skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morality just doesn't work off legality, nor is the "adulthood" ever truly clear in reality.

In this very specific case, passing no judgement on the OP here, there's a somewhat notable difference often between 20+27 and 22+29 even because of life stages. Do both people have full time jobs, their own place? Is one still in school? Can one not drink at bars in the US? These cultural markers often have far more important ties to power and relationship dynamics, as well as healthy relationships even beyond romantic and sexual connections.

I'm not claiming to have a clear view of these lines, but I think OP was right to examine their actions, even if it was all "okay" in the end. It strikes me as a genuine and reflective post from someone who cares, and I would hate to see others use "you are both legally adults" to avoid doing similar reflection. Nuance is important and can be very important at the individual level. Zooming out, is that not the lesson of this whole greater situation?
One way to look at the question: What marginal value do they provide over arXiv or Sci-hub?
If what you said ran in the fiction section of the New Yorker, that would indeed be a very strong defense against a defamation claim.
You're right. I'll add a huge section that goes into detail about each of the API keys and what data each key returns. On it right now, thank you for the feedback. Edit: check them out now, went into detail on what each key provides!
When I visit that it returns the MSFT ticker info...

Edit: Seems to be returning random tickers -- maybe those within SPY.
This is just one example of the "analogue hole" [1] problem shared by all anti-cheat/DRM systems.
At least in theory, there is no technology that can prevent exploits like this short of dystopian levels of surveillance and locking down computing devices even further.
By that I mean encrypted communication on all computer buses (including USB, HDMI), and only allowing access to those busses via physically hardened "secure" enclaves, up to (in the end game) big-brother-like surveillance (think electronic proctoring solutions).
I think that this is exactly the problem with such DRM schemes---the ensuing cat-and-mouse game will inevitably lead to trampling the user's freedoms, because locking down computing devices and environments to ridiculous levels is the only way in which DRM can be made to work.

Of course, for now, cheats like the one featured in the article should be fairly easy to detect (at least from what I've seen in the linked video).
The motion of the bot is extremely jerky; a simple rule-based system, or, if you want to be fancy, a neural network based anomaly detection system should be able to detect this.

On the side of the cheat authors, this could be easily circumvented if they include a "calibration phase", where user input trains a simple neural network to stochastically emulate the dynamics of the user's sensor-action loop. The cheat could then act slightly faster than the user, giving them an edge while still using their unique dynamics profile.

I wonder where this will lead eventually, and I genuinely feel sorry for all the people who pour their heart and soul into competitive gaming; I don't think that this kind of cheating is something that can and should (see above) be prevented in the long-run.
The best possible outcome I can imagine is that online gaming becomes more cooperative or once more converges back to small groups of people who know and trust each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

Edit: Spelling, grammar, and clarity
There's a heat dome over the west similar to the one that brought 126 degree temperatures to Canada 2 weeks ago, but less extreme. Generally, Greenland is losing gigatons of ice every year. https://arctic.noaa.gov/Portals/7/easygalleryimages/8/465/ar...
In the demo (https://usehomer.app/demo) on desktop, I can't scroll down enough to trigger the last paragraph "and they had to send out colonies to Ionia." Similarly, the first paragraph is never triggered and clicking on it doesn't help either.
C++ is not Coq, but it is still a lot closer to Coq than C-like Java written for performance.

> Naturally it is possible to write static classes that hide the internals of a data structure

Which limits you to reusing a single instance which is not only very limited in what you can do with, but also inherently error-prone compared to passing structs.

Valhalla does not exist yet, had been in development for a decade, and even once they release it, it won't be equivalent to C++ structs - it is by design much more limited.

Finally, productivity of Java is overrated, I've been writing in many languages and I'm not more productive in Java than in C++. Productivity is mostly a trait of a developer and libraries, not a language.
All these groups you mention would collapse into uselessness the second SE pulls back, with perhaps philosophers and maybe artists holding out for a while. Without computation these fields are now worthless. They used to function without SE of course, back when the fruits were plentiful and low-hanging but the times have changed. So.. yeah..
Your example wouldn't have happened though, at least in Sweden. Registration into the bad lender registry doesn't happen automatically, and the government knows your address after you moved, so they would be able to inform you what's going on.

There are benefits and drawbacks of course. I ended up in the registry for not paying my taxes on time (I had challenged a tax authority decision and thought I did need to pay it while the investigation was ongoing, so it was my fault). For this I was on the registry for 3 years and it was seriously annoying, similar to having a bad credit score in the US I can imagine. There was nothing one can done about this other than waiting for you to be removed from the registry after 3 years.

The benefit is that that the system is completely transparent, and is not based on random metrics such as an account being closed or whether or not you have any loans at all (the last part is bizarre to me, you should be rewarded for being debt free, not punished).
Hey, it's just business
Plain ol' makefiles?
Yes, but now you have tons of systems to actively measure, optimize and A-B test everything under the sun for maximum effect.
Choose between chocolate flavor poop or poop flavor chocolate: study on flies
The analog to steroids and high-level competition is really interesting, something I've chatted with my friends about a bit.

In some of the highest tier bodybuilding competitions, some people will be using steroids, and because that went unchecked and unspoken, now everyone has to or else they have no chance of competing. If you want to compete and you aren't using steroids, you will lose, so you have to start using them too.

In the game Warzone right now, at least some of the high-tier players are using hacks in competition or at least to get their "High kill game" viral videos on YouTube. So if you want to compete in that space, say make an even more impressive "high kill" game and take that crown, you have to start using hacks too.

The money on the line is bonkers too, as well as the ad-revenue from popular YouTube videos, you've got real competitions dropping 300k on online comps where it's incredibly easy to get away with cheating, so of course people will do it. Because some people do it, others will have to as well, and it goes unspoken because of all the money and prestige involved.

Because it's advantageous for the competitions holders themselves to be hosting the highest level of competition for the sport, if Warzone comps or these bodybuilding competitions had to admit that all their most popular and highest performing participants were frauds, it would be incredibly embarrassing (and unprofitable) for everyone, and so it stays unspoken.
Just to clarify - if someone wrote a fictional autobiography whose subject was obviously you, would that not bother you?

I would certainly be bothered if a close friend or family member did that to me in a manner that could ever lead strangers back to me. Nor would I ever publish such a piece about one of my acquaintances without their permission.

I find the notion that such behavior could be socially acceptable quite strange.
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And the converse: if someone has that a strong desire to found something that happens to be similar to what they're currently working on, do you really want them to stick around only for a contract clause, when their heart's no longer in that work?

Wouldn't it be far superior to be able to have an open conversation with them about it?

(I also object to the premise: a desire to found something doesn't show up in a vacuum. There's something else that founding something brings (independence, permission to try ideas, small chance at wild stacks of money, whatever) and many of these should be negotiable also at your current employer.

Any good long-term organisation has a few crazy projects that just might turn out to be the next best thing. Let this person "found" one of those, in house and with freedom but full support of the rest of the organisation?)
u just ignored his point and doubled down on this was great because the middle class benefited at the expense of the lower class.
Again: the problem I have with this argument is that it's just coming up now, despite literally centuries of fiction built out of just these kinds of stories. I don't believe this is a real concern; it's a fake concern that we're being asked to have by a Slate article. It's interesting, and I'm happy to bounce the thought around, because that's what we're here for. But, come on.
> "Some ideas are better communicated in a long-form where you have to read the whole thing for it to make sense. A shortened abstract is not good enough."

I don't think you understand the point that we are trying to make. An "essay" should not be a fluff piece where nothing of value is said in several thousands words, which could be summarized in 3 sentences without any loss. In this piece there's just nothing but air from beginning to end, so it does not even qualify as "an essay".
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s true, new writers get a big leg up breaking with “based on a true story.”
I wish I could be so lucky to be interrupted for work relevant things and not discussions about Adam Sandler movies or the neighbors dog when I’m clearly focused and typing into my IDE.
Please don't be an asshole on HN and especially not in Show HNs. A longtime user like you should know better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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Yes the narrative around VPNs is misleading and maliciously deceptive. Non-technical people know enough to know they might benefit from a VPN, but not enough to know how to pick a good one—out of the frying pan and into the fire! In some cases I know people who use free VPNs!

In my case, I live in an authoritarian country and don't trust the government so I VPN somewhere else. I used to roll my own WireGuard setup with Algo, but found that common VPS providers are on some kind of lists that make them subject to CAPTCHAs or even outright blocked, so now I use a commercial VPN provider (Mullvad).
WhatsApp will let you send images and videos in their ‘best quality’
> Full remote also created an environment where too many people just wanted to withdraw socially and stay hidden as much as possible.

If that’s what these particular individuals want, why do you feel like the company knows better and has to « fix » these people? I’d lean towards the fact that they’re adults who presumably know how to live their lives and don’t really need anyone else to tell them how. Maybe I misunderstood your point, but that seems very patronizing to me.
That and MCU screenplays.
As a general rule, it rings true, but I did remember seeing some good writing also on the New Yorker, so there are some exceptions too.
I am uncomfortable with historical meteorological revision. There is enough problem with climate change non-believers that retroactive "adjustment" of historical weather records is only going to fuel conspiracy theories - especially when they are adjusted down. There is more than enough evidence of climate change without revising past records - so why do it?

Especially given that this record requires that an un-identified person may have possibly made an error reading a thermometer. The evidence that this value is wrong is lacking.
I used httrack to transform the public version of my wordpress blogs to a static site. It often crashed but as long as I had a copy of its local data(base) it's just fine to restart it.

I really like the tool. I doubt if that is helpful today, bc. of the raise of the Javascript stuff...
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/juicy-the-emissa...

Kinda sorta related
The other annoyance with SF taxis is that there are (well used to be) a half dozen competing taxi companies, all with their own dispatch system. So often you'd call a cab from one company and watch cars from the other companies drive by, and you had to decide whether to abandon the one you called to take the one that's driving down your street. And supposedly you'd get blacklisted if you had too many no-shows.
The bigger companies career ladders go much higher for engineering and the public companies pay more in stock comp at those higher levels. You want to get to Staff+ at a large tech company - does not need to be FAANG. I’d prioritize more tech centric industries than the ones you’ve named though.
No, I just mean the people orchestrating extrajudicial assassinations of US citizens (and others) and operating torture prisons.
I'd recommend TabNine, it is extremely helpful. I tried Kite once, and it is WAY overrated. So slow that by the time it provided me suggestions I was only a few characters away from finishing. Tabnine has saved me hours.
I created a Home Assistant plugin for the RS232 protocol:

https://github.com/claes/homeassistant-rotelserial
Recent and related:

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27411631 - June 2021 (290 comments)
Yeah, they're very much the worst of both worlds. All the physical peril and discomfort of a motorcycle, none of the bonus mobility.
If you provide historical options data that would be amazing.
> It may well be true that everything in unbounded recursive formal languages can be expressed in regular human language, but the opposite is not true

Is this statement implying that human language is recursive? I'm under the assumption that it has recursive elements, but it's not recursive in the strictest sense of the term. If anything, as anyone who's written a book can attest, language feels reactive and emergent, as opposed to funneling towards a base case.
Disrespectful jerks are a problem in any workplace. Programmers complain about it online a lot, because programmers complain about everything online.

Making a disrespectful jerk do some stupid Sudoku problem to teach them about interruptions isn't overcoming their lack of perspective, it's just letting them know that they were a disrespectful jerk (which they probably already kind of know, but they're used to it so it doesn't bother them all that much).

Of course, you can be more upfront. Just hold out a palm towards their face and say 'just 5 minutes, I'm busy'. Yeah that's rude as hell, but sometimes you have to speak their language.
Please don't take HN threads into lame gender flamewar. Not interesting, and not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
California, Oklahoma, and Ireland all speak English but have very different cultures. Most large cities have different cultures within 10 miles of each other.

I bring up these counterpoints only to say that while language is a major factor in culture, there are still many other factors.
Sorry, but Roupenian didn't get threats over this story because people thought it was making "untrue and unfair accusations about a real-world case"; she got threats because she wrote a story that painted a fictional man in a bad light and the GamerGate types came out in full force. It also painted a fictional woman in a bad light It's worth reading reporting about this story from the time it was published, e.g.,

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/12/16762062/cat-person-e...

Quoting from that article, also:

“Cat Person” does not bear any of the signifiers of a personal essay: It is told in the third person, not the first, and it appears in the New Yorker’s fiction section, with FICTION splashed at the top of the page. Nonetheless, the default response from many seemed to be to treat it as an essay rather than as a short story.

A lot of the criticism I'm seeing in the comments here seem to tacitly be assuming that this essay in Slate is relaying facts about "Cat Person" that were known at, or shortly after, the time of publication. They were not. If anything, the assumption was that the story was somewhat autobiographical -- and from what I can see, it really was somewhat autobiographical. The character of Margot is, again, fictional, but she clearly owes more to her author's experiences than to the essayist's.

Roupenian shouldn't have taken autobiographical bits and bobs from a stranger's life, no. But do keep in mind that she had absolutely no idea that the story was going to go viral this way; it's not like Twitter is regularly aflame with buzzy conversation about the latest short fiction piece in the New Yorker. This was an extraordinary event, and like all too much on Twitter in the last few years, chiefly driven by people who decided the story was something people needed to get outraged by. And, again, their outrage was not over Roupenian's mild appropriation.
While they cover a very particular set of stories I’ve found that the headline news section (beginning of the program) of the daily Democracy Now news program is pretty factual in its delivery. And as they cover news stories in more depth it stays factual in nature. It’s just interviews with a guest where the guest may share more than just a strict set of facts.
Not really. It’s probably more likely that developers are the ones who are able to create blogs and voice their opinions more easily on the internet.

My step-dad works in logistics and likes to quote “a single interruption takes a person 15 minutes to get refocused”. He blocks specific hours for his field staff to stay away from the office staff, so they can process the critical daily work without interruptions.

Google searching seems to say it’s closer to 23 minutes these days. Industrial engineers seem to have studied interruptions on work in the late 90’s and maybe even earlier.

As a further anecdote, when I worked in manufacturing I would end up having to come in on the weekends to do cognitively demanding work. Designing tooling, creating and optimizing CNC programs, and checking parts using coordinate measuring machines while getting interrupted by the quoting department to “just give me a quick estimate what you think this part will cost for us to make for the customer”, or production saying “we need you to quickly trouble shoot the defective parts we are producing because otherwise we will be late and get a fine for missing the shipping date” results in costly errors that can’t be fixed by recompiling code.

Pressure, interruptions, and bad management are not unique to software development. And yes, other professions do care about production high quality work.
How does the business really work and is there some book about it which isn't just popular fiction?
Taking bits and bobs from the lives of strangers is one of the most time-honored traditions in fiction.
I side with you.

Also being a pro-gamer in RTS years ago, I can relate. There are many small steps between n00b level and mastery and a lot has to come together to be at expert level in gaming. Usually experts can play in variable settings, cheaters only in one particular. Experts can adapt, while cheaters usually not. Usually real talk about how you handled and interpreted a certain situation will show the difference. Cheaters usually are not the most talkative.

However sometimes there is a make or break in a certain game. While cheaters are usually spotted in the long run, it spoils almost every time the fun in the short run.

Missed opportunities to tourney advancement, frustration etc. can make or break players. Are we talking about the true winner, Carl Lewis, in the 100m finals in Seoul in 1988 or Ben Johnson?

I saw some guys with really good potential leaving out of frustration and that is really sad.
My guess is that it’s a remnant of the Ive-era where form came before function.
History is usually the process of deciding what's meaningful, to whom, and for what purpose.
It also led to this remix album: https://juicytheemissary.bandcamp.com/album/attention-kmart-...
> when in actuality it's just your own individual inability to have self restraint

There's more to it, though... it's addictive, and there's often group pressure or rather conformancy.

> get away with something socially that they normally wouldn't

Yup... dating is a good area here. You can make a social faux pas and then say "my apologies, perhaps that last glass of wine wasn't a good idea". And get forgiven rather quickly. And actually I don't really like that part, which is one of the reasons I prefer 0.5%-2.5% beers.
Maybe someone who has made money at classical music for 30 years knows a bit more than you about it.

I mean, do five minutes of research. At least Google it.

Also, if you think a random "classic" [sic] music station in your car teaches you anything significant about this topic, please do think again. Classical music radio station are almost universally awful.
(80%) We'll all be back in lockdown, again, in the US thanks to the Delta variant.

(100%) Almost daily there will be yet another security incident, and blame will be deflected.

(5%) Capability Based Security will start to attract mainstream notice as a solution to the above incidents

(90%) The UFOs will turn out to be made in America.

(10%) A new type of energy source will be leaked as part of the disclosure, leading to an increase in electrification, and a steeper decline in the use of fossil fuels.

(98%) The lab leak hypothesis will turn out to be true, and blame will be shoved in all sorts of directions.

(50%) We come very close to a Blue Ocean Event in the Artic.

(5%) We HAVE a Blue Ocean Event

(50%) Evidence will build that two great cataclysms 14000 years ago cause events similar to the oral history portrayed in the book of Revelation, in the Bible.

(0.1%) A new social media/video sharing platform will arise at take 5% of all Youtube and Facebook traffic with it in the first year. It will be funded privately by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos, and have zero ads or tracking. It will have a public balance sheet, and will accept sponsorships and donations to keep it going.

(10%) New legislation will be passed to regulate power stations that don't feed most of their output to the grid for public consumption. The premise is they are externalizing a cost for private instead of public gain.

(20%) Bitcoin is taxed as if it were a commodity.

(1%) Bitcoin is banned in the US
If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it reaches the moon.

Exponential growth is not sustainable. You simply cannot have "above replacement rates" of kids forever. The Earth population has doubled in the last 50 years. If we're already worried about our pollution levels right now, I certainly don't think we should double our population again over the next half-century.
Ranked 13th in the world here:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-world-s-gr...
Ranked 13th in the world here also:

https://www.liveabout.com/worlds-best-orchestras-724384
I would read the hell out of that book. Or blog
Thanks for the link! My tiny little display attached to RPi is very much looking forward to trying it out.
Total stranger comments about the HOA's silly rules.

You: He's a racist.

Not everything is a race issue. If you think it is, get new friends and read more.