skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall about 10 years ago in college we had these required 'core' classes, and the very first course, on writing I think, included mandatory readings from Edward Said*, a well known academic whose entire career was built around pushing anti-Western ideology and "Western guilt", I think it was framed as "cultural criticism".

When I hear the woke talk about "cultural appropriation", "colonialism","white privilege", etc., it all sounds very familiar. Only now cultural criticism turned into full-blown cultural indoctrination.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)
You've twisted it all up:

>> I would like to call this man’s bluff: he was not fired or censured by the university. He found it uncomfy and left. His crusade to publish 20 fake papers to prove a point about what journals will accept shows a pre-existing contempt.

That's right, he never claimed he was fired - he quit. He does find it uncomfy and absolutely seems to have contempt for what "education" has become. That's not a bluff - you're trying to call him out on something, but there's nothing to call out. You're claim of what's really going on is pretty much what he said.
It's so sad that HN is becoming more and more part of the right-wing outrage amplification media network. When Nikole Hannah-Jones got cancelled at UNC by right-wing donors the story was blacklisted on HN.
Yes. So it people tagging pictures or leaving reviews on Yelp. Is your suggestion that off-duty people during their personal time should not use social media for purely personal ends with personal info, as long as it's for things that are not already to not be done while working with security clearance?

Otherwise, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
The difference is that now we have people looking for any excuse to be offended rather than protesting legitimate wrongs. "You won't use my self-imposed variety of Newspeak? How dare you!"
> the Saudi Army intel wing managed to have their men operate within Google for years.

Do you have a source for this? I spent a while searching, but I couldn't find anything that would corroborate your claim
Netflix Acquires Oxenfree Dev as Its First Game Studio
Same as the incentives for other countries to move to solar when it becomes cheaper. We're talking about buying coal power station technology (and likely construction and quite possibly operation) from China, or buying solar generation from them.

> I don't agree that China has that bad a track record, they seem to be very willing to take dramatic actions if they feel it is in their self interest (recently, bitcoin for instance).

Oh they definitely have a horrible track record on carbon pollution (as well as a lot of other things like ocean plastic pollution, over fishing, endangered animal trade, illegal CFC emissions, and all sorts of horrible things. They are by far the biggest carbon polluter on the planet, larger than the entire western world combined, and yet they still plan to vastly increase carbon pollution and demand concessions in international carbon agreements. They're horrible.
Unfortunately, Immersed doesn't appear to run on the Index. I had a lot of funds in my steam wallet and purchased one and am about to go pickup the Oculus in a bit. Will be fun to compare and contrast the 2 ecosystems
A total user base of 50 or so would be fine. The trick is to find a group where everyone (mostly) wants to interact. An extended family could probably work.
As a non-american, it's always interesting to see the point of view of the major military power. Why is China "America's top adversary"?

Aside from the OPSEC issue, which is understandable, why does the author - and I guess it's a widespread view - considers China as America's utmost adversary? Can't there exist two rich and prosperous countries? Why does the author uses such jingoist terms? How should other countries consider America, then?
Whenever someone talks about TikTok, I remember how MySpace was attracting users because someone has a very sexual images on it and it's the same how TikTok is now promoted.
It looks like a b2 bomber. how is this top secret tech.
F'n A. Reading the comments on this thread makes me love humanity. So much ingenuity, raw engineering horsepower, creativity. Goddamn, you are great people and you should be proud of yourselves. Reading this makes me believe we will survive as a species.
Reminds me of the sun outage that affects Indian stock exchanges (BSE and NSE) at certain times of the year. VSATs used by traders experience loss of connectivity to geostationary satellites while they transit the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_outage
I knew a guy who was a computer tech early in his career. One of his rounds was on a military base, and they had just moved their computer room up one floor. They started having problems with their tape drive, it would just randomly pop up an error while they were using it. He tried mightily to diagnose the problem but couldn't figure it out. Finally he took a break and walked to the nearest window and looked out. He saw a radar antenna making a sweep - and realized the error came when the antenna was pointed in their direction.
They do flying cross section measurements too [0]

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40003/the-worlds-most-...
Wait is this also true of China? It would explain why I've seen so many chinese tourists filming squirrels all the time. I've always been a bit baffled.
Have you gone through the exercise of enumerating the beliefs of tenured Islamic studies professors at Ivy league universities, or are we just enjoying your speculation?
Rather surprised they didn't migrate from App Engine to Cloud Run. This would seem like the simpler and more direct migration path.
What would you expect the head of a company which bet the house on hybrid and not EV to say?
All depends on the format, does it not?

A printed publication, perhaps with audio supplement (podcast type thing), would not be a venue. And at the same time, may well be super compelling, given it has an industry voice and perspective similar to what BYTE had.
Heh. That's one way. I actually started to get to bed after my kid so I'm usually asleep by nine and wake up without an alarm around four. It has been great few years to have few silent hours to think before heading to work and I don't think I'll ever want to go back from this.
> The next generation of tracking tech relies on the backend transfer of data between a website and the ad platform, which is invisible to your own network.

This is a major victory. It proves that technology is effective at bringing about change. It proves we are not powerless. We can force these giants to adapt to us whether they like it or not.

> websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook

Now we work towards making that illegal.
When we used to send people to secure sites the rule was no electronics ever left the more secure facilities.

You didn't bring anything you weren't prepared to part with.

How smartphones or any electronics that don't belong to the facility are allowed at all is beyond me. They're perfect spying devices.
Of course refusing to hire someone because their SO has cancer would lead to a scandal, LMAO. I assume you're joking
North Korea says hypersonic missile made first test flight
I have to say I agree. There's only so much catharsis to be had from writing a nasty-yet-deniable review on Glassdoor and like. I was fired for over-competence at a real crab bucket and it still messes with me.
>It's so sad that HN is becoming more and more part of the right-wing outrage amplification media network.

What do you mean by this?
> In the last year its pretty clear ages have gone up for the bottom half and by a large margin.

Primarily because the very lowest paid have entirely left the labour market. Lop off the lowest 10% and the average rises.
Chernobyl is analogous to the Lehman collapse, and so the tail risk is already inside the data that they're displaying, and actually it is exaggerated since that tail risk is getting smaller and smaller as the tech improves and becomes safer with time.
Unless it's cropped, it was shot in landscape so probably not TikTok
> Your corporate shilling here is pure unadulterated boot licking, and I throw up in my mouth reading it. But I like reading it. It validates my decision from many years ago.

I want this on a plaque.
Will we be able to serve files from a R2 bucket through a subdomain like static.project.com/filename WITHOUT using a worker that wastes money on every request for no reason?
i am surprised nobody has taking the concept of shaders but used it for animated porn. i haven’t looked but you would assume it would be a thing by now considering how realistic video game graphics are becoming do to shading/light algorithms.

if you can textures basic animations of characters to have realistic skin, then that would be a major step towards ai porn, then the artist can draw however they want and a tool that would fill in the rest
Looks interesting - the typical counter argument I see with prefab-style housing walls is that the outer frame isn't the most significant cost associated with building a house. It's some combination of the land, the plumbing, the foundation, the septic system... pretty much everything else.

I don't work in the industry, so I can't say how true that counter argument is or is not.
STUDENT DRIVER
ES and the ELK stack is the worst pile of shit I've had to deal with. Everybody I know who has worked with it has had problems. Obscure messages that nobody can figure out what they mean. Dropping logs silently, sometimes because it can't reconcile two index mappings. Constant baby-sitting and needing to add more hardware even if there are no indications that it needs it, super hard to tune or understand. A proper db doesn't need this much work and shipping logs (syslog) has been solved since the 80s. Move to Loki.
And you posted that brilliant insight using what...?
Then don't allow people to keep smartphones while in secure areas?

My point is, the problem is posting to social media, or using a device that's insecure. There's plenty of apps that a user could be tricked into installed that are much worse than TikTok and that will have much less public scrutiny.

That TikTok is affiliated with the China in some way is a red herring. There's no reason to solve the problem of TikTok if you solve the general problem of people using unapproved applications (which all social media would obviously be unapproved in secure areas) or insecure devices.

Otherwise what you'll find is that Facebook as some Cambridge Analytica type situation going on, and some Chinese shell company ends up using it to get special access and details, and the same thing as this happens through Facebook and China has special additional info and "TikTok fix" helped solve exactly nothing.

Bringing up that TikTok is associated with China in the article is useful in showing people some of the ramifications of the problem. Focusing on that as the problem leads people to think banning TikTok is the answer, when it clearly is not, since it doesn't go nearly far enough in combating the problem.
Looks like we either need some new regulations or some better enforcement because that's just disgusting. Glassware for everything it is, I guess.
Only works if it's generic spam not targeted to your site in particular. Otherwise they will just adjust the script to not fill it.
China doesn’t have many allies either. They have managed to piss of just about everyone. There are few countries in Asia that wouldn’t be happy to see China taken down a peg or a dozen - and probably wouldn’t mind discreetly giving the US a hand.
Been seeing a lot of the right-wing media's daily outrage and victimization stories showing up on HN.

Edit: I don't want to answer the question below because then I'll get another -4 hit on the karma from the outraged crowd here.
Consider that "nothing changed" gives you no information, while something changing adds to your understanding of the world.

Scenario 1: big change occurs, tell the bees. Bees continue to do their thing. You gain no information because nothing changes.

Scenario 2: big change occurs, don't tell the bees. Bees continue to do their thing. You gain no information because nothing changes.

Scenario 3/4: no change occurs in your life, nothing to tell the bees, so it doesn't matter what you do/don't tell them. Bees continue to do their thing. You gain no information because nothing changes.

Scenario 5/6: no change occurs in your life, nothing to tell the bees, so it doesn't matter what you do/don't tell them. Bees pack up and go. Welp, can't have been your fault - they did it all on their own!

Scenario 7: big change occurs, you tell the bees. Bees pack up and go. But when? Right away? How does one attribute the bees leaving to YOUR actions specifically - it could have been the weather! And why would you? You did everything right & told them! There must be some other cause. You're also a little ashamed about them leaving, so you hide the information from your tribe. Also, the people you give the information to refuse to believe information that disproves the "obvious" theory that "everyone knows", that you must tell the bees.

Scenario 8: big change occurs, you don't tell the bees. Regardless whether the bees pack up and go, you're feeling a little guilty for not keeping up your tradition (which you know your tribe has come to expect of you), so you're primed to associate any change in bee behavior with your own change in behavior. The bees could even take several months to pack up and go - thus giving these scenarios a higher likelihood of occurring. You still blame yourself, and you tell your sad tale far and wide.

Your reaction to the Scenarios where the bees pack up and go are the only times the you gain information. That makes them the times you're most likely to talk about to your tribe. "I did stuff and nothing happened" doesn't make for much of a story and isn't useful to others so they won't remember it.

And because this is all about storytelling and trying to survive, your tribe will pass on any story believed to help them survive. The fact this is happening for every beekeeper everywhere and they can talk to each other amplifies any individually held superstition, which helps to reinforce the superstition and pass it down through the ages.
yup. resvg is the best atm i think.
Marvs are just Mirvs that maneuver. They will go the same speed until they maneuver.
I use the Python datetime module for stuff like that. Excel can be useful too, since it treats dates as a number of days.
No, that is factored into the graph. It's like showing that, even with one Lehman Brothers every other year, living in the US during the 2000s would be still vastly preferable to living in Poland during the 1970s.
Concerns about illiberalism on campuses are probably well-founded (there's ample anecdotal evidence from a diversity of sources). But Boghossian isn't a good source; rather, my take is that he's essentially a troll.

Boghossian is well known for his involvement in the "Grievance Studies Hoax", in which bogus papers (like a "dog park" study that claimed field researchers monitored the sexual habits of dogs in dog parks for 1000 hours) were ostensibly accepted for publication, Sokal-style.

The Hoaxers were incredibly deceptive in their presentation of what they accomplished. They wrote up lurid descriptions of insane papers, but didn't talk about how those papers were often rejected, and, when they were accepted, that acceptance was often in vanity journals. When they got papers accepted in real (albeit low-impact) journals, they weren't the ludicrous papers they'd written about. To boot, they faked field data, and coasted off the public's lack of understanding of the difference between refereeing papers and replicating them. One of their 7 accepted papers was published in "The Journal of Poetry Therapy", which isn't even an academic journal. Among their "in play" papers at the end of the hoax were several "reject-and-resubmits", which is journalese for "nice try but no", not journalese for "make a couple edits and we'll run it".

What makes me especially wary about all of this is that there's a playbook to follow, pivoting out of non-remunerative nth-tier academic positions (Boghossian was an assistant professor of philosophy at PSU) into social media stardom. We can probably come up with more than one example.
Everyone is an expert on the Internet, this is some guy's opinion, not a statement of official US government policy.

Also makes it sound more dramatic, especially with the Air Force General "looking impressed" hot take. The fact of the matter is that it would be a bigger problem if a top secret aircraft was sitting outside exposed to the sky in full daylight in the first place, where Gen. Kelly's and presumably everyone else's surveillance satellites could count the rivets on the thing.
It's more about it being immoral than it being crazy.
In the worst case I can see a Taiwan getting nukes. Nukes are pretty old tech, if North Korea can get them I’m sure Taiwan who is vastly more wealthy can too.
Twitter's Dantley Davis is waging a war against toxicity and misinformation
the only issue really left is that volume mounts don't work with podman machine as of yet. The issue has been live on github for awhile, but its finally getting traction. Likely because of the recent Docker for Desktop changes.

EDIT: github link: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016
Eventually someone will come around and build a "Google docs FUSE" tool that stores arbitrary data in your system. I suspect this is the main reason Google switched docs to actually count against your usage. For normal users you can still store hundreds of millions of documents but it's pointless to encode data in it over just uploading it to drive.
I don't think you're understanding what the person you're replying to is saying.

If the app is made by an adversary, you don't need to post it publicly for there to be a problem. The app has the ability to send it directly without you even knowing.
I've been using one for over a year, and I think I've pretty well silo'd it off from my personal stuff(other than using the same home internet connection).
Because of this chart: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_militar...

And because China (as far as I know?) is the only country threatening to invade a US ally (Taiwan).
The main design defect of the Shuttle was burying rocket engines inside the Shuttle itself, making each refurbishment an engine rebuild.

But the Soviets didn't make that mistake. Also they mounted Buran higher on the launch vehicle, so avoided tile issues.
I ran into this with a store credit card backed by Wells Fargo. They wouldn't accept

accounts+wellsfargo@my.domain

but they accepted

accounts+wellsfargosucks@my.domain

just fine. Seems like someone messed up the regex :)
The woodworker in me hopes that he keeps the nuts covered in those buckets for two months and gets rewarded with gallons of beautiful all natural walnut stain!
I have done this for years and it just works. You know these users give off a bad vibe and that others are put off by it. Just remove them and ignore the complaints from the user. They can find another space that accepts them. I don't even bother writing rules lists because they are pointless.

I do give warnings out first but usually that does nothing to change behavior anyway.
Yup 100%.

I never made the connection to preferring animated media. Very interesting. Thank you for that insight.
BrightID validates you as real and unique, but without revealing any actual IRL information to people consuming and using the identity via their apps.

https://www.brightid.org/
It was the same, in my case. I was considering them for an email service, and then that happened.
They do. Just get a burner pay-as-you-go phone.
I was a little unfair. I think Tesla and others have argued they can demonstrate the aggregate millimort consequence of their stuff is already net-positive: You're arguably safer both inside and outside a Tesla, than cars in the hands of people. Especially people who drink.
Decades ago, in one of my first real jobs, I was a "computer operator" for a summer. Mostly it consisted of mounting and unmounting 9-track tapes, pulling pinfeed output off the lineprinter, collating and stacking it and putting it out on the output shelves for the programmers. However, once in a while it required rebooting the computer, a CDC Cyber/170. There was a series of toggle switches inside the main cabinet that, depending on how there were set, would change the boot device. It could boot from disk, tape, or in extremis the card reader.
This is the case that I can recall, it was at Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/technology/twitter-saudi-...
I tried to get into Gemini. I wrote a server in Elixir. Then I started to write content. The lack of inline links is a brutal and I'm pretty sure it'll keep Gemini from growing beyond anything but a curiosity.

IT isn't HTML lite. It's text.
Would suck "starting over". Irradiated land, regression in progress with fallout.
I just hosted it on Imgur and imbedded it on the website. Seems quite a lot better now.
It may be difficult for software engineers to appreciate that a literary index is a work of art, and, done right, most usually a labour of love.

In software, indexing is a mechanical process, subject to automation. In literature, indexing is a subjective art, requiring enormous cognitive effort and juxtapositions of intellectual scale to achieve a useful, informative result.
I know a tenured, well-published economics professor struggling to keep his job for not towing the party line at a major state university.
We, as humans, understand, perceive, predict, and know how to react to human errors much better than to AI errors. FSD in its current state is unpredictable by human drivers. It makes mistakes no human would make. Defensive driving is all about thinking ahead about what might happen and be ready to react appropriately. We cannot think ahead when it comes to FSD, because it does things humans just don't and no one is trained to predict.
Not sure why you're downvoted. The comment is obviously angry. But, at this point you can write a book about the "greatest levels of stupid that started in university".

Across all movements and institutions, a small minority of radicals ruin it for the entire community. For some reason, Academia loves to act as if their radicals are not representative of the institution, while using the same guilt-by-association to criticize and often ostracize every other group that crosses them the wrong way.

The exasperation in the tone of the above poster, is IMO, fully justified. Alarmism is always looked at badly, but alarms exist for a reason. Sometimes things are that bad and an alarmist response is commensurate. I think it is one of those times. Ofc, like every other precursor to disaster, these alarmists will be ignored. Then in a few decades time, someone will say, "How did we not see it coming?", and a few of us will roll in graves rather vigorously.

> makes me very scared for the next some years when this comes to real life

Me too mate. Me too.
It should be less blurry now. Thank you for noticing this.
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Agreed. I'm going to do a second draft. The real challenge is finding risk statistics for all of these sports/activities.
Every large US social media site has employees who are Chinese intelligence assets.
Be careful, as Squirrels often carry hunta virus and plague.
>Been seeing a lot of the right-wing media's daily outrage and victimization stories showing up on HN.

What in this article do you disagree with?