skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PowerShell has bent over backwards from day one to avoid being a vector for malware. You can't invoke a .ps1 file from ShellExecute (that is to say, by double-clicking it), in its default configuration Windows Server won't run an unsigned script and client won't run a script at all, and there are fine-grained settings to control execution policy and language mode across your enterprise. That's not to say it doesn't get used for malware, but in its default state you have to actually be running arbitrary code in some other language before you can jump to PowerShell. (When PowerShell was being designed, it was right after the infamous security push in Windows, and they knew that if they shipped a new scripting language you could double-click from an email, they'd be crucified for it.)
Lust in Space (2007)
And, of course, t-mobile will only support it on phones they sell in their stores. Which are all too big for people with hand problems like me.

Can Google bypass the carrier on this, or can you only do that with something like a google voice number? All the other features aside, being able to receive text messages in my office that has no cell service would sure be nice.

Moreso if it integrates with Signal so at the least I actually get messages from my iPhone wielding friends with only Apple chat clients when I have connectivity to the internet.
Could the system be better? Yes. But there's also a ridiculous amount of entitlement in the tech industry. There are very few other industries where someone with a bachelors degree or no college degree at all can obtain a low to mid six figure job with no prior work experience + benefits. Even for the average experienced hire, who's compensation can easily exceed that of the average doctor, it isn't like things get worse as your career progresses.

Many of these "hiring is broken in tech" posts are like you said: moaning or a remarkable lack of self-awareness.
I agree. I had not thought about it before, but the Chinese sci-fi really does champion hyper advances in technology. It is difficult to find “technology gone wrong” themes in their sci-fi.
here is another article on this https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mit-risc-v-chip-carbon-nan...
TLDR: Centralization (winner takes all) is the result of preferential attachment. Some kind of downward pressure is required to counterbalance, counteract.
AppleScript will remain
This blog post reads like a public journal. It's kinda interesting. I wonder if any of his posts were meant for such a large audience. Yet, they seem to be, as he requires some Bitcoin for comments.
I just poked one of my really old applications running ruby 1.8.7 and got a bunch of errors about half an hour or so ago. The status page was fine then.

I hope it wasn't me that broke it lol
There’s also that tidbit from the Steele Dossier about it being cracked.
And another one: functionalities. It always grates a bit when I hear this one.
I wonder if people describing hiring as "broken" have only experienced the process from one side. Hiring is a one of my favorite things to work on at my software engineering jobs, because it's a super-hard problem that is always available. It hasn't been "solved" and lots of people do it in ways that are obviously sub-optimal, but I don't think anyone knows how to do it optimally.

I think this is what TFA is getting at.
If I have a cron job and reads the pressure file and simply stores its contents with a time stamp for later analysis, would that be enough to determine historic resource utilization?
Dropbox’s following of symlinks has always been magical, nonstandard behavior that breaks symlinks and is user-hostile for anyone who relies on proper symlink behavior.
> BitTorrent the protocol is decentralized but again when one of the largest torrent sites goes down it shows.

When one of the largest torrent sites go down, the torrents do not go down with them. You can still seed them and indeed many people continue doing that. Others can still download them provided they have the torrent file or the magnet links. These sites are usually archived, you can still have access to such magnet links. Plus, there are many torrent search engines, and so forth. You can use as many trackers as you want, or none! These torrent sites are really just aggregators for better discoverability. Plus there are trackerless torrents nowadays that use DHT in which every peer acts as a tracker. This is called decentralized tracking, a trackerless system. I do not think that comparing this to git or GitHub makes any sense.
Your implicit assumption seems to be that Google and its ilk hire the absolute best engineers. This is simply not true, for one very simple reason.

There is no proven method for sorting a pile of candidates such that the absolute best engineers will float to the top. In the case of high-profile employers, a significant percentage of hires will be those who have trained themselves specifically to beat the hiring process at that company. Those people aren’t the absolute best software engineers.
long time goal is to stack layers of transistors which can be done for the first time with this approach ... previously with traditional semiconductors 3D stacking was impossible due to over heating ... so yes this opens up huge possibilities
Sure feels like it.

I just left HK for Japan as the internet was not only behaving like crap, but all that talk of a China style firewall will just be too disruptive for business.

It's a shame I loved HK but I need to work as I have so many bills to pay.
There's an impression that this problem is only at a few places like Google which is not the case. As someone recently browsing the market I've seen this process adopted rampantly and without reason or rationale.

So many companies I would consider mid-tier, lower, or not even technology companies have outsourced have adopted similar if not the same hiring models of FAANG or outsource hiring/recruiting/assessments that follow suit. It's an absolute mess.
Very few of the libraries will be owned by an individual though - I would bet >99% are owned by an OEM or software house. That OEM probably isn't interested in suing facebook for a small amount, because if facebook blocked that OEM's phones, it would probably spell the end of the OEM.
you're old
Rumpkernel assisted fuzzing of the NetBSD file system kernel code in userland
Also, I can set aside an hour or two during the day to chat with you. If you ask me to spend hours implementing something on my own time, I will assume you also ask your employees to do that and will completely blow that off.

What you'll end up with is people who are desperate for your job, which may or may not be a great sign.
At Hay-on-Wye, eccentric Richard Booth built a kingdom out of books
You are partially correct. Yes parents are responsible for their kids but not always. We have laws making it illegal for kids to buy alcohol. If the store sells alcohol to my kid they have broken the law and it was their responsibility to not sell it to my kid. So as you can see there are examples out in the world where yes as a parent we teach our kids alcohol is bad and for kids wait to an adult but the responsibility for not allowing that actually falls on all of society. You can't legally serve a kid alcohol. And I also believe the same will be said of Youtube. You can't serve all this content obviously directed at little kids, and lets cut the bullshit this is directed at kids or do I need to go find several videos and link to them where they into the video saying "hey kids...today bla bla bla", and then fill it with predatory ads. The TV industry was hit with this years and years ago and made a standard for tv shows so children did not get exposed to crap. Youtube surely saw this coming? They let is happen for years so again I think they deserve this punishment but wish it was even bigger.
> left is for the revolution, the right is against.

It becomes ambiguous when the official position of the establishment is historically revolutionary-leaning, and claims to follow the original ideology, then the "left" can be interpreted as either (1) supporters of current position of the establishment, or (2) revolutionaries who wish to overthrow the establishment. It gets even more ambiguous if you describe the positions in terms of civil rights, economic systems, foreign policies, etc, you'll see the terms are used in all possible and incompatible ways, which is a typical situation in a Chinese political discourse.
They won't get rid of zsh, which they've just adopted as the default shell going forward. Macports and homebrew can bootstrap with a shell script.
Apparently homebrew currently pulls a temporary ruby to run its installation on linux where it can't expect there to be a systen ruby installed. Something like that would have to be done.
I would find this distressing to see as a tourist let alone a US citizen. Why not go the whole hog and have pre-boarding searches like airports?
Late to the party, but obesity (and general preventable health conditions) is what I'm looking to address: http://meports.com
> It works great if you won't deviate from the common use case

What have you needed to do that isn’t well supported by devise?
I don't think of it as entitlement so much as a refusal to see the world as it is.

There are a trillion arbitrary signals that will help or hinder your success in various ways.

Physical attractiveness, gender, race, parental background, your nationality, where you can work, your accent, language... the list is honestly almost endless.

You can wish for a world in which none of this were true, or do your best to find a place within it. Sure, don't lose sight of justice, but recognise that you can't change the world alone.
In my darkest moments, I also think the most high-minded improvements to human well-being and governance of the last 200 years are fleeting and and will soon be lost. Of course, there is hardly a better mission one could have but to preserve those things.
Ask HN: What are examples of cool decks?
Looking for cool presentation decks and tips.
Ever since lihkg.com got ddosed there was the rise of the fake /r/hong_kong vs /r/HongKong thing and so many obvious CCP bots, 1-2 year old accounts 0 posts, 0 karma making all kinds of pro CCP posts.

This really is an information war.
Probably my favourite Lamport story is that his original Paxos paper was written in such a basic style (literally, Byzantine generals) that readers failed to realise exactly how revolutionary the content was.
> You’d need to show how the design disregards security.

I mostly agree with you, but don’t forget the ‘root login with empty password’ or ‘the password hint showing the password on encrypted disk unlock’ issues. I don’t see how anyone can claim that was secure by design. Sure, it was a bug, but a secure design would not have permitted that issue.
> I think that telling users to execute a shell command to install software is not the smartest idea in any case (eg. no way to verify signatures of installed software)

Installing via a shell command has nothing to do with the (in)ability to verify signatures. You aren’t more protected running a random installer package than an auditable shell script from the official Homebrew repo. Also, Homebrew supports more installation methods including cloning the git repo by yourself or un-taring an archive.
Not going into this explanation (as I believe the qualities of languages can only be assessed through experience, not theoretical arguments), but I, and many others, have been through Scala with high hopes before finally settling for Clojure - this should tell you that there are indeed good reasons for favouring it.

An analogy to pique your curiosity: I would say that if Java was a balloon, Scala would be a zeppelin, and Clojure would be a plane.

I would also say that the stewardship of Clojure is much saner than that of Scala, due to a strong emphasis on stability. Typesafe / Lightbend is bigger than Cognitect, but big does not mean reliable. One sign of this is that Clojure now grows via libraries, the core having reached stability. Scala is still figuring out its fundamental semantics.
No, but they are pushing yet another standard that's insecure by default because their entire business model is based on spying on end users.
Sling TV is also down, which makes sense given the AWS outage.
Today there are believed to be around 10 million books in circulation in Hay-on-Wye, an extraordinary claim for a small market town of approximately 1,500 inhabitants. It's possible to stumble across a bookstore every few moments while exploring the place.

"By the 1980s there were 30-plus bookshops in Hay and it was at its zenith," ... "It was bubbling and it was all down to Richard."
Strictly speaking, yes, but the level of integration is very different. I can get the version of Python which would come bundled elsewhere, but if they remove Automator, there's nothing I can do.
It's the new hotness if you measure hotness by the amount of Medium posts written about it.
SMS is not as cheap as most people imply.

Sure, the total bitrate of sms messages is low, but the software and services are all legacy, require people with special skills to setup, and have quite high license fees to keep running.

Set up your own SMSC and tell us how easy it was...?
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They are the best at obtaining positions at Google.

Which is what people talk about here.

No-one ever mentions the fact that say, you're barred from cracking out `git clone` and making the next Linux.

It's always commercial employment, which always has been and I am willing to bet always will be primarily a political field.

Obviously Google doesn't have the best devs - or at least I bloody well hope they don't - because they're mostly working on ad conversion shite. That excludes a ton of people I know right off the bat.
I think the ‘correct’ behavior for Dropbox is to just back up the symlink. It should be treated like it was any other file.

Because now I can’t have a symlink in my Dropbox pointing to a machine-specific file outside the folder (like an env-vars file that’s different between MacOS and Linux)
This is one of the most important reasons I've kept using Dropbox despite having a much larger storage space on Google Drive or elsewhere. Dropbox once had superior handling of symlinks that deals with plenty of weird edge cases gracefully. I don't think I have any reason to use Dropbox any more.
Encyclopedia Galactica – Orion's Arm
RCS is still not encrypted.
Me too. Need to find an alternative.
The the kids mess up the machine and keep the recovery option close at hand. Tell them to store everything they care about (homework) in Google Drive, Dropbox, or the like.
Some of the wiki tools like Confluence now have collaborative editing capabilities. Failing that, you can have someone spin up a copy of Etherpad and have everyone hop on it.
Is anyone else getting timeouts with their heroku postgres instances? My dynos are healthy, but pg isn't. The status page doesn't mention anything about that.

Edit: it seems the postgres instances are running on amazon ec2, so that's probably why they're down.
Edit: they're failing over postgres instances now, so we should be back up soon.
And that’s 1.7 hours of downtime per year.

Usually WiFi/internet is a bigger downtime problem for most users.
One of the chapters is titled "Who Gets to Take AP Computer Science?", but 'gets' implies AP CS is not available to others. A more factual title would be "Who Chooses to Take AP Computer Science?"
On a side not I would really like to point out this comment not for it's content but rather just how it starts. I just love the part how you start with "you misunderstood my point, or I failed to get them across adequately.". I just think that is such a great way to view the world. I wish everyone posted with this kind of mindset. Sometimes the inability of others to understand may be our inability to express it properly. Have a nice day.
Another related question is how would you evaluate the quality of hires? So you hire for a team of 5 people who complete 83% of the tasks you set for them that year.

How do you know if you hired well? Is this an excellent result or a terrible one? How do you know how well each of those 5 did and how well the team would have done with other people in the roles?
I once tried to symlink from my personal folder to a team folder in a Corporate Dropbox account. The reason was because I wanted the Dropbox App I created to upload files to the Team directory but I could only create the app from my user.

The result was continual sync, 100% cpu and growing RAM use (past 20GB). I had to eventually delete the link and just copy the files over manually when they were done being created.
Is JavaScript the most confusing programming language?
That's mentioned towards the end of the link:

> littlefs by itself does not provide ECC. The block nature and relatively large footprint of ECC does not work well with the dynamically sized data of filesystems, correcting errors without RAM is complicated, and ECC fits better with the geometry of block devices.

That is, ECC and read-integrity checking is determined at the block level, not the filesystem level. The filesystem assumes that it's dealing with a block device that either succeeds or reports an error.
SMS is carried in the status/beacon messages that the phone and tower periodically exchange. This is why there is a character limit. Bandwidth cost is zero.
I know the IDE has tooltips, but why don’t they ‘invent’ enums instead of those magic constants for match_mode and search_mode? Does that complicate the parser that much?

For VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, they can’t for backwards compatibility, but this breaks new ground.
Under which provision would this be illegal though? It's the operating system image Facebook can get by just buying the exact same model of phone the user owns. I'm having trouble finding under which definition of GDPR managed personal data does this fall over.

The only angle I see is copyright infringement for copying libraries owned by the phone manufacturer... but even that I'm not sure if it's really illegal in this case. Worth filing a complaint anyway I guess.
odd to see that they're starting to roll it out in Europe though where internet based messaging (i.e. whatsapp) has already largely replaced sms, I've rarely seen use sms in years.

Given that RCS does not appear to be encrypted by default it's actually a step back over what most people are already using.
Clojure is concise, expressive, not noisy, opinionated (with generally appreciated opinions), dynamically typed, a Lisp, functional with some escape hatches (but not confused with being FP and OOP), and built to solve real problems. Scala is either the opposite of these, or at least not as much of these.

IMO, less code is better. Clojure is about as terse as you can get and still be readable (by my opinion). Scala is very visually noisy in comparison. While you can do types with Clojure.spec, you get to choose when and use when useful to you.

Rich Hickey is the best communicator of why Clojure is good. Here's a relevant starting point a video talk he gave on the 10 year anniversary of Clojure:
https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=1636

All this said, Scala has more jobs than Clojure in the same way that Java has more jobs than Scala does. It's more Java-like than Clojure (and not just because it isn't Lisp). (And incidentally, only people who haven't tried at all to use Clojure complain about parens ().)

Sadly, I think Javascript is the long-term winner. Python is also a winner, but it doesn't have the front-end reach that JS has (while JS also has server side). Clojure and Clojurescript can do both, and are an awesome choice if you don't mind working alone and having few job opportunities. However, if you want to focus on one language and be able to do a lot of things, and have lots of job opportunities. Javascript is actually the one I would suggest.
This practice may not end well.

> There have been a lot of very angry Adobe software users in Australia this week as it was discovered retail versions of Creative Suite would carry a massive premium (up to $1,800) over what Adobe charges US users.

> So massive is the difference in fact, it’s been stated you could actually fly from Australia to the US, buy Creative Suite, fly back, and still save money.

[0] https://www.geek.com/news/adobe-ceo-angers-everyone-by-side-...
Is this tongue in cheek? Because it reads as more worldly and self aware but is largely about living a more extravagant, expensive and luxurious lifestyle.
You're assuming free trade, which is often not what actually exists. It's hard enough to get American beef approved to be sold in Canada, let alone ship it around the world.
You could pay for YouTube premium instead of trying to use third part ad blockers.
I'd wager no more difficult than operating the mobile network on which it runs in the first place.
Man I wish literally all of the web ends up on AWS and then we get an outage.
Check the 'boutique' hotel option in the hotel search engines, it will show you the non-chain, non-corporate hotels.
I'm greatly interested in Lacan and reading through the entire series of the "Seminars" while watching Jacques Siboni's "Topologos Lutecium" seminars on YouTube and even re-reading the parts of Zizek I had skipped because, you know, psychoanalysis.

But it's hard to deny the differences in epistemological status between modern psychiatry (which tries to advise therapy for most conditions, it's too bad that it's so hard to find therapy that passes either Popperian criteria or p-value hypothesis testing) and psychoanalysis.

I have a masters in mathematics and have been increasingly attracted to the idea of going through psychoanalytic training instead of a normal PhD in some field like physics or philosophy -- which at one point was also an intellectual obsession. I find it fascinating. But I also have STEM goggles; I can see the world through them and see what's wrong.

But it seems to me that there's a "meta knowledge" of how theories can be constructed outside the Popperian box; Zizek saw this.
Or another way

Success = idea * execution * opportunity * luck.
reddit is responding for me about 20% of the time.

forum.wordreference.com is also completely down for me.
We make moderate use, 0.5M MAU, of Heroku and AWS-east-1 and appear to be up.

Thank goodness... Last thing I needed on a 3 day weekend was an outage.
Just say no. In fact these agents have no authority to force you to submit to a search without a warrant, probable cause or a dog. Most people either don't understand that, or fear the consequences. What can happen of course is intimidation and causing you to miss the train entirely. Papers, please, may be a stereotype but one agents like these heartily believe in.
I don't know what motivates someone to be so psychopathically obsessed with invading other people's privacy, stealing their property, and even ruining their lives.
Text messages on some networks in the UK sometimes have a 10-15 minute delay at busy times. Even on good days, there is usually a 10 second or so delay.

That makes them impractical for realtime chat, and even makes 'verification codes' a pain.
Bacteria send messages to colonize plant roots
Text messages are ubiquitous here in the UK, and normally work fine. For better or worse, many online systems now rely on them for 2FA as well.

As another data point, the choice of personal mobile plans in the UK is now almost entirely dominated by how much data allowance you want. Apart from some budget plans for people or devices that don't need significant amounts of data at all, the number of minutes of calling time or SMS messages you send is unlikely to be a significant factor in the plan you choose or the price you pay any more, being practically unlimited in most cases.
Not really, no. Python/Ruby/Perl interpreters are not “integrated” into the OS like AppleScript and Automator are. They’re just some binaries sitting in /usr/local/bin.
Python 2 is the real python /s