skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday i stumbled over a blog post about REPLIKA.AI and their users, that are suffering because they deactivated the 'romance / erotic' chat capabilities.

Then i thought, this is an absolute nightmare, that an AI could bring humans to behaviour, that was unthinkable before. Think of AI-addicted humans that are in a relationship with an avatar, that can control them: just like many humans to control other people by emotions alone.

That is real threat, that can be undetected for a long time, because no code is involved at all.

Found the article: https://theconversation.com/i-tried-the-replika-ai-companion...
There's a weird combination of "what happened" and causation in here:

>> the credentials for the servers were stolen from a DevOps engineer who had access to cloud storage at the company. This made it more difficult for LastPass to detect the suspicious activity.

How does A => B?

>> The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.

The part about authentication and MFA doesn't track with the rest of the sentence. How does a password without also having the MFA channel work? How would this give me access to a LP vault? Why were they on their home machine?

I understand it must be hard to try and come clean in a RCA without injecting some excuses and mitigating factors but you can't attempt soften the blow or the entire thing is a big, smelly mess. It should be a bunch of facts with no emotion, THEN the mitigation and lessons learned. LP just issued a bunch of press releases.
Can we use quantum computers to make music?
We can play the same game.
Insects outweigh us 17 to 1.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al...
Yeah, the Last Word is great (if you like it). Maybe the author is losing me in several layers of sarcasm or something. I sure hope so.
a lot of games have had prices stay flat like the NBA 2k games
My first was daughter was very quiet and I thought I somehow had got something right on first try. The next four of my kids has not been even though they share both parents.

I think I should be happy for this: If they'd all been as harmonic as my first one I could easily ended up giving well meant parenting advice telling others "just do as I did, be kind and careful and encouraging and it will sort itself out".
dogs?
Nearly every popular branded liqueur or aromatized wine has a number of substitutes available, but it sometimes takes research to know what they are.

Easy to find Kahlua alternatives; it’s a coffee liqueur and that’s not hard to find.

A little more challenging to find a Campari or Cocchi Americano alternative. There are lots of similar options and it’s not obvious whether an aperitif liqueur is a substitute for Campari or Aperol, for example.

Nice to know what the Chartreuse alternatives are.
Eh, I wouldn't point to Chartreuse as a favorite of heavy drinkers, despite the ABV. Far far far more people are getting shithoused on simple, cheap things like wine
Also, apparently the link de-dup logic doesn't account for the fact that a website can change in salient ways after 9 months. When I tried to link to the actual Dev One page, it got deduped to the release announcement.
> the current maintainers are on a path to repeat these mistakes

Do you recall specific RFCs that are leaning in this direction?
Can you expand on what you mean by this? You mean that Lambda forces you into an async style of programming where you queue events to handle completion of long running subrequests?
That's not hindering anybody. It especially is not hindering their competitors Apple, Facebook and Microsoft from competing. Google Search has grown into its size and popularity due to its own merits, and can as easily be replaced.

From the lawyers in that case:
“There are no reasonable substitutes for general search services, and a general search service monopolist would be able to maintain quality below the level that would prevail in a competitive market”

I've been using a much better search engine than Google for months now. The free market of the internet and human ingenuity has delivered.
It’s All Bad News: An update on how the LastPass breach affects LastPass SSO
The phrase "Cheers for now" is less ambigous as a sign off or goodbye than cheers on its own.
I think people hugely underestimate the cost of maintaining parking spaces on public streets in dense urban areas, and then wildly overestimate the costs of the EV charging infrastructure drivers will need. You have to set aside enough valuable and productive urban real-estate to store a 1+-ton vehicle at street level, grade and pave the space for it, pave and maintain every piece of street that leads up to it, and then police and clean the streets (to keep people from blocking it in or parking illegally or starting fires with unmaintained vehicles.)

We tend to think of street parking as “free” or “cheap” but that’s just because we pretend that asphalt and pavement and public land falls from the sky, rather than being a massive expense that taxpayers have born and continue to pay for. There are some good articles (mostly US focused) that talk about the replacement cost per-household of rebuilding new parking in even land-rich cities and the cost is staggering, close to $100k per household even in Wyoming. (It is hard for me to believe that these costs are lower for historically-preserved dense European cities.) Compared to these sunk costs, running 240V wiring for the equivalent of several new households per block doesn’t seem like a massive investment. The ongoing maintenance costs will certainly not exceed the cost of street maintenance.

As far as how much power we need: the average European driver travels 32.9km/day. At a (Tesla) usage of 166wH/km that’s 5.461kWh/day, or 273W continuous average power draw assuming most people drive for 4H/day and park the rest of the time. You’re absolutely correct that even this level of new consumption is going to require us to upgrade city grids and substations, but that’s already baked into the EV transition. We’ll have to upgrade substations even if everyone stores their cars in private garages off the street.
You could learn the opposite lesson as well, that if you want to create a successful startup you need a dynamic language that responds to business needs and you can put off worrying about infrastructure costs until later.
As a lone developer, there is some truth. But a good lone developer is still consistent, more consistent then a team. The problem with the lone developer is they often get their efficiency by being "weird". However, I still code review my own code and catch issues with it. To be blunt, most people (developers included) don't actually learn new things easily and when they see a "weird" code base their learning mind shuts down. They aren't used to efficient patterns; they are used developers writing dumb CRUD code that is easy to "understand" but in truth do almost nothing of value.
It's monorail meets bobsled (or a one-wheeled hoverboard) in a terrifying combination!

It's clear from the video that this would never be rideable, much less safe. A bit of debris landing on the track could cause a spectacular accident with cars and passengers launched into the air. Just look at how it wobbles around corners and even on straight lines. And that switch. What could go wrong?
That is something like $600 per ton of CO2. For that amount you can literally capture the CO2 from the air today.
I enjoy making my own infusions. Have you ever done it? Have you ever tasted Chartreuse?

In my experience, it's going to take a lot of practice to make something with the complexity of chartreuse that tastes good.

If you're just starting out, I'd suggest starting with only 1 or 2 or maybe 3 ingredients, to get a sense of what they actually taste like. If you put a dozen or more things in there, it's going to be hard to guess how to tweak the taste when it actually tastes pretty bad.
Sake Is Booming in America
Okay, Hitler.
And fuck you, EY, if you comply.
I remember June 4th. Fuck you.
Ah, Buckfast gets ya fucked fast. I remember splitting a bottle with friends on a few occasions when doing a semester abroad in Ireland. Even then we didn't particularly like it, but it was a cheap buzz when we were young and less discriminating.
The elitism is in calling what is absolutely the largest market for gaming "wannabe". I have sunk tonnes of money and time into gaming, and I spend a lot of time helping friends get familiar with games so they can play with their kids. But I am absolutely not competitive. It's ridiculously insulting for you to call me a "wannabe".
I’d never heard it put that way, that presenting in an editor is a strong no-bullshit signal, but how true is this!

I had a professor who would teach from Emacs. She would store each section of the lecture in a register and paste as she went. (Watching her cursor flit around the buffer was actually strong encouragement for me to learn Emacs; it was nice to see how deftly it could be done without interrupting the flow of the lecture.)

She had slides too, but obviously being in Emacs for these portions allowed interactive displays of code execution.
That's basically my experience in Europe. Crappy chargers, stupid applications,
magical thoughts :)

This post author probably heavily impressed by images from Tesla plants :)
But there are a lot of places controlled by some PLCs for 30 or more years. I’m totally agree, those cases need to be revised and sooner it better ;) But big annonces of death of something, some more experiences requires.

It still be easy to create your control system based on well established and proven platforms (as PLC). Newest PLC platforms give you limitless (close to) possibility for structure implementation (not always centralized as mentioned).

Surely, the Arduino-like platforms well situated for some OEM’s or educational preposes. Do not limit your creativity. All programs are the tails (not allways “fairy tales”). You should read some bigger book, not only beautiful poems ;)

Stay inspired.
I'm not using this, but I did see it recently and it may be what you're looking for: https://sharegpt.com/
The Case for Software Criticism
I wouldn't be too worried. I was a lurker for a long time before joining but it seems like there's an annual, if not bi-annual, flood from reddit or other sites that gets shut down because low effort comments and F-tier jokes/memes/puns get no engagement, removed, or downvoted to oblivion.
I hate this reddit style comment of linking a barely related thread, not to make any sort of point, but to just try to show you are in the know of some in joke.
Your biggest expense will be people. Rails is ancient at this point, but I regularly see people ship product with it in fractions of the time. You can also re-write parts in rust later, when you need to.
Any advice on how to get rid of feral honeybees? I had hundreds of them last year, attracted to my hummingbird feeders. I took those away and the bees stuck around waiting for them to reappear. They're completely docile, but also non-native, and the huge number of them makes them a pest.

They've even been around a bit this winter taking pieces of cracked corn that I put out for wild turkeys.
The manpages are good! I don't use ffmpeg too frequently so, to help myself, I made a cheatsheet (which I update whenever I do something new)

https://github.com/elamperti/dotfiles/blob/master/docs/ffmpe...
might sound crazy but I still love drag and drop a whole Dir into netlify still, its a beautiful method using a computer mouse and it works quite well and takes seconds.
Why is this downvoted? Isn't the UK government one of the prone to look at everyone else from the high horse and criticize the shit out of any "authoritarian regime" while doing the same thing in some of the areas?

Heck, the country where I grow up is classified as a "hybrid regime" by the UK government, and yet, they don't even think about implementing encryption backdoors or censoring and blocking any media.
I’ve read this before. I’ve read other posts by this guy. I’ve seen this guy talk. I absolutely cannot stand the self-involved writing style. I love comedic, casual writing and speaking. This however is just trying too hard. You’ve gotta be really funny to put this much weight on the jokes, and this guy just doesn’t meet that high bar. It comes across as very cringey.
Each time I talk about any problem with our signal theory expert he says: "we could use a Kalman filter" (in jest). That's like saying "hey we could use a matrix".
By far Valve's handbook is the best, it's original, intelligent and perhaps most importantly: non-clichéd. Most other companies have put out a bunch of platitudes in their mission/philosophy section, though I'm sure they put a lot of effort into it.
Does anyone else, also get "Acces Denied", when visiting the link?
You're not kidding. From his "about" page:

"As I neurally wave farewell here, I remain an atheist, and I'm delighted scientists are still researching to move humanity to its highest apexes of enlightenment. My various neurotransmitter release rates decelerate over time due to a prenatal genetic alteration by alcohol and tobacco, but in my neural disturbances, I've danced and conversed with processions of rainbow "ghost" women to keep me company through the occasional derivative misty night. From age five to age twenty-six, I called this attention deficit hyperactive disorder, A.D.H.D. Now, I've grown to call this part of myself the descript phrase Neural Deceleration Disorder, N.D.D. By selectively disconnecting certain neurons and combining slow motion adrenaline release, I am first to declare I am the strongest man alive by such mechanisms. Neurons and other cells in parts of my body like the eyes, visual cortex, cerebral cortex, and prefrontal cortex work somewhat independently yet are holistically intertwined like a networked graph to create the reality I perceive. The website logo of josephcantrell.org in the top left is an image of my brain generated using an MRI machine at Georgia Tech, and it is encoded with the recognition of my motivations. Decode my obfuscated code in my home executive functions JS file, and refresh straight away for secret magnetic induction powers to blacken the hole of the Milky Way. 101010x3!"
I think git flow has a lot of merit despite being classified as outdated by many.

Many modern workflows literally have has you prematurely deploying experimental code into production. Hidden behind feature flags. Release branches may not be needed when you do that, but that's a transfer of complexity, not an elimination.

Also the alternatives usually involve a lot of cherry picking. That's nice, but cherry picking requires good understanding of the code to properly do. Complexity moved away from one area into another again.
It's all rather hilarious. The tiktok story is the 2nd headline on Google news for me. The first being something insane about a CCP official, CSIS, and a fat donation the PM's charity fund??
Does anyone know a cheap printer that can do papercuts and stamp the folding lines?
Haha, you make a bunch of good points. Again, I really appreciate the good-natured engagement.

> The absolute size of the risk is what's relevant.

If you look at the whole sentence "...compared to things like...", I'm talking (or at least meant to be clear about talking) about the risk from shootings in general, not shootings of children in particular or school shootings:

> Shootings, especially mass shootings, are a very small problem compared to things like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, car crashes, and tiktok. If you're taking a vaguely utilitarian approach to public health policy it makes the most sense to do things like try to make Americans less fat, by a wide margin.

When I say "shootings", I mean the thing people intuitively understand it to be (Person A shoots Person B), and not suicides. If we include suicides, car crashes and "shootings" in the U.S. are ~ the same size. Suicides don't respond much to "no guns" as I recall...you get a couple percent reduction, but people mostly substitute (tall buildings, etc.). I happen to think it's cruel to prevent all suicides, and that some people who want to die should be allowed to do so with dignity, instead of alone and sad, but that's a digression.

Anyway: for adults, the relative risk is important since we're making decisions about allocating public health resources. There are on the order of a few hundred thousand "unscheduled" (preventable) deaths in the U.S. in a given year, and 12,000 gun murders. Get rid of guns, and charitably that number goes from 12,000 murders to 9,600 murders. But you could've saved a lot more lives working on the boring stuff, not to mention the astronomical amount of political capital you burned to get that done.

For kids, the the absolute risk is what's important since they basically don't die. If you're thinking about where to invest resources, invest not in making them die less but rather in making them into better, healthier people. Not to say investment in preventing childhood death should be exactly zero, I'm talking on the margin here (what do we do with the next dollar/minute/effort).

>even one school shooting is too many

...yeah, but it's not! Would you pay $100B to prevent the next one? Could've saved a lot of people from diabetes / heart disease with that money, instead of 8 kids. It's tragic, sure, and we're all tempted to say stuff like that for social reasons, but when you're really deciding how to allocate resources it's so, so rare that hedging doesn't make much sense. Remember, about double the risk of being struck and killed by lightning (a lot more people are struck and survive).

I don't have time right now to go in to the race thing, but I will point out that "Black" is ~14% of the U.S. population. Black people (90% men) commit more than 50% of homicides in the U.S., so they murder at ~7x the rate of non-Black Americans before correcting for things like which crimes get solved (correcting moves it to ~10x, they're better at getting away with murder since organized crime). If you're curious, this is where you should start (the UCR): https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I know I was like that second child you mention.

Whenever I feel sorry for myself it helps to think about my dad who had to live with me as his first child (and I have more siblings that children : )
I do the same. Sounds like arrow is being implemented as an alternative, and you'll have to explicitly opt in via a dtype or a global setting, so numpy isn't going away.
I think first past the post is becoming so undemocratic as extremists infiltrate the political parties it really is a worry. Only a change of voting system supports having the representation of peoples real views.

I really don’t think anyone in the UK is going to want every transaction they do online available to the government!
Should replace Mao Zedong with Richard Nixon and HK on the Red money.
Are you seriously suggesting lightning should replace the headphone jack universally?

We replaced SCSI with SATA. Or music cassettes with CDs.

But the headphone jack is and remains a standard. My audio interfaces have XLR, 6.3 mm or 3.5 mm jacks. My cameras and Zoom recorders use XLR, mini XLR or 3.5 mm. My AV receiver uses 3.5 mm, 6.3 mm or XLR (or banana plugs for passive speakers).

These connectors remain the standard across desktop computers, laptops, audio interfaces, professional condenser microphones, mirrorless cameras, audio recorders, etc.

I don't see a reason to throw away expensive my Sennheiser headphones nor my IEMs, just because a handful of devices in one industry want to force me into paying more money.

> Btw, did you also complain when you couldn’t use your 32 pin iPod accessories with your Shuffle?

No, back then I complained that “made for iPod” required a proprietary port which wasn't compatible with either mini-USB nor micro-USB devices. I never bought, owned, or will own a device with proprietary connectors.
Raspberry Pi builds are common. E.g. https://www.instructables.com/Full-Size-Arcade-Cabinet-Using...

There are a lot of hits for "arcade cabinet raspberry pi."
Nothing concrete in the evidence. The so called Ukrainian fighter was never in the picture.
US mercenary John McIntyre,defected to Russia
You sound like a smart operator.

What does your business do? And are you hiring?
I work for a large SV company and I've had my pay temporarily cut by 5-10% with the promise that there wouldn't be mass layoffs three times over the years. It usually lasts 6 months to a year. It's a pretty standard process; contractors are cut, early retirements are offered and then either layoffs or an across the board pay cut.
Your argument is based on a fallacy that you can build something faster in a dynamic language than a typed one. IMO that argument fails when you need to onboard new people to read the codebase and contribute to it. I'd argue you will be able to onboard people faster to a typed codebase than a dynamic one. And for me personally, I don't see a difference in my ability to produce code between Java/Go and a dynamically typed language.
Like the article says: they're not. If you count in inflation, they're significantly cheaper than in the 90s.
Placebo of the day, pick one at random:

- Zettelkasten

- Pomodoro

- Org mode

- 4 day work weeks
There might be a reason they lost.

Believing that one size fits all is a sure way to alienate a lot of people who don't fit that size. Right tool for the right job and giving the freedom for people to solve their problems in the best way is a better way to win people over.
> TDD and exhaustive unit testing make the maintenance process harder because you don't know if a test is useful or not.

TDD was later given the name BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) to emphasize that you are not testing, but actually documenting behaviour. What kind of behaviour are you documenting that isn't useful and why did you find it necessary to document in the first place?

> If you follow TDD, most unit tests are re-written all the time.

What for? If changing requirements see that your behaviour has changed to the extent that that your unit does something completely different, it's something brand new and should be treated as such. Barring exceptional circumstances, public interfaces should be considered stable for their entire lifetime and, at most, deprecated if they no longer serve a purpose.

The implementation beneath the interface may change over time, but TDD is explicit that you should not test implementation – it is not about testing – only that you should document the expected behaviour of any implementation that may carry out your desired behaviour.
Truth of it’s the opposite. Even now general estimates put insect and fish biomass at significantly eclipsing mammal biomass. Insects might be small, but there are so many of them that it doesn’t matter.
This is really great. Thanks for sharing.
Currently I've got one of the last Android One devices. I've got a microSD slot, headphone jack, all the updates, I even got FM radio support.
That's a lazy counterargument, and I assume you're just trolling. Please don't do that here. I'm not sure why you're trying to justify the use of an outdated term that is problematic if not immediately hurtful.

If you had read the article you linked, you'd have known that the United Negro College Fund emphasizes its initials rather than its full name. "In 2008, reflecting shifting attitudes toward the word Negro in its name, the UNCF shifted from using its full name to using only its initials, releasing a new logo with the initials alone and featuring their slogan more prominently."

Look on their website. Their official history does not mention the term "negro" once.

https://uncf.org/the-latest/75-years-strong-highlights-from-...

You will be unable to find in at least the last 30 years, any publications from the UNCF that use the word "negro" to refer to black people.
As long as your policies are set correctly (not that this is particularly easy), your project will only need a version of CMake or newer, not a specific version.