skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The allied bombing campaign and the US war on terror are hardly patterns in history (and neither were responses to hostages). A much more common pattern is what we saw e.g. after the Madrid train bombings in 2004, or the recent Moscow concert hall attack, where there is increased police presence and perhaps domestic political persecution of some groups by the police and with discriminatory laws. Nothing close to a genocidal rampage.

There are plenty of terror groups which the rulers of plenty of countries say are existential threats to those countries, some of them even take hostages, Israel alone responds to those attacks with genocidal rampage.

I think the closest behavior to Israel here is ironically Turkey who engages in brutal military campaign against Kurdish communities on a regular basis. But those reactions don’t come anywhere close in scope as the Gaza genocide.

EDIT: And just to flip the narrative here a little bit. The terror attacks by Hamas is actually something we see quite often in history. Occupied peoples usually resist, and if political means of resistance is not available, they almost always use violent and armed forms of resistance. You want to make the case that Israel’s behavior is to be expected. I don’t believe that, but if you do that, you should also apply the same logic to Palestinian resistance.
Exactly. Countries don't work like _literal_ democracies of the 51% majority, and neither should companies.
XBox and Epic absolutely do fall in that category. People, myself included, detest using either of those stores, because of their poor implementations. They're slow and unwieldy. The Xbox store on PC is actually so bad. I bought Forza as a chill on the couch and relax kind of game and it is one of the most regrettable purchasing experiences I've ever had. The Epic store is just outright unpleasant software.
> It depends how you frame success. Game development seems to have slowed in the post-Steam boom world, but it's still there! DotA2, Artifact, Alyx, and currently Deadlock are all examples of relatively recent gaming products.

They have however refocused on cash-cow live-service games rather than the polished single player experiences they were originally famous for. In the 13 years since Portal 2 they've only released one single player game, and that one was driven by their company-wide VR push more than anything else. It's harder to get excited about their games when they no longer want to make anything that can't be leveraged into an infinite money siphon.

They've also had an uptick in disastrous flops with Artifact and Underlords, hopefully Deadlock will be a return to form.
Most forms of metal AM require melting, which gives solidification microstructures. There are solid state (no melting) forms of metal AM though. Look up AFSD. MELD just got (part of) a billon dollar contract from the air force for it.
Thanks for the feedback! Will definitely put some thought into it.
IANAL... The reason you can get a huge settlement in the talc case but not in this case is because people are purchasing the talc and so it is a product liability issue.

In the research case people are basing their care and procedures off another person's research. There is no direct payment from the person receiving the care to the researcher and so it is difficult to draw a direct line from Person A says X to Person B gets injured.
People frequently confuse freedom and consequences, but choices always have consequences in society.

All schools have rules of conduct, if you violate them your kid gets kicked out. Jobs also have rules of conduct, dress code, etc. And yes, not being vaccinated means you cannot have certain jobs.

The vaccine debate is really quite straight forward. On one side you have people arguing that vaccines might cause damage and they shouldn't be forced to take them. Of course, you are not forced to take them, but then those people argue that you shouldn't have consequences from it like losing your job or your kid getting kicked out of school.

On the other side, people argue that they shouldn't be forced to be exposed to someone who might cause them harm (by transmitting a preventable disease). This group also doesn't want negative consequences by having to hide from these people.

So the argument is similar from both groups, but the difference is that there is virtually no evidence of the harms the first group claims to want to avoid, while an abundance of factual evidence of the deaths of people and children caused by the lack of vaccines or by the spread of disease due to enough people not getting a vaccine.

Thus, as a society we choose to collectively put in a law siding with the second group. That's democracy.

edit: but I'll note that actuality in many cases people do get to send their unvaccinated kids to school and do end up killing other people's kids as a result. I wonder why we're talking about charging scientists with crimes and not people who do things we know with 100% certainty cause kids to die.
I wrote this piece out of frustration, witnessing so many people waste their tools trying to find the silver bullet, and procrastinating instead of doing the right thing.
I don't that its fair to assume that progress alwaysalqays requires more energy.

Many innovations that we would consider progress offer more efficiency than what they replace. The challenge is that we continue to consume as much as possible. New innovations often have the potential to decrease energy use through efficiency, instead we choose to use more of the thing.

I.e. "progress" often offers a decrease energy consumption per unit, but we end up with a total energy use increase when we drastically increase the unit count.
You can always plug your own router into the LAN port of a shitty ISP's combo modem/router device, too, even if they won't give a connection to any other device than their own and they defeat all your spoofing attempts.

I haven't used a proprietary router in my entire adult life, except as a WAN connection for my 'real' router with some shitty ISPs.
Could you use this for building infrastructure/dependency maps?
A) love this

B) who is this for? your download link for the open source version is a zip file, with a dark pattern of ignoring your email mailing list modal, when developers should just get it from github, which is possible because there is a link to that too which I cloned afterwards. your actual devs are going to go to github, and your less technical people are going to use wordpress. do you really see a market of people paying you a subscription to use your boilerplate subscription site just for support and analyics?
OpenSSH Backdoors
This looks like terminal penny pinching. Management dreams they are competent = they are not, except in pay check deposition, running at 100% efficient.
Are they public or owned by a reporting entity? = their auditor should be advised. If private, anonymously inform their lawyers, insurers and accountants/auditors.
Not sure how they dealt with the recent ransomware, maybe just paid it? Any insurer engaged afterwards with ransomware coverage would have done a data management audit and would not tolerate the state they are in and would not cover them unless they were patched wall to wall.
with those holes, loose lips in the hackerverse will soon lead to those holes being exploited - possible ruin to business?

If they are involved with medicaid, medicare, or many private health care insurers - as they must be, hunt for a whistle blower number/button on their web site - not for $$, but for the public good. When cans of worms are opened, bodies are found and it might cost the company a lot of $$ to rectify this, as it should.
Did you find anything specific which can help you to get back to free state?
If you measure success by how happy your most disgruntled employees are, maybe it doesn't look good. But if you measure success by revenue, profit, or quality of products, it looks incredible. Valve has succeeded in a very competitive industry and consistently released top quality products over a period of almost three decades.

I don't buy people's excuses about them just exploiting a monopoly. Epic was gunning for them, Microsoft was gunning for them, all the big publishers tried to compete on PC game distribution, consoles try to take market share from PC, GoG and others exist. The failure of their competitors to unseat them doesn't mean Valve had it easy.

Google, on the other hand, is what you get when you try to optimize for employee happiness across the board. Their business has been successful (the monopoly argument seems more applicable in this case, at least in the last decade), but product quality is in the toilet and employee happiness ultimately couldn't be maintained in the face of bureaucracy and layoffs.
It's definitely not just politics. Popper was not just a champion of reproducibility but also a champion of falsifiability. This is something many a scientist also loses sight of. People will formulate their hypothesis and then try to prove it, rather than trying to disprove it, which is often the much more effective strategy for avoiding bias and other issues. You see this most often with the "soft" sciences, but it crops up in the harder ones as well.

Focusing on reproducibility and falsifiability would go a long way to improving the current state of science, regardless of the political games happening at the same time.
Is that more a coal thing or a tobacco thing?
The paper says a lot of the secret sauce is dumping a dictionary of the static content and then logging in a binary format. That format looks a lot like gzip, if you squint. Could something like this use the _actual_ gzip format, but writing with a static dictionary, to make life easier for tools? (gzip has a trailer, but I'm not sure how much attention is paid to that, since it's often used for streams)
if you read the article there are allegations those who go under market value are forced off the site for bringing the recommended price down
> Many of these alternatives failed because they were forced onto users who had already paid over $60 for a game

I really doubt that hurt their adoption. Yes, it pissed people off, but that doesn't mean it suppressed adoption. Being slow and clunky, sure, but you're probably not going to get anywhere without some high value exclusives.
Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned: within the EU.

The reality is, even though it's now theoretically possible for Chrome and Firefox to be properly ported here, it's practically impossible. At any rate it's not happening yet. Last I heard they decided against it as it would require all of the coding to be done within the EU! So Apple is still effectively blocking alternatives on its platform even here.

It would be nice if the USA and Japan also pursue their own anti monopoly charges and force Apple to open up across the world
Man, I try to think longer term so "a while back" can be 3-4 years ago.

then I see that comment made almost 10 years ago. I feel a lot of that goodwill went out the door once Fortnite became a cash cow.
FWIW, there are tons of DRM free games on Steam as well, it's just not a given like it is on GOG.
Food for thought: let's say AI (some day) delivers a working application, will it still matter which framework it is written? AI writes it, we complain about a problem, AI fixes it, we programmers are out of jobs (at least web application programmers) and the users get updates and finally working applications. I know we are not there yet, but at that imaginary later point, I think frameworks will be a thing of the past.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is best model at coding.
The real answer is to stay small and avoid growth. Politics and management frustrations get worse with more people. Stay small and avoid all the idiocy. Growth is not mandatory. Especially with technology, you can scale profit without more employees. Profit sharing is better than equity.
Genuinely thankful for this tool and use it for both sides of my non-fiction book project (research: verifying converted or misbehaving epubs for use on Remarkable, iPad, Calibre and Kindle (I know, I know...)) as well as typesetting and review.
probably in this case it's important to use some kind of synthetic timestamping to preserve the ordering (for example, for a 5.123 [ms] timestamp one can add ~1000000 ns timestamps, so let's say are a thousand entries that need to be ordered, one can then represent them as 5.123000[n] ... and the "000" part is just a silly in-band way to give a hint to someone who will later examine the logs)
For people who want more cutesy licenses, find some here: https://github.com/benlk/misc-licenses?tab=readme-ov-file#ot...
For me, I don’t like launchers constantly updating and running at startup. Inevitably, they end up breaking something or popping up a modal when I’m trying to do something else.

I tolerate steam on my laptop because they were the first. I hate Epic and other launchers when I just want a game.

I will wait until it gets to steam. And have even skipped free games because I don’t want the mental load.
"+ Relatively infrequent access by limited # of people to servers which are not top targets for attacks. Solutions like the one above are great for this."

Thats exactly what I'm using it for - I'm the only one on my server :)
The challenge there is always going to be the energy use required to create and maintain these renewable systems, including energy storage.

The great lie of green energy, in my opinion, is that we can invent what is functionally a perpetual motion machine. There are always costs and losses in the system, even when they are only up front and at the end of life.
I don't remember. I was obese and started having some joint issues and visage fat, so i bought a scale, calculated my BMI, found roughly 34, then tried and failed my first attempt at calories limitations. Then I really prepared for a true diet, spend months informing myself, got used to hunger by fasting for 5 days, and got my weight under control. It's during that time that I learned about that. It might have been on a HAES forum before they went crazy (circa 2017 it was mostly support (and a dating site tbh), and a view of 'if you don't have health issues, do not hurt yourself trying to loose weight'. Now, from a more external POV, it seems it changed toward 'it's okay even if your health struggle')
Page 20 has an employee with a HL3 shirt.
It really is one of the most tragic tales in gaming history.

Half-Life Alyx only being available on VR was the final nail in the coffin. I will never play it.
That isn't a new problem though. Should we not enforce laws against fraud because people might be framed? You determine that through investigation.
> neural networks largely work by “hitching a ride” on fundamental computational complexity

If you look at what a biological neural network is actually trying to optimize for, you might be able to answer The Bitter Lesson more adeptly.

Latency is a caveat, not a feature. Simulating a biologically-plausible amount of real-time delay is almost certainly wasteful.

Leaky charge carriers are another caveat. In a computer simulation, you can never leak any charge (i.e. information) if you so desire. This would presumably make the simulation more efficient.

Inhibitory neurology exists to preserve stability of the network within the constraints of biology. In a simulation, resources are still constrained but you could use heuristics outside biology to eliminate the fundamental need for this extra complexity. For example, halting the network after a limit of spiking activity is met.

Learning rules like STDP may exist because population members learned experiences cannot survive across generations. If you have the ability to copy the exact learned experiences from prior generations into new generations (i.e. cloning the candidates in memory), this learning rule may represent a confusing distraction more than a benefit.
Some Related recent discussions:

San Francisco to ban software that "enables price collusion" by landlords

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133143

San Francisco to Ban Rent-Setting Software Amid Gouging Worry

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163936

Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212616
Buying good (not killing you or damaging your skin) cosmetics and using them properly is an art, as I've observed watching my wife.

To be honest, the best really is to just use retinol creams? and take care of your diet. This way you can get away using hardly any make up. Bonus is that you don't need to wash it off afterwards.

But beauty treatments and knowledge is expensive, that's why poorer or less informed people have to make do with make up. Don't quote me on this, but usually the most advertised brands are also the ones that are most toxic (just repeating what I've learned from my wife).
There are wide safety margins in diving. Most dive trips involve multiple dives per day (starting with deepest dive first, with subsequent dives shallower). The times I’ve gone deeper or same depth on subsequent dives my computer usually puts me into deco fairly quickly. At some point subsequent dives aren’t feasible (typically no more than 4-5/day, less is prudent). I think it is with this in mind that the recommendation against flying is made, along with an abundance of caution due to limited experimental evidence (Navy dive tables were developed based on human subjects, so the effects are better understood). It looks like there are some civilian studies done, but more is needed on flying.

https://dan.org/health-medicine/health-resources/diseases-co...
I still can’t believe epic hasn’t released a modern Unreal Tournament game.
Yes, that's the effect a monopoly has on the market.
Problem with CVEs on OSS Projects
This is a terrible paper. Its chief finding is that the Fed was dovish more frequently than hawkish between 2010 and 2022. That’s not novel, so the author chose a spicy title.

If the Fed is trying to keep rates low, it buys Treasuries. If the government floods the market with Treasuries at the same time, the Fed will buy more to keep rates low. (The Fed can’t directly buy Treasuries, but that’s a separate topic.) That correlation is intrinsic to dovish monetary policy. It doesn’t discriminate on motive.

During the recent deficits, on the other hand, the Fed was pushing rates up. That breaks the correlation the author purports. But if you only measure between 2010 and Q1 2022, you observe more time that the Fed was dovish and so see more correlation. To conclude motive from that, alone, is like concluding the Sun doesn’t exist based on measurements taken between 1 and 4AM.

Maybe this is a methodology paper? The author lacks the data and wants someone to extend their methods? There are serious critiques of the Fed in 2021, but this isn’t one of them.
If I were one to use the word "cringe", a fifty year old willfully using the words "kinda cringe" would absolutely be cringe.
It’s very common in Portland, OR — I had pork katsu this week at a Hawaiian place. Curry less so, but plenty of non-sushi Japanese restaurants around.
Hi alok-g, thanks for your interest in SnapDiagram!

The application focuses mainly on converting simple diagrams of connected shapes with text. May work with some simple icon, but probably won't work for cartoons or complex artwork.

The editable file is compatible with https://app.diagrams.net. If you need an SVG, you can import your editable file there and export it as SVG.

The application does not store your diagrams permanently. These have a max TTL of 12hs.
You use one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch
The article and its predecessors lay out the legal doctrines under which company CEOs can’t just take whatever they want from “their” company.
"if you don’t have any managers you have politics. and if you do have any managers, you also have politics"
Ot of curiosity, how does this work? If a site is over https, then the only information I would think the ISP would have is the subscriber downloaded from randompiratesite.xyz what seems to be a single X GiB file. They could see that the size roughly corresponds to FooBar.mp4 on that site (plus some HTTP headers). But this seems pretty unreliable. (Like what if someone was using a download manager to get multiple large files at once, using multiple download streams per file?)

I'm sure that you can get in plenty of trouble for downloading a ton of data from randompiratesite.xyz or whatever, but how the ISP determine the number of movies they've seen you download?
Yeah, when I saw the screenshot of Facing Worlds the song from that level immediately started playing in my head.
In isolation, yes one led bulb is more efficient. People tend to use that efficiency as an excuse for using more on the whole though.

I wish I could find the link here, without it this is just anecdote, but I saw a study that found our energy use for lighting either remained flat or increased with the move away from incandescents. We install more lights and feel better about leaving them on for longer periods of time.
The criminal negligence of watching Netflix while driving wasn't an accident though... 5 years does seem very low, but I guess I'm not surprised given it happened in Canada.
There is one that is on their site since fortnite released but stalled i think
> It does need client-side support though.

Not really! You can buy a router that ships with OpenWrt out-of-the-box and just toggle a little checkbox. Plug that into your ISP's router (or use a wireless bridge in client mode, that's supported, too) and connect all of your devices through that. Now all your devices use DoH and don't even know it.
W3SPACES Uses AWS
OMG i just found out w3spaces uses aws to make people websites
Outside of a national cancer center, liability management is priority 1. Thinking creates liability.
Yes, we considered that and implemented a solution. Effectively, the runtime will generate thunk methods that will invisibly bridge between the two worlds. Calling (and overriding) regular async methods with runtime async methods will be stitched up by the runtime. The user will never see the difference.
Yup, that 100 tab comment had me instantly clocking them as an i3 (or similar) user. There's just something about those types of window managers that has them convinced it's some kind of panacea for every problem. We already have tabs and we already have bookmarks: if bookmarks were an easier way to queue things up to look at later than tabs, most people would already be doing that, and yet tabs prevail. There must therefore be something about tabs that people find more useful and or more convenient than bookmarks.

The "just use bookmarks, bro" mindset comes from their foregone conclusion that windows are good, tabs are bad, therefore anything that favours tabs is also bad and should be done differently if you insist on doing it at all. Just let people have tabs.
Articulate post on the problems with bogus CVEs
Is there a service to rent these?
Not really, from what I understand they're now upselling lower core count processors if you look at for example 7700 vs 9700. If you compare 9700 vs 7600 it makes more sense and the power usage is more comparable. Another 'fix' proposed by AMD also was basically to enable PBO which would then result in a marginal performance improvement, but no longer at a lower power usage.
Whether something is a monopoly and whether they've abused it in such a way that they should be struck with an antitrust suit are two different things. I don't think many would argue that Steam abused its monopoly.
Thanks! The editor is a very flexible block editor so you can do things such as:

1. Having complex blocks such as a Task Board/Kanban right within the middle of a document. And more type of such blocks will be implemented in the future (code blocks, LATEX support, etc)

2. You can drag and drop any block, where the dragged object simply "pops" from its place and the rest of the blocks makes room for it.

3. It's blazing fast at loading large documents (See our War and Peace test on the website).

4. The UX of using the "/" slash character to insert block types is very fluid, with instant search results, you should give it a try.