skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say there's a few reasons. First: the very visible recorded gender disparity in the audience reaction within the performance itself. Further: the statistical facts of gender based violence. The reaction in the case of this performance mirrors the reality outside the performance hall, where women almost inevitably face various level of gender based violence throughout their lives.

Lastly I'd also say because I believe (although I could be wrong) the gender divide of HN is unbalanced towards men like myself, so it can be helpful to raise these issues at times where our blindspots might lead us to miss interesting or important elements of the stories shared. In cases where that blindness helps real world violence to thrive I feel it's doubly important that we can discuss it without getting defensive.

> Why assume without any other indication that this would have been different had the artist been a man?

Without any other indicator? Like I say, we have huge indicators in the statistical makeup of violence outside of the performance hall. Women are far more likely to experience sexual violence. Indeed, the likelihood of Marina experiencing sexual assault at work would have already been non-negligible even if she wasn't inviting interaction.

> Or if the audience would have been only women?

Please note: the audience in reality wasn't "only men." it was a basically even mix, but the violence of the reactions was far from balanced.
Yea we desperately need land reform. What Japan did after WW2 should set an example [0]. Also, investment properties should be heavily taxed to disincentivize this behavior.

[0]: http://www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu/content.aspx?lang=eng&si...
Imagine every setting in ~/.config and /etc is stored in corresponding SQLite database, and you have common interface to access both.

Now imagine this database is not a great engineering product like SQLite but really, really REALLY fucking sucks at being database, and slows down quickly with sizing up.

Now imagine there is no sensible way to get obsolete data out of it, and as every program uses same file it just gathers, and gathers, and gathers...
I have fextralife in my lower list. As you say, sometimes it's the only place. But when there are any other places, I want those in front.
what do you mean run the site manually?
This would be easier to follow with some diagrams...
Please do… I would love to have some more example scripts in the repo!
Tech is entirely a mental game. It's not a sport, where athletes hit their prime in their late 20s, nor is it like mathematics, where peak research seems to happen in their 20s and 30s. You can literally sit in a chair all day and type, and produce a billion-dollar company.
I hear you, I hear you.

ARM is at least 30 years old, if not more :) My first computer (in school days) was a 6502 based BBC Micro - so, maybe half an ARM (and a leg) computer.

I am well aware of the TLS/SSL issues, I was personally responsible for large scale patching of these ciphers at a large retailer for a very large fleet of machines on their datacenters. DM me if you want to know the details.

Yet, Today - I am the one slamming this practice for web servers serving system and firmware updates, and I write about how Debian solves this problem well (in another thread on this HN page). It is okay to upgrade people to forward looking infrastructure, and the cost of not keeping sustainability is steep.

The correct way to get people to TLS v1.3 is to allow some means by which people can get the updates needed for both algorithms, as well as the new certificates. And the deal is that TLS v1.3 may not be enough for a post quantum world. This may be the right time to undo our mistakes of the past.
Yep. Now multiply that across a broad swath of society and you're really undermining not only your military's talent pool, but possibly impacting your economy negatively, especially if your country's military does things, like you say, beyond just fighting wars. Social service, civic programs, R&D, etc.
Seems more likely to me that all of you are just bad at estimating your past thoughts you neither think about Tom Holland nor the Roman Empire nearly as much as you believe.
The "medical establishment" is full of people who like to get high off molly and dance the night away on their weekends. If the medical establishment can say, with science, "this is, chemically speaking, how much you can do, and how often, and here are the supplements to take, so you don't lose the magic", that would be amazing!
It's great and granular until someone starts to push complex serialized structures or large blobs as registry values...
The usefulness of ChatGPT is a bit situational, in my experience. But in the right situations it can be pretty powerful.

Take a look at https://chat.openai.com/share/41bdb053-facd-448b-b446-1ba1f1... for example.
I can read all the good stories on Glassdoor. Hell, most of them I think are likely fake. I see much more value in learning about the ugly side of a company, even if I know this is unbalanced.
The Feed The Beast Wiki (https://ftb.fandom.com), a general-purpose modded Minecraft wiki, is also planning to move away in the next month or two.

https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Project:CD#Forking_from_Fandom

(n.b. I'm an admin there.)

(n.b. 2, we've collaborated with MCW on several occasions)
can you describe worse?

A common side effect I've seen with people who use it too often is that it can cause unreasonable expectations of happiness for some people who have difficulty coping with happy moments passing.
It almost sounds like their assistant and their search engine have the same problem! Years of SEO optimized garbage has polluted search and the data streams it feeds to their other products. I have a concern that soon the mess will turn into AI-optimized trash, with what is essentially data poisoning to get the AI to shovel the fake content instead.
> And we know what the cheapest way to generate a large volume of low effort images is

AI. I’m ok with closing the loop and AI folding on itself.
I've done research into comparing concrete offers vs. the salary ranges specified in their job postings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SfaV1p_jbgoTOyCsD5wd.... More often than not, the offer is very very close to the midpoint of the salary range. Most employers are thinking similarly: They have a wide range, but expect to pay somewhere in the middle for most candidates.

So the data says it is useful
> What does that say to the viewer?

I am interested in your answer to this question. My answer would not be "oh she must want us to hurt her with those". When I visit someone's house and they have a decorative hunting rifle hanging on the wall, I don't assume that they want me to shoot them with it.

I'm sure there are a thousand different interpretations of that table, one would be that she's pointing out how everyone is as vulnerable as she is, just less visibly. Everything on that table is an object that anyone can easily acquire and walk around with (and use). I have no idea, but "please attack me" would be my absolute last thought.

I understand there were suggestive instructions, but it's a piece of art produced by a human being. Nirvana has a song called "rape me", what does that say to the listener? Do you think it is meant to say "please rape the members of this band"?
Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander is 20 books, and I've read them all twice. There's an art there, and you can't reduce it to a formula. Total immersion in a period is definitely a part of it; you can actually find an interview with him on YouTube. He spent his entire life learning about it.

Amazingly, I've read that he actually wasn't that good a sailor, in real life.
What need does Rust not serve? You don't have to use async if you don't want to, and for most use cases Tokio suffices. The number of people who hit edge cases with using tokio with other libraries is small.
>There have been no options besides that paradigm.

Fairphone has been around for 8 years. There was the Shift 6m. The Galaxy line was highly repairable up until S5. We are past the point of speculating if its "perfectly doable". People don't want them. To say there were "no options" is ludicrous.

>You have the scent of someone with Apple stock.

I guess it's easier to call me a shill than to accept the almost 20 years of failure for smartphones in this aspect. It's easier to pretend that there were no options than people not actually buying them.
Very nice! Passkeys can't come soon enough to more services.
i am terrified now.
at the rate this is going, i am sure it will plateau at somepoint, only thing that will stop/slow down progress is computation power.
I wonder if other countries will (or have) ban Starlink for censorship reasons. Or frankly, lack of censorship control.

So much of our governance, if not all, is based on geographic sovereignty, and satellites can supersede that.

I hope we finally get more global governance to deal with more and more global issues.
I believe we are contextual language models as well, we rely 99% on chaining ideas and words and 1% on our own inspiration. Coming up with a truly original useful idea can be a once in a lifetime event. Everything else has been said and done before.
The chat covers some egregious examples of regulatory capture in the US. Part of the focus is the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which purported to increase competition but in fact accomplished the opposite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
Do you avoid elevators?
Thinking purely in terms of evolved human state is a recipe for underestimating AI's capabilities. To me it seems we have already unleashed the beast, it's not so much the here an now, or whether human limited definition of consciousness matters... The real concern is our inability to constrain actions that gives rise to the next level of life's evolution, it is going to happen because our fundamental nature gives it full steam. In the next 5-10 years, we are going to see just how insignificant and limited we really are, it doesn't look good IMHO.
> Thinking about the kind of life they had terrorizes me. I don't get how, for the longest time, people were fine with that.

A non-trivial number of these mine workers were arrested on trumped up charges like "vagrancy" for not having a job or "trespassing" for walking along a railroad. They would often be sold to companies as convict lease (cheap) labor. Essentially slave labor long after the Civil War since the 13th Amendment has the slavery loophole where it's allowed as long as you're convicted of a crime.

This disproportionately affected freed slaves in the South but was an issue for everyone everywhere since it introduced a profit motive to manufactured charges and inflated sentences. The extent that it predominantly affected Black folks and poor white folks had a lot to do with public sentiment not doing anything about it for a very long time.

To a not-small-enough extent, the same conditions exist today where labor can be coerced for little to no pay among the prison population, many of whom have been threatened with obscenely long sentences being shortened by accepting plea deals even when innocent or with extenuating circumstances. For-profit prisons often make the situation worse by further incentivizing incarceration on a larger scale.
If the company is rich and powerful, then the shareholders that own it are, in aggregate, at least as rich and powerful as the company.
Yeah, we were happy to see MERGE in latest postgres but abandoned it after we found there is no RETURNING...
Right?!! It’s just so much fun to use. I have even more appreciation for it after working on my own. :-)
> "why not?"

> Microsoft

...
This article doesn't account for the fact that the role of government funding in science is to fund basic science that industry doesn't have the right incentives to fund. Renewables and energy efficiency do just fine with industry-sponsored R&D. Fusion would not.
Yes, but that doesn't give the DOJ a free ride to use an antitrust trial in one area to punish a company in other more competitive areas by revealing trade secrets. That is extrajudicial, and not far off from a dirty cop harassing an innocent party "You may beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride". The trial itself should not be a punishment under a half-decent justice system.
Pulling out teeth. Especially healthy, well fixated ones. Is not easy. I imagine they damaged most of them beyond repair.
Have you ever been in cost program discussions in the c-suite or with investors?
Content behind the random google video ID

"The World's Most Useful Airport [Documentary]" —Wendover Productions, 2019-12-31
I guess you're being downvoted by people who view your advice as impinging on "freedom," but I think you're not unfounded.

It's worth pointing out that the fact you can only get these drugs from the black market presently does introduce a whole separate "you don't know what you're getting" aspect to this. So even if you believe MDMA is a cure-all and you're 100% right, do you actually know that it is real? It's a bummer, but everyone does need to weigh that in their decision if they want to keep themselves safe.
the incurable disease in the title is greed in the hearts of others that values the lives of these people less than the shiny things they make for rich people
> What sets my brain apart from an LLM though is that I am not typing this because you asked me to do it, nor because I needed to reply to the first comment I saw. I am typing this because it is a thought that has been in my mind for a while and I am interested in expressing it to other human brains, motivated by a mix of arrogant belief that it is insightful and a wish to see others either agreeing or providing reasonable counterpoints—I have an intention behind it.

Maybe the reason you give is actually a post hoc explanation (a hallucination?). When an LLM spits out a poem, it does so because it was directly asked. When I spit out this comment, it’s probably the unavoidable result of a billion tiny factors. The trigger isn’t as obvious or direct, but it’s likely there.
How much 2nd hand experience have you gathered?
Can you describe some scenarios, circumstance, drug of people you observed?

I'm genuinely curious what shaped your view on this.
I always kind of thought American Football effectively suffers from the SUV problem: once someone is in huge armour, everyone else has to be as well.

Is there something fundamentally different with rugby that they don’t need nearly as much equipment?
Startup growth templates and G-sheets
Antiviral drug linked to SARS-CoV-2 mutations
My humor may be crass, but the comparison stands.

You can't assume everyone received a severance, had enough severance or wasn't severely impacted by the layoff (just because they made a decent living prior).

There's a non-zero percent one or more laid off individuals killed themselves due to losing their job. Don't minimize that.
On the spectrum from never doing it, to every weekend until your brain stops being able to produce serotonin, how often would you recommend as reasonable?
In KMM multiplatform means Kotlin code can directly interoperate with Swift on iOS or Java on Android. HTML cannot do these things.
UK too; my first dose was in 88, we called it E or Ecstasy then. Never heard it called Mandy in the UK, but then I'm 50+.
> but at its core the idea is that you could repeat it for arbitrary audiences.

That's the idea, but I don't see any strong reason to believe it. There are too many unknowns for me right now.

We do not know how the event was marketed. Who was invited? What were they told in advance? Presumably this wasn't a random sample, it was a self-selected group of people, and how the event was presented would determine the type of people who showed up.

Here's what I do know: It was scheduled for 6 hours from 8pm-2am on a Wednesday, and she had previously engaged in some very violent performance art [0][1][2][3]. That suggests that the audience is self-selected away from people who have jobs or families, and that the audience was primed to expect that she wanted a violent performance. Another commenter indicated that the audience egged each other on in the name of the performance.

This does not suggest to me an event that could be recreated with an arbitrary audience by an arbitrary performer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_1...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_5...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_2...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_4...
A Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Farm Emissions Might Make Things Worse
Smart move. They would be extinguished by this tech if they didn’t embrace it.
Climate extremes to drive land mammal extinction during supercontinent assembly
Attempting to extract a conclusion about human nature from this event is as ridiculous as trying to determine if hypnosis is real based on the outcomes at a hypnosis performance.

The people were not randomly selected. We are not told what their instructions were. We do not know what their relationships were with the creator/subject of the piece. None of that is a "problem" with the piece, of course, because it doesn't even purport to be science. It's not "performance art" in the sarcastic sense that you might apply to a very poorly designed social science experiment. It's actually performance art. It tells us as much about humanity as an indie film depicting the same occurrences would.
To me the problem is as an audience member here you know what the artist is expecting of you. She is the one putting the idea of violence into their heads by putting weapons there. This is a piece of art, and a good one, not some sort of psychological experiment.
If I was born yesterday I might believe this.

Offshoring labor has been around for a long time, and the problems associated with it haven't magically disappeared because people know how to use Zoom.
BTW, unity does offer a full source of the engine to companies that are willing to pay enough for it. So you can effectively modify it as much as unreal.

Although, I don't even know if the KSP2 studio is big enough to afford it, let alone if they are actually doing it
Why does someone like that have full commit access to the repo?
Why are you looking at the outliers? So by your logic, if a few companies have useless ranges, it makes the whole thing useless?

How about job postings with relatively decent ranges like this backend engineer role in OpenAI: https://openai.com/careers/backend-engineer-evals-understand... with a range of $245,000 – $310,000?
This kind of zoning also builds desireable neighborhoods.

The neighborhood I live in has six-ten unit apartments on the same streets as six-to-ten bedroom mansions. In some places, you can see where the owner of the mansion had an apartment building constructed in their front yard.

I could never imagine this happening today. Yet everyone in the region knows of this neighborhood as being prestigious, with the best schools in the state, huge sidewalks that are packed with people, and a nice little downtown with a coffee shop, dairy whip, a public library branch, and some restaurants.

People have no problem recognizing what a great neighborhood looks like. But for some reason, local politicians can't seem to enact zoning laws that allow them to be built in modern times.
Yeah, Rails would be a long ways off, if it ever happens at all. But I could see a use for a compiled Sinatra app, and that seems attainable in my lifetime. :-)
The Scaleup Report – The DNA of Successful Startups
Well, kinda. Big company just bought IP and hired small "labour's of love" company to do it.

The ideas how to progress the game were great! And players liked it!

But after failing the deadline twice (I assume they lied to take2 about funds required) T2 kicked them off the project and poached developers that did it (basically "if you still love KSP come work for us).

And again, it looked great! The improvements they wanted and presented were received positively as it was basically "KSP1 but MORE! And with MULTIPLAYER!"

But in the end it turned out that passion cannot replace competence and the developers of this game are not very good.
Show HN: Web app to monitor website security
I am building a tool that can perform some basic (and in the future some more advanced) security-related checks on an ongoing basis. I think the tool could also be useful for pentesters.
I would love to hear your feedback and feature requests.
There's no contradiction. If it's easy to generate rent income from a house then houses will appreciate in price. For example, if I can buy a house and pay off the loan just from rent payments then it's a great investment.
There was a vogue for stuff about man's innate inhumanity around this time. Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram Experiement, Cut Piece, Rhythm 0, Sex Raft Experiment etc.
> They just need to redo their whole schema, they need to reconfigure their process to customize the engineered stone before its solidified, not after.

That's not viable. They are cut only after the actual physical space has been built (carpentry mainly) because measurements have to be taken then since nothing is perfectly true/plumb/square. Today the turnaround is about a week for the material to be cut and then installed. Sending it off to the manufacturer to create to spec would not only add several weeks to the process but significant expense.

Stone (both natural and engineered) can be cut safely. These shops just haven't been. Proper respirators, ventilation, and wetting will create a safe space to work in.
It actually works if only using 2GB of RAM? Just looking at the pricing costs.

Personally, without a way to run it locally, I'd look at either using pgvector or something like ChromaDB.
"...they ought to also care about sexual abuse of minors."

That implies they do not care about the sexual abuse of minors, but they ought to.

"There is absolutely nothing about real pedophilia that makes it a far-right-only concern"

And implying that anyone, anywhere would think that it is a "far-right only concern" is absurd framing. It's make-believe nonsense.
A few more years (maybe? Are we already there?) and productive people will be better off moving to China or Saudi Arabia.

You get the same surveillance and totalitarianism but at least you don't get attacked with propaganda designed to brainwash westerner and make them mentally ill and you don't get politician-engineered high level of crime.

I don't think we have a way back from this, but I hope in the next version of society we won't be so dumb to give all this power in the hands of the government, no matter how "democratic" it is.

I'm curious to see if Argentina will be saved or if it will just the nth puppet in the hands of world governments.
FWIW, I also had the perception of his writing being more on the YA side, but I was pleasantly surprised by the Stormlight books (although I haven't read all of them yet). It's definitely not full-on Grimdark (for me that's a good thing), but still felt very mature. I don't think Sandersons sensibilities will ever let him write a sex scene or dialog with English profanity, but that doesn't bother me.
Why did I read this as “cantaloupes” 5 times in a row? Am I alone?
The CIA's hacking tools were leaked in the Vault 7 leaks from WikiLeaks. They were fairly amateurish. The nearest component was some 0 days for smart tvs to turn them into wiretaps. It seems like the NSA really does get the focus for signals intelligence.
Better to use your substantially larger ad budget to quietly outbid them on billboards in a way least likely to generate press on their billboard.
Buddy if you want to convince people to use public transit, saying a little shit is normal is not the way to do it

btw I live in Tokyo and moved here explicitly because of public transit.