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Logans_Runon Normalization of Deviance (2015)

I'm not sure if this link has already been posted but have a look at How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance.

https://www.fastjetperformance.com/blog/how-i-almost-destroy...

Logans_Runon 20 Rules of thumb for writing better software

Compiler errors are better than runtime errors
Runtime errors are better than bugs
Tooling is better than documentation

Documentation is better than nothing

As a grumpy old gray-beard those four are my favorites

Logans_Runon Human brain organoids respond to visual stimuli when transplanted into rats

Note: I swiped the submission headline from somewhere else because the paper's title of 'Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system' is just unparsable for the layman.

( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2023.01.004 )

Edit To Add: https://archive.is/Xy1FS

Logans_Runon Ask HN: Stuck in a support role, facing burnout at small, great startup

I hope you found some support/guidance/'confirmation of gut' from the various suggestions offered from many different view points.

Good Luck with Everything and hope you land on your feet (which you probably will btw). Just remember - There is no 'crystal-ball' in this life. The closest us techies use these days is either magic 8-ball or 'cowsay' :->

Good Luck with everything!

Logans_Runon Ask HN: Stuck in a support role, facing burnout at small, great startup

1) Regarding hanging in there for 10 months for $reasons - The following is just a suggestion and may not work for you but it’s worth trying to see if it helps - In your shoes I would get myself a wall mounted calender to put up at home and at the end (or beginning if that works for you better) and at the end/start of each day mark it off (sorta like how young kids marks down the days to Christmas). This will A) Give you a minor dopamine hit B) It provides a self reassuring / mental confirmation that the current situation does indeed have an end (it becomes easier to endure something when you know that it will end and can see how much closer that gets as the days count down).

2) How to avoid burn-out. You say that in your current role you still learn new things. Use that to advantage. Each time you learn something new, hold the mental emotion that is generated when you think '..huh, I just learnt that, Great!' and then exhale slowly and picture the wall mounted calendar showing the days remaining marked-off and grin :-) ... again the point is to use mental imagery to help reduce the distress.

3) Devote some of your out of hours time to coding an itch-that-needs-scratching type project or do some code diving on the source of an app/site/program that you admire/like. Don’t go too crazy on this so think of this as a ‘brain muscle’ equivalent of going to the gym for a workout. In other words, don’t spend more time on this bit than someone would spend down the gym.

H.T.H

Logans_Runon Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)

Ah. I see what you mean now. Ignore what I said above but will leave it up for context.

Logans_Runon Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)

Perhaps in the world where you (the red-teamer) sets up their phone and/or laptop as an unencrypted/open wifi hotspot access point and then follow them (the blue-teamer) to their favorite coffee spot / burger bar / etc?

If I recall correctly even current phones will connect to open wi-fi spots preferentially and/or automatically. Bingo, job MITM done! Bonus points for having a tool on the red-teamers' laptop that can send wi-fi de-auth packets :)

That would be the first thing I would look in to to see if it is still do-able today if the problem was 'hmmmmm. Given the parameters, how could I MITM the blue-teamer?'

I'm sure that others can come up with even wilder ideas involving can-tennas or bird-dogging the blue-teamer into a elevator with a 'running useful and interesting stuff' laptop in a backpack and wait for the blue-teamers' cell phone to start reaching out desperately for a way to remain connected (cell tower, wifi, 2G cell signal etc) either of which might work

Logans_Runon New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

In my {semi-tongue-in-cheek} opinion - Thus begins the origins of Arnies' Skynet.

The {semi-cynical} part of my corporate soul screams ‘oooh, what a great way to boot-strap your own ML/AI and have marketing trumpet it as 'So good that it was trained on OpenAi data and Human™ Error Labelling!'.

The Futurist (Luddite???) in me shudders at the thought of two very powerful computer systems (models) working to out compete each other in a way that turns out to be ‘rather unfortunate’ a.k.a ‘Oh shit! We should have thought about how we (the human race) can somehow be able to tell machine output vs. human output’. But that is a discussion I will leave to the lawyers and ethicists to thrash out a solution/definition that outputs a simple binary Y/N with a Five-Nines certainty.

But Meh - A) The above is a rather random comment and B), Time will tell and hopefully this and other similar efforts remain 100% Libre as in 'free to all individuals forever and is non-revocable'

Logans_Runon Getty Images is suing the creators of Stable Diffusion

Taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower at night is a copyright breach [1] as are pictures of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (all of which except the Eiffel Tower I didn’t know about until looking up the provided reference) and all of them seem to me to be ludicrous but they ya go - I don't make the rules, only break them.

[1] https://mymodernmet.com/eiffel-tower-copyright-law/

Logans_Runon Working for a Dating Website (2015)

What you are describing sounds remarkably similar to the dating videos concept from the 1980's. I guess all that is old becomes new again!

(Did a quick search that turned up two low quality links to illustrate what I mean)

https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/lessons-learned-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/found-footage-awkward-80s-vi...

Logans_Runon Switzerland: snow flown in by helicopter in attempt to keep ski slopes open

Global warming being caused in part by internal combustion engines and aviation results in less snow for skiers... Solution? Chopper some more snow in to counter the effects of I.C.E's and aviation. Huhmmmm.... Does anyone else spot a dichotomy in thinking here?

Logans_Runon Tesla FSD Beta 10.69.25 Struggles in Snowy Detroit MI: A Scary Video

I'm not a Tesla fan but to me the car seemed to handle it in a reasonable manner i.e. by disengaging whenever the FSD sensed slippery conditions (although the traction control system when on autopilot certainly seems to need some tweaking). I'm not sure what sort of tires were fitted but it seemed to struggle more when FSD was engaged vs. the human driver.

Logans_Runon Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security

TLDR; for the time constrained -

They propose a vertical capture surface that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, roughly corresponding to the vertically projected area of a large cruise ship, can provide a sufficient volume of extractable moisture to meet the daily potable needs of approximately 500,000 people, on average.

Logans_Runon Delta Air Lines to roll out free wi-fi

Thanks!

Logans_Runon OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4B fraud

"At the top of the MLM pyramid, Greenwood is said to have earned $21 million per month." An eye-watering amount if true.

Also (as per usual) The Register includes this tongue-in-cheek comment

"For information that leads to her [Dr. Ruja Ignatova's] arrest, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a reward of $100,000 – in fiat currency".

Also worthwhile taking a read of the (linked in article ) links to

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/co-founder-multi-billio...

And

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1558436...

Logans_Runon Elon Musk ‘actively looking’ for Twitter CEO to replace him: report

I bet Jared Kushner is gutted that he wasn't first in line to that position (take a look at the early Twitter leak links that show him actively jockeying for a position within Twitter via sycophantic tweets) and the way he positioned himself with Elon Musk at the Qatar soccer World Cup.

On an amusing side note – I have noted an increase in people referring to Elon as El Ron Musk as a play on words comparing Musk to L Ron Hubbard (the founder of Scientology).

Logans_Runon PfSense vs. OPNsense