skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In Hopepunk, people—often ordinary people, including minor characters—take a stand, resist, work together, follow through and help each other, and in the end, while some characters make bad choices, enough make good choices to leave a positive sense of the capacity of humans to choose good.

The consolation of fairy stories, the joy of the happy ending, or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy tale); this joy, which is one of the things which fairy stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy tale--or otherworld--setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace, never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure. The possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of such evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelism, giving a fleeting glimpse of joy; joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

Tolkien, "On Fairy-Stories", 1939

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

The Two Towers
The best way to attract co-founders is to have an awesome prototype ready to go, if only there was someone who could compliment your weak points ... build it and they will come.
There’s JSON schema.
Unpopular Take: It doesn't.
> there is absolutely no doubt that eight hours or more of weekly gaming is evidence of depression for age groups 16 and up

Based on what? Is there good evidence for this, or is this anecdotal? I think that's a far more complex statement that it appears on the surface, and I don't think I agree with the strong "no doubt" part of it. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise though.
(Upvotes notwithstanding, I was basically trolling here.)
Part Italian, part Ohioan. I have the genes and environment to make me crazy!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10LTSC/wiki/acquisition
Sure drop me an email in my profile.
Dark Humor in the Dark Ages (2014)
For example: https://bongo.cat/
Reading is so much better for skimming, searching for interesting bits, skipping to the conclusion. Having a transcript is fantastic.
Times New Roman font on a white background. Everytime I come across a site like this, these adjectives come to mind – Robust, unadorned, resilient, pragmatic, resourceful, efficient, functional and fast.
It goes back even further, to RFC 742 in 1977[1]!

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc742
Not sure about "all", but you have some ~free~ services on the web to convert playlists between deezer and spotify and vice-versa.
It's a you thing. Plenty of tech nerds watch Netflix shows, we're not a separate species.

I'm 27 and don't care to watch new TV shows, whether it's prestige or Netflix thing-of-the-month shows. I prefer films and reading. I don't feel proud for not watching them though. It's just media consumption at the end of the day.
One thing I have wondered is - when the building sank 18 inches, did they have to add a step down at the entrance?
This is why our nations are destined to be subsumed by a techno-fascist borderless oligarchy. We're filled with people who don't belong, don't care for or about the culture of more native folk, don't value things which may be core values to the natives, such as freedom of speech. A mishmash of cultures, none of which cares about, or often for, the substrate upon which they grow.

It's going to be an amazing time for the mercenary business these next few decades here.
I've never heard that, I don't think GTK has ever been intended as that. It has been intended to be portable to other platforms, but even when it was only GIMP using it, it was intended as a Linux/Unix first type thing.
Piracy is competition and by not competing, studios make sure pirate ecosystems stay healthy.
An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s the Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)
> I often think "wow, I could have put that in much simpler terms with no loss of information."

Why not try? Seriously, that actually might be a good exercise in trying to cross into the "humanities brain" that you postulated.

In my other comment child comment in this thread, I also tried to revise it, and I think I showed that it wasn't very easy to do for me.
Nice one there, much simpler than my nearly POSIX one (I think I rely on a GNU sed extension, but it was years since I wrote this):

shuf /nix/store/ny99jkpl3r9zgkkdv5apprzl18i8rb4m-scowl-2019.10.06/share/dict/wbritish.txt \
| grep '^[A-Za-z]\+$' \
| head -n 3 \
| sed -e 's|\(.\)\(.*\)|\u\1\2|g' \
| tr -d '\n' \
| sed -e 's|$|\n|g'

Which gives you for example:

OmegasInsentientPantheons

I only use this for “secret” questions though, not passwords.
The article is referring to the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS
For the simple ops used in these particular algorithms, it should be possible to use SIMD to saturate the pipeline, getting high throughput for the same latency, assuming SIMD is part of the ISA. Cache misses wouldn't be a factor in comparing hash algorithms, as the memory layout is a feature of the hash input, and hash state would typically either be in register or in cache
It reminds me when the federal government would "forcibly" recruit "evil" hackers as part of their plea bargains and sentencing. Kevin Mitnick comes to mind immediately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
this is only the tip of the iceberg of Teams hell. Another thing that really happens:
1. you share a $file with $person1 over chat.
2. you share that same $file with $person2 over chat. $person2 cannot read it. they do not have permission to access the file that is stored in the team with $person1. Over a certain file size, teams defaults to hosting _some_ files out of your one drive, but can't figure out the permissions.

Or:
1. you start chatting in a meeting. The chat persists. The meeting is cancelled. Now the chat is called $meeting_name (cancelled). All the files and chat are attached to that.

or:
1. you have a chat with $person1 and $person2
2. you are also on a team with $person1 and $person2
3. you are on a calendar invite with $person1 and $person2.
ALL of those have their own file storage directories, chats, and PERSISTENCE. But, they are not linked, and everything in them is permanent, but cannot be searched (effectively)

The fact that teams meetings have persistent file share and chat is actually mind bending. Because that feature is not just "meet with a team".

final one:
1. you can be on team with 5 people.
2. you can create infinite channels in that team, not everyone in the team is necessarily on every channel. The file structure of the channel is _not_ hierarchical from the team. sorta.

I honestly don't know what they are thinking. Instead of version control, save as, and renaming, we instead have an abysmal proliferation of shares which are at any given time being cleaned up, archived, or purged for non-use by an IT department who is doing their best. But, as users, I can spawn a new discrete file share environment for every single chat I have. Don't even contemplate what happens when you have 4 people in a chat, share a file and add a 5th person.

all the possible inversions are terrible.

Also: none of the stuff in the teams, files, folders, calendar chats, channels, or one-to-one chats end up in my Onedrive. None of this stuff can be turned off by group policy, either.

If anyone at microsoft reads this: Please, allow group policy to disable file STORAGE in arbitrary chats. share is fine, but I don't want to send a file to someone and have that stored version become the authoritative version. I want to send them a file. If i wanted a cloud version, I could put it in a team or in one drive.
A few questions.

I am guessing that very few of these can be exploited on the side that faces the public internet. True?

What percentage require access to the router via administrative login on the private network?

How many would need nothing but a hostile .exe on the private network?

How many could achieve an exploit with nothing but hostile JavaScript on the private network?

Will changing the private network away from 192.168.* to something on 10.* protect a vulnerable router from some of these exploits?

What else can be done to protect a vulnerable router?
I don't understand how this is related, the FAQ explains that was a one time accounting error that was resolved.

"As a result of these issues, we have only just now finalized our 2014 budget. In the meantime, we made assumptions based on previous years' incomes and expenditures, and we authorized expenditures for this year based on those assumptions. Those assumptions proved to be more optimistic than reality. In addition, while our outgoing payments to interns must be strictly timed, the incoming payments from sponsoring organizations are very fluid, thus we have had to front the costs of OPW. Fronting these costs has resulted in a budget shortfall.

"The situation has already improved as some 2014 Advisory Board fees and outstanding OPW invoices have been paid. The board expect more to be paid within the next 4 weeks. If there are no unexpected issues and no delays, the freeze should be lifted by July."

The foundation didn't go bankrupt. Also:

1. The foundation doesn't (currently) even fund any developers despite having resolved those issues, because developers are pretty expensive.

2. I wasn't referring to the foundation specifically anyway. If you don't want to support the foundation you can just donate to a developer/project individually, if they are open to it.

3. I don't think the issue can be reduced to lack of donations. Donations are good but aren't really a reliable funding source. A healthy project usually needs other funding sources than just donations.
The average person is about 2 meters tall, weighs about 100 kg, can run about 10 kilometers per hour, lives about 70 years, and can shovel about 60 tons of coal in a day (without power tools). If you took a sample of a few million people, it should very definitely come as a surprise to find that it included "10x" people: people who were 20 meters tall, people who weighed 1000 kg, people who could run 100 kilometers per hour, people who lived 700 years, or people who could shovel 600 tons of coal a day.

It should come as even more of a surprise to find "Jeff Dean" people who were 2 kilometers tall, or who weighed 100 tonnes, or who could run 10,000 km per hour, or who lived 70,000 years, or who could shovel 60,000 tonnes of coal in a day.

Your comments about how physicists do physics are equally wrongheaded. Physics isn't any more a matter of shoveling coal than programming is, probably less so.
This recently bit me. No automated testing, so it broke production code.

You can brag about your automation, when it is well tested.

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-types/issues/116
The comment refers to a “city engineer” so not an average person but presumably someone qualified to comment.
You should have bigger fears of the feds and police confiscating everything in it under civil forfeiture laws:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-19/fbi-seiz...

https://archive.md/bLH4W
This is something I think a lot of people fail to understand about comedy: As long as it's funny, it's good. That's it. Doesn't matter how offensive, dirty, clean, esoteric, or even "obvious" the joke is. As long as it's funny, it's a good joke.

I think a lot of big name comics think they're "owed" the laughs, and some people think that their personal taste is the only comedy. It's all subjective, but if you get the laugh, that's the only thing that matters in comedy.
Having millions of people at genuine risk of homelessness (little availability or affordability) does a lot to undercut faith in the economy.

Same goes for people who are suddenly paying well over 50% of their income on housing.
Surprised that the DoD cannot contractually gag a high-level departure from sharing internal dirty laundry like this, as an issue of national security, when your typical corp would without a doubt suppress this kind of public lamentation. Does not look good for the US on the world stage.
Probably a better metric for us average people is to ask what produces most of our personal emissions. Yes, won’t correct the problem. But will give people a sense of agency instead of yet another way to feel helpless. It’s going to take an “all of the above, all hands on deck” response.
> The lack of ongoing support from device manufacturers is really awful.

One of the reasons why I specifically when with Asus: they've got pretty good long-term support. There's also third-party firmware that uses the open source nature of most/all of the code (e.g., Asuswrt-Merlin).
Or just buy naked insurance premiums? Wouldn’t surprise me if that were a thing.
You can be pre approved for over draft and pay no fees
Office 2003 was one of the first MS products to contain SQM/CEIP. Part of the reason I wrote about CompatTelRunner and Appraiser (in Windows) is that no other MS product has telemetry this horrible. This telemetry consumes CPU and HDD/SSD time to even collect the data.
My understanding is it would be "safe", in that you're very unlikely to die, but would - with almost 100% certainty - be uninhabitable after a significant earthquake.
I'll grumble that the Rittenhouse trial is nothing to do with said accelerationism. Said volatility is solely because of the media trying to flay him to push their views, regardless of the evidence.

What else can you say of a clown parade where the prosecution witnesses all corroborate the defense's position and the prosecution decides to insinuate that silence implies guilt. Or, with the spirit of Jack Chick watching over him.

>“Isn’t it true when you would hang out with Dominic Black you’d play Call of Duty and other first-person shooter video games?” prosecutor Thomas Binger asked Rittenhouse on November 10. “And those are games in which you use weapons like AR-15s to pretty much shoot anybody who comes at you, right?”
Love it! Also it has a translate to Catalan in the bottom left corner.
I live inthe interior, about 5hrs from Vancouver, and we are only cut off from Vancouver and Calgary...but our grocery stores are now out\very low on vegetable and dairy.

I suspect some panic buying, but very sobering to see how fragile our food delivery system is.
Practical engineering videos are always worth a watch in my opinion, when I see them come up in my feed I almost certainly watch!
Few minutes in and, yep, someone is brute-forcing the forgot password.
This is interesting to read and very relatable for me. Not white enough to be white, not hispanic enough to be hispanic. Caught shit through out high school and college for looking different though. Left my home town and moved around. Never quite felt at home in SF but now I was to different for my home town too and it doesn't really feel like the place I belong anymore. I'm not where I should I be or what Im part of. I don't even really feel relatable to being American either.

I guess I do feel somewhat contrarian too at times and never really got into hype and pop culture either, maybe that's why. That was interesting to see the article say.

I'm not really sure what to make of it. Im not sure I really like this perspective though, where its some benefit that helps you optimize your life or make better business decisions.
I liked the article but the last paragraph was just wrong. Implying that the public were being irrational for not buying apartments in the building, when the engineers said it was safe is incorrect. The engineers said it is currently safe but it was sinking so the safety would have to be periodically re-evaluated in the future. When you are buying an apartment, the value you get is not only its current value of living in it, but the ability to live in it for many years in the future and the ability to sell it or give it to your kids some time in the distant future.

Considering the crazy SF prices, especially for new condo developments, the future is especially important when buying an apartment in SF.

So it is perfectly rational for people to refuse to buy based on an engineering statement that the building is safe but may not be safe a couple of years from now.
Interesting how Chinese people have fixated upon this story.
Misinformation is not impersonation. That is very different, understand? Anyways misinformation is rarely intentional, it is purely bias. Those people usually believe something is true and they are just wrong and there is hardly any harm in that. The thing is companies make themselves arbiters of truth and are wrong often as well, and by silencing debate they cause much more damage when they are wrong than random idiots. It is akin to the church silencing Galileo or banning Copernicus’s books on heliocentric theory because they went against mainstream science at the time, but they turned out to be correct. The point is these companies do not have scientists and do not have the latest data and act rashly and quickly enforcing government laws that we have all found from COVID to be wrong and to constantly change. Yet the damage they cause was already done.
Turns out the vast majority of the uses are semi reasonable basic utility packages by the same authors as the clearly trivial packages. They include their own work many times and a few larger projects legitimately use the reasonable basic utility packages. This results in millions of downloads of these frivolous packages with no interest from the maintainer in removing their own fluff dependencies.

The only way to get past (the vast majority of) these would be to rewrite the mid level utilities and get projects to sign off on that larger switch (either as a dependency change or as a duplication of that code directly). Unfortunately that's not a "if a bunch of us clear 5 out tonight NPM's dependency hell will be fixed" kind of solution.
Sharepoint is misery.
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Pot, kettle, black.

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Back at you.

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Love the newsletter by the way. It's the only one out of dozens I receive that I actually read every time.

I can recommend anyone that has an interest in anything space related to give it a read.
I don't agree that types make it easier to write bad code. If anything, they make it easier to spot bad code by making interfaces more explicit.
Tesla made EVs sexy. In the same way, you have to make living more efficiently sexy. Less overwhelming consumerism, more conscientious and intentional consumption,
with a bit of camping’s “leave no trace” thrown in.
To be clear i am not saying they are equally likely.

In the near term (next 5-10 years) the end of the world/WW3 is much more likely than a quantum computer that can solve crypto as in use today (Say RSA 2048bit). I would say orders of magnitude more likely. That's not saying that nuclear war is likely, its just a statement about how unlikely practical implementation of shor algorithm is in the near term based on where we are today.

However, that said, its kind of besides the point. The point of the comparison is both events are really unlikely. Quibiling if its 1 in a million or 1 in hundred thousand is besides the point.

The news is interesting because its a step in that direction. Just like how news about destabilizing world events are interesting even if they aren't literal full war. Its a step on a path. The destination is decades away.
This fable is the inspiration for the CIA funded mouthpiece Bellingcat.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-c...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agenci...
I wish so bad I could just dump teams chats to a .txt file. I must have 100s of pages of chat with some people. And, the people I chat the most with are the chats I need to search the most, and it also the place where search works the worst!
Wow, it's one thing to read something and harken back to my early days at school and work, but actually running finger from a shell and seeing something real come back caused this deep wave of nostalgia to roll over me. Part of me really misses those days.

Very cool.
There's also the very real possibility of a massive special assessment on the condo owners to pay to fix the building that should be pushing down the property values.
FWIW - I don't think it would be that hard to port VMA or ExaSOCK to run on top of DPDK, certainly less effort than making a whole new category of operating system!

But ... selling the hardware is where those companies make their money, so there's not much of a business case for making your free and open-source software run on other people's (cheap) NICs.
"On This “Atom Bomb”- Anniversary, You’re Being Lied To About Hiroshima" was published by ZH. I would say denying that nuclear weapons and nuclear power are hoaxes is a bit off the wall.
Really beautiful post. We need hopepunk stories more now than ever before.

While I didn't think Walkaway was a particularly well-written book, the setting was fascinating and pretty unique as far as I could see: it told the story of civilizations transitioning from essentially our world to post-scarcity. We need more stories that talk about that transition.
Nevermind the fact that the sinking was already three times worse or more what the same engineers that are assuring it is safe said it would do. Doesn't instill a lot of confidence in your future predictions when your past ones have been so completely wrong.

I'm not buying the "we didn't know people would build and drill nearby" argument. It's downtown San Francisco for God's sake.
Ah I see what you meant. Somehow I didn’t pick up that interpretation from my reading.
I think when I was in 4th grade, using Netscape, I spoke english but didn't know what FAQ meant. I think I probably searched it on Altavista.
If this was the 1600s and nobody had made a working battery yet, i would find battery tech news very interesting even if it was of the quasi-theoretical, only works in a lab, variety.
On the Optimal Time/Space Tradeoff for Hash Tables
It’s also wrong because the representation wasn’t exactly always deterministic in 2013 across all js engines. The right way to check for an array is value.constructor === Array, which also doesn’t really make any sense because an array in JS really is just an object with a length key and respective keys names 0…n.
IIRC, I had read somewhere, some time ago, that London's skyscrapers, built on a thick clay deposit, are at least partially supported by large and strongly-built basements which effectively act as rafts floating in the clay [1].

I have no idea whether this is feasible in San Francisco. One difference is that London is not prone to large earthquakes.

1. "London's skyscrapers float on rafts embedded in the clay."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Clay#Engineering
The most vital information is presented and explained in the first 30 seconds of the video.
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these aren't hacks which is exactly why they're interesting. growth requires more than a few hacks and the right tech platforms. You need unorthodox strategies as well.