of months is unreasonable. Personally I've taken @nntaleb reasoning on it - whether or not masks work with certainty is irrelevant; we have good enough data to suggest it works so we take the insurance and wear them. There is nothing wrong with a healthy amount of skepticism; and claims are often muddied through the low pass filter that is Twitter (ex. experts warned that singling out China was racist when American cases came from Italy; we needed far more policy than single out the Chinese).

That said, there a mountainous gap between "we are unsure if masks work" to "the president is fighting an underground shadow cabal of pedophiles and blood drinkers." COVID deniers aren't suggesting we don't take vaccines because they are unsure of the effectiveness of vaccines - they are suggesting we don't take vaccines because they are actually microchips by Bill Gates designed to track us.

There is a clear difference between misinformation and just plain being wrong - there's a difference between telling me LeBron James is going to win a championship next year and telling me LeBron is actually an alien from Mars who came here to trick us into watching basketball so they could steal all our water. If the President was wrong about LeBron James winning, he would be wrong. If the President was trying to convince me of the latter, then I think that is misinformation.
Depends. Your output may feel great to someone else, but you may not feel excited about it personally. (and there may be no conflict, or fakery of praise in it) Perhaps based on how perfectionist you are, or based on what you like about the work. You might be excited/motivated by different aspects of your work than your manager.

To me it would come down to whether I think other person is praising my work just to get more of it done just for the praise (I'd have negative reaction), or whether he just likes it that much personally (neutral to mildly positive reaction).
One say you might say something controversial which was mainstream the day before. Fast times we're living in.
There's https://www.openblas.net/ I have an M1, but I've been not trying too hard to get it to work assuming that waiting will make things better soon.
> If you implement an algorithm in a high level language like Python you may get much worse runtime than you thought because some inner loop does arithmetic with bignum-style performance instead of hardware integer performance

If a language/library can change the dominant asymptotic term of an algorithm like that, instead of just the constant factor, that is a problem. Does that really happen with python or is this exaggeration? I’m inclined to accept another reason to dislike these super high level interpreted langs but I’ve never seen something that e.g. appears written to be logarithmic to become quadratic because of library implementation details.
Explains why most of their 20 top unsecured creditors are ad/marketing agencies.
(Airbyte engineer)
Agreed. Thanks for notifying us about that. We fixed it.
We started by supporting only full refresh at the very start, as it was easier to support more connectors, but have been ramping up incremental across all the sources for a month now. Incremental should be supported for all sources within a few weeks.
I can't tell if this is true or not - was parler.com actually blocked with this mechanism?
I really want to get closer to the metal, like programming an FPGA or properly learning assembly (I know that's like 2 completely different skill sets). But I never really know where to start.

Is there any like definitive book or website to learn any of this stuff?
65,535 is substantially less than 2,000,000. At a minimum, you'd need 31 IP addresses allocated to a single box in order to have 2,000,000 active connections on that box. Unless you're arguing that the chat clients would be opening dozens of connections...but that's ridiculous. Whatsapp was built for actual usage, not research projects, and more than 1-2 connections per client is overkill.
Definitely the best - I only wish it could sync with my ipad!
Woh yeah?! That's awesome
Note that f(n) = O(g(n)) denotes an asymptotic upper bound. So it would be correct (if confusing) to say that 2n+3 = O(n^2). This is important for use in algorithmic complexity because we may not always be able to determine the running time even up to a constant, but can more easily infer an upper bound.

Using Omega instead denotes an asymptotic lower bound.
To denote both, you use Theta:
f(n) = Theta(g(n)) means that for two constants 0 < c1 < c2 and large enough n, we have c1 < f(n)/g(n) < c2.

Finally, little o denotes vanishing behaviour. f(n) = o(g(n)) when f(n)/g(n) goes to 0 in the limit.
The mitigations suggested are easier said than done. In particular, domains can't share cookies which means switching domains likely means logging out any users that are logged, and losing any local settings. Likewise splitting your site between different domains makes it much more difficult to share state (such as whether you are logged in) between the sites.
RSUs are an effective way for workers to get a better chunk of the actual value they create.

The negotiating power of unions is another.
"as a nation"?
We got hit by this as well. Very similar story to this and others shared in this thread: Use an S3 bucket for user uploads - and Google then marks the bucket as unsafe. In our case a user had clicked “Save link as...” on a Google Drive file. This saves an HTML file with the Google login page in some cases (since downloading the file requires you to be logged in). The user then proceeded to upload that HTML file. Then it was automatically marked since it looked like we were phishing the Google login page.

It should be noted that Firefox uses the Google banlist as well so switching browsers does not work!
The laser-toting Soviet satellite that almost sparked a space arms race (2013)
Definitely not just the internet.

I have things like this showing up in my mailbox unsolicited. People believe what it says because it's coming from a group they're familiar with. I'd say there should probably be real legal action taken against things like this...

http://prntscr.com/wweheo

http://prntscr.com/wwexix

http://prntscr.com/wwf2eg
Google has already been condemned by UE for this type of issue for 150M. That's literally nothing , at least not enough to hit their wallet.

This type of battle take months if not years in court and cost millions of dollars.

Google products can be shipped and removed in a few weeks , far beyond the reach of operation of the current judiciary system.

Today the problem is GHS , tomorrow it'll be "GSuite Safe Account" or "Youtube Safe Video" etc...

There is no point in taking Google to court just for a "one time" condemnation, it's a systematic issue that is tied to Google itself.
> Something somewhere in the dependencies hadn't been screwed down tightly enough, and everything was broken.

The package-lock.json file and the `npm ci` command should take care of any issues like that nowadays. Yarn has also always had its lock file. I wonder what was the root cause here? Did your repo have some deps coming from some other registry than npmjs.com?
A very rational set of questions, but it makes me depressed that the answers - in a problem space discussed since at least the 18th century - have not been taught and discussed in philosophy and ethics classes and thus need to be repeated.

The problem is always the same: NOT what value do we have in Alex Jones, conspiracy theories, liars, misinformation spreaders, etc. All the people that you and I already agree that there is a low value to misinformation that they spread. The question is truly: who decides what's true and false. Today you might agree with the current Fact Checker group. What if tomorrow Trump decides to be the fact checker. Rudy Giuliani tried to ban certain art in NYC when he was mayor, because it offended his religion (Catholicism). McCarthyites in the 50's sought to ban anything unpatriotic (from the State Department removing books from libraries to finger-pointing and 'calling out' people accused of communism, to the visa entry forms that may still exist that ask if you were a communist).

We defend the megaphones of the stupid and the fake as an insurance policy. We're wary of giving too much power to those who can yank megaphones away and pick winners and losers, because history itself shows us that the alternatives threaten all of us more than fake information.

>It is wrong to think of these platforms as neutral. They are not. They are always choosing what to show to the public based on selection criteria.

Oh, but the devil is in the details, here. How they choose is the critical question that we should be talking about, debating and thinking through.
While that's definitely a Russian "thing" it's by no means confined to Russia.
You don't necessarily need to authenticate users on that domain with a cookie. An HMAC token would be ideal, because you don't have to maintain state.

Don't hardcore the content domain. In case the content domain gets flagged, it should be easy to change to a new domain.

The assets themselves (such as images, scripts, etc) can have any browser cache expiration time. HTML documents cache duration will matter, and once that has elapsed, browsers should start to use the new content domain.
unique TLD? that should be very costly?

or does GSB not ban the entire TLD when a subdomain has malicious content?

Would be great if our overlords at least publish the overzealous rules we need to abide by.
You mean build or design?

If it’s the former, I generally agree. It does not take long - I worked through nandgame.com over a slow afternoon and it helped me refresh things that I remembered fuzzily.

If it’s the latter, I think it is too high an ask nowadays where so many people work at a high abstraction level.
The amount of engineering money that web companies spend to have a crappy app ui in the browser is mind-blowing.
I like "bare plastic JavaScript" :-)
He mentions a site near Slough, west of London but doesn't give an exact location. The photo looks like magnetic loop antennas.

Slough has a large number of data centres, would that be the location of the servers for London Stock Exchange?

Also, don't forget the recent post about a HFT intrusion into the 20m amateur band.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25733406
No, they were taken down by their cloud provider and by the two mobile app stores. My story was hypothetical, though disturbingly the companies involved don't entirely change when you talk about a take down from a different layer.
America is a failed state because of homelessness there?

Sorry man, I've walked down East Hastings street in Vancouver. Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
Too much positivity at the workplace and at one point, it feels so empty and cringy. Especially when it's just words, as opposed to actions. Or a facade like other commenters have mentioned. The worst part is when you don't feel like playing along but have to or else risk being seen as the "party breaker".
Indian journalists are notoriously gullible. Stories about them being tricked are a dime a dozen.

http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/nasas_prodigy_takes_ind...
Might have a solution for you here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804860
Exponential backoff retry time slots can be purchased using bitcoin.
I think they shot themselves in the foot over the Joe Rogan thing. I suspect that they could have increased subscriptions by a large amount, but there were PR disasters all over the place. I suspect that a number of people decided not to move because of how things were handled. Or at least the appearance that Spotify might ban or censor Rogan's podcast.

Right when the biggest hype for this acquisition was happening, all of the PR was negative. I wonder if as things cool off and no other issues occur, Joe Rogan fans will slowly move over, but time will tell.
why would it?

chrome can just load $black_list from time to time and just perform local check
> you are at extremely elevated risks of every health disease

That's factually inaccurate.

> It's actually really terrible for the state and for society to normalize this

I don't believe there is any science to back this assertion up. It's an interesting hypothesis, but I doubt it's true.

> think this lesser form of "toxic positivity" inspires complacency and a general victim mentality

Actually, the opposite is true. Shame is linked with health care avoidance: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17401...

I'd be interested if you have seen evidence that shame increases weight loss in obese people? Am I understand you correctly that's your thesis?
Anyone here use FreeBSD on the desktop? If so, what window manager and login manager do you use? Does Zoom work? I tried using Freebase a year or two ago and found it a bit painful, so I switched back to Fedora...
There’s an entire book by Michael Lewis that describes these steps. I don’t have enough knowledge to tell you how accurate his description is, and I’d be willing to hear a cogent argument in response. But if you agree that those activities are indeed happening and you’re simply claiming that the abuses he describes are not technically illegal or technically the SEC definition of “front running” then your point is noted and my response is: so what? That’s not a defense against the allegations.
To add to this - by splitting and moving domains you've hurt your search rank, eliminated the chance to share cookies (auth, eg) between these domains, and are now subject to new cross-domain security dings in other tooling. Lose-lose.