skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, I did a version of this as the attacker in early Second Life.

In SL, you can create objects and have them speak (via the onscreen text chat window). You were allowed to give them any name, so I would name them after another player, letting me "throw my voice" and impersonate them.

The devs apparently realized this problem early on, and their fix was: objects speak with green text, human players speak with white text. But this isn't disclosed anywhere, and there weren't many speaking objects at the time.

So my workaround was to name an object after another player, wait for them to go afk, and then have the object say, "Hey guys, guys, check this out! I can make my text green! Woo hoo!" And then say all the malicious stuff I wanted them to say.
Reminds me of the mummy shouting thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8qhrURrQbI
Is it twice as much? I think unsound architectural practices in software is the root cause of this issue, not red green refactor.

You aren't doing "double the work" even though it seems that way on paper, unless the problem was solved with brittle architectural foundations and tightly coupled tests.

At the heart of this problem is most developers don't quite grasp boundary separation intuitively I think.
As a single man living in a single income household who also struggles to get married why don’t I get benefits to compensate for my lack of a partner?
I was excited for a moment but PFOS (Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, a PFAS) doesn't have a carboxyl group so I guess Minnesota's (US state) 3M polluted waters won't get any respite.
> It doesn't matter what medium you consume as much as what you're actually missing.

Disagreed. Both matter.

Deliberately triggering people is bad for them. You have to be very disingenuous to deny it.
Can’t you just replace Facebook with “social media”? There’s very few good uses of social media and the entire thing is free, so there’s no way they are making money doing things in your interest.
I love my carbon steel pan.
That's what I get for revealing my identity and sharing my stories. I'm told by strangers hiding behind their anonymous username that my views are "biased". Well, yeah, all views are "biased". Does it mean that those stories are not true?

Lebanon was divided around ethnic lines all throughout the war. On one hand, christian militias. On the other hand, palestinian militias. I know what they said about each other. I know how they killed and assassinated each other. I know how impossible it was to cross the line. I grew up there, I don't full remember the last years of the war, but I definitely remember the after-war and what people did afterwards.

Maybe it "just happens" that the Lebanese muslims sided with the 90+% muslim-palestians. But judged from living there for my whole life I might know that this isn't what they say. Not how they saw each other. The Lebanese muslims sided with the palestinians because of a percieved shared identity. Call it pan-arabism, call it whatever fancy term you want.

I am NOT saying that middle eastern christians are perpetually persecuted or that coexistence with muslims isn't possible. I'm not saying that the situation is the same today in 2022. I'm saying that at one specific moment in history, in one specific country in the middle east, the muslims have attempted (and succeeded at) toppling a non-muslim government that was seen as pro-west-anti-arab.

And to be clear, I agree with you that Lebanon was not a solid nation, was gonna implode anyway, and was dealing with internal conflict long before Palestine was a thing.

> There was no "Islamic Jihad" in Palestinian groups before the 90s.

I guess those guys aren't real then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Pale...

They operated in lebanon. They operated from lebanon. They still operate from lebanon.
The annoying thing with zelle is that every bank has different limitations. USAA for example has a 1k daily zelle limit. So it's completely useless for things like paying rent to a landlord unless you want to split a rent payment up over several days.
I agree. But my point was that the industry in broad strokes is not moving into the direction of lower power. The opposite in fact. It's been happening for years.
Yeah when I saw they're $600+ my first thought was "There has got to be cheaper models of this." You can still get Chromebooks for less than this.
>>The idea of natural rights is frankly laughable.

wow... That is a take I will say that, the entire foundation of the American constitutional system is based on the idea of natural rights but sure it is all laughable

>Humans have always had to fight for their rights

of course... I am not sure how that is a rebuttable to the concept of natural rights. Nature is violent place in it natural state...

>Democracy is the form of government where the fight is done at the ballot box

Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb deciding on what is for dinner.

A Constitutional republic gives the lamb power over the 2 wolves.

> Seems pretty clear to me that the American people do not believe money transfer systems without AML/KYC are a right that people have.

This is probally the most laughable line in your entire comment, do you honestly believe every law ever passed by the US Congress, or State government enjoyed majority support at the time of its passage

Really?

For decades now the "American People" by HUGE majority support has wanted to legalization of weed, last I checked that is still illegal
The phrase you're better off using is "educated hypothesis based on enormous swaths of subjective data". Calling this a "myth" without proposing a more rigorous methodology to test for it is simply casting FUD, far worse than what you're battling against.
Fine the prisons that bribed the judge until they're bankrupt and their owners are bankrupt
To me the 1.0 screenshot looks nearly identical to the Thunderbird window I have open right now.

I don't have email-related buttons, since I have no email account configured. I use Thunderbird for RSS feeds. But the rest of the interface is exactly the same, except that the window topbar is tabbed in modern Thunderbird.

As for Windows XP being the pinnacle of design, I always hated its default theme (visible in the screenshot of the setup window, though, oddly, not in the screenshot of the running app) and changed it to the Windows 95 theme on all of my computers. I still hate the XP look.

EDIT:

I was wrong; I do have the email-related buttons. I've just never noticed them.

Instead of square icons, they are now text labels (with pointless icons next to the text in most cases). I don't really see that as a problem. Usually the problem in modern design is that the pointless icon is viewed as a substitute for the text.
I bike nearly every day, it's been years since I fell and, if my memory serves me, I fell because I was being a goofball with friends or something along those lines.
I think it's simpler than this. Happiness is an emotion which is an acute phenomenon. It is impossible to sustain just like anger or surprise.

Satisfaction is what I think most people mean by "happiness." And when you start thinking of it that way there are very actionable things you can do to improve this directly.
As Karen Weise (the author of this story) notes, she caught on Dan Price's creepy bullshit all the way back in 2015, when she was a reporter at BusinessWeek [0]. Weise's 2015 story is of course a lot of old news, but still worth reading for how skillfully she catches Price's lies by seeing the contradictions in the court filing.

The ending is also a banger. Price's ex-wife went public with her allegations of abuse just before this story went to print. Despite that short notice, Weise is able to confront Price about the allegations in detail, and document his bizarre reaction, a forewarning of Price's sociopath tendencies:

> Price’s life may get more complicated the week of Dec. 7, when TEDx plans to post online a public talk by his former wife, who changed her last name to Colón. She spoke on Oct. 28 at the University of Kentucky about the power of writing to overcome trauma... Colón stood on stage wearing cerulean blue and, without naming Price, read from a journal entry she says she wrote in May 2006 about her then-husband. “He got mad at me for ignoring him and grabbed me and shook me again,” she read. “He also threw me to the ground and got on top of me. He started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face. I was shaking so bad.” Later in the talk, Colón recalled once locking herself in a car, “afraid he was going to body-slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.”

> I read those quotes to Price. “I’m just going to take a second because this is very surprising to me,” he said. He paused. “I appreciate and respect my former wife, and she played a very positive role in my life,” he said. “Out of respect for her, I wouldn’t feel comfortable responding to a supposed allegation she may have said coming from a Bloomberg Businessweek reporter when I have absolutely zero evidence of an allegation being made.” I told him that I wanted to be clear: I was giving him the chance to deny the claims. “My comment is very responsive,” he said. “I would be more than happy to provide a comment if and when I actually get the benefit of seeing what you are referencing.”

> About three hours later, Price called back. “There’s one more thing that I would like to add to my previous statement,” he said. “The events that you described never happened.”

[0]
http://web.archive.org/web/20160203052911/https://www.bloomb...
People are typically scared of the plane falling out of the sky, right? If it helps at all, planes can still glide really really far with no engines. Not that that would happen.

another thing that sometimes reassures people is (ironically) watching those airplane disaster documentaries, e.g. on YouTube - you can see that planes are actually really robust, and lots of stuff has to go wrong at the same time before it's a real emergency, and how rare some of that stuff is. Mentour Pilot is an actual pilot who does accident documentaries sometimes.
I figure that any business that effectively only communicates using social media is a business that actively doesn't want me as a customer.

Good riddance.
Routing numbers aren't, but account numbers are: traditionally in the US it's possible to use a routing+account number to withdraw from someone's account.
I've used that for legitimate use too, and yes, it can be convenient. I think it can stay convenient without some of the issues that made this particular phishing mail so well made (i.e. tell the recipient that the message they're reading is part of an invoice text sent by the invoice sender + use a dedicated email address for invoices).
Great pointers, I’ll give these a shot. Still new to this so appreciate the suggestions!
They would just tell planes not to fly there.
DMSO is not well-behaved. It easily penetrates human skin, and carries solutes with it. Don't touch!

"DMSO can cause contaminants, toxins, and medicines to be absorbed through the skin, which may cause unexpected effects.

"Because DMSO easily penetrates the skin, substances dissolved in DMSO may be quickly absorbed. Glove selection is important when working with DMSO. Butyl rubber, fluoroelastomer, neoprene, or thick (15 mil / 0.4 mm) latex gloves are recommended. Nitrile gloves, which are very commonly used in chemical laboratories, may protect from brief contact but have been found to degrade rapidly with exposure to DMSO."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide
> since you've developed your preferences there have been a billion new computer users who are more familiar with the modern designs. That's why the designs change

That is logically impossible; the designs cannot change due to the emergence of users who are more familiar with future designs than they are with present designs. No such users can ever exist.
Your nitpicking doesn't further the discussion.

It's a fact that they did their best to mislead the public for the longest possible time. Does it truly matter how exactly? You can have more than one gun to shoot with, you know.
DMSO and soap is expensive? Okay, then.
They need to be _hot_ to work.
Leaching isn't the worry with non-stick coatings, flaking is. Everyone's seen pans flake off teflon into food.
tl;dr: Dan Price, social-media celebrity and sex monster, hid his rapes and sexual assaults behind a facade of lefty-politics, via ghostwritten social media accounts.

Let's take away the real lesson though: we should mistrust personal brands; celebrity is always contrived. The perceived charisma of celebrities is as carefully engineered as a mobile app's UI/UX, based on expected (read: researched) audience response.
No paywall http://web.archive.org/web/20220818214005/https://www.nytime...
My Teflon pans are all slightly scratched. When they scratch some material comes loose and is removed from the pan.

Where is that material?
Restoring my broken file system with Btrfs, NixOS and Restic
100%. And we don't need to look far for examples: game studios treat their staff rather poorly too. Supposedly for the same passion tax reasons.
I have a multiplayer web game also on SvelteKit but I created my own little sockets server with Go and Redis streams running on a tiny k8s cluster. I'm curious how much traffic you're getting and how much it costs to run it.

https://redactle-unlimited.com
So your response to bug reports is to ignore them and tell the reporter to F off?
Absolutely, there are lines and some are blurry and worthy of discussion. I'm not trying to deny that. I just wanted to exaggerate an example to get my point across. I could have said "forced sex of a one-year-old by a sane adult" but that's not what I tried to convey.

I try to state that some positions are so out-there (I'm sorry for a lack of a better term) that they are extreme and not part of sane or normal (for a lack of a better term) political discourse. That doesn't mean that one shouldn't try to talk with these people or shun them. Just that pretending they are normal is dangerous. Politicians insisting 1+1 equals 3 is extreme but maybe not harmful, someone insisting Jews are not people got 6 million killed. That's why I can't agree that it's just politics, if such a position can have real dangerous and harmful implications. I hope I could make my point more clear.
I have a couple cousins who seem to post every thought that goes through their heads. When I look at my feed I usually see at least a half dozen posts from each of them. Almost all of them are meme stories they liked, comics they read, or some wordle puzzle they solved.

Can I block them or unfriend them without them knowing? Family reunions might get a little more uncomfortable.
do you have to load third party scripts with replicache?
That's very individualistic. The reality is that we all take part in the same system whether we like it or not.
I received an invoice like this in my PayPal account; it showed up in an email notification and actually appeared as an unpaid invoice in PayPal.

I tried to dispute or flag it, but there's no such option in their interface — and there was no memo to go to a website or call a number. Very weird. I thought the scam was "let's hope someone doesn't look at the details and pays this invoice without thinking"
Where I live there’s basically a two tier system for long term prisoners.

Either prisoners are sent to a prison for long term prisoners, or to jail for “short term” prisoners.

But many “short term” prisoners include those serving consecutive short term sentences that add up to a lot of time.

Jails are the correctional equivalent of a bus station. Not the sort of place you want to live in.

Jails aren’t long term facilities, but some prisoners can spend over a decade in them.

Even worse than jails is being sent out of state. The state pays out of state prisons and jails to incarcerate our felons. These prisons are money making machines for the states that offer them.

The wide variety of conditions we have now prove pretty clearly things could be much better or worse.
Interesting article.

I never thought I’d see a moving line of poetry on a HN article, least of all one about PC hardware, and yet here I am.

> I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes

I’ve discovered the pleasure of walking around my city since the pandemic started and when the weather is nice it’s a really wonderful thing to do. Even this morning it was lightly misting and still I enjoyed my walk.

> It dual-boots Windows and Linux and is my only x86-64 computer. I like many things about macOS and the Apple ecosystem, but the walled garden of Apple still irks me.

One of my favorite pieces of PC hardware was my 2015 MacBook. It was 12” and had a high resolution screen. It was extremely portable and beautiful to use. And yet, I feel like I agree with the author about the Apple walled garden. It’s not quite BSD and generally all of the software I write is for Linux.

I’m going to be a true heathen: I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop for years and I finally grew tired of it. The experience is just IMO pretty poor as of a couple years ago. But I recently got a Windows PC for work and I use Windows Subsystem for Linux and it’s a real joy to work on so far. Maybe a Micro PC with WSL would give me a bit of a physically portable reminder of what I first loved about programming.
Like I said, it’s not a popular opinion, but assuming it was a popular opinion, what would stop it from being a reality?

(To be clear, I have no reason to believe it will ever be a popular opinion, nor do I see the point in even trying to make it one; that said, not aware of any fundamental reasoning of why it’s impossible.)
The more disturbing part of the internal studies Facebook did on this is that they found pushing content to their users' feeds that caused more depression and anxiety was good for Facebook's numbers because depressed and anxious people stay on Facebook more. So, Facebook made a calculated decision to prioritize depressing and anxiety causing content rather than more uplifting and alternative content which would make users not stay on Facebook as much.
My experience with GPD was pretty bad in the past. I had the first generation Pocket, and while on paper it was exactly what I wanted, in practice what I received felt more like a development unit in terms of build quality and the software. It would only run their custom remix of ubuntu and not even that well, and that required a different BIOS flashed than the one for Windows. I tried to live with it for a bit, but eventually the battery catastrophically swelled, damaging the case. Support was practically nonexistent, promised updates never appeared, and they were a bit spammy after trying to push their other devices.

The new devices do seem more refined, and people here in this thread seem happy with their newer devices, and while I'm curious about trying the latest gen, my trust is low.
spinning hard drives of the pre-helium-filled generation are not in fact totally sealed.

if you disassemble one you will find the tiny air filter module which covers a hole in the casing for equalizing pressure with the outside air.
It doesn't matter what some hodlers want; enough won't.
I'm genuinely confused at the criticism of the content of the questions and especially the criticism that they're "not hard". I mean, I guess they aren't algebra in the sense of "use the quadratic formula," but I'm not sure that's a useful sense. The question about percentages and the one about reading the graph are both eminently practical questions, ones that very directly respond to the algebra student's "When are we going to use this in real life" plea. I can see people needing to know this in any practical field of work - and I can realistically see people not knowing it, too. And plugging numbers into the quadratic formula isn't hard, either. It's a matter of knowing the definition, which is precisely a thing the author criticizes, and it's much more direct and mindless application of the definition than that question about whether a certain number is rational.

(And is it supposed to be hard, or a good thing if it's hard? The goal should be that everyone passes; nobody needs a weed-out ninth grade math class. The questions should be meaningful, yes, and they should show that you actually understand the subject. But this is a subject we would, ideally, want everyone to understand well.)

The actual June 2022 Algebra I Regents exam is available online and you can see what the questions look like: https://www.nysedregents.org/algebraone/622/algone62022-exam... Most of them look like conventional algebra to me. And there is indeed one use-the-quadratic-formula question!

(The criticism that a zero-bits-of-information response passes is certainly valid, and could be easily solved by subtracting fractional points for incorrect answers, a common approach on other standardized tests.)
> java's got a UI toolkit that works out of the box for all supported environments

That's not a useful observation; JavaScript has that too.

> and ontop of that is built a fair number of UI frameworks like swing

Swing is what I was thinking of; I've never gotten the impression that anyone liked it.
Those people are free to create their own network right now.
"EU and US" is not even remotely approaching "universal": in total that is less that 10% of the world's population. Expand your horizons; this is not a parochial forum. For example, I was born in a country that is neither, and I live in another country that is neither.

Besides which, there are numerous EU member states whose vaccination rate remains below the population immunity level. More broadly, the global chain of infection, and the consequences thereof (preventable suffering and death), has not (yet) been interrupted by a sufficient global reservoir of acquired immunities.

Furthermore, "not as deadly" hardly corresponds to "don’t seem all that bad". Mustard gas is "not as deadly" as VX. Let's not move the goalposts. In the same vein, it would be a mistake to implicitly assume that future COVID variants will be less deadly.
Costs you $10K for FSD but 3 million Teslas can still send real life driving experiences back to home base for it to learn from.

They are obviously not doing this (or not doing it well) as there are several spots on the state highway I repeatedly drive through where my car always slows down from 100KMH to 50KMH for and I have to repeatedly override with the accelerator to stop the person behind going in to me.
A hypothesis you can test, this you can't.
Interesting point. Instead of needing to be part of the good-old-boys club, on a decentralized network, anyone can try being corrupt. Hacking works similarly.
The majority of things labeled ceramic are teflon on top.
No paywall: https://archive.ph/wj6IR

This has a sort of Malcolm Gladwell vibe. It sounds nice, but is it a useful, actionable framework? I can't think of an example of a decision I would make differently from a longtermist perspective than from a non-longtermist perspective.
Bloomberg had that invisible spy chip story.
I was flying Aero Mexico Cabo to LA in the early 2000s and the plane took steep bank to the right and then to the left before turning around 30 minutes into the flight.

They kept the passengers onboard after landing while we watched the plane being fueled up before it took off again.

Apparently, someone forgot to fuel up the plane before takeoff AND the pilots missed it on their checklist. Last time I flew Aero Mexico.
> Obviously something is causing marked increases in teen depression and suicide attempts over the same period as the move to 24/7 social media.

When in-person school was suspended over covid, the teen suicide rate dropped dramatically.
Because it is Teflon on top of an anodized aluminum layer.
PFAS seems to be used in keeping water out, so that makes sense. I suppose we might be able to find PFAS anywhere products are exposed to water with negative consequences.
Are you saying it is _Why’s fault he was doxed?

If so, I disagree.
I'm upset they lost all their photo and music data. Going back to old pages feels like visiting an abandoned mall.