skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a series of quotes from Walt Hickey's You Are What you Watch, citing some similar/related research:

>Between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight, for every million people watching a strongly violent movie, the number of violent crimes decreased 1.3 percent; for every million people watching a mildly violent movie, the rate declined 1.1 percent... "So, we thought, 'Oh, this is sort of like incapacitation,' if you put someone in a movie theater, they commit less assault because they can't really assault someone while they're in a movie theater."

>"What happens instead is that violent crime goes down a lot from midnight to 6:00 a.m. following the movie." For every million people who saw a strongly violent movie at the cinema, the rate of violent crime went down 1.9 percent in the six hours after midnight, and for every million people watching a mildly violent movie, the rate dipped 2.1 percent. That larger decrease after midnight might be puzzling until you remember the risk factors of committing violent acts: young, male, and drunk. The scenario is easy enough to imagine: Two dudes, neither of whom have yet learned how to process strong emotions in a constructive way; one decides to see Murdersuck 4: Buckets of Blood, the other goes to the bar. They meet up after the movie at 11:00 p.m. for drinks. One has a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.00, the other's is around 0.07. They both proceed to have four drinks over the next three hours. It's now 2:00 a.m., and someone walks into the bar and starts getting seriously rude to the people with whom these two guys have been talking. Our moviegoer now has a BAC of about 0.07; his buddy is clocking in at 0.14. Which dude do you think is gonna throw the punch?

>All this to say that in a given year, the release of strongly violent movies has a net effect of about 52,000 assaults just not happening. Besides the human impact, that saves about $695 million in averted victimization costs, all because 4 to 8 percent of the US population saw a violent movie instead of getting drunk and committing assaults.
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You did nothing wrong by creating a new account. Also, on HN it's much better to have an account that represents you as an individual, not a company, so your instinct was correct in that way too.
Money itself doesn't necessarily cure mental health issues. I'm mean it usually doesn't hurt, but it's not like you can blend cash up into a smoothy and cure depression. (Yes, that's a South Park reference.)
It’s the other way round.

If you hear toy noises from the other room, you know where the baby is and what the baby is doing (and if the toy goes silent you go investigate).

Then again, grown up music is not immune to loudness wars - it shouldn’t be surprising to see the same attention grabbing mechanism in kids toys.
I don't know, I'd say this is true for all diets. Many of us have had that friend who's lost a bunch of weight or got into good shape and that's all they'll talk about from now on. Usually that person also starts picking on other people who don't join their compulsion. I think it's a strategy to mask a lack of accomplishments other than the weight loss.
Well, given that these companies have unlimited profit making ability to fund their unlimited budget if they were to list these companies on the stock market the share price would be infinite.

Truly whatever they have figured out is a massive boon to humanity. And they probably should be in charge of everything as no one else has figured out how to make unlimited profit. Their workers must be exceptionally productive.

The TLAs could thus balance the budget simply by paying the taxes owed on these unlimited profit companies.
In this context, it doesn't mean "no processing" but more like "nothing good removed, nothing bad added".

Unlike veganism, which has yes/no test of "does it contain animal products", with WFPB there's more a spectrum as you move from "no processing" to "minimal processing" to more processing.

And the science supports getting nearly all the benefits by being mostly compliant, even if you don't eat 100% whole-foods or 100% plant-based.

People still have 5% or so processed foods are still having very good results.
My biggest complaint of modern keyboards is pinky overloading off the home row, particularly on the right hand side of the keyboard.

My second biggest complaint is that CTRL and ALT keys are the second most important after the SHIFT. But on the laptop I'm typing on, they're super small and placed under the hands, and there's a FN and a WINDOWS button between them on the left hand side, making it hard to hit unless you pull your hand off the keyboard so you can see.

The last complaint is doing super spock pinches for weird macros. CRTL-ALT-SHIFT-Z. The last could be fixed by composing, and not requiring the three keys be pressed down together. The SHIFT letter combinations came from the old typewriters where SHIFT key raised the letters so the upper case keys could be struck. And we've stuck with that for better or worse.
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Then I would not call it an education, because that gives more credit to the asshole. Maybe at most it would be a learning experience for the victim.
Using fictitious names on legal documents is a crime, isn't it? So if those names are truly not real people, then isn't it criminal to put them on notarized documents?
It was found in a few weeks so why is it more likely it wouldn't have been noticed for months/years with more people running the backdoored version of the code?
Seems it was diagnosed in cattle and this was a dairy worker, so probably everyone working in contact with infected cattle are tested
I get the impression that policymakers are more afraid of them than trusting, thinking of the "don't cross them or they have 6 ways from sunday to get back at you" sentiment
Many people argue that a VPN+SSH is a reasonable solution, since it uses two separate implementations, where both are unlikely to be compromised at the same time. I would argue that the more reasonable option would be to split the SSH project in two; both of which validates the credentials of an incoming connection. This would be the same as a VPN+SSH but would not convolute the network topography, and would eliminate the need for two keys to be used by every connecting user.

However, in this case, the two-layer approach would not be a protection. Sure, in this case the SSH daemon was compromised, and a VPN before SSH would have protected SSH. But what if the VPN server itself was compromised? Remember that the SSH server was altered, not to allow normal logins, but to call system() directly. What if a VPN server had been similarly altered? This would not have protected SSH, since a direct system() call by the VPN daemon would have ignored SSH completely.

It is a mistake to look at this case and assume that since SSH was compromised this time, SSH must always be protected by another layer. That other layer might be the next thing to be compromised.
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We know what consciousness is. It's our self-awareness.

We don't know where it comes from our how to test it, because each individual can only observe their own consciousness.
Microsoft is the obvious example. The DOJ didn't break them up, but they ended up operating under a consent decree that significantly impacted them over the 2000s and 2010s. I'm aware (through the grapevine) of straightforward product decisions Google would have but didn't make for fear of ending up in the same position.

Keep in mind the argument I'm responding to here: the idea that large US corporations are essentially insulated from US law by dint of being multinational. It's not enough to claim that the Microsoft case didn't break up or hobble Microsoft. By Rayiner's logic, Microsoft should have simply reincorporated in Ireland or Belize or something and continued its domination of computing. They did not. They didn't because Rayiner's argument is wrong.
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Hmm...I still don't think that the differences between imperative, OO and functional programming are sufficient for them to be called "paradigms" and for a language that supports variations to be called "multi-paradigm"

"What kinds of music do you have here"

"Oh we got both kinds: Country and Western"

(Blues Brothers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-zEH8YmiM)

Let's see:

f(x) // procedural, side effects discouraged
x.f() // OO, the procedures are scoped/namespaced/grouped
f(x) // functional, side effects disallowed

OK, that's a little facetious, but only a little. More details here:

https://2020.programming-conference.org/details/salon-2020-p...

So yeah, we need to go beyond this.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/why-architecture-oriente...
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> The implied reason is that it is bad for "player A" to not be able to fool their subjects, while it is good for "player B" that "player A" can't.

That was essentially the response after the most impactful example of Russian interference: when Russian hackers leaked DNC emails proving collusion against Sanders by the DNC and the Clinton campaign. The Democrats deflected by blaming Russia for exposing the truth. Many people argued that it was unfair that only DNC emails were leaked.

We could fairly reduce the DNC's defense to: it is bad for "player A" (the DNC) to not be able to fool their subjects, while it is good for "player B" (Trump and Russia) that "player A" can't.

The DNC even doubled down by suing Trump and others, as well as Russia, over the leaks. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice because

> The judge said the other defendants [Trump, Wikileaks, and others] "did not participate in any wrongdoing in obtaining the materials in the first place" and were therefore within the law in publishing the information. He also said that the DNC's argument was "entirely divorced from the facts"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi...
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>> It suggests the strident protests against AI art is just carbon chauvinism.

> What do you mean by that?

"Carbon chauvinism" is a stupid idea used by "AI" enthusiasts to dismiss criticism and worry about the technology they're hyping. The basic (sloppy) idea is to evoke taboos around stuff like racism and sexism to shut down the conversation, with the implication that it is wrong for humans to object to being replaced by robots (and the unacknowledged bleakness of their perspective doesn't stop there).
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Are beans and rice more "whole" than beef? Is beef not a "whole food"?
Another important variable is reverse proxies.

You don’t necessarily need Rust or Node.js or Java to support zstd but you do need Traefic and nginx and haproxy to do so.
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We may use what you provide to ChatGPT to improve our models for everyone. If you’d like, you can turn this off through your Settings.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not think this can be GDPR compliant: there's a good chance people might enter personal information and in that case, OpenAI cannot just use said data without explicit consent for their own purposes. And the keyword here is "explicit" - just saying "by using ChatGPT, you automatically agree to your data being used by us - just don't use it if you don't agree, or turn it off in the settings" does not work.
They've supposedly got their H2 cost under $2.50 per kg. Your link calls $2.20 per kg by 2030 "hopelessly optimistic". In comparison steam reformed hydrogen from natural gas costs $1.50 - $5.00 per kg.
Or, there are infinite universes and what we see is the only universe that can be seen (because in most other infinite universes the goldielocks are not locked and there is nobody to see them) ?

Kind of a weird survivorship bias?
https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/yc-w24-demo-day-which...
Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?
How do you decide what to do when you don't find contract posts that match your skills?

I've quit my job as an Android developer (Kotlin) and wanted to take contract work. Such contracts seem to be very rare in Sweden these days and there are more devops/project leader/web/fullstack/react contracts.

If you were in my shoesm, would you do online courses and get certifications in more popular tech stacks and skills or would you reach out to people and wait weeks/months for the demand in the market to increase as the recession turns towards boom?

I've also considered creating products but since I'm no web dev and no great idea yet and no customer contract work still seems to be the best way to go to get freedom and future income.

Anyone else in a similar situation or with tips or suggestions?
I have one first-hand story:

I did tech support via phone for a popular consumer computer brand. One particular call, a woman reported that her computer was restarting every time someone in the house flushed the toilet.

Long story short, her home was in the back-back woods with the home powered by a generator. In addition to powering the computer, the generator was also the source of power for a water pump which would kick on to refill the toilet bowl whenever it emptied. And wouldn't you know that that water pump had a beefy coil around its motor and would brownout the entire house every time it started?
STxP70 / STHORM / P2012: ST's microcontroller. (2022)
That relies on knowing what to look for. I.e. "the malicious library". The question is whether any of these solutions could catch it without knowing about it beforehand and having a detection rule specifically made for it.
The advantage of port knocking to me is just reducing the amount of garbage script-kiddie scans. IMHO the design of `sshd` needs to just assume it will be slammed by garbage attempts and minimize the logging. I've heard of `fail2ban`, but banning does nothing as the bots have an unlimited number of IPs.
Yes, they're only called bidets for lack of a better word in English. Mine has adjustable water temp, heated seat, air dry, variable pressure, front/rear wash, oscillation, and several more modes I've not even dared to try yet. Got mine from Costco during one of their periodic sales. I highly recommend them even when there's no toilet paper shortage.
It does support batch rename, though. And generally I want to resize images while looking at them, and not go elsewhere for that. But only when I want it to, no automation.
InnoDB also supports transactions.
Interesting. The effects of a very-low-carb diet, one such that triggers preponderently-ketone metabolism, are very-rapid-onset (24-48h) and massive. They can also be obiectively measured, by measuring the amount of ketones in urine and in blood. So I really don't see how that is compatible with the ketones being a side effect of gut species in your theory.
I believe ed25519 offers 128 bits of security, while ed448 offers 224 bits of security. ed448 has larger key sizes too, which does seem like an odd choice in this case.
Maybe it was chosen for obscurity sake (being less commonly used)?
This is great but would this neutralize the xz backdoor? The backdoor circumvents authentication, doesn't it?
How are you tracking the web traffic?
From the CDC press release:

> CDC is working with state health departments to continue to monitor workers who may have been in contact with infected or potentially infected birds/animals and test those people who develop symptoms. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0401-avian-flu.html
There's... a lot of other stuff that turns up on Google, including GPT chatbots associated with "Vespers Inc" that claim to help people with online filing, name overlaps with people who had genuine court cases filed against them in California several years ago, a defunct and obviously spammy Vespers Inc LinkedIn AI and Cybersecurity profile, and a Github profile of a "Governmental Forensic Fraud Investigator that shares the online filings' interests in Pirate Stock(s) and er.. other overlaps. Oh, and a LinkedIn profile of a Jacob Vespers, supposedly an Orange County Station Chief involved in "Persona Creation" for the CIA!

I'm inclined to go with this interpretation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39875809

But I will say that if it turns out that Sam's latest scheme for world domination has been foiled by him dogfooding his own product, then it's very very funny
> build-to-host.m4

I wasn't aware that the rogue maintainer was able to commit himself without any PR review (or he snuck it through PR review) rogue steps in the build process as well that went unnoticed so that he could bundle decompressed `xz` streams from test data, that also patched output .so files well enough to add hooking code to them.

How many "process failures" are described in that process that exist in every OSS repo with volunteer unknown untrusted maintainers?
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Drove for 3 hours yesterday with minimal effort and far more attention on what traffic is doing. There’s no going back from Autopilot. Depending where you live Tesla has best value for money by about 20-40%. You either avoiding brand or looking for something luxurious if choosing something else. In NZ vote of protest seems to be Polestar - nice looking, but inferior at every spec while 1.5x more expensive!
If all your attention is temporarily focused on something external to yourself, an onrushing train, say, are you temporarily not conscious?

People typically distinguish self-awareness from consciousness. It is not clear that they should, or shouldn't, but they typically do. They say consciousness is not facts but qualia, the sensation of the facts. A spreadsheet full of information can contain facts that differentiate blue from red. We hypothesize that a spreadsheet has no sensations, hence no qualia, hence no consciousness. We cannot actually operationalize this. We say a paramecium and a stone have no qualia, but this is more a hypothesis than a fact.

I think panpsychism in its essence is accepting that qualia are something and that the imagined boundary between things that have qualia and things which don't is established only by hypothesis and tradition. In the interest of not multiplying entities beyond necessity, we dispose of the boundary.

I am not a philsopher, so I don't really know what philosophers say.
Maybe rigs aren't the only source for crude oil otherwise it woul be much less.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545
> About half of Americans would prefer to see Russia win the war.

My brother in pro-democracy, you are literally exaggerating right now. If half the US adult population people really wanted Russia to conquer Ukraine, you would be able to easily cite polls showing it in rather stark terms.

Yes, it's definitely become a red/blue partisan issue, and yes, Republican "leadership" needs to be raked over the coals for their extended support for the Emperor's New Clothes, and yes, if Russia won they'd probably make up a bunch of "this is fine" nonsense... However!--Even if you assumed every single person of any party who thought "the US gives too much aid" was actually a crypto-Putinist hiding their dark desires for an outright Russian victory... Well, that's still only 37%. [0]

That far-reaching assumption almost certainly wrong through, especially since general sentiment toward Russia has almost hit rock-bottom. [1] That's why nobody even bothers polling for "which country would your rather see win."

[0] https://apnews.com/article/poll-ukraine-aid-congress-b772c97...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1642/russia.aspx
Reproducible build means that you get your source code from somewhere, it has dependencies listed, you install those, then you compile your artifact from your source, and the resulting binary or container is always the same. You can delete them, start from source in six months and it will still be the same.

If you want to do that, you'd need to keep your artifact around, and I guess you'd also need to back up the docker images you depend on.
I much prefer the approach I read about in https://github.com/moxie0/knockknock (use a safe language, trust basically only the program you write and the language), to a random port daemon written in C which pulls libpcap to sniff everything.

To some extent knockknock also trusts the Python interpreter which is not ideal (but maybe OK)
>It looks like 6 out of 7 windows users switch to Chrome for some reason. If not for the cleaner interface - why?

They don't switch to Chrome. They're already using Chrome. And odds are, they probably have been since the early 2010s, if not earlier---long before Edge was a thing.

When they get a new computer, they install Chrome because they're already in that ecosystem: bookmarks, saved passwords, customization, Google accounts, familiarity. They won't suddenly use Edge because it has none of that.
I agree that companies should respond to applicants, but comments like this are off topic in the hiring threads, so I've detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895736.
In normal times the experienced mortality rate is based on most of the sickest people receiving supportive care in the hospital that greatly blunts mortality rate.

When your medical needs exceed resources mortality rate converges toward untreated mortality rate.

Try this on for size what is the untreated mortality rate of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Its close to 100% but the overwhelming majority survive with prompt treatment. You wouldn't say that the mortality rate was what it is.