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Le Bon's *the Crowd* and Social Media (Mis-)Behavior
Social media enables behaviors once limited to crowds, mobs, parliaments, etc. Thanks to improved communications people can exhibit these behaviors w/o standing up.

Gustav Le Bon's book "The Crowd" explains group behaviors (and misbehaviors). The context may be, say, the French Revolution, but the behaviors are the same as exist in social media today.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind : Gustave Le Bon
https://archive.org/details/crowdastudypopu00bongoog
It’s sad, but I don’t see the world getting better anytime soon. I am trying to earn and invest as much as I can for the sake of my children and grandchildren. I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like they will be financially devastated otherwise.
> fully automated gay space communism

I hope I have the opportunity to use this turn of phrase at some point in my life. Magnifique!
Agreed. The content is great but UX is terrible so I quit early. Scrolling is not a good way to initiate action and is extremely annoying to deal with.
Yeah I’m curious too, I think thats the right direction to research
Tell Your Kid That Infinity Comes in Different Sizes
Less than $200k? Might as well off yourself.

Just kidding. It shouldn’t need to be said, but don’t actually off yourself.
To be fair, mostly the homeowners of that generation scrimped and scrimped and saved for their productive decades to get their home.

Without holidays, iphones, food delivery, cafe coffees, gap year, 'finding myself', international travel etc.

That generation (of which I'm not part, but have taken the time to hear the stories of) lived week to week scraping by on bare subsistence living so they could pay the mortgage, with interest rates of 7-18%.

So they strove and sacrificed for the defining decades of their life for that equity, and of course they want to keep what they worked and sacrificed so hard for.
This sounds like Baton Rouge or Dubuque.
> I don't quite get the study plan, as it sounds more like cramming [...]

> I think a better system is to regularly study fundamentals and always deep dive in your work.

Is it safe to assume that you don't have young kids like the author does?
Tangent: I find I get less motion sickness with VR goggles if I put a small box fan on the floor in front of me, blowing upward toward my face. If you buy the theory that motion sickness is a physiological response to neurotoxin ingestion, then the breeze is another signal voting for everything being OK.
I had a 5 digit ICQ number and I lost the password!
The point still stands. You should not use affirm.

When a problem happens, it is "nobody's" fault. But your credit gets destroyed though.
This bug has been in there for 10 years.
Maybe you could try using c2rust [1] that transpile C to Rust, then try to port it back and forth. It would be much better if you can use Rust though.

[1]: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
Jesus how annoyingly written.
Ask HN: Why Blog at All?
Why bother at all with a blog and/or public presence at all? The last few days I have noticed quite a few HN posts about developer blogs.

I used to blog and maintain a decent open source presence online, but the last couple years I have completely withdrawn from the public. I deleted my Github profile, took my blog offline, removed all professional network accounts, etc.

It wasn't for the lack of success. I have no idea how many readers or followers I had, but some of my security related posts made it into more "serious" media and elsewhere.

I think it boiled down to a realization that no one really gave a damn about me, my writing/work/creations/etc. So then, what's the point? Is it entirely ego driven? Chasing dopamine hits when your post or your project is tweeted about?

The last few years I have been creating things entirely in the dark. It has been so freeing. Not creating to be talked about. Not creating something to hold it up and say look at what I did. I finally got the feeling back. The one you got when you first started programming. It's wonderful.
I think it is more they can make the same number of vehicles in a smaller space, thereby doing it faster and more profitably. Tesla's gross margin (profit per car essentially) is 10-15% higher than most all of the rest of the industry. He is pointing out that doing it better makes them more competitive.

Currently, the Volkswagen Wolfsburg Plant is the biggest automotive factory in the world by number of vehicles produced by a single factory. That number is 815,000 vehicles per year. The tesla factories that are currently built are in theory capable of 1 million vehicles per factory apiece, but are not there yet. If tesla can out-manufacturer VW, obviously they'll be more likely to sell more vehicles, and further erode VW's business.
Share this with your kids! Just showed the timeline picture to family to explain to them when we see something distant it is light crossing a chasm. As someone who was really into astronomy as a kid, field by interest from father and grandfather, this announcement is really exciting.
Humans are also receptacles of culture creating new cultural artefacts, DALL-E is like us in that regard. But it's a tool AI, it's not a full agent. It's not embodied, embedded and enacted in the environment, its goal is to minimise loss, not to survive. I think the "what it's like to be an X?" comes from being in the environment with needs and goals to accomplish. It's not a magical neural architecture, it's the framing of the whole process that makes the difference.
This is enterprise Java, there are dead serious people creating software like this and demanding software like this. As a person who paid mental tool dealing with both, this codebase makes me anxious.
It's also how John F. Kennedy Jr. died. He was neither trained nor rated for instrument flying, and crashed when his plane flew into fog. This is an all-too-common way for GA pilots to die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Jr._plane_cras...
What are you suggesting here? That npm Inc (basically Microsoft), Python Software Foundation, Ruby community, PHP community, Rust community, Go community raise funds to hire people to individually vet each and every change in each and every package? OK, let's do that because we have SO MANY excess jobless developers. /s

OR we could use MUCH less resources and just make a sanction list.
> As an example, if you had a software that was written 20 years ago to store data in a relational DB, updating it to work with current versions of that database system won't be much work (if any). If you rely on managed services, I wouldn't be too sure that you get away that easy.

This very much depends. In the example you gave, nothing changes if you used managed services or not.

But you could argue that the 20yo software is technical debt preventing the upgrade of the database due to the source code being lost, the library used to connect to the latest version of the database doesn't exist requiring a rewrite in a moderm language or framework. Etc.

Technical debt really is about code that cannot easily be modified to adapt to the requirements of a business.

If you wrote some code, and it was trash, made no sense, in an obscure language that few people know, with no comments. Yet it ran for 10 years flawlessly with everyone too scared to look at it, but made the business money. It's not technical debt until it needs to be changed/modified.
To be fair they call themselves OpenAI. Expecting things to be a little more open isn't unreasonable. They are kinda setting themselves up to disappoint people with that name.
tl;dr Never delete a production cluster
It’s so bad. What a waste of great material.
Russian propaganda in Russia is not trying to shift overtone window. ISIS is not trying to subtly short it either.

Regimes are not just historical.
Starts with a strawman:

Instead, sexual freedom became a juridical matter within the nation-state and subsequently a feature of Western cultural identity; indeed, it became a so-called “Western value.” Today, sexual freedoms are the benchmark of the civilizational difference between the West and the Rest.

But what does this have to do with the war in Ukraine?"

Why conservative pundits like this guy have to equate "sexual freedom" with female emancipation I have no idea. Like it's the only thing that is given to women when they are allowed to choose their destinies? Absolute idiocy.
Yep, also nice for parents who already use Thunderbird and now (well, once it exits beta) I can perhaps convince them to use matrix more consistently.
This is a public forum discussing a public tweet made by an employee of a for-profit private company who sells you this technology. And said employee is a traveling salesman and consummate hype machine, acknowledged by his own best friends - and even self many times.

Practical and epistemically relevant knowledge to anyone deciding how interesting these results, presented originally without mentioning they were cherry-picked, are. I’m doing a favor to provide it, as doing so isn’t exactly something that makes me look great, but is very much worth knowing for anyone following him.

Side note - there’s this SF club of effete intellectualistas who fashion themselves as modern day florentines during a de novo renaissance. They do a lot of back-patting. They have the exactly mentality of your reply - be kind, love is all you need, etc.

It’s sort of the exact opposite of the east coast mentality that willingly sacrifices looking good and “getting along” in favor of finding the truth despite some discomfort. Discomfort to this group is very taboo.

Of course, this don’t-rock-the-boat mentality is very much intentional as it gives said club the ability to instantly shun anyone who deigns to critique it, allowing them to continue building their following.
> fanbelts

Belts are maintenance parts, and are extremely unlikely to break if changed on schedule.

> flywheels

You would need a shaped charge warhead to break a flywheel.

> alternators and starters

Electric motors and servos exist in electric cars as well, to drive fans, pumps, brake servos, and so on.

> spark plugs

It is extremely rare for spark plugs on fuel injected engines to break, but they degrade and are cheap and easy to replace. Much easier than brake pads or tires.

> transmissions

Very rarely break, but the transmissions in electric cars share the same basic components.

> In practice, Teslas break most when other drivers hit them.

If this was true, it would mean teslas are babied and only used sparingly in forgiving environments. But there are still too few old teslas around to produce meaningful statistics about drive train/chassi failure modes, which usually happen much later in the cars lives. The oldest ones are essentially babied "boutique" individuals.

Maintenance changes on cars are: tires, brake pads, fluids (oil, cooling, hydraulics), and some belts, shock absorbers and suspension parts.

It is true that electric cars don't need oil changes.
Via Molina: cultural mill routes throughout Europe
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center
First they came for the nazis and…I said “good”.
I've been a fan of importing pdclib functions piece by piece as I need chunks of libc in deeply embedded situations. Simple enough that I can audit everything for the semantics of each functions dependencies without any rigamore, but without the sirens of yak shaving singing to me like when I get the urge to write libc stuff myself in most cases. Although the CC0 license is a bit unfortunate in some cases for source code.
All evidence points to the contrary. We have OTC drugs, or relatively accessible prescriptions, that already expand health and lifespan drastically - otherwise we'd all be dying young.
I think Sony didn't gamble that much on mirrorless, and were already in a good position to make it happen.

They had a CCD/CMOS group company since the 80s and started using them in video cameras. From there they also produced sensors for feature phone, smarphones, and mirrorless was more or less an extension of that
I used to have a 5 digit one as well, but I was also a cool script kiddie and when someone told me about the dir traversal in the icq web server that was enabled for everyone by default, I went on an icq config stealing spree. I stole a password for a number that was like 12121 or something neat like that.

It turned out to belong to either an icq employee or a friend of one. Needless to say I found that I could no longer log in to any of my stolen and personal accounts.

And that's my story about finding out what karma was in my teens.
The checks would probably just bounce.
What we do at day job is to have a 'whitelist' of all malloc callers which is checked by the CI.
1994, I remember being able to get a free copy of DOS 6.22 with the purchase of either a motherboard or new hard drive. I think that's how I got Windows 3.11 too, but I may have gotten that used from a bookstore. I'm not sure.
An array of active IR cameras in fixed, known positions, plus IR reflector markers on the UAV works well out of the box over ranges of a few meters. Eg. Vicon. Same tech as motion capture for movies.

I don’t have experience using it in volumes as large as the video, but in moderate sized lab space it works very well, and at high frame rates.

The trick is to invert the problem and have the active sensors off-board and the robot is the (reflected energy) beacon.
The line between "You are an expert. If you pay for something useless, it's your problem, not mine" and an outright scam is blurry. If someone says that the industry scams their customers, I wouldn't say he is wrong. But of course it's not in the industry's interest to tell their customers to stop paying.
Lying about it (if caught) will absolutely get you disqualified though.

But yeah use and conviction are very different.
Whatever is pushed by big media as high virtue to the masses for benefiting corporations or established political forces e.g. the Iraq war, "orange man bad", dictatorial vaccines over any therapeutics, the Ukraine war etc.
Will the post-JS text have the same weight as pre-JS text? Perhaps due to the extra load time or some undocumented aspect of the algorithm.
You can both enjoy being with your child while also recognizing that it takes up a large amount of time and that there's other things in life that need to be done as well, such as getting a job to pay for that child's upbringing, education, etc.
Why's it slightly noisy? It never resolves to clean when the camera's still, so it doesn't seem to be MC noise for something like ambient occlusion or raytracing/pathtracing, so I assume it's just a 2D effect on top of the image for look?
>E.g. You registered on Reddit and just used a random/disposable/freshly thought of email address like “reddit@kingcharles.tld”.
>Now if you receive an email from Reddit or anybody on the email I guess you can just hit reply and it will be replied from that Email

Yes, that's exactly how it works. I just went and checked it. I have one catchall alias set up with a name of King Charles on *@kingcharles.tld. Anything that comes into that domain like reddit@kingcharles.tld I can reply to and the FROM will be King Charles <reddit@kingcharles.tld> without me having to do anything. [It actually shows it as three textboxes "King Charles", "reddit", "kingcharles.tld" you can edit]

I pay $5 a month which I consider a bargain.
There is a lot of emphasis on eyes. Same thing in Google’s deep dream. Eerie.
He said that he pretty much just typed what he thought at full speed. He emitted lots of typos. I don't remember if he mentioned, but maybe someone else handled the retyping.
Can't you see the problem with holding as evidence your position of ignorance that anything is wrong with the situation as it stands, whilst the situation which you argue in support of is explicitly designed to impose that position of ignorance? It would be much the same as if you were blindfolded walking through a morgue and claiming that no death surrounds you because of your treasured blindfold.

You can't even know there's a problem until you can properly see the situation you're in, and if you advocate for measures that allow the apparent imposition of a false reality, you can't use that apparent false reality as evidence that "everything is OK and no theoretical harm has come to pass".

I fear nearly the entire world is awash in this nonsense and it gains purchase with every passing week. Everybody craves the illusion of normalcy and sees no sin in the truth being betrayed in pursuit of it, and then when that illusion falls away they scream blue murder that they were deceived, seemingly with complete ignorance of the fact that they begged for that deception, demanded its imposition, and vilified those who opposed it.

The truth always outs eventually, you can only hide from it for so long. And all you buy in the hiding is license for those who need your ignorance to operate, with all the harm that implies.
What they really mean is they'll ban any AI tools that bring a sense of fairness to the process.
The commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AktHnnA9QIM
Yeah, the story I read was Jolitz went AWOL, so there was a contentious period when Net/Open/Free split and self-organized and started releasing again.
This is highly relevant to LxAGI (https://lxagi.com) because it allows you to specify your own ontology as a JSON schema. You can then parse natural language to your schema as it is found. A shared schema library would probably be useful.
"Retire" doesn't need to mean "sit on your ass all day"; it can also mean "freedom to do whatever work I want, no matter the pay", "start my own business", "take a year off to be a stay-at-home parent", and things like that.
it's easy, whenever politics comes up just say "i'm voting for whoever promises fully automated gay space communism"

btw "fully automated luxury communism" is a more mainstream thing like people have written manifestos and made art etc
Hetzner offers this [1]. For less than 5 EUR a month you get 1 TB of storage plus their managed Nextcloud!

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
Diagrams from a 1966 concrete block catalog HTTPS://t.co/BqHxwTYd1o
Similar: https://fontsource.org/
There isn’t an IQ test that’s been created that wouldn’t benefit from practice. That’s why the materials are so highly guarded for actual IQ tests.

So technically true, but reality doesn’t have any true IQ tests either.
I have used it a bunch of times now since the post appeared on HN. Really impressed. I like it. Good luck people.
Other companies spend money on advertising & manipulating public opinion, Tesla focuses on the product.

I trust the people.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2021

That's the actual quote and the question was from a media member who used to have a lot of contact with the PR team and was referring to people responding to requests from him. Fred knows very well that Tesla still has a marketing team in general.
No idea why this got voted down. The app in question is for Apple ecosystem, it's not cross-platform. In the Apple ecosystem, yeah, Notes is simple, capable and hard to beat
It's not a problem. Not all things should have every feature. You're not the customer Sonos wants. Buy something else.
I think it's because he's on the eng management track. I don't think they're asking hard leetcode questions.
Yup, but such is the state of the art in high end companies.
The one that I've not yet seen in an alternative is a simple way to implement simple custom syntax highlighting. Npp has the UDL GUI, but I don't even need the GUI if specifying what to highlight and how to highlight it is as straightforward as the UDL XMLs are. Sadly most things have either hardcoded syntax highlighting or poorly documented convoluted specification files.

Most of the other features I use most are fairly common though: line sorting and dedupe, column editing, regex search and replace, EoL conversion, compare/diff, etc.
VSCode makes it very easy to selectively install plugins on a remote that doesn’t have internet access and allows fairly seamless editing, debugging and terminal access to a remote with very little effort. But I’ve been looking for alternatives to VSCode’s remote editing experience because I’ve generally got about 6-8 projects that I keep open all the time and it can eat up a lot of RAM and CPU especially when I have several of them running and debugging stuff in tandem. The trick for me is that beyond file editing synchronization I need to be able to debug the code. There’s some promising ideas here, but I haven’t been able to make the jump yet. The jet brains link you shared is the most similar offering I’ve seen, but I’m hopeful distant.nvim or mutagen (plus whatever else I’d need) can be used to get more tools on a similar level of seamlessness.
Omertà
Yeah the default "keep all tabs open between sessions" is great if you muck about with a lot of scratch/copy pasta files
Is there anywhere I can learn (or learn to learn) about NTRU Prime? I have a fairly decent knowledge of x25519 but in know nothing about lattice-based cryptography. I tried reading the NTRUP paper but most of it goes over my head.
I feel like that's not great WLB by today's standards. 8-5 is 9 hours a day (instead of 8), and on a Friday no less, when many folks at other companies easily clock out by 3 to begin their weekend early.
Some of them compensate for wear if the wear rate is known (eg: 1000 welds cause .5mm erosion on the electrodes). You can only do this until the tool geometry becomes unsuitable for that particular operation.
Xor swap trick and add/sub swap trick (2010)
Best explanation of "the center of the big bang is the past" I've seen, bravo.
> I've mostly seen them in my hobby gamedev work where things like concurrency and graphs and dynamism are endemic.

Do you think game development is the only field where that's endemic?
And the RAM was insanely expensive.

I remember some senior managers from IBM at the time, who had 128MB powered Workstations using Windows NT. They did not brag about the machines, they simply stated the fact, that this was some engineering master piece.

That much RAM itself posed some problems, because Windows NT was still new, hardly any software ran on it and also that "much" RAM was new, so what to do about it? Virtual Hard Disc? For example, Windows 95 could only address 64 mb without slowing down.
Is it even spoofed, or is that his real name? It could just be an email not publicly associated with the GitHub account. AFAIK GitHub displays links to profiles purely as a convenience, based on the commit metadata.
> The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?” and “What constitutes the authentic human being?”

Philip K Dick.

To boil it down to slavery is a modern take. His other story Roog about a dog defending his home has a similar premise.

His question is closely related to whether you could figure out you are a copy, whether your could tell actual reality from perceived reality, etc.
I'm unable to follow your assertion so please help me understand this.

> skipping this pre-flight checklist

Does this happen? My only knowledge about piloting is checklists are considered sacrosanct. Wouldn't skipping a checklist raise a red-flag?
Yup, usually. With a dash of negotiation for correcting which comp bands they’re considering.
There was some crossover between open source *BSD and a closed source OS called BSDi. So this fear was not totally unjustified.

Also people were still burned from the "Unix Wars", where closed-source BSD variants played a major role. So there was the feeling that GPL would discourage incompatible forks.
Probably matrix.org. there are some sketchy rooms on that instance.
Are there any operating system vendors who support their releases for 15 years? I think RedHat is like 10 years? There is CIP that is longer term though.

https://www.cip-project.org/
Systems and CPUs that old don't get microcode/BIOS updates any more.
It's not even working on my phone (Android + chromium), just stuck at 100.
Right! It's like a museum with mandatory guided tours.