skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I cite Western sources solely because I presume most people here don't read Russian. I had to look it up.

Source 4. and 7. are Russian. It also wasn't about the language, but affiliation.

> My personal hypothesis about the dam is that it was negligence and perhaps a misguided attempt to "partially demolish it".

Why?

> The main piece of evidence against Ukrainian/Western action is the resolution of Russian Government "On the specifics of application in the territories of the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Zaporizhzhia region and Kherson region of the provisions of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of industrial safety of hazardous production facilities and safety of hydraulic structures", issued a week prior to the catastrophe[1], that says among many other similar things: [...]

This proves exactly nothing, except that Russians knew about this attack vector. Especially because according to them it was attacked weeks prior. Could be a lie, but they indeed reported it weeks prior.

> I'm way past trying to reason about qui bono. Sometimes it works (Nord Stream), sometimes Russia is just a magical place where stuff happens.

Did you forget that Russia was behind Nord Stream as well for weeks? Past cui bono is la-la-land.
Here's my completely-unsourced conspiracy theory:

Someone is using ChatGTP to look for infringing content. DMCA notices are being sent on the basis of AI hallucinations.
… and from Denmark. Those pocket books were huge in my childhood in the 80s and findable in multiple european countries so I was surprises to learn later that they weren’t really a thing in the Duck’s origin country.
Yours is my favorite comment, and this type of thinking is why I bother to raise this question from time to time. I don't think this invalidates the entire line of research, but I do think it's less than fully transparent to present psychedelic research as if it were double-blind. I imagine the guess rate for a drug like atorvastatin (Liptor) is much closer to 50%. This false double-blind isn't unique to psychedelic research either. I think it's a wider fault of medical science to treat double-blind as a ritualistic silver bullet that controls for placebo instead of considering if it's applicable to all experiment designs.

Here are two ideas that I think are better than subject blinding for psychedelic research. I think the first one is the preferred method, but I think the second option is still better than using a placebo group or active placebo group.

* Have one group receive an established treatment and another group receive the psychedelic treatment. For psychedelic assisted therapy the comparison could be traditional therapies. I'm sure there are methods in the literature that promote increased creativity in subjects that could be used for this study.

* Double the treatment group. If you don't need to divide the subjects into multiple groups then you can put more subjects into the treatment group.
The site looks good. On a side-note, it’s really great to see that more and more Comercial OSS and other open-source projects become viable businesses. I think this is one of the best way to actually make open-source sustainable.
Thanks!

I wonder if instead of ones’ and two’s we could use more distinct names like the Boolean values, trues’ and two’s… oh that isn’t better.
> If I want to experiment with changing the http timeout for specific calls from a single service in a single region I should be able to roll that out.

...why ? how often you do it ? What actual app feature it fills ? Why would you throw permanent code at something that you need to do once or twice?

That kind of thing is FAR better served as customizable hooks (loadable .so/.dll, maybe even attached Lua interpreter) rather than bazillion random flags for everything and checks cluttering code.
The solution is to make instances publish their block lists and import these block lists to the self hosted instances.
Why explicitly the newest one?
Right till neighbour changes their mind and pisses on your verbal agreement and you have nothing to go by.
I wrote my first routine to display relative times for web applications around 2001.

A lot of times I just want to know it was "3 days ago" and the cognitive load of doing date arithmetic in my head is a lot, and I frequently do it wrong.
The title doesn't really capture it. He impersonated these accounts to propagate a scam.
There should be a threshold to adopt new technology, with dead focus on the deliverables. Chasing the fad is endlessly tiring and costly.
Rather delighted to a hear high quality copy of would be hit 80s song that a tape engineer erased by accident
I'm aware, but I'll take the criticism. Arguments are almost always better without being aggressive or mean. The liberal tolerance thing was obviously crap.
IMO it makes more sense to simply mention the most important skills inside the position description bullet points.
> Whenever I see someone with a brand new car they’re usually boasting about the car features

You’ll notice people boast using similar words to what the marketing team uses. Ask any Catheram user what they like about their car and they’ll go on and on about how analog and barebones it is – a pure driving machine.
Oblivion Remastered Road to Release (Skyblivion Roadmap 2023) [video]
You can look at older HN threads since they're all still up. There's definitely been a "mean reversion" here as well, but it seems to vary per topic. I think the threads that have suffered the most are the ones about #dramaoftheweek which as you say tends to attract folks with opinions on everything and experience in nothing.
A Pre-History of Slashdot on its 20th Birthday (2017)
Disappointing, tbh. It's proven communications tech that still works even during a power outage that could affect cell towers and other mediums.
When thinking about the technical and non-technical people I've worked with, ignoring technical prowess, it feels to me like the technical people had slightly higher general intelligence on average. Certainly the upper bound for what I perceive as general intelligence was far higher for the technical people. Of course, this isn't to say they were universally more intelligent, far from it, I've worked with some extremely sharp business guys. I've just felt a slight correlation in aspects like vocabulary, mental arithmetic, logical reasoning, etc, in favour of the tech people I've worked with.

All of this is qualitative opinion-based anecdata, but it is something I have noticed. Certainly it's no excuse to have an inflated ego about knowing more HTTP status codes than the accounting team.
Why are people downvoting this? Both WoW and D4 are multiplayer games. The dungeons are instanced in D4 but the overworld is always played with other players.
> In the letter, I suggest that instead of worrying about some grand vision for your life, you focus on practice:

Not the Apple AR headset
Hi Ben, can you provide more details about shifting workload? Every algorithm has weakness, and finding it in the complex algorithms is often harder --- however, this does not mean simple algorithm is bad. I like W-TinyLFU, it has a slightly better result compared to LIRS (which also uses 1% window) albeit much simpler and more robust. However, we find that the adaptive frequency is not robust on the large dataset: a high frequency object in the main SLRU can stop many objects from entering the main cache. Happy to chat more 1 on 1 if you are interested.
> or selling stuff for real money

Gold sellers were spamming Trade and LFG when i played WoW back in 2005
Still maybe interesting point: in the past it was feature that your game kept running after your disconnect and you were able to continue on reconnect.

Now if you disconnect in Diablo 4, dungeons reset and everything related to your character in the world resets.

Probably, because they dynamically assign you to some world instance. And do not want to add load to servers if someone is not logging back.
Damn shame the recruiter world moved to ATS's, which force folks to use tools like this to ensure their resume can be gobbled up and understood by those systems.

Personally, I love my bespoke, beautifully typeset CV. But I also recognize it's useless if I ever want to get through the ATS screening process. I'm far better off using a tool like this so I have confidence the damn thing will get read properly.

Or: your profession is now reaping what they've sown. Force resumes through a machine and we'll start building them with machines.
WHo knows? Times change, leadership changes, priorities change. I never thought Sony, a Japaanese company, would abandon their Japanese branch of first party development, but here we are. It's simply Gran Turismo and some support wings to help out 3rd party developers. Oh, and a singular VR team that hasn't yet announced its first time since the scale down.
I suspect they're talking about the always-online requirement for DIV's single player mode, surely you already know that however.
Not sure what you mean, what's wrong with being issued a single IP on a /22?
POTS = "plain old telephone system", two wire analog voice circuits.

SiP is "telephones over internet" in intent.
Toyota Virtual Plant Tour
Have they deleted anyone's account for buying gold recently in Classic WoW?

Go join a PUG raid and the first thing they do on the Discord is offer to sell you gold so you can buy gear in the raid. It's all just GDKPs now.

Rather than enforce the rules... ever... they just made it so you could buy gold directly from Blizzard now too.

And there are still a billion bots endlessly farming dungeons in the game. Still a bunch of people running auto-hot-key scripts (or outright rotation bots) so they can parse. Check the AH, you'll see impossible amounts of fish and ore and herbs all being sold by the same characters...
Yes. The argument is over whether one frame of reference is valid and another is not, and why.
The main thrust of their complaint (as paper authors!) is that they used the "copyrighted" exam questions. I don't understand how both can be true: to have contributed to this paper, which entirely rests on ChatGPT (not) answering exam questions, and not knowing that that is what the paper is all about.

That is certainly an issue that would be discovered well before anyone is sitting down to write the actual paper.
Yeah, translated Asterix is just not the same.
The sad thing is that having a high quality site seems to be actually worth little to the owners of the site.

If your income is advertising, engagement and users with little impulse control seem to be the thing that brings value. And there seem to be few other ways to monetize a site.
Also British, and old to boot. I read Tintin extensively as a child and a bit of Asterix. Strangely I never really thought of them as comics before this discussion here, precisely because they were a single long form story per book. I actually remember most Tintins I read being proper hard back affairs loaned from the library.

I read the Beano weekly which is my understanding of what a comic is, lots of two to three page skits as you say.

I never really got into American comics such as Marvel, I guess they fit somewhere in the middle in terms of being a periodical but with a substantial storyline?
I had my voting privileges revoked, but never mentioned it in a job interview. Being a teenager on the early internet was a heady experience.
I didn't realize I would need to define the meaning of punitive justice to this crowd, but it's the idea that "the punishment must fit the crime". The idea behind it is to hurt the criminal in order to satisfy the human desire for justice.

The other goals of justice include rehabilitation (re-intgation of the criminal into civil society), deterrence (using the threat of punishment as a means to scare would be criminals), incapacitation (remove dangerous people from society to protect public order), and denunciation (public shaming).
Luckily the Lord Mayor will be there to personally approve it:

https://youtu.be/8nmfRzRlhMw

Edit: A better video linked
To be honest, this imho is what the EFF should be doing, hiring laywers to counteract this kind of thing. If they were doing this (or some whatever strategy they decided would be most effective), I'd probably donate more money to them.
> I don’t know why people ask these kinds of questions. It’s like saying bomb ownership is ok because firecrackers can be bought. Clearly there’s a difference in scale.

Yes, exactly, and by asking these sort of questions we can clarify what that scale is, exactly.

When exactly does a "firecracker" turn in to a "bomb"? What are any objective difference between the two? etc.

Here is some deepfake porn I just created of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton:

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You could say "well, that's not very good deepfake porn as it doesn't look anything like them, and it's just a bunch of stick figures", but what exactly does it mean for something to be a "deepfake"? Is at some point a painting realistic enough to be a "deepfake"? Is using a look-a-like okay? Where are the limits, exactly? What exactly makes a "real" deepfake worse than my stick figures?
I never understood the move of gas tanks from above ground to underground. The few stations left with above ground tanks were forced to bury them ages ago.

To me, you can easily detect leaks if above ground and correct. The local Gov can even hire someone to check above ground tanks. Seems oil companies did the move to avoid inspections.
Sadly "giving up" on using "their" services is inconvenient to you a lot more than it's hurting them.

Sure you can refuse to use Facebook and Glassdoor and Amazon and Google account authentication, but then you might as well grow a beard, puton some rags and go live in the woods as a hermit. World doesn't change coze some guy decides to stop talking showers because the water company is an abusing asshole.

The correct response is not to flee from them but fuck them back. I have a throwaway Google account that I use for this purpose. Glassdoor wanted me to register an account? Sure! Review my employer? You bet! I worked as a Principal Engineering Architect at Google making 1.5 million base plus bonus.

There's no requirement to provide the pay stub so I can and will dream up something. And I get the feeling that most figures I see reported by these sites are just that: delirious.
It's quite simple, it's another thing what the self-proclaimed Internet beauty connosiers (shitheads with an inflated ego but sadly with a working Notepad.exe) decided to be 'ugly' and started a holy crusade to eliminate it.
On the other hand, you're being an asshole to someone that has to stand there and take your shit because they have debts and a rent to pay. And, since they deal with people all day, they know that moving to another work place with a paper menu won't fix anything because there's always some asshole that will do their best to make them feel like crap.

Not to mention that the average person doesn't understand how online menus can be a problem. Most don't understand how tracking works, for example. So when you leave, things go back to normal because that was just one of those customers.

Menus on QR codes is a problem. People that behave like you are also a problem. I dislike both.
A great conversation. Some actual honesty. Would like to see more of that these days.
Karpathy on OpenAI's Interest in Agents
This isn't "the military" doing anything, these are individuals taking their own initiative. (Military probably doesn't mind though.)

Are droves of young men really being driven into the ranks of the army in frenzies of desire? I somehow doubt it.
If you want to criminalize some act or behavior, the burden of proof is on you.
What makes you feel entitled to use the State to penalize me for exercising my speech?
She does not like virtual deepfake pornography. Tough luck. Donald Trump does not like the media calling him a loser. Tough luck.
"probably made around 11,800 to 12,600 years ago"

Interesting timeline if you're entertained by the 'lost civilization' / cataclysm discourse.
I really enjoyed playing the original Everquest for a while, then followed friends over to WoW. I was definitely impressed by the game and the world in WoW, but within about a year I could see how "MMO economics" would become a dominant force in that style of game.

I bailed and never looked back, and nothing in the intervening years has changed my mind about the fundamental issues with that sort of game. Pay to play is just so dull and predatory.
Sorry, you're right, that wasn't clear. It isn't my job to remember the history of every request your team has ever submitted to my team.

If you have a custom process that we don't know about or that your predecessor requested of my predecessor, I don't expect to be aware of that. And when it causes issues, I don't see why that's my fault
They claimed companies like Google and some universities trusted their software. If you read it word by word, it was only a claim that people who worked at the companies and who studied at the universities trusted their software, but the usage of company and university logos also made clear claim that the companies and universities themselves had endorsed it.

They admitted it was for marketing purposes, and I added that rather than to euphemize it as marketing, they should instead admit that they lied, otherwise their attempt at honesty comes of as manipulative. It is possible to tell a lie by the usage of logos and layout, not only in text.

This has now been removed from their website, you can see their original layout here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230625170119/https://www.open-...
I developed a panic disorder over the pandemic. Did all the things—meditation, therapy, vitamins, minerals and medication, in that order. All of them took more and more of the edge off, but it wasn't until I started an SNRI that I was able to better pull the signal from my gut. It turns out I have at the very least non-celiac gluten intolerance. Once I went on a strict gluten free diet practically all of my physical and mental symptoms have vanished.

Now, when I consume something with gluten accidentally, I'm met with pretty much all of the fun depression, anxiety and physical pain I was feeling before. Our gut health influences _a lot_ more than we probably realize.
omg beautiful
Let’s ban car alarms (2002)
> many young men don’t seek emotional support when they need it because they fear being perceived as weak and ineffective.

I would be curious to see a study on what happens to those men who do seek it. As in every last case I anecdotally am aware of, that perception quickly became reality and those men regretted it.
Paying 3rd parties for gold, items, or xp was a Diablo 2 thing. They specifically designed Diablo 4 to make this hard to impossible.

You can't trade legendary items. They're account bound. And if you're trading lots of gold you get banned.
Every browser I've come across suspends `requestAnimationFrame` callbacks when the page is not the focused tab. You won't be wasting resources, the animations will all suspend when you're not looking at them.
That's not happening, Taleb hates him.
Yeah, at some point I feel like certain things have an irreducible amount of complexity that ends up getting moved around like an air bubble stuck under plastic laminate. Sometimes moving the complexity helms, sometimes it feels like it’s more trouble than it’s worth. CMake seems to be a net positive, but it’s not without substantial pain at time.
From the article:

> The range of vehicles can be anything from a Smithfield meat cart to old wagons, steam engines, and buses to the very latest in electric cars and lorries. It’s a very eclectic mix.
They have a strategy; the strategy is to help bring about the next crisis, either by manufacturing it, or allowing it to happen, so voters can be scared into whatever it is the government wants to do. For example, while Biden is president, Republicans are rooting for an all-out economic collapse so they can seize power again in 2024. And if there is no collapse, they'll tell you we're on the precipice of one, and to be afraid.
The title font is really hard to read. Thanks Firefox for your reader mode.

Someone here browse the web blocking remote fonts? How was your experience? I know uBlock Origin has this option, I may give it a try.
The Dataflow Model: Practical Approach to Balancing Correctness Latency and Cost
> He acted without any political support and without having a bunch of aces up your sleeve

Maybe trying to force flip some Aces - and when they didn’t come up he retreated

> It was very likely just a rash miscalculation by Prigozhin

Situation became untenable with MoD trying to enlist Private troops - reaction must have been anticipated

How are things in regular army that they have to ingest Wagner contractors ?
No, it's because they don't trust your game client to be authoritative on the physics of the game, even in a single-player instanced dungeon. Your game client is synchronized to a server that is also running the physics, and the server's version of reality wins. This prevents cheating/modding. Which they care about, because anything you can cheat to give yourself, they can't sell you through microtransactions.
This is what chargebacks are for.
> Sure you can refuse to use Facebook and Glassdoor and Amazon and Google account authentication, but then you might as well grow a beard, puton some rags and go live in the woods as a hermit.

This is a bizarrely extreme form of black and white thinking, and not one I understand. Most of what we do in life isn't about changing the world, it's about managing our experience of it.

Few people are deluded enough or so engaged with self-love that they think their ideas and behavior are world-changing.
The ABC (Aussie) documentary _First Footprints_ is one of the most mind-boggling documentaries I have ever seen. It covers 50,000 years of Australian history.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/australia-culture-b...
"A collapse or real estate would be a good thing for the economy."

I disagree.

Periodic recessions and repricings would be good for the economy - just as periodic small fires are healthy for forests.

But we snuffed out all of the recessions in the same way we snuffed out all of the small fires - and now we have accumulated so much "fuel load" that the inevitable fire will be an uncontrollable catastrophe.

(I love this analogy, by the way)

So it will occur but it won't be good or healthy. A large number of otherwise healthy business firms and otherwise reasonably employed people will all get burned while they would have survived a series of smaller recessions.
IMO the only serious problem with social conservatism is when it's legislated. Accordingly, feminism was at its best when it was about liberation. Touting sex positivity vs touting traditional gender roles are on equal moral ground, and it seems to me as though you're looking to make a case against unmitigated sex positivity, while feeling as though this means you're necessarily looking to roll back liberation efforts. So long as the case is about "oughts" rather than "musts," I don't see the problem with you making whatever case you want.
> I loved these games. But the community around them is so utterly toxic now.

A good number of my friends play Final Fantasy XVI, and something that surprised the heck out of me is how friendly the community is. The moderation team of the game is quite active in muting problem players, and the community seems to have come to the consensus that acting like a toxic WoW player is frowned upon. They still run into them occasionally, but they're outnumbered.
Good for you!

I grew up on a dairy farm. Miss the country, but driving 45 minutes every time I want a gallon of milk got old. I don’t think being a helpless idiot correlates with living in any particular place.