skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zimbabwe is interesting, but hard to compare to recent work that shines light on the pre-Saharan civilizations that led through migration during climate change to the earliest dynasties of Egypt. Africa has a really long and complex history with Zimbabwe being a relatively late and modest component elevated largely because of a not entirely rational obsession with stone building remains. In a similar way it is only recently that some of the earliest artifacts are being uncovered in South America because so few stone buildings were left behind.
> the report detailed employees' experiences within the company, such as instances of "genital grabbing" and senior leaders passing around lists of employees they would sleep with. One former employee who left the company due to sexism said working for Riot was like "working at a giant fraternity."

This is a “yes and” situation. In addition to the criminal charges of sexual assault it is also the the legal responsibility for employers to keep their house clean so to speak and take seriously allegations of discrimination and assault.

I think when cases like this come up there’s always arguments like “why should it be the responsibility of the school or company, this is a police matter.” It makes sense to think about it this way if your view of the law is “police, courts, and prison.” But it turns out “uniformed officers with guns” doesn’t scale.

Like I wish I was joking but if I went to the police (and they magically took them all seriously) for every single time I’ve been harassed, had wildly inappropriate sexual comments thrown my way, or been casually discriminated against at work I would do nothing except show up to court hearings. There is nothing to gain and everything to lose by reporting it — the only changes that have made any difference in my life has been top down cultural shifts. It’s one of those thing that you simultaneously just have to accept as “that’s just how the world is right now” as an individual while working on changing it as a collective if you don’t want to drive yourself mad.
Straightforward answers to your questions: No. No.

But, I believe you have missed the point.

It's problematic to send a bear to attack someone -- particularly if you are the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe with other methods at your disposal. Whether or not the victim dies is besides the point.
This does not look like an especially reassuring track record! People should keep in mind that GnuPG is a legacy C codebase. Nobody would implement a tool like GnuPG in 2021 the way GnuPG is implemented; we accept its implementation because of path dependency, not because it's especially sound.

I don't think your supposition that GnuPG is beloved of "NSA and state-level actors" really qualifies as "facts". The industry standard "secure email" system for banks is simply a TLS web interface that you post your emails to; banks don't use PGP for secure communications. I haven't, of course, worked for all the banks, so if you've got a counterexample, please provide those facts for us to evaluate.

Obviously, the documentation of a proposed design for AEAD support in an RFC doesn't close the gap --- users care about results, as you say, and so what matters, to the exclusion of all else --- is what the installed base of GnuPG clients supports. Which is why Sequoia's years of support of (I think?) EAX mode AEAD encryption hasn't moved the needle for the moribund PGP ecosystem.
I will stop looking into this now, I have to get back to my work. The colorful language doesn't make it easy for someone who follows the literature to review your idea.

I still have doubts that you can handle a dropped message or how much control a faulty node has over decisions, but I'll leave that to you to work out.
Sorry for being unclear.

The original post presumes that monkeys' experience of revenge is "just a survival instinct". I find it quite odd to make such a strong assumption about something as unknowable about conscious experience (perhaps wrongly if there is evidence to that effect I am not aware of).

Your reply pointed out that mammals have similar brain structures. To me, this would imply that humans and other mammals (particularly monkeys) should have more similar experiences of the world as a base assumption, rather than leading us to dismiss similar behaviours as survival instinct etc. Perhaps I missed your point?

I can see that this is quite hand-wavy topic, but hopefully this helps to clarify a little.
> I think there is, and it's trivial: don't use products from industries that are large contributors.

You have a weird definition of trivial.
How is my username made in the last 4 years different from an OG username?
> The article's core point is literally a contradiction to this.

No. The article's core point is that machine code maps poorly to what the CPU does.

Modern CPUs expose no low level access to the way they execute code.
Similar to your story, I learned how to program by writing Runescape botting scripts.

Fast forward to today, and my hobby tech project for the past few months has been building a OSRS market-intel website for trading on the Grand Exchange. Great toy market that eliminates a lot of the complexity of “real-world” economics. Funny how outsized that damn game’s influence has been on the world.
Use reminder app on your phone?
Can you reword this? I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you asking me to go into more detail on the difference between a signature and a message authentication tag?
Confusing the two is perilous.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-o...
>> what compels people to report rule breakers

they still believe there will be consequences to the rule breakers as a result of reporting them...
I used to use pass, and while it’s fine if you’re primarily a terminal user, it’s much less convenient if you’re dealing with Windows or mobile devices. Instead of fiddling with git and gpg (which is super painful on Android), I just use KeePassXC on desktop (Windows/Linux/Mac), Keepass2Android on Android, and sync my database via OneDrive. KeePass gives me search, storage of metadata and even attachments, simple copying, and auto-type. Much friendlier than pass ever could be.
Since we're enjoying a nitpick picnic you can compile JS AOT to Java with rhino and then to native code with GCJ
adding 160.116.250.63 for the login attempt on my account
This and send their children to active service units.
What the heck are you even talking about? Dude. Covid is here forever. You are vaccinated and possibly boosted. You are as safe as it is ever gonna get. Move on!
instagramz.com is a legit domain owned by Facebook
Scala

* a mainstream language with an upscale type system

* can look as lightweight as Python if you prefer that style

* .. while still retaining the power of the JVM with little Java-esque ceremony

* as multi-paradigm as C++

* Akka, Spark/Flink/Kafka, plentiful jobs in Data Engineering/Big Data Analytics/ML

Just
* don't touch SBT (especially just starting with the language)

* ignore anything that rhymes with scalaz/cats for work purposes

* consider Kotlin if Scala is out of the question in your company/team
I guess it depends on the grind involved. Some streamers are paid to play games. They confess they don't always enjoy it or every game that people want to watch, but it seems better than some alternatives. And a few YouTubers I follow have admitted to less than stellar career prospects otherwise.

Now if it's pure, unfun grind that only pushes numbers around in an MMO then I'd agree it's basically just outsourced cheating. And a net negative both because it compromises a social form of entertainment and doesn't produce anything else of tangible value.
I'm more than willing to pay tickets to watch that guy dig a hole perpetually and learn what a bullshit job is. Let's do it.
There's a package called PGPy. It's a python implementation of PGP. BSD-3-Clause licensed. https://github.com/SecurityInnovation/PGPy When testing it out GnuPG compatibility, I just had to add the --rfc4880 when encrypting with GnuPG. Then PGPy could decrypt it using the private key generated by GnuPG. PGPy supports key generation and encryption too.
The article suggests that the game is currently only played by people hoping to make money. The money paid out to old players comes from new players.

It's just a Ponzi scheme.
Is this based on something or just your perspective?
Everyone needs a roof over the head, and the proportion of household income that went into housing has been steadily going up since the 1980's. So it's not correct that asset inflation does not affect everyday cost of living.
You should wear a hazmat suit with a helmet in public.

I would feel safer, and there would be less pressure on my healthcare service if you fall over.

If you don't, you're scaring me.
Then you had to have a collection of local isp numbers (and for the cracker scene user/pass lists) so you could connect while away from home.

I just remembered how happy I was when I had my palm pilot 14k attachment and could get internet in class because often live POTS were available in many more rooms than these days.
This fits Graeber's thesis; "The book [..] makes the case that the ruling class stands to lose from the proletariat having extra free time on their hands"
The book “Termination Shock” covered the topic of aerosols in the stratosphere to reduce temperature while we work on actually improving the climate. The book itself is a decent read, but the science behind the premise is surprisingly well researched and understood.

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/ff-geoengineering/

One of the unspoken critiques in the book is that “climate activists” will shun good solutions in favor of a perfect solution, even if the perfect solution is impossible to achieve. Reading the comments here it seems this particular bit of fiction is already playing out in reality.

Can we… organize the governments of the entire world to work toward a singular goal? A goal that will cost a hundred trillion dollars? A goal that we’ve been trying to achieve for decades with virtually zero success?

Or… spend $10B per year on geoengineering. We’re approaching the supposed runaway climate temperature. Shall we act now and do what we can while we wait for technology to advance? Or shall we doom humanity to an uncertain future by refusing to adopt trivially cheap mitigation options?
We should create a game like Axie infinity, but instead of making money from useless Axies you make it from writing code.

And then since crypto is bad we just pay people with regular money instead.

Also maybe have them sign a contract for working fixed hours and/or completing a project in X time. So you know, the project actually gets done.
This feels like a "let them eat cake" reply when compared to agrarian labor...
I'm the OP from yesterday's story.

I had 2fa enabled on my LastPass account, but didn't have access to the phone anymore. I clicked a link, LP sent me an email, and I was able (through that email) to remove 2fa.

It doesn't make their 2fa completely useless, but it's not great.
Worked at a place where a natural disaster knocked our call center offline for a couple of weeks. We relocated the center to our HQ and marketing and tech staffed the calls. I made several improvements to our call center tools after just a couple of shifts taking calls. None were difficult, but it would have taken quite a while for those requests to come in naturally I think.
Also known as the "So you think you can escape the FBI [/CIA/FSB]?" fallacy.
Hi, thanks for your efforts, it goes without saying, but I've read that some open-source software users started being rude with maintainers, so maybe it's not needed but I'll say it anyway, I really like your software, or your software is really useful for me, there is a thing I would like to have, but it is something that is given to me for free, so I will just say thank you a lot
Just tried deleting my account--got exactly that error. That's not reassuring
What's the cultural value provided by sitting on Axie and grinding for hours?
The question is answered in TFA:

> These “economic opportunities” are essentially a wealth transfer from new players to established ones. Gameplay requires the purchase of three Axies, which currently cost in the hundreds of US dollars each. Players who buy in treat this as an investment, since it’s a necessary buy-in in order to work in the game.

It sounds more like a Ponzi scheme in a Gold farming disguise to me.

I'm very familiar with Gold farming from Eve Online, where selling game currency (ISK) was permitted via exchange of game time cards sold by the game's developer. There was always a secondary market for game time cards sold for real money and that was legal too. The reason it all worked is because playing the game was really fun, but required to grind to get ISK. People with more money than time would prefer to buy themselves new spaceships to get blown up in than grind for them.

It really sounds though like Axie Infinity is not a fun game and no one treats it as one. So it is something new.

> it’s hard to find any reviews on Axie Infinity as a game rather than as an income stream or speculative investment
It would connect you with what actually matters to the customer. You may be building features for the developers that paper over or hide issues for the end user. I've see this where frameworks chose metrics that paged engineers less but caused micro outages. Not saying this is you but the end user's experience is the core product. Sometimes you have to make the devs life a bit worse to make the customers better. Hopefully you get to come back and also make the devs experience better over time.
What type of node did you get if I may ask? I put my hardware in the basement but they are getting a bit old (C6100 machines, which have 4 blades in a 2U form factor).
It should be noted that CBBS, the first Computerized Bulletin Board System, was created because of a snow storm in the Chicago area. Constraints inspire creativity.
Note: no `ALTER TABLE` in their SQL.

Sounds like maintaining this over longer term with evolving data would be quite painful.
Early investors: people who “invested” hundreds of dollars to play. Legitimate business: “we’re a game studio.” Later investors: newer players who see the earlier ones making money.
Keep in mind thst thise things are LOUD and they get LIKE REALLY REALLY HOT.

Cooling is only half a problem in server world because it's assumed that you're going to run servers in a climate-controlled room.

Also, their power draw is not negligible, especially under load.

These are the factors that you should really keep in mind, when evaluating with respect to your specific situation.

For example, elextric power is fairly cheap in the us but quite expensive in Europe. Your neighbours might have something to say if you live in an apartment and have server grade fans running 24/7 (*).

If after all considerations you still want to do that, /r/homedatacenter is full of porn you might enjoy.

(*): I know you're currently not thinking about leaving the server on 24/7... but you'll be tempted :)
I mean, if your threat model is such that you need to consider kidnapping and being hit with a wrench, as opposed to just a drive by breach, then you should in fact account for that appropriately.
Amazon owns Wickr now. It has be abandoned by anyone doing anything shady that's for sure.
Doesn't 700 requests per second for such a trivial service seem kinda slow?
> If you are a local ISP, you better be part of the program if you want to sell your services to apple's devices

I wonder if Apple won't just bulk-buy bandwidth and take care of the customer experience.

Imagine your phone just... working globally.
This is why I am so pissed off at academic hypocrisy currently. Labs were shut down for months. For what? To protect whom? The senior faculty who did their Ph.D. in the early eighties and refuses to transition to emeritus status?

Junior researchers were absolutely shortchanged in the pandemic shutdown, and nobody is bothered about it. For all the talk about keeping people safe, why were younger scientists denied access to experimental facilities, and yet almost no funding agencies extended grant contracts? Almost zero institutions extended their timed postdoc contracts too. And to add insult to the injury, most academic institutions had hiring freezes in 2020, effectively kiboshing careers of young scientists caught in this trap.

Honestly, I am disgusted with university faculty right now - all fancy talk, no action.
>Are there exemptions from this in the US?

Yes, implied acceptance of risk. In short, if a person understood the chance of the bad thing happening when they chose to take part, they can't blame somebody else for it happening. (Unless the other person was negligent or intentionally caused harm.)

As an example, if you join a pick-up soccer game at the park and lose a tooth while playing goalie, you're likely to lose any lawsuit against the guy who kicked the ball.
I had a profitable bot around 10 years ago. It made around $500-$1000 per account per month. It didn't have a future though, as it played a particular kind of Sit'n'Go tournament that was phased out shortly afterwards (I believe mostly due to collusion rings that were active in those kinds of tournaments).

There used to be a semi-thriving community of botters on pokerai.org forum (was even frequented by some of the celeb pros, like Patrick Antonius, who were also trying to do bots). The site is down now, but perhaps you can read through it on a wayback machine. One of the interesting conclusions from there was that all the sites except PokerStars didn't care about detecting bots and some were in fact offering special deals under the table to encourage botters to come to their site (because they generate a lot of revenue for the site). In my own (fairly short) botting career on two major sites my bots were never detected. What's more, I actually detected a ton of bugs in their software which I had to work around in my bot-to-casino interface code :)
Have you played the game? Is it actually fun?
Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
This conversation has been done to death, there's no value to be had from racial ideology because it's been disproven for a long time.

To be clear, this isn't a discussion - I'm trying to hand hold you into thinking about your positions. I have nothing to learn from the "race realist" position; I've seen the arguments for and against and it's really easily disproven. You may think that the "race realists" are holding onto the secret truth that's been suppressed by the woke postmodernist academics, but the reality is that you've fallen for some online conservative propaganda and the academics are just trying to find the truth.
I came here to say this as well I was at a company for 6 years. Much more after often I would see managers hop every 2-3 years and be the one to get raises and promotions.

I have been in the final stages of a interview and reject an offer for personal reasons, had the manager say to me “I’m looking for people who are here to stay and make a career, so let me know if you reconsider”. He had been a manager for a year and half… I found out not to long ago he left to become a Sr. Manager else where.

These rules around tenure are silly. If you have impact in 2 years or less that’s all that matters.
Being an internet commenter doesn’t require any particular expertise in the thing…

I think GP’s claimed belief “among managers” is true for a very small sliver of the management ranks (and I think a smaller sliver than in the internet commenters’ case).
Many years ago I had a ride in the Bay Area with an Uber investor as the driver (he was a partner at one of the VCs). It was quite an interesting ride has he wanted to know a lot about why I choose to use Uber and all the good and bad about it. He told me that while they are already investing, he wanted to better understand how Uber is coming along.
> Phones already were water proof when they had sim cards and phone jack.

As an individual, I agree with you. The industry consensus (initiated by Apple) that the headphone jack ought to go is a great shame for a few reasons and I would happily trade-off some water resistance for its inclusion.

However, when you want to use phones to pull customers into the lucrative world of subscriptions (and the big corps, especially Apple, seem to be heading this way), having a device that is more reliable and less likely to break is very helpful. The longer you can make the device last, the less reason you give the customer to try another, competing brand, and the more you increase the chance that they get pulled into your ecosystem.

We could talk about the ethics and attitude that leads them to locking down the device more and more to increase one-shot longevity instead of making devices repairable. But this is outside of the scope of my original comment.

The original argument I was making was that SIM card removal does seem plausible to me. It fits into a number of trends in Apple devices over the last couple of years, and arbitrarily increasing thinness isn't one of them.
CDMA phones (early 2000's) had to be manually configured to attach to a network, I did support for Verizon at the time and I talked many people through the steps of reprogramming their phones onto the network. If you wanted to use your CDMA phone on another network you had to program it and re-program back when you were done. The steps were not public nor easy to navigate as it was not intended to be a user serviceable feature.

Compared to AT&T's "take the card out and put it in the new phone" reprogramming it was night and day.

You can say that eSIM is easier than the old CDMA days but it still isn't as easy as SIM swapping.
The quest to trap carbon in stone
> Haven't people in tech figured out how exponential growth works?

What are you even taking about? We have marvelous vaccines that knock Covid to the level of a cold or mild flu for most people in the “office worker” demographic.

Did you worry about “exponential growth” of the 2019 flu season?

Because part of saying “Covid isn’t going away ever” means “get on with your damn life”. If Covid is here forever it becomes just another minor risk in your life like driving, swimming, or catching the cold.
Wait, when did we come to the point where "working in system administration" is considered synonymous to "maintaining an Artifactory instance"?
How Can B2B Firms Price with Confidence as Inflation Rises?
I agree. To me its a Ponzi scheme in a gold farming disguise. Gold farming only works when the game is fun enough that people will buy gold to play with in it. In this game, everyone playing it is buying in for hundreds of dollars and most likely that is the only source of the payments that are going out.
Read TFA. Your questions are all answered in it.
Obviously, we don't need copyright to have any creative works. Some people will do it for free. But the sale of copies is a huge incentive. And the result is much more creative work now than ever before--at least some types.

Pre-copyright, content was either commissioned by patrons or done by bored independently rich people. Artists didn't have some burning desire to paint rich ladies and religious works, that's just what was demanded.

We could go back to that system. But it won't be a prolific as our current system. If copyright ended for TV/movies, we'd probably get some BBC/PBS content, some indie movies, but we'd probably just have a bunch of reality TV with an insane amount of product placement.
Exactly. One could make an argument that the work some users put in, once sold, result in value to the buyer, but that value isn’t generated by the worker. The developers created the scheme and could deliver the value directly at no cost to all players, poor and wealthy, but instead chose to create meaningless work by making grinding opportunities.