skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to deal with this sort of stolen data (wow, it seems like a long time ago now). A big pile arrived every single morning before dawn.

At this scale you'd expect to find clear evidence it was Instacart users e.g. an account with email address dave+instacart@davesdomain.example. If there's nothing like that in the data then it's immediately suspicious, a small site might just not have any users with such breadcrumb trails in their email but a big dump like this should statistically have something because there are lots of people (including me) using a breadcrumb for every account.

This is how I know for sure that one of the banks I used years ago lost all their customer email/ name data even though they denied this at the time when it was news. I get scam emails to the address I gave them even now.

You'd also expect a company that cares about its users data to have plausible looking "watermark" accounts that trip alarms and so they'd be able to confirm this is their data. Even, if they did a proper job, what the source was (e.g. if you send a subset of data to a partner organisation you can add more watermark data and that lets you know if the data is stolen from that partner)
I'd just like to make a comment about human endeavour generally. It is a messy business, full of inefficiencies and strange quirks. Yet somehow, we still manage to invent amazing things across the planet.

What you are describing is certainly not unique to FAANG, and certainly not true for all FAANG (or anywhere). There will always be places where the pace is glacial, or getting work done is hard. There will be others where it is easier.

There will be times when you are struggling to get things done, even in a good environment. Life will not always be as simple as it was (children, life traumas, financial change, political instability, medical events, who knows). Other times, life will be easier and you will have time to wonder and plan on top of regular life.

The one constant is that you are often in charge of a certain amount of agency with regards to yourself and your own output. Why shrug your shoulders and do less in your current team? If the company will not offer things to you to 'work harder', why not just do it anyway if you are capable? Some people don't even have two hands! This is flippant but the point is: do not rely on solely external motivations to do brilliant things.

Counterpoint: Don't work yourself to death in a team or organisation that will not value your output. Do good things, and use them to move laterally (or elsewhere entirely) until you find a good fit. It probably won't be perfect - but flaws can bring benefit too, even if only as a balanced perspective.

Anyway, carry on and do well despite those around you acting as anchors or wet blankets. Find some colleagues in the lunch area that will act as sails, and be their sea breeze. Invest something great, or make small invisible improvements to many peoples lives (quite possible in a FAANG) and take heart that you did well for yourself, and not for some performance metric.
I have been wearing Uniqlo t-shirts most days for the last few years. The codes change regularly on those. I have a few from a version where the bottom hem is always curling up on itself. The rest of them just hang straight and flat...

I also have some Uniqlo underwear that changed code where the old ones fit well and the new ones didn't.

I'm still a happy customer, but it does mean that I have to be a little cautious about buying 5 more of something just because my previous experience with it was good.
Yes thank you. I might do that, that one was the most interesting sounding one see the time.
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Hey, first of all, cool project! Although I certainly see the romantic appeal of "no email or password, just ssh key" and "the cli is the ui", other than for solo hackers I think you need a way to visualize the changes of a Pull Request (or Merge Request like in Gitlab) and do a code review, add comments, etc. Or at least Patch Review like in sr.ht
I actually think that would be useful even for a solo hacker. Other features would also be welcomed, like CI/CD and tickets to track new features and bugs, but you can always integrate with a third party service for that.
Also, unless I'm missing a key feature, I think for the use case you're appealing to you could just have a repo in a VPS or rsync.net. And the comparison with Dropbox doesn't apply here because dropbox is for the masses, and gitern ia for hackers, any hacker would know how to set that up. Finally with keybase you can create encrypted git repos. You can, manually set encrypted git repos on a VPS but it's difficult, keybase does it hassle free. You can also self-host something like gitea/gogs or gitbucket, or even gitlab.
As a GenX-er it's also mind boggling to me how some very 'ingrained' songs might not be recognized by younger folks. Quite a lot of good pop tracks, not my style, but they are played literally at the grocery store, I don't fathom how people don't know them.

Something has definitely changed in music (a few things) - at hockey games they are playing strictly rock up until 2000. Part of it is demographics, but there's just nothing to replace 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns and Roses that has enough widespread acclaim.
While it mostly comes out to the same, I doubt the price will drop much, but rather they will release a newer iteration of flow cells with slower degradation or more redundancy.

There also doesn't seem to be any significant competition, as Oxford Nanopore has a very broad patent portfolio surrounding their tech.
So, like an 1840s telegraph, but a bit better and with more spyware?
A lot of jobs at FAANG companies are there pursely so you're not working on competing with said FAANG company at a startup/other company.
Yes, and btrfs's raid1 isn't a mirror. Btrfs's raid1c3 and raid1c4 are its alternative to raid5/6 without the write hole.
Very curious about which FAANG this is. As an EM at "F", my experience is pretty much the opposite - everything moves at breakneck speed, driven by an impact-oriented culture and related incentives. A team like you're describing would get disbanded very quickly due to low productivity (unless of course you're all somehow saving/making the company millions of dollars with few lines of code).
I remember this in the first place I worked at.

Damn that was bad. Lots of positives in how that huge company handle tech but speed was not one.

Since then I have only worked for startups. Everything is not rosy but we execute very quickly.
(OP - thanks for reading!)

Imo asking questions and figuring out where there are holes in a plan is natural, expected, and part of a responsible person's job. In a sibling post Bjartr describes how to do this really well.

The chaos-creating behavior that this post referred to is disruptive behavior that accidentally or intentionally distracts the team from accomplishing its goals in a high quality way. Eg disagreeing with or poking holes in a plan in order to get to a good outcome is totally normal – but poking holes just for the hell of it is not.

Also if you're worried, I'd consider just asking your teammates for feedback on whether the way you approached situations was helpful. Most people are really amenable to giving this type of feedback.
I do the same thing all the time!
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Amazing we don't have a law granting each individual copyright of their own genome.
There is a weird persistent idea that all anyone really needed to do was "extend ipv4 addresses" and everything ipv4 related would have remained compatible.

No, it still absolutely would have completely broken everything and anything that used ipv4, all the tools would still need to be thrown out.

There is basically no way such a proposal could work and maintain any sane level of compatibility.

Its evident right on its face, how exactly would an ipv4 only tool connect to a 64 bit "ipv4.1 address" ?
Adding that FamilySearch hasn't joined the other genealogy sites in their DNA Addictions.

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MyHeritage has clearly lost their way. They've all but abandoned their research role (their once-excellent post 1940 records are nearly unsearchable now) to one obsessed with DNA & image gimmickry.
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No Aphex Twin, or Daft Punk ... ? Ha
Many important numerical algorithms like dot products, matrix multiplication, FFT can be implemented in terms of FMA. So yes, it makes sense for processor designers to devote resources to FMA units.

Also, FMA units can be used for pure adds or multiplies as well. Not sure of instruction sets that have separate instructions for addition and multiplication in addition to FMA (like x86), are they all executed on the same functional units or are there separate units. And if executed on the same functional units, what's the limitation preventing only one add per cycle vs. two FMA's as on Haswell.
To be more precise, what matters is not so much what God/gods "think", but what they want us to do. In this case, the textual foundation for Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus
is Mark 16:16: "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned." Assuming these really are the words of Jesus, they leave very little for interpretation, no matter what Vaticanum II says.
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Oh thank god. Daydreaming Temporal Plagiarists unite!
I left Matasano more than 6 years ago. Unfortunately, Matasano SFBA moved from the dentist's office (which I have fond memories of) to Sunnyvale. What I'll say right now is: I have the same disclosable interest in Apple's security as most veterans in software security: they're an elite employer and I have a bunch of friends there.

(The more important disclosure is that I don't specialize in the kind of work that would likely benefit from an unlocked phone.)
I'm not sure where the confusion is coming from. Have you read the linked EULA?

Of course you can run ESXi on Mac _hardware_. You can run nearly any OS or software on the Mac _hardware_. It's, until recently, pretty standard Intel x86 hardware.

You cannot, however, run macOS on Dell hardware as an ESXi guest. It very clearly violates Apple's EULA for macOS, even if you could trick it into doing so.

You can look around the internet for how to install a macOS guest on non Apple hardware running ESXi. It's not easy, and requires patching ESXi, and more.

Plus, the hosting company you linked to is clearly running things on Mac hardware. They even say it.

Doing otherwise would clearly violate Apple's EULA, which is what all this was originally about.
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If your FAANG is Amazon, it gets better. When you first join, no one knows what you can do, so you get crap tasks. You show what you can do and you get better tasks. As you stay on a team for a little while, you start to notice small improvements that can be made, so you make a well thought out suggestion (or you just go and make it better). Over time your tasks become projects. You understand the goals for your team so you make your own tasks. Eventually the projects you are assigned are so large that you have to delegate tasks to your colleagues who don't have the experience yet.

If you have the patience and willingness to build that trust and go down that path, FAANG will be rewarding. If it feels slow and frustrating, then it might not be a good fit. You could bounce around to different orgs hoping to find a domain that excites you, or you can coast for 4 years until your RSUs run out. I'd say it's better to find an organization or company that gets you excited. Just my two cents.
This has been my experience as well. The best places to work are where they actually have a lot of interesting problems to solve and work to be done in order to grow and be profitable.

A lot of companies are not doing that, and in many cases developer hiring and team management is more driven by things like internal company politics, or the desire to use a hiring budget by the end of the year for example.

Also it is sometimes the case that an organization's software development needs are not persistent. Sometimes there are weeks or even months where the bottleneck of the company is far from software development, and until those problems are figured out there's little for the developers to do, but they're on a salary so they have to come in and do their hours anyway. That can be awkward to talk about when those developers are being paid up to a half a million dollars per year.
And Eluktronics to the best of my knowledge? The new 15" https://www.eluktronics.com/RP-15/ and 17" https://www.eluktronics.com/RP-17/
For some reason I still remember vividly where I was when I first saw that video (with the melting Barbie doll on the barbecue). My family had just moved to a new house—quickly on account of an eviction—and it was a hot summer day. I had a grape Welch's soda and we had just got the cable hooked up.

Random story that's apropos of nothing, but to this day, when I hear that song, it still transports me to that time and place. I never really drank grape soda. Not before and not since. Not sure why I had it that day. But damn if I don't taste it when Black Hole sun is playing.
I work at VMWare and I am pleasantly surprised it is not at all like that. Join VMWare's core team ;)
IPv6 is great if you control lots of components that need to talk to one another. Life is much simpler when you can trivially have thousands of globally routable addresses. It provides great value without having to be 100% deployed and for that, I am grateful.

I liken it to a commercial kitchen. Large numbers of identical steel pans, everything measured in grams, Cambros, walk-in refrigeration. Ideas and tech that are unlikely to catch on in the home kitchen, but when you operate at a larger scale, invaluable.
Do you know any services which offer that? I have some work I would like to polish up but beyond having a relative of friend look over it I am generally lost.
Where would these extra 32 bits come from? This simple IPv4.1 would still require all networking hardware and software to be updated. The protocol would also not be backwards compatible and people would still want dual stack. I imagine adoption would not be that much easier than IPv6 adoption, while missing out on the additional improvements that come with IPv6.
Ipv4 will not be going away because the long tail is very long, but it'll become irrelevant at some point for day-to-day stuff
They're referring to a paper published in Cell.

"Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: evidence that D614G increases infectivity of the COVID-19 virus"
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30820-5.pdf

There's a more infectious mutation that overtakes the original form wherever it spreads, including Asia, although it's not more severe. I guess Asian countries would have an advantage because they faced the original form first and got their act together, while Europe and the East Coast of the US faced the more infectious variant early on. (The West Coast, on the other hand, started out with the original form, probably because the virus came directly from Asia. The variant didn't even show up in the Bay Area until May, for example.)
It's just short of their qualifying requirement, which is top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smells like Teen Spirit" reached a high of #6: https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana
> It sort of addresses a fundamental issue with a lot of Christian religions that teach that people who never had a chance to hear about Jesus and be baptized automatically go to hell.

This always struck me as one of the most stupid and illogical tenets as it's in opposition to the concept of loving and just God: why create millions of people who have no chance to meet the Gospel, and then automatically condemn them to suffer forever, just like that, for nothing? It really makes no any sense! And yet, the modern world lives on remnants of these ideas.
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(OP - thanks for reading!)

Yup, that was exactly the idea ^^. Plans need to change all the time, that's expected and just a part of life. The goal is just to raise red flags in a way that adds clarity and helps people to productively adjust.
That's really funny. I love the weird fantasies we cook up.

I have a variation of this, where I travel back in time to before some long dead person did what made them famous and tell them all about their discoveries and all the wonders that came from it.

It's usually accompanied with a hint that they won't remember our conversation, so it won't affect history, but they'll enjoy marveling at it for a short while.
I'm sorry, what? Extending the bits in IPv4 will break compatibility completely. Everything will need upgrades just the same as to support IPv6, so you might as well go all the way at that point.

How is it much harder to work with?
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"It is in accordance with the Keynesian economics school of thought"

This is the magic money language of every 'debt doesn't matter' politician.

First - this is not about 'business cycle' it's a meta-cycle and it's possible the money will literally never get paid back.

Second - it's not just debt, it's tinkering with the monetary system itself.

The Fed, since 2008 has been sitting on Trillions of garbage assets (bundled home loans) bought at 'face value' though they were underwater when purchased.

This is a pretty direct attack on the integrity of the institution.

Your dollars were backed by Gold, then The US Governments Ability to Pay Their Debt, then 'Toxic Loans' - and it's only going to get worse.

Canada is throwing in 'a billion here, a billion there' with COVID spending, including a $1B shout out to the PM's favorite charity. It doesn't sound like a low when $250B is blown otherwise.

The amount of spending, the terms (see: EU's deal released just yesterday) are fairly unprecedented and it's going to take generations to sort out.

Both Canada and Germany in the 1990's had to undergo major restructuring, in Canada, due to excessive spending previously & facing serious credit ratings problems. Thankfully, their timing was perfect as the global situation was good.

Spain is contemplating 'permanent UBI' - which they can't remotely afford.

The difference between 'now' and '80 years ago' is that the future of Western nations entailed considerable growth and renewal, now, this is not the case. There's nothing to indicate there will be any way to reliably repay the debt.

So - we are resorting to ugly new measures, which are changing the nature of what 'money' actually means.

This is not 'Keynes' - it's a secular realignment of the entire system.
Experian's lawyers were apparently comfortable enough with this line of work to buy a company that does it outright (CSID).

It was interesting because I'd worked at a startup, which used data from the people CSID had hired and that startup was acquired by Experian. At the startup we'd concluded this work was toxic and it'd be crazy to touch the company, we ensured the arrangement was completely at arm's length yet less than ten years later a huge public company felt it was OK to just buy the whole thing and swallow it.
I waited for this. Sorry to all that are affected, but maybe this is a sign for others, not to give their DNA to a random company.
It sounds a lot like where I work and that's not a faang - it just seems to be the default setting for large software organisations.

Sucks to be on the inside though and stressful if you care about doing good productive work.
Given the description I assume you worked at Amazon. I worked there too, and I quit for Google.

They are VERY different companies. Google's tooling is unparalleled and maintained by staffed teams, its work force is motivated. It's hard to move the needle - in a large company full of smart people all the easy stuff was done ten years ago, and compliance concerns are everywhere. But none of that is due to lack of tools or motivation.

Google is an engineering company. Amazon is a store that hires engineers because it has no other option.

You seem to be at exactly the point where I was when I left. Yes, the grass is greener on the other side. Do it.
Are you referring to mirtazapine or amitriptyline or trazodone? I've seen by of those three being used for sleep aside from their primary indication.
We are searching for a new serial to ethernet solution which is not as expensive as most B2B products. Right now this [1] would be our dream product. We are also looking into a combination of a mini-pc (like PC-Engines [2]) with two of these miniPCIe serial cards [3].

If you have better recommendations feel free to share them :)

[1] https://freetserv.github.io/
[2] https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c2.htm
[3] https://www.delock.de/produkte/G_95244/merkmale.html
I don't think those are good examples. The communities you described formed because they were unwelcome in the mainstream, so it's only logical that they would devolve into radicalization as that's the very essence of their existence.

I don't think social platforms should be non-moderated. Calling for harmful action should lead to a ban. Believing unrealistic things shouldn't. In such a context, most non mainstream communities would have no need to exist in a bubble. In the same vein downvotes and upvotes are fundamentally antithetic to free speech as they only serve to amplify the dominant echo and push minorities to their own bubbles. Instead people should be able to downvote locally, informing their own future interactions without affecting the community as a whole.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and posit that the respondents of this quiz aren't a random sampling of normal people. At 31 I'm square in millennial territory but was familiar with exactly zero of the "millennial all know these songs" examples.
If the dev tools, docs and tech debt are bad and slow the entire team down, then why not take it as an opportunity to improve them?

At FAANG doing things that have a multiplicative effect across the team/several teams/entire org/entire company are rewarded extremely well and a rapid way to advance your career.
I like the general idea. I haven’t got the time to do more than skimming right now but I already feel that a single markdown file (especially without a table of contents) isn’t the right medium for this.
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IPv4 continues to exist because consumers are subject to ISP monopolies.

"Symmetric bandwidth" or "Running my own server" are not criteria that can be used to choose an ISP because there is NO ISP that offers either one in most of the country (US).

Since nobody can run their own servers, there is no pull for a larger chunk of addresses that would drive IPv6 adoption.
A vps host I use offered v6 only servers for $2 cheaper but they removed that plan probably because people kept getting confused.
I have no experience working for a FAANG company but I can tell you technical debt is everywhere. As soon as you write a line of code, doesn't matter how good it is at the time - it will eventually turn into debt and need maintaining.
I'm probably going to be dead before Google Assistant can correctly interpret "take me to the McDonald's beside the Target"
> while missing out on the additional improvements that come with IPv6.

Can you give some examples of what these additional improvements are?
the same as with other assets - we're entering the greatest wealth redistribution (it would for example definitely beat the one triggered by 2008). The smaller and more vulnerable get distressed, and are going to be scooped up on the cheap by the big ones who have access to liquidity.