skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think one reason might be that being interactive lets the player contribute to the enjoyment themselves, which lowers the bar for what the developer has to achieve.

I really disagree with this, I think it's underselling the quality of indie games. It explains Minecraft, maybe, but there are so many incredible indie games that look gorgeous and have tons of interesting content, that aren't just relying on the player to entertain themselves.

Braid, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, Limbo, Inside, Frostpunk, FTL, Outer Wilds, Spelunky 2, Rocket League, Darkest Dungeon, Disco Elysium, The Witness, Terraria, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, The Stanley Parable, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, Hotline Miami, Undertale, Firewatch, Dustforce. I could honestly double that list if I thought for long enough.

> For me though I think a large part is also simply that I am more into games than movies/music

Maybe. It still feels like indie games punch way above their weight compared to other forms of media, but it's true I could be biased there.
> SQLite's "dynamic data types" coerce data on input, not output.

That's not relevant. If a data format coerces data when it's stored, it's still not a data format suitable for serialization.
s/your landlord/your house maker
With the frequency of these breaches, it feels like we are moving to a post-security world where SSNs and DOBs are simply public information.

Would that really be such a bad thing? Both seem completely replaceable as authentication steps.
The government doing this is one thing but corporations controlled by a few vocal groups deciding what you can do and what you are allowed to know is a completely different thing.
What is it that you hate about the job? A lot of times, I find that hating your job is really a symptom of something deeper. I think this might be true for you because you also mentioned that you wouldn't be satisfied working for Google. You have a PhD, maybe you're yearning to return to a research oriented career in academia? I honestly recommend seeking therapy before quitting. It might highlight something deeper that might help guide you. Even if you do end up quitting, at least it will guide you towards the right path.

Also, remember that even having these types of thoughts means we are in a relative place of tremendous privilege where our basic needs are met and secured. Many in the world don't have that privilege. That's not meant to guilt you, but to help you put things in perspective. Usually when we are materially satisfied, we start to seek higher levels of meaning and since we spend so much of our waking time working, we try to seek satisfaction through work. But the world doesn't value our individual satisfaction.

Finally you seem to have some conflicting goals (or maybe not). If you want to retire early and stay with your partner, it might mean making the sacrifice of living in London and also working in a high paying job where you are disconnected from the value it brings to society. You can potentially speed up this process by working on building a high value company, but working in quant finance you should be able to assess risk-adjusted returns and determine if that path is feasible or makes sense in your individual circumstances.
I have been looking for like-minded engineers to work on an open source non-profit idea I have. It is documented here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

If interested, then please ping me. My email is in my profile.
Serious question, how would that be any different than a SSN?
Red countries on this map: https://world-power-plugs.com/plugs-outlets-types
"Hard to detect "directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy" when you have no idea what you're actually looking for"

Hard to believe, any source for this?
Very high quality article. I wish all reporting on this topic was as nuanced.

I think it is important to add that although the vaccine is indeed effective against preventing severe disease, the same data from Israel does still show that the vaccine is not as effective against contraction of the disease (only 39% effectiveness).

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...
lol, revenue not even mentioned on the page. Seems like an absurd valuation but times are crazy and VCs are throwing money anywhere they can

my only guess is that they raised based on their user count and have pitched some sort of strategy to monetize based on that. I'm guessing it is B2B focus, maybe some platform to make it easier for SaaS API companies to get to users. Or just pure enterprise sales and try to get big companies to pay for it. Maybe even try to monetize the data about what APIs free tier developers are using, although that type of telemetry would probably piss off most their users

I just don't see developers paying for Postman directly, there are decent open source alternatives.
I was a tmobile customer in the past. For all I know, my information could be in this leak. What should I do to protect myself? I called T mobile but received no update.
Didn't they already seed the government with chinese officials last year? there were tons of riots etc... but so many 'bad' things in news that we don't focus on it anymore
So someone opens this CSV in Excel and there's garbage in A1?

Does this really count as compatible? You will get user bugs for this.
Brave’s Director of Privacy is answering questions on Reddit today
People coming in from internships only make up a small portion of your staffing needs, and with the general practice of never giving raises and expecting 2-year turnover, you will never see your intern in a senior or even midrange role.
I don't think this can be used to harm an innocent person. It can raise a red flag but it would be quickly unraised and perhaps an investigation into the source of the fakeout images because THAT person had to have had the real images in possession.

If anything, this gives weapons to people against the scanner as we can now bomb the system with false positives rendering it impossible to use. I don't know enough about cryptography but I wonder if there is any ramifications of the hash being broken.
New LG Grams are nice laptops and could be a good alternative to ASUS. I've had no problems with recent Ubuntu versions on them.
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Insomnia is already pretty good. Other alternatives are also present that cater to basic usage (most of them as browser plugins).
Are you talking about T-Mobile, or the companies that fraudsters actually go to with this information?

You're not going to do much damage creating a T-Mobile account with my SSN. You will signing up for a credit card or resetting the password on my bank account.
I try to use tab-delimited files when writing out columnar text to be loaded into something else (assuming it can parse them). It's even easier to read since you don't have extraneous commas and double quotes everywhere and most viewers will line things up to some degree via the tabs. Tabs are less common in data fields (at least when compared to double quotes and commas), at least in my experience.
LEDs will flicker (worse than old-school fluorescent lights did) when directly connected to 60Hz AC.
> Hasidim don't have an opposition to technology.

Technically, as I understand it, neither do the Amish. They have opposition to uses of technology that they feel undermine the social, and particularly family, structure. This may result on bans on technology which is seen as prone to such use and for which there isn't a combination of positive use and prescribed manner of use that adequately mitigates the problem (the exact boundaries of which differing between different Amish groups.)
This is not at all conceptually the same.

FedEx was not held liable simply because their service was used to mail illegal drugs. They were held liable because not only did they know about the specific instances in which it was mailed, they allegedly conspired with the shippers to facilitate the mailings. They were knowingly mailing packages to parking lots where drug dealers would wait to pick them up:

> According to the indictment, as early as 2004, FedEx knew that it was delivering drugs to dealers and addicts. FedEx’s couriers in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia expressed safety concerns that were circulated to FedEx Senior management, including that FedEx trucks were stopped on the road by online pharmacy customers demanding packages of pills; that the delivery address was a parking lot, school, or vacant home where several car loads of people were waiting for the FedEx driver to arrive with their drugs; that customers were jumping on the FedEx trucks and demanding online pharmacy packages; and that FedEx drivers were threatened if they insisted on delivering packages to the addresses instead of giving the packages to customers who demanded them.

They had drug addicts literally stopping FedEx trucks on the street to intercept packages from online pharmacies. I don't see how this specific situation is analogous to Apple at all.

The fact remains that FedEx is not scanning hard drives, DVD or other storage devices going through their network and they don't appear to be breaking any laws by not doing that scanning.
At this point I just assume my info is lost and act accordingly. Regular checks of my credit report. Skepticism of my mail. Careful review of my tax receipts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

This law seems to lack any kind of rigor or theoretical basis and seems like a purely rhetorical device.
https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/1427195852011937797
They did their is insomnia iirc and another one. And script friendly stuff like httpie. And ide stuff like httpclient. That's stupidly high valuation
You might want to familiarize yourself with the broken window fallacy.
> We can argue about the technicalities of how abusable or resilient the current implementation is. But we can agree that it's a step towards losing privacy, yes? We didn't have scanning of iDevices before, now we do.

Yes, that was the intention of my original comment. The “slippery slope” is one of principle and precedent, more than this specific technical implementation.
I think a large part of learning faster is having a better willingness/eagerness to learn. That's something that can be gauged to some degree during both the technical and non-technical sections of the interview.
> Motif has been open source for years.

So has Linux, yet SCO didn't hesitate to spend enormous amount of lawyer-hours attacking it.

AFAIK even simple scroll bars and double clicks are patented, the patent holders (Microsoft and Apple, IIRC) just have generously allowed the GNU/Linux community to use them.
How is the samsung frame? I am thinking of getting one..
My cousins who were college educated in Zagreb or Split are finding work in Germany. The brain drain is real. I can't help but think that balkanization seriously killed the economy there and nipped in the bud any hope of strong private industries investing and establishing themselves in such a tiny place. More Croatians live in Germany than Croatia today, because Germany did the opposite and unified, and brought on economic stability it continues to enjoy, rather than fractured after the iron curtain fell.
No longer considering purchasing any more Apple devices or services for any team members in my company. This is unacceptable.
Google search patterns leaked the first LIGO detection before it was announced
OP implied in another comment that it's Google (I could be misinterpreting that comment, though)
This has been my experience as well (and for depression as well as anxiety). They don’t go away completely, but the proverbial volume dial goes from 11 down to 3, and whatever remains becomes manageable.
I totally agree with you, don't get me wrong. But I can't help but feel a little sad knowing SerenityOS will never be my daily driver. I feel the same way about Haiku OS.
I used to work in US and Europe and in last decade work life balance is basically shot there.

As a result I took my savings and move back to India. Now I've a small farm here, since the market is soo inefficient in India specially for farm produce and labor abundant I am able to work only 1 hour a day and enjoy rest of my day on things I like.

In US and Europe proportion of smart people with access to resources is vastly more compared to India where either smart people lack resources or the ones with resources aren't smart enough.
"Why not decide on what is fair and reasonable when on good terms and you're not clouded by hate or resentment?"

This is also great advice when forming a business partnership. It was a great help to me when I was ready to leave a business I owned 50-50 and saved us from ending up in a lawsuit.
Bingo.

It's really not pretty what can happen when you have a juicy target, plenty of time, and a perfect idea of how you can use it to your advantage.

Fortunately they weren't at all malicious... just looking for ways to grow their little empire to play their war games and hopefully make some cash.
Religious cult is really a spectrum, but that wasn't exactly the mindset of many American colonists?

Some you could argue were religious cults, but I believe the majority were just wholesale communities who wanted more power for themselves than was possible in their existing communities.
Don't get me wrong, I mostly like working Kotlin. But the more I do, the more I realize what a hodgepodge of features it really is. A bunch of features don't really work together that well. And a bunch of features are only 80% (or less) of what I actually want.

For example, what if I don't like data class's stupid copy() method? How do I opt out? You can't.

Value classes can't be used as varargs, can't implement an interface by delegating to the wrapped value. (Forgetting the fact that they're just buggy as all hell and I keep getting runtime crashes from them being overly aggressively optimized away)

And it, of course, inherits a ton of badness from Java. Like the crappy type-erased generics, lack of type classes, etc. It chose to just use Java's standard collection types and encourage copies instead of using persistent collections by default. It hides the mutability under "read only" interfaces, but that's not at all concurrency-safe. Map is not a Collection or an Iterable, which is dumb. Map<K, V>'s type parameters are also allowed to be nullable types, which means that Map.getOrElse{} is actually wrong in the standard library.

Since Kotlin chose nullable types instead of Option<T>, you can't express "nested" emptiness. This means that the Map API is janky if you need to store nullable types. Map.get returns null if there was no value stored, but what if the value stored IS null? Then you have to call Map.contains(key), which means you have to hash the key twice to reliably pull out values.

There's just a lot of papercuts.
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> Do you have a good summary of their current position there?

Nope, why would I? Also I'm pro-google, just pointed to a fact I know.
The three other comments on this post feel like they are from the creators and friends...
I can agree. At one of my previous employers, IT management was adamant that no password vaults of any kinds could be used. It was a bigger company with tons of various systems to get into all with different sets of requirements. So what was the result? Average user ended up storing passwords info in excel and text files. Yay.

I think only recently there was some movement to approve a vendor there.
OpenSSH from 2014. That'll do it.
The EU has a federated public key cryptography based identity system. The member states recognize identities issued by other member states, but there is no central system.

In any case, the private key is stored on a plastic ID, only released with a PIN, and the databases only store the corresponding public key.

A leak of a public key without the private key is harmless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
Printing presses switching into high gear around the world. LBO shops follow.

Money have never been cheaper, ever
You misinterpreted what I wrote then.

Yes, a consumer-level camera sensor uses Bayer filtering, but that's just an implementation detail just like the rods and cones inside the retina - you don't perceive each channel individually after all, lest you wouldn't be able to perceive "brown" or "pink".

So any analogy between CCD sensor output and human eyes ends right there.

The difference lies in the output of the sensory mechanism (be that human eyes or CCD sensors). While consumer level hardware outputs multichannel images (yes, by means of subpixels and Bayer filtering, but that's irrelevant - for the sake of argument it could as well be pixies), scientific instruments use separate CCD sensors for each recorded channel to a) keep the full resolution and b) avoid cross-talk between different frequency bands , which is unavoidable with the subpixel setup used in commodity hardware.

So while your smartphone or DSLR's RAW output will be a multichannel image, instruments onboard of spacecraft will only ever output a single channel per sensor. No subpixels, no Bayer filters. Either one dedicated sensor per recorded channel (e.g. HST WF/PC2 camera) or multiple images taken in series using a single sensor but multiple filters (e.g. cameras onboard MER and MSL rovers).

I hope that was a little clearer.
Target might be a good comparison.

The total cost to them was ~$300M, and the CEO had to step down. Though $300M when your annual revenues are ~90B isn't really a huge hit. Less than 1/10th of net earnings for a year.

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/2013-target-data-breach-set...
Not only this, but it appears to me that diagnoses of the state of science as a problem are making the classic problem a person like Andrew Gelman would usually quickly point out, which is ignoring base rates. Saying 70% of published research can't replicate sounds bad in a vacuum, but how does that compare to 50 years ago? We have no idea if this number that sounds terrible outside of any context represents an improvement, degradation, or no difference at all from what we should expect.

That isn't by any means to suggest we shouldn't try to make science better by being more replicable and reducing fraud, but if it is an improvement, we're already doing something right and there is far less cause for despair and cynicism.

It also, of course, doesn't do any base rate comparison to non-scientific ways of generating facts. If 90% of published psychology research turns out to be wrong, but 99% of folk psychology turns out to be wrong, then science is still winning there.
> You are laying blame for Googles action on OP. Google associated an innocents image with the OP, not OP. Google then demanded that OP take an action to undo Googles action, and demands that OP take new actions to undo thing they did not do.

No, I'm laying blame for this issue just being an issue. The problem happening, Google's fault. But if you have multiple ways of solving an issue created by someone else and you do nothing. That is then your fault. The blame for the problem existing now also lies with you.

> What utter nonsense. Some engineer somewhere did the work to create a system that autogenerated the knowledge panel. Now people are upset because Google demands that we do free labor for them to undo the mistakes of their system.

You seem completely clueless of tech works. So for a search engine to do anything someone has to do the work to create it. Now search engines allow you to search the web and return GUESSES on that information. It guesses using algorithms and for the most part work well. But they are still guesses and with guesses you get wrong guesses.

> Googles obsession with being the authoritative source of knowledge and that we fix their mess is so clearly the unjustifiable behavior here that I'm baffled at how you can imagine that their practice here is reasonable.

Umm Google's automated system guessed something. Google has 3 ways to deal with the incorrect data here! THREE! Not just one way! Not even just TWO ways. But three ways! One of those ways you control the data and YOU BECOME THE AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE.

Why you think that doing nothing about a problem when given multiple options WHILE OTHER PEOPLE ARE BEING HARRASSED BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU DID is acceptable, I have no idea.
Holy shit I thought the valuation was stupidly high at 225m, now Ive reread 5.6b, that's more than fastly market cap ffs insanity
College Was Supposed to Close the Wealth Gap for Black Americans
Ask HN: Is Superstonk right or wrong about MOASS?
r/Superstonk is a subreddit dedicated to Gamestop stock. According to them at some point in the future the so called MOASS (mother of all short squeezes) will take place and shoot GME’s price into the millions. The justification for why and how this could happen is where fact-checking becomes difficult for me and the whole place begins to look like an echo chamber.

Are they right or are they just a cult (both could be true I suppose)? How do you go about verifying whether their reasoning is solid? It would be great to hear from people who know more about finance and from the wider HN community.
Huh? I'm not surprised by ID checks. I'm surprised by the submission of a photo beforehand since I've never experienced that, as I explained.
Clickable links:
90 second YouTube intro: https://youtu.be/7zvyvATpoVM

Landing page: https://braintool.org

Some articles on use: https://braintool.org/posts.html

Github repo: https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTool

[1] https://orgmode.org/
CSAM in the database is confidential, so the human reviewer just needs to be plausibly confident that they have CSAM in front of them. However, it’s not clear to me that you can pull off all three simultaneously. Furthermore, the attack doesn’t specify how they would adversarially generate an image derivative for a secret perceptual hash that they can’t run gradient descent on.

If someone wanted to plant CSAM and had control of an iCloud account, it seems far easier to send some emails with those images since iCloud Mail is actively scanned and nobody checks their iCloud Mail account, especially not the sent folder.
> Does memory latency still suck rocks with lots of handwave about "but we have so much width now"?

Basically.

Intel processors can process something like 2 or 3 load/stores per clock cycle to L1 cache at full rate, no questions asked.

When you use AVX512 and do 512-bit loads/stores (64-byte), that's still only 2 or 3 per clock cycle. But if you use typical 64-bit registers, you're still only able to do 2 or 3 load/stores per cycle. Its not even memory latency here, its literally the execution port that's the holdup.

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Now I've never looked at AVX512 / AVX2 (256-bit) from the perspective of multithreaded / atomic access / memory order. But from a performance perspective, that load/store is the full 512-bit or 256-bit width and probably atomic.

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I'm assuming the 16-byte atomic compare-and-exchange instructions are NEON on ARM (128-bit width), and probably some AVX instruction I'm not aware of on Intel/AMD (256-bit).

EDIT: It seems like the 128-bit instruction on x86 is cmpxchg16b. 512-bit / 64-byte cache lines are the unit that the cache operates however. Intel has a TSX-NI (transactional memory) extension that operates over 64-bytes (making it possible to implement a cmpxchg64b, but over multiple instructions). Its not actually AVX512 or AVX2 related at all.
p.s. love you weekly Emacs blog, its such a joy to read. Thanks for doing that!
I have this same question also.
Freedom and privacy are not free.
And they only went for #1 after #2 didn't work out.
This is just an unhelpful argument. You might take issue with how government functions, and necessary improvements, but these government functions are still required in a developed nation.