skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always amazing to find people that are strongly "programmed" with discussion patterns. If "what about" then "dismiss claims". Nuance and critical thinking take a back seat.

This isn't whataboutism.

Whataboutism is reacting to "black lives matter" with "all lives matter".

It's a defensive argument to protect against your opponent shifting the goal posts.

However, it doesn't apply when your subject is a function of its context. In other words, whataboutism doesn't work when 2 subjects depend on each other, as they do here. This isn't "what about sugar", this is "how do we know there's no conflict of interest".

The onus is not on me to prove anything about the booster, it's on them to prove that they're worth listening to.

If you want evidence, then you probably didn't read my link because the evidence for sugar didn't emerge for years after the fact. Dealing only in absolutes is absurd.

Life is like poker, by the time you have all the information it's already too late.
Two takeaways from this is:

1. Be a nice boss.

2. Fire people as discretely as legally possible. Don't do it over a Zoom call that will leak and make you the face of the #EvilCEO archetype the Internet hates so much.
Need to mention the book "Children of Time" in this thread for finding empathy for spiders
So how was it detected now? Who reported it first and what were they looking for?
>The only "evil" in the situation is how easily some (most?) people will abandon you the moment they get a better opportunity.

As if your company wouldn't fire you the moment it was more lucrative to do so.
ESO telescope images planet around most massive star pair to date – ESO
> Try enforcing a [home] warranty against a builder that's gone bankrupt.

As someone who has been through this exact thing, it sucks, but it is possible in the current court systems. Courts have complicated "Discovery" processes explicitly for this reason: to find out not just the immediate problem (a bankrupt builder or a builder who would be bankrupt by the end of the court case), but the supply lines (what other warranties apply?) and the creditors (where is the bankrupt company's money going?).

A human run court is allowed to state "this bankruptcy looks fishy for this reason, and these people are owed damages, and some of the money that moved on already to these creditors is by rights should be paid for damages to these people". It's definitely not fun to be involved in such court proceedings, and it is and likely always be an inefficient human process, but it is a process as a society we've built to be mostly very trustworthy. A jury of peers to decide if damages are warranted in the first place; a human judge with reasoning to say "this shell company is bankrupt, but these other companies can and should pay, maybe with the money they took from this shell company" or "this shell company is bankrupt but some of this still applies to the warranty insurance product they purchased and the insurance provider needs to pay up even though their client is bankrupt".

It doesn't always work right/decide in your favor, and it is slow and expensive, but "smart contracts" offer no better and often a lot worse processes. A "smart contract" can't route around a shell company/wallet. A "smart contract" likely can't discover that other warranties may have applied or other insurance products existed (and if it can it's in a programming class all its own and likely a one off you can't expect to exist in general or to work if you need to actually rely on it).
> I would bet anytime on C rather on Rust. If Firefox will die it's because some overly eager (but certainly smart) people thought a rewrite will solve business problems.

That would be ironic given that a massive rewrite is what tanked Netscape, and gave rise to Mozilla, and eventually Firefox.
1. Most professional athletes have very short careers.

2. The athletes who do play "past their prime" are usually making up for reduced physical acuity with other skills (e.g. you don't see very many baseball players hit triples after 30).

3. Players with long careers invest a huge amount of time in conditioning, and to a hard-to-measure degree, PEDs.

4. I don't really follow eSports; If someone played Starcraft competitively 20 years ago, are they still playing SC, or do they switch to something else like LoL? What's the typical competitive "lifetime" of a game? If you picked up game-specific skills, it might be harder to apply #2 when the game du-jour changes.

5. As a slight nitpick to the whole conversation, my understanding is that "reaction time" is perhaps a misnomer; the drop in reaction time with age for performing a simple activity appears to be relatively minor, but more complex activities (including habitual ones like driving), which suggests that the performance decline is in selecting and/or executing the proper response to a stimuli rather than what we think of as pure "reaction time"
Yeah I've played League for a bit. It really does get easier the more you play.

By the way, I've just read in the article that Tyler's been on Adderall since first grade, I guess that will help him stay focused.
I think it's possible to both respect how they got there and their agency, but also feel some mixed feelings about their lifestyles. Especially if you see tyler1 and xqc do 8+/10+ hour streams every day respectively, while taking 1-2 vacations per year.

"Pity" might be too judgemental, but I personally don't envy that lifestyle. It's just like respecting boxers' and NFL players' success, while not wanting to be in their shoes and risk getting killed in the ring or CTE.
The Abu Gharib whistleblower's name was supposed to not be released, but instead Donald Rumsfeld himself leaked it, and his family had to be put into protective custody because of the constant death threats they were receiving from other service members and families of service members.

Donald Rumsfeld then later wrote a letter to the whistleblower telling him to stop telling people that Rumsfeld had been the one to leak his name.
He also had big feet?
Someone needs to measure the anxiety between the first blip and the potential second/multiple blips or expectation thereof
Sounds like his mental health issues finally caught up with him and resulted in involuntary burnout.
Don't go to an island:

every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [rev 16:20]
But where does it get used? I mean the loading of a remote class on an LDAP server. Was this an opt-in or is it like properly baked in?
I don't always agree with John Stossel but he appears to have a lot of integrity. I can't say that about many reporters these days.

I'm glad he is standing up to this.
One of us definitely doesn’t understand something here.
Block-resistant and censorship-resistant are terminology I've seen used in other projects.
I agree that ublockable and uncensorable are hard phrases to sell here, they kind of immediately beg to be challenged.
Exceeded character limit on the title so I couldn't include this detail there, but this is the post-mortem of the event on December 7 2021.
Sure did. He stood 6 foot 4 inches. I'm 5'9. His shoes were quite fascinating growing up as a little guy.
My phone never fails to find new ways to embarrass.

With others.
This article series is mind blowing to me. The engineering is fascinating. It's like they made another logical analog abstraction layer over the digital electronics. Yamaha doesn't get mentioned much here, but between how they can bring the experience of their instruments, motorcycles, and sound equipment to people everywhere, there is an understated beauty in what that company does. They only seem to make things that are wickedly fun and life's great pleasures. Also, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_CX5M
> create clear objective measures that cannot be gamed

There is no perfect world where nothing can be gamed. We have a respected institution in the BLS and setting an impossible bar only promotes misinformation by discrediting what's credible.

> the agencies are selected by politicians

This is why there are specific roles for political appointees and others for career civil servants.

In this specific case, we're talking about the usual noise of someone not understanding the point of core inflation, not knowing that there are other measures of inflation, and jumping to a conclusion that the numbers must be bogus. Regardless of what you think about inflation numbers, the reasoning was bad.
The hypnagogic state sucks. I used to often wake from nightmares during the night and see hundreds of spiders swarming all over my bedroom. I would stand on my bed and try to figure out how to get to the door. I injured myself a couple of times doing Bruce Lee shit trying to jump across furniture without touching the spiders. I would switch the light on and of course there are no spiders there, but my brain is so convinced by the hallucination that it has to try and reconcile the insanity and then has me looking under the bed where the spiders have surely hidden as soon as the light went on.

Then 30 seconds later my brain goes "lolol, just fucking with you, bro" and I feel really stupid.
That depends on the probability (say, per mile) that you’ll need to take over.
Come on. Dismissing widespread problems as "not my problem, your problem" because it doesn't happen to affect you is so weak.
After this post, I wrote another about UPnP itself. If you are interested in the underlying network issues, you might like it. It also lead to an HN discussion that was more about DLNA than UPnP, I guess I'm not the only one that has a weird nostalgia for it.

https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html
Interesting, thank you for that analysis. From what I understand, the RCE exploit really needs two things to work: 1) The interpretation of the JNDI reference by log4j, and 2) The 'auto-execute loaded classes' (which I don't quite understand).

Is there any kind of low-level flag you can pass to Java or your environment to completely disable JNDI? I recall that there is a flag you can pass to log4j, but I can't see any reason why I would ever use JNDI anywhere in Java.

Also, do you have any additional insights on how exactly the mechanism for 2) works? From what I understand, this is a feature of Java itself?
It seems to me the problem they have is trying to outsource the fact checking while sort of implying the fact check is either the official stance of Facebook or done by Facebook themselves.

It seems like this could be avoided by alternate wording for their fact check. If I remember correctly, they flag articles with something like "false or misleading".

Perhaps they should simply flag them with, "This post may be false or misleading, please review the following sources that claim this article is false or misleading"

But the problem with all of this boils down to the fact that a very large number of people don't just get their news from Facebook, they get it from the headlines of articles posted to Facebook. I don't know what percentage of people actually read the articles before forming an opinion, but it must be exceedingly low.

I have had many conversations with people on Facebook that will post articles they think prove them right because of the headline when in fact, the article will very nearly be the complete opposite of what the headline implies.

The same even does for lots of videos. It seems people have even stopped watching the videos before they repost.
The first thing on the page is:

> C64 OS has one goal. Make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful in today’s modern world.

So I guess whatever "useful in today's modern world" means. What does this new OS allow me to accomplish on a C64?
> magnet links/hashes aren't easily shareable.

I'm OK with this (and that's more or less what IPFS does), you only need to pin a couple hashes, and one could build a website directory using this project. Or even a recursive DNS with zone delegation to other mutable torrents.

I like the idea of outgoing links being other hashes.
The documentation requirements did not come out of thin air. Some docs during the 80s/90s/00s made out extremely well. One of the infamous ones is ortho surgeons hitting everyone with dubious back surgeries since it was all paid for by Medicare even though there was little evidence back surgeries worked.

A lot of the doctors/dentists/pharmacists made out very well in previous decades, resulting in the healthcare expenditures becoming a political flashpoint, culminating in ACA, and thus the pendulum starts swinging the other way. Sucks for newer generation of doctors.
For years this has been a personal joy of cycling to work...arriving at work with a thousand ideas of how to solve various challenges, and returning home scrambling for a notebook to capture the wild thoughts that emerged on the last half of the journey.
A lower probability is even worse psychologically imho.
We are actually getting quite behind on some of that stuff that you mentioned. Boeing is a shell of it's former self, having been hollowed out by the financial types, and can't launch a new aircraft without killing hundreds or a new spacecraft without an order of magnitude more time and money vs SpaceX. China absolutely leads the world in solar cell production, and of course most critical microchip production is offshore.

WWII was won largely on American manufacturing prowess. As the war started in Europe, we had a grand total of 39 tanks. But American manufacturing might was focused on the war effort. Liberty ships launched at a rate of two every three days. 25-35K tanks rolled off the US assembly lines every year, while the Germans could produce only 3K, 5K, 11K, and 18K in 1941-44, respectively. Etc., etc, etc.

However, right now, the US produces barely any microchips, which are pretty much critical to every technology.

Worse yet, having a shortage of conventional technology, such as smart weapons shortens the time to the point where the choice becomes to escalate to nukes or lose.

But thank you for providing a fine example of the "it'll be fine" sort of myopia that brought us to this mess -- it always feels nice to look at our advantages and think everything else is a tail risk. But when the tail risk happens, it's over.
I got the BLS Pascal 1.2 and the shock of coming from line-based interpreted Microsoft BASIC to full-screen editor with lighting fast compiler in three keypresses (Ctrl-X, C, Return) is hard to describe. (Full-screen editing and compilation representing two quantum leaps

Ha. I, too, experienced this same shock when I moved, as a teenager, from MS-BASIC's editor to a Pascal-based (in my case it was Turbo) full-screen editor.

Ton be honest, for the first couple of hours I can recall being very confused about how I was to approch coding with no line numbers? How was I to move to other sections of my program? What, no GOTO...help!

Little did I know at the time almost all GOTO use is bad programming and that Pascal was such an elegant and dare-I-Say beautiful language to program in. It's fairly tame use of pointers (as compared with C smashing you over the head with them) really exposed me to one of CompSci's more powerful paradigms...indirect addressing.

And, OMG, the incredible speed of both the compiler and the programs it generated simply blew my mind...esp. since its very possible I was using a 8Mhz IBM PC/AT at the time. My simulations literally ran 25x faster.

Those were heady times to be a programmer IMHO...you literally had the count the number of bytes in your data structures to squeeze every bit of memory use out of your 64k stacks and 640k DOS limits, and all sorts of tricks were used to overcome these obstacles. ..
> If you believe this is the case then you can put your belief to the test. Build software the way you think it should be built and see if users are willing to pay for it.

"users willing to pay for it" is a very bad and simplistic metric because there is way more to user willingness to pay for something than how that something was made (not to mention that it excludes everything the user doesn't pay for) - it may not even have to do with the software itself.

Also the software in question may not even be "free" to use the better approach: imagine, for example, a client for a chat service that allows embedding images, videos and audio in messages but the way the protocol works is for the server to provide those as iframe and/or html content. At that point the client will have to use a browser component in one way or another with all the baggage that entails even if the features themselves (images, videos, audio and text) could be implemented directly by the client.

There is only so much you can do when you have to interface with a world built on tech that doesn't care about efficiency.
For some people it's a career. For people with ~250 viewers a few times a week...they probably need another job.
See [0] for a critical review of (the popularization of) this paper. As usual, there’s something real here but it’s way overhyped because everyone involved benefits from over-playing the role of deep learning here.

[0:https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04324]

Edit: the critical review isn’t about the technical content of the paper per se, but rather the hyped news around it.
Or just make network requests from the logging framework when data comes in from, anywhere, and it’s just turned on by default.

Not that I can’t think of a use but it’s just on and no white list or…something?
Sounds interesting, but I have such a hard time falling asleep, that the last thing I want to do is be woken up once just as I do.
I'm certain nobody argues with you on that point. The question is: what does the fact that numbers can be ordered entail for ethics?
Yeah, but those things are always in flux, made of many individual parts that may often been seen in isolation (I don't think many people except for city planers know which particular "project" a given set of roads belongs to), and have no definitive "completion".

For the space station for example, I'd consider it "completed" the moment it was taken into operation, the rest is building upon it and maintaining. Cathedrals are single objects, though of course I don't know how they were built, and for how many hundred years they may have seemed "complete enough" to the untrained eye.
I can access it now.
Maybe took a while to sync?
I've had nightmares. Isn't it interesting how it is possible 'boot' into a speakative state during a dream or nightmare? Somehow we can escape those..
that’s why laserdisc players have serial control :)
GP is making the rhetorical point that people take safety precautions against risk every day, such as wearing a seatbelt to protect against the risk of a crash, but don’t call it “living in fear.” However, taking the precaution of a Covid test to protect against the risk of serious illness is called “living in fear.”

GP is therefore implying that GGP is making an insincere appeal to emotion rather than engaging with the discussion at hand.
> To use the technique, visionaries such as Dalí and Edison would hold an object, such as a spoon or a ball, while falling asleep in a chair.

This one isn't going to work for me, I think. I can never fall asleep in chairs or anywhere except comfortably lying down. Perhaps I could try holding one arm with a ball in it off the edge of the bed.
spaCy sell their service its not free. from https://explosion.ai/about

"In August 2021, we sold 5% of Explosion to SignalFire for $6 million. Employees are given a stake in Explosion using a virtual share bonus program."
Same thing everyone does when they can no longer work in their current career space (or no longer want to): They do something else.
Worth noting: mortgages typically compound daily, whilst annualized inflation figures measure inflation as if it compounded annually.

A 3% APR mortgage comes out to about 4% APY, which is a little more directly comparable to an annualized inflation figure.
I've known some leaders who feel that yelling at employees can get better performance out of them. Most of the time, I think this is the wrong way to proceed, but I admit, I've seen cases where the strategic use of anger did seem to get some kind of result. I wrote of one situation here, between a CTO and the best devops guy I ever knew:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-hearts-of-men-american-...

But keep in mind, in that situation, I am fairly sure the CTO was only pretending to be angry, which is to say, his anger was under control, and was deployed for a specific purpose.

As a general rule, self-control is essential to pragmatic leadership. By contrast, Vishal Garg's behavior does not seem strategic, and he does not seem to be under self-control. I wrote some thoughts about how destructive this kind of leadership can be here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/self-control-is-essenti...
My anxiety curve is exponential.

First blip: Don't care

Second blip: Holy moly, is the world on fire?
I spent a bit of time trying to do it with flex sensors. Strap one to your hand, make a fist, take your nap, detect when muscle tone is lost and it unbends. I ran out of interest before I got it to work but I still think it's viable. Probably smart to build the flex sensor into a glove for ease of use, and you could put the microcontroller on there too.

https://core-electronics.com.au/flex-sensor-2-2.html
I use Bitwarden but I know what you mean
12 years of experience with .Net here - it’s been a long time since I used log4net and I was never intimately familiar with it, but I’m not aware of any built-in or common .Net functionality that will make a web request and remotely load code just by parsing a string. So unless the log4net library totally implemented that feature from scratch, it should be safe.
Ah I see, you mean 2FA or Two-Factor Authentication, right?
Does this affect SL4j wrappers over log4j as well ?
I filed this as an issue in https://github.com/vivek9patel/vivek9patel.github.io/issues/...
I have some success with the TM technique, some days I'm just drained and don't want to do anything and after 20 minutes of TM in the afternoon I spring up and engage in hobbies or social activities as if it was a new day. It's better than a nap, which just gets rid of the heavy bodied tiredness. I also tried mindfulness before but I feel I get kinda like the creativity boost but not the rested state.
Wait, do you realize that nasal tests are painless, just take a minute, and you know the results in 15 minutes? Getting tested is a non-event.

The huge upside is getting to hang out with people who otherwise you only know via Zoom.
I haven't seen any evidence to suggest 30 years is a number of much importance for this. Most Esports scenes also aren't old enough to have older players as well.

The only ones that I know of are Quake and Street Fighter. In Quake currently only 1 or 2 of the best mechanically gifted players in the world are under 30. In Street Fighter, there's a wide range of ages including younger players as well as players as old as 40+. The "god of execution" Sakonoko is 42 years old and is still winning major tournaments every once in a while.

In Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton is likely on his way to yet another world championship at 36, edging it out over his 10 years younger contender.
> Massaging the bits into proper form: using modulus operator, requires like 80-cycles (aka: a division)

It's not uncommon to instead treat the RNG data as a floating point number between 0 and 1 and multiply it by the modulus (adding or subtracting 1 as appropriate depending on whether you want, say, 0-20 or 1-20 as the output). So that's a float multiplication, an addition, and a conversion to integer. Still probably cheaper than 80 cycles.

But we're also burning 32bits of data to get 4.4 bits of output. When randomness was more expensive than CPU cycles they would throw a Linear Congruence Generator on top, which is a function can transform an input and achieve similar levels of entropy in the output. It might take 5 bits or 8 bits of data instead of 32, at least quadrupling the utility of your source. But that's mostly for historical purposes. As you say, the ratio of CPU to random decisions has shifted many orders of magnitude in the last 20 years.