skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I didn't mean to say MSM is responsible, only complicit. If we had real, independent, healthy media, these issues and those responsible would be plastered all over.

Instead we're stuck with whatever the hell we have today, that seems mostly entertainment, selected outrage, outright lies, with a few actual happenings sprinkled in.
I'm a fan of deepmind and all, but this story has been way overblown based on what I saw in the actual code. There's nothing particularly new about mathematicians using computers to investigate and make conjectures, even if you add ML into it.
How the West invited China to eat its lunch
And that is exactly why we need to fight like hell for better conditions.
I didn't see anyone say anything about threats. The email said "consider the consequences". The tweet repeated the phrase "consider the consequences". That is about as factual of a representation as one could make.
Can someone who can get through the paywall summarize the clickbait antidote?
It's time for Microsoft to get Minecraft off of Java!
FWIW I found this book to be a better survey of ways an experienced dev can take their career: https://staffeng.com/book

This article seems a little flippant. I’ve found very few “specialists”, personally, or legacy coders. Most of the time experienced devs tend to become leads or architects. Sometimes leads do management, sometimes not.

I’ve been an engineer for over 20 years now, and I’m definitely seeing more places defining very senior IC positions now than when I started. But I don’t know it will ever be super consistent.

Everything, such as where I work or my career trajectory, is quite fluid. I’ve realized and accepted as a more experienced dev, I am the one that has to lead the transition to, say, driving new product or technical directions instead of management. And I need to be at a place where I can make that happen. So far, that’s never been a static, predictable situation; but largely because of how the business itself is. In the last 10 years, a major company event, such as an acquisition, or a major leadership change like the CEO quitting, completely shifted the dynamics of the org. Usually negatively. So, I read the tea leaves, see if I have any ability to drive good directions. When the answer has been no, I move on to the next one.

Basically I’m seeing a lot of people expecting structure where there won’t be. Nobody will pave a clear career trajectory for you after about a decade. So I find it’s more important to ask “how can I negotiate what I want here” instead of “what title will I have”.
They're creating content though.
On the other hand we all deserve to be treated with dignity.
Which flavor? Which industry?
philosophically it's the opposite of everything that interests me in computing. ongoing moore's law, the expansion of computing, getting cheaper faster. more bandwidth, more connectivity. more possibilities, better augmentation, further frontiers, more freedom. free copying, remix, plenty.

to turn around & decide we are going to make a zero sum, limited system. that'd we'd artifically reproduce the scarcity of the real world... it goes against everything that dogital technology enables, is better for. there's nothing digital here at all, it's all 100% make believe, a creation of voluntary social ordering to impose heirarchy, to create haves and have nots. computing was already overly mechanizing, a tool too often used for- as Ursala Franklin would say- prescriptive control, instead of it's more noble holistic use. this hard overdrive into tight, constrained, limited & transactional computing- it's dropping a large tungsten cube on the scales of how computing is used, & it's, to me, vulgarly against what computers are good for and good at, & strongly into a forced socialization & societalization that restrains & limits all our better possibilities. do not want.
As of version 59, WebRender is enabled by default on NVIDIA. I've been using it for a while and haven't noticed any major issues.
That is interesting but for all we know there was another row of trucks in the middle part that got picked up and thrown for miles.

My Oklahoma high school took a direct hit from a tornado and cars in the parking lot were found wadded up all over town. If a tornado can pick up an Oldsmobile it can pick up a Sprinter.

Refer to these photos of what a tornado does to a truck. https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2021/...
"Voting with your feet" might work if it was hard to find people to replace you, but it's not. And it means giving up on what you want to do because of oppression.

You should not need to give up on what you want to do because of shitty bosses.
At no point are the anti-vax websites a valid source of information. Every time I stumbled upon such a website they were blatantly lying even when linking to sources stating the opposite of their narrative. All such websites I have encountered relied on readers not checking the sources, and censoring comments. The comments section has always show full support of the narrative of the articles. Either commenters are fully polarized and no outsiders engage with insiders, or there is censoring involved.

There is public centralized data you can analyse for US, EU and others. Data that has clear limitations, and takes skill and knowledge to interpret and actually extract information out of. There are reports that are provided by various national agencies. But these can also be misinterpreted and take careful reading.

Unfortunately, I do not know of a centralised aggregated summary for someone seaking a one stop resource.
Expose to others that you are pregnant (reportedly)
When you say "metaverse", what do you mean?

I'm not interested in the trade itself, I just don't see the metaverse as really properly established yet so where is this taking place? Maybe I'm out of touch.
Signaling is persuasion.
Yep, what an atrocious system where you can earn millions of dollars by being entertaining and playing games.
The economic structures that incentivises this are also pretty mysterious.

Why does Cassini's child continue a project that they won't finish? why does King Louis XIV's successor continue funding it? Was the payment structure lump sump for 4 generations of work? or simply compelled labor?
Pretty much the only reason for me is security. I use Chrome when I need to access email, banking or other sensitive site, and I don't trust Firefox sandboxing or other security features nearly as much as Google.
Or both? It can do both.
So…encouraging people to read the fine print on a contract they are signing is an awful thing to do?

I think a few commenters read the headline and not the actual letter.
But Firefox has Tab Containers? They are (afaik) not fully fledged profiles but rather separated containers (cookies, history etc)
On the “we can take a chance here” front, I’ve sometimes struggled with hiring someone out of a stable situation and putting them into a role where they might earn a termination. If someone’s already unemployed and that happens, they’re no worse off (and likely better off). If it happens that they resigned a stable job and that happens, they’re made worse off.

As a hiring manager or interviewer, I’m not their fiduciary, but when facing a risky hire, I wish there was a way to let the candidate make a more fully-informed choice without the knowledge that we think it’s a high-risk offer influencing them negatively in any way.

Right now, they interview and get an offer or don’t. If they get an offer that we think is high-risk, they have no reasonable way to know that.
Is Privacy Badger affected as well? (how is Privacy Badger different from uBlock?)
Kelvin doesn't have negative values. 0K is absolute zero.
Do employees pay some % to the unions? In our country unions are useless and are created to make their leaders rich but not the people they represent.
I don't really get your point about free speech. That's a government protection. What I am talking about is the tendency of mobs to act as conduits of misinformation and abuse while projecting some form of morality en masse. It teeters on being more harmful than the thing they're mobbing about, typically.
This link is useless for people who do not know what manifest v3 is.

Here is a actual source: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

Much better article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...
Shortest version: log4j has a helpful "feature" where if you log a specifically formatted string as a value, it can trigger things like DNS lookup or remote code execution.

If you use a vulnerable log4j version to log any user-controlled value (such as a User-Agent header), it's a bad time.

Evidently Minecraft used log4j to log user chat messages, allowing a player on a server to leak other players IP addresses.
about:profiles is good enough for me, although as barebones as ever.
Firefox is better in every way for you.

I personally find the Firefox UI very annoying and slow. Every time I try it, I end up back at Chromium within a week.

That said, I'll take an annoying UI over broken ad-blocking...
Firefox has containers that achieve the same purpose. Have you tried using them?
What exactly are you missing from the profile feature in Firefox? It's barebones to setup, but I used it for similar purpose a while back and thought it was ok enough.
You can still manage profiles in FF via about:profiles, but I 100% agree it's not accessible enough.
It does. There are plenty of truly solved positions that very, very few humans, if any, can play optimally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase#Applications and https://tb7.chessok.com/articles/Top8DTM_eng have some examples.

Certainly, no human player knows how to play all of these.
I've been using Firefox for more than 15 years, so I'm not a hater or anything like that.

Maybe it's just a MacOS thing, but parts of Firefox are a mess and it has downsides compared to Chromium or Safari.

- Javascript-heavy sites are often slower on Firefox for me.

- On the security side of things (sandboxing, etc), Firefox often lags behind Chromium.

- There's a site or two that don't work well. Sometimes it's the site's fault, sometimes it's Firefox that is lagging behind on something.

- It would use way more power than Chrome until last year. It has improved and I think they're more or less the same now, but both are still worse than Safari.

- Profile management is there, but nothing compared to Chromium. And no, containers are not the same thing (although they are nice).

- The UI is all over the place. You have windows that still look like Firefox 3... and they've been through 2 or 3 major UI redesigns. The margins on the bookmarks bar doesn't even fit the new design. There are amateur projects out there that do a better job at this.

- Talking of bookmarks, why the heck the cmd/ctrl+click behaviour is different on bookmark links and links on web pages?

- It doesn't handle different languages well. No in-page translation, no automatic language detection for text correction, etc.

Firefox works. If Chromium disappeared tomorrow, it would be good enough for many... but is it the best browser? For uBlock Origin? Sure! But is it the best browser overall? Nope. At least not on Macs.

If Mozilla wants people to use Firefox, they need to create a better product because the "help the open web!", "google bad!", etc, only works with people that use HN.
There is an argument to be made that the majority of people working on video games are not engineers, but content producers. And for them the other field might be 3d modeling* kitchens.

*I managed to confuse myself about how you spell this word...
Your comment is BS on the order of "I know a guy who didn't die in an accident because he wasn't wearing his seat-belt and was thrown clear"

Vehicle cabins are far stronger than all but the most heavily built of above ground structures. They are expressly designed to be as survivable as possible in the kind of rollover accident that being tossed by wind is similar to. Furthermore, there's negligible chance of being killed by the car itself sustaining damage. This is very much not true about any sort of building. You might not get tossed in a stick build structure or steel warehouse style building but does that really matter if a wall or pallet rack falls on you?

Of course a purpose built shelter or below ground level area is better but if those aren't available a car is your next best option.
The owner would have their name in a distributed ledger next to a hash of some representation of the associated content. Their legal rights to the content itself would be unaffected by the process and would instead be determined by the traditional legal contracts surrounding the ownership of the property. Which, as the article indicates, Miramax is keen to assert.

Tarantino could sell as many NFTs of the underlying asset as he chooses, since they have no relationship to it.
I'm not sure comedy is appropriate when at least two people died during this.
1978/2022 “Crimen Y Castigo” Dostoyevski Federico Herrero Teatro Escuela Central
If you drove the limit on highways in Canada you'd be pushed off the road. People routinely drive 130 km/h+ on 100 km/h roads. Partly the fault of the engineers/province who designed them for those speeds and then tell people not to drive that fast.
Nobel Peace Prize: Maria Ressa attacks social media 'toxic sludge'
Powerful storm rolls across central US, unleashing at least 19 tornadoes
Opening a dialogue about this would have been the professional approach. Blasting you with a long list of demands means they are trying to bully you. Cease and desist letters are just a way of trying to scare you into doing what they want so they don't need to do things the hard way. I'd recommend asking a lawyer if they have a case to make against you, just to be safe. But if they don't, this letter means nothing.
Real “put armor on the tips of the wings energy.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Firstly 'very mild annoyance' for you maybe, I'd rather eat bricks then watch the endless ads and popups. Now a good old advertisement, like you'd get in magazines, target based on context are fine. Even some TV commercials are fine, I'd rather not have 20 minute on the hour of them, but meh.

It's all the low effort, spammy targeted crap that is the problem imo.

And 'ads also help small businesses to grow' is bs if you ask me.

- online ads are largely for the big business as small business gets crowded out & out-spend on search terms etc.

- targeted ads do not contribute meaningfully to conversion if you look close enough. Conversion metrics are crap as they do not account for the huge selection bias involved.

- marketing in general contributes nothing to society, it is all busy-work that changes nothing but maybe moving some people around between brands. It is a zero-sum game where the everybody keeps spending more and more and more for less impact & the market as whole is not impacted.

- 70 to 90% of all clicks & impressions are by bots.

- Content creators get jack shit for advertisements, if you pay like 1$ a month for someone's patreon or whatever you are generating more revenue then watching a thousand ads.

And then there is all the nefarious uses of targeted advertising that follow from it...
> In the future, you might interrupt the coworker

Not many people are gonna risk confrontation with a colleague over some candidate they don't know. Especially not during the interview, maybe afterwards when things are calm.
I'm agreeing with you here but let's stay realistic; some companies have assholes working for them, sometimes these assholes get to positions of power. Usually the company knows damn well employee X has a bit of an attitude problem but...guess he adds enough value (or acts well enough) to keep being employed.
How do you identify when to perform updates for security reasons?
You are probably easier to train than your cat!

My basic takeaway is that most jobs and businesses
are terrible for society and badly organised and run. If a manager (investor / producer) wants to hire for that they need to pay well to herd cats

If they instead organise things well, and even have a glorious vision then cats herd themselves. Why is Tesla doing so well? Why was Facebook or Google great places to work?

But honestly, most businesses can be achieved without management taking over.
A business is either within the phase space of engineering possibility or or is not - the electric vehicle was there and was so well recognised that Tesla actually got given grants by govenment to build it - a government department recognised what car manufacturers refused to see. One could imagine hundreds of engineers coming together without management to build that on some kickstarter like site.

My view is leadership is the least important part of a successful business and "management" is the least important part of leadership.

edit: i may be overly cynical and i really need to write up my thoughts more coherently
Also there can’t really be any humidity at those temps.
I know this doesn't address all of the points you brought up, but I heavily use Multi-Account Containers[1] to isolate social, work, shopping, etc. It works well, for me. I don't miss Chrome profiles.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
Experience, not law.
Thanks, those all seem useful.

Assuming I'm following you correctly, Raku already has equivalents to each of those built in: we have code blocks[0], List.map[1] (or `for list -> $el { [codeblock]}`[2] which is a `for` loop, but not a C-style one), and the Iterable/Iterator Roles[3].

So I don't think those features give me any ideas for items to add to the library – but I agree that I'd be sad in a language without them!

[0]: https://docs.raku.org/language/control#index-entry-control_f...

[1]: https://docs.raku.org/routine/map

[2]: https://docs.raku.org/syntax/for

[3]: https://docs.raku.org/language/iterating
None of the ‘etc’ includes things that would properly support separate work vs personal profiles to the point that your company doesn’t need to access your personal data to inspect it in case of discovery requests / court order. Having proper separate profiles also allows sync so that an office PC can use the work profile only, while at home you have access to both work + personal and your work profile syncs with that of your office pc.
Sorry, it's often unclear because of the way the word "jail" is used in English to mean both a pre-trial detention facility and a prison for the convicted.

I've never actually been convicted of a crime. I was in a pre-trial facility.
Has anybody seen smart breakdowns of the "core essential game mechanics" in play here?

I ask because I truly despise this kind of game. Universal Paperclips was great: smart, funny, thoughtful. But even at the time I disliked how compulsive it was. And now there's a vast swamp of low-rent "idle" games that follow the same template. The moment something starts to feel like that, I close the window and never come back.

I keep thinking there's something about the raw mechanics that exposes bugs in the human wetware the same way addictive substances do. Or the way gambling does. But the idle games strike me as a different class of addiction than gambling. Not about variable reinforcement, but something else. I want to know what that "something else" is.
I couldn't find any good videos of toggling in a bootloader on a real PDP-11, but here is one on a PiDP-11 emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vrju0BMQc
Seems similar to https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI. Would be great if there was also the other way around. It seems that usb to SCSI adapters aren't manufactured anymore due to the lack of controller chips although it is all similar at protocol level.
Seek the advice of a lawyer.
> Technically he was talking about short term high inflation, but there is no mechanistic reason why this would be false for long-term low inflation

I was with you until this point. There are absolutely reasons why there is a difference.

Time is directional and irreversible and human life is exceedingly finite. Thus there will always be a higher value placed on money you get today versus money you get in the future. Given that money, itself, is not a productive or useful asset at rest, inflation at a rate consistent with the gradual increase of aggregate wealth is a natural and healthy outcome of the system.
Hehe well put, we are way past the point of wanting to put up with ads as users.

The question is how far Google wants to take Manifest V3. The current path will mean a huge boost for browsers with Manifest V2 capability, e.g. Brave, Firefox and to some extent Safari.
Yes, Union dues are usually automatically subtracted from paychecks
Furthermore "Blockstream first proposed the volcano bonds ... issued as tokenized securities on Blockstream's proprietary Liquid blockchain. Samson Mow of Blockstream assured Bloomberg that all the numbers would work out, under Mow's rosy assumption that the price of one Bitcoin would hit $1 million within five years ... The bonds are set to be issued via Bitfinex Securities, a new unit of iFinex, which runs the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange and the Tether stablecoin".

The thing is, when Bitcoin City fails, it won't make cryptocurrency advocates question their assumptions (like basing your planning on your ROI being 2000%, or that it is perfectly fine to entrust the running of major components vital to its success to convicted fraudsters), it'll make them feel more victimised by the "global elite" conspiracy theories and more aggressive in pursuing future schemes, as happened with the The Crypto-Currency Seasteaders (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441794).

Can't see how this can end well for the people of El Salvador, and there do seem to be some parallels with Albania in 1997.
If you are on a Mac, I suggest that you try Orion browser (currently in beta) [1]. It is based on WebKit, with a custom port of web extensions API [2].

Not only that it runs Chrome and Firefox web extensions like uBlock Origin but we will be keeping support for Manifest v2.

[1] https://browser.kagi.com

[2] https://browser.kagi.com/WebExtensions-API-Support.html
No, that is absolutely not the worst scenario.

People are being refused jobs and treated as criminal suspects based on their location profile. Insurance rates are being increased based on these profiles. Real estate agents and auto dealerships are starting to use this data in their negotiations with you.
You have to understand that it's as close to a threat as they can legally write, likely after significant consultation with an anti-union consultant. And much of it is an outright lie: If folks fail to pass a unionization vote now, they probably can't just go and vote for it later, it doesn't work that way.
Another eli5 request: as a home user or a mobile phone user, do I have anything to worry about?

Is there some kind of query/search I can do on my own computer to see if any application has integrated log4j?
It's a factual representation with the clear effect of misleading people. I won't claim to know what the tweeter or submitter intended, but it's impossible to believe that this submission is sitting at the top of HN just because people think "consider" is a neat word. We're all here because we read the title and thought it meant the Blizzard executive was threatening employees.
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Are you sure? Several people here said yesterday that they confirmed it also works when supplied in a parameter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513036

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29507511
Code blocks are just lambdas though? It's pretty much mainstream these days, even Java and C++ have them.

// java equivalent
int numberOfAuthors = arr.stream().map(BlogPost::getAuthor).distinct().collect(Collectors.toList()).size();

I happen to think for loops are usually a better choice in languages like Java, but the option is there.

EDIT: actually there's a better way, no need to create a list just to count its elements:

int numberOfAuthors = arr.stream().map(BlogPost::getAuthor).distinct().collect(Collectors.counting());