skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this. I could have said I "agreed" with this, but to "second" this conveys something different. Or rather, from my intent it seems to convey X but maybe you receive it as Y.

The challenge I find with so much language is the vast number of associations we carry with words and how connotations can vary so extremely even amongst people who "have the same background."

One of the best descriptions I heard for language I think was written by James Pennebaker talking about expressive writing and how words were basically putting a digital categorization onto an analog signal of experience.

Words are not very precise and are often very relative approximations that require so much negotiation to reach shared meaning. Some will read "quests," as I did, and immediately think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and feel a bit goofy and have a hard time saying "I'm going on a quest" seriously. Others will feel excited and maybe encouraged to see it that way. Others might be annoyed because they love the word "goals" and have built their brands and careers around the word "goals." At the same time, with repeated usage of the word "quests," even my emotional reactions to it may change and I start to embrace the word with more seriousness.

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> just bad unreproduceable psychology research. there is zero proof of this. we actually have examples going the other way though.

For example, I read something like this and in my head, I often reframe it. I read "just bad unreproduceable psychology research" as "I do not trust the research you are quoting because I think it is not reproduceable." I read "there is zero proof of this" as "I have not seen any proof of this or do not believe any proof exists." I read "we actually have examples going the other way though" as "I have seen examples that seem to dispute what you are saying."

The way it was originally written, in terms of word choice, seemed to describe to me an objective truth in the universe, whereas the reframe I applied shows more of a relative belief that you may have. That's not to say your beliefs are not the capital T truth, but rather for me to feel less angry when someone tells me "how the world is" and to try to see the world from their perspective and learn from it.
That cookies box though... Dark pattern (accept lots + accept all, fake drag affordance, covering a quarter of the page) for cookies doesn't bode well for privacy protections around the transcripts.
Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
It's easy to remember the early players in the nuclear power/weapons game, with a simple mnemonic song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw
> People don't buy Apple because they want to "Think Different" and no one buys Nike Shoes because they want to "Just Do It"

If Apple and Nike and others could build their companies without spending billions on branding they would… but they can’t. Hence, branding is not nearly as irrelevant you make it out to be.
All of this kind of tracks. From the dismissal of autistic people's imagination and creativity to the very different ways they can express imagination and creativity.

I think the disconnect comes from the lack of fantasy in a lot of (for lack of a better term) autistic creativity. They're usually not going to invent out of whole cloth. There will be some basis in reality. In terms of fiction, they're "For All Mankind" as opposed to "Star Wars".

It's something we've dealt with ourselves. And I have to remind my wife sometimes, this is how he plays. The spreadsheets and the rankings and the recording of statistics are all an integral part of it. He's constructed an entire world of characters in his head that he peeks into. It's as imaginative and creative as wanting to be Batman.
Yeah, I said that before I looked at just how small it was.
Quantum Entanglement in Neurons May Explain Consciousness
I too preferred the top right photo. Arguably, it has less detail in the tree line, the city is neither better or worse, just different, but for me the skyline and sky are far superior with the top right photo.

Maybe this is prejudiced because this is how I remember old photos to be... But then, isn't that the point of scanning old negatives anyway - to recreate what the old images on them would have looked like at the time?

Arguably though, the correct solution is to preserve the source information as much as possible, so similar to what it proposed - scan the images using light sources that correspond to the peaks of the chemicals used in the negative, and then colour grade directly from that using a modified inverted curve.

Doing it that way should permit both outputs by changing the curves used in colour grading, and I suspect the real issue is just "inverting colours" isn't the most appealing visually, just as most professional photos are colour graded to some extent because the raw images don't look as appealing.
I always have until this comment prompted me to watch it again.

The last episode Ive watched of the Simpsons was S13E11, aired in 2002. So it's been a while

(It was so stupid I realized they had long jumped the shark.)
I think this question is too general, do you have some specific examples?

If someone is bikeshedding about what some other project that they aren't working on or going to do themselves, then: "That's a great/interesting idea, why don't you put it in an email/ticket and it can get prioritized in the context of the other deliverables for the project".

If it's about their own project/work, or how to tackle it, then: "Sure, whatever you think is a good idea, just go do it. I trust your judgement. Do it however you feel is best, let's look at it when it's done.".

Bikeshedding isn't always a bad thing (as distinct from talking too much, being all talk no action, being disagreeable / argumentative, which are). It can be used deliberately or constructively too... if someone has big project that they've spent a lot of time on, and are emotionally attached to, but you think the whole project is actually stupid or a bad idea... then you can stall it by telling them you support their goals, and want to work with them, but you just have some positive suggestions for this inconsequential aspect of their project that you'd like them to think/talk about at great length... and then will often get sucked into it, lose sight of driving their project forward, but not get upset or defensive about a confrontation.
Looks like your HTML comments aren’t taking, because your editor converted -- (two hyphens) to — (one em dash).
My biggest gripe with Typescript is how much more difficult (Except perhaps in Bun/Deno) it is to set up compared to vanilla JS.
On the general topic of Python performance, just importing needed modules can take a few seconds. The output of the code

import time
start = time.time()
import os
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import xgboost as xgb
from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error
from scipy.stats import pearsonr
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
print("time elapsed (s):", "%0.3f"%(time.time() - start))

on my Windows machine is

time elapsed (s): 2.630
This was my feeling as well. And it doesn't even mean the thesis is wrong, it just means the article is tainted by the desire to wish for a different world.
Entangled biphoton generation in the myelin sheath
Here’s a list of vulnerability writeups with what they were paid

https://github.com/sayan011/Immunefi-bug-bounty-writeups-lis...
Yeah. I’m not picking sides nor am I advocating for an inhuman response. Just that it deserves the full attention of the media and state departments every time.
> It would be great if there was law enforcement that competently handled cybercrime, or at least triaged it.

They do. There's just a lot of it.
It *should* still be the default.
I used to run the "Enterprise Apps" org in a low budget F500. My team of about 125-135 (globally distributed in US, MX, BR, IN) managed dozens (hundreds?) of internally developed apps and a number of externally licensed SaaS & on-prem systems.

The reality is this: if you are not a software product company and you decide to create internal tools yourself, your life will become one of perpetual technical debt, and deciding whether to prioritize new development vs refactoring vs platform modernization. When you license products, you just throw money at the problem, but when you DIY it, you end up also needing to implement things like Change Control Boards, a real PMO, more security & privacy controls/competency, and internal tech support functions. This can work and be cost effective, but you really need to go in with your eyes open and account for all this "mess" you'll be creating as you create this new team.

It can absolutely work and save money, but it requires 1) xfn executive buy-in and clear agreement around change management and feature development prioritization, and 2) a budget for things that go beyond just the software development.

Fwiw, if this is an "IT" function and you're not a product company, you'll be able to save money by employing "enterprise software developers" (e.g. IT staff) rather than SWEs (tech product company folks). You'll also benefit from their experience navigating the complexity that comes with all the crap I listed up above, much of which is fairly foreign to small tech companies.
Thought-provoking piece, but I think it ignores one key item: we naturally gravitate to doing what we love. We don't need to write them down. I never wrote down, "build a dual-stack homelab with a handcrafted firewall and a 10Gbe fiber backbone with multiple VLANs and subnets and two virtualization hosts and a 12TB TrueNAS server, and DNS and Minio and DHCP and k8s." Of the hundreds of hours I spent on my homelab, I don't think I ever wrote down a "quest" or "goal".

Similarly, I love swimming in the open cold water, but I never wrote down, "Swim from Alcatraz twice". It wasn't necessary. It happened organically.
Sure. It's still not DRM, which serves no benefit to the player, unlike network capabilities. The risk of Steam disappearing is lower than the risk of me losing the download code or WoG's download servers disappearing, so Steam is the better bet for me.
If there is no genetic advantage here, what are the odds that this rare condition happens twice at the top of the sport? If gender is up for debate shouldn't it be assumed that you are a low performing man (relatively) as opposed to a high performing woman? The former is more common then the latter and thus more probable.
For people who didn’t watch British TV in the 90s, Dominik Diamond (the last parent in the article) compèred GamesMaster, which was the video games show. Although I guess we all read Digitiser as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster
I grew up in the 90s, and the time period during which something was created seems to have little correlation with whether I like it or not. My grandmother had an original Nintendo with Super Mario Bros 3, and I much preferred that over whatever was recent for the time (GameCube?). I never got into modern multiplayer video games, and old school Tetris remains one of my favorite games to this day (along with the 40 line clear variant).

Some of my favorite music was written hundreds of years ago. Or a few decades ago. Or in the 90s. Or now. There's good stuff and bad stuff across all time periods. I discovered the Miyazaki films way into adulthood, but that didn't affect how much I enjoyed them.

It seems like more of a personality thing whether someone is willing to give old stuff a "chance" or whether they only gravitate to the latest stuff that their friends are interested in.
Most business do not require on call for their internal tools
“login (to this honeypot) here”
The difference is if I'm still in the US the US police will arrest me. If I'm in China the US police has to ask China to arrest me - if China refuses to arrest me than no crime was committed as far as I'm concerned since my government let me get away with it.

Technically the US can start a war with China, which could reach the point of the US military capturing me and bringing me to the US thus ensuring I don't get away wit it. Realistically that isn't happening though. There are also trade-war options which sometimes happen in high profile cases, but often they are seen as losing more than gained.

Note that most countries will arrest me and send me to the US if presented evidence. If you used France as your example country and so I'm exposed the the legality of both countries. Russia and North Korea are most well noted as protecting their own people against crimes like this committed elsewhere, so if you can get protection from those countries for this crime it isn't a crime because nothing will happen (war of course is an option but it seems unlikely). China is a grey area - they sometimes protect their own, but often they will not, in general for this scam I'd expect they would arrest you for this scam, but not all of them.
Traditionally, in Finland you have to go into the sauna before you sign a deal with someone.

In Japan you have to get really drunk with a business partner before they trust you.

Completely overblown stereotypes, of course, but the grain of truth in both stories are accelerating trust.
That's the next feature on my list of things to use in sidebary!

$Work is actively merging teams from different companies so I'm going to be juggling having to use different accounts on some SaaS platforms until we've gotten everything combined.

Sidebary has so many very useful and powerful features but I'm trying to be disciplined and mixing them in with my typical workflow 1 at a time and actually using it for a while before moving on to the next. (Ok, I might have gone full ham when I first installed it but it was so different from my normal flow that I quickly realized it was counter productive).
That's quite a literal take on brainwashing.
Looks cool! Unclear from the docs, but does it support non-English languages? How about mixed-language interviews?
I personally have a hard time being creative. But the more I dug into it to comment on the post, the more I thought it was a series of emotional defenses rather than something intrinsic to the disorder. Creativity is inherently going to involve "coloring outside the lines" and that's psychologically hard to do when surprising reactions are painful to deal with.
some times its even endorsed like when the government just let Microsoft take control of the No-IP's domains a few years back because. despite the fact Microsoft didn't have any standing and just decided they were internet sheriff. I was a customer of No-ip at the time had Microsoft just black-holed the routing of everyone myself included because some users were using their dynamic dns service for malicious purposes
Been coding for 30+ years. In the last 5 years I have come around to not hating JavaScript (TypeScript really), but let's be honest, it took 15 years of hearing the JS community tell us "sure JavaScript used to be awful, but now it's finally good" for it to actually be true.

I remember clearly the days of callback hell. You didn't change your mind about JavaScript, JavaScript changed it's mind about being a real language.

I will give it credit, I don't know of another programming language that has changed so drastically and so much for the better.
But real products.
Depends on whether you define evil by actions or motives.

I'd argue that the use of motives to define evil is often used as a - when they do it it's bad/ but when I do it it's fine - excuse.

For that reason I'm not really interested in the 'evil' part of this conversation - rather more what drives perceived bad outcomes.

So all I'm saying is fear is a big driver of many of those bad outcomes. That's not to justify it - but rather understand it as a first step to fixing it.

Note I'm also not saying whether the fear is rational or not.
easy, don't let them get a switch until they get through the original NES Mario
I miss Edge. I might still be using it if it wasn't for uBlock Origin and Manifest v3.
Huh? You can get private insurance everywhere.
So what about crowdstrike?
Always talk of putting solar collectors 'everywhere', like it's the first time anybody ever thought of that.

The place to put solar collectors is, in a centralized accessible flat fully-exposed ground-level cheap location near a major grid connection.

Putting little bitty collectors everywhere is none of those things. Just the equipment to convert it to useful grid-power is as expensive as the panels, almost as expensive as the real estate. You definitely don't want to be doing that in little inefficient bits all over the place.

Just install solar in rural solar farms near city centers, and stop with the brainstorming already. We know where they belong, and we're ramping that up every day. E.g. in the UK: https://pandabode.com/blog/index.php/2020/03/04/worlds-large...
Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?

Perhaps it's perceived as non-glamous, but earlier in the week I met with a logistics team in another company who we're working with and the problems they address are absolutely fascinating. The complexity of the domain certainly made it intellectually appealing to me.
We all have your vices. Surely you too have a vice or two that isn't ideal for your body, but you do it regardless?

We only live once, to avoid anything that might damage your body would lead to a very boring life.
Heya, congrats on launch! Welcome to the authN/authZ/user management party!

I work for a competitor (FusionAuth) but think that there's plenty of room to solve this for developers. I love the fact that you have a self-hostable option as we've found that for a set of developers, that flexibility really matters.

I think that Clerk has shown there's an appetite for components that handle common user management tasks. I think they had a blog post about how components are the new APIs, but can't find it. I'm a bit surprised it has taken so long for an OSS competitor with your messaging to emerge.

Where I stand depends on where I sit (ofc), but I think that component based solution trade security for UX and DX. That tradeoff may make sense for some applications, but it's good to walk into it with eyes wide open.

There's a reason that a redirect to an isolated, hardened Authorization Server (to use OAuth nomenclature) is the standard and that modern RFCs like OAuth 2.1 discourage developers from using the password grant (which is essentially what every component library is doing).

I believe a redirect is the correct option because if you isolate all user interaction to that server via a browser redirect, you can:

* lower the amount of code that handles sensitive PII and user credentials

* lock down access to this system

* delegate changes to specialized internal teams or vendors

* easily increase the security of the authentication process for existing applications without any code changes by ratcheting the security up at the Authorization Server (requiring additional factors or passkeys, for example)

The cost comes from the redirect. A redirect is fine for many traditional applications, but is not great for SPAs and, to a lesser extent, mobile apps. I believe this has a UX impact, though I haven't been able to find any numbers or studies and we've got plenty of customers who are doing fine with this approach.

There's also a DX impact because styling the Authorization Server pages may not use the same technology stack or deployment process as the rest of the application.

Anyway, congrats again on your launch!
How about people like Michael Phelps who were born with swimming advantages? Was reading an article years and years ago how his body is naturally made for swimming.
Congress is hearing complaints and so getting interested in this. Thus providing incentive. Of course the incentive to carriers is to stop the scams congress will be interested in, while allowing the rest.
> These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked.

Some of them are being held prisoner and are being forced to run these scams under threat of torture. There was a Search Engine episode about this in the last year.
I'm an expat Brit, been living in the States for a decade and a half. I've been through the NHS for various more significant health things, and had family that have opted for private.

I don't think you grasp just how expensive private healthcare is in the US, even with an insurance policy.
Private health care is so much cheaper in the UK. If you're saying it's much more expensive than Europe, maybe that'll give an idea how expensive it is to get sick in the US!

The US system is messed up beyond belief. One of the notable improvements recently has been the transparent pricing rule signed in to law a few years ago. So now I can see what things cost a bit more in advance, but I can't ever predict how much my insurance will actually choose to pay. Oh, and if it's inpatient, and I don't like the cost, well tough. I've really only got a couple of hospitals to choose from, and their prices are pretty much in sync, and only one of them is "in-network" for most procedures (meaning insurance wouldn't cover much at the other one)
Wanna partner-up? :) I'm in a similar situation.
Coming from laravel php land it's crazy to me that JS devs pay to have basic Full Stack operations included.
If CISA is producing a deterrent effect, only LIGO can measure it.
Aha, good to know! That's actually important context, that this is not a recent release, and doesn't necessarily have a lot of ongoing development.
Cloudflare publishes a certificate pair you can pin to your origin servers.

They also offer CloudflareD (Tunnels, formerly Argo), which connects origin directly to their network- so no chance of interception or Bypassing their services.

So, as long as it's set up correctly- theres no opportunity to MitM between Origin and Cloudflare.

Do people set it up correctly? I doubt it. I've seen several companies think they were using CF's WAF product, when all they really setup was DNS.
The existence of a gray area in between "obviously fine" and "obviously wrong" doesn't mean that there is nothing in those outer categories.

It is, at least hypothetically, possible to define "scammer" clearly enough that the more egregious and clear-cut types are taken care of more expeditiously.

Not sure if there's a way to actually enforce that better, but "it is possible to disagree over whether some things are scams" is not the same as "there's no way to agree on whether anything is a scam".
We have a switch, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. The Wii gets the most play.
Assuming a spectrum, where do you draw the line? How should mens vs womens competitions be split up, if at all? How do you make it “fair enough”?
China's Long March 6A rocket is making a mess in low-Earth orbit
meta-programming*
512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of "virtual power plant"
The Rise of Neotoddlerism: how society encourages activists to act like infants
> Am I the only one who immediately jumps to the thought that any VC backed "open source" tool is just using open source as a cost of customer acquisition

I wrote a blog post that touches on this tangentially: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3595

Even if they pay-wall necessary features (or are forced to by investors), the software can be forked.
Don’t show him Roblox
My favorite is American restaurant menus describing a "French Dip" as "with au jus sauce" :)
PrivacyLens uses thermal imaging to turn people into stick figures
I recently came across NanoBaiter on YouTube. He baits scammers and hacks their systems, often disrupting their entire operation.

He identifies the culprits in detail, scares the hell out of them, reports them to police, and tries to inform / refund the victims. In at least one video, he accesses the scammer's Stripe account and refunds the victims (often elderly) for their payments on bogus IT security products. I recall another video where gains access to the CCTV in the scammer's office building, and captures a police raid on the scammers.

https://www.youtube.com/@NanoBaiter