skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people 'running' the code are basically the Ethereum virtual mcahine nodes. That is to say, using your definition Ethereum comes crashing down because everyone running the ethereum virtual machine and this application, which still exists on the chain, are criminals guilty of running the code without KYC.
Literally every "researcher" in 1995 was working on this problem. I was in the room with Mudge at Pumpcon while he was doing the research work for this, with like a dozen other people. All of them were I believe primarily motivated by 8lgm --- that's why Mudge's post uses a contrived syslog(3) example instead of a real bug, because the 8lgm Sendmail exploit was an overflow in syslog(3).

It's fine, it's a solid post, it's an early post. But Lopatic and 8lgm set this in motion, and the actual blueprint for this attack was probably splitvt.
The Lords and Kings had plenty of entertainment. Entertainment did not begin with the invention of smartphones.

In fact I would say their entertainment was far better and more wholesome than what we have today. Imagine going on hunts in lush untouched wilderness, or watching men fight to the death in an arena, or slithering off to your harem of beautiful women and having your way with whichever ones you fancy that day.

Indeed, I would say the best lifestyle would be a combination of this and our advanced medical techniques that allow us to live longer and more comfortable lives.
I've seen that, and even successfully fought against it once. I've also been on teams that don't treat it as a religious issue in the first place, and people rebase or merge from their private forks as they see fit.

Personally, I think that the only bar that is necessary is that commit history should remain readable - which is subjective, but that's why we have code reviews. In any case, this is not an issue with the tool, but rather with the religion that formed around it, which is often the case with software tooling.

One thing that helps a lot with a pragmatic consensus is to ensure that all members of the team have personal experience debugging old code that they didn't write or previously review.
Looks like they were facing extinction in 1991 until now-CEO Bobby Kotick took over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#Purchase_by_Bobby_K...
Mountain glacier in Chile's Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures
The safe ones are .com, .org, .net, and your country/union's ccTLD(s) (e.g., .de and .eu if your business is in Germany, or .kr and .xn--3e0b707e if it's in South Korea).
Hockey sticks usually end up being S-shaped curves. The author is just doom-screaming because we're currently in the rapid change phases of lots of them but hasn't shown on any of the graphs the point where disaster will occur. What's the critical rate of extinctions that would end global economic growth before most of the world has western quality of life? He has no clue! So his worries are just emotional and based on misleading graphs.

One of the graphs (forest cover) is extrapolated into the future and shown to be zero. He could instead have shown in plateauing if he wanted to tell a different story.
It seems like the author beat around the bush a little bit, perhaps for fear of making too direct of an accusation. Can someone share what mechanics the player might have used to cheat? Is the idea that a confederate might have been watching the match, getting a computer's help, and then some how signaling to him what move to make? Where was the game played such that this would have been possible?
To your example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were many nursing homes where staffing levels fell below legally mandated minimums due to employees quitting (or being out sick). A few shut down, but most continued operating and simply delivered substandard care to residents. In the worst cases local authorities sometimes sent in first responders or National Guard troops to keep the residents alive.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767282
I have the inverse story; factory workers picketing outside. First day the owner of the company walks up to them and explains: this company is worth $X. The terrain (land) it occupies is worth $10X. Please get back to work.
Witicism aside, im not sure your critique holds any water. Runaway growth in any context is something to pay close attention to. In fairness, the superset of examples chosen is not objective (nor could it be, practically) - plenty of datasets could be made to show aspects of life increasing or decreasing linearly, or quadratically, or with some weird quasi-sinusoidal period.

That doesn't take away from the impact the chosen data has. It's not that all life follows a hockey stick curve in time - its simply that we're in the process of beating the planet to death with a few of them.
Dear iPhone: iQuit
I was surprised to see that retail stores get 50%. I was looking at fake leather bags the other day and they really look very high quality and sells for 10USD. I can't imagine making that bag for 5USD and making a profit off of it.
I get the idea, seems like a hot topic in the comments and a solution is definitely possible. The "placing protocols to avoid abuse" seems like the most difficult part :).
Hey, the Romans had central heating https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
I've noticed that people bring their phones when they travel and seem to scroll just as much. This seems like an embrace of escapism and nihilism.

Maybe people should consider finding more meaningful ways of spending their life at home.
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Date: Tue Sep 13 21:32:41 2022 -0500

I am not smart.
But we are moving quite fast towards using renewable resources.

For example the top 6 materials produced by the world industries are: coal, oil, natural gas, concrete, steel and fertilizers. By 2050 the first 3 will be a tiny fraction of what we are consuming today. Concrete is not made of renewable materials, it's made primarily of sand, gravel and cement, which in turn is made out of limestone. All those can be considered as essentially infinite resources. Steel is one of the most recycled materials (in the US more than two thirds of all manufactured steel is recycled). Fertilizers are currently made primarily out of fossil fuels (natural gas), but that's a historical accident (fossil fuels only contain carbon and hydrogen, not nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus; they are simply the feedstock for hydrogen). Once we can produce green hydrogen, we'll remove fossil fuels from the fertilizer manufacturing process.

Bonus: next most produced material is plastics. Produced from fossil fuels today, can be produced from green hydrogen and carbon captured from CO2.
> 90% of people today live a much better life than lords and kings lived 500 years ago.

I'm not sure this is true. For one, you can't really compare lives, and for two, happiness seems to be determined by social factors in ways that would make this untrue.

Being able to play music whenever I want is a power that kings could only dream of, but if they had it they would get bored of it probably pretty quickly.

If I could trade all my modern comforts for a minor lordship in the medieval era I would do so in a heartbeat. I'd have good friends, no need to worry about political plots, a good social circle, access to whatever resources I needed, plenty of time to do things I want - a lot of the population doesn't have these things, and modernity doesn't give them to you.
A dumb terminal with identical specifications to a full computer isn't a dumb terminal, it's a dumb idea. Dumb terminals haven't been economically viable since the 1970s; the common terminals (VT100 and successors, ANSI, IBM 3151, etc) are all smart terminals; they support line drawing features and so forth.

Chromebooks are the end result of making terminals smarter and smarter until they're just computers with artificial restrictions on which programs they can run. That's a valid product if you want to subject yourself (retail chromebooks) or others (school fleets) to such restrictions, but pretending it's innovative because you have to work around limitations you needlessly imposed on yourself is a bit daft.
Making money isn't about making the best product. Commodore proved that. It is about getting people to give you money... So yeah, maybe they are worth it.
>David Austin French (born January 24, 1969) is an American political commentator, theologically conservative Christian, and former attorney who has argued high-profile religious liberty cases.

>In August 2017, French was one of several co-authors of the so-called Nashville Statement, which affirmed "that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness." The statement, which was described as a "vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto" by the Human Rights Campaign, was quickly denounced by hundreds of Christian leaders.

>French is an evangelical Christian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commen...
Get your ego out of the game. Great teams work together, support each other, live and die with each other and share the victory. There are no straight paths. Just blood, sweat, tears and laughs. I've done too many startups. I should know.
He also had a brief foray as a director ...
Valid point but I personally have no issue with the swipe gesture on my Max sized phone.
That's the same argument I've presented below. The best response I've gotten so far is that there is basically 'precedent' for dealing with that of sanctioning the offender. Precedent is a nearly 3 year lag time... although I'm sure it won't take that long the next time
Sounds good, this has been a common request and is definitely on the road map. I am trying to create a very fast service and data querying slows it down. With that being said I am thinking about adding a query parameter like `?info=true` that would end up providing more information. Like the examples you gave above.
> THERE IS NO UNIVERSAL BACK BUTTON

Your desktop computer doesn’t have a universal back button either, despite having 100+ buttons. It’s not a mandatory UI element.

With that said, swiping from the left hand side of the screen will generally perform an analogous function in most well made iOS apps, and swiping up from the bottom of the screen will take the user to the Home Screen
> The cost of building a consumer audio product is generally no more than 30% of retail. 30% COGS (cost of goods sold) is virtually a maximum for items sold at mainstream retailers.

There’s nothing wrong with this. These are standard ratios, not some dirty secret.

The cost of goods sold is only a fraction of the costs that go into getting products all the way into the customers’ hands and supporting them (customer support, warranty replacements, lost shipments, fraudulent orders, etc.). That’s not even counting the R&D investment costs that go into making the product, as the post says.

Salaries, warehousing, shipping, insurance, and all of the others costs of doing business add up.

It’s not actually realistic to expect an entire company to be selling you a $300 product that costs them something like $250 to build. Every business in existence must build in enough margin to pay the people who do all of the work to make it happen and support it.

If this seems shocking, consider that the COGS of software as a service products are much lower by comparison. Doesn’t matter, though, because you have to pay all of those expensive salaries to make it happen.
Were there any guides or tutorials you followed? 20 years ago or so, I knew someone who built their own speaker cabinets and I couldn’t believe DIY speakers could match companies that spent hundreds millions on audio engineering. I’ve heard enough anecdotes that I would be interested in learning more.
I'd sooner have real IDs tied to internet personas than this shit
Give your DNA or personal deets to any organization, and you've immediately lost control over your privacy in perpetuity (no pun intended) in unknowable ways, possibly even after you cease being amongst the living.
Push model is only great for short lived jobs (lambdas, cronjobs). Pull model scales much more easily if you’ve large number of servers in your fleet. Configuration is managed centrally, only the agent (like node-exporter) has to be running on the target node.
> Right now electric cars are not very good for the environment either.

Relative to internal combustion engines, electric cars are better, even when you consider total lifecycle cost.

Yes, electric cars could be smaller. This is feasible technically with some range tradeoffs. The demand side is less clear.
Could you profile it with windows perfview[1]?

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/perfview
I love this, GPG has always been really foreign to me. I still got the hang of it to verify my commits on github.
I think the difference is that the freelancers in our business can be paid very different amounts in a month, from ~$10-5000 in range. Deel is probably fine for you with what you're paying freelancers with its price, but imagine we have a freelancer only do, let's say, $30 worth of work in a month. Deel's cheapest plan is $49/mo. That is more than we're paying the FL! If you're paying the FL e.g. $3000/mo it's worth your money, but for us this would be a 163% fee. And with 50+ freelancers, that's at least ~$2.5k per month. At that price I might as well hire someone to click the buttons for me.
How often do you (and your parent poster) find yourself stuck with 'vendor kernels' on these machines a la arm devices? I've tried twice to rehabilitate Chromebooks; in the first instance I was stymied by lack of mainline support for the chipset involved, and in the second case there was no mainline support for the soldered-in broadcom wifi. Is this common, or is there a trick to avoiding buying encumbered hardware?
GCC Translation Validation
Psychotic symptoms occur at a higher rate in people with BPD than in the general population.

> What are psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder?

> Psychotic symptoms are sometimes found in people with bipolar disorder, particularly in the manic phase of the illness.. [snip] ..

> Moderate quality evidence suggests the prevalence of visual hallucinations in people with affective psychosis is around 15%, and the prevalence of auditory hallucinations is around 28% [snip. These rates] are higher than general population rates (7%).

https://library.neura.edu.au/bipolar-disorder/signs-and-symp...
What if people created religions like they create JavaScript frameworks
Neither secret nor interesting, just clickbait.
Just to be clear, it's _meant_ to look bad. Part of the shtick.

Agreed though, not a glowing endorsement for someone looking to make the next Crysis.
I know nothing about the Caribbean, but I can tell you about middle America. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about having a job foreman for the home renovation/whatever project tell them “so-and-so had a beer at lunch, but they’re good. Do you mind?”

FYI, that’s a trap. If there is a jobsite accident that afternoon, you are liable for allowing someone who’s been drinking to work.
I've seen this happen, and the company end up in serious danger (and they still were down a pressman and flailing last time I heard.) Somehow the fact that everything is depending on pressmen doesn't affect the way management pays or treats them, though.
Kinda funny. Just before seeing this article I had just finished watching a wonderful video on the "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfPQLVzus4) which isn't exactly the same as what's being talked about here... but in the same class of problem if you make that class big enough :-).

When looking at these sorts of things, surely such "hockey sticks" are often times just not considering the limiting factors? I'm no mathematician (by any approximation) but it seems like more often than not finding such a result should point to some incompleteness or some closer look being required to get the full picture.

(P.S. that video was very math heavy and no, I didn't understand most of the math beyond hand-wavy terms... still glad they went into the detail.)
Some of these graphs are pretty silly. The downward hockey stocks are extrapolating based on two data points, and the shape of the curve is just not at all plausible.
It looks to me like the RJ45 jack is taller than the expansion card slot, and the depth of the bump is more or less the depth of the RJ45 jack + the space needed to wire it in. I'm not sure what else they could have done to produce something that fits in the expansion slot. You can always just use a USB-C ethernet dongle if you think you're going to disconnect it every time it goes into a bag.

Just looking at it, as long as its manufactured to reasonable tolerances, you'd have to do quite a bit to damage the laptop via the protrusion. I'm not sure how big of a deal this is. I'd just throw it in a bag and not worry about it, protrusion and all.
Thanks. In our case gettng funded was not as critical as our project been in development for more than two years before we signed publishing agrement in January 2022. Without at least some extra budget we wouldn't be being able to work on it full-time and hire extra artists. So gettting to release would take two more years. Also doing marketing in-house is really difficult, prohibitively expensive and distract you from actually working on a game.

Overall our experience with Godot was good enough except for performance profiling and UI toolkit. I wish Godot get more traction, but unfortunately for now this is hot it is. So I have to warn fellow indie devs that decision to use less popular game engine have it costs.
I suspect this would work in a lot of cases if you can find out who the key engineers/strategy people in the company are. But working that out is probably the hard part.

If you have the money an acquihire guarantees you get everything. But then you still have to work out who those key people are after the fact and make sure you keep them happy.
Major consumer speaker vendors don't make it easy to compare speakers. When I was looking for a portable speaker to play outside I was surprised to see that for most of the speakers you'll find at big box stores, there are no statistics for loudness or how it sounds. The best we get is size and rarely amperage, which I found through trial and error are dubious measures at best. I ended up returning two overpriced soft sounding speakers before the third one was sufficient. Price doesn't make as much of a difference as I thought it would either.

As a consumer, I don't know what to trust because the marketing on these things can be pretty useless.
I cannot imagine how the healthcare can cost so much yet still somehow there is not enough money to pay people that run it decently
It’s justified though. Games are basically a solved problem these days, and the developers of today are most of the time just building on abstractions and best practices that didn’t exist during Atari’s time.

Once a particular domain of software becomes sufficiently mature, there is no real opportunity for heroic programmers to emerge who become too valuable to replace. Eventually more people emerge who are just as good.
Think going back in a browser, going back to the list of contacts from a specific message thread in a messaging app, etc. Swiping from the left works in most apps, but not all of them. The back button works everywhere.
You might like this playlist from DIY Perks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOJU8YJjFwGOeh6BgCWVh...
Webscale != bank-tegrity, bank-regulation scale, maytee.
In what manner had LISP hurt you ?
I sized my subwoofer box using https://subbox.pro/en/ . I built the foam board speakers the same way built here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIye4RZ-5k&ab_channel=TechI... . The amplifier is a class D amp from amazon somewhat like this one https://a.co/d/8XgEEsG
I don’t know much about forests but it seems incorrect that at any point in time 55% of land mass was covered by forests.
That's a Samsung issue, not an Android issue. Samsung heavily customizes their phones to use an entirely different design language and they also preinstall apps you can't remove (Facebook) and mess with notification services for open source apps that don't use Firebase for push.
> run-of-the-mill paranoid security researcher who is aggrieved about being fired and making mountains out of molehills

My metaphorical money is on this, but I'd add "respected" to that list. My literal money stays away from Musk because it's always a shitshow.
>> I keep look for something I can just add lists to my server and check against that, but not going to spend thousands on it.

> What do you mean by this? Like having the ability to create your own deny/black list of ip addresses and then you can validate against it?

They want to download your database and run queries on it locally, rather than call your API. This way they don't share data with you and don't need to worry about your data practices.
Ethereum clients run the code automatically alongside all the other code on the Ethereum network, impartial to what it is or does. There are estimated to be nearly 10,000 Ethereum clients in operation, distributed globally. Identifying all of their operators, trying to prove intent, and convicting them all of money laundering seems to be a tall ask, even for the US government.
A lot of games already have kernel-level anti-cheat. Was it successful in fixing the cheating problem for any of them?
A good business school teaches organizational dynamics, change management, and leadership skills. Not rocket science, but potentially just as hard.
Fascinating. It seems we are keeping a site on standby so that it can “perform an underground nuclear test within 24 to 36 months.”

I hope that is a competitive timeline.
Sorry. I had to mention this I guess: we using GDScript. And even if we use C# lack of built-in profiler means that it's hard to find out what exactly is slowing things down as some of time is eaten by native code or "glue" used for callbacks and nodes creation.
I certainly wasn't suggesting they had an easy job. I agree it's quite a hard job.

Just that it's not always the job some people think it is.
I think you should be signing with a different key than your push/pull key.
It's just so you don't have to use GPG when key signing is required.
It really makes me calm & sleep better
No need when you can just use edge navigation. The button in the top left is just there for users not as handy with their devices.
The art in question is from 1923. I'm just guessing, but a possible reason the OP posted this is because of the parallel to modern AI tools. This art piece was created by an artist communicating with a technician in a remote factory. The artist conveyed what he wanted to the technician, who then created the piece. This is similar to how a modern Prompt Engineer or AI Conductor works with a tool like DALLE2 or Midjourney or Github Copilot to create a new work by description alone.

Fascinating. As the video says: Art and technology - a new unity.
I don't know if it this is the case here but I have seen real power struggles with the boardroom (and the then-CEO departing because the board says so). I was "fun" knowing that the company imploded pretty much after that because they removed the golden eggs from the company.
Calm sleep has impacted my life so much. Much needed
This is all laid out in the Nov 28, 1983 edition of InfoWorld Magazine.
I don't disagree with you, but Zoom is also providing a pretty different service, and Teams provides a lot of enterprise level stuff that Discord doesn't. Discord is better for us perhaps, but it's definitely doing worse as a matter of revenue.