skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's also a negative feedback loop where more casual and/or sensitive gamers opt out since they don't want to deal with the bullshit.

I think there's also a loop where extremes are pushed. Ie it's common to celebrate victories in games. This then tilts players. Players lean into that tilt, and teabag. Teabag eventually is mundane, so you spread verbal toxicity. Toxicity then isn't enough, and etcetc.

It seems a loop without external pressures like in-person-reputation to inhibit how far it goes. A cycle of abuse that's all anonymous, fueled by the general competitive arousal of PvP/etc games.

Note that i'm mostly speaking to PvP games where that competitive environment also contributes to it. However i imagine "cycle of abuse" has it's place in most of these anonymous environments.
>And the ones with built-in CRTs had issues wherein the cathode of the CRT was DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to the main PCB. If you weren't careful cracking that puppy open -- zappo! Fried motherboard, possibly fried you!

I'm curious which model this was. The Model III was the first all-in-one model I had experience with, and the between the motherboard and the CRT neck was a piece of flat aluminum. The biggest danger was potentially snapping the neck off, but there was no danger of touching the mother board. Model 4 was the same configuration. Even the Model II had a metal plate between the CRT and any circuit boards.
As long as you don't leave any digital footprints, that might be good enough for many situations? A local politician probably doesn't have the resources to track you down from that one instance.

But just some examples...

- Where are you going to post something where it's both anonymous (to protect you) but also verifiable (so the person receiving it can authenticate you)?

- Has, or will, that laptop ever be used for anything else? Can someone with enough power fingerprint it (MAC address, browser fingerprint, etc.) and eventually correlate it to you?

- Are you sure it's not scanning for wifi while asleep to check for updates, etc., possibly leaving a log in other routers / street view cars etc. along the way?

- Once the information is posted, do you need to further communicate with your audience? If so, you'll be doing so under higher risk. They'll know which IP address it came from, thereby narrowing it down to an ISP and probably a city, if not the exact library or cafe or whatever. Then that entire spot can be placed under surveillance. They can slowly try to rule out likely individuals.

- If the router logged your laptop's real MAC address, they might be able to identify the vendor and the person they first sold it to, who under interrogation might reveal they sold it to a person who looked like so and so.

Best case scenario maybe you buy a one time use burner laptop, hike to a different state, buy nothing along the way, connect to a public wifi there one time only, post anonymously, and then burn and bury that laptop in some forest. That'd be much harder to track down than, for example, someone who need to maintain a line of communication with a journalist over a few weeks while also trying to keep their normal life. And someone with a family is probably less likely to attempt the more extreme measures.

It just depends on who you expect your adversary to be. If you're just trying to post mean things about a local politician, probably you're safe with the most basic protections. Probably you can just go to the local media and even if they reveal who you are, the impact will be limited.

If it's national secrets you're revealing, well, they'll try a lot harder to track you down, both technologically and socially.
I Took a Ride in a 'Self-Driving' Tesla and Never Once Felt Safe
Is it a scam, though? You'd have to ask Mageek.

Sometimes, your friends ask you for money, you know you won't see it again, and you still give it to them. Granted, for most of us that amounts to buying them a drink or three, not a bookstore, but ... it was the 70s. Based on the surrounding stories in the articles, I'd say their frame of understanding was a bit different from the average person today ;)

Maybe we shouldn't be so fast to cast aspersions on people we don't know, in circumstances we don't understand.
> 0.002 MW - Small set of technical standards, no diplomas or certificates required

Be careful with this language, especially when you're involving politicians and the non-technical.

The current atrocity of criminally negligent IT infrastructure right now is mostly created and driven by people with diplomas, including from the most prestigious schools. (And a top HN story over the weekend was one of the most famous tech company execs, turned government advisor, advising students at Stanford to behave unethically, and then get enough money to pay lawyers to make the consequences go away.)

And most of the certificates we do have are are individual certifications that are largely nonsense vendor training and lock-in, and these same people are then assembling and operating systems from the criminally negligent vendors. And our IT practices certifications are largely inadequate compliance theatre, to let people off the hook for actual sufficient competence.

My best guess for how to start to fix this is to hold companies accountable. For example, CrowdStrike (not the worst offender, but recent example): treat it as negligence, hold them liable for all costs, which I'd guess might destroy the stock, and make C-suite and upper parts of the org chart fear prison time as a very serious investigation proceeds. I'd guess seeing that the game has changed would start to align investors and executives at other companies. What could follow next (with growing pains) is a big shakeup of the rest of the org chart and practices -- as companies figure out that they have to kill off all the culture of job-hopping, resume-driven-development, Leetcode fratbro culture, IT vendor shop fiefdoms, etc. I'd guess some companies will be wiped out as they flail around, since they'll still have too many people wired to play the old game, who will see no career option other than to try to fake it till they make it at the new, responsible game (ironically, and self-defeatingly, taking the company down with them).
XP? Kanban? There are plenty of alternatives.
I think you’ve run across one of the major, unfortunate reasons US elections are so close, from the …less-progressive… side of things.
KAL007 was an usage error of the INS mode of the aircraft's autopilot, though, which was itself working as designed (although that design was a bit of a footgun in retrospect).

The exact same error could have happened for a Pacific crossing near the equator. Magnetic aberration being larger near the poles had nothing to do with it.
Living in Belgium, I first thought that it was about the TV/radio service. Never saw the acronym R.T.B.F.
That's great that you've been doing things a long time, but it's possible to criticize the current state of affairs without invoking the whole "well do you want to just do what we did in 1980 again" argument. What was it that you were doing back then that was so bad? Can we avoid doing that, as well as scrum, and do something else, perhaps?
On a more abstract level, it's what any model that's trained using some form of gradient descent, including backpropagation, does. They're trying to minimize the squared residuals - in other words, chasing averages.

The question is what you're averaging over. You could certainly pick a dataset that forces it to average over a specific, canned set of positions. This is in large part how social bias mitigation in language models works. But you're not going to get to lateral flexibility or design thinking, which I think is what many of us are wanting to (and occasionally convincing ourselves we can) see in their output.
They are moving the jobs to India, H1B's have become to great an expense and they can pay far less offshoring.
I don't remember when and where exactly (and didn't found it in a quick search), but there was already an incident, where an automatic update failed. I think it was something with the country code, so it was a bit isolated and not all over the world.
ChatGPT comment?
"Throwaway lines about barbecue and cuddly animals and planets in retrograde are, naturally, not throwaway at all, a point the script makes comically obvious when Franklin, who uses a wheelchair, asks his sister Sally, the only youth who’ll survive, if she believes in astrology. She replies, “Everything means something, I guess.”"

I don't understand how this makes the "planets in retrograde" mention "comically obvious?
It can't be rewritten as loop due to function pointers. Using JS notation to avoid noise:

function logAndCall(statement, func) { console.log(statement); return func(); }

Tail call optimization is actually possible here since we call func in "tail position". It might be unlikely to blow up the stack, but it can definitely happen if you do a lot of continuation passing.

Perhaps more commonly for C++/Rust, tail call optimization would be enormously valuable to have behind the scenes for destructors. It's actually very difficult to implement a linked list in safe Rust that doesn't explode the stack for large lists since no TCO is done for destroying subobjects. You can still avoid stack overflow, but you have to do things like manually enumerating the list.
A Terminal Based Workflow
Showcase of real-time graphics technology, from the Graphics Programming Discord
Members from the Graphics Programming Discord have compiled together a trailer of games and graphics rendering technology that were created without the use of an off-the-shelf game engine. The GP-Direct video contains 21 different projects, made by various members of the community.

Check it out and see what can be created without a game engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07I1VRYlcg

These are the projects shown in the video:

The Powder Box. A 3D falling sand game.
Project MTP. A mysterious adventure game where you play as a cat who tries to understand the bizarre world.
Derby Heat. A high energy multiplayer game where you battle in cars with weapons.
Guiding Light. You’re a lighthouse keeper and a courier… at once, a casual time-management game.
C.L.A.S.H. A scavenger video game.
King's Crook . Software rendered RPG.
Project Ascendant. Open world procedural sandbox RPG in Vulkan.
A Short Odyssey. A Third-Person Action RPG where you, a shipwrecked sailor, explore a strange island.
Degine. HTML5 game engine.
Drag[en]gine. Free software cross platform game engine focusing on developing games faster, more modular and stable with true -1 day portability support.
L3D. 64 bit assembly software renderer.
Qemical Flood. General purpose real time 3D renderer using parametric surfaces rendered via raymarching for visualization.
Carrot Engine. Graphics Engine to learn about rendering techniques such as raytracing and virtual geometry, alongside engine architecture skills.
ERHE. C++ library for modern OpenGL experiments.
Lucre. Vulkan Game Engine.
Tramway SDK. It's a game engine, but instead of having good graphics, it runs on mediocre computers.
Planetary Terrain Noise Gen. Exploration of procedural generation using noise for planets.
RaZ . Modern & multiplatform 3D game engine in C++, with Lua scripting
GameKernel. Game engine written in rust.
RavEngine. A game engine by ravbug
P.E.T. A graphical lightweight expenses tracker made using Nuklear, and GLFW, with SQLite3 for the database, written in C.
At least on Linux, it's definitely possible with prctl(2):

PR_SET_NAME
Set the name of the calling thread, using the value in the
location pointed to by name.

The name can be up to 16 bytes long, including the
terminating null byte. If the length of the string,
including the terminating null byte, exceeds 16 bytes, the
string is silently truncated.
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That’s a factor, but there are other reasons. Saving money, more online entertainment, the general shift of things done in person are now online, and the dark patterns that keep us tied there.
Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won't recuse himself from X vs. Media Matters
> There is a far more fair way to interview candidates, where bias can be eliminated

Would you care to elaborate?
Initial speaker 100% sounds like Coach Steve from the Netflix show Big Mouth.
Anna's archive has some 300M pdfs.
Even in a Civil Law system, there still exist fundamental principles (like the one from the GP that would disallow US-style property seizing), badly written, and conflicting laws that judges have plenty of space to interpret.
Cops vs. Counterfeiters Principle: GANs, the Art of Deception
Do you at least fuzz your software?
There are a lot of people saying that bitcoin is just another bubble and it will burst one day like the tulipmania bubble. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know.

However, there is one thing about bitcoin that is absolutely true. It is un-seizable.
I’d be more interested in those tautologies nonetheless. Much better than literally untrue statements that I have to somehow decipher.
In theory someone somewhere should be incentivised to spend money on building storage systems so that they then have to pay less money in the future in excess days.
> All government procurement is fraught with industry and political pressure which looks like it happened here, yet again.

In an ideal world, NASA would be immune from political pressures the same way the military, which are equally ineffective, seem to be.
> The idea that DEF CON's brand is "in the shitter" seems risible.

Is it though? With 20+ attendances behind my belt, I was already sour on the experience at 2018 and didn't go in 2019 due to a family conflict and haven't been back since.

Not only did "badgelife" absolutely ruin the whole fucking experience, but I started seeing large numbers of people start getting othered and excluded because of running afoul of idpol which IMO is entirely counter to the spirit of what the con had always been about.

It permeates throughout the meta events of the con, like Ollam's Shoot, where you're warned very much in advance with overt threats to not express an opinion that even remotely smells right-wing while his staffers proudly wave antifa banners and shout the merits of being radleft.

At the same time, my experience with the security industry as a whole is that most vendors are completely full of shit and spend all of their time chasing after fake clout (and all of the shady bullshit that goes along with it).
Containers/VMs are a nice way to isolate away any machine configuration discrepancies. Conversely it does encourage the use of non hermetic and deterministic build systems which come with other issues too (eg speed differences surfacing race conditions in the build)
This article repeatedly cites the need for personnel to have diplomas, certificates, and other ceremonial bits of paper.

This focus on paper qualification to mitigate risk seems a very European approach. Not saying it is wrong - it is just not emphasized as strongly elsewhere. And while it seems like a good fit for a slow-moving industry with high expectations of safety, the solar/wind world is not a slow-moving industry.
By that measure, all of these Spurious Correlations indicate insignificant dependence, which isn't of utility:
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Isn't it possible to contrive an example where a test of pairwise dependence causes the statistician to error by excluding relevant variables from tests of more complex relations?

Trying to remember which of these factor both P(A|B) and P(B|A) into the test
I'll check it out.
I guess what they charge is a % of txn so that's okay!

Thank you!!
perhaps an opportune moment to mention my personal biggest learning from Patio11's oeuvre (even bigger than the negotiations essay, which is more tactical and gets less relevant the more context specific your career becomes). https://swyx.io/friendcatchers i think this is the thing that makes patio11 popular - even the negotiations essay is a friendcatcher. Patrick just has like 200 of them lying around at all times which makes for a massive luck surface area

> In the words of Patrick’s mom: "Patrick, you should learn to cook. Don’t learn to cook because you want to eat food - learn to cook because if you learn to cook you will have an excuse for the rest of your life to bring people over to your house."

> No one who knows how to cook will ever lack for friends.
also the increasing unavailability and/or inviability of third spaces where you can just hang out without having to spend a ton of money and deal with unpleasant environments
Did some similar work with similar visualizations ~2009, on ~5.7M research articles (PDFs, private corpus) from scientific publishers Elsevier, Springer:

Newton, G., A. Callahan & M. Dumontier. 2009. Semantic Journal Mapping for Search Visualization in a Large Scale Article Digital Library. Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries at the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2009. https://lekythos.library.ucy.ac.cy/bitstream/handle/10797/14...

I am the first author.
To provide historical context, 10 years ago there was a local dev infrastructure, but it was already so creaky as to be unreliable. Just getting the ruby dependencies updated was a problem.
The local dev was also already cheating: All the asynchronous work that was triggered via RabbitMQ/Kafka was getting hacked together, because trying to run everything that Infra/Queues did locally would have been very wasteful. So magic occurred in the calls to the message queue that instead triggered the crucial ruby code that would be hit in the end.

So if this was a problem back then, when the company had less than 1000 employees, I can't even imagine how hard would it be to get local dev working now
A theory (as in a proper, scientific theory) must be testable, and then it must actually be tested to verify it.

Neither of these are true of Stockholm Syndrome. It's no better than the many "theories" of hair tonic merchants.

You're also grossly abusing the concept of "statistics" in your statement "this database provides empirical support that the Stockholm Syndrome remains a rare occurrence."
Some of this evidence has been produced by companies with an incentive to not produce it (internal Facebook research has shown negative mental health implications for teenage girls on instagram for example — this is known as part of some whistleblowing efforts)

> They pirated them instead because kids don't have money.

I mean sure, a kid can break a window and rob a gun store too... we're not talking about creating rules that are impossible to circumvent, the answer to imperfect regulation isn't no regulation.

> That being said, I would rather kids be banned from the internet outright rather than the internet becoming yet another watered down place.

Content filters have come a long way, this isn't what anyone is suggesting.
Earth Slows Down as Temperatures Heat Up
I thought Yahoo's acquisition was what stopped their 18+ content

But perhaps the most catastrophic misfire of all was the notorious ‘porn ban’ that came into place on December 17, 2018 – a policy partly driven by a US law [1] that made websites liable for sex trafficking that might take place on their platform. The ban covers ‘female presenting nipples’, genitals, and any depicted sex acts. Until then, the platform had remained a refuge for a devoted community of users, but this decision affected swift and dire consequences.

https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-sold-to-wordpress/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA-SESTA
Which particular dark patterns would you be referring to? Sounds intriguing, and the article doesn't mention dark patterns.
My boss at my first job was a nice guy, helped me out a lot when I was still a fledgling adult. Added him on Facebook after a few months and it was covered in Confederate flags, Nazi windmills, and talk about certain types of people.

I knew he did some bad stuff and spent a long time behind bars, but I didn't see that coming.

Also, if you go to any YouTube video that involves a non-white person committing a crime, the comments are stuffed with thinly veiled, or outright, racist remarks. People are just garbage.
Is there any standard too low for Psychology? Would you balk at someone telling you that they know something is untrue but still teach it because it's politically convenient? How about if it just makes them money? Why does Psychology get to call itself a science when the field seems to refuse to stop teaching known falsehoods, to say nothing of actually using the Scientific Method?
Yes, support is expensive, but what I am proposing will, if anything, reduce support. I'm imagining something where, if I opt into local control, I am giving up all rights to any support that is not related to the core functionality of the device. For example the solar panels/inverters in the article. If I opt in to local control, then the only support I am entitled to is the solar panels stop generating power or if the inverter stops inverting. Anything that is network related is no longer the companies problem, because I have assumed complete responsibility for that. I'd even be willing to agree that, in the case that I ever decide I don't want local control, and I want to switch to the cloud hosting, that I will pay for the support required to switch me back over.

So if my home network breaks, that is not their problem. And they don't need to set it up, they just need to make it possible for me to set up, including figuring out how to make it work with my potentially broken home network. If it requires a new router because mine doesn't provide some necessary functionality? Not their problem. Etc. Etc.
> there is one thing about bitcoin that is absolutely true. It is un-seizable.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...

"U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud"
People gonna be people. It's up to engineers and product designers to make things user friendly but also safe-by-default. If something needs to be configured, then provide instructions on how to configure it. Instead of pretending that it's society's fault (can't be arsed), maybe ask why the IT industry can't make instructions that are written out--explicit, fairly standard, and easy to follow--like the manual for putting together a piece of furniture. Or why the stupid device doesn't come with a randomly-generated strong password taped to it.
People revert to their inner twelve year old punk kid self when they are there. Bullying and trying to one up others in terms of most outrageous thing you can say is common and applauded.
Solar power does get curtailed pretty often, but there isn't one uniform solution to the problem, different utilities / markets / grids have chosen different solutions to this.
Carplay/Android Auto have nothing to do with the requirements in marcuskane2's comment. They are just an interface so your phone can use screen built into the car as a second monitor. You can buy really cheap units to add to any 10+ year old car and the car will still work as well as it did before, with no additional data sent to anyone (that was not already being sent by your phone).
Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms
Yes, Bohmian mechanics seems like MW with added complications, all the “worlds” still exist. It’s not clear how it is ontologically different from MW, other than that painting one of the worldlines green.
Friendcatcher is an excellent name for it. I've found some surprisingly high-powered allies in a similar way, just by writing things other people tend to find useful over time.

I'm still often surprised by the traction my `fzf` tutorial https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf gets, for example. Selects for a certain clade of excited future terminal junkies I get along fantastically with.
Very cool, congrats on the launch. You're spending nearly all of your time in the stratosphere collecting data, but what correlation does that have to ground forecasts? Are your "AI models" that you're producing forecasting stratosphere conditions, or more than that?