skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem is that stories like these gain traction and reinforce false narratives about the nature of racial discrimination and other issues.

Because this story was a lie, the narrative about the nature of racial discrimination is false? That seems like a stretch.
"Zero trust" is a buzzword with no real meaning, IMO.
> In 2022 we have SVG, WebGL, canvas, sound API and we can practically rebuild many of those Flash websites.

Note that Ankama is still using Flash for its MMORPG, Dofus.

They're moving it to Unity, FWIW.
>My hovercraft is full of them.

Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait 'til lunchtime.
I don't know about that, it's probably not super precise but an hour running is 600-700 kcal burned, reported by Garmin Connect
Marathon-esque training is pretty good. The difference is really in being able to slow down so you are well within your aerobic zone, below your threshold pace/effort. Running slow enough so you can breathe only through your nose is a good measure. From there, it's about eating and hydration, etc. Ultras are often described as a "an eating competition with some running thrown in". The joints of course is a big deal too, some can do it easier than others.

Also, most people walk a lot, you don't have to run, you just keep making forward progress.

source: I've done a few Ultras and have used a running coach.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, we heard about Soviet government propaganda to its citizens, including via Pravda. We were also taught how great the US is, by contrast, that it doesn't do those things.

Later, I thought I'd learned (maybe misheard?) that US could engage in propaganda or psyops, but that there were strict rules not to do it against US citizens.

That seems like good guidance, and I'd welcome an honest review that checks whether we're living up to standards that have been an inspiring part of our national character in the past, and leads to any corrective action.

Maybe US collective leadership realizes a way here that we can build upon our ancestors' great ideals, and follow through further, not drop the ball.
Once upon a time there was a green and grumpy ogre who lived in a swamp alone and felt himself content, but this contentment was illusory for the ogre had simply never tasted true companionship nonetheless love (platonic nor romantic) prior to his exposure to a talking donkey who had been displaced by political troubles in a far off land, the resolution of which forged strong bonds between the ogre, the donkey, and many other characters such as the princess who would become the ogre's wife, the dragon who had held the princess prisoner and would become the donkey's wife, and a medley of fairytale folk who would be life long friends to both couples.
> Can you explain to me why the elf lady wanted a boat then actively refused to take the one she was offered?

If you nitpick like that, you can find a zillion such questions from the Lotr trilogy, the books themselves.
He’s real enough to have appeared as the first author on a couple of apolitical peer-reviewed publications in his field. I don’t know what possessed him to do this but he definitely looks to be real.
> fuel prices falling 10% again next month.

Mid-term elections are approaching and gas pump prices are an easy talking point. With SPR releases, why won't USA fuel prices drop?
yes, I think actually it is other way round - one must first suppress your own population (via propaganda, ideally), so that they can be recruited to suppress the other.
This article is like the opposite of Saylors argument about energy being preserved in the form of bitcoin. Both oppinions are basically "that's what this concept feels like to me" and nothing more.
This is true. Games generally look like trash up until everything gets put together for actual release, which can be as late as half/one year before it's supposed to hit the proverbial shelves.
Unicode doesn't have a character for every illuminated initial, nor should it. I'm not clear on why this character should be considered any differently.
>there's no way teenagers are interested in political discussions. Maybe they are, but the people I get in flame wars with speak and act like angry adults

pretty much describes how I used reddit as a teenager.
> If, instead, you wrote a story framed in a way that might change a few people's minds, you won't get nearly the number of likes...

Or, more painfully, you'll see a lot of derisive quote-tweets, subtweets, hostile screencaps, the dreaded "ratio"... Twitter users are a catty bunch.
Allergies? Definitely consult your doctor, but try taking claritin (or generic) for 2 weeks and see if that clears things up.
No, keep paying them.

What kind of question is this?
I read somewhere that if you’re not at least mostly vegan, e-bikes actually have lower lifecycle carbon emissions than bikes because you end up burning fewer calories and eating less (assuming you don’t substitute in more exercise).
It's not intended to be rigorous. The context here is that Richard I. Cook, one of the main figures in safety and resilience engineering, who's published many, many papers on these topics died recently. The "How Complex Systems Fail" paper is intended to be a bit pithy and light; more an attempt at summarizing years of wisdom. See: https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/blog/2022/09/12/richard...
Only if you define racism in a singular direction. There's plenty of racism to go around, just not the kind that's fashionable to point out.
I'll agree to the MoT plan if I get to pick the MoT.
81% of the Madoff losses were recovered (not including funds paid for taxes on false gains), not so in the land of "web3", "defi", and "ico". Through innovative meta-scam-blockchain technology they manage to "accidentally" substantially all the monies.
> Later, I thought I'd learned (maybe misheard?) that US could engage in propaganda or psyops, but that there were strict rules not to do it against US citizens.

That law was repealed in 2010. Since then its all out propaganda.
A fact not yet widely verified and an opinion cannot, in general, be distinguished
Influence is not control. I have absolute confidence that Canada's elections are sound. But I have strong suspicions that the USA applies influence to our processes of developing candidates. So do Russia, China, and Europe. How could it be different?
Helicopter noise pollution in central London is insane, especially during weekends when there often are protests, demonstrations and special events.
Thanks: I haven't dove deep enough to know exactly where the issue was, but booting into Gnome wayland session on Ubuntu 22.04 resulted in blurry fonts on my external 32" 4k screen, whereas just switching the session to Gnome on X worked fine.

My search at the time (a few months ago) suggested that subpixel rendering didn't work (changing settings from gnome-tweaks didn't do anything either).
This is much easier to say if you're not living in any of its victim states, or under the boots of any of the vicious autocrats the US props up.

Also, it's not like nuclear proliferation is solved. It's still breathing down our necks, we just don't talk about it anymore
High Severity IDOR Vulnerabilities Identified in CNCF ‘Harbor’ Project by VMware
Five Insecure Director Object Reference (IDOR) vulns discovered in VMware's OS project, Harbor, which is CNCF-graduated. Researchers disclosed to VMware and Harbor teams, which issued patches.
FWIW, two things that help for me: 1- trail running, especially longer distances. Spending 4 hours and going 20 miles one way through the woods gives me a sense of travel and distance and freedom I can’t get in the city. 2- listening to something while I run, podcasts or music or language lessons like Pimsleur. For a short 30 min run, sometimes even pace music works for me, even though it seemed like it could be more boring, running to a good 170 BPM playlist is kinda fun. For both of these, mixing things up a lot is helpful for me too, always finding new routes and new audio to go with.
Honestly in my reading, that is the point the article is making. Chess engines are changing the nature of creativity by making people recognize weird tricks as such, where presumably they used to be less common. It’s very possible I was too charitable in my interpretation, though. I don’t know a lot about competitive chess at any level.
Yeah, the former.
Yes, except YubiHSM boots using verified boot. In the case of Tillitis Key each program gets its own secret key, which it can use to e.g. derive a key pair.
Mainstream financial media rarely blames inflation on money printing, in my experience. Even though it's the primary cause.
Exactly the same, plus the weird effect that when I finish a run I spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm coming down with the flu, while if I play a ball-chasing game so intensely that I puke, I feel invincible the rest of the day (win or lose). All in my head, I guess, but I can't shake the feeling that one leaves me unhealthy while the other leaves me healthy. Really strange—and that, on top of one being the most boring thing I've ever done on purpose and the other being really fun.

So yeah, running... not for me.
Oxytocin could reduce the social performance stress of professional singers
Pataddress – Global address in four words
This is a bit too late. PSYOP campaigns have plagued Twitter & Facebook from the beginning. Twitter cracked down multiple times on fake accounts, but the operators change their modus operandi each time. It's basically whack-a-mole against the troll farm operators. Requiring phone numbers might slow them down, but then they just acquire a bunch of SIMs and continue registering. The only way to stop this is verifying people's passports and their account has to be held in their legal name. Just like a bank. It might be over the top, but it's the only way to drastically reduce the amount of propaganda, spam, astroturfing, disinfo, and artificially inflated metrics of Twitter & Facebook.
inky black pill, not for the faint of heart or casually happy
Creating Custom Hooks in Reactjs
Hooks are wrappers that help to encapsulate repeated stateful logic so that it can be used and shared later across multiple components. A hook is a feature that allows you to use all class-based components’ life cycle methods in functional-based. components. To create your own custom hook, React tells us to follow certain guidelines. Hooks should be called at the top of the component. We should avoid using hooks inside a condition or a loop because React will be uncertain about the order of execution of the hooks.
There's a career path to get there. It involves becoming someone who cares deeply about the ways and means of digitizing data stored in analog media. Drill down deep enough, and you'll find yourself in a fascinating world of coding an error.

There are things like the "ghost characters," which are codepoints in Japanese that map to characters that were basically transcription errors when the team was putting together a full set of Kanji. Some characters with an extra horizontal line snuck into the set; they were likely caused by a transcription error because the character got split onto two pieces of paper by lines of text being copy-pasted into a records book, and the shadow cast by the thin extra layer of paper was misinterpreted as another stroke.

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
Adobe already had xD - a direct competitor to Figma. Adobe purchased Figma for many reasons; if you want a single reason why Adobe purchased Figma it's because Figma was successful: all the things that go into executing a vision at scale.
If everyone in society is still cutting meat with an axe, it's a mistake to not mention better alternatives ;-)
> "The shooting was later determined to be a hoax."

Perhaps ML can read these scenarios better than humans.

EDIT: to keep the HN value high here's a link to a case where ML does better than humans in reading the scenario - lung cancer detection in xrays.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325223
Isn’t all lobbying and advertising psy-ops?
> I’m with Greenwald on this: all mass media in the US, including social media, is staffed by and ran entirely for the benefit of the IC/DoD. This is just Deep State Kabuki

Do you have any evidence for that? That's an extraordinarily strong claim, and would need evidence much stronger than "here's a cherry-picked set of articles I'm interpreting like tea leaves."
His name is public and visible on the archive page etc, but he is not prominent and at least deleted the thread rather than letting it continue to spread. I’d rather not unilaterally make this the defining moment in his public life long-term, so I’m keeping the name out of a Google-able permanent article.
How Do Investigative Journalists Initiate Their Stories?
Same underlying story was discussed here (60 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32861788
On the contrary, it is a reverent homage. What other map is so significant in modern-day culture that it has gained any reputation at all, let alone a cadre of haters? Thanks to it, discussing map projections will never not be funny.
IIRC, that's a GTK issue. A fix is already merged [0], but getting that downstream will be a slow process.

[0]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4508
In my mind, points 2 and 3 conflict with point 1. If Adobe actually believed Figma was an existential threat to the future of their business, and they decided to use their current dominance to subsume it, that's equivalent to admitting failure at some level. And if that's true, then they're trying to stamp out any meaningful competition, which is the kind of thing the FTC should at least be paying attention to.
Should we all get 40% raises?
Given the $$ printed by the fed, and the fact that the Austin city council raised their salaries by 40%, should we all either supply or ask for a 40% raise to combat inflation?
Because US psy-ops against the domestic populate are illegal! And anyone who says you can draw a bright line between domestic and foreign social media activity is a crook.
I was sold the book although the store didn't have it.

This happens a lot, and has recently become very visible with the death of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ.

A lot of people suddenly hit Amazon and other online shopping sites to buy Queen merchandise, only to have their orders cancelled because the sellers weren't real stores with inventory, but just randos on the internet used to going out to tourist shops and buying one or two items a month as orders came in.

When the flood of orders arrived, they couldn't handle it, since their local shops ran dry of the specific items they listed, too.
I remember @pmarca kept a Twitter list of journalist accounts. It was a pretty good thing to browse, full of stories that journalists were trying to bring to light. Then in 2016 it became unreadable, just a 24/7 TDS group therapy forum.
THIS. A million times this. The world is about solving real user problems. And obviously this code solves a huge 20M USD problem. And the code is obviously so good, that even 3 "bozos" (to use your language) can manage and maintain in for decades. This is the holy grail. I wouldn't change a thing and instead ask: how can you make this generate 40M USD a year? This is how you will add real value to the company, and management will love you.
It’s nuts to think Adobe could clone Figma for $1M. That’s a headcount of 2-4, working on it for a single year. That’s off by several orders of magnitude.
Another observation that went missing from the discussions around this problem is that it pans out differently (worse) for people in North America than it does for European users. Apple's various CDNs are far from equally encumbered. Reports from North American users held numbers well beyond those reported by European users. For me here in Sweden the problem was at its peak no more than a lesser annoyance. Not once did I observe anything near the dredging 5-30 second delays that North American users reported, and the recurring 2-3 seconds long system freezes never manifested for me at all.
It's worth noting that there was a lot of pressure from the major browsers to deprecate flash due to security issues throughout the years. Flash produced a lot of great media but in the end it wasn't built with security in mind, and security is much more important today than it was 10 years ago. I don't know what it would take to revamp and then port flash over to some other platform, but I imagine that they'd be better off to just build a new system from scratch and aspire to capture a bit of that old flash magic.

List of CVEs for flash player - lots of 10s in there.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...
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The GOP is against density from a political perspective though, not an ideological one.
Okay, you've convinced me. Now how about the month after that?
Hmm. Interesting point. Can you define racism for me as it relates to "Racist policies in college admissions."? I am trying to determine if you are looking at disparate impact or something else ( and if so, what that something else is ).

I don't really disagree with you, but I am trying to understand your perspective.

<< You're trying to argue that it's somehow off topic

Not at all. I am sure racism part will be covered in detail, while I go after less obvious, but likely more accurate 'people maintaining status quo, because it benefits them'.
Or CrypTech: https://cryptech.is/

There are things developed by the CrypTech project I would like to try and reuse for TillitisKey.
The author is right that poker is like chess, but for the wrong reasons. Poker like chess, at the top levels is dominated by machines. Certain variants of poker, namely heads up limit poker have been "solved" for a long time. Other games such as no limit heads up are increasingly moving in that direction. It has zero to do with physical tells, instead it is mathematics. Ironically there have been accusations of cheating in live poker because a good player did NOT play like the solver suggested in a particular situation. The accusation was since they were a good player and they deviated from what the solver suggested, they must have marked the cards.
> with about a million and a talented team you could build a pretty decent Figma alternative

This seems like a scaled-up version of "I could build a working clone of X in a weekend". It's possible Adobe overpaid, but most likely not by 19.999 million dollars.
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Duke Nukem Forever was such a disappointment.

One of the things that made Duke Nukem 3D such a smash hit was its shock value. It was probably the first mainstream game to include strippers.

But DNF was delayed so long that by the time it came out, Duke's schtick was just cringe-worthy. It wasn't shocking or fun, it just felt like your 50 year old uncle telling the same sexist jokes from 20 years ago.
Might be a case of money laundry ?
You would think it would be one-off then, but adding more units would make it more believable.

Example: it is very common to find people selling a pen for 50 Euro, by buying the pen you are gifted with concert tickets which are illegal to re-sell.

So think anything ilegal to sell or serve, that can be gifted if you buy that book.

edit: I agree with what user WaitWaitWha is saying.
Try going for shorter distances, at slower speeds, with less hills, more often.

Make sure that you have 2-3 rest days per week for the first 60-90 days, then it’s okay to start ramping up by adding 10% more miles per week.
> Figma may have suffered the same fate if Adobe built their own clone or acquired an alternative product.

Adobe already tried this with Adobe XD. The designers I've spoken to consider the software a joke, which is why Figma has continued to grow in popularity so quickly and why Adobe believed this price tag was required. After the announcement, there were multiple reports saying Adobe contacts said XD would be discontinued (or at least support dropped to just a maintenance level).

There's also the third-party Sketch, but that is Mac-only.

As for Canva... that serves a different market doesn't it? XD, Figma, and Sketch are all focused on rapid prototyping and app design. Canva is focused on social media and presentation design. I've admittedly never looked too far into Canva, though, so I could be wrong.
Appears Web3 is simply the Y2K way of writing Web 3.0.
> If by "the DEI people" you mean "students who were only able to be there because someone made a conscious effort to do diversity outreach" then yes. They would be opposed to someone suggesting that they should stop the outreach so that people like them could no longer be there.

This is only half the equation. There's another group of people who excluded on account of their race and gender as part of this "diversity outreach". DEI isn't about inclusion vs. exclusion. Both Abbot and DEI supporters are in favor of including and excluding students. What they disagree on is how this decision is made.

Also, how is "we should build a system that uses merit and qualifications alone but is also unbiased" a discriminatory suggestion? That is the total opposite of the message.
I bet we could sell ultrasonic transducers to audiophiles at a fat profit.

"Restoring the all important 48Khz to 500Khz band to your audio improves the listening experience, repels bats and mosquitoes, drives dogs mad, and will lengthen your lifespan by 100 years. Only $495"
Is there anything in Google/Chrome TOS that might make this illegal? I'd hate to wake up one day to find all my Google accounts suspended.
Do you feel the same way about movies made from books?
I run without any noise and sometimes I do when the track goes through a nice forest or so. But for anything longer than 3 - 5 km there is gladly no shortage of music-playlists, podcasts or audio books to choose from.
What exactly is the point of this article except the author flexing with (honestly kinda shallow) knowledge of chess engines?

Yes, the game is evolving. Two hundred years ago the queen could sometimes hop like a knight, depending where you played. Somewhere around hundred years before that, game description went from beautiful prose like "The white king commands his owne knight into the third house before his owne bishop" to much drier abbreviated form. And some decades ago computers began to become serious players.

All of these changes are interesting, worthy of discourse and not always for the better, but what is the authors actual point? Vague moral panic?

You are telling me single-minded, rote-learning based play is something that came about with engines and not with say, chess being used as a proxy fight in the Cold War or during the rise of the idea of actually treating chess players like athletes instead of calling them gamblers (like in Morphy's time)?

And how is chess like poker because of that? Because you can cheat and computers are good at it? I mean I can also use a modern tech to cheat at football, F1 racing, solitaire or coin-flipping..

Maybe someone can enlighten me what I am supposed to take away from this...
It would not at all surprise me it if it was revealed James Patterson or V.C. Andrews were NLP models all along.
sounds like opportunity
I've taken to running during my lunch break in March this year and I can now run a 5k most days of the week at a 5:30 per km pace.

So I can't even imagine how he does that.
That’s a very clever way to look at things. So much of social media is littered with platitudes and virtue signalling where the thing being said is not only very low risk but not saying it would be career suicide (or at least cause endless foaming at the mouth), this is a useful way to filter out low effort content.