skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy for you! I tried the Kinesis Advantage and thought the keys were placed in a weird way that I could not get used to. Now I'm a happy kinesis freestyle user for 1 year. Sold my Advantage and HHKB.
May I debunk that debunking ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolokol-1
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Thank you for defending me; my HN has anti-distraction timer so I wasn't able to respond to them.

Like I explained in the other comment, while mistaken configurations are frequently a user mistake, I was exceptionally careful in this instance because the same thing had just happened to my boss and I was wondering what the mistake she made was.

Also, I was hoping for a quality investigation and response from otter.ai but I think anyone can compare the credibility of my account to their response in this thread to figure out who they believe.
Is the monarch just a figurehead, or a failsafe? I know nothing about UK politics, but sometimes I wonder if sovereign influence would re-emerge if democracy or society were to fail.
If you are playing in a private server it should be up to that server to ban or not ban people, the same way if you are in a private bar it should be up to that bar to ban you from it because you use profanity.
> This move could make even more sense if Patreon was aggressively heading toward IPO

This upsets me so much. Patreon is a perfect example of a company that could operate as a non-profit and everyone would benefit; but, instead, they need to make so much money that they're valuable on the Stock Market. It seems like a net harm for society, here :/
I'm saying ARC is "big enough to supply a generic steam turbine setup with heat," since you pointed out so strenuously that that's what they MUST do.

Getting D-T fusion competitive will be a challenge for everyone, but SPARC/ARC has an obvious advantage over ITER/DEMO by having way, way lower capital costs.
It'd be nice to have a twos-complement fixed-size type too, but I think it's probably better that Python 2's int isn't that.

The problem with transparently overflowing to Python `long` is that, most of the time, the overflow is unintended, and the resulting performance collapse is a bug that's harder to track down than a ValueError.
Hi, Xe here.

I realize that my announcement looks self-serving and at some level it kind of is (support on Patreon is part of how I keep my US account solvent because international wire transfers have yearly limits to their frequency, apparently).

However, the facts of the situation are that we do not know what is going on and other creators I know are not in the same kind of financial situation that I am in. At least one of my good friends will probably miss a rent payment if there's a mass dropoff in support (and they just escaped an abusive living situation). My goal is to emphasize a "woah, slow the fuck down and let's wait to see what's going on before making rash decisions" rather than a "oh no my free money fountain is at risk let's stop them from going away". That post exists because I've gotten over 60 inquiries about this today from as many people. I was tired of explaining it over and over so I put it on the blog to avoid constant duplication.

Telling people to enable two-factor auth is the moral equivalent of a free space in bingo. It's something people should already be doing and it's good to repeat that message in case people haven't heard it.

We don't know what's going on. Until we do, it's best to keep an eye on the situation and be ready to react if needed.
I used to write automation for systems management with an old IBM product called Tivoli.

It was the best job ever. The systems monitoring tool used ancient Perl4 (this was circa 2001 when Perl4 was like a decade old) and Prolog to handle event management.
Some of them are very good, and accordingly very expensive.

A non-exhaustive look through the LinkedIn profiles of the former security team doesn't show any previous startup-to-IPO security experience. If Patreon is preparing the company for eventual IPO, getting everything security-related aligned with the due diligence expected for an IPO is critical.

I would guess Patreon is simply engaging with an external firm that has past experience preparing security at a company for IPO. The laid off security team might have been otherwise good engineers, but not necessarily the right team needed to prep a company for IPO.
Not to mention almost every addon/mod and cosmetic option in bedrock edition is money for them.
> Why did Cloudflare need to be the police here when regular police or the “Sandy Hook solution” seemed warranted?

Because it was fiction.
Yes but these people vote and it counts the same as yours.
If you are banned, it also reasons that you would no longer be able to authenticate to 3rd party servers either, and it would be most likely an infringement of DRM to bypass, if not simply against TOS.
I'm fairly convinced that some of the Roblox controversy is a witch hunt. I have no knowledge of whether there have been legitimate issues, but the outcry I've seen on social media discussing Roblox and child safety often looks like a concocted story, and last month my social feeds were flooded with parents encouraging you to spread the word that Momo[0] is now spreading through Roblox and causing large groups of kids to kill themselves.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/momo-...
As opposed to private individuals who do the same and can't be voted out?
Sounds like they learned from Apple pretty well.
So what? It’s just a name. Australia was still here; people were living here. Who are you to definitively declare this?

Perhaps this may seem like semantics to someone who doesn’t live here but I find this sentiment at best ignorant and at worst offensive.
I don't understand.

On the client side, you are competing with Stack Overflow or opening issues, which is free. You want to replace that with paying someone whose only credential is having gotten 1 PR merged in the target project, and "All purchases are non-refundable".

On the "expert" side, you provide a platform with very low pay, very short-term contracts working with randos, and you have no track record of payment or mediation.

I am not sure how you can possibly get this to work.

Your ToS also has major red flags:

> As a user of the Site, you agree not to: [...] Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.

> We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the Site without notice at any time. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Site.
1936, King George V was injected with fatal doses of morphine
My kid and his friends are all eschewing 1.19.X and sticking with the 1.18.2 release specifically because of this issue. And they know this because they all watch the Youtube videos that are saying the same thing, that this "feature" is garbage.
Yeah, one of my personal laptops is a 2019 16" MBP with Intel i9. It's hot, loud, and slow. Just like the work issued XPS 15.
It seems it would not crash if you use some interface function, but it does not seem to support autodiff.
I'm not a graphics programmer, but I found this article helpful for understanding the history and background behind mesh shaders: https://blog.siggraph.org/2021/04/mesh-shaders-release-the-i...
EY plans to spin off audit, consulting units to ease regulatory concerns
Why would you ban your kids from playing if Microsoft forced it to be on their servers?
The Rust code reads strangely, or at least inconsistently. Why are you returning res1 and res2 over having a magic operator handle them?

I would expect something like:

canFail()?!
canFail()?!

The Go code looks like at least some thought was put into the design, even if it is not the best code ever written.
Wow. That puts in perspective how long she lived and reigned... And how young the U.S. is.
Because the tears of online asshats are super tasty.
> Patreon is a perfect example of a company that could operate as a non-profit and everyone would benefit;

Everyone except all of the employees who built the company with some equity compensation.

Like it or not, a lot of the current and former employees are equity holders in the company. An exit event gets them paid for their ownership piece.

Of course, anyone could start a non-profit Patreon competitor if they really wanted to and operate it as such. However, cloning Patreon isn't as trivial as it might sound to the casual observer. A lot of work has gone into getting the company to this point, and IMO it's fair to reward the people who took on the risk to make it happen.
You are putting a moral limit on what Microsoft should be able to do with Minecraft, not a technical one. Who's to say your morals are better ?
End of an era regardless and may she rest in peace. Long live the King.
Learning Perl is a great book but for anyone new make sure you get a copy of the 7th addition. It originally came out in '93. The 6th edition is 12 years old now.
I mean, when it comes to actual trolls complaining about getting kicked off of the platform, I have to conclude that Microsoft is at least doing one thing right.
"Some government intervention" has dramatically increased over the past century (after having stayed relatively flat for the century before that, since Adam Smith first came into the scene with groundbreaking ideas), so the boring position isn't so boring anymore. The government has their fingers in so many pies these days it's hard to say what even are the remaining relatively free markets.
Modern-day MC is a bit out of my depth but are these bans enforced in a similar mechanism to online-mode checks? (which validates that the username attempting to connect to the server has authenticated against the Mojang login servers?)

More importantly could it be possible for a modified client or server to 'spoof' reports against an arbitrary user to 'frame' them? Disturbing possibilities here.
And who has been the greatest cheerleader of this totalitarian corporate control, where nothing happens on a platform without the blessing of its corporate master? MS have only themselves to blame, for they did everything in their power to erase that distinction.

Maybe in addition to educating users on inclusive language in MS Word [1], they could educate users about the very basics of how computers work. But that would go against MS's interests.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/new-microsoft-word-feature-wi...
> The Xe link you cited doesn't speculate about credit card details being hacked at all. In fact, the entire gist of the blog is that we shouldn't be speculating about hacks or other theories.

True, I accidentally bridged that gap when reading it. I have updated my comment to reflect security more generally.

> The 2FA recommendation isn't a response to a potential hack, it was just general good security advice.

Given the context in which the article is written (the security team being expelled), this is the way I have interpreted it. It's not a standalone PSA on best security practices. It's written as if enabling 2FA is an alternative to homeless creators.
What the indigenous population identify as is irrelevant; in the present day we call that continent Australia.
The Dalai Lama is believed to be the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama so he's not chosen, as per the beliefs of his own cult anyway.
How many other 96 year olds have interacted weekly with all those prime ministers? And also met all the other significant figures in that time?

Churchill faced down (figuratively) Hitler and Mussolini, which makes him a heroic and legendary figure. (He was also a racist monster). Until yesterday, she was a living person who had actually talked to him at length, regularly when he was alive. That's amazing to think about.
Dude, I'm American and even more anti-monarchy. Hell, I'm anti-president, anti-congress, everything.

But I feel the exactly same as you do, and it's not even my damn country to boot.

But, we all know why, or at least it seems to me...a lifetime of dedicated service, consistent and steady service to UK and the world both. Calm, cool. Loyal to country, husband, the whole shooting match.

There's a LOT to admire about the woman that has nothing to do with monarchy. But, almost everyone likes tradition. The 60 second minute and 60 minute hour have been around since Sumerian epoch 5,000 years ago. Tradition. We still use the name of the months from Rome 2,000 years ago. When a head of government has been around for 70 years, the person is not a monarch, that person an institution.

So I had a lump in my throat, and felt some tears well up. Especially as I read that there was a double-rainbow as it was announced. I am not superstitious in the least, and still not about that, but still...
Yes agreed. It’s not trending in a direction that non-engineers can handle well.
As an employee of a startup, I understand the value and desire to get that compensation.

My argument is that I wish Patreon had been non-profit from the start and such there would never be a time for them to "Go Public"; and, all their employees would already be focused on the common good that comes out of a patronage platform.
There has been increasing abuse with gambling and predatory Minecraft servers marketed towards kids.
TIL! Very interesting
Vagrant never targeted production so not much money/resource/interest invested?
Watch both People Make Games video about Roblox and try to argue that the company should not deserve all the public controversy it is getting. They are actively stalling any moderation and protection because their profit margin would be severely diminished. Children's safety versus money, the choice is oh so simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
From independent India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru to current PM Narendra Modi - she met with a lot of them too.
That’s very cool, I think ideas that bring tablestakes tech (elasisearch or whatever) to non-tech areas will start to take off.
This was literally my first thought. If this works at all, it will quickly be ruined.
Today I learned about the distinction between being a member of the Commonwealth and being a Commonwealth Realm.
Liability? Has a game developer ever been held legally liable for not policing their community hard enough?
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> In a flat monitor centered in front of your head, the distance between your eyes and different pixels on the screen varies depending on how close they are to the edge, thus distorting the sizes of the rendered sprites. Curving the edges reduces this effect (depending of course on the exact curvature and distance to the monitor).

That’s the same distortion that we encounter for all real-world objects all the time, and process automatically. We can’t turn that off, so I’m not sure it makes sense to try and compensate for it.

For 3D games, we’re trying to trick ourselves that we’re looking into a window. Curving the screen gives us a bigger window without a bigger monitor.

But 2D games are usually representing a flat surface intentionally.

EG: Mario runs to the right. Rendering it to a curved screen without correction suggests that he’s instead running clockwise around the viewer. For big enough stages, it brings into question why he doesn’t loop back on himself.

Correcting for that would mean shrinking things on the sides of the screen – effectively rendering to a flat surface behind the curved monitor.
In general, at least one PCR will be extended with the hash of the EFI executable that's being run (with it being responsible for extending other PCRs with the hashes it executes, as to perpetuate the chain of trust). Without this, the whole system becomes pointless if you can load untrusted code (which can then set its own PCR values) without irrevocably messing up at least one PCR in the process.

If the OS updates the EFI binary or the files the bootloader will load (and thus extend PCRs based off of), the OS is responsible to "seal" the keys with the (predicted) values of the PCRs corresponding to the new files.

If the OS updates the files and fails to properly do this step, you get in this situation and your only way out is to use a backup key or somehow make the PCRs match what's actually being sealed (which is difficult, as the whole point is to prevent you from doing that - booting from a Linux USB or even merely changing BIOS settings or entering the boot menu will change PCR values) to make the TPM unseal the disk encryption key.
Nah, this take it just conflating unrelated historical talking points about Microsoft without regard to how specific things actually happen. A better question is: what incentive does Microsoft have to alienate its playerbase this way?

The answer is much more mundane corporate decision making dynamics: an online game played by children is ripe for abuse by predators, and someone representing PR or Legal won the argument that this functionality is necessary. It would have been great if someone representing Community, UX or Engineering could have won the argument, but sadly those arguments are harder to make in today's political climate, so that's where they landed.
Patreon had their databases dumped at least twice, and along with one of those their complete software stack including keys.

I believe it was this was the biggest, most complete and the first time:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/patreon-hacked-anonymous-patro...

I didn't dig enough to find the second time but it occurred a few months later if I recall and wasn't as extensive.
Hi, orsond from the fifth column here.

The Fifth Column is a Minecraft hacking and griefing group. We created Project Copenhiemer which is a Minecraft server scanning tool. Copenhiemer scans the internet every 20 minutes for minecraft servers, logs players, server versions, mods and more.

Originally we had created it to find players and grief their server worlds, highlighting how much information about players is leaked from Mojangs default server configuration. They have put some features into the game to stop this information from being leaked but have made it an opt in system which no one uses or is even aware of.

We have become increasingly worried about the direction of Mojang's safety policies and we believe they are just playing lip service to the actual problems at hand.

Online gaming and gaming coms has a seriously unaddressed problem with child safety.
Mojang's reasoning for chat reporting is to protect children. Chat reporting does absolutely nothing to solve this problem. You can report people for swearing, drug/alcohol references, etc. You cannot report a player for child exploitation unless they use the chat system to do so.

As an example, I know one server admin that disabled chat entirely on his large server only to have pedophiles use in game signs to message and groom children over Skype and Discord.

If Mojang were serious about protecting children, they would stop developing their paternalistic chat surveillance system and split multiplayer children and 18+ play from each other.

For example, children should only be able to join under 18's Mojang hosted servers (realms) where conduct can be heavily monitored and 18+ players join multiplayer servers where children cannot play.

It is clear they have thought about this problem for a total of 5 minutes and have shut down healthy & reasonable debate about their solution to avoid embarrassment and scrutiny.
Hi, Xe here.

The message under `UPDATE(M09 08 2022 20:40)` is intended to be spread to and understood by less technically apt people. I have intentionally focused it on harm reduction, lessening fearmongering and overall calming down the situation so that we can wait for the truth to be revealed. As I mentioned earlier, suggesting people use 2FA is something concrete people can do right now to help secure access to sensitive accounts.

I'm worried about the kind of situation that would cause this to happen, but I don't know what is going on so I have to assume that there is active disinformation and interpret things in the best possible faith. The last thing I want to do as a technical communicator is lie to people.
> revoking people's access to what they bought on shoddy evidence - if this actually starts happening to a lot of people I hope they get sued

I wouldn't put my money on them winning that one. It's wrong, but the laws were written by and for companies. I don't think a judge is going to say that a company who runs an online service can't ban users for violations of their policies. Hell, if the law cared about making sure companies couldn't arbitrarily cut off people's access to their purchases DRM would be outlawed.
A fun exercise is scouting the sec eng numbers and tenure of a pre-IPO shop, or of more concern vendors that are all over product teams. Big yikes
I can much easier leave a private company for another private company.

Besides “voting people out” is not a great take - especially in the US. Because of both gerrymandering and the very form of the constitution, the US is very much rule by the minority. If you live in California, you are represented by the same number of Senators as someone who lives in Wyoming.

The last thing I want is government to have more power.
Why don't they just park it somewhere (mothball it) until conditions improve and someone wants to finish it?
After a Legal Fight, Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59M to a Local Bakery
I don’t come from a JS background, and JS makes me very angry every time I use it. But it’s unavoidable if you want to build something on the web. I tried to pick up React a few years ago for a project, saw the JSX, and put it right back down. At the time, Vue’s emphasis on HTML templates was comforting and approachable, since I like HTML and its simplicity and visual structure. So I tried Vue, and found it was easy to go from toy examples to real, working projects with no major gotchas.

I recently spent some time learning Vue 3, and I’m a little less enamored. The composition API is nice for not requiring deeply nested code inside a giant object literal. But having my code littered with .value is ugly and a source of endless bugs. (You also don’t always need .value, such as when referencing a Pinia store. Ugh.) I looked into the pending “Reactivity Transform”, but it too introduces weird surprises and seems like its issues may be unsolvable.

Bottom line: I hope and pray for the day WASM allows Python to get a decent footing in the browser environment.
It was probably the first TLD they found where their company name was available.
I agree that IEEE 754 should define how FTZ/DAZ should work, given that it's a pretty common extension to floating-point processors, and language committees are unlikely to lift a finger to do anything floating-point related that isn't from IEEE 754.
Imagine if suddenly the web changed so that it was possible to be banned from every single website (you can't even look at them) for your behavior on a single site by a moderator with incomplete context even if it was done in private.

This is a big change to how things work and it was forced onto the community.
Gee guys, where are the dipshits to remind us MicroSoft <3 open source and totally isn't just opportunistically fucking it over again? It's not as if they took a game that worked everywhere and have increasingly restricted it for no reason. No, wait, MicroSoft is a big corporation, so this is just a different department, right?
No, the ridiculousness is the deep centralization. Whether it's Minetest OR cracked Minecraft, it's clear that Microsoft is an irresponsible, or more importantly, unnecessary steward/middleman here.

Those who want Microsofts vision, I suppose that's fine -- but I see no good reason to require or respect it. On with the mods.
Don't be naive, this will affect way more people than just the ones you'll snicker about. Cause it gets abused.