skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save you reading the reddit thread, here are two posts on it that seem to summarise what they discovered:

From https://old.reddit.com/r/askpsychology/comments/jqewhk/does_... :

Criminal justice researcher/licensed California therapist here.

Here is "Patric Gagne's" real personal and professional identify as far as can be gleaned. Her real name is Patricia J Cagle (if anything about her is verifiably real) not Dr. Patricia Gagne. Notably, she did not file a "fictitious business name" in California to operate her clinical practice under a fictitious name. She wrote both her her Modern Love and memoir under a fictitious name and identity. She has conflicting explanations for why her name is "Patric" not Patricia. Clever but deceptive.

She told the highly credulous NYT David Marchese that she she shortened her name to appear more "masculine than feminine." Her actual performer website states that she changed her name to prevent her clients from knowing who she really is. Her acting profile states that her false identity is "so far working:"

"Patric" is also -looking at real information- an Improve theatre performer and claims that she hides her real identity so that her, presumably vulnerable psychotherapy clients, cannot find out anything about her real, private life. Her photos verify the actor and the author are the same woman

She may or may not have graduated from UCLA and received a BA, but records cannot be found. (I have an undergraduate degree from Yale-easily located as are my graduate degrees from University of San Francisco). Her graduate degree, is a PsyD, not a Phd. It was granted from a sketch graduate school in LA. She does appear to have a provider number but not under her name or identity and it may or may not be as a MA counselor or PsyD.

It is critical to state that the REAL Dr. Gagne is a much older, eminent Dr. of Sociology with 72 major peer reviewed articles in gender studies and interesting subjects like motorcyclists. I wrote her to alert her.

Other than Modern Love, I could not find a single reference to any articles, studies or any-general readership article/study/ essay or any evidence of advocacy. Lies.

And, from https://old.reddit.com/r/askpsychology/comments/jqewhk/does_... :

I don’t see where it says it offered a phd, the website does mention a PsyD program. PsyD is also a psychology doctoral program but based in clinical skills not research and meant to be more of a professional program than academic. A lot of these predatory grad schools did/do PsyD programs instead as they are generally not as competitive as a phd, and are generally paid doctoral degrees as opposed to a phd which is normally funded.

Tantalising. It could be anything from a mostly truthful tale with a few deceptions to preserve the career of phycologist with a difficult personality to almost total bullshit. "Almost" because it would be an excellent example of what psychopathy can deliver.
You can communicate with other self-hosted Matrix accounts already. I think that was always the case.
Everyone has a conception of “freedom” that excludes conduct that’s “wrong.” Nobody thinks you should be “free” to engage in wrongdoing. You just disagree with Texans about what’s wrong or harmful.
does your browser not have a reader mode that fixes typography problems like that?
Man, I hope that by paying for something with my credit card I'm not giving the vendor that much access to my information. I kind of assumed the point of a credit card was to be a third party and put me at less risk, not more.
They'll be made public. They're also good, though I think you'll agree ours are more interesting-- as our side found close to a strict superset of issues.

I think in particular the Lynch (one of Wright's expert) report on the LaTeX files is interesting because it took a different approach than Rosendahl -- so it wasn't as duplicative: Rosendahl tried using legacy tools against the files, Lynch used current tools the combination was particularly fatal to Wright because if only one approach had been used Wright would have claimed that the other approach would have produced results that supported his case.

(Rosendahls' report itself is a great work in its own right, in spite of being a LaTeX user for >20 years I learned quite a few things from it).

I wish we'd gotten access to Wright's 22 million lines of chatgpt traffic since September, that might have been particularly interesting! -- the abuse of LLM's in the case is itself something of public interest that sadly wasn't adequately ventilated in the trial because we weren't able to get the relevant records. But there were pretty good indications that Wright used ChatGPT directly to create forgeries, aid in the construction of other forgeries, and to pad out his witness statements in a bit of a volumetric attack.

The Bitcoin legal defense fund has tried to get out most of what it could lawfully put out, -- skipping a few things with privacy issues-- but once the trial started the priority shifted to managing the case.

The default openness of the US courts may well have been the real hero in all this: documents and statements made public in the kleiman case boxed wright in from every angle. Its important that materials from this case are made public because it may not, unfortunately, be the last we hear from wright. Even where the US case didn't make some things public, it make their existence public which in some cases enabled us to obtain them: e.g. we were able to get all of Gavin's communications with Satoshi which had previously been provided to Wright and whose existence Wright tried desperately and ultimately unsuccessfully to deny.

The UK court openness is less by default, but the parties have a substantial ability to publish things-- allowing the parties to get things much closer to US practices.
Be that as it may, many security firms actually value Android zero-days above iOS ones: https://zerodium.com/program.html
sure: refer.beeper.com/descsi
> And why does a Rabbi own a conglomerate of porn websites?

Interestingly, porn was pioneered by Jews who arrived here during / after WWII. I've always found it interesting how different cultures / ethnicities have subtly different social mores, like whether prostitution is a good or a bad thing.

Hopefully what will happen in Texas is the pro-porners (not sure if there's a better term?) leave and the situation sorts itself out.
The mugging scenario shows that there are risks associated with pairing removal, but the suggestion by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF [1] seems to deal with this particular issue.

Are there any other risks?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39707586 (in reply to you)
as someone that messes with every low cost robotics thing. this part stuck out as painfully true :

“Oh yeah, if you try to move the robot without calling enable() it segfaults. That's a safety feature… I guess? But also if you call it twice, that also segfaults. Just call it exactly once, ever.”
My numbers say otherwise, as I was focused on European market when I wrote my comment.

https://www.ft.com/content/80972f3a-29c0-11e3-bbb8-00144feab...

https://thenextweb.com/news/report-windows-phone-overtakes-i...

https://thenextweb.com/news/windows-phone-climbs-to-nearly-1...
So you're saying send PII with every GET request then?
I have a similar length of experience as you, but I'm on the opposite side of the fence and side with the students in this case. If an organization is willfully putting out and maintaining shit products year after year and equivocating about how updating things to be more in-line with modern practices is oh so difficult and oh so expensive, maybe they do deserve to be mocked. If they're making an effort, that's a different story. There's really no excuse to keep insecure and outdated things out in the wild except for organizational laziness. Stand behind and maintain the crap you sell or don't sell it at all.

I think as a profession we need more derision and mockery of poorly made, documented and maintained shit and less reverting to robotic response of "you just don't understand, man".
StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware now evades detection
Interestingly, a lot of these things are the same challenges that no-code platforms face
Canada is one of them, my family doctor put me on Vyvanse, after seing me for the second time for an unrelated problem, because he noted that I was alternating between hyperfocus and zoning out when he talked to me.

It positively changed my life and I am quite happy that a "simple family doctor" can prescribe amphetamines if he thinks that it's appropriate.
> Well, they subsidize hardware, so they sell their hardware, as far as I can tell from widely published reports, at a loss, and so the fee needs to cover that

That seems totally reasonable to me.
Why is this a warning? I'm very confused, is it somehow "inappropriate"?
Overall excellent point about pacing. But I have to point out an issue:

"Missing a goal is not necessarily signal that your pace is too slow. In fact, it often means that you simply didn’t plan well for a more difficult portion of the race."

He did try to stretch the metaphor by mentioning inclement weather, but overall, software engineering is not similar to running a race.

For some features, you literally do not know what could be around the corner. It could be a huge crevasse. There is no known accurate map of the area. Your plans are more like wishes you make in front of a well before you throw a coin in.

If you had a good map then you wouldn't necessarily be doing software development. It would be more like just configuration and deployment.

That is why I would like to add that if you run into what seems like a roadblock, don't blame the staff. They didn't put it there. Give them time to figure out how to dismantle it or go around.
He decoded everything, but he didn't actually open a car door. He still has to defeat the rolling code. It's not like you can add 1 to it and resend it. From the outside world, the next rolling code should appear random.
Pornhub complies with authoritarian new Texas law and begins blocking users in that region.
Is there something nefarious going on?

It seems to be the standard carry-forward loss accounting practice.

Are all tax accountants evil here since they all do this common accounting practice?

Also, the article's tone is not at all biased...
Part of the point of reconciliation is to accept unequivocally the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. Is it not morally questionable to ignore indigenous peoples' sovereign rights (over fishing, forests, lands, etc.) as we have been doing up until now?
low tire pressure.
https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-boeing-777-los-an...
I think you are missing what the Evo project is trying to do -- create a new prokaryotic genome through a generative model. How this would work would be like the earlier hand-made synthetic genomes like Synthia (Gibson et al, 2010).

In such a system you would take an existing bacterial cell and replace its genome with the newly synthesized version. The proteins and other molecules from the existing cell would remain (before eventually being replaced) and serve to "boot" the new genome.
Congrats on the launch!

If I have want to help you in your roadmap- specifically around Find Companies, how can I contribute?
"Loyalty" has been dead for decades, just look at that many accounts of successful teams and people that have been laid off in the last year alone. The same exact stories of hard working and dedicated people being laid off on a whim can be found going back decades.

There's a reason that so many people now get prompted by moving "horizontally" between companies, very few companies today properly reward loyalty, if anything most actively incentivize individualism and disloyalty.
The FCC quadrupled the download speed required to market internet as 'broadband'
We would need to admit no such thing. In fact, it's possible that it's simultaneously not a scam, not practically useful, and also suitable for this purpose.

Stuff on the block chain has a problem asserting anything that's not on the block chain, which is what a lot of people want to use it for. In this case, it's a bitcoin solution to a bitcoin problem. It's all in-universe so to speak.
> there is another floor; the cost to build new housing

Mostly irrelevant in an older city so long as there is a large number of older less-desirable houses in the market. And new houses become old houses in 2-3 decades.

Only the people that can afford a new home need to buy a new one.

Building prices do drag up prices, but I don't believe they set a floor unless most everything available is greenfield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
As of TLS 1.3, the ClientHello (which includes the Server Name Identification (SNI) extension) is still sent in plaintext. There is a current draft for encrypted client hellos[0], but I don't think its adoption is widespread. QUIC appears to encrypt the ClientHello; however, it does not protect from an attacker which can observe the initial connection packets[1].

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9001.html#name-security-of...
Pornhub disables website in Texas over objection to age verification law
No. If you have read to the end, there's also a scheme for the US, a different one, but US buyers will be affected too.
Tried the prompt "Mike is hungry and wants to eat some" and the predicted next token is "body". Is that how bad gpt-2 was?
"In the highly likely case where your answers are crap" hahahaha.

I think there is a natural impulse to want to help others but there has been a shift of dynamic where the flood of newbs with their entitlement and hostility to those helping them has pushed knowledgeable and helpful people away. And now the newbs can only talk to each other where they can reinforce each others ignorance with the false perception that what they know is correct because they perceive it to be the consensus.

The suggested requirement to avoid the microaggression is to answer both X and Y even when most likely X is irrelevant on the off chance that it isn't. According to some I'm not even allowed to XY probe and must answer both aspects in full to avoid offence. Sure; let me do more free work for you. I used to have some of my code available as open source but got sick of the barrage of questions by those who fail to do even the modicum of effort to understand what they're doing and then get mad at you when you don't provide the exact worked solution to their problem.

People no longer fail to learn, other people have failed to teach them. It's a complete abandonment of personal responsibility. Sure, at this stage I'm shouting into the wind but I think things are going to get really bad really quickly and I feel sorry for those who will have to endure the consequences.
The chairs had four legs, each of which radiated out horizontally from a central point (they were swivel chairs) then turned downward to the floor. The legs were about 1/2” wide, maybe a bit more. They were maybe 1” tall (vertically in the horizontal section and horizontally in the vertical section).

So the grain needed to run horizontally in the horizontal part to support the bending load. It was probably best for the grain to be vertical in the vertical part, although that was maybe less critical: that section was mostly in compression. It probably also looked better that way.

In any case, the actual construction put a finger joint in the horizontal section just past the turn, so a tiny bit of vertical grain wood extended horizontally over the turn. And several of the legs cracked just along the side of the finger joint, and one failed completely after about a month of gentle use.

The design plausibly could have worked if the joint went diagonally through the turn or was below it. But plywood is strong along both in-plane axes, and the legs could likely have been cut in single pieces from sheets of plywood with strength to spare.

Attractive plywood, even from hardwood species, is readily available. The plies are visible along the cut edge, but this is actually a style people like, especially in Scandinavian furniture. Even IKEA sells some nice chairs with plywood elements, at entirely reasonably price points.
This is like the tech bro version of: private investors buying properties is inflating property prices.

The problem is blue collar people, which is a new one to me.
> -highly accomplished and highly experienced engineers were actually too stupid

> -these highly experienced guys actually knew what they were doing

> What seems more likely?

Well, when you put it that way... the former. By a large margin.
Yes, Unicode is too complicated and too messy, whether or not it is Turing-complete (it is complicated enough that maybe it is Turing-complete; I don't know).
Sure they can. Mine is just variation of the traditional furry fandom [adjective][species] username. Plenty of furry writers have much cooler names than me.

I'll leave figuring out which species as an exercise for the reader. Hint: highly-gregarious African canid with the same initials as All-Wheel Drive.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake isn't particularly significant - especially not in a nation as seismically prepared as Japan.
You can't, that's why spanner only exists a Google. That tech is that good, not found anywhere else.
Metaculus gets 99.5% accuracy in Scott Alexander's ACX 2023 Forecasting Contest
They can't prevent buying outside of California to someone who lives in California if their state/country laws allow it. California could setup roadblocks and search everyone to contraband.
European here, I recently build my home in wood-frame with thick enough elements I suppose they fall in this "mass timber" category, well... It was NOT cheaper than concrete, I choose wood for various reasons but well, cheapness was not one of them at least not in France where this tech is not much widespread.

I have some advantages:

- much more personal future changes are possible, it's far easier posing new wires/pipes and so on since all I need are small tools, I do not made much dust with them and so on;

- thinner perimeters walls (with good insulation), in some cases they are a nice thing;

and some disadvantages:

- exterior exposed wood last far less than concrete and demand more regular upkeep work (though it's relatively easy);

- eventual water spills might be more impacting;

- last but not least, noise insulation from the ground floor and the second one are far LESS good than concrete.

So well, I'm happy of my choice for various reasons, but I do agree with the author, only adding a point: homes need to change as tech change. Having homes we can "recycle" an create again after let's say 50-70 years means having a kind-of industrial home evolution path that allow for well performant and well designed homes in the long terms, a thing we can't much have with concrete. At a certain rates trees re-grow, rocks do as well, but in a sooooooo large timeframe we can't count as "renewable", so potentially a wood based civilization might be nearly circular, a concrete based one can't (at least, seen the actual known tech).

Aside while light buildings suffer more extreme weather, they suffer less some kind of hydro-geological problems like soil stability, earthquakes and so on, all demanding far simpler foundations.
The idea that they do not fall under jusrisdiction is a farce and legal contrivance. In reality they have no international standing and do not and would not constitute an independent state under any normal criteria. What's happening here is the government is treating them with kid gloves because there is the perception what happened in the past is unfair (true!) and there is a desire to make amends for it. That's all well and good, let's just acknowledge it and call it what it is. If tomorrow they decided to start developing nuclear weapons I don't think "they didn't consent to be governed" would fly.
Whatchya Cookin? The 3 C's of Cooking
Usually I would agree. I typically make a "Crash-Course in $PLATFORM" document while keeping notes. These I very commonly reference in order to externalize my memory since it seems to be approaching capacity. I don't care about Ruby on Rails, but once I did, and I can reference my notes if I ever need to touch that platform again.
If we discourage negative reviews, positive ones will lose meaning
In my opinion, he's a conman, as in confidence man. His lies aren't high quality, but he tells them with great confidence, which sadly is appealing to many people. He can answer any accusation on the spot without hesitation. He's vague, so you kind of feel like what he just said contradicted something he said earlier, but most people's reaction is that they must have misunderstood him earlier. He's very good at technobabble; if you don't know that much about technical stuff, he can come off as highly knowledgeable. He will use emotion as necessary.

Over the eight years he's been at this, he has built up a cult following of people who worship the ground he walks on and will defend him ferociously at every opportunity.

Yes, he's a bad liar, but very few people can do what he does.
i agree, we have to start somewhere. and if we think it’s the most powerful propaganda weapon ever developed, the place to start is by regulating _all_ social media.
The latest generation are supposed to be a new non-MIPS64 ISA, but I imagine some of it is still based on MIPS.
This is pretty close
Second hand sofa market is surprisingly good in all cities ai lived in (Europe) You can get great stuff for less than 100eur. Good luck figuring out there transport and cleaning though.
Pornhub should purchase and publish the search history and browsing habits of Texas government officials in lieu of the usual content. Name and shame the hypocritical bastards.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to what an earthquake of any magnitude could do to the little molten blob of goo at the bottom of a very deep hole?
Plant Lists for Conservation Gardening
Robots could make a short stop or go slower to process an unclear picture, that is probably not the problem - but the image processing itself, is still way too unreliable. Under ideal condition it mostly works, but have some light fog in the picture or strong sunlight and ... usually all fails.

Otherwise the Teslas would have indeed full self driving mode, using only cameras.
How long before they start adding features specifically designed to cause discomfort so they can charge a recurring fee to remove them. Like small prickles in the drivers seat. Pay $9.95/month to have the prickles retract.

It amazes me how there can be so many people that get up in the morning and go to work where that work is making the world a slightly worse place.
No, I’m saying verify the user’s ID, don’t save the PII at all, and then authenticate the user for some length of time. Or let users make an anonymous account and have a bit in their profile that says the ID was verified, without saving any of the ID information. There’s no technical reason you couldn’t do this.
An Elsevier paper written by ChatGPT goes viral
Starship Is Still Not Understood – Casey Handmer's Blog
No, my argument is that building an employee retention tool is not the same from an ethical perspective as building a weapon system.

One is like a hammer, it was envisioned for and can be used for good, like building free houses for the poor. But it also makes a great bludgeon.

The other is like building a weapon that is used as a weapon.

And then there’s AdTech.. lol
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4419501177551&w=u9zd5r-YjP...
Any metaphor can have holes poked in it. Same as all narrative are reductive and leave out innumerable salient facts. The map is not the territory. It doesn't mean analogies aren't useful.

As a cross-country mountain biker and long-time software engineer, there is a hell of a lot of analogues between mental and physical endurance even if the activities are completely different.