skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Sign lease for apartment in VT.

2. Lease deposit + new computer products = "qualified remote worker expenses".

3. Receive grant funds.

4. Resell computer products and never move to VT.

5. Put apartment on AirBNB.

6. Profit.
So it will be $44k+ in July (vs the stated 46k). I stand corrected...

If they can get the low battery range Tesla to mid 20s then we'll be talking. But if it is in the mid to upper 30s then the numbers don't really add up and the vehicle remains a luxury.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!

We have Google street view now, but I think one of the charms of photos like this is you can actually see peoples faces and styles of dress etc.

We're (rightly) very privacy conscious now but in 100 years will people be missing out because we cover up all the faces?
I took it to mean something fairly vague about potential super-exponential blowup in the complexity of the states you have to reason about, when you have to reason directly about third-order effects in a code base.
the point is that using ratios to determine engagement doesn't mean that an account is fake or a bot, or that the followers are fake or bought.

people mistakenly believe even influencers have bot or bought followers, just because their engagement is low

its just a poor metric to make a conclusion, and you'll have to accept that nobody knows anything
> What am I getting for the trillions being spent on these efforts?

You don't know, won't know, and possibly can't know. That's the point - the payoffs are broad, ubiquitous, almost insidious, might not happen for many many decades, and there's every chance they won't be recognised as being a product of these venture.

In essence it's research : "If we knew what we were doing then it wouldn't be research."

We don't know what the benefits will be, we can only trust that having tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people working on projects like this will have long-term benefits.

Perhaps I'm more optimistic than you, and perhaps you might choose not to believe that there will be long-term benefits that out-weigh the short term costs.

I believe there will be.
Wish I had an answer to your question. But, you can try living alone in a jungle & do the necessary things for basic survival, cultivate, hunt, cook, tailor, etc. Those activities can help you get a new interest in regular things & after a period of such stay, mundane things would appear interesting to live for.
Almost zero data here. Zero investigation or reference material. Almost no editorial. Only an arbitrary clickbait accusation. But it says "Netflix" so HN FP here we come. This is Obama "invading" West Texas and declaring martial law to take over a Walmart all over again.
I was hoping to see that they added a `time` command, which is something that makes me change to bash every once in a while.
Thurston County came back online about 20 minutes ago (0900 PST).
Recent article regarding D compile times: https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-...
I've rented a room through Airbnb for about six months now and had no problems. However, it's a room in one side of our house, where we also live and come and go.

We make quite a bit of money off of it and don't really worry about guests doing things we don't want since we're physically there most of the time.

I wouldn't Airbnb an entire house without remote cameras to keep an eye on things though.
You so rarely run into a news story that considers a genuinely difficult ethical question. I think I’d say that it’s morally wrong to run a scam hit darksite to steal money from people who want assassins, but it is not obvious. Especially when you consider the larger point that the existence of scams like this one make it harder for a real service to pop up.
The movie drives me crazy, because they had an amazing premise and set up a meaningful metaphor, and then totally just dumped it.

I think at the beginning the doctor literally says "ignoring your problems won't make them go away", it's extremely on-the-nose, and the bulk of the film is about trust and teamwork and that seems like it's going somewhere, and then you get to the end, and it like... nothing. Nothing is learned. Nothing changes.

The doctor even comes back at the end and you go "oh boy here comes the moral when we learn what this movie really was about" and she's all like "yay now we can be blind to our problems together" roll credits. There was so much opportunity in the premise and it's totally squandered.
we had someone shut down the second busiest airport in our country last week by flying a drone around and the assumption here (by the man on the street and the media in general) was "idiot with a new toy" rather than "terrorist attack".

I was watching Sky News. It immediately went with terrorism speculation when the drone was first reported.
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On the other hand, I just came back to Magic after ~15 years out, and some basic utility has gotten more expensive. R used to get you 3 damage back in the day (Lighting Bolt), now it gets you two (Shock); you've gotta go up to 1R if you want the three damage. Counterspell was UU, but now the generic counter is 1UU, Cancel. You can sometimes get rides on top of that, like Sinister Sabotage is 1UU and gets you surveil 1 on top of the counter, but you're not going to get a straight up unconditional counter for two blue like you used to.

Looking through the one-drops in Standard right now, I don't see any vanilla 2/2; which one are you thinking of?
Here's one article that explains the final "f u" obama gave to israel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-b...

The constant calls for restraint on Israel's part as Israeli children as young as 6 months were being stabbed to death in their beds by "freedom fighters" lauded by PLO and PA media also comes to mind.

The blind eye towards how PLO officials spoke to their own people (bloodthirsty talk of killing all the jews) vs what they said in English (calls for peace if only Israel was willing to compromise).

But just googling "Obama and Israel" will give you tons more.

Obama's weak stance on NK and china at the expense of Japanese security was seen as failing an ally.

I'm wondering if you could provide concrete examples of Trump sabotage. I'm curious mostly because I'm guessing we're gonna see it very differently.
Netflix doesn‘t have anything they „think is good“. All they have is shows tailored to fit very specific audiences.

No heart behind it.
At the computer floating point was developed, people understood it implicitly, because it was just an automated version of their current tools: log tables and slide rules.

And likewise they knew better than to use floating-point where it doesn't work.
... and now we're all talking about Bird Box. Thanks "hollywood babylon" for the meta-advertisement.
You've said literally nothing that could be considered constructive.
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It doesn't matter what I think it's purpose is. As a TSLA officer, his job is to use TSLA resources to produce value for TSLA shareholders, not to bail out unrelated companies, especially ones that have a big friggin conflict of interest attached to them.

It doesn't matter if SpaceX's stated mission is a vanity Mars project, or something easier, and actually useful, like eradicating malaria, or stopping AGW, or bringing about the Worker's Paradise to Earth. You don't pilfer a publically traded company to fund it.
The bloody full moon is coming in january
video

"The transformer explosion in Astoria was... right outside my window. So bright I couldn’t look directly at it."

https://twitter.com/nickriccardo/status/1078479911952756737
If you don’t think defensive security is “real” security work, then you’re using a definition that very few people use.
The only problem with the near-daily school shootings and other mass shootings is that those are a choice that we, as a society, have decided we want to tolerate and have in our lives.

I'm getting a little more than annoyed with the constant insinuation, in the face of challenging, difficult and emotionally painful issues in our society getting thrown into a discussion as something we've factually accepted and tolerated as something that just 'is', as if we've thrown our hands up and said "please keep slaughtering our school children".

Especially in the form of throwaway comments from individuals who aren't actually putting forth a solution themselves.

Please stop waxing post hoc ergo propter hoc like this-just because a solution hasn't made its way through the mechanisms of law and procedural solution making, and please stop projecting YOUR cynicism on the issue on to the rest of us.
It is very fast for certain projects, but link times on some can make up for that. I have a toy program using vibe.d that takes around 1s to compile and 10s to link. I could probably make that faster by switching to gold, but I didn't yet.
It was more resilient, in a way.

It had more points of failure, instead of one big point of failure. It was also less available nationwide due to the expense.
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Honda is making hybrid versions of their full and mid-sized SUVs.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of the SAFE stack.

The SAFE Stack is slightly different in that in itself it's not a technology as such, aside from the .NET template that we a lot of invest time into. Instead, it brings together several distinct technologies that when pieced together form an excellent end-to-end stack.

I would say that SAFE seems to currently have a larger community movement around it (as well as a commercial support aspect for those people that want / need that).

SAFE Stack doesn't support WASM though - the client side story is instead built on top of the excellent Fable (an F#-to-Babel-to-Javascript transpiler). In this regard I think SAFE is also slightly different to WebSharper in that (from when I last tried WS out at least) WS is more of a complete framework whereas SAFE contains a number of libraries and components that you can opt in / out of as you see fit and lives a bit closer on the JS ecosystem side (again, happy to be corrected here on the WS side).

Both Websharper and SAFE stack are excellent stacks, and both encourage the use of F# end-to-end - try them both out and see what fits better for you :)
It is weird that there are dozens of account with fewer than 20 followers making these posts. The video makes it a bit clearer: https://twitter.com/samiswine/status/1078419803465953280
This looks awesome. Has anyone here played it?

I was playing a free version of Civ1 the other day and the nostalgia took over my body for a whole weekend.
Yeah, the new name is pretty crude. I wish they had either changed the name completely or simply permuted the letters: PINS, SPIN, SNIP...
So might I gently suggest that you ask someone who has deep experience, well beyond his hat, with actual reversing? Such as 'tptacek, 'cperciva, 'yan, many others here.
it's a transitional period, a bit like smartphones, you can't put your fingers on the part, you have to have hot air gun, lenses etc etc. Repair shop will transition but so far the status was : electronics are not for repair..

When EV will be a major % people will fix because it will be regular market/customers. Also as other people said, EVs are 10x, if not more, simpler than ICE so we may (depending on QA) need less repairs.

Also I believe that swappable parts will become the norm, quick swap batteries ala Tesla, etc etc
Play a game in which 4x Timetwister is allowed. See how broken it can be.

It's not "take an extra turn" good, but Jesus does it solve a lot of problems. P9 inclusion warranted IMO.
I cut my teeth writing very C-ish C++98 for an embedded system in the '90s and the C++20 ranges example code from the blog might as well have been in an entirely different language. Sadly, I may have to stop listing C++ as a language I'm familiar with on my resume.
Hi lvh,

Do you intend to complete this book at some indeterminate point in the future?

Is there anything that any of us can do to help make it happen?
Interestingly the University of Washington put out an email notice nearly an hour before AlertSeattle sent one. You'd think the city would make it a higher priority to let everyone know that 911 is down.

How long do you think it takes to send out a few million alerts versus sending a few thousand?
I believe coding is easy when it's to assist in your own work. Programming at scale is a different problem.
I'm not certain, however CS jobs appear to reflect this on the two different pay scales (my work has two different programming roles with one compensated at almost twice the rate)
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Several books by Jerry Weinberg (started last year) on systems and Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows.

Alongside those, my current job has me programming less, so I'm enjoying it as a hobby again. I've decided to pick up Common Lisp again so I'm going through various texts on it as exercises to relearn the language and its extent.
It does; unfortunately they don't have a nice way to just disallow overwrites (that's why I was curious how you implemented that)
I thought it was to be included in 3.0, there's certainly an issue on it.
If you search, there's a comment tptacek wrote here about the high daily rate professional consultant reverse engineers charge, considering how difficult it can be to problem solve around protections like codesurfer obfuscation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3682361
Any thoughts on their humble bundle?
I think the author is projecting a bit. After all, the skills needed to write an opinion piece for Wired are darn near universal, and supply has exceeded demand by so much for so long that such writing is practically blue-collar. I contend that the skills needed to make a career out of programming are just a little less accessible or familiar to most people. Being a programmer might be comparable to being a plumber or electrician, which are "blue collar" but also very respectable and often profitable professions worth aspiring to, but it's never going to be like the kind of unskilled labor that people line up at Home Depot - or Wired - to do.
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I don't know if this is good or bad or what. But at least it seems like Larry Ellison is someone that will never be intimidated by Elon Musk.
what is this? there's no explanation and the link to download the app isn't working.
This could be frugal practice to follow in other public institutions that run parts of their infrastructure on FOSS, many larger corporations that rely on FOSS sometimes do contribute to the projects or have bug bounties because they know that when something breaks or worse, you are going to lose money. So why not do it by auditing the software and basically give back to the software you rely on, it works almost like insurance, when the shit hits the fan you are paying anyway so why not upfront it. This is an area public institutions could certainly follow since they can't lead.
Not saying that I approve of that...
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Seconded. You increase the influence of variance between packs, but you also level the field by applying that variance equally to all players.

It can feel a bit like a lottery in some sets (where a certain OP card and a semi-competent deck builder can beat a more highly skilled player who got hosed for powerful cards) but that's a core aspect of CCGs. If you don't want variance, a perfect information board game would probably be better.
There's an actual program, usually installed in /usr/bin/time. The shell builtin is not really necessary.
Boys were charged to enter

Ah, a young entrepreneur hacking the nightclub business, renting furnished space by the day and ignoring all the other rules and regulations too.
The purpose of the book is explicitly to mint developers who can responsibly build cryptographic features, not mint cryptographers -- so a detailed look at e.g. differential cryptanalysis is pretty clearly out of scope. AES is pretty much a perfect PRP and that's all you oughta care about.
You can build more houses.
On big projects, linking times are really the bottleneck.

Sure, incremental linkers exist [1], but all of them tend to do O(n) work on every invocation. Source control software, even developed explicitly to scale [2], behaves the same way. Makefiles as well; Tup [3] tries to solve this, in vain since the linking step is still holding everything up. There is so much inherent inability to scale built into our tools. So on big projects everything grinds to a halt as you cannot buy enough developers and hardware to keep up with O(n^2) forever.

[1] MSVC cl, GNU gold

[2] git: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.0/2022.html

[3] tup: http://gittup.org/tup/manual.html
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Some people like things. Other people like other things. Value propositions abound.
Yeah, Tesla and SpaceX are most certainly related. They share engineering teams. Tesla gets a big bump in the public’s eye with SpaceX’s accomplishments. People call Teslas “a spaceship for Earth” and there’s zero ambiguity about why that specific comparison is made. It’s pretty much the definition of a mutually beneficial relationship.
I think there's a material difference between southern new hampshire and most of vermont. Vermont in general is far more rural (outside of Burlington, Rutland) whereas the larger towns in southern new hampshire that are fast growing are basically now suburbs of boston.
Studios have been doing this sort of thing for years. Not too surprised Netflix would do the same.

Hopefully they'll never got as far as making up a fake critic to promote the movie like Sony did with David Manning.
I agree with this. Ever since I started doing bi-weekly retrospectives with my teams, we've gotten much better at improving the things that really need improving. Goal setting from the top down can be very artificial. I find it works much better to let the teams discuss their own concerns (and positives) with how things are going, and provide my own input. We then prioritize just the top couple of items to action for the next two week period.

It happens quite commonly that the things that I think are most important to be addressed, are actually not, and more pressing matters are raised. I get way better buy-in with my teams doing things this way and the improvements we're making are more tangible.
The zeitgeist has not recently become one of heightened paranoia, it's the Sword of Damocles that comes with being the biggest target. And you could make a better case that Nixon was an asset of China.
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I really liked The Goal (though the family side story was a bit strained at times, the experience with his kid and scouts in a "model" environment was useful though).

While it is geared towards manufacturing, I think pairing its concepts along with Mary Poppendieck's writings on Lean in software development is very helpful. A lot of her writing (especially the more introductory books) put in the effort to translate Lean Manufacturing ot Lean Software.

For instance, we don't have "inventory" in the physical sense. There's very little cost in the retaining of un-shipped code. But there is cost in that we don't get value from it. And our understanding of it goes stale over time (for the individual who wrote it and the organization who "owns" it, especially if the creator leaves or moves to other projects).

Pairing her work with writings from traditional Lean and Theory of Constraint sources (focused in manufacturing) is an excellent way to take those theories and apply them to our field.
>the glass panel on my staircase

Wait, what?

It's a transparent material often used to provide a physical barrier while still allowing the passage of light. It's quite brittle, though, and is easily shattered.

You did ask.
I'm not sure what "complete" would entail :) For example: would a description of Noise be in scope? I think so but I'm not sure. People come up with new cool stuff that's useful to median developers on the regular (say, NMR) that feels like it ought to be added/updated. So I think it's forever a WIP and that's OK since I'm not really printing the book?
Yet the thought of a shell with a web interface made me shudder at first. Like those electron based terminal emulators.
Monopolists can always destroy value. That's pretty independent of the (overwhelming recognized) value of commodity speculation.
I specifically made that claim of mathematics and theoretical physics, and requested first hand accounts of how it worked in CS.
The http://indieweb.org community has prior work in this area.

> Your content is yours:
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control
I guess it would be easier to do that with virtualization. Advertise the capability to the VM, catch illegal instructions, emulate the missing pieces.
Sure, but I doubt all of Kubernetes is written in this style, so it’s probably not worth writing everything in Haskell. Note also that there’s nothing about FP that prohibits it from addressing the aforementioned practical problems. Some Haskell-like could swoop in and totally steal Go’s lunch if they would simply prioritize practicality over experimentation.
> Zero Divide By Zero:

> This question asks whether in floating point 0.0/0.0
is a non-NaN value, which it is not. NaN generation is desirable here, since it will propagate to the output as a NaN and thus make the user suspicious.

Horrible nonsense. What is desirable is an exception so that it's loudly confirmed to the user that something has screwed up. We don't want to lead the user on with subtle hints and suspicions.

Even a dollar store calculator from 1985 gets this right by locking up with an E on he display, requiring a clear.
Does that matter if we get off of oil in the interim? It seems the argument should be for continuous improvement in the manufacturing process and a closed loop recycling system for failed components and batteries.
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My response to the headline would have been a version of President Obama's campaign posters: "Nope!"

You can trace the money behind these vendors back to both parties, too.
Given that Russia has threatened such grid attacks continually for over a decade, it has to be evaluated. It reminds me of the Russian robocalls that have threatened school attacks all over the globe but mostly in the United States in order to further degrade the future output of our education system.
> When a Mac crashes, it's because Apple's hardware or software has a bug (something in Apple's control). Apple doesn't have an open ecosystem like th.e PC world.

My only consistent hardware error on a Mac was my 2005 iMac (the 42lb one) when I upgraded the RAM and chose the wrong speed/timing. Genius bar told me to replace it with the stock RAM and it worked fine.

So yeah, upgradability and easy-maintenance can easily lead to problems even with a reasonably knowledgeable consumer or repair shop.
I too started my career with C++ (and spent 10 years using it almost exclusively, before moving to JS some time back).

The first code block in the article made my jaw drop, and my first thought was "what the hell has happened to C++? I was only away for 5 years". Then I saw the "simple style" example and breathed a sigh of relief. That is the C/C++ I recognize. Even the third example with structs is not necessary. The author is right. Sometimes reusability is overrated. Duplication is better than the wrong abstraction.
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