skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, it is as often a specific set of genetic traits exposed to a specific set of narcissistic abuse and environmental stressors.

It’s why it tends to show up in early childhood, and ‘get better’ as they get older and learn how to defend themselves and avoid the destructive people and environments that are gaslighting them into doing things that are decompensating for them (actually, for everyone - which is why normal people are often not in those environments). Or not, if they aren’t allowed to leave.

It’s also why the medication ‘stops working’ sometimes - the problem folks in the environment ramp up the abuse until the target is back in the confused/can’t remember what is going on state where they can be controlled.

When in an actually good environment, and directed in a way that they can/will do the things they need to do to take care of themselves appropriately, all of the memory issues, emotional regulation issues, etc. become quite manageable or even disappear. There is often a lot of PTSD though, which requires special help.

The challenge is that when abuse and destruction is present (but ‘not allowed to be seen’) from an early age, people develop protective blind spots for it.

It’s normal and ‘not abuse’, near as they can tell. And narcissistic abuse is all about not being seen - at least by anyone who can or will do anything about it.

And if it’s a parent doing it, seeing it requires rejecting a caregiver and role model - not an easy or often safe thing to do.

Depending on how long it was ongoing though, it could be years or decades to recover.
They have their own showrooms in the cities.
Undoubtedly prompted by this well-received drama -
https://www.itv.com/watch/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office/10a046...
Probably agree. If liabilities on the service it would be impossible to operate using the best data leading to a worse service. And I want the better service.
Yep, going against the grain in graduate school is counterproductive unless there's a compelling reason.

Many grad students forget that their main purpose is to generate research results and to publish papers that advance the field, not to play around with cool programming languages (unless their research is about coding).

Here's a bunch of mistakes I made in grad school which unnecessarily lengthened my time in the program (and nearly made me run out of stipend money):

* Started out in Ruby because I liked the language, but my research involved writing numerical codes, and at the time there just wasn't much support for it so I ended up wasting a lot of time writing wrappers etc. There was already an ecosystem of tools I could use in MATLAB and Python but nooo, I wanted to use Ruby. This ended up slowing me down. I eventually gave in to MATLAB and Python and boy everything just became a lot easier.

* Using an PowerPC-based iBook instead of an Intel Linux machine. Mac OS X is a BSD (plus I was using a PPCarch) and Brew didn't exist back then, so I ended up troubleshooting a lot of compile errors and tiny incompatibilities because I liked being seen to be using a Mac. When I eventually moved to Linux on Intel, things became so much easier. I could compile stuff without any breakages in the one pass.

I also knew a guy who used Julia in grad school because it was the hot new performant thing when all the tooling was in Python. I think he spent a lot of time rejigging his tooling and working around stuff.

Ah the follies of youth. If only someone had pulled me aside to tell me to work backwards from what I really needed to achieve (3 papers for a Ph.D.) and to play around with cool tech in my spare time.

I guess the equivalent of this today is a grad student in deep learning wanting to use Rust (fast! memory-safe! cool!) even though all the tooling is in Python.
That is the reason I don't use W11 on laptops due to limited vertical space.

On the desktop the main issue is that main taskbar can't be put on the secondary monitor anymore. That forces start menu and all the notifications appear over my full screen apps and games.
I suppose for meeting Gen. Ed. requirements more history and philosophy classes with a focus on where certain Math and Science comes from could be great.

Additionally math courses for the non-stem majors that focus more on the history and importance of something, say the quadratic formula, instead of applying it/remembering it without much context from where it came from could help out a lot of non-stem majors with their math requirement.

However I think it boils down to interest and a degree of time whether or not someone in a stem field feels compelled or not to pay attention and learn where their math tools come from or the experiments that built the respective sciences.

That is, I've found while stem classes may not focus on the above, they do cover it and for the more enthusiastic and self motivated student right there in their books to read about.

I've also found professor's that love this stuff too, which I've found pleasure in them sharing these stories when they can.
Paper (which is more useful than the linked HF model) is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02415

There is also an -Instruct variant of this model published on HF.

They are claiming the best balance of performance on language and coding tasks in an open source LLM of this size.
The socio-political hinterlands these bloggers inhabit is that of being unable to recognize the failures of modernism. It's an failure of their collective mind to continue to cling to a failed project - and fundamentally modernism's inherent self-contradiction: modernism's inability to modernize itself.

We ventured deep into what makes something true and down every epistemological corridor, we found a chasm that could only be crossed by assuming true to our ontological priors. And when we pointed that these assumptions landed us in different realities, the modernists, blind to their own actions, were cocky enough to tell us they never did such a thing.

I'm fed up with the lot. The entire weaselly bunch can get busy leaving.
I did mostly think that. So what's the thing in the glass that gets hit like the "another pool ball"?
Ask HN: Login solution that encrypts requests using key received by Email?
Hi,

I have developed a solution that overcomes the risks of hijecking sessions using for example broken SSL or stealing JWT token by encrypting a line in every request differently using session key that is copied and pasted once on every browser which send via the Email.

Does anyone here need such thing? I want to offer it to newbies who hesitate from the cloud bills, using my own cloud and small could fee.
I don’t have a prototype yet but considering to make one. Are you guys with me? Do you want one?
I thought this would be similar to the diesel-electric term with respect to trains. Which is also something I’m shocked isn’t (hasn’t?) been tried with semis. Get rid of the 18 speed transmissions, have a “max efficiency” mode for regular use, and a “max power” mode for hill climbing.
Nice assertion — is there any evidence behind it?
Effects of Commercial Cannabis on the Experience of Aerobic Exercise
They were making a rhetorical point along the lines of “if the politicians actually were engaging in good faith on this stuff, they’d propose this other more effective plan.” I agree with the sentiment that the politicians aren’t engaging in good faith here. We are basically on the same side.

However I disagree that the plan would really be able to accomplish what legislators claim they are trying to accomplish, so I don’t think this line of argument works as a rhetorical device.

I’m not sure that “Whether Software and device vendors already provide all the necessary tools” is really the sticking point… sorry, I’d write more, but actually I’m not sure how that is supposed to link into the argument so I’m not sure where to go with it.
I certainly know nothing about planes yet from the reading I've done on the 737 Max I'm a bit uneasy that these planes are still flying.

I usually subscribe to the mentality that something that had a significant issue that was fixed is overly scrutinized and thus becomes safe but in this case it seems like the decision-making involved in the making of this plane from the start was flawed, such that I'm not sure patches on patches are enough.

Someone who knows more about planes might say all the issues are unrelated but fundamentally in a system like this I think one thing is bound to affect another, and if not that, then the mentality that led to one issue is likely to have been present in the developing of other components of the system.
Easier than subjecting yourself to an abusive, aggressive, nationalistic organization with its own laws, that may take you to a battlefield.

I had known many who made the US-EU jump, it didn't sounded particularly hard (the administrative part)
This is going to put a dent in Boeing's request for an FAA waiver for the Max 7
H&R Block and Intuit to begin their trial of "even bigger bribes to politicians"
It's like sneaking a bomb on board for safety purposes. "I mean, what are the odds that there are TWO bombs on this plane?"
I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. 3km/hr is roughly the speed of a rec kayak, and people paddle those. But of course, it might create a false sense of security because weather that’d cause flooding…
> he said that in the US everyone would be eager to do some work for money on the side and here he's always having issues getting IT help

Well that’s just bollocks. Perhaps young teenagers are typically okay with earning a bit or forced by their parents to help but it certainly is not the cultural norm that grown ass salaried professionals jump at the chance to earn $50 sorting their neighbors WiFi out.

He just thought he’d found another sucker and was annoyed when you turned out to have a backbone, because you are absolutely right this guy would become what is often called in the trades a ‘sinsya’.

‘Sinsya’ fixed my printer my WiFi doesn’t work as well. Did you break it?

‘Sinsya’ fixed my WiFi my washing machine doesn’t do the hot cycle properly. You were messing with the ‘wires’ weren’t you?

Etc etc fucking etc.

If he called a professional company to help he’d have no issues ‘here’ but he’d also have to pay the going rate.

What he means is back home he has a network large enough to exploit and doesn’t have to worry about learning how to do it or pay a professional.
> far-faster-than-inflation tuition increases

> destitution-level pay for most of the instructional staff

Faculty in the California State University system are planning to strike during the first week of the spring semester. Their goal: to get a 15% salary increase. Factoring in inflation and the increased cost of living near many campuses, it's not a hand up, or even treading water, it's sinking a little more slowly.

If they get what they want (and they should, compensation for non-administrators in the CSU is ridiculous), the money has to come from somewhere. It seems extremely unlikely that the CSU will be able to get the funding from the legislature in a year of budget deficits. Yes, they could (and should!) cut the number of administrators, but most actually serve useful functions, and the savings would not be that great. That leaves tuition increases. Maybe things would be different if the system were still funded by the state to the same degree they were decades ago, but those days are gone.
There is more to design than its surface appearance, and the car described earlier uses an entirely different drivetrain than the Mercedes…

I swear the stupidest takes on this forum called “hacker news”. Hackers who usually reuse the same exploit “tech and design”, lol…
Boeings breaking up is how we got here.
The program is for federal tax filing, not state tax. I think you may be misreading this line:

> Most of those states don’t tax income at the state level, but the four that do...will guide participants to a state-supported tool that they can use to submit their state returns.

Which means it's _more_ incomplete in states with income tax (federal return through IRS pilot, state return through a state system) than in states without income tax (just federal IRS pilot return).
My favourite thing about that were the little games like the driving one, the racing one and the supermarket checkout (numeric keypad). However at the time I suspect I didn't pay proper attention to finger placement.
Investigative journalism report into Boeing by Al Jazeera in 2014:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2014/7/20/t...
That threw me off too. I thought it was just a launcher, so I zoomed in. Saw the Windows apps and was confused for a second.
Where do you want to go in the company? Where does the company want to go in its industry or in other industries? Where do you want it to go? Do you want to continue with your current project or move to another one? If staying, do you want it to stagnate or do you want it to grow and change (ideally in an appropriate way)? Do you want to direct the changes (management/leadership role), do you want to guide the changes (technical/leadership role), or do you want to implement the changes (technical role)?

The answers to those questions determine what you need to study if you're going to stay within a company. Don't study React to study React. Study React because you want your project to utilize it (or to move to a project which already does). It has zero value for study beyond that purpose if you're going to stay in place and not using it (and assuming you're not just studying it for personal edification or to feed into some other learning goals; I'm learning Go not for work, per se, but to practice more with distributed/concurrent applications which is for work, but will likely be done in another language or languages). If you're in a position for it, start a pilot project utilizing it. If not, find an amenable and like-minded manager who can put you in a position for that pilot project. And failing that, study leadership/management (find a mentor) so you can get into a position to push a pilot project through.
Zwift is great, and so much cheaper than Peloton.

And with the weekly emails and monthly events, they seem to actually want you to use the service, unlike the stereotypical gym model. Maybe because an Apple subscription is so much easier to cancel?
The floating is meant to be an emergency only feature that requires a dealer inspection afterwards every time it's activated.
> if we train a model on synthetic data generated by GPT-4 which has copyright issues

Is that the new directive from HQ? I see a lot of folks parroting this logic, ignoring that proceeds of crime are criminal themselves.
> STEM devalued non-STEM studies for years

What does this refer to?
The FAA will never ban it because politically its untenable in the US, the only thing that could kill the Max off would be if another big regulator such as EASA refused to let the Max into their airspace.
The biggest trouble is that a lithium battery that will last 8 years, and the one that will puff up in a year and lose 80% of capacity, all look the same when you buy them. It's all about the purity of materials, quality control, and other things you don't see without a microscope.

Big players like Ford play it very safe with their own cell manufacturers, but a random smaller-scale startup might be forced to buy the cells from the lowest bidder on Aliexpress, and that won't fare well.
Houthi drones, missiles, and speedboats don't appear out of the ether. The Navy is taking a passive approach right now, only responding to threats rather than going in and attacking. At the least, if an antiship ballistic missile is fired, since it flies on a ballistic trajectory it's relatively easy to figure out where it came from and send a cruise missile back. Or if you want to be preemptive you could use tactics honed in Afghanistan to surveil and watch for the launch sites. Of course you can't eliminate guerilla forces using just airstrikes; but you can remove launching facilities. There weren't any major drone strikes or ballistic missile attacks in Afghanistan. Technically it's relatively not very difficult to have a surveillance plane orbit overhead watching for where ballistic missiles are coming from, then have orbiting fighters or bombers strike that before the launcher and its crew have had time to displace. The reason it hasn't been done is purely up to political decisions.
Corporate dynamics is different across any culture.

> In China there is no strong separation between corporations and government.

Is there even a country where that's actually a thing? It's definitely the opposite of "strong separation" in the US, just look at the lobbying institution.
Caps Lock is very handy for all of us who need to switch between US English and our own native keyboard layout(s). That new button might also be repurposed for that eventually.
It can only do the 360 deg turn while floating, which rather limits its utility.
I find it very suspicious that people who avoid learning rhetoric, or formal logic, or axiomatic thinking in general, are able to draw useful conclusions from studying humanities.
Those news headlines are very misleading. Most Tesla's, all BYD's and certain Volvo models are imported from China on large ships so will sell thousands in one month and essentially zero in others. So while the BYD Atto 3 was the best-selling car in a couple of the months of 2023, for annual sales it is well behind the Tesla Y and Volvo XC40.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
We had that once, in an MSDOS-era program called Javelin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software ):

"Unlike models in a spreadsheet, Javelin models are built on objects called variables, not on data in cells of a report. For example, a time series, or any variable, is an object in itself, not a collection of cells which happen to appear in a row or column... Calculations are performed on these objects, as opposed to a range of cells, so adding two time series automatically aligns them in calendar time, or in a user-defined time frame. Data are independent of worksheets..."

That was forty years ago and as far as I know there hasn't been a program that works the same way since. Perhaps someone could reverse-engineer it (the jav.exe file is only 56,448 bytes!)
PL/0 Compiler Written in Go (2017)
I'm wondering how many of these $150k+ effectively ever hit even a dirt road. Notwithstanding how heavy it is.
I don't understand if this is meant as a joke or not. Do you mean that we then would have Tsvlens? Tabs don't automatically make columns aligned, nor do they eliminate the problem of quoting. I don't get it, but then again, I'm exceptionally dim-witted.
If Gödel means I have to view shamanism and racism with equal esteem as empiricism and egalitarianism, I don't want to modernize past modernism.

I don't think humans, in our present form of bio-technological evolution, can afford to without everything becoming worse.
> I could have sworn that said “anomalous material”…

(I saw that too)

Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Blappeture Mesa. Marketing boys think something else. So: Blappeture it is.

Next, they tell me you people are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade. So I'm shutting that down before you idiots end the world. A resonance cascade! You're supposed to be scientists! Use some common sense.
> B was pressured to buy McD for 'national security' reasons.

Are we seeing similar things right now? Will companies like OpenAI or Nvidia be forced to merge or buy other players in the space?

Nvidia already has to work around export restrictions.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/17/23921131/us-china-restri...
To be fair, there are a lot of rose-colored sunglasses in the crowd of Boeing critics. The rudder problems with the original 737 weren't exactly McDonnell-Douglas's fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Fwiw nothing with outside influence is automata as the true randomness from quantum phenomena propagates.

Eg. If you take in real world visual input to a system that from that point on is deterministic the output of that system is now non-deterministic. Similar to how Shrodinger talked about the macro scale cat being alive and dead at the same time.

So the arguments that the neurons in the brain are deterministic or that the transistors in a computer are deterministic breaks down at the first introduction of real world input. The outputs of those systems actually aren't deterministic at all.
Alternatives exist for everything. The goal isn't to come up with a totally unique idea, but rather to find a market that is sufficiently competitive in which you can carve out a tiny slice. For something like an uptime monitor, you aren't going to make millions of dollars per year, but you could easily carve out a 500/mo income for practically no effort. With a little more effort and advertising, you might even be able to make it your full time job.
Another good reason to keep that seat belt fastened even when the sign is off.
It's the easiest way for the rich to avoid an audit. For everyone else, the IRS is coming after you if you are easy for them to flag for underpayment.
Boeing 737 Max is quite the case study in how to ruin a company via merger
OTOH, if they don't, it's a great way to make Xi purge even harder.
The Friendship That Made Google Huge (Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat)
> But the problem is, what do You do when You have 2 people with conficliting feelings?

Hopefully, you try to work it out like adults, rather than just declaring that your way is the only rational way, and anyone else's feelings need to pound sand.

Furthermore, this isn't primarily about "feelings" in the sense of "this hurt my feelings;" this is primarily about adding unnecessary stress to developers' lives. Stress is something that is scientifically proven to increase susceptibility to diseases and cancers, and reduce lifespans, so it seems to me that this should be enough objective and rational evidence that we should be genuinely trying to reduce it.

> Are there though?

Well, I think most people would agree that putting an entire C file on one line is a pain to work with, even if skipping the "unnecessary" whitespace does save a little space.

And naming your variables alphabetically based on the order you use them in (eg, `int alpha`, `char bravo`, `std::string charlie` makes the code hard to maintain.

"Well, but that's just obvious stuff! No one would ever do that!"

I guarantee you someone would do just about any boneheaded thing you can imagine in programming unless told not to, either out of spite or because their brain really just works that way.

Just because you've made a bunch of assumptions about how people would or should code doesn't mean that those assumptions are any less arbitrary than anything else.

> that still doesn't prevent them from being arbitrary.

...But that's the thing. They're not. Just because they're not deeply well-researched to ensure that this particular set of coding standards measurably increases performance and decreases stress while maintaining code doesn't mean that maintainability is an arbitrary thing. It just means that it hasn't been adequately studied yet.

...or maybe it just means you haven't[0] looked[1] enough[2] yet, and the research that's out there hasn't yet had time to coalesce into any kind of industry-wide action.

Furthermore, it sounds very much like you're saying that coding standards like K&R, or C++ Core Guidelines, or PSR-2, are entirely arbitrary. They're clearly specified, they're written down and easy to reference, they codify plenty of aspects of coding style—but are all coding standards, no matter how well-respected, completely arbitrary?

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299412540_Code_Read...

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/2020/8840389/

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303870101_Software_...