skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omg I truly want to be respectful in my reply. But... just... I need to communicate to you that this logic is so messed up. Just because systems of capital want something from us, that does NOT mean that we must provide it. We don't need to allow a social context where a child must work harder to survive or support their family -- we can, and should, reject that premise. If the household is failing in that way, we need to ask how we elevate that household.

Social welfare exists to protect ppl from the exact sort of thing you are arguing permission to indulge.

There's no lack of wealth in this country, it's just been captured and is distributed massively unequally in fucked up ways.
> As a nation, we should be moving forward, but BJP seems to be intent on following the Congress playbook, but on a more aggressive scale than Congress could ever conceive.

More aggressive? Can you show any evidence to support your statement above?
This article mentions multiple people with traumatic brain injuries, backed up by neurosurgeons. That isn't psychogenic, that's is pretty physical. The article even addresses that.

> There is a reason why the Havana Act only came into force in 2021: for the past eight years, Havana Syndrome has been the subject of intense controversy. Sociologists have suggested it is little more than a mass psychogenic illness, or perhaps the outbreak of mass hysteria. Such arguments have been undercut by multiple medical studies, including one conducted by an expert panel convened by the U.S. intelligence community. The final assessment of that investigation found that AHIs had “a unique combination of core characteristics that cannot be explained by known environmental or medical conditions and could be due to external stimuli.”
how is it tasteless? the only fact is that, almost always, Jia Tan's timezone was UTC+8.

the rest is mostly speculation about where else they could have been from given holidays and times
Almost every time I see an AI generated art piece, I know it's AI generated, and it looks cheap. Sometimes an actual experienced artist uses AI and manages to tweak it to look decent, either by prompt engineering or further manipulation. There's nothing that yet replaces the human taste for what looks good nor what resonates for contemporary audiences. At best, it could be said that AI has further reduced the value of derivative art and photography.
I'd guess part of the reason is that customers would blame the bank when their YubiKey doesn't work, which would become a nuisance for them as much as the YubiKey's usability issues are a nuisance for the customer.
It's probably implemented mainly on the Platform Security Processor.
I think the stress is the billions of users and vital systems depending on it which wasn’t true in 1989 or even 1999 or 2009
How is dependency management not in this list hahaha holy crap c++ is so fucking shit to work with in this regard compared to another "modern" language.
Where does one go to obtain the raw 700ct stone of such flawless clarity?
I already shared this link once but you should read it to.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-lab...
Does anyone know if a honeypot has been set up for this?

In the event that exploit code has already been deployed, while these exploit attempts should now thankfully be futile, is there any valuable information that can be gained about the network sources of these exploit attempts?

We might assume that since this attack was foiled, exploit attempts won't happen, but if this is an automated botnet project, there may already be other operational elements in the wild that are knocking?

It's possible that there is an infection detection component to the project which is already measuring baseline accessibility, possibly using this and several alternate vectors. After all, effort was made to evade exploit attempt detection which would enable valuable active monitoring since it shouldn't trigger suspicions.
From a first look, signals seem to parallel event/behaviour-style functional reactive programming (FRP). Hopefully some useful ideas from the FRP world can be brought across.
why bother with a . instead of a &nbsp or some other unicode hackdodgery?
I think it’s worth avoiding a change in design when you pass some threshold of complexity. The vanilla JS approach has some scaling limitation in term of state graph complexity, and the problem isn’t the ergonomics above and below the threshold, but discontinuous change in ergonomics when you cross that threshold
Perhaps that's true (I don't know if it is or not). But even if their policies are bad, it does not necessarily mean they're part of a conspiracy to intentionally harm people, as opposed to stemming from genuine (but misguided) convictions.
Leftist states like California, Illinois, and Washington have a teen birth rate approximately double that of notoriously libertarian New Hampshire. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/teen-births/teenbi...

West Virginia, the most reliably conservative state in the nation, has a lower teen birth rate than Kentucky, which is distinctly more purple and has a center-left Democrat as the governor.

DC is not a state, but is the polar opposite of WV politically, yet one source claims DC has the 13th highest teen birth rate in the nation. https://www.prb.org/resources/dcs-teenage-moms-need-their-ow...

I think the situation is much more complicated than you suggest.
Labor shortage as a persistent narrative is at least 200 years old. How long is this shortage gonna last?
Solar-Powered Carnivorous Flatworms Divide and Conquer [video]
So what you are saying is the oligarchs use foreign policy tools to destabilize Latin America (to keep wages low there) then import workers into the US to drive down wages domestically?

I agree.
Agreed to an extent, it's ok for high school students to go get some work experience, I did when I was that age. Giving humans a window in their lives where they can focus purely on capturing a portion of ever expanding human knowledge, and, to be honest, hang out a bit, is a good thing in my opinion though.

That said, lets not lose sight of what's going on here, the DoL has been trying to crack down on 13yo kids in meat packing plants. If this is the line that we're trying to push the overton window past, I want no part of it.
The Titanic may play a role in who pays for the Baltimore bridge collapse
In Europe, anesthesia is uncommon for colonoscopies. Probably a good idea.

https://www.sandiegocan.org/2019/02/07/you-arent-crazy-to-wa...
I think the rule was quite well explained - there's a whole page on it, and fairly early on too. I just forgot it as there were so many rules to remember before you start playing.
TIL that untypical is a word that means the same as atypical.

It's funny. I think of anonymity as something that has been part of the Internet going back through at least the last three decades of my experience with it. Back in the day you had anonymous retailers, let alone people using pseudonyms. It was very much part of the fabric. If anything, it feels like anonymity on the Internet is harder to achieve these days.

Even if you know the identity of a contributor, you have to consider the possibility that they or their systems have been compromised. I agree it's stressful and difficult to be constantly vigilant about contributions, but it's kind of all there is.
Pseudonyms are fine, as long as each person has only one, and multiple alts are guaranteed to be extremely costly to create. People are primarily just afraid of being duped or tricked somehow by someone hiding behind multiple identities, otherwise they don’t treat pseudonyms much differently.

Of course there’s a practical difficulty in making sure creating the first pseudonym identity has a low bar but also to make sure that subsequent creations have much higher bars.

One way to get around this is to mandate a real identity account but allow it to be private without a public facing component, and allow up to one pseudonym account to be linked to it privately.
> Generally, anonymity in the free software sphere is a good thing: software is inherently based on accomplishment and merit, and there is no reason to know anything about a person’s identity.

This is an interesting take. Most software engineers I know love to show off their FOSS contributions. It's a place to do what _you_ want to do, free of budgets and MBA interference. I guess in certain parts of the world you probably want to keep that sort of skill set under wraps, though.
Tech debt isn't always a bad thing if it is managed properly. Developing for the short term can help a company to succeed in the market until a better solution can be produced, where more careful work may have prevented the survival of the company.

The problem comes when technical debt is never paid off and continually accumulates, even when it's not necessary for it to.
Unfortunately, C++ uses ++ and -- for iterators, many of which cannot reasonably implement += or -=. This distinction is baked into the type system to tell whether or not an iterator supports efficient "multiple advance" (e.g. a linked list iterator doesn't have += but a pointer into a contiguous vector does).

There's no way to fix this in a reverse-compatible way for existing code (which is one of the constraints of cpp2- it must work with all existing C++ so that it is possible for existing projects to migrate regardless of size).
The traumatic brain injuries part is disputed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/havana-syndrome-nih-study-1.71...

US intelligence community says they are there, the NIH does not seem to agree. The NIH doesn't dispute a possible weapon, just that there is visible brain damage.
I'm uncomfortable with this line of questioning and demand that you cease immediately.
Are there actually a lot of retirees working as greeters? Maybe you only see the ones who didn't save enough. Or maybe they have enough money but like getting out of the house. Or they're doing it for the health benefits.

I assume retirees prefer greeter jobs because those probably don't require lifting anything heavy, as a stocker or cashier might need to do.
It would be interesting to see how the commit timestamps change around time change. If he has a job in a country that observes DST they would likely show an abrupt change.
> Obviously it would help avoiding detection since the backdoor has the side effect of slowing down things.

My understanding was that this was the result of a bug? But I understand that part less than any of it, so I well could be wrong.

>And to me it's less that they don't care, more that their script probably only works or only has been tested on the ones using .rpm/.deb.

Now that, strikes me as more likely. Maybe they wanted to be relatively sure that they wouldn't be detected and needed to select a test matrix to test against (SELinux/landlock config across rpm/deb distros, versus across every distro.)

I guess what I'm getting at is... did they have an intended set of targets and knew they were running deb/rpm, on top of any other factors?
How about this?

alias git='TZ=UTC0 git'
Oh, fantastic. Thank you!
Is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology a commercial entity?
Anecdotally: I had surgery under general a couple of years ago no side effects. I’m 60.

Anesthesia is poorly understood. How can a noble gas be anesthetic? We understand it so poorly that both your experience and mine could be common
In response to your statement that it's difficult to say definitively that you're experiencing those images in a fundamentally different way from someone with aphantasia, I can share my experience as someone on the complete opposite of the spectrum.

I do have imagery when I dream, but in my waking hours, I __cannot__ picture things in my head. I can reason about objects based on experiences I have with them (i.e. describe them), but there is no "illusory" reference image. There's just nothing. It's difficult to articulate my method of internal processing, other than saying I have a constant internal monologue that is used to bring to mind whatever it is I'm trying to imagine, but imagery is completely non-existent.

Additionally, I've never heard these described as possible symptoms of aphantasia until this article, but "Aphantasia is associated variably with a reduction in both autobiographical memory and face recognition" really resonates with my experience. I don't have many memories from childhood, my adult memories are often vague and more based on feelings that I have of a period in my life rather than concrete details, and I have a difficult time with recognizing actors even if I've seen them in a lot of films.

I also have an exceptionally strong musical memory (borderline encyclopedic). I can quickly memorize music and have near perfect recall even when years go by without listening to it.

I'm with you in excitement towards further studies of these phenomena, but just wanted to chip in with my personal experiences with aphantasia!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
Really? My impression is that everyone is welcome. The only way I could imagine someone ending having a bad time there is to be hostile to other users.
They absolutely CAN afford those kinds of things if they'd stop giving away sweetheart tax deals to major corporations and actually accept federal funds when they're offered.
In 2012 I was hiking in Oahu, Hawaii not far from Downtown. When I entered this dense bamboo forest. I suddenly felt this huge desire to go to sleep and literally fell asleep by a rock for what seemed like ages but lasted only a few minutes. I woke up and was searching for my hiking partner which reappeared shortly after.
Has anyone even talked to them? While they probably need less stress I've heard nothing of them since the incident other than the most recent commit removing the period from the cmake file.
> But frankly, I doubt it, if it was that similar, why are there at least a dozen frameworks with their own version?*

Welcome to the fashion cycle that is JavaScript. Given a few years, every old concept gets reinvented and then you have half a dozen frameworks that are basically the same but sufficiently different so that you have to relearn the APIs. This is what I think standardization helps circumvent

A good standard library prevents fragmentation on ideas that are good enough to keep getting reinvented
Saying "Eastern Europe" as opposed to "Moscow" is a little coy, isn't it? They're in the same time zone and one seems likelier than the other, to put it one way.

Edit: speaking of, these guys might also have some time pressure at the moment with regards to hacking stuff lol. Kind of fits the bill with what we know about the hack
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
Not the title of the article.
Most (but not all ) VPN providers keep logs and payment info that are subpoenable. You could use something like Mulvad with Lightning Network payments, but I am not sure that even that is fully anonymous.

The Witopia VPN that he used for IRC [1] is US based: https://www.personalvpn.com/contact-us/ and they don't mention neither LN payments nor not keeping logs.

1. "~jiatan@185.128.24.163" https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...
It seems no more misleading than Jia Tan assuming an identity based on git commit timestamps…
Not hard to beat zero. (So far.) Maybe HSR will work out, but funding is uncertain.
I grew up dirt poor and worked 3 jobs to put myself through college, and I still wouldn't wish that shit on anybody.
I've now watched several dudes go through this process by following their blogs:

1) Build a small to medium size following writing about technical or entrepreneurial stuff

2) Make it to some kind of financial success (sell a company, advance at a big tech org)

3/4) Reflect and find yourself unhappy and make big personal life changes, leaving your wife/partner and leaving your company

5) Adopt an increasingly effusive, emotional, and untethered style of writing and living ("today I cried my way to a beautiful and uncomfortable conversation after a three-day retreat on an island with other former tech workers. Also I tried some drugs. I can't wait to reflect more!")

I guess this is kind of unkind, there are plenty of worse ways of living. And TFA is not fully an example of it. But it's strange to see it play out repeatedly. Maybe some component of emotional repression is more common in software people and when financial constraints fall away it presents itself as the next thing to optimize, or maybe nobody writes blog posts about living a conventional life committed to a small group of people, but it almost feels like a cliche at this point.
Common Lisp is a modern programming language, apparently. Who knew.

Greenspun’s Tenth Rule always irritated me more than it amused me but here we are.
Is this based on LLaVA 1.6? Not to be too lazy, but maybe someone could link to a comparison with that, if there is one?
AMD GPUs are fantastic values for money when it comes to running mainstream PC games. Once you step outside that narrow box they become infuriating. My 7900XTX is probably the last AMD GPU I ever buy. It's just horrible at all the other things I want to use it for, especially and gallingly, game console emulation. For the first few months I had it I actually kept my old GTX1070 plugged into my motherboard because the eight year old $400 GPU was so much better at half my use cases than the $900 AMD card.
I suppose it all depends on that 'one source' and how much you wish to move the goal posts.

WV is in the top 10 for highest rates of teen birth. But that's according to the CDC. Perhaps they are just another viciim of the leftist agenda.
> arguably bigger than that

That’s a stretch. Stuxnet was the first acknowledged state cyber attack, utilized multiple zero days, and destroyed nuclear weapons manufacturing facilities. Bigger in scope sure, but bigger unconditionally? I don’t know about that.
Not to go too meta on this, but if you buy two of something to get past the free shipping threshold, then do a free return on one of them, have you gamed the system?
I've been using a CC2531 dongle, but that's a little DIY, being a bare PCB dongle that needs to be flashed with a firmware using a separate programmer cable (over, say, an RPi's GPIO). Back when I bought it, it was cheaper than a ready-to-go dongle and flashing it wasn't all that big a deal.
3) is forcing me to incorporate a symbol strip/upload to sentry piping at $WORK because Eigen debug symbols cause our build sizes to explode.
I am slower at typing on my iPhone than I was at using a Handspring Visor with Grafiti. I miss the old days.
Lately Japan just does not seem like it used to be. The flood of gaijins have totally turned off the public as wages stagnate while inflation drives cost of goods. Just looking at some of the subreddits around living in Japan, the desperation is obvious as gaijins also feel the inflationary pressure.

10 years ago you it would've been impossible to find rude staff but now it becomes routine as the average Japanese workers patience has been pushed to teh brink. Its not as bad as Canada but definitely a shock to see how crappy tourist experience has gotten in Japan.

ymmv
Are there any papers on this? I’d be interested in reading more.
Moscow is UTC+3 year round, not UTC+2 in winter and +3 in summer
A lot of people thinks this is impossible or BS. But assuming this is on a clock per clock basis, Zen 5 would still be ~10% slower than A17. And we are expecting Apple to get a little bit faster with A18.

The only difference would be we can expect Zen 5 to scale up to much higher clock speed.
Why? Anybody with a pulse can see that Indians are overrepresented in IT relative to their population.

Why not treat this any differently than Whites preferring to hire their own?
At least in 2023, online was still fragmented / unnavigable to foreigners or just broken. The kiosks worked well though but we had to be shown the right ones.
It is a good thing that cppfront lets you do that, then!

Cppfront generates #line pragmas which tell the generated .cpp file which source lines to "blame" for each piece of generated code. This isn't something new and fancy for cppfront, it's a bog-standard pragma that your debugger already understands. So it will work the exact same as your current debugging workflow even if you mix cpp and cpp2 source files.
YouTube revanced seems to be broken as well. all videos have been replaced with a video playing "not available on this app" over black background.
Much better past the Oregon border.
It's a bunch of money being spent on on a silly story by three outlets who hoped they'd be fed enough nonsense by three letter agencies to dominate the news cycle with it for a week or two, being frontrun by a comprehensive study showing, yet again, that nothing happened to these people. So they rushed this out.

If anybody finds any factual claims about this device and this supposed syndrome, buried in the innuendo, please post it. But the boldfaced faux-abstract at the top doesn't indicate any new information at all.
The photo is not pornographic...
I imagine it's pretty difficult for a teen to find time to spend on their phones when they're spending all of their time raising children of their own and working jobs that don't pay a living wage.
You'll note that AMD (and Nvidia, but that's expected) is unfortunately missing from the members list for UXL, which seems to be based on Intel's oneAPI which in turn is based in part on Khrono's SYCL:

> Our mission:

> • Build a multi-architecture multi-vendor software ecosystem for all accelerators.

> • Unify the heterogeneous compute ecosystem around open standards.

> • Build on and expand open-source projects for accelerated computing.

https://uxlfoundation.org/

If AMD got their act together they would go all in on open standards together with other actors in the segment, but maybe they really want to see if their rocm can repeat Cuda's success and lock in? I just want accelerators to become commodities and interchangeable like CPUs, let me write my code once and deploy on whatever hardware the user have, preferably without having to compile multiple versions.
i call it post-Johnny Somali Japan

that dude single handedly ruined it for all streamers and content makers in Japan

not to mention the public perception of blacks but foreigners in general have taken a major hit
It also doesn't mean that unicorns don't exist.
If anything, new languages have the potential to be more paradigmatic than past languages, because they’re starting over from a better place.

Just take a look at how Python is evolving, and the trail of essentially “dead” features and standards it’s leaving behind.
We are told that no-one really knows what it is or what causes it. We, the public, cannot tell whether this is actually true.
This is sometimes required to break dependency cycles. Also, you can use this to rearrange declarations in the same file.
I'm certainly not saying it's right - but it works.

Gmail's spam filter (and promotions filter) works with >99% reliability as a user, with really trivial numbers of false positives.
It's a fun journey -- I hope you enjoy it! I never liked math, until I read Abrash's "Zen of Graphics Programming", and learned that graphics is chock-full of math :D
Hylo is interesting in principle for exploring this particular notion (mutable value semantics) as a way to potentially write software without the lifetime annotations Rust needs.

But I don't find it promising that after apologising in 2023 for missing their self-imposed 2022 deadline to ship something that works and other people can use, in Q2 2024 it doesn't look like their new 2023 roadmap got done either. Maybe they're going to eventually deliver this amazing thing. Maybe they're just going to learn some lessons (probably for the Swift community) and never ship Hylo per se. Certainly 2025 "Take over the world" looks... ambitious with nine months left to do all the stuff left from 2023 and all the work described for 2024 on top.