skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least at Ohio State (Fisher) that was the case in all classes I attended. We spent a lot more time learning about not doing such things and how they are bad for business and society in the long run.

Well that's good that you were in a humane class ; from the people i know in France who received "MBA"-like education, it sounds like the exception, though. Are you familiar with critiques of neoliberal micromanagement, or as David Graeber's put it manageurial feudalism? How else would you explain the rise of bureaucracy ruling even non-profits (!) and ruining everything for everyone who cares about what they do?

> My classmates had a lot of empathy. Maybe it’s because like me they were/are regular people just trying to do better.

Cool, but how can you change the system by following its own rules? Do you feel that as an MBA working in a company you can go against the stream of anti-social control-based measures? I know as a random worker it doesn't work (which is why we have unions and cooperatives) but maybe you have a different perspective to share.

> Not a big deal or something just saying if you joined some forum and everybody said all the bad decisions were because of software engineers, well you’d probably at least get tired of hearing about it.

Well, the thing is as a class both we software people and you business people are ruining the lives of literally billions of people. So we're bound to get some resentment. Still, as Nabil Hassein points out in his talk "Computing, Climate Change, and All our Relationships", it's very mild. (paraphrasing) Given the evil we do to society as a whole, and the fate that's usually reserved to collaborators of oppressive regimes, angry messages on forums and stoning Silicon Valley buses is just the beginning and we should be very careful whose side of the barricade we are on when the revolution does come. I strongly recommend to watch the rest of the talk :)
> HCQ was shot down without investigation even as doctors were reporting success

This narrative was and continues to be pushed by the same people who refused to mask up, isolate, stay home, and otherwise exercise non-pharmaceutical intervention techniques.

Interesting.
Considering most of us didn't know about this list either, there simply wasn't anyone to ask for the censorship.
Twitter would die quickly if it goes private.
> The difference is that cloud relies on public services

What are the public services that AWS relies on, and how are they different from a bank's server farm, or a bank renting out space in a datacenter?

The same, really, applies to all other concerns.
Genuinely, would you be happy with just container isolation between you and other customers of your cloud provider?

Most people absolutely would not.
It's an interesting idea, but I wonder how well the promise will hold up that this is less complex than using a message broker.

Yes, the network topology and protocol are certainly less complex, but there are now additional strong requirements how an endpoint has to store and manage existing events. (See the bits about strict time ordering, compaction, aggregation, etc).

A lot of this is effectively what a message broker is doing in a "traditional" system to guarantee consistency. Those tasks aren't gone, they are just pushed to the endpoints now.
I took that course in 2015 or 2016, so yeah, I guess that's about a decade in which he could have added it. I just browsed around Chalmers' course pages and am very happy to see that he's still teaching that course.
Judging by the title, I thought it was as discovery of a vulnerability.
Tesla’s Shanghai factory stays closed as Covid restrictions remain in place
I used to think so as well until I read The Great Demographic Reversal.

The book argues that gains on capital will decrease as time goes on, due to labor becoming scarcer globally. Over the past half century global labor has been plentiful so of course capital to mobilize people would have fantastic returns.

I don’t think a revolution like this is likely, in fact I expect to see more unions and higher costs for the rest of my life, and for common workers to finally catch a break.
>How do you define happiness in the first place?

By measuring level of dopamines, and other neurotransmitters in brain when person claims to be happy. Easy and precise.
> "Twitter algorithm should be open source"

I can see the idealism behind this question, but imagine just how hard this could backfire in practice. People discovering to what extent algorithmic ranking manipulates them, and feeds the outrage machine.

And that's what glues eyeballs and generates revenue, so changing the algorithm would work against revenue.
My beef with all of these checklists: do you expect me to spend my whole managing my security?
Same reason Bezos owns the Washing ton Post.

If you don’t care about directly making money, you can treat the platform as a way to promote or reject whatever messaging you want to millions of users.

If it’s a public company, it’d be subject to the will of the shareholders and have other corporate responsibilities. If it’s private, it can do whatever he wants it.
That’s actually a bug, thank you. It will break as soon as the last modification to the data file is more than 20 commits behind HEAD. I used 20 because it made the workflow function (it was working on my local machine but not when I pushed to GitHub because the default depth is 1). I need to update it to check for the last commit that modified the json file rather than searching through the entire commit history.
That whole "pedo guy" episode really showed us that Elon is just a another narcissistic bully who only really cares about anything up to the point that its about him.
IME an arbitrary set of objects is best recalled as a mind-palace arranged in 2D space. Think about the typical display of buttons or labeled icons in our GUI's. That kind of visualization is inherently memorable, even more so than listing the same content in some arbitrary sequence.
That's the way towards homelessness.
Does this mean Trump will be let back in again, because then I'm out.
I would like to highlight the, to me very surprising, observation that medieval crossbows truly aren't more effective than bows. Their impressive draw weights are mostly consumed by inefficiencies in arm weight/elasticity and bowstring weight.
Is it just me or is it annoying that some articles take SEVERAL paragraphs to get to the point?
You're right my comment does technically, but in my defence it wasn't responding to a good faith discussion about free speech, it was responding to a bad faith transphobic talking point. But yeah I could've made that point more politely.
Crop yield calculator with bonus in Farming Simulator 22
We shouldn’t be transparent because it would make people mad
This so much. It's good its all in one place, but come on, it's a checklist of four whole screens.

I would prefer a minimal checklist instead: what measures give you the most (security) bang per buck (effort spent)?
block the world, allow friends with a pw like their initials - lengthen as needed. This is an invasion by homeless bots, one-at-a-time blocking = they outnumber you.
Add the access PW to your signature as PW = your initials, or your initials twice/thrice in case bots surface. This is OK for families or small crews where the PW rules can be uniquely changed case by case. For bulk, we will all have to go to the new FIDO protocol which seems to be gaining traction.
https://fidoalliance.org/tag/new-fido-protocol/
Manjaro i3wm version is just like this. It’s out there for years, so it’s more mature. Also, it is built on top of arch linux, so it’s much less bloated, and you get the arch linux guides which are the easiest and most polished I’ve found on any distribution.
What does determining a location via iBeacons mean? If overland is using the iOS API to determine the location, shouldn’t it also use Bluetooth and the likes (which would include iBeacons in my understanding).
You feel appreciative that someone had the gumption and integrity to stand up to the lemming-like groundswell of mindless drones corrupting the legacy of Id by a DOOM mod?

You realize that while Romero was the one pushing for WAD in particular, Carmack backed him all the way. To the point of open-sourcing the engines. To the point of threatening to quit on multiple occasions if anyone tried to patent-encumber any of the Id intellectual property? Adrian Carmack (no relation) was also totally onboard.

The right answer is to know things about things before saying things about them. For Christ’s sake they made a book about this shit legible to people who don’t understand the 1/sqrt trick.
When's the last time you've tried it? Load times are way better. New improvements for code caching have been merged in 1.8, and native code caching is coming in 1.9. It's a complex problem due to Julia's aggressive specialization and composability, so you can't just expect Julia to do it like other compiled languages.

Check out this recent writeup from a core dev: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/precompile-why/78770/8
Man with personal space programme wants personal shitposting platform?
Yeah, although the author is excited about new knowledge, he is ignoring our growing knowledge about toxicity and the costs of disrupting ecosystem resources, as well as the compounding expenses of maintaining a high standard of living at greater population density. You can be optimistic about the long arc of human progress and still realistic about our ability to take catastrophic steps backwards.
> The words “$40 an hour software engineer” probably bring an immediate picture to mind. You know who that is.

LOOK I SAID IM SORRY. ILL NEVER MIX FLOATS AND INTS EVER AGAIN, I WAS WRONG AND I WILL OWN THAT.
Hard to imagine they could do worse than becoming beholden to someone other than public shareholders at this point. It’s a utility, not a business.
Not really. I picked examples of his most successful aspirations. There's a graveyard of others that have died quietly:

- Elon wants to take Tesla private and has the capitalization

- Elon wants to rescue Thai children stuck in a cave

- Elon will sell Tesla stock to end world hunger

- Elon wants to fight Putin in a 1-on-1 to end the war in Ukraine

- Elon thinks 98% of the US will be covered in Supercharging stations by 2015

- Elon wants to send 2 people into space by 2018

...

Elon has a long history of underestimating how difficult things are and gives up quietly or is proven immediately to be wrong.

Edit:

Forgot about this site https://www.elonmusk.today/ which does a better job than my memory of documenting some of Elon's outrageous tweets.

Add:

- Elon wants to fund the repairs of any house in Flint that's water contaminated.

- Elon wants to use bricks from the Boring Company to create low cost housing.

- Elon is starting a candy company that will be amazing.

- Elon wants to use SpaceX rockets to power aircrafts for quicker trips from New York to London in 29 minutes.

- Elon received government approval (verbally) to build a tunnel for the hyperloop from New York City to Washington DC.

...
I finished this book a few months ago. It has a few practical tips for improving focus! Recommend checking it out.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
How do you recover when there is e.g. some connection error and a client misses some events? Can the client ask to replay the events? Then, how far back can they go?
I have modern hardware but I chose to disable certain bios features for exactly this reason. Now Win10 informs me that my PC is not Win11 capable, and that's a thing less to worry.
Appreciating how funny it is that a buying a platform for emitting 140 char messages was the way to get short narrative.

It's a huge channel with a very poor and constrained platform under it, which I suspect is the opportunity. However, the only way to unlock it is with leadership who still want to grow for real, instead of keeping it leashed as a zero-sum political tool. If I were to speculate on what makes this a Musk super-play, Twitter seemed on the path to collapsing under the weight of all the fucks its managers and keepers have had to give, thus destroying the value of a historically unique channel. The best way to use that huge channel for real good and value is to open it up to users to build on and get out of the way. It's something he's almost uniquely capable of driving.
Julia has its own heap of issues, but five minutes is a load of bull:

> time julia -e 'using Plots; plot(rand(10, 5), rand(10))'

________________________________________________________
Executed in 5.77 secs fish external
usr time 5.74 secs 214.00 micros 5.74 secs
sys time 0.57 secs 0.00 micros 0.57 secs

This is also on a fairly old version at that:

> julia -v
julia version 1.6.3

Regardless, this conversation was to be about Cython; it which deserves a lot of praise in its own right as a tool in your toolbox to make the blasted snake run faster.
What does Mackenzie Scott know about anything other than running Amazon? She’s a busybody who involves herself in stuff that’s none of her business. E.g. knee-jerk donating to anti-Asian front organizations like AAJC just because #stopaapihate was trending and they had “Asian” in the name: http://nwasianweekly.com/2020/08/mackenzie-scott-billionaire...

Musk is an infinitely better influence on something like Twitter.
Common Lisp and simlar languages are a prof of what is possible.
> but it is a mistake to conflate the two

That's up for debate. Modern communication is so monopolized by twitter/FB that the argument of "they are a private company" no longer holds.

We can bemoan Russian interference in the elections all we want. But the power Twitter/FB hold is far more impactful on domestic and international democracy than any russian agent every could be.
Just to be clear, I'd love for this to happen. I absolutely despise the outrage machine that Twitter has come to be.

I'm saying it's interesting for Elon, as a major shareholder, to argue in favor of this.
I don't understand the aim of article at all, and I research NP-complete problems for a living. I am not however an expert in blockchains.

Yes, sharing is NP-complete, but that's not, as far as I understand, a problem. Efficient scheduling of parcel delivery is NP-complete, the postal service runs fine, if probably slightly suboptimally.

Why does it matter if we do what everyone had always done in this type of situation, and just have everyone love in the shard they choose, moving when they feel like it?
I'd agree this one takes too long to get to its thrust, but I'd argue the majority of articles I read gloss over nuance in an attempt to capture Twitter-soaked brains.
Trump’s Truth Social is worth over $10B

Source? While it was apparently over $20B at the peak of its value, according to https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/DWAC it seems to currently be bellow $2.5B
Last British cavalry charge carrying swords was 1941!

There’s a new book on cavalry in WW2 being published soon look out for it.
This is a great comment!

Next steps are BPF pinning and probably a few userspace hiding tactics. Constraints for the project is that I will not use a kernel module or LD Preload. Additionally I’m going to have sets of triggers in addition to a bad IPv4 checksum. Most modern network equipment will drop the malformed packet long before it reaches a target with a bad checksum.

Other ideas are encapsulating RCE over IPv6 (there are 24 bytes available) and using SYNACK retries and TCP RST to also trigger the reverse protocol.

We can also probably slim compile time and runtime dependencies down if we lose the hacky double ncat protocol thing I have going on and just open up a reverse socket directly. Which means we should also have the remote not run as root for obvious reasons.

I have a lot of ideas, as our friends in Ukraine tell me their needs I’ll be posting more research to the repository to aid them as much as possible.
> TL;DR free speech is between you and the government, not between you and someone else or some other company.

Yes, everyone knows that.

It's a bit different though when you have massive social media platforms that have monopolies over public discourse.
How many times a day are you starting sessions?
The finite resource is places to put the byproducts.
Thanks. I anti-corrected it to red from blue when I found the video, and the statement felt really wrong when I wrote it, but I thought fuck-it - the video link is too good to miss! Lazy me.
>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this.

The CDC study was specifically in relation to covid lockdowns. Virtually everyone pointed out how this would happen and that this unprecedented move to lockdown the healthy vs the standard for thousands of years of quarantining the sick. The cost is far worse than the healthcare system melting down. Then again you look at Quebec nurses... they literally went to the United Nations to say they are slaves. Provincial government is doing it to them. Federal government is tyrannical. They had to go to the UN. Insanity how bad our healthcare system is collapsing.

> I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health.

So something that north america doesnt seem to have that most of the world does have... imagine you are poland or somewhere in the middle east. You fear war every single day. People who live there think about having to escape every day.

North America doesn't have that. Nobody fears a surprise war because thousands of nukes will launch out of fear wiping out whoever is attacking. Flipside, Russia's new threat of imminent nuclear war means North American teens will now have to worry about their impending doom.

This return of the cold war will make things worse; not measured in this study.
The graveyard of HTML attributes which never gained public attention/usage is large and full of useful ideas.

My favourite was relational links such as

<link rel='first' href='/de' title='Homepage' />
<link rel='prev' href='/some/bunnies.php' title='Previous Page about bunnies' />
<link rel='next' href='/some/cats.php' title='Next page about cats' />
<link rel="copyright" href="/de/impressum.php" title="Impressum">
<link rel="alternate" href="/gr/samepage.php" hreflang="gr" title="Page name in greek">

Opera was the only browser which had a toolbar with these relational links. This was around mid-2000. Unfortunately, this toolbar never survived or got taken over by other browsers.

Some relations survived (such as rel="search" for custom search pages), some got killed-by-ecosystem (such as RSS).
I've seen this argument a few times, but I don't think it holds up

The majority of trans people have/had functioning genitalia. Gender identity isn't restricted to the set of people outside the crudely simple vagina=woman penis=man classification

There's a spectrum of opinion which is easier to consider with hair color identity as opposed to gender identity

If there's blonds & brunettes, the existence of redheads doesn't mean blond vs brunette is moot. & don't even get started on dirty blonds. But if a blond dies their hair brunette, are they blond or brunette? Their roots still say blond. But they put much care into dying frequently enough that the roots aren't visible. So society accepts them as brunette. Meanwhile the more pro-identity group will argue that not only is the blond brunette, but has _always been_ brunette[1]

The latter argument is much harder to defend, & from what I can tell arguments tend to do one of two things:

1. both parties focus on arguing against the weakest arguments of their opposition, leading to two parties talking past each other

2. both parties shift the argument to the most debatable point either way, which can often shift the dividing line of for/against to be at some extreme as opposed to in the generally accepted gray area between the extreme & the counter

Full disclosure: I'm fine using people's preferred pronouns even if I believe in biological gender (ie I don't believe pronouns need to be tied to biological gender, because while I generally need pronouns for everyone I may refer to, I generally don't care about their genitals). That said, I mostly find gender roles a hassle; being a man who has enjoyed wearing a dress & putting on nail polish doesn't mean I identify as a woman

[1] out of politeness one may not want to make a point of randomly pointing out that a brunette haired person was actually born blond, even if they don't believe they were always brunette
Whitelist is a controversial / potentially offensive term, can it be changed please to allow list to make it inclusive please.
> "GPUs, through a consequence of history, chose not to focus on real-time implicit geometry like curves, but instead on everything that goes inside them"

Just for information : 10 years ago, NVidia has released this paper and extension "GPU Accelerated Path Rendering" : https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering , so it seems GPU can still help
> I think most users genuinely do prefer to get personalized suggestions instead of irrelevant ones. Firefox is still doing this by default implies pretty strongly to me that the feature is a meaningful benefit to the product, and isn't just in Chrome as a covert data collection mechanism.

You're probably right. I also muddled "search results" and "autocomplete suggestions".
OK, but how do I do that on Google Drive?
I have a recollection of early versions of Firefox exposing the stylesheet switcher in the footer chrome. Maybe it was an extension though? I can't find references to it online.
Yeah, looking forward for Julia to pressure Python.
With more attention going to long polling again, I wonder if it would be useful to introduce some kind of HTTP signaling (header or 1xx status) to indicate on the protocol level that long polling is going on. This might be useful information for intermediaries - e.g. proxies, firewalls, browser network tab, etc.
If we have the power to transform the universe, we have the power to transform ourselves.

Why would we make the universe ape our biologically-inspired needs and desires, when we could transcend them and become so much more?
This might help figure things out.

I have allergies. To dust, pollen, perfumes, etc. No foods, but the earth hates me essentially lol.

So that means my body goes into overdrive when it thinks it is being attacked. (As I understand in regards to the immune system and how its linked to my allergic attacks.)
> E.g. postcriptaluminumengagement vs kug45l2wx

If you pick from a dictionary of 250,000 words, that is around 18 bits. So three randomly chosen words strung together give you around 54 bits. On the other hand, an alphanumeric character is around 6 bits, so 9 of them strung together is about 54 bits.

Assuming your dictionary was 250,000 words, both of the passwords you posted were about the same quality (until you posted them - now they're again about the same quality, but much less).

> Or are there also dictionaries that contain combos of words?!

Your software just concatenates words and other well known sequences (123, zxcvbn).

Check out the great password entropy checker called zxcvbn:

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

https://dropbox.tech/security/zxcvbn-realistic-password-stre...

https://www.bennish.net/password-strength-checker/

(Note: don't enter production passwords into random websites, needless to say...)
Twitter complies with e.g. German government censorship of Nazis: https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/876843545100824576?lang...

(the term gets thrown around a lot, and has been devalued into meaninglessness by the Russian government, but it does have a legal meaning in Germany and France)