skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threaten, and be incredibly disrespectful to people who disagreed with the mainstream narrative.

As somebody in the same boat as AvE, watching people who you knew and respected turn against you the way so many people did is pretty brutal and fucks you up pretty good. Honestly it was scary as fuck how so people completely lost their minds after being fed non-stop fear porn and propaganda. Lots of parallels to some pretty fucked up atrocities—I can now see how “normal people” can turn so evil and corrupt they’d kill their neighbors and families. Multiple people I knew and respected wished me a horrific death for expressing my opinions… I’m sure if we continued this conversation and it was allowed on this forum you too would verbally wish at my death. Scary fucking shit.

I mean god forbid anybody express any disagreement with perhaps the most authoritarian, unscientific power grab in human history. The shit that went down was pure evil. Thank god some people had the courage to speak out against it even if it cost them so dearly.
Maybe a link that effectively works as a crawler trap, where it links to a bunch of Markov chain garbage, and the Markov chains just keep linking to more that are randomly generated.

Markov chains are almost free compared to LLM generation, and the content, from a machine point of view, couldn't simply be ruled out as non-human unless you had a smaller model in the background pruning out that sort of thing.
feel like I’ve made a mistake ‘giving up’ second year of music school

Leaving music school doesn't mean you cease learning music. You have a lifetime to learn more about music. That's good because that's what it takes to scratch the surface.

Anyway, it sounds like that music school might not have been the right music school for you because it didn't make you feel like you wanted to stay. That is probably some mix of its culture, curriculum, and location with your ambitions. You can take music lessons anywhere.

Anyway, I don't think where I am is an independent choice. There are external factors: friends, family, work, etc. Recognizing the complexity of the world a reward for growing older. Good luck.
if you're doing it for money or

fame,

don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want

women in your bed,

don't do it.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything,

don't do it.

Charles Bukowski
You seem to dismiss anyone who claims a "moral panic" while relying on a source that claims multiple moral panics as the issue, such as "the fact that we're living in a late stage capitalist hellscape ... [without a] social safety net...as climate change cooks the world".

Furthermore, your backup includes 'X can't be caused by Y because X happened before Y existed'. This ignores that possibility that X can be caused by Y and also caused by something else that existed before Y.
> A kid has a bad day and throws a chair through a window while the teacher films it? Teacher is likely sacked for filming kids at school.

Assuming the teacher doesn't post that video, and only uses it as evidence for what the student did, why would they get fired for this?
The surveillance, ads, and preference reverts just work as well. Choose your poison.
What authority does the California Coastal Commission have to deny permits because they don’t like the personal activities of a company’s CEO? This seems like blatant abuse of power.
It gets internally developed:

https://github.com/freebsd/iocage

As part of the FreeBSD-Project itself, since the original developer (FreeNAS?) abandon it.
Interesting to see that Russia has setup 2000+ cell phone towers in its occupied areas in attempts to gain intel from Ukraine cell phones.
> has two "chopstick" arms ... which are intended to be able to catch the returning booster

Do you mean this literally? As in something like Mr. Miyagi catching a fly with chopsticks in the orig Karate Kid?
Yeah, I get that this aesthetic is how a lot of people consume media these days, but the aesthetics combined with the subject matter is repulsive.
In the US normally you talk to a therapist (not a doctor) or psychologist (not a medical doctor) about your depression at length, and then if you're deemed sufficiently depressed you get a short consult with a psychiatrist (finally a doctor) to prescribe medication. This is when you would theoretically finally be able to bring up shrooms, and your psychiatrist will laugh at you, write an Rx for an SSRI, and you'll see him next year when the Rx expires

I'm not sure how it is in most countries but I'd expect the biggest difference is that it will cost you money in the US, but I've read many many horror stories about people waiting many months to have only a short chat with a physician from other countries. The lack of time available to spend taking to physicians seems to be a problem in other places too

my point is that consulting a doctor with random questions isn't a simple, casual thing people can easily do in most places. in most places you have to plan ahead and either wait a long time for an appointment, and/or there is a cost barrier.

if you have examples of countries where people are able to get to know their doctors on a personal level and can afford in time and money to talk to their physicians for more than a few minutes per year, please link them below
To add, knowledge of Turkish will also make it easier to converse in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and a bunch of other countries in the region.
> Edutainment and ads dominate the market

Can't help but notice that this piece was also a form of edutainment.
A Course in Dynamic Optimization
Distribution is a part of the business. A question-answer based AI is an inferior distribution method to a human-written email that gets sent to my inbox once a week.
Gas tank can be behind DRM, just as a battery can be.

They're both naturally rather simple affairs: In their most primitive forms, a fuel tank is just a container that holds fuel, and a battery is just a collection of cells.

But nothing at all prevents either thing from being rather more complex than that with the inclusion of necessary electronics that are DRM-locked.
Thanks for sharing that link. Retatrutide looks especially promising since it targets three different receptors (GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon) instead of just GLP-1 like Ozempic. This triple action appears to have a more comprehensive effect on metabolism. So it may increase energy expenditure in addition to reducing calorie intake. This drug also showed significant improvements in lipid profiles, blood pressure, and liver fat reduction. If all goes well we should expect to have it in 3-4 years.
Psychedelics are nice and powerful - maybe too powerful. I don't trust the system to use them responsibly. I'd rather obtain and use them on my own than as part of some private - or governmental - initiative. There's no one to trust more than a good friend to be there for you when the ride gets bumpy, not some guy in a suit doing it for the money.
While they're at school, they can use the phone in the school's main office to call home if there's an emergency.

Smartphones can be left in a locker (or somewhere else inaccessible during the school day) for use on the way to school and home if something happens.
My 2 cents: I started to use Linux in the 90s , having only experience with DOS/Windows. What helped me a lot at the time was Midnight Commander:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander

then I stopped to use it being proficient with Linux command line interface.
At some point, I had to start working with AIX, it has something similar but more powerful , SMIY/SMITTY:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Interface_Tool

that also has an explain function that permits you to see the command line it is about to use to execute your instructions. That explain functionality has very high educational value and could facilitate the initiation ritual for people already Unix-like initiated. So should be nice to have a similar tool of FreeBSD , if not already present ( if it's present, please tell me in the comments because I would like to evaluate a FreeBSD based laptop ).
>Without a broader PoC to show how it could be weaponized, it's hard to say that Zendesk was egregiously wrong here

The implications of being able to read arbitrary email contents from arbitrary domains' support (or otherwise) addresses are well known, and any competent security personnel in ZenDesk's security team should know this is exactly what can happen.

Something similar has been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38720544 but the overall attack vector of "get registration email send to somewhere an attacker can view it" is not novel at all; it's also how some police database websites have been popped in the past (register as @fbi.gov which automatically gives you access; somehow access the inbox of @fbi.gov due to some public forwarding, for example)
People interested in FUSE might also be interested in the CUSE companion (sub)project.

CUSE is userspace character device driver emulation. It allows you to emulate hardware without compiling a new kernel module. I just used it recently to write a hardware device supporting IOCTLs using Python. However I didn't find any good Python libraries that worked easily and documentation was lacking, but I found it easy enough that I ended up writing it using just the ctypes ffi library. The only part that wasn't immediately intuitive for me, as someone who has never written kernel drivers, is how IOCTL's require the buffers to be resized for each read and write which means the calls come in pairs, but luckily CUSE has a debug mode which shows all bytes in and out. CUSE was originally implemented to create userspace sound devices¹ but has also been use for things like custom TTYs. I used it for creating a virtual SPI device. Hopefully someone finds this useful and this project can get more attention.

¹ https://lwn.net/Articles/308445/
Honestly I don't even see a future Moon landing garnering that many people.

Maybe a Mars landing would, but non-techie people just don't seem very interested in space.
This is illegal most (all?) places in the US, but as with many things, it's poorly enforced.
The audience of a security contact point (be that Hackerone or security@') is a technical person

We add impact demonstrations to a few findings per pentest report because our audience is broader: the nontechnical people who decide to allocate the money need to understand why this is useful and that the devs/sysadmins need to get enough time to do things right (developers and sysadmins are often sufficiently skilled, but are under delivery pressure). A sufficiently technical team, when the bug is adequately explained, doesn't need a functional exploit to see it's real/impactful or not
Hm, in Chromium it doesn't take the space-button and in Firefox it takes the space-button, but all I see is the HUD, to I can see the booster orientation, but nothing more, so it crashes. Both on an Arch Linux Desktop PC.

Edit: There are several shader-related errors in the Firefox console like (NVIDIA GPU):

Hidden/PostProcessing/MultiScaleVO shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)
Or, more simply, many eat like there is no tomorrow because food is easily available, cheap, and the calories very palatable.
> Imprecative retorts in English

> While not a mood in English, expressions like like hell it is or the fuck you are are imprecative retorts. These consist of an expletive + a personal pronoun subject + an auxiliary verb.
> I can literally stare at a wall daydreaming rather than do something. And the contrary is also true - if I'm "stuck" at some fancy place but feel like working (and have means to do so), there's no stopping me.

I mean there's a very broad spectrum here, and a slight distraction can be the difference between spending 5 minutes staring at a wall followed by three hours in flow state vs. spending three hours in mindless distractions.

And children don't have any experience in how to cultivate flow state in the presence of distraction. Removing distractions naturally provides more opportunities to find the flow.
I'm reluctant to provide details as these days you can be doxxed by just one's writing style but I manage to save 85% of my salary and rent a private 50sqm office with all amenities just for myself.
Understood, but in this (hypothetical) example his mother probably doesn't know exactly what angular velocity or torque are, so making things even simpler with a laymans "power" serves to get the point across.

One could include torque in the explanation to which the follow-up is probably "what's torque?".

The simpler one goes for that initial understanding, in most cases, the less technically correct one is; by design that helps the newbie learn and build up to a more technically correct understanding later on.
I only got to see the tail end of the shuttle launches (too young) but I imagine watching the first launch/landing felt something like I experienced watching those two boosters land together.
Probably not all that different. Game porting toolkit is just WINE.
That's what the 1987 source says, but the 1906 article says

> In days when vigilante justice was a major component of the Society, "not a few horse thieves were apprehended by the organization of the long name."
This was a fun and informative comment, thank you for sharing.
Sounds nice, but most of us would just lay in bed all day sulking if we subscribed to this.
> "check your phone at the door" policies

No, no, no. A device in a (near-)stranger’s unsupervised physical possession for hours is a compromised device. No.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821494
Disagreement is healthy. What was unhealthy is that it was dangerous to disagree.

People who thought we should just ride covid out were, more often than not, simply unaware of the nuances of covid vs a cold or something similar. People who thought we should hide in our homes until it was eradicated were similarly unaware of the implicit harms of that choice.

A healthy discourse with people willing to concede and compromise would have landed us somewhere sane. Disagreement would have been part of finding a sensible conclusion.

What failed was our ability to do just that. Somehow we totally blew it.
That's not surprising. Rich people can afford childcare for all or a large part of the day, and can instruct their nanny to actually engage the child rather than pacifying them with a tablet screen.

Parents who can't afford that will resort to anything to occupy their child when they need a moment of peace, and it's hard to blame them, honestly.
for a half century+ of progress in swarm mapping, compare https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/20...
Don’t need landing legs/gear on the ship. Saves weight
> Most people consuming this beginner content should turn off youtube, think of a project, and go write some code.

In theory. In practice, they will stay on YT and then use an LLM to crank out some code. I suspect the ways newbies learn to code are about to change, and there will be no going back.

And it looks like the author agrees:

> ChatGPT and friends can answer all newbie questions customized to the problem at hand. The future is in hard-earned deep insights that are hard to fake or buy.
This video explains how they plan to catch the booster with Mechazilla [1]. The team at SpaceX has some serious guts to be doing this!

[1] https://youtu.be/ub6HdADut50
Was the link changed? I thought it pointed to SpaceX's official game: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/
If you look at the reviews, they took over the advanced-custom-fields plugin and modified the owner to be Wordpress.org and renamed it to Secure Custom Fields.

What a terrible look

They also modified it by ripping out the pro features, so if people update their ACF Plugin and they had pro features enabled, it'll just break their install

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance...
Right, but I would be really shocked if Zendesk's internal email handler was doing any SPF/DKIM/DMARC validation at all. So even if a domain has DMARC set up, Zendesk is probably ignoring it. Which is probably pretty reasonable given how rare DMARC reject/quarantine has been historically
As recently as last week FAA was saying no launch license before late November, and even if you don't believe SpaceX was ready in August they are clearly ready today. That's what SpaceX complained about, and it got fixed. What more proof do you need that the FAA was the holdup here? https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1fupkny/the_f...
Which reinforces the cycle of needing to keep up with influencer videos. As the kids say, it’s a cope.
> Dr.Luizinho.

He was also short listed to take over the Ministry of Health under Bolsonaro’s government.
You may not recall, but the rabble in Google for about a decade would publicly demonstrate against the company for being in China, or various diversity goals, or other fairly liberal things that typical capitalist companies really don't tolerate.

Then the post-COVID layoffs happened, and poof nobody does that anymore.

I don't necessarily oppose a lot of the agenda that the employee advocates were pushing for, it was the pitchfork mob tactics that went hand in hand with those people. And without those loud people, the companies have very rapidly pursued much more diabolical ends.
How could it possibly be meant literally? Do you consider it possible for a rocket to be caught by a literal person with literal wooden sticks?

I guess I don't really understand what you are asking. There's a tower with some huge metal arms that is meant to catch the rocket. They call them chopsticks in a joking manner. Obviously, I would have thought.
if you take this analysis one step further, it doesn't make sense for the whole world to sustain itself selling entertainment and hobby products to upper middle class Americans.

In no other market is ip and advertising worth much.
Conceptually I like the idea of giving everyone a locking pouch to put the phone in, with the ability to unlock it provided at the end of the event. That way the phone never leaves your person, but is unusable.

But at the same time this sort of thing would also make me kinda annoyed (as I have no problem, generally, keeping my phone in my pocket, on silent, when having it out is inappropriate0.
I think a major criticism of how this study is designed is that it is not truly "blinded". I doubt many of the participants were unsure if they received psilocybin vs escitalopram.

This is already a problem for most psychiatric drug trials; studies have found that most people can tell if they’re on an SSRI or in a control group, since the side effects are pretty noticeable.

There is evidence that this skews study results, to the point that some scientists believe that SSRIs may only be “effective” because the obvious side effects make them a good active placebo.
Regardless of whether the word is vulgar, I often see it thrown around as a meme that has became overused. Even if the original phrase used different words, they will become less and less meaningful once they start appearing in every other comment thread.
https://archive.ph/tzxzr
I wish politicians would engage in fixing the issue of dark patterns with these cookie banners, enforce a fast-reacting popup containing "accept", "only essentials", "customize".

And these popups should also require to mention if the article which you're hoping to read requires a subscription or not, because they're basically tricking you into accepting site-wide cookies for articles which you then can't read.

Ideally browsers would have an API where I can use the settings of the browser to pre-configure my answers, and that websites are required to ask the API instead of presenting me a home-built dialog. Browsers do this for cameras, microphones and all kind of privacy sensitive things, so why not for cookies?
Climate change is real, so it’s not a moral panic. I am not interested in sharing sources about this with you in 2024, because this has already been debated to death in the years prior. If you are not convinced of its existence, then that’s more your concern than mine.

Late stage capitalism’s reference is a touchy subject and probably hyperbole in most cases, but it is also a specific reference and does not require the complete abandonment of capitalism to repair the problems. Referring to it does not necessarily equate to a moral panic in my definition of the terms.

I do not ignore the possibility you cite; I find the reasoning of it existing prior far more convincing.
> If you're stuck in a room and the only thing you can do is read a math textbook you are going to do it.

I would literally doodle, stare out a window, zone out daydreaming, or anything else other than read a textbook I didn't want to read for one reason or another, or pay attention to a teacher for that matter.

Yes, it is anecdotal, but I'm sure we've all been children before, and even if you didn't do it, people around you surely did if you paid any attention. For god sake, I remember my classmates just using a lighter on small patches of whiteout ink during one specific class because of how bored they were. Extreme example? Yes. But passing papers, making paper planes, and other crafts, literally anything to pass the time.

This isn't exclusive to children either. If an adult doesn't want to do something, they might very well not unless forced to, and even then.

Btw, I'm not trying to argue about banning or not banning a phone, this is specifically about the statement above.

EDIT: I should probably mention that this isn't a 5min thing, I could easily zone a teacher out for 45min-90min blocks if I didn't care about what they had to say, much less a book I didn't want to read.
Cool, glad you had a positive experience. My experience was the opposite: emotionally numb to the point where awfully bad things happened in my presence and I barely shrugged.

Being unable to feel joy or pain, being unable to cry when a loved on passed on; these were the hallmarks of my time on SSRIs. Never again will I subject myself to these drugs.

It took me twice as long to get off them as I was on them. Two years of prescribed meds, 4 years to get off them. Six years of my life spent as a literal zombie person.

We don’t know why they work or don’t. Our experiences are just anecdata.
The physics of this game (on mechazilla.io) feels broken. If the rocket starts rotating it just keeps rotating which is not how physics works. The rocket from its motion would weather vane to it's velocity vector in reality, but it doesn't.
> As a business owner however, the question is: what is best for the business?

It is very simple: you need best people. In tech industry, people are smart, they know how to optimize things, and they rarely believe in "company values" bullshit. You can choose from a limited talent pool. If you give yourself and them a choice, including the WFH option, you statistically increase your chances of finding the best people. (Also the ones "prioritizing company interest", provided such people exist at all.)

Also, if your company is in a remote area or is in a very specific niche, you basically might not even have that much choice.
What's the status of the game porting kit? The last time I used it to get a game running, it proved to be a bit of a miserable slog (to be fair, I was trying to run UnityModManager for a CRPG).
Because I have custom needs
Yeah that's the next bubble but it's not the next effective way to do things. I think there is going to be a bubble and a crash with this.
I’m not sure if you’ve read much Bukowski, but that’s certainly a lens through which he has seen the world.