skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How old are you?

This is factually incorrect, when I was in school bullying was considered totally and completely normal and not something to be concerned about at all.

Now we have high-profile national and international anti-bullying campaigns by both governments, NGOs, and private for-profit companies. We have anti-bullying legislation and bullying is even something the CDC studies.
> Or, wait, you're going to centrally store these keys?

No necessarily. Three alternatives are common:

Data is encrypted with a key only the actor owns. Works for cases where that actor is the only one who should access it (I Reveal My Attributes type of schemes)

Data is encrypted with a sum (combination) of the key from an actor plus some other actors have: only you and the recipient can decrypt. Works for cases like messaging or p2p data exchange.

Data is encrypted with a OR of the key from an actor plus one by a trusted proxy: proxy and actor have ability to decrypt. This is closest the "centrally" storing. With the difference that "proxy" allows for a little more flexibity -in theory-.
I don't have the energy right now to have yet another big debate about it, but I've long held that we make our cheating problems in the gaming industry significantly worse and harder to solve by focusing on a very narrow and limited view of competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28635316

The situation reminds me a lot of piracy. The difference is that it's generally accepted by a large portion of the tech industry that design choices and product offerings can increase piracy, and in contrast there seems to be a lot of denial in the games industry that forcing everything into global ranking systems that teach players to prioritize winning over anything else might exasperate cheating incentives, and make cheating more annoying to normal players, and might make it harder for us to moderate and ban cheaters.
I don't know, we're currently rewriting our UI from the classic "PHP renders everything with almost zero JS" to the more modern "single page application with a crap ton of JS" and the new UI feels much faster to me. The old way was to resend and rerender everything on each click, which is problematic for complex UIs with a lot of data.
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It's the same problem with any device that's not a desktop.
The real affordability problem of immortality is resources to support the population growth when people stop dying off.
They think about the implications, and have accurately judged the risk to be worth it. Riot games isn't going to steal your banking info, your nudes, or your super-secret startup idea. It's not going to post pictures of MAGA hats on your facebook, and it's not going to take over your web browser. It's not going to drone strike your location, or kidnap you into a concentration camp because you're ______. It doesn't have the power of pit and gallows over you.

If you're being repressed, what you have is a political problem, not a technological one. If you're being robbed, you should probably only install binary blobs that come from
legitimate enterprises.
They already have locked down special purpose gaming machines. They're called gaming consoles.

Really, if keyboards and mice were more accepted components of those that developers always accounted for, I would just buy a console for gaming (except all my old games, but really, that wouldn't be hard to handle on a console either).

It's already a little concerning to me that I play games on my main PC for the same reasons you most likely are worried about it. As it is, I try to keep it to things on Steam and the occasional old dosbox game from GOG, so at least I don't have to be hyper aware of all the different individual launcher capabilities.
I see the balls of crushed bones and fur on my driveway all the time (what comes out of a coyote after it eats a mouse). There are eagles and owls around here, too. Still plenty of mice.
My issue is with infinite animations, constantly moving/blinking stuff. They also do not have same effect on different system configurations so you might not notice any effect on your dev machine and on users it makes the page unusable, and some are super distracting).
Lead acid have the advantage of being easy to buy and needing no balancer. Also they don't get damaged by overcharging. They handle full deplation way better too. Also lower initial cost.
Great summary of a vile practice we must educate ourselves on.
OIC. Thanks.
Over the years I had the best experience with Apple screens but M1 Pro changed this for me. It would be nice to know at least if this is a hardware or software issue.
They will likely not. Like in many academic papers it would show that it is not as great as they present it publicly.
One issue is that schools in disadvantaged areas tend to already have bad performance, and if you tie spending to performance results they will in turn receive even less funds, which will cause them to fall even more behind and then get even worse results, and so on the cycle goes. It’s a negative feedback loop.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You can still choose to install a rootkit on YOUR hardware after clicking through the antivirus warning. What is subverted is the expectation that the antivirus won't whitelist rootkits without even informing the user of what is happening.

Don't you think users have a right to know, to make an informed decision, instead of Microsoft deciding for them that Riot is so trustworthy they can have root on the user's device, without requiring so much as an "Are you sure?" clickthrough?
So it’s been a long, long while since I’ve explicitly run AV software but doesn’t signature, heuristic, and behavior based detection all run locally on the machine?

I suppose the exception might be sandbox but from what I understand this is usually in a corporate environment where connections are MitM’d any way and potentially harmful files are run in a sandbox.

Am I missing something?

That being said I’m not sure very many would even notice files being exfilled by an AV especially if it were user targeted.
The very dedicated cheaters use special PCIe hardware to alter and monitor memory through DMA, there's always a step up.

The only way to prevent cheaters is to control the hardware. With modern Xbox and PlayStation being basically a PC that you control with a controller, I can imagine a future where you buy special online gaming consoles that you control with mouse and keyboard to play competitive games. Even that can be foiled, of course, because hardware can be manipulated as well, but it's the furthest PC gaming will go.

What I wonder about it why people put so much effort into cheating. I don't see how playing more than a few games with an aimbot is any fun. What are these people even getting out of it? Is it just having their name on a board somewhere?
Afaik it is either masks with no minimum distance OR minimum distance without masks. Covidiots break both.
And I'm not even sure that's in play here. The state isn't banning anything; they're just saying private citizens can sue manufacturers and sellers for up to $10k, right?
Apple created a version of Basic for the Mac, but Microsoft threatened to yank the license for the Apple II version of Basic if they didn't kill it.

>Apple's original deal with Microsoft for licensing Applesoft Basic had a term of eight years, and it was due to expire in September 1985. Apple still depended on the Apple II for the lion's share of its revenues, and it would be difficult to replace Microsoft Basic without fragmenting the software base. Bill Gates had Apple in a tight squeeze, and, in an early display of his ruthless business acumen, he exploited it to the hilt.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
A Journey from JNDI/LDAP Manipulation to Remote Code Execution Dreamland [video] (2016)
JNDI lookups are related to the recently disclosed log4j exploits. This presentation dates from 2016.

For those prefering textual presentation, PDF slide deck:

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-... (PDF)
It's less about Infineon's product quality and more so about their patent portfolio.
It's pretty darn weird realising that Simon is actually a person who knows somebody I've met IRL, rather than a mysterious benevolent entity responsible for manifesting the PuTTY suite fully-formed upon the internet ;)
I guess the corollary to my question is whether there is a way to have discussion of these sensitive topics without it turning into Hacker's Fight Club. For example, perhaps instead of a single "flag" option, having something like a "quarantine" option (a horrible and incorrect name I know) that had more restrictions on comments, perhaps:

1. A higher bar for comments based on age of account and karma.

2. A limit on the number of comments from any individual account, e.g. each account would only get one or two comments. The idea being "get out your point as clearly as possible in one message", because you won't have the option for endless back-and-forth (and potentially escalating) debate.
Somebody serious about deliberate practice will spend a lot of time seeking “tacit knowledge.” The author is possibly confused and thinks the term refers to repetition or reading or something. The original paper studies pianists and violinists (possibly chess players too?) - people who aren’t spending their exhausting practice in a library or chatting on discord except when it’s the most important thing to do

The strategic choice of how and what to study is also part of a good deliberate practice regime (interrupted from time to time in programming by needing to cram leetcode for no good reason, because why would a company want to hire somebody who was an expert at making modular easy-to-change systems when there are these heaps everywhere that need to be written from scratch in 15 minutes?)
Are you in support of radically changing laws around home ownership, potentially to the point of abolishing housing as an investment vehicle? Because you need to either support that, or support people making wages enough to own a home even if that home is radically expensive due to other influences. Anything less is Scrooge levels of sociopathy.
> Rodents have a built in fear of car urine and cat dander, so just their presence will deter mice.

I thought so too. But nope.
This is precisely why I own several game consoles. If I really want to play a game from known shady publishers (Ubisoft especially), it goes on the PS4 which has nothing on it that I actually care about. Go ahead, mess with Sony's OS, I don't care. But that nonsense does not touch my workstation.
Yes and no. In the case of e.g. Windows 10, without a kernel module, access depends on UAC specifics.
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You can always stop playing LoL :)
> Suggesting that a firefighter or a teacher are "overpaid", is ridiculous and sets a dangerous precedent.

Why? It is perfectly fair for a taxpayer to question public spending, including for salaries. It is when we stop questioning, or start making statements that we should not question something, that we end up with a situation that spending go out of whack since there is no oversight. BTW, that is exactly what happens in the case of CEO compensations also.

Secondly, regarding $150K+ salaries for teachers, how do these salaries compare to the salaries of fresh Asst. and Associate Profs at Universities. Many of them are paid lower I believe, for example Assistant Prof. at UC Berkeley seems to make about $100K [0]. So, there needs to be some oversight around teacher salaries also to make sure that the salaries are actually going to well educated competent teachers and not the ones with some random degree from the University of Phoenix or similar. Education and experience in teachers should be rewarded and the salaries should not be flattened.

EDIT: To add, there are student evaluations for Profs at all Universities. Where are the student/parent evaluations of public school teachers? How are they graded? How are they promoted? Assessment results? If so that is not the correct method, since IMHO it depends more on the parents than it does on teachers. I'll hypothesize, put a bad teacher from a crappy school district in a currently great school district and I guarantee the scores will not change much, if at all.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/uc-berkeley-associate-pro...
Is it not enough to just say that we should pay people market rates? If the true cost of a firefighter in California is indeed 190k then thats what they should be paid. If its lower then they are overpaid and if its higher than they are underpaid.

This is not to say that firefighters are not essential workers, of course they are. We can make an argument that every firefighter should be paid 500k or 1 million. Heck, they save lives, so why not 10 million?

Ultimately, the vast majority of people not in public sector work doesn't get to make these kinds of arguments, and are simply forced to take market rates.
Wow, way to do it right!
The snap traps still work on them every time.
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Not just the 6128, the earlier and lower powered 464 did too.
It's also orthogonal to whether the code is free or paid, open or closed.

Plenty of commercial code is barely looked after, and if it's closed and broken, it's a lot harder to fix.
You can indeed "have your cake and eat it too" if the platform is on your side. Take ad blocking software, for example. A browser that really works for you will let you visit websites that want to force ad views on visitors and will not display those ads. The same should be true of an OS. It should do its best to help you run software the way you want to run it. If that means gratuitously violating the TOS of some online game, then that matter can be settled by a legal team. The OS should just be a tool--your tool--throughout the whole ordeal.
Too many people have a thought process that is along the lines of "[Bad thing] happens? They should make a law against that." That's the end of it, to them. They're not necessarily thinking about the Nth order effects that that their approach would have on society.
> This program may monitor all of your activity on this computer and track your physical location while you use your computer.

What incentive would they have to do that? They currently are making ridiculous amounts of money and you think they're going to risk all of that to know trivial details about you? Most people aren't that interesting and the information that could be obtained is worth far, far less than the money they make by keeping their player base happy.

A remote exploit in Vanguard is a much more reasonable concern.
There's lots of cheap indie games and game pass services on the consoles too, from what I understand. I'm not sure games on PC are much cheaper. Do you have examples of what you're talking about? Are big titles like $10 more on consoles for licensing fees or something?
Tesla does. The program is literally called “Full Self Drive (FSD) Beta”!
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Leslie Lamport on using math as the language of programming
Is that how unions work in the US? If so, that's kind of dumb, but knowing how anti union the average American is you are probably exaggerating.
I think you’re confusing “better” and merely “good,” as well as “average” and “mode.”

The average situation is maybe 0.99 accident-free (made up number for illustration). You improve on that by being 0.995 accident-free, which is better.

I agree that “safer than some human drivers in some conditions” is insufficient.
> besides possible violations of the minimum distance

That would be the law in question.
Turbo Pascal was a beautiful piece of software in the 80s.
Firefox. I switched on all of my machines, MacOS and Windows, a few years ago and rarely have any issues. I was expecting it to be a rough ride based on what I hear around the internet but it was quite the opposite: seamless.

As with most things you'll hear comments on HN with both sides liking and hating it but I never experience the terribleness that comes from those that say it sucks. I also don't mind switching to Chrome when I absolutely have to.

edit: I also use FF on Android and I will admit it has a few more issues than it has on my PC, but nothing that is bad enough to make me use Chrome.
The sucker who sells the last dollar has other problems, most likely the total collapse of a superpower means that not being able to trade your dollar is not going to be the most preoccupying thing on your mind.
Seriously? Far left? Perhaps you mean a bit to the left of you. It seems pretty unhinged to describe these institutions as "far left".
As far as I know fecal transplants are only known to be beneficial in some cases, presumably when there is something seriously wrong with the recipient's gut biome. It doesn't seem clear to me that clean water is bad or fecal transplants are generally helpful.

Keep in mind that lack of clean water is a _huge_ killer. The benefits would have to be ridiculous for it to be worth it.
I've been paid to (help) maintain an open source project by a company that also offer services and support around that project. When someone report a bug on GitHub, then the bug is triaged and prioritized for both paying customer and open source users. But sometimes open source users would just ask questions in the GitHub bug tracker. Then I'd just close the issue and provide a link to the official support channels (sometimes also answering the question if that's easy enough, but not if I have to ask more info or if I have to search for the answer). Same when open source users would just ask questions by email.
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Early version, and work in progress. Right now only axios-client and fastify-plugin exists as generators.
You want to top off lead acid with constant voltage to prevent gucking. It is time bound not power bound.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-403-charging-lead-a...
Continuous integration -- Software development practice based on frequent submission of granular changes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration

... basically check every small commit, ideally end-to-end.
I’m not sure what to make of this. But, Wallace belonged on Fox about as much as Megyn Kelly belonged on NBC. I think it’s safe to say, although likely to offend some, that he votes with his new network and has increasingly more in common with the current president’s views than the average modern republican. Next combine CNN very desperately needing adult journalists who are scandal-free following recent events. He’s certainly nearing retirement too so I’m thinking they offered him something with lower stress and a nice retirement war chest. Will be very surprised if he was pushed out of Fox.
The utility of Bitcoin is that it allows you to bypass government and regulations and high cost money transfer services. The price should reflect that utility and anything beyond that is day trading or beanie baby style speculating
yeah, disgusting
I used and loved his ElementTree and PIL libraries many times, during the height of my Python days

RIP Mr. Lundh
Adafruit has a variety of them.

https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=solar%20panel
I woke up one night with a bat flying circles around the ceiling of my bedroom. It flew all over my house until I trapped it in a room. It flew with total precision, like it was at home in a cave, nothing like a confused bird flapping around in your house.

I paid $400 to have it captured and tested (which involves killing it). It was negative. It could have bit me in my sleep, and I was glad to not get that series of shots (at the time it was those ones that go into your gut) or wait it out and wonder if I would die a year later.
This personally rings true for me. My company is getting literally billions of dollars worth of value from a couple of applications (one of which I created and maintain) built upon the foundation of Postgres and PostGIS. And we benefit immensely from active development of it: PostGIS version 3.1 released a new more efficient overlay algorithm which probably saves us $5k a year in compute costs alone, and untold thousands with the ability to deprecate a hacked house of cards that was ready to crumble.

And yet every time I have mentioned to my management that it would be great if we could take 1% of our consulting budget and funnel it towards PostGIS, they respond almost bewildered...why willingly pay for something that we already get for free? It's frustrating and I have no idea how to remedy it.
Code released under MIT and BSD licenses should really be thought of not as free, as in speech, or free, as in beer, but free, as in mattress on the side of the road.
And, heck, there's a solid argument that server-side rendering is more environmentally efficient, since the work is done in a data-center, which can (1) utilize caching to avoid re-doing work and (2) be built in an optimal location for electricity generation.
When you replace one with the other and notice a substantial change in time-required-for-task, I think you can make comparisons.
There's a YouTube guy who does mouse trap reviews and he loves the rolling log thing. he recently put up a new video on it and pointed out that you don't want the rolling log to be too easy to roll because then they are more careful venturing out on it.

I also have one of those that I lubed up as well (not realizing that was a bad idea) in my garage and last fall I caught 11 mice in just a few days. 3 so far this year.
Oh, I totally missed that typo!

I guess I've seen the full word enough that I matched on the shape of the word and ignored the actual letters.
But you can have your cake & eat it too: install on a VM. OS level sandboxing ideally would allow running a program in a non-VM sandbox
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> They worked at first, but when I had more than one mouse in the house, they seemed to learn to avoid them

In my experience they never learn.

> and even how to eat the bait without setting off the mechanism.

That happens sometimes. I just bend the tab a bit so the trap becomes a hair trigger, when the slightest vibration will set it off.
Sounds like you basically want political debate, but only among smart and/or well educated people?

It's an interesting idea for sure, but I'm not sure how or if such a thing can exist. Moderation becomes a headache, and well, a lot of truly brilliant people I've met in life have zero interest in debating it. How do you keep out the YT commenters, Fox News or r/politics commenters, etc?

It would be interesting if HN had some bucket like /offtopic, for things that are flamebaity and removed from the main view, but I fear it would attract the aforementioned people who only ever troll there, and dang probably having zero interest in mod'ing it.
I vouched for this, it seems extremely ironic to downvote someone saying people are easily offended round here. I don't think he was trolling or trying to rile anyone up and it should be possible to discuss such things without burying people.
I think you can take it up a level from the individual to culture to see it even more clearly. I think one of the most glaring examples of tacit knowledge is simply physical agglomeration. If tacit knowledge wasn't that important, why is it that people pay thousands of dollars of rent just to be in the right spot while 'everything is available' on the net? Why does half of all VC money go into a bunch of zipcodes? Why do so few key professionals network like we're in 15th century Venice?

Physicality and proximity are incredibly important, ironically maybe more so in the world of 'knowledge work' than when it comes to physical activity. An incredible amount of knowledge work happens implicitly when people organize spontaneously without them even being aware. Alex Pentland wrote an interesting book on it called Social Physics where he tried to empirically measure how much more effective in-person exchange of information is.
It really baffles me that there are people paying thousands of $ to beta-test software for a company!