skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian"

Shouldn't Experian have been thoroughly audited by the gov't after the last major data breach? The above sounds pretty out in the open, no?
Households burn cat litter to heat homes amid wood pellet shortage
this brings a new definition to sustainable energy supplies :))))) meow
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/10309/amd-65w-zen-4-ryzen-...

> Looking at our CPU power draw alone, the 7900, 7700, and 7600 all pull around 20 watts at idle.

For comparison, the Intel Core i9-13900K seems to draw just 10 watts, and the Intel Core i5-13600K only draws 6!

https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/10222/intel-core-i9-13900k...
What's a maker?
Because the world has been so well run these last 50 years...
It probably helps a lot that it's still not a publicly traded company. Steam can prioritize long-term profits and doesn't have to squeeze out its user base for every last penny. Counter example: Activision/Blizzard.
I think I first experienced ELIZA on a PDP-11

What's really going to get spooky is someday some ChatGPT descendant is going to write a better ChatGPT and where does that sequence end?
I love the idea of a-frame a lot- moving 3d content out of js & into the page (the way an extensie hypermedium ought to encompass things), but they dont seem interested in u
supporting esm, even though more and more toolchains expect one to be using the language's modules & not legacy commonjs. https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/issues/3732
> Considering the two risks as independent surmises that BTC goes up substantially (in USD terms) via some mechanism other than printing Tether, which AFAICT never happens.

BTC goes up and down for a multitude for reasons. For example, Matt Damon going on tv makes BTC go up. You have an extremely simplistic view of the markets if you believe the only reason for BTC to go up is "Tether money printer goes brrrr". Yes, it's one of the reasons. It's not the only one.

> If/when BTC does go up you can simply short again at the higher level.

If you actually tried to put this proposal in an excel and model the returns, you would immediately notice that "short BTC" and "short USDT" have completely different outcomes and "simply short again" is not a remedy that fixes this issue.
What useful insights these stats can provide depends on what question you’re trying to answer with what other data you can publicly get, combine, and estimate from. Internally Steam keeps very detailed playtime-by-game-by-user stats but as for what’s aggregated and published publicly you just get the stats the article talks about which leads to it being the best way to monitor growth/activity. It’s been a while since Valve publicly reported MAU but I think it was something like 130 million in 2021.

Steam APIs used to report achievement statistics float-accurate. This was patched once people started using it to estimate game sales based on “launch the game” type achievements. Not sure how many data holes like this have existed. The flip to your game stats being private by default also limited scraping abilities.

They also give samples hardware stats of their user base publicly by month but that doesn’t really tell you much about the platform. Cool for other things though (mainly intended for developers to understand what the user base has).
For all the hate that Teams gets, it does this the best. Felt this acutely when moving from Teams to Slack+Zoom+Gsuite. Open and edit docs quickly right in Teams.

But honestly the thing I miss the most is having persistent meeting chats, I don't want to create a slack channel for every ad hoc zoom meeting or having to slack someone for a link they shared on zoom I forgot to copy
I still think social authentication and S3 replacements are valid use cases for web3.

as for GPT I think it is revolutionary. And it is the first chatbot that I prefer to work with over google. Way easier to use than google.

If it becomes a paid service(assuming the pricing is right) I feel it's incentives align better than googles with mine.

Where things get messed up is recommending products and services. If it can stick to a no pay to rank type of service than it would revolutionize the economy.

No assistant is perfect but seems to do better then a lot of human assistants.

Will it be perfect in the future no, but I think if it can offer some kind of confidence factor to it's answers that would go a long way.
If security doesn't impact their bottom line, it's just another beautiful salary for the C suite to parachute off of.
I have hired many developers who have progressed all the way from Jr and Sr through to management and CTO.

When someone is enjoying their career path and responsibility growth, it is an amazing experience for everyone.

When someone isn't enjoying it, it is MISERABLE for everyone. The problem is that in most cases the person in question asked for this career path. It's not their fault, they didn't know they wouldn't enjoy it. A combination of humility, denial and desire (for compensation growth) propels them to keep trying though. Because they are good developers and usually good people, it's hard to tell them they are performing poorly.

The best thing you can do for you, your manager and the company is to have a clear and concise conversation about it: I WAS excited about this path, but it's not working as well as I hoped. I still love being here, is there another path I can take?

A nice way to continue to contribute at a leadership level would be to mentor newer developers, work on some cross functional teams as an advisor, create programs that help others in the company develop skills (run the weekly demo event, create a lunch and learn for developers, etc). There are a lot of things you can do to support the growth of the company overall while keeping the scope of your actual responsibilities more well defined and focused on what you enjoy the most.
> Whatever service you are using for logging, it costs money, and a fast way to burn money is to log the entire json object that was relatively small on your dev env, but blew up on production.

You could also, you know, run your own infrastructure and log to your heart's content.
Getting your hands on a graphics cards hasn't been easy in the past ~2 years either but I suppose it was still easier to get a hold of some PC (a laptop perhaps) that can run less demanding games than say, a PS5.
Looking back in my life, very few habits stayed with me over the years. One is to wake up early in the morning; read non-fiction books; Use TeX\LaTeX for writing. I read on average a book every 3-5 days. I read mostly during the early morning or late evening. I occasionally read the odd blog post. They serve different purpose.
I think lootboxes should be regulated like gambling, but the way Valve implemented them was not as bad as what the industry at large has done.

1. Loot was cosmetic or a "sidegrade" of items that could be obtained through other means (especially TF2). That is, not pay-to-win.

2. Loot boxes and their contents can be sold on the marketplace, so there are opportunities to make your money back if you get a $400 item. You can also sell the boxes themselves without paying for keys. Free Steam credit for everybody.
you're like OP in that you're just state what you think should be with out really saying why
Improving I/O Performance in Go with io_uring
My story was short. A tree at chest level knocked us over a couple feet from the end of fork. We floated a couple feet until we were dumped back into the main channel were there is little to no current. My heel caught a treble hook from my fishing pole. I had to dog paddle the kayak a couple feet to the bank and get the hook out of my heel.

There aren't even any classed rapids in this area its more of a lazy river thing. An hour or so away there are some cool rapids leftover from prior Olympic Games that has a consistent dam release.

We were on sit on top kayaks.
OMG. two of my favourite movies and I never spotted her as the same woman. I guess I'm not alone, looking at her IMDB bio...

Jenette Goldstein is a true chameleon. She is so effective as an actress, it is nearly impossible to recognize her from role to role.
When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death (2021)
Annual Review 2022
Terminator was made for $6.4 mil, like $18 million now. Not a blockbuster.
The killer feature with ChatGPT is that you can interactively refine a result. Your skill as a writer for a magazine for example now can be that you're good at recognizing good writing and can articulate how it can be made better, but you don't need to be a good writer yourself anymore. This was absolutely not possible 5 years ago or even 1 year ago.

ChatGPT doesn't need to be a "chat" product. It's an interactive stateful tool.
1 Week with David Beazley and SICP
Some 'latest' books I actually enjoyed:

Based on a True Story: (Not) A Memoir (Norm Macdonald - 2016) - Humor

Deadlines Don’t Care if Janet Doesn’t Like Her Photo (David Thorne - 2021) - Humor (And other books by David Thorne)

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya - 2022) - Documentary

Memory Machines - The Evolution of Hypertext (Belinda Barnet) - Kinda about how the web was born and about interesting dead branches

Simple Sabotage Field Manual - really funny
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
> If the web was being made form scratch today, it would probably start with a repurposed game engine.

Possibly. But I dont think such a “web” would be anywhere near as successful. It was critical for the success of the early web that anyone would write a webpage in notepad and link to other pages.
You can freeze the worknumber so people running background checks can't get information. When I changed jobs the company ran a background check and they kinda freaked out cause they couldn't get anything out of this database. I loved it.
It depends on the type of book. Tutorials are more like recipes from a recipe book, they help you achieve a specific outcome but don't necessarily teach the underlying reason or background information.
That's like blaming Edgar Alan Poe for trashy modern emo slam poetry. Those were innocent times when the innate evil of the loot box was not yet known. Valve abandoned them when the truth of what they were tampering with became clear. I am willing to forgive so long as they do not return to the dark arts.
This isn't the case for everything. Go watch Too Old to Die Young on Amazon Prime if you want to see beautiful slow cinema.
Afterburner Developer Hasn't Been Paid for a Year
You are confusing the map with the territory. Mathematical models are only useful insofar as they correspond with reality. Go back to your original claim:

> Zero growth means zero-sim [sic] games. Pre-modernity. Sucks to be poor if you’re born into that world.

China is the second-largest economy in the world, and the fastest growing. Liechtenstein's economy and its growth rate are a tiny fraction of China's. But if you had a choice between being an average resident of China or an average resident of Liechtenstein you'd be a fool to choose the former no matter what game theory tells you.

What you choose to measure matters. A lot.
> when it appeared there was a clear winner

Dep was very slow, tried to be very clever often resulting in it "cleverly" doing the wrong thing, and was generally a pain to deal with. At $dayjob we migrated to dep and then we had serious discussions if we should move back to glide (we didn't, as vgo was on the horizon by then). There were some plans to fix some of this IIRC, but they never really went beyond "plans".

It's always difficult if people spend a lot of time on a particular solution and then it turns out that's actually not what's desired, or if someone else thinks of an even better solution. All option suck here: chucking out people's work sucks (especially in open source volunteer-effort context), but accepting a bad solution "because people spent time on it" and then being stuck with that for years or decades to come sucks even more.

The communication could certainly have been better; a sort of "community committee" was given a repo on github.com/golang/dep and told "good luck". In hindsight the Go team should have watched development more closely and provided feedback sooner so that the direction could be adjusted. Actually, the entire setup probably wasn't a good idea in hindsight.
Because Electric Universe drum beaters are crackpots talking about how stars are powered by magical currents rather than fusion and geology is dominated by arc events rather than plate tectonics.

However, Alfvein cosmology does have merits in explaining galactic scale phenomena and solar phenomena certainly have a electrical component (see: huge quantities of charged particles berating Earth at all times).
> The situation remained so for over a year. In that time, I was banned from the Go issue tracker without explanation, and was unable to continue discussing the problem with Google

Something tells me there's another side to this story that we aren't hearing.
I've never been hit by 240V thankfully, but when I was a kid I felt 120V when plugging a computer into the wall.
I would guess that PC gaming has been dying since 1982... So a good 40 year run at this point.
Ugh, annoyingly Experian was the hardest one to do a credit freeze on. A few weeks ago, I was able to easily do a credit freeze on other bureaus but Experian wanted me to call them during business hours so I put it off. It might not help much but I’ll plan on doing the credit freeze with them today.
I wondered that too, but then I wondered if that's what sourcehut have actually done. I didn't notice any details about how go module mirror will be blocked.

Wouldn't the effect on sourcehut users be identical?
I think it's basically an "informed consent" thing. If people are clearly informed and consciously aware of the risk, that's completely up to them (eg. free solo climbers).

Where it gets tricky, in my opinion is:

- we aren't convinced the person is currently capable of making rational decisions

- we aren't convinced the person is fully informed and equipped with an intimate understanding of the risk they're undertaking

I think both of these cases are about wanting what's best for the individual, but struggling with the balance of support vs. control.
A reminder that if you haven't frozen your credit with the three credit agencies - it's a great time to do so!
To me, the single biggest opportunity is performance. There's a lot that can be done if you optimize for that: plumb incremental computation through the pipeline from the app logic all the way to the GPU, run your logic in multiple threads, and just generally minimize the work done. I gave a talk[1] which goes into more detail.

Now, I freely admit that many applications don't need that much performance. But I think having a toolkit that is optimized along those lines could be a good basis for doing work on the other things (developer experience) that make a toolkit great.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUTZlNCb8U
If you just need a single shell command you can do :!<command>. Example:

:!ack "stupid_structure->who_wrote_this_crap.oooohhhhh\s+="

(and if you wonder what "ack" means: https://beyondgrep.com/)
So, I love japanese photography and their street photography is very lively and rooted in decades of tradition. A couple of years ago a famous photographer got some backlash for being "inconsiderate" but only lost his partnership with a famous camera manufacturer.

How does this law fit with the very alive and active community of publishing street photographers?
> legal action were to give Meta the corporate death sentence preventing the company from operating and its execs from pivoting to somewhere else

Just do the second bit. The problem with judicial dissolution is corporations are a legal fiction. What you do with the people and assets is far, far more important. Ignoring the legal fiction to focus on those is my point. Take their stuff (fines). Force them to restructure (break-up). Limit their scope (corporate criminal penalties). Restrict their executives. “Corporate death penalty” is exactly non-specific enough to avoid specifying those prescriptions.
What was your schedule that it didn't work with your spouse?

I know couples where one does IF and they just eat dinner together, but that's the only meal most couples/families eat together anyway.
I don't have any particular affinity for Google, but they're still a business and they're already developing the Go language (and relevant infrastructure) at their own expense. It's not like the Go team at Google has access to the entire Alphabet war chest like your "biggest, richest, well-staffed companies on the planet" suggests.
The jump-cuts back and forth between "The Urban Environment" and "The Log Cabin Environment" (as well as the accompanying audio) really, really touched me in a deep way.
Apple AR/VR headset to be announced in the spring
Dijkstra: On the foolishness of “natural language programming”
My family vacations growing up were often to National Parks, and Glacier is definitely my favorite.

On my first trip there, when I was hiking with my family on the Iceberg Lake trail, a couple appeared running back towards us with their bear spray pointed behind them. We were at first concerned that they were running from a bear, but a few moments later, a moose appeared behind them trotting down the trail. We turned around and booked it back down the trail until we found a spot where we could get off the trail behind some trees, and the moose ended up turning off.

That was quite a scare at the time, and it could have ended very poorly, but it makes for a great story now.
How do you feel about more modern movies like Sicario? That one has both a very strong message, fantastic dialogue and beautiful camera work, IMO.
This is interesting and it would be neat if it was used with GPTChat. On the other hand this should be benchmarked on multiple interactions with GPTChat or just people that understand how to write prompts in general. Having the computer do basically all possible inputs into the generator could possibly be programmed as a layer between the underlying Neural Text Generator.
Gartner has predicted by 2038, the average American will spend 17 hours per day opting out of things they never opted into.
Sorry, I guess I should have said "Persian" art? I'm having trouble finding the origin of the painting, this is about it:
"The illustration was originally found in a work of history called “The Compendium of Chronicles” (or “Jami al-Tawarikh” in Arabic) by Rashid al-Din Hamadani (1247–1318), a Persian physician and bureaucrat who served the Mongol conquerors of Iran in the 13th and 14th centuries."

Dunno if I agree all Islamic art doesnt depic humans, that does not agree with what I've seen in museums. Also, since it's a representation of an event that occurred in islam, I thin kit's not entirely unfair to say it's "islamic art" even if it was created by a Persian jew.
So either you disable the proxy completely for your site or get overwhelmed by traffic from a not to well written service, similar to a small DDOS attack, which is run by google and they are not planning to fix this? Did I get anything wrong here?
I'm pretty confident it wouldn't come to layoffs. If Meta faced such a risk they would simply follow the rule. Remember how many times they threatened to leave EU?
> It also helps if you hire a relocation expert who knows the system. We paid ~$1,500 to a Portuguese American lady who helped us with everything. She handled setting up all our health care, apartment negotiation and contract review, set up all our utilities and phones, all our residency paperwork, DL exchange, bank account, and more. I highly recommend her and any group like her. They know how to work the system.

In the third world, that's called a tout, and they're a symbol of corruption and inefficiency. The only thing missing seems to be bribes paid to move your papers from one desk to the other faster.
I’m not saying there aren’t any products that last a lifetime, but it’s a lot less common than most people think.

Houses are a great example. They absolutely crumble without constant maintenance. Water heater every 10 years, roof every 20, hardwood refinishing as needed, paint, GFCIs wear out, every type of appliance and HVAC item, repairing drywall, caulking bathrooms, and the list goes on and on.

Physical media wears out. Book pages get sun and moisture damage, wear from use, discs rot, vinyls get damaged just by being played. Film and printed photos fade.

In the case of textbooks and other non-fiction, information itself can become outdated.

Sure, the advent of digital technology should mean data doesn’t suffer from the woes of the physical realm, but that’s not even really half of the discussion.

Even those old boxed pieces of software, simply getting them to run usually isn’t always helpful. Is my tax software from 1999 going to have any functional purpose? Will I be able to get a job as a graphic designer anymore if my tools support 256 colors? If someone else made a better PDF than Acrobat Reader 1.0 would I have any desire to use the copy I already own?

Another analogy: if I could be given a brand new classic car but it needed leaded gasoline and got 10 MPG, is the fact that it lasted a lifetime relevant to me for the purposes of daily driving?

Basically, what I’m saying is that “surviving” and “maintaining value” are different things, and that putting things into the buckets of of “consumable” and “durable” good is a little too binary compared to the real world.

Sure, the smartphone distribution model means that old applications aren’t as resilient as WIN32 apps, but that doesn’t automatically mean that the current model isn’t acceptably durable.
Why? If some open source maintainer goes off the rails and deletes all their packages, why should that break my builds? I still have a valid license to the code, I don't really care that a maintainer rage quit 4 dependencies down from my application. I certainly don't want to have to scramble to deal with that.
No. Police chopper bore holes in the sky because they're not needed 100% of the time but if they weren't already in the sky the response would be too slow. To the extent that they can remain in the general area they're supposed to sending them to look at less important things on the ground is actually a positive because it's less boredom for the pilots. Something hot comes up and they'll dash away from that stolen car.
Same here. You would think editor-related content would make the front page more frequently.
I think it is problematic that we are using github issues as "support forum" for asking a git host provider to be excluded from the refresh list. This should not have come to that. Whatever happened to "reasonable defaults", so as a random person hosting a single Go module doesn't get DOSed - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-86087... ?
If CEOs reliably expect to go to jail for doing illegal things, boards will have a hard time finding a CEO who will do it. If you still feel this is not a solution, perhaps we add holding the board personally liable for the actions of the company, and see if that helps. :)
Ah, not sure I understand then. Would it still need one counter, or rather a flag "has been cloned by google in last 24h" for each go module?
By saying 'in AI' the use of 'everyone' implies everyone in AI. My point still stands.
Ah the idle gamers... I really should stop those games...

What is the point of running your pc 24/7 through the year for some marginal or not so marginal gains not really mattering at all.

Then again I doubt that it is anyway major part of the community on Steam.