skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are indeed serious problems. But you can't simply say "sandboxes don't work". See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
If you agree only in principle but not in practice, then you don't agree in principle. Principles are for practicing.

Either we take lying off the table or we don't. Fiat justitia etc.
It’s more efficient and cheaper mass produce antibiotics that work on most infections than customize a phage for each patient.
I'm pretty sure that whatever business you work for has no planned replacement for their local power company ceasing to provide electricity.

This doesn't mean they should go out and build their own gas peaker plant.

We live in a society, and no man is an island. You can't control everything you depend on. Sure, you can control some things you depend on, but that's a long, and expensive rabbit hole. Hoarding twenty years of canned food and seventy thousand rounds of ammuniton is all well and good, unless doing so puts you in a situation where you can't pay rent.
Kia/Hyundai cars are great. However in recent years there's been more than a few cases of engine fire.

I myself had one rental Elantra engine stall on me last year. It was at about 25k miles.

On the other hand I have owned a 14 Corolla, 18 RAV4 and 21 Highlander hybrid. Combined repair cost is $130 (Corolla battery swap).
Inspector-gadget: exploit for a vulnerability in the Linux USB Gadget
Agree 100%. And the same is true for a lot of other things, they're just not as contentious.

Every time I get on a plane I have to trust the science and engineering behind it, I have zero clue why it works but I can't become an expert in aerodynamics just to go on holiday. When I drink milk I have to trust the science behind pasteurization, I trust the physics calculations when going up a high rise and the same for when I take medicine.

I have to trust someone for 95% of my day to day actions, and while a system like "science" is flawed it's the best we've got so far. All up for improvements, but let's not throw the baby with the bathwater.
While I agree with the points made by the author I am wondering why this fancy tesla cars fogging up? My Ford Focus with auto aircon never fogs up.
Here are some old Sims design documents:

https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSims

https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments

This one describes Maxis's philosophy of Sim game design:

https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/MaxisSimR...

MAXIS SIM GAME REQUIREMENTS

SUMMARY

The Maxis marketing department recently studied customer expectations
of Maxis Sim games. The study revealed seven descriptions of what the
Maxis Sim player thought a Sim game should be. While the “Seven Points
of Sim” descriptions reflect customer expectations, they are not all
necessarily the ingredients for a Sim game. To understand why Sim
players perceive Sim games the way they do, we can look at the key
factors that make a game a “Sim”.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAXIS SIM GAME

Dilemma

Players must always grapple with difficult decisions. In SimCity, pollution
may be a problem, but there might be a strong industrial demand. In
SimTower, condo-dwellers will need elevators heading down, while office
workers will need elevators heading up.

Crisis

Crisis can also mean disasters. Players occasionally need to abandon
long term strategy in favor of short-term success. If a fire is burning in
SimCity or SimTower, players might need to destroy all their creations in
the surrounding area.

Budgeting

The amount of funding a player has acts as both a limiting factor and a
kind of score. Every action by the player costs money - even mistakes -
and there are no refunds. “Cheats” to gain more money are the most
popular cheats.

Aesthetics

Artwork is important for players to admire their creations. Also, the ability
to place buildings, zones, crops, etc. in various places that may not have
relevance to the Sim, fakes players into believing that their city or tower
designs are “better” than other’s. Finally, aesthetics are a form of reward
for the player. In SimTower, an aesthetic reward for reaching the 100th
floor is the ability to place a cathedral. This is akin to “winning”.

Change in Rules over Time

Rule changes cause players to change their playing strategy. In SimCity,
demand for Industry is high at first, but then swings to Commerce. In
SimTower, the placement of condos is important at first, but nearly
irrelevant after the 3rd Star.

Visual/Graphical Feedback

A Simulator is nothing but formulae operating on a data set. The player’s
main interpretation of the change in data is graphical, in the form of tall
buildings in SimCity, and long elevator lines in SimTower. An example
failure in graphical feedback is Outpost from Sierra, where player
feedback is in the form of numbers in a dialog box.

Cause & Effect are not Immediately Apparent

Because of the interleaving data sets in the simulators, players may not
initially understand why certain actions have unexpected effects. One of
the compelling reasons to play is to discover and understand various
causes and effects.

Players are allowed to destroy their Creations

Who says there is no violence in Sim games? A favorite activity of the
Sim player is to save a “masterpiece” copy of their creation, then unleash
disaster after disaster, and bulldoze like crazy.
Not even sure the data is correct on Azure, seeing how O365 is allegedly shrinking in revenue.

Questionable in my opinion and might be very dependent on how you separate here.

Are all these AD users that use Azure AD users of Azure? What if their MS 365 licence counted for Office or Azure? I believe revenue is trimmed to make it look good.
My Toyota's head unit bulldozes to reverse mode and if I was in reverse for 10 seconds, the song resumes 10 seconds as if its been playing in the background.
I'm not sure if this is sarcastic or not but rest assured, the sociopaths that hoard the IP behind the vaccines have all but guaranteed that there will be plenty of opportunities to study these alleged "positive health applications" at the back of the global south.
20 years ago people typed notes, let alone now, and the vast vast majority of those notes will not be written in "cursive", as most people drop that backwards skill as soon as they are allowed.
Checkout Worker if you want something like DO for X. It's very fast and very configurable!

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/
> IF you assume that photons have mass and interact gravitationally (there are good reasons for making this assumption), then you can explain the double slit experiment classically via gravitational interaction.

No, you can't. The double slit experiment has nothing to do with mass or gravity. It is well known that it happens with electrons, protons, and has even been demonstrated with some large molecules (thousands of atoms). Gravity can't explain anything about it though.

And even if I can imagine some gravitation-based interactions in the case of a stream of huge numbers of particles (though not the actual quantitative explanation), the double slit experiment has been reproduced with things like 1 photon emitted every hour - over the course of a few days, the same interference pattern emerges IF the photon's path is NOT observed; but NO interference pattern emerges if the photon's path IS observed.

> You can look under the hood of any software that simulates orbits and see that this is the case. No time delay is assumed for gravitational interaction.

The fact that simulation software takes shortcuts to make its computations feasible is not proof that this is how the world works. Einstein's GR equations are famously intractable to solve in their base form, and approximations are strictly necessary. But given the distances and observational precision for the positions of planetary objects, I would bet the effect of gravitational waves having a finite speed is negligible for most predictions.

Not to mention, we have actually measured the speed of gravity: we have detected gravity waves and they are moving at the "speed of light", or as near to that as we have been able to determine. Definitely not instantaneously.

> the Poynting-Robertson effect also makes this obvious

That is a General Relativity effect, which assumes that gravity is a local interaction (i.e. no action at a distance). That is precisely Robertson's contribution to the Poynting-Robertson effect, per the WIkipedia article (Poynting first understood the effect, but described it in terms of the luminiferous aether).
I remember throwing plastic bottles off a river bridge with my class in 3rd grade. While it's true that the river connected to an ocean some 400km downstream, I doubt they made it further than the next best river bank.

I sincerely hope that since then schools have stopped encouraging children to throw plastic in waterways like this.
Why Japan has the most effective Lost and Found
My view has nothing to do with political correctness, but simply with the difference in difficulty between collecting plants and hunting/trapping animals with primitive tools, and the subsequent deduction that it's more likely for our ancestors to have relied more on the source of calories that was more readily available.

And the article itself explains how the current point of view on our ancestors life style may have originated.
Painting critics of the Israeli Government as anti semite is among the most used smearing tactics to damage their credibility. Therefore, by the same reasoning, you could be accused of acting as a shill for the Mossad.
> They’ve been popped.

I would be grateful if you could provide some links.

> I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suspect that qubes has not had the same degree of offensive interest as, say, VMware.

Qubes relies on Xen. The latter definitely had a lot of offensive interest. I am not aware of any recent escapes of hardware virtualization though.
Ok, you are definitely not arguing this is good faith any longer. Get lost.
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What has happened with all those cars that weren't sold during 2020 and 2021 due to pandemic?

People collectively realized that they don't want to be taking public transit in the middle of a pandemic.
Is it in here?
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> You can't reliably make large features with a small process node

Why is that?
Great piece.

I believe gaming to be a natural addition to this list, as every game aims to captivate the player in a state of playful immersion.
Well, soldiers have to obey orders, or risk having a court martial for insubordination...
Can someone give a counterexample for this one? I read the comments but I still don't see how it's false:

> If f is a smooth function with df = 0, then f is constant.

I assume the smoothness and df = 0 criteria are said to hold on the whole domain, right? Yet the claim is that f fails to be constant over the same domain?
Why would you want "cd folder/<TAB>" instead of "ls folder" ?
You should also take all the benefits and complications into account when looking at vaccines. The complication rate of infection for those under 40 is far from zero and assumed to be significantly higher than the complication rate of the vaccines. Discussion is good but your argument sounds less like a discussion and more like a statement.
If you have your blog self-hosted in your garage !IN EUROPE!, and your apache use custom log format that do not log IP addresses, and I add an <img> to some image on your site (example - some cool car), I should be OK?

Now imagine this:
Then one day you change the image with something else (example - birds picture). Can I sue you that without my permission you changed MY website?

My logic is that if in court I am responsible for something that is outside my webserver (it is on your webserver), then you should be responsible too? (it is still your webserver)

What if one day you decide to start logging IP addresses, and move your blog from your garage server to AWS in USA without notifying me?
There's so many interesting bits of info and here, I've fav'd it. Thanks :D

> I'm actually quite happy with the way that Patrick programmed The Sims to not actually model sexual preference in the character's personality data in any way at all, so instead of reducing it down into a stark numeric property, it's purely dynamically defined by what you do, and your relationships with other people, which can change over time

It's funny, this completely flew over my head at the time when we played it as kids. I wonder if there were any players were goofing around with the usual things (walling in guests, trapping them in the pool), thought "lol I'll make my guy gay" and then had an a-ha moment realizing it was no big deal and totally normal.

> The “AI” of The Sims is scripted in a noodly visual programming language called “SimAntics”, and is distributed throughout the objects and characters of the Sims microworld

This sounds interesting!
update: in case anyone else was also curious, there's a wiki with some info: http://simantics.wikidot.com/
How would you know how a message contains an exploit before you know such an exploit even exists?

Also for iPhones it's usually iMessage instead of SMS which supposedly is e2e encrypted.
The amount you are paying for the convenience of delivery should be clearly laid out. To claim that delivery fees are X when really, your are paying significantly more is disingenuous.
Recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118276 (9 comments)
I can understand why people would consider window de-misting weakly related to climate control.

The use of climate control to de-mist a windscreen is pure implementation detail, and I don’t think the Model 3 even uses climate control for de-misting, instead relying on resistive heaters embedded in the windscreen.

Personally I associate climate control and the temperature setting with personal comfort. But de-misting is a core driving control, and sits along side wipers, lights, fog lights etc. I use all those to drive safely, and expect them to be within easy reach of the driver and readily available. Climate I’m happy to have in a sub-menu, because I can always wait to adjust the temperature if I’m dealing with tricky road conditions, same doesn’t apply to de-fogging equipment (which may, or may not, involve the climate control).
>But the algorithms are already compensating for that. Many companies are paying “location differential” salaries. It will probably result in a new form of outsourcing.

so, combined services for remote workers -

maintain fake address in high cost of living area, providing phone service with rerouting of calls to your real number, providing vpn service so you have an ip address from that high cost of living area.
Your first study does not show what you claim it does, or at least it is a gross simplification.
These statistics are at the 10 per million scale i.e 0.001%, which is smaller than fatality rates for unvaccinated under-40s.

That is to say that there is a selection bias for people who did not die, and this is a significant oversight in your interpretation.
I mean, removing / censoring dumb shit will just empower people, it's a kind of martyrdom, and the conspiracy thinkers will see it as Proof that there's a Cabal out there that is Suppressing the Truth. This already applies to these warning labels that are put on videos, facebook posts, spotify podcasts, etc - if you're skeptical about the establishment, you'll see those as proof that the cabal is meddling and trying to censor these opinions. It makes people more curious.
Science is being co-opted by corporations. They did the same with the so-called "socialism" or "liberalism".
I think there is a mistake:

> Pod: The smallest kubernetes unit: it can run multiple pods inside of it

Should be: "it can run multiple containers inside of it".
Release Minetest 5.5.0
Agreed, as the founder at a fintech SaaS which uses multiple bank APIs like Plaid and Nordigen. Screen scraping is not just insecure, but also unreliable and fragile. Most problems I've seen with bank connections happen because screen-scraping based authentication just fails to work in cases where 2FA/captcha or other login security is enabled.

However we still need to use screen scraping sometimes, because there is just no other choice. 90% of the banks in the largest economy in the world, i.e. the USA, just don't have APIs. Also even most APIs in PSD2-compliant Europe don't offer the full range of data, such as payment reference numbers. Until the open banking ecosystem catches up with these customer requirements, we are forced to do screen scraping sometimes.
Very interesting proposition. Israel, directly or indirectly, has a very significant influence in the US and I doubt this will ever happen.

Edit: Typed “never“ instead of “ever”
Meanwhile, they take 30% cut from developers and force everyone to buy a new phone every year. Microsoft monopolization of Windows is a child play in comparison to this phone racket.
Remote GraphQL Schema Introspection Codegen (Screencast)
Cars like the model 3 use resistive heaters built into the windscreen to de-mist, so hitting that button doesn’t always result in the climate control running full tilt.
Not as foolish as going to war for your government in my opinion, but probably with a lot of consequences if you put down weapons.

To expect that soldiers do refuse combat is probably foolish. Many are as dependent on the military as the military is on them, although the motivation is different on both sides.
Yeah, but do they offer only security updates i.e. LTS? If they don't, you're still screwed.
Here is a rudimentary alerting system I could write quickly in shell and execute on my laptop:

while true; do echo ok | nc -l 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done; done

While the above command worked fine on macOS with the default /usr/bin/nc, on Debian 11.2, I had to modify the above command as follows to make it work:

while true; do echo ok | nc -q 1 -l -p 8000; for i in 1 2 3 4; do printf '\a'; sleep 1; done; done

Now anytime someone connects to port 8000 of my system by any means, I will hear 4 beeps! The other party can use whatever client they have to connect to port 8000 of my system, e.g., a web browser, nc HOST 8000, curl HOST:8000, or even, ssh HOST -p 8000, irssi -c HOST -p 8000, etc.

If your port 8000 is already occupied, I recommend port 41327 as an alternative for this alerting service. After all, 41327 reads "ALERT" in leetspeak.

By the way, visit http://susam.net:8000/ right now to send me some beeps! :)
> Now electronic and SW design is critical diversification, and part of what creates core value in automotive.

It is also the part that sucks most from a consumer's point of view. As a consumer, I want choice, not lock-in by the manufacturer after I buy a car.
I mean you raise a valid concern, it's a form of corruption, "muddying the waters", or CV padding that should be combated.

But doesn't low quality science impact the universities and papers that host these things? Wouldn't e.g. Elsevier want to keep charging money for high quality content? Are people and organizations not losing their reputations, jobs, and income over this?

I don't think switching over to laypersons' podcasts is a valid alternative to bad science.
Since several projects have done that one might ask them if they have considered this. For all we know, they may have discussed this with Semtech, in which case the status may be knowable.
I can totally relate, but I'm afraid that "smart" cars will push out "dumb" cars in dealerships just like "smart" TVs pushed out "dumb" TVs in big box stores. Why? Because people like feeling they have more for less money.

Wait until you get bombarded with ads in your "smart" car. It's coming, have no doubts.
I also can no longer write in cursive, but I don't feel bad about it. It's an archaic and un-needed skill, a leftover relic of a bygone age. Also, I could never write in cursive particularly well to begin with... started getting nasty notes in my report cards about that starting from primary school, so as far as I'm concerned, "Good Riddance."
Science is being co-opted by corporations. They did the same with the so-called "socialism" or "liberalism".
Science is by its own nature meant to be challenged. Absolutists tyrants don't like this.
Hey, thanks for following up on this. I figured out more or less in the end how to do what I was looking for, but I was also confused about one detail regarding git internals.

I'll start by briefly clarifying the relationship between git internals and the GitHub API I was mentioning above. GitHub has an api the call "Git Database API" https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/getting-started-with-... which:

> gives you access to read and write raw Git objects to your Git database on GitHub and to list and update your references (branch heads and tags).

These "raw" git objects correspond to the fundamental objects used in git https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects which are blobs, trees, commits, references, and tags. So you can use this API to manipulate those things, much as you would using git plumbing commands.

However, just knowing that doesn't fix that my question was confused about one thing, which was the relationship between blobs and trees and how they are used in relation to files and directories. I thought somehow that trees could be used to structure a file, as well as a directory, since directories in UNIX are files as well. This isn't the case.

Putting that aside for a moment, doing this by pulling the file, as you mentioned, is easy. If you already have a reference to the branch and commit to work from (and if you don't you can just get those with the API), you just use the database API I mentioned to grab the tree, and then you can grab the blob you want. After that you can put everything back (I.e. create a new blob, post a new tree replacing the old one, create a commit, and then update the branch to point to the new commit).

However, if you're never going to edit and only append data at the end of the file, you can do this without even pulling the old file!

To keep it short you basically overwrite the blob with whatever new data you want to add and then handle the merge as a union merge. Union merges (I.e. "select both ours and theirs, but ours first") are supported in git and GitLab but not GitHub yet. This works for "appending" to files, even if they have brackets, but not putting the new blob into arbitrary locations with the old one.

I left a lot of details out but hopefully this helps someone who may have similar needs as I did in this situation. This is very useful if you have some file-based data storage that you're guaranteed will be written to in an append-only fashion, and then if some reason those files are under version control.
I was listening to Joe Rogan the other day, trying to see what the fuss was about, but I ended up listening to Carrot Top for 3 hours[0]. They where talking for a minute about wealth, and how once you go over the threshold of never having to worry about money, it doesn't keep getting better. You don't feel much difference between 10M and 100M, apparently. Rogan gave the example of his baller house. He said that no matter how amazing your house is, you might have a mansion with two pools and dining for 200 guests, and a games room designed by Vanilla Ice. But once the glow of the newness fades away, then it is just your house. It is just the same place you go to every night. All stuff has this property.

Tesla are trying to recreate that new car smell and feeling by refreshing the digital dash board and software features. And deploying an old Microsoft trick of rearanging buttons to produce a new experience out of nothing. Instead of fighting the falling attention spans, Tesla hopes to remove the need for them altogether. So you can continue tapping and scrolling while driving.

[0] Warning: even Carrot Top may offend some viewers today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byhzsQ0AzYI
Tesla is basically the 2000s prius. It is cool now, but in near future won't be anymore.