skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the sex stuff

I don't know about The Lees; the boarding school I went to was full of homosexuality, both between the boys and between certain teachers and boys. It was treated very casually; "boys will be boys".

I was a victim of (mild) abuse. I never told anyone, until my father died, a few years ago (my mother died 40 years ago). I had read an article by another victim, which named my abuser - at a different school. After my father died, I finally felt able to report my abuser to the police.

The way it works is that sooner or later, some boy reports the abuse to their parents. The parents complain to the head; the head explains to the abuser that he has two choices; he can stay and be prosecuted, or he can leave, with a clean reference. So he just gets a job at another private school.

The head absolutely doesn't want a scandal.
>> There are parents with multiple children who all did fine except one.

Isn't that highly subjective? I know of cases in which children literally broke with their parents. Two siblings turned out "fine" (social and parents definition), the one that broke with them didn't (parents' definition again). turned out the "troubled" one finished school on top of class (not that I would take that a true measure so) after leaving home aged 16, that kid actually did turned out more then fine IMHO. Working and helping kids with similar, and even harder, backgrounds is tough and valuable work.

The terms "troubled" and "fine" are highly subjective. And shouldn't be basis for any abusive measures. Unless they are illegal, in which case there are laws (which have to be revisited every once in a while. Also prisons seem to be better places then some of those tough love programs).
I can't believe how many people care about the cosmetics, I've been playing RL for years, unlocked heaps of things to wear but never changed the appearance of my car once. All I really care about is playing and trying to win, although sometimes other peoples cars do look cool, I have no desire to update mine.
Not gonna lie... thought this was going to be about Radio Shack's rebranding as a crypto scheme.

Guess that will be an article for next year.
Except if you don't want to sign into icloud.
> This all pretends like there’s somehow no causality to many of these kids being “difficult”.

I didn't get that from the above comment. They were just asking people to listen to the stories individually, and to consider that culture can influence the choices parents make. Parents' choices can be misguided, and as you say, they need guidance too.

> My experience with friends who have gone to places like this is that the kids by and large were under extreme emotional neglect from a very early age, and visiting a “troubled teen” facility is that it catalyses and forever imprints a childhood completely filled with trauma.

That may be. I don't think that disagrees with the above comment.
I’ve scanned this and have it in my reading list:

https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything

I’ve been working with a very competent security team for several years and there were a lot of familiar terms and techniques.
> The issue was never "weirdness" but rather poor design.

To me all weirdness IS poor design.

> JavaScript was a joke but modern js is tight, clean and generally very fast.

Fast it sure is, for an interpreted language.

On "clean and tight" I beg to differ. I find it an unholy mess: the language, the stdlib and the ecosystem.
Well, sometimes families can be, internally, incredibly abusive while presenting a very convincing image of being loving and caring, even "perfect in every way" to an outsider. If you go to places where survivors of narcissistic or familial abuse congregate it's not uncommon to hear stories of people saying of an abusive parent things like "all my friends used to say 'i wish my mum was like your mum'" and what not. It can be very hard to escape from such situations, sometimes people who seem to have escaped, later voluntarily return to them. Sometimes, when even heinous abuse becomes exposed, the victims will protect the abusers. Narcissistic families excel at keeping secrets.

You have to realise that children have genetic wiring for survival. If their parents are neglectful or abusive, the child cannot simply go on to the free market to shop for a replacement. Rather, they are much more likely to become increasingly compliant, in order to extract as much care as possible from the defective parent. Mild forms of this can involve the child performing very well at school, or in sports, once they realise that love is contingent on performance. Children who feel invisible might act out because negative attention is perceived, perversely, as a workable substitute for love.

Over time, the roles in narcissistic family systems can change around: the golden child can become invisible, or the black sheep, or vice versa. Humans are at the same time as being quite vulnerable to abusive and neglectful environments, also incredibly resilient to them - finding coping strategies which work, even if they can appear to be incredibly destructive, self-destructive, or totally inexplicable to someone lacking the full context.

There is a book called "The Narcissistic Family" by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman which describes the dynamics that can occur in these sorts of family systems.
>You didn't even try to find a neutral source to back up your quote.

It's from Kendi's own writings. It's a direct quote. And you claimed I made it up. Now that you know he said, I'm guessing you still don't care how racist CRT is.
By the same token, in a fiat money system, there's no reason for debt in the first place. Government debt denominated in its own fiat is a side effect of cosplaying a commodity money system.
I'm sure that happens, though I would be surprised if it happens frequently in the groups I'm in. The volume of sales is low, and the items are niche enough that they often aren't in direct competition.
I agree with the content of the article, but I don’t agree with the premise that these things aren’t also “work”.

Engineers tend to obsess over, “focused work” like it’s the only way to be productive, and anything that’s not “focused work” is wasted time. That is a surefire way to burn out.

Instead, finding ways to “riff” on your job by doing work with longer time horizons of payoff keeps your job fun.

It’s all “work”. Maybe the title ought to be, “Stop obsessing over focused work.”
Exactly. Someone suggested we compensate people who are searched when nothing is found. The next person says that would immediately be gamed. I'm saying it would only be gamed if dog searches don't work.

Personally, I would like to see some sort of registration before an animal or device is used for a search. A search would be invalid unless it is applied for. Then the results must be entered upon completion (or assumed to be a failed search). Then we could see the results and how accurate these animals or "scientific" tests are in practice.

Instead we have warrants essentially backed by dogs who have no track record. The police are allowed to say, "the dog alerted, so drugs must have been present at some point and must have been moved." This has even led to further searches for where the drugs were moved to. All without anyone knowing the actual accuracy or effectiveness of a dog's search ability -- only that it was "certified".
Unfortunately, no. That was before my first digital camera. It was all Westinghouse controls in modules. There were many 3 phase SCR packs, good for about 100 AMPS each. I never got to see the motor generator sets.
Your comment reminds me of an old math professor of mine that told an anecdote about some famous mathematician that used to have a very promising student. However, after a while the student left and a colleague to the famous mathematician asked about the student. The mathematician said: "He lacked creativity, so he left mathematics and became a writer."
NIST has a bunch of resources. Just search "NIST intro to security".
A side business of my sister relies heavily on FBM (furniture flipping - find free furniture, invest a few hours and dollars into them, and list them). To date nothing weird like that has ever happened. Sometimes the post get 0 views, but never been deleted.

Mattresses have a bit of a gray area. Depending on the state (yours or facebooks, could be either or both), you might not be allowed to sell a used mattress.
The reality is that they kinda do, people with expensive cosmetics are viewed as being better players by their teammates and opponents. The significance of this can be hard to measure, but in most games it's bigger than a small stat boost that would be immediately seen as p2w
So? Everything in life is like this. Yesterday will always be easier than tomorrow.
Tackling Confusion with Spreadsheet Tables
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With a table that stores the source locator of the operation that generated the visualization and a program to query this table.

A rendering is not a build artifact except in the purest sense, it's just a different view into the source code. If you want to transition back to code you store the information required for it, it's not terribly difficult.

Another analogous feature is setting a breakpoint. They're not exactly equivalent, but depending on how the visualization is treated by the programming environment it covers what you're talking about.
Yeah, cosmetic items are the least bad solution to this problem since they provide zero advantage to players. They're there for people who want to look cool online which is fine.

Paying for items that impact the game balance turns them into spending competitions: whoever pays the company the most money wins. Games designed like this are not even worth playing. I fell for one of these money sinks once, never again.
A "blockchain" as a database structure is all right. It's perfectly appropriate for a handful of traders who trade only with each other underneath a buttonwood tree.

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

It's the "permissionless blockchain" that's toxic.

When Bitcoin first got attention my first thought was: the distributed systems community never invented this because they saw the whole point of distributed systems as "add more nodes and handle a bigger workload". If you were not at least trying to do that they'd never accept your paper for a conference.

The point of Bitcoin is to add nodes so you can add more nodes, not to be scalable. That's what makes it planet roasting and noncompetitive with rent seekers like Visa and Mastercard that only charge 3% for a transaction.
Anything that causes packet loss will slow down TCP. If you are fully saturating a link you will introduce packet loss. It's just how TCP works.
Lol whatever, play other games then
>> Most of the time people are harmed, not just the troubled individual but the family of 4 they crash into and kill on a drunken joyride. What tools do parents have to prevent that? That's the whole point of the discussion.

Answer: None. Because it can happen, all the time. Whether those kids are 16, 18, 25 or 53. Also, it is a pretty specific example...

EDIT: Just because it hits home, genetic prevalence of cancer is something completely different from behavior and how people work in a society. Don't even think of comparing those. The former is your body turning on you, the latter is society deciding you are "troubled" and need "fixing".
No more unions. Co-ops > unions. Unions (at least American ones) are adversarial in an unproductive way. E.g. fighting automated subway trains.
Another memory issue (although unlikely) could also be the file itself being larger than the RAM size, which can be avoided by chunking the textfiles.
The thing about IAPs in games is that most money comes from whales, people spending thousands of dollars for customizations or pay-to-win items, this rises the average by a lot. It would be nice to see the distribution of payments.
They probably had no empathy at the time, but after years of reflection and a criminal plea, finding empathy (or something very close to it) is possible.
Just had a quick look at some of the responders who collectively say:

1 What is the use of this curated list over just accepting the popularly voted answer?

2 I found some errors in the default answer and here is a detailed explanation of what was wrong with the answer.

And I hope they can see that #2 shows the issues with #1.

To put it another way if I were looking for the best solution (which I often am), and I had a choice between a one line stack overflow answer and one of these detailed solutions, I would pick the detailed, curated solution every time.

edit: And the best stack overflow answers are often detailed curated solutions, so I am not saying they don't wind their way up there.
Excuse my blindness. Haven't had a coffee at that time.
> 400 years of beatings and rape in the British Navy

Ah, yes: when someone mentioned British Naval traditions to Churchill, he replied "Rum, sodomy and the lash".
Even if it is an oversimplified story to explain a more difficult concept, it's often used as a moral justification. And really, I'd say Debt is more about the moral justifications of capitalism than it is an economic argument one way or the other.
They spend a lot moderating because their platforms largely allow anybody to spam/harass anybody else with no barriers. I suspect the lack of compartmentalization like Reddit or Mastodon is because of money. There is greater engagement with fewer barriers but more potential for abuse.
We were a few days away from being settled for life
I keep reading "Mercedes Is First To Sell A Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle In 2022". Doesn't that disprove the premise of this article?
It's so annoying. Everyone needs to offer a free form address field at least as an option.
By my math just the hosting cost for GPT-J’s TPU node puts it at about the same price per token as OpenAI’s Davinci. And that’s if you’re using it 100% of the time for a whole month.

Adding in the cost of a server to manage a REST API and a proxy to forward completions requests to an available node and you’re definitely going to pay more than you would to OpenAI. Add on the personnel cost of now maintaining your own GPT-J cluster and writing your own software to handle the completions requests and you’re paying way WAY more than you would to OpenAI. All that subsidization from M$ is making its way to the customer.

This is still something we’ll probably look into at work. But it won’t be a cost saving measure.
You are completely right. Nevertheless, when I zip over arrays of different length, it is usually a bug instead of being intentional.

A code-golfed version for different array lengths:

np.c_[[a[:min(map(len,arrays))].T for a in arrays]].T

The trick to get a local variable within a list comprehension statement with

for l in [foo()]

from your zip_array function is very cool by the way, but I sacrificed it in favor of shorter code.
This is a good story to compare and contrast with the 2008 subprime fraud cases, for example 'Crazy Lloyd Blankfein' of Goldman Sachs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-open-criminal-probe-of-gol...

"Goldman Sachs to Pay Record $550 Million to Settle SEC Charges Related to Subprime Mortgage CDO, CBS 2010"

The amount of fraud committed was far greater than that, and there were no criminal charges involving jail time for any of the culprits. Kind of like doing armed robbery at a bank, getting away with $100K, then being fined $50k for the crime with no jail time. A profitable business model in other words.
> Working too hard just decreases that ratio because work hours increase while money stays constant

I assume this may hold for the US, but not for many other countries. For example in my country the hourly rate for overtime hours is higher by law. Your hourly compensation decrease while working longer would only decrease if you were an external contractor paid a fixed amount of money for completion of a specific task.
Plagiarism by Sir Michael Atiyah (Ex-President of Royal Society)
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A skeleton screen is not interactive though. You cannot do anything except watching it pulse or whatever. Keep in mind that the content here is the shell itself.

I also already know something is happening. That’s what the busy cursor is for.
> They all follow the same model of "build a good multiplayer experience and "support it" perpetually by squeezing as much revenue as you can from your users".

It's a viable business model and it allows players to enjoy the game for many years to come. What bothers me a little is that these revenue extracting schemes are usually very complicated and are probably complicated because it allows them to extract as much money as possible from a small subset of players. Like casino's and mobile games.
This isn't equivalent. If Twitter bans someone for the sole reason they are religious, then you could argue that as a public accommodation they are discriminating against that individual. That would fall in line with the case about a refusal to bake a cake.
Coffee and cigarettes? Clearly you're dissing me, but I have no complaints, I'm turning the other cheek on that. I just want to know what you mean by coffee and cigarettes. Explain the idiom.
What about Keynes, "Treatise on Money"?.
MMT is the idea that the constraint on tax/spending in a fiat money system is monetary effects (inflation/deflation), not the need to tax or borrow money that you could just print to fuel spending.

Ironically, the people that are most opposed to MMT on the basis of outright lies about its content are the people that are most likely to argue against large deficits on inflation grounds even when there is no problem borrowing enough money to fuel it.
The solution is simple: commit and push code all the time.
You can play those beautiful single player games that have none of these problems, or play rocketleague for the gameplay instead of trying to play "pimp my car" while playing rocketleague.
I think it's good training for life: practice with temptetion with something as cheap as a videogame and stretch your "resistence" now, so that later when your income increases even further, you will avoid spending on way more expensive things.
I'm talking by experience, wasted quite some money in league of legends, but I don't play it anymore

I played yesterday night couch coop rocketleague with my friends (my daughter, me, my wife and 2 friends), we have the basic cars and had a great time with that game.

And yes, bought the game for super cheap long time ago
They could be bad at math. I struggled with it through my entire educational career until I was referred to a local hospital for a neuropsych eval, and was diagnosed with dyscalculia, a disorder I didn't even know I existed and my browser thinks is a misspelling of "dyslexia".

So give them all the assistance you can, as OP suggests, but don't get frustrated if they don't get it. It really hurt my self esteem until I got my diagnosis.
> Graeber is a poor economist

1) Have you ever met a good economist?

2) Is it possible you think he is a poor economist because he deeply understood it from the outside and you are still too "in it" to see? That is not a criticism, it is a question.
Cosmetics are a fine business model. I am more worried about the assholes who think it's fine to play a game for dozens or hundreds of hours without buying any. These are the entitled freeloader scumbags who ruin it for everyone else (by forcing gamedevs to use P2W instead of cosmetics to stay in business), not gamedevs
> Ultimately I think it’s because the internet is just too big!

This doesn't address why MSFT can't compete with Google. If you solve that problem, then you really get to the heart of the solution.
I disagree. There are previously popular genres that are either in sharp decline or basically dead (RTS comes to mind). Other genres (MMOs) have been almost completely taken over by games with freemium models and there are few options available if you're not into that. Finally, games on the world's most popular computing/gaming platform in the world (cell phones) are almost all freemium/gacha. This is extremely disappointing.

The indie scene is, indeed, vibrant - but there's a limit to the kinds of games that can come from a small team with a small budget. Meanwhile, extensive monetization is creeping into more and more big franchises and studios. See: the recent Gran Turismo 7 controversy.
I think that computer security causes a lot of other issues, like the Walled gardens, and the constant thread of cyber-attacks. A solid OS that is microkernel based, and ends up with a track record of stability is one of the most important things we need right now.

With out it, people have to use the walled gardens to stay safe. Software innovation is stifled, and it's always there as an possible trigger for overbearing legislative answers to a technical problem.
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> For example, suppose you add a very simple parameter like setting the diameter of a circle.

This is a solved problem, though! You just do what SolidWorks or Fusion360 (IIRC the most popular CAD packages) do!
Using the “Z” symbol could lead to prosecution in two German states
I think the given example is really bad, Rocket League does free-to-play in one of the best ways possibles. I never spend any money on their IAPs nor do I care about them, I still feel like I have access to more customization/items than I have the time to use.

A "better" example are games that have the goal of progression (e.g. city builders, like Clash of Clans) and then simply lock that progression behind a paywall, giving you the option to either wait for hours or pay a "small" amount to skip waiting.
Working towards a promotion is not just about productivity. You have to display leadership qualities.

But here's the key. Not all managers want leaders. It an be viewed as a threat. When the time is right, you can show off your leadership skills.
Point is that you have to be incredibly careful about allowing new complexity. Now we have reached the situation that implementing a new browser has become possible only for very large companies. This would not have been necessary if the web was built using a more layered approach.
I once tried to sell a print in a frame, but the print was depicting a tiger.. so FB removed it for trying to sell animals.. Appeal also failed
It lacks more than an economic model. It lacks a reason for doing so at all.

Goundwater in the ground doesn't help anyone.
> I define it as when machines understand people.

I'd define it as when people understand people.

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Going back to the source, to von Neumann, "the singularity" was literally a mathematical singularity in the curves of accelerating technology.

Vinge thought about self-improving artificial intelligence:

> Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

> Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented.

https://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html

He was a little precipitous in his estimates of the time frame, unless you count the GAIs we've already created. It seems clear to me that we have already built self-improving artificial entities, to wit: Google, Facebook, etc... are GAIs. I think they are cyborgs, with whole humans as neurons. I suspect they even have self-awareness "carried" on the substratum of their human components' self-awareness.

- - - -

But to me the real singularity isn't going to take place in cyberspace, the real singularity happens when people start learning how to operate their own minds more effectively. This is happening already too, but "the future is here it's just not evenly distributed". Without going on and on about it, there is a global current of cybernetic psychology (happening largely outside of the view of academic psychology) that is changing and transforming humanity, or, more precisely, allowing humanity to transform itself.