skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has Anyone Been Targeted by a Personal Smear Campaign?
I'm curious how common it is, to be the target of a specific, personal campaign to destroy one's career or community reputation? I'm talking about the kind of vindictive, vicious personal attack that takes you completely by surprise, because it's so unhinged, and so unrelated to anything you actually did.

I'm not talking about troll pile-ons on social media, or companies targeting a competitor. I'm talking about an individual who deliberately sets out to destroy you personally or professionally, maybe out of spite or envy, or revenge, or wanting something you have, or who-knows-what crazypants projection they're aiming at you.

This has actually happened to me twice. Once professionally, once personally. It's so head-spinning, so outside of normal experience, that by the time you figure out it's happening, a lot of damage can get done.

This is all in the past for me. I've been lucky to have the resources to rebuild, plus loyal friends to validate that the thing actually did happen, and that it was awful.

But events like this aren't discussed much, likely to avoid poking the bear, and the silence can be damaging too. Has this happened to anyone else? Did the smear campaign work? Did you fight back, or leave the arena? How did you rebuild?

My support to anyone who's experienced this. The cognitive dissonance is indescribable.
It depends on the type of product. If you're selling to consumers versus businesses, engineers versus HR, how mission critical your product is, etc... Given they're selling a mission critical piece of infrastructure it's a high ratio.
Well, I may speak for hours about my observations.

Essentially they are sure that noone would vouch for Poland (also for Baltic countries). I've been shocked that well educated people, like software engineers, scientists, etc easily repeat the narrative of various propagandists and, moreover, they say that these are their own conclusions.
I concur. Big fan of 1Zpresso manual grinders. Equivalent to a 4-8x expensive electronic grinder.
This seems really interesting to me. The US Constitution was only able to come about due to closed door discussion and debate, and that was one of the most positive outcomes in history for liberal democracy.

There are legitimate arguments for open discussions and records, but they can absolutely lead to a stifling of compromise and spur polarization.
Fascinating.

The intel gathered from these likely helped send Nixon to China by revealing the Sino-Soviet tensions due to the military buildup at the border.
Satellites follow planned predictable paths. Balloons can loiter.
I'd totally do this as well, if there were good software support in Ubuntu. Each time I think about another thing to maintain, I give up. I would like dedicated buttons for my different desktops (with proper labels), and there's a slew of other things I'd like. I wouldn't mind extra unicode characters either. My codemap lets my type 1+1≠3, but there are many more things I'd like to be able to type.

Ain't gonna happen. The problem isn't hardware but software.

Spare touchpad or trackball would also give me a lot, if I could configure it easily. Lots of places I want extra degrees of freedom.
Pretty common to do drug tests in SE Asia. I know Vietnam, Singapore will also do it. A bunch of police enter a club, seize any drugs they find and then drug test everyone. It's a crime to test positive on a drug test.
> One recent man had a lot going for him. In fact he was the most promising prospect I’d had in some time. But then he mentioned that he got his daily coffee from Starbucks, and I found it hard to imagine dating someone who liked Starbucks coffee; or even if they liked the coffee, didn’t find Starbucks so odious and soul-diminishingly ubiquitous they would never go there. I judged this a stupid reason to stop messaging him, given his other, surely more important qualities, so I continued messaging him. But then he said he mostly watched Marvel movies, and the combination of Starbucks and Marvel was too much, so I stopped messaging him, even though I judged my own judgment in this case to be ridiculously shallow and flimsy. If he hadn’t been American, I might have excused it or interpreted it differently. Or if I had met him in another context, his consumer tastes might have barely figured in my estimation of him. But he was just an overeducated, emotionally available American, with many winsome attributes and poor taste in coffee and movies; I myself didn’t even understand why I lost interest in him, and recognized it was a bug in my programming, rather than anything to do with him. Or perhaps, the obvious ominous thought goes, it wasn’t a bug but an actual feature of the programming—not mine, but the app’s.

Clearly she puts in effort by going to dates. But she’s not developing her own psychology enough. She had to fight this tooth and nail and gone on a few more dates with him. Her issue is that she thinks she can predict what a relationship will be like with him and that Marvel and Starbucks would be too bad as an experience. (Edit: not entirely accurate but typing on phone)

More gratitude needed, more optimism needed

Dating apps aren’t the problem it’s her mindset.

Note: I go on dates 1.5 times per week myself, on average. I’m having a blast. I’m no casanova, in most cases it ends in the friendzone. I recently met one person though that might be something more and she lives on another continent. It helps that I am a digital nomad.

But yea, lots of effort but not in the right place. IMO dating needs to be strategic for certain people (like the author) and she has no strategy on being grateful and accepting flaws, or so it seems.

There was a TED talk once on a woman who hacked online dating for herself. She should do more of that.

Dating takes a lot of effort for some (me as well). Roll with it and create something beautiful. In my case I need to have a thick skin in being okay with rejection. In her case, her filters are set too tight (emotionally).
I didn't move the argument. The thread started with your comment:

> Can you make an argument as to why a browser can't provide a native-like experience?

And behold, I explained why.

Every abstraction you layer onto a stack has a performance tradeoff.

You essentially rebutted by saying "we can make things faster" and ... no one said we couldn't.

Your second rebuttal is essentially, "Well, things are fast enough for me!" Which ... OK.
Slightly off topic but do unlimited PTO plans compensate employees if they don’t take a certain threshold of time off? If not, unlimited PTO just sounds like a scheme to penny pinch employees.
Found the data to be accurate and up to date.
> It just happens to indulge his maximalist tendencies in a smaller page budget, and fails to get the best of either a short novel or a big messy "idea-novel."

I mean, Snow Crash still works great as an adventure yarn, right up until the entire caper is resolved by Hiro running a program he was programming in the background between scenes.

The Diamond Age was much more meandering and plotted in a confusing way, even if it had better world-building.
Even if there were a blanket ban, I think corporate lawyers would quickly find ways around it for special cases (e.g. VPs, c-level, etc).

For example, you could ban blanket non-competes but not ban non-competes where very strict criteria are met, or having an exec agree to pay a [an insanely large penalty] if they choose to go work for a competitor.
I'm fairly certain he was just making a joke about HN and not a literal comment to the OP.
It's utterly dishonest to argue that NATO is a defensive alliance in the face of the fact that NATO has been regularly invading countries for many decades. Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria are just a few examples.
Apologies for the naive questions in advance.

Is it not possible to go up there in a hot air balloon to inspect it from a closer distance?

Also, what about base jumping onto it?

Are there any methods of getting it back to the ground intact?
The courts aren't stupid. I always find it funny when people say "it's easy, instead of saying I'll sell you marijuana, I'll just say 'want to buy from bread?' the police will never figure it out.
It still is affordable. It is only considered expensive when you compare it to the candy in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Any elaboration on why do you find Cryptonomicon in particular worth re-reading? It seemed pretty verbose.
Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback
I'm really hoping Proton Bridge is actually "1000x" faster, because the time it takes to fetch 5 emails into thunderbird is actually wild at the moment.
Yup. Nailed it.
This isn't stealing at all. I want my open source code to be used like this.
You use English the way only a German ever does. Better not to lie at all than to prove so incompetent in the attempt.
I don't understand what you're saying.

First of all, no one is going to benefit if 25% of US population moves to NYC.

Second, if we build millions of houses and they stay vacant, we just wasted a ton of money.

Third, if we just give away all those houses for free, we're going to destroy the real estate market, which will have a cascading effect and cause a huge crisis in all sectors (and if you think that only billionaires will be affected, think harder).

Fourth, due to misaligned incentives, governments are known to be way less efficient than private companies.

So our best option is to be smart: build only so many houses to meet the demand and so that the utility they provide is roughly equal to their cost, and let private companies build those houses. Now we only need two things: a tool to measure the utility of something, and some incentives for private companies.

I guess we all know where this is going.
It has a replaceable pod for a variety of equipment. They’ve been flying these for 67 years. I’d bet pretty strongly they were prepared.
Sorry, poor wording. What I should have said is that the overall educational system ends up letting a smaller percentage of the population into universities, partially because sorting happens as early as age 10.
and then play Doom on it , of course
Nice! I assume if it was over the WAN you probably had to unicast it?

I've experimented a tiny bit with the builtin pulseaudio RTP sink/source, but I've not used it extensively. I'm not sure if cutting out ffmpeg would be beneficial.
Eh, I'd identify as a capitalist and there are definitely lots of evil things far worse than loss of capital. Capitalism need not imply anarchy or surrendering our moral compass.
People are really complicated.
War on NATO, Russia loses quickly or we all lose if nuclear war.
From what I understand (this might be an oversimplification).

Each prompt-response is independent, and it doesn't have a real understanding of the historical context of the conversation. This means that when you talk to the chatbot, the entire conversation history needs to be included in the prompt to give it context.

For instance, if your first prompt is "Who is the current sitting president of the United States?" and the response is "Joe Biden," and you then ask a follow-up prompt like "How tall is he?", GPT-3 won't understand what you're referring to unless the prior conversation is included in the prompt, like so:

```

User: Who is the current sitting president of the United States?

AI: Joe Biden

User: How tall is he?

AI:

```

By doing this, GPT-3 can use the context of the previous conversation to generate an appropriate response. However, as the conversation history gets longer, GPT-3's ability to maintain context weakens, and it may begin to provide irrelevant or nonsensical responses.

There is a soft limit of around 2000 tokens, which translates to approximately 1500 words. When the conversation history becomes too long, GPT-3 will summarize it in a way that preserves the important information. For example, "Who is the current sitting president of the United States?" might become "Who's the president of USA" to save space.

For most users, including the entire conversation history in the prompt is feasible for up to six prompts before context begins to degrade. After that point, it may be necessary to restate previous information or use other methods to maintain context.

While I believe that ChatGPT and Bing likely have more advanced methods for retaining conversation history, based on the recent limitations implemented, it seems that the general principle of maintaining context still holds true.
> Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.

Overton window keeps moving in the direction of fuck the employees to benefit the shareholders I guess. Having a personalized space used to not be considered a perk but table stacks for working at a company not too long ago. I get that the employees aren’t in office all week but that’s kinda on google for not having enough desks given that they mandated a return to office.
For those wanting to practice this, also consider pairing this with Ilya Grigorik's VimGolf >> https://www.vimgolf.com/.
How much more efficient does solar get at -60C? Or is it just better for longevity?
Even an ESP32 is probably more powerful than every single one of those computers, with the exception of the GameCube. You can emulate NES games on that micro-controller.
https://archive.is/eEt4B
To go one step further…it is at sellout capacity at luxury prices. Lowering prices would create an untenable situation.
That is why I said, you have to increase the workout intensity and duration gradually to offset the metabolic adaption that is triggered by the diet change
That's exactly their point.
Based on the perf of Bun vs. the naive impl. of the same tech I'm doubtful of this 80hrs a week claim.
Took me a bit to find that. So... boil the water first is called "the hoffman method"? Okay.
And for those who don't know, on most modern Linux-based distributions `vi` is an alias for `vim` which is Vim (Vi IMproved).
As with most engineering tools, I think using the word "better" is not necessarily correct. It's a matter of tradeoffs.

For me, I was fed up maintaining code to run my neovim setup the way I want, so I was looking for a configuration distribution or... something else.

Helix was the dead simplicity I was looking for. It has its own warts and drawbacks, but the tradeoffs are well worth it in my experience. I absolutely love Helix!

But if you want your editor to work exactly the way you want and having maximum flexibility is more important, you will not like Helix, which is extremely opinionated and has 95% of what you want in a modern text editor. The other 5% may be a deal breaker for you.

And that's fine! Use the tools you love!
You claimed that both parties represent the exact same interests, and I don't agree with that at all and nor does the article support it.

If we use campaign contributions as a proxy for interests, then internet companies like Google and Facebook and their employees support Democrats much more than they support Republicans, and it's vice versa in the aerospace and defence industry.
why only when searching?
> assuming it's even real.

Sir or Madam, you question my good faith!
Anyone in this thread read The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod, the beginning of his The Fall Revolution series? Am I the only one who thought it was like a British, anarcho-syndicalist (in some parts of the setting) version of Snow Crash? Right down to the computer program MacGuffin?
I had the exact opposite experience just then.

Installed helix, and nothing 'worked'. LSP wouldn't start, syntax highlighting didn't work, and once I did get them working, editing JSX caused strange issues where the autopair functionality created a duplicate of my code several lines above where I was working..

Not particularly impressed tbh.

It was very fast to start and use the fuzzy search though.
>Supporting the spy angle is the pretty obvious connectivity (looks to be Ku-band satellite or similar) but it also doesn't really make that much sense... surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites.

Two things. It will be significantly better at ELINT, soaking up signals over which it floats. Second, at 60,000 feet it is at least an order of magnitude closer than LEO spy satellites are, if not more. Simple physics dictates the limits of resolution for the lenses for spy satellites. Being significantly closer makes it much easier to provide better images than a multi billion dollar spy satellite. All at a significantly lower cost.
Are you writing a spy novel
This is exactly the problem with unlimited PTO. It makes employees to feel guilty about taking time off and allows employers to avoid paying out unused time off when they leave.
He literally said that's what he's looking for when he announced his company. He also shows off his work stats on twitter.
You can use some clever prompts to see this summarization in action.

I had a long conversation with chatgpt, asking it about a book, and provide plot summaries, and asking about specific characters. After about 40-50 questions, I asked it questions like how many questions I have asked in this conversation and what they were. Eventually I was able to get it to print out the questions I asked, and they all got shortened (a lot!).
Learn this one trick HFT don't want you to know
I've been working on MedQA, a GPT-powered clinical reference tool that can answer clinical questions and follow-up questions in natural language, along with references to sources. It's been an interesting way to experiment with the use of LLMs in the clinical context, and how to build around the strengths of these models while mitigating the downsides. I've been using it on rounds at the hospital and using those experiences as a feedback loop to continue improving it!

[0] MedQA: https://labs.cactiml.com/medqa

[1] Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/samarthrawal/status/1620545601296564228
V60 isn't a version number, it designates the angle of the V-shaped brewing cone.
I al hoping that one day American society will wake up to the fact that Tyranny can, and has been privatised. It is not only the state that you should be afraid of.
True scotsmen exclusively use ed.
I got to hate them when angularjs became the new version, which was nigh on impossible to upgrade from the original. They should have given it a different name.

Angularjs burned me so hard that i didn't even bother to look at react.
time for arguments is over.
This is embarrassing and just degrading to employees.
Noncompetes are already illegal in California. Facebook, Google, Apple, Intel and the rest of the 14% of the country's GDP demonstrate that you can innovate and build a business just fine without them.

Using noncompetes is a sign of a lousy business, that doesn't deserve to survive the market.
check out laser sailing
> The first date where the guy took a nap.

Honestly sounds like a keeper. Imagine being that relaxed that you can just have a little snooze for a bit after meeting someone.

If after 100+ first dates you don't like anyone, then perhaps face the reality that it's probably you, not them?
Are you suggesting the man himself would be offended?
Loving bun!

Best way to use typescript and have things “just work” as compared to node and node-ts and setting type:”module” in package.json and dealing with headaches.

Some things to add:
- duckbd embedded like sqlite
- fix the stdout/stdin terminal issues so it can be used for fast CLI stuff (basic things like columns/rows count, rawMode, mouse, et all)
- sub project to port electron apis so we can have a new, mostly compatible version of electron that uses bun for the headless processing and uses system webviews for front lens (no node integration).
Indeed.

The rhetorical technique is frustrating, but there is a clear dividing line between exercising free speech, and coordinating with enough people to facilitate a societal ostracization. In one, a party is availing themselves of making a point; adding something to the intellectual crock pot, if you will. The other is essentially working the room to prevent a party in particular from doing so at all.

I do not think anyone can reasonably argue that someone 'gathering up the boys to defenestrate someone with an odious opinion' is merely a good faith "exercising of free speech".

But again, at that point we're starting to argue about something other than free speech, and more representing enforcement of the Overton window, and what everyone is comfortable with counting as reasonable to be an outcome of being found to be outside it.
Huge downside for me.

Not that I want to muck around with plugins all day, but having the ability to add a few helper plugins to ease certain tasks is a godsend in terminal editors.

Especially if you really dislike certain defaults packaged with the editor.
There's no Swift involved here; this is in WebKit.
I try to use it in my IDE but there are too many conflicts (>1) and I give up and turn the mode off.
I'd wager it's related to identity and access management. If everything is tied in to a single IDP, like Okta for example, and then cycled secrets incorrectly they could have locked everyone out.
I just wound up using translucent ones which came with them, with the LEDs set to solid colors to group functionality together, and a legend on the display. Zoom keys blue, lights yellow, etc.

I had an XKeys strip for a previous iteration, which included similar keycaps. My hand-written labels were ugly, so I skipped them this time around.
There are good reasons to avoid putting in 80 hour weeks but doing so because someone who put in 100 hour weeks had a bad experience isn't one of them. The level of stress isn't linear as the weekly number of hours increases.
The Journal also ran a lovely obituary of him earlier this month: https://wsj.com/articles/blind-software-engineer-expanded-ac...
I'm not going to argue with you beyond this last comment because you're clearly doing so in bad faith, but you were trying to invalidate my comment because I'm "some white dude who cant find China on a map".

An ad hominem is "a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself."

Your incorrect and baseless assertion that I can't find China on a map attacks me as a person, and not what I said. I'm also not American fyi.

Now kindly never interact with me again.
And there's this, which is current:

https://archive.is/eEt4B
Get one with a silicone gasket and you're good.
Simple. It will ignore us.
I sincerely hope you don’t try it without consulting your doctor. EAE mouse models are “like” MS but barely. Something working or not working in EAE models is only a vague suggestion that the same will work or not work on people. This thing can be a supplement but we don’t know how it’ll react with your other medication.

The linked article is a fluff piece written by the university PR. According to them every lab in their university is curing cancer and MS and AIDS every day.
> train it on medical claims/insurance use cases and facts, feed it statistics about cases and see if it can handle use cases for processing simpler claims

Isn’t this how insurance companies have operated since the mainframe computer age? Why would an adjuster need to talk to this with chatgpt?
> When inflation is actually driven by consumers having too much money, fine, go for it. But when its driven by external factors

And when it's both, as was the case in 2021-2022?
What do I gain by lying? I could say I'm a german who stands against American Imperialism, and it would only make my argument stronger.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communis...

Wake up. Do you know what one revolution gets you? Back to where you started! But you cant see that, because its always someone else in the way of your success... the monarchs, the capitalist, the educated (said Pol Pot). Yes these pesky groups always keep you down and therefore they must be overthrown!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

Communists doing communist things, always thinking they know best.