skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who is going to listen to you if you stand up to the strong? unless you have support of anyone in the media (who would also be willing to put their reputation on the line) your message isn't going to go anywhere. not to mention, you think things like 'black cube' suddenly don't exist any more?
What person in their right mind would go work for a company that just fired all it's staff for demanding better conditions?
Yeah I wondered if that app can be whitelisted specifically (and not just by path but by threat name "PUA:Win32/qBittorent")
Learning OCaml will teach you the languages and concepts of the next 5 to 10 years of mainstream programming languages. E.g., here's a TC39 proposal to add declarations to conditionals: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-Declarations-in-Conditional...

It says, in the 'Future Work' section:

> This could be extended to allowing multiple names to be initialized (such as through destructuring) with a "normal" conditional to be written after the assignment with a ; (similar to a for).

if (let x = 1, y = 2; x || y) {
/* ... */
}

if (let {x, y} = data; x && y) {
/* ... */
}

Meanwhile, OCaml from day one:

if let x = true in let y = true in x || y then
...

if let { x; y } = data in x && y then
...
Warcraft alone I can't imagine shutting down. There is a certain community of people that more or less lives in that parallel universe and it would be pretty disruptive to abandon it. It's like buying access to a virtual bar for $15/mo where you reliably get together with your warcraft nerd birds of a feather.
There are literally too many to name, but this one comes to mind[1].

[1] - https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/horizon-forbidden-west-aloy...

EDIT: 4 responses within minutes of each other all pointing to a different game just underlines my "too many to name" comment.
Apple tweaks the Safari UI again in iOS/iPad OS 15 Beta 4
Question if it's even possible to answer.

How does the average cycle count for a Covid-19 test compare to a flu test?
No idea why you’re being downvoted. This is 100% correct, China requires party members to be on the boards of companies and Xi is the head of the party.
I'm not a DBA, so I can't say for certain simply due to a gap in my knowledge. But in my experience, it depends on a lot of factors. Sometimes pg will use an index before performing the search ops, other times a subquery is needed. Check out pgmustard and dig into your slow query plans. :)
"Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004 to 2007, and is currently executive vice president for corporate affairs at Activision Blizzard."

The Bush administration was the kind of place to sell illegal wars and cover up torture programs, so this lady is fine with sweeping dirt under the rug.
Hulu is one of the worst at this, and it's astounding to me how seemingly willfully dumb advertisers can be.

It makes me think that no one in this industry actually cares. You've got marketing and advertising executives commanding eight figure budgets, inventing whatever metrics they need to showcase success and protect their jobs. They pay YouTube, Hulu, Samsung, etc millions, who provide back whatever engineered metrics they need to keep getting those paychecks.

You'd think there'd at least be some evidence in mapping advertising spend back to revenue, but I suspect that the platforms who can actually do this (e.g. Etsy) don't last very long or see worse advertising revenue, because it becomes startlingly obvious how poorly advertising works (especially when automated at scale).

It's a house of cards, with so many people deeply invested, spending their entire careers justifying their position, that it probably wont ever change.
I would imagine you would want to have a charger at home and/or at the office.
Is biochar a potential solution?
Reminds me of the John Wanamaker quote: 'Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.'
Wild! Heres a summary https://collider.com/last-of-us-2-controversy-explained/
For anyone that is not aware oglaf.com is very NSFW. You may want to edit your post to make that obvious.
They have the IP but they are struggling to hire talent to do something useful with it. So there's a chance that they will milk their IP with smartphone gambling until it dries out.

Some people believe that has already happened, which is why we have the Diablo mobile partnership and no new StarCraft 3.
The video game company I worked at was a disaster of spaghetti code that was written by engine developers/jack-of-all-trade developers with no semblance of caring about maintainability. Every milestone was a new disaster of tech debt that was built upon the foundation of previous tech debt.

It was difficult to hire new grades or less experienced developers because the cost to train them in the custom frameworks, infrastructure, and other technologies was exceptionally high.

It was terrible and there weren't a lot of excuses for it. My only point is that there are a lot of nuances to hiring from the talent pool.
It is about battlefield 5, the last of us was last year. More specifically people didn't like the depiction of world war 2 in this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZpQadiyqs
I'm not sure what you are referring to about technical difficulties?

And yes iOS has tightened their controls on how their phones can be tracked. Most of these systems right upgrade or new piece of equipment that switches the tracking from wifi to Bluetooth or a combination of both
It's true that people who had COVID can still have viral RNA in their noses for a while and still test positive.

The most sensitive tests have a limit of detection of a couple hundred copies/ml, and the collection kits usually use 1ml of VTM or equivalent. I find it hard to believe that a significant number of people will have enough viral RNA in their nose to put hundreds of copies onto a swab unless it's their own body that's producing those copies.
Returnal, perhaps?
abbot.com might be cheaper
Harassment intentionally includes observers. If you do something to someone, and a third party observes it and is made uncomfortable, that is harassment in the workplace.

To say "Guys are just ribbing eachother" ignores people that observe that behavior and find it uncomfortable/hostile/toxic. This is also an extremely generous description of what happened. Women were harassed, both sexually and not. Their pay was lower, their performance reviews were tougher, they were fired more frequently. Worse, they were groped, sexually harassed/assaulted, one of them commit suicide over it. To compare "guys just ribbing" to what happened is a real gross take.

> I may be biased, I spent 4 years in the military where ribbing was literally CONSTANT (it was worse than anyplace else I've worked) and the women there really had to have a thick skin. (I'm also 49 years old and a lot has changed.)

"Women have to have thick skin" is just nonsense to not have to type "The women are harassed relentlessly". It's also worth noting that the military is a toxic cesspit for sexual abuse. Comparing any sane workplace to the military is a joke. Nobody should want to be like the military, including the military.
Dirty cars would be reported, so the previous user has to pay for the cleaning and the current user could get a free ride for the inconvenience. If people have to pay for cleaning then they will pay attention to keep the car clean.

Of course, the service is only a real alternative if a car is there within 5 minutes for you. People wouldn't tolerate more waiting.

It will be a gradual process and some people will still prefer to own a car, but in the long run owning a car could be a luxury if the driverless taxi really matures and it becomes much cheaper.
yeah, you're missing the potential on-paper profits to be made from making video games more accessible to a wider audience by sanitizing them and their communities. whether this change is is a good idea in the long run or not can be debated, but that's where the last decade or so of rhetoric against "toxic gamer culture" is coming from, regardless of what is said.

could any of the downvoters please tell me how I'm wrong?
[After successful USB key insertion]

> the singularity is officially getting very very close
Just want to come to give props to Sumatra PDF. Lovely product - lightweight, fast, portable. Mau not have every feature (not saying it does or doesn't - does what I need) but does a lot really well. Highly recommended.
We get really nice results with gist indexes (gist_trgm_ops) searching across multiple entity types to do top X queries. It’s very useful to be able to make a stab at a difficult-to-spell foreign football player’s name, possibly with lots of diacritics, and get quick results back. I’m always surprised when I find a search engine on any site that is so unkind as to make you spell things exactly.
Not necessarily. The thing to measure is the marginal ROI at zero advertising spend. Derivatives are not bounded by their average value across a range.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding (intentional or not) with these types of studies and claims.

Limited-time promotions, e.g. a 10% off sale, work on short timescales that are easily measured. You can easily say what the ROI is of an advertised promotion, and it is often positive. (Side note, these promotions have a more-difficult-to-measure detrimental effect on your long-term profitability, closely related to the point I am about to make below)

Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don't do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way.

The actual effect that a brand advertisement has, is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day, for the next 100 YEARS. It's a long-term investment. And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn't mean it doesn't work!!

And without that brand investment, their brand value is continuously eroding away, at a rate of pennies (or more) per day.

Source: Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years
Other countries don't come close to keeping people alive as long as folks try in the US.

New Jersey for example allows for a religious objection to a medical declaration of brain death etc. As long as your heart keeps pumping you can be called alive and provided with intensive care (for years). And yes, your heart pumping can be mechanically driven, they can do feeding tubes and IV's etc - so this means "alive" for a very long time.

We need to be clear - that other countries will not provide govt or mandatory care in these types of cases.

In places like New Jersey - it is a crime to stop providing care (even when person is fully brain dead) or to stop paying for care if someone has a religious belief someone is alive.

“No health care practitioner or other health care provider, and no health service plan, insurer, or governmental authority, shall deny coverage or exclude from the benefits of service any individual solely because of that individual’s personal religious beliefs regarding the application of neurological criteria for declaring death.”

You can imagine the costs of these types of laws.

There is a small industry in places like California which cap malpractice awards in cases of death but don't if someone is alive to get folks to new jersey where they can be kept "alive" indefinitely to maximum legal payouts etc.
I think people need to stop seeing Service Organizational Controls and Security Operations Center controls as the same thing. The SOC2 audits change management mostly and performance of contract for software companies. It was made by accountants and does not correlate to cyber threats. Audits like CyberSecurity Maturity Model Certifications were developed to align configurations which lead to breaches or threats more directly. It’s also important that you understand which compliance audits improve your CyberSecurity like CIS or CMMC and which ones are more generic like SOC and which help security professionals like MITRE understand attacks better. We have a SOC 2 because we have financial services clients which audit themselves against SOC 1 for financial reporting and want to use a similar standard to audit their software providers development environments. We use other policies and frameworks like MITRE, CIS and CMMC to stay ahead of threat details. You can use the Verizon breach report to correlate the controls to number of times you got breached. But you’d be napping CiS as a SOC doesn’t correlate at all.
Yes, I can see it being hard to get the “left wing media” to republish made up bullshit.
Can't a calibration step solve the precision alignment problem?
I think traditional parenting is the control you're after - worked in our house so far. "Weirdos on the internet will send you disturbing images that give you nightmares, try and encourage you to do stupid things that will hurt you, try and get money of you, or damage our computer; I've set it so you can't make friends with them nor receive messages - if you want to add anyone, like school friends, that you know in real life that's fine, ask me first. If you mess with the settings I'll have to uninstall it (block it, whatever)."
I work for a company involved in search engine advertising.

While it's technically possible to track conversions, very very few customers actually do it. Some don't have a great way to track it (health-care products where there's a privacy issue, brand advertising, informational advertising, services where there's no obvious immediate call to action, etc.)

Even among those who do track "conversions," I'd say under 10% of them actually define a conversion as something where money is exchanged immediately, which makes it hard to defraud. More than half of the conversion tracking we see just requires the user to spend a certain amount of time on the website, visit a certain number of pages or to provide an email address.

Not surprisingly, we see a massive dropoff in conversion percentage when money needs to change hands. It's more than 90%. Also, not surprisingly, when some action is required for conversion, we see more than half of the visitors taking that exact action and nothing more.

Our analysis of the above is that more than half of clickers on search ads, and probably more like 80%+ are just bots (or human "bots" in clickfarms) clicking the ads and then pretending to convert. Their incentive is that they are clicking ads on search pages where they get a share of the revenue.

Interestingly, when we alert customers to this dynamic and try to get them to shift their ad spend or conversion tracking to prevent this kind of behavior, they actively do not care and prevent us from doing it. Our analysis there is that marketing managers in general know that what they're doing is largely ineffective, but they don't want to admit that to their bosses because then it puts their jobs at risk.

So, what we do is help them maximize where we can, without pushing them too hard on the above: "Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
The culture of ribbing at work probably needs to go. I've worked in environments with lots of ribbing and some with virtually none. The one with none is way more comfortable. Sometimes the ribbing can cause comradery, but often ends up being a source of friction, even amongst all males.
What is aufero? I tried going to about us, was greeted with einstein's quotes without any information about who are the people behind the project.
Funny you should call out autocomplete, which is not powerful nor capable enough to let me change the order of how things appear. IIRC the default is 1. bookmarks, 2. history, 3. open tabs, 4. websearch suggestions, and last I checked (a few months ago) this can't be changed.
Exactly this. In such situations the culture of abuse is deeply embedded in the organisation, so everyone from senior management through HR down to junior staff will turn on you; they'll make your work environment unbearable, berate you for any compassionate leave you're granted (assuming you can squeeze that much out of them), hold 'investigations' that exhonerate the company and the accused even in the face of blatant video evidence, downgrade your performance appraisals, and, since senior staff tend to have friends at other companies in your industry, potentially make it difficult for you to get a job elsewhere. Anyone who comes forward in such circumstances (having, let's not forget, already suffered bad treatment through no fault of their own) demonstrates a great deal of bravery.
> Am I missing something here?

The trash talk isn't the issue. When I, a male, join a multiplayer session I'm largely ignored. If I'm talked to, yes it's usually to trash talk me.

But when a female joins a session, they become the center of attention. They can't simply play the game; everyone is watching them and wanting to interact with them. In addition to that, the conversations from other players isn't just trash talk, it usually includes a heavy mix of flirting and sexual advances. Not funny, trolly, trash talk sexual advances. But intentional advances.

Not to mention the stalking outside of that session that females can experience.

The vast majority of people joining a multiplayer session are there to relax and have fun. Not get hit on by strangers on the internet, be the center of attention, or be open to harassment even after the session.

It's a qualitatively different experience.
great to know that you were actually able to quit social media and other heavy dopamine stimulants. this is inspiring!

any specific resources/framework/books that helped you along this journey?
Look up what sparked Gamergate. It was largely based in men getting mad about women calling games out for being misogynistic.

I am sure some was valid criticism. I am not really a fan of "every game must be progressive", etc. but the fact men got mad that women dared criticize video games should say a lot about the state of the video game industry.

Not only that, but also, for a long time, video games just weren't marketed to girls at all. All video games catered to males and were specifically targeted as such.

It's mainly the Wii, Nintendo DS and Switch that were a big on-ramps for women into mainstream gaming. Even now, many men assume "female gamer == Candy Crush" or some other weird idea. Or joke that if you are a woman on a video game that you _must_ be a trap.
It's just an alternative Matrix client built with Flutter. It works with any Matrix server.
The most logical place for a cloud service to develop inside IBM would have been IBM Global Services. IGS had a sort of proto-cloud set up in 1998-1999 (treated physical systems as cattle that could be remote wiped, virtualization would have been a logical next step) but sold off the organization building that to AT&T as part of the Global Network sale.

I wrote a horrible, hacky, CMS PIPES based gopher/http server for VM some time in 1993 that was used internally for various "non serious" things. A colleague and I designed a native HTTP server for MVS in 1995 and had started coding it when we were more or less reprimanded and told to defer to the then Network Services division which was porting something (I think CERN httpd, they had a bizarre fascination with CERN) to MVS.

It just wasn't in anyone's best interest to even experiment with web services on VM or MVS, let alone try to build a business out of it.

Cloud happened after I left, but the infrastructure to build or respond to the rise of AWS was never in place, sort of by design.
Wrote whole article about it: https://actzero.ai/resources/blog/6-soc2-questions-to-ask-yo...
This was very targeted at getting tech giants to pay for the communal infrastructure in their city.

It doesn't (to me) seem obvious that the companies have an obligation beyond the fact that they can afford to fund it and it's generally good for society. Common infra seems the exact thing governments should pay for - not corps.

Should the government collect more taxes to fund this? Probably. Good luck collecting more taxes though.
The Liteplacer had a nice vision system. All open source, so you can reuse it with different mechanics.
Someone wrote an application for it which reads part numbers and sorts parts.
It was prestigious to be a computer-adjacent business person for the past 30 or 40 years. But there wasn't much prestige involved in the actual work of building, or programming, computers (unless you became rich and turned into a business person).
Subtitle: "A global shortfall of semiconductors has affected the Tesla supply chain as well as car manufacturers across the world"

Tesla has a ton of fixed costs, and they have to actually ship cars in order to collect revenue.
> That is why the definition of ribbing is "good-natured teasing".

The problem is that there may not in fact be anything "good-natured" about it - on both sides - yet the culture forces the recipient to act like it is or they will be punished.

In other words: the only way in which that kind of thing is not toxic is when a recipient can at any time say "that's not funny, stop it!", and the reaction will be a sincere apology and an actual stopping.

Now how often is that actually the case?
Its a trade-off with engine power. A small, low power engine is really efficient around town at low speeds (and scores well on EPA tests). But to drive at 80 mph, you have to put significant load on that tiny engine, making it really inefficient.

A more powerful engine consumes more gas in general, but is operating in a much more efficient range at 80mph because it is not under much load.
It's not about having female characters in games, that's never been a problem.

It's about totally rewriting history to appease the modern woke sensibility that people were complaining about.
Here are a few more...

Battlefield: https://www.salon.com/2018/05/26/women-in-wwii-game-once-aga...

Rust: https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7y7jj/this-game-is-forcing-...

Outriders: https://www.reddit.com/r/outriders/comments/lyzmz3/srsly_so_...

Horizon Zero Dawn: https://twitter.com/apexalphaj/status/1398826689992482819

Total War Rome 2: https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/total-war-rome-ii-female-cha...

The Last Of Us Part 2: https://collider.com/last-of-us-2-controversy-explained/

The Outer Worlds: https://steamcommunity.com/app/578650/discussions/0/27330478...

Apex Legends: https://gamerant.com/apex-legends-female-complaints-response...

I could keep going...
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This reminds me of the market for DVDs, which found a big disconnect between the shows with big ratings on live TV and the shows that sold a ton of DVDs. The former tended to be anodyne comedies, the latter were niche shows with a harder edge.

When there's only three channels or a single local newspaper, you get content that is appealing or at least acceptable to the mass market. The smaller the market, the more extreme the content. When you get to the level of individual writers, I think there's an inevitable radicalization when people only pay for content that really really targets their idiosyncratic interests.
Ya, physics does seem to require quite a bit of patience. Anything that could possibly get figured out during my lifetime I count as a win :)
Some people don't like having to find a new job in another company that treats their employees better, or simply don't care enough. That's what you see people who have been harassed/assaulted not quitting and just "taking it". It blows my mind, that someone that can work at blizz, prefers to be harassed to just quitting and finding a new job, is not that this company is their only option, even if you are in a visa, is it really worth it to be sexually assaulted just to keep your immigration status? I guess every person is different.