skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but reducing bad things is helpful even if it isn't 100%. There's an interesting video essay on this exact style of argument, if you're interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yts2F44RqFw
>Because if everyone raises their prices, the wage increase then effectively makes no difference.

Not really. The relative elasticity of various goods and services (including labour) will determine which parties ultimately shoulder the cost. The additional costs could cut through margins or they could be passed on.
Well i'd go with both to be honest.

Swatting being so easy is ridiculous but that doesnt absolve the kid of any guilt.
I don't think minors should be able to summon a SWAT team without a 3 kill streak first. We should contact the game publishers to remove these non-skill based incentives and lootboxes.
that is completely true and maybe even clojure’s achilles’ heel, but you can’t come here and say they didn’t tell you
>I'm skeptical that a business would choose to go out of business rather that give raises. Have you considered that margins are tighter than you think? I know small businesses like that.

I run a small business. I know other small business owners. An MBA-like focus on hyperefficiency is rare. Usually people have their views about how the world should work and act in accordance with that.

Some people will come around, but plenty of others will fail to adapt, go out of business and blame "the economy".
This will likely not result in much, EXCEPT for in Morocco. If the King and Prime Minister believe that their own security forces were spying on them, well, that might result in some consequences for them...
How would Apple benefit from this conspiracy? Apple these days is throwing out the "secure" and "private" PR to differentiate themselves from their surveillance capitalist neighbors. They would never do anything that hurts their PR, and they would always do the bare minimum security and privacy to support it. If they knew of these vulnerabilities ahead of time, I am positive they would have patched them. This is not to say that they are doing everything they can, but I don't see your proposed conspiracy following profit-maximizing corporate logic. Apple isn't there to screw you; they're just there for the big buck.
The problem is that a significant part of the population has this kind of judgment.

Kids are stupid and 50‰ are dumber than average. It is possible that their judgment isn't that that far off the norm, and it was an unlikely string of events that led to this outcome.

Clearly punishment is appropriate, but we rarely hand out life imprisonment for first degree murder. Seems like this would be more akin to manslaughter.
In my opinion, in these swatting incidents, the most responsible party is the police department answering the call without doing even a modicum of due diligence. The kids are stupid -- as kids will be, but there's not way a prank call should be able to summon a death squad to someone's door without there being _some_ checks.
No, you can't, at least not one that behaves like the quantum wave function does. Classical probabilities are real numbers between zero and one. The wave function takes on complex values, which allows you to add two wave-function values with non-zero magnitude and get zero, i.e. produce destructive interference. Classical probabilities can't do that.
If you are old enough to do the crime then you are old enough to do the time.
Fed Officials Say Punitive U.S. Legal System Is Hampering Economy
What skills does a line cook at Wendy’s learn aside from “how a job works?”

Also, who staffs Wendy’s from morning until schools let out during the day? I haven’t seen seasonal fast food restaurants anywhere near me.
Patents they have a license to use, but not to share, or fear of infringing some unknown patent, so they don't want to say much.
Put two iron pellets on a very thin, flexible fabric. Underneath the fabric, put a magnet so each pellet is stuck to one pole of the magnet through the fabric. Tug the magnet "down" in the third dimension, which will fold the fabric and move the pellets so that from their perspective (stuck to the 2D surface of the fabric) they're moving far away from each other. They also maintain a constant and very short distance in the third dimension, but they can't take advantage of it because I forgot to mention the fabric is impervious to them.
Then I guess we are all screwed, as you aren't going to stop kids from doing "fucked up shit" like this as the entire problem is the idea of understanding that you might get caught for this and get sent to jail is kind of out of reach for most people--not all, but most--until you are older... and even so: there are simply always more kids, and I maintain you might not even need the kids.
If other customers object to rude customers behavior and demand they are kicked out, it destroys "customer is always right" rationale - they have to choose one customer to disappoint and will probably choose the one being abusive to their workers.

Also tends to deflate the rude customer.
I suspect that far, far, far, fewer die of heart attacks from being surprised by police than are shot by violent people.
YouTube acquires Indian social commerce startup Simsim
Temporary or not, inflation is rattling restaurants and broader economy
This is an utterly irrelevant comparison. A more accurate one would be someone (not necessarily a first-day developer) who wiped the database while trying to cause trouble - though the consequences are not so dire in this case.

This is not just stupidity, it is malicious stupidity.
And yet, in my high school class, not a single kid killed anybody...
The GPL Cooperation Committment is basically an addendum to GPLv2 licenses that adds this clause.

https://gplcc.github.io/gplcc/
The Fourier transform of the position wave for a particle yields the space frequency wave of the particle in the same way that the Fourier transform of a picture gives you the spatial frequency of that picture.

We can then relate the spatial frequency of a photon to its momentum by the formula p = h * f / c, where h and c are the Planck constant and the speed of light in a vacuum, respectively. From this we see that the momentum of a photon is a function of frequency, which, from the properties of the Fourier transform, we know to be the conjugate pair of position.
U.S. producer prices post biggest annual gain in more than 10-1/2 years
Not sure what about planning a swatting on Discord and then executing on that plan would qualify as involuntary. The actions were voluntary, intended to cause harm to the victim and a reasonable person would foresee that they could result in death.
In this instance I feel like loudly claiming that I'm paying for Starlink is the best use of my consumer voice. There are dozens of us!
The kids initiated the whole thing and used the cops as proxy. The actions of the police can’t be ignored. To place all blame on the kids is to pretend that hyper mobilization of a quasi military is okay.

To take this further if someone malicious caused me to do something catastrophic at work should I be absolved of all accountability? Sure, I am not the person who did the malicious thing because I had no intent, but I did still do it. Maybe I shouldn’t be fired but the security policies and procedures should be changed for the entire company to prevent this from happening again.
I use FTP in the browser once in a blue moon. Out of curiosity, I checked my browser history to search for instances of opening FTP URLs in the recent past. I found two:

* ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/ – also available as http://ftp.isc.org/isc/

* ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/ – only available as FTP

For the O’Reilly URI, it’s convenient to be able to click on directory links in the browser and then open HTML and PDF files without requiring another program.

So, it’s nice to have native FTP handling in Firefox for the odd time I’d use it but I can understand why Mozilla decided to remove it.
Yeah I was going to say, this sounds like a normal way of getting around the literature. We were taught to start mostly with review/summary papers from high-quality places, and work our way out from there.
Not doing due diligence is a legacy of Columbine, where waiting cost lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre...
>I'd rather attack that problem than make Wendy's sandwich maker a viable career.

Why shouldn't Sandwich Maker be a viable career? They definitely contribute more to society than HR professionals or agile coaches.
Hakuin, one of the most famous Japanese Zen master's, got "Zen Disease" when he was in his 20s and doing intense meditation. The symptoms sound very similar to what was in the article. He recommended a particular meditation as a cure. No clue about the efficacy of that, but this problem is clearly not unknown even among entirely orthodox practitioner's who presumably have qualified teachers.

https://buddhismnow.com/2015/09/12/zen-sickness-by-zen-maste...
I was replying to the parent.
Tokyo 2020 boss not ruling out last minute cancellation of Olympic Games
You really think 90% could be pranks? Anything could potentially be a prank, that doesn't change the fact someone could be in imminent danger. Police need to always both exercise caution and respond quickly to potential crimes.
> How many of the large state-sponsored penetrations (i.e. the ones we're most likely to hear about) used buffer overflows?

It really depends on the target. If you’re attacking a website, then sure, you’re more likely to find vulnerability classes like XSS that can exist in memory-safe code. When you’re talking about client-side exploits like the ones used by NSO Group, though, almost all of them use memory corruption vulnerabilities of some sort. (That doesn’t only include buffer overflows; use-after-free vulnerabilities seem to be the most common ones these days.)
Landlords rejoice! If it was up to them, only a trickle would be allowed.

For people that live around the Great Lakes, and its near unlimited fresh water supply, this restriction is kind of cruel.
Why have the same law for the whole country, when the fresh water supply differs so much by location.
> In fact easy, in terms of getting something working, trumps difficult simplicity any day of the week. Easy is part of what makes an employer want to use your technology.

The whole point of the talk is that choosing "easy" (as in easy to get started) solutions while ignoring the complexity will be harder to maintain in the long run over choosing the "simple" solution that takes a bit more time to set up. Personally, this tracks pretty closely with my experience.

(Relevant slide from the talk:
https://res.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/en/slid...)
> is probably irrational unless you are also opposed to altruism.

No, it just means that I value my personal well-being over those of others. Maybe to an extent you dislike, but that's also part of my point - the expectation that other people should place themselves at risk for your well-being could also be interpreted as a selfish or self-entitled attitude.
Twitter behavior is leaking into the real world.
Hedging Inflation Is Harder Than It Sounds
"One thing that many people (including myself at times) are prone to is an irrational fear that their idea will be stolen."

IMHO. You can have a amazing idea and terrible execution and be fine. But if you have a bad idea and amazing execution you are screwed. Stealing ideas is therefore a real thing. But great ideas are so rare - people assume they don't exist - therefore, it is assumed an execution issue.
There wasn't extra profit because all the mills automated and they are all competing with each other. If expenses were lower, one would cut prices to gain a market advantage, others would follow until the price reached its floor.
I don’t see anything in the article that claims an actual SWAT team was deployed here, or that the police did anything wrong or irresponsible.

There was a report of an armed gunman who had already killed someone on this guy’s property, so cops went to search for him. What exactly would you have them do differently?
Total layman, I’m sure I’ll get corrected if I’m wrong here:

Bell's Theorem is just a model showing how two sets of measurements of certain properties of entangled particles would differ in a “Quantum Physics” regime where there is spooky action at a distance changing the measured properties versus a “common sense” regime where both particles leave the entanglement site with those properties already set.

[0] is a fairly easy to understand graph of the correlation of the measurements at the two sites in both regimes, even if the math that generates those charts is beyond me.

Given that, just knowing what measurements you got only gives you an idea of what the other guy across the universe would see were he to measure your particle’s entangled partner - he has no more control over what those measurements actually are than you do, you just know that there’s a certain correlation between what you saw and what he saw. That’s why you can’t use Bell’s Theorem to communicate, neither one of you is actually controlling the measured property, there’s just a certain correlation between the measurements both of you got.

It seems to this layman that in order to communicate FTL using QM, you’d need a way to determine that the property being measured has already been “collapsed” (if that’s the right word) by spooky action at a distance, e.g if the other guy had already measured it. Bell’s Theorem gives us no way to determine if the other guy has actually made the measurements, it assumes that both you and he have both made those measurements.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem#/media/File:Bel...
> Just the other day I suggested using a yubikey

The problem is that the recent security company purchases suggest that it costs roughly $100 per month per user to have just basic security. Cost goes up from that exponentially.

Everybody defaults to a small number of security/identity providers because running the system is so stupidly painful. Hand a YubiKey to your CEO and their secretary. Make all access to corporate information require a YubiKey. They won't last a week.

We don't need better crypto. Crypto is good enough. What we need is better integration of crypto.
> that probably happens more than swatting attacks in the USA

This assumption might be worth re-evaluating.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-pran... (2013):

> The FBI estimates there are around 400 swatting attacks a year

https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/office-of-partner-eng... (2018):

> 277 FBI-designated active shooter incidents that occurred in the United States from 2000 to 2018
Sure. Ultimately you've got the same problem as an OS scheduler and recognising whether threads are CPU-bound or IO-bound and treating them separately is probably going to be part of that.

I appreciate not wanting to do things until you can do them right, but equally if you advertise this as a preemptive runtime, people are going to expect that they can use it to throw 32 CPU-spinning threads onto 8 cores and have it behave gracefully. It sounds like from a user's point of view on day 1 this runtime will be the worst of both worlds - you need to take care to not do big chunks of CPU work without yielding, but you don't get the full control that a traditional "userspace" cooperative multitasking framework would give you.
“A teacher when one is required, no teacher when one is not required,“ or something like that. :) The Buddha is an existence proof of the possibility of direct independent observation and understanding.
Bell's theorem is strong: No local hidden variables can explain quantum entanglement.

Your proposed fifth dimension is exactly such a variable – there is no set of values it can take on that explains the quantum phenomena we can easily and reliably observe.

The fact that you think of it as a distance itself isn't important to Bell's theorem. Such a theory is cannot even obey relativity in our existing 3 dimensions (obeying the speed of light in your extra dimension would be even stricter!)
AlphaCT1 may repair skin's collagen by altering how scar-forming cells behave
I know I'm supposed to be appalled at this, but honestly, my main takeaway was, "wow, Russia has a nationwide system to identify people who have either had covid-19 already, or been vaccinated. If only we were together enough to have that here in the U.S." I realize that is not supposed to be my main response...
The Israeli defense ministry has to approve sales contracts. I'm assuming they'd like to avoid spying on citizens of states they depend on militarily/politically or that have the capability of retaliating.
The way I see it, the death penalty should never be on the table.
Is this thread official in any way, or is it one user launching their own thing?
I've used bubbletea (and seen used in many recent golang TUI apps) https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
This is only true for cartesian spaces. If the low-dimensional manifold is "folded" or "crinkly" inside a higher-dimensional space then you can indeed have particles that look far apart on the manifold but which are actually close together in the higher-dimensional space.

(My terminology here is largely wrong; this is not my field. Perhaps an expert can correct me.)
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I agree we have monumental challenges ahead of us, and that we will have to work hard together to overcome them. I’m hopeful the outcome won’t be as dire as you describe.
Thank you for asking the questions! It really helped me clarifying my thoughts too.

If you are interested in how these games look like / play, but don’t want to invest too much effort into it you can take a peek at a game play video: https://youtu.be/fFqg5gAbeAw

This one is someone playing Overboard. In this game you play an actress in the roaring twenties who just thrown her husband overboard from a trans-atlantic ship. Your goal is to get away with the murder before the ship docks in New York. (Perhaps by framing someone else.)
Worked as a gas station attendant with a small store. They were supposed to have two on staff—one on pumps and one inside—but instead only willing to have on person on the shift, so people would fill tanks and take off without paying when you were inside the store ringing up customers. If your register came up short, as it always did, they docked your pay the amount missing (from stolen gas). So they put the cost of their undermanning on us employees.
My solution was to take payments in the store without ringing up the item on the register. At the end of my shift I was always ahead. They couldn’t figure it out. I never stole, but I wasn’t going to be taken advantage of.
Practically, the kids are fully responsible because no shots were fired. The swat team obviously made a decision that for them was a good one to mobilize. Can’t fault the police for making a 50-50 decision. Most likely they sold it like there isn’t any time for them to decide.
Right... time to solve this like Apple did with Find My + secure enclave + stopping phone thefts in their tracks.
That's stupid.

If you shoot someone, we don't say that technically the bullet killed them not the person who fired the shot.
This is a problem technology can help with. Emergency dispatchers could at least verify that any cellular call came from a tower near the supposed address or a landline call is nearby.

I'm not saying police shouldn't respond if the call comes from an IP gateway or a different state - but dispatch should tell them confidence is low and in that case police could approach the scene much more skeptically.
Pokemon*

This used to make me very frustrated as a child.
Harsher punishments. Nothing is stopping kids from going around and stabbing randoms but the fear of getting caught (and for some the distaste of hurting others). Kids believe they can swat someone and get away with it. Don't only go after the cases that result in deaths, crackdown on all such cases.
Diamonds swapped for pebbles in London gem heist
"Sexology" is perhaps not an ideal exemplar of a scientific discipline.
Are we being deliberately obtuse in order to inject left-wing buzzwords into situations where they're completely inapplicable? It's that what we're doing?
I think big part of a strategy like this is long term. If you want to short a stock you need to make sure the fraud is discovered by other investors. So you probably need to have a strong marketing department that basically thrashes other companies, this may not be a goal a lot of people aspire to. With a short you're also exposed to lose an infinite amount.

And finally "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -Keynes
What extreme violence are you talking about? A bunch of cops showed up to search for a reported gunman, and by all accounts acted completely appropriately.

Nobody was shot or assaulted, nobody broke down any doors, or did anything ‘massively disproportionate’ here.
The current labor shortage is purely because of the unemployment and covid benefits and being paid out to people. Why work when you get to stay home and get money doing nothing?
I agree (I think), we need either free college or a livable minimum wage or both to solve this problem. Disagree that we need to have any low-paying jobs at all, but I suppose your high school could run a fast food joint for the students, if we really need that sort of thing?
>I joked that maybe the owner was an old cahoot who remembered when a soda was $0.05 and there was no way they were going to raise their hourly wages to $15 or more.

But otherwise had no issue jacking their prices up to the heavens...
I don't think the intent is to cause death though.
What's the alternative response you expect police to have after being told a violent killer is on the loose at an address? There is very little they can do to vet the information, and time is critical. There is a reason they send SWAT and not a regular officer. The claim these kids make to illicit such an extreme response is usually a hostage situation or armed killer hiding out.

I've seen a decent amount of body cam footage of officers responding to calls. Not enough force or control over the situation can be a fatal mistake. Too much force and they're vilified by the media. They obviously can't ignore the call either.

Cops are getting crucified in the US on both sides. Why anyone would want to take in that duty in these times is beyond me.
Ianal but based on wikipedia that still sounds more like involuntary to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter
That's a false equivalence. If you shoot someone with a gun, it's reasonable to expect them to die.
It is not a reasonable expectation that someone will die when you ask them their name and tell them to put down their weapon.
"There's a shooting going on at my neighbor's. Someone's already dead! Help! Help!"

"Hang on... While we do due diligence!"

What due diligence would or could the police do? Maybe they could tell if the caller location was far away or overseas, but beyond that...

My intuition, without seeing the relevant data, is that rapid police response is worth the cost of occasional swatting.
Allowing any random 18 year old to sign for a $300,000 unsecured loan is insane. At that age, most people simply can’t calculate the risk they’re taking. At that age, you are programmed to think you’re invincible and take unreasonable risks. It’s why we send 18 year olds to war. No one else would take those odds.
Any kid can take a stick and push it into another kid's eye. You can't child-proof the world, you have to raise the kids.
The boy who called wolf is an old children’s story for a reason.

What alternative behavior do you suggest?
That hasn't panned out with the death penalty (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/30/there...). People don't go "gee, I wonder what the typical criminal penalty for this action is..." They just do it, especially kids with immature brains and only partially developed impulse control.