skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would an OS seed an RNG in the cloud? How would you seed an RNG on a headless server in a VM? What about when that VM is copied, possibly while running, in order to duplicate server functionality? There are vulnerabilities and threats here that your comment does not take into account.
I'd be interested in reading suggestions for criticism of Maslow or "win win".

The few criticisms I've found of Maslow seem to be that it's not 100% universal across individuals and cultures. This is true, but I think not much of a criticism of a model that's meant to be a rough guideline to a very complex topic. If Maslow is only 80% valid across all of humanity I think that's a pretty decent model, but if there are deeper criticisms I'd be interested to learn.

Similarly I'm not aware of any criticism of the concept of "win win" which, in my understanding, is just a definition of certain kinds of mutually beneficial situations. So I don't even have a frame for how it could be wrong :) Any reading advice on this subject would also be appreciated.
That is the first thing that I thought about. I know a lot influencers (political and not) on telegram. They can host live radio shows (and record it and call it a podcast). It's great. I'm curious what the community comes up with these new features.
Frankly, I hate dealing with tech outside of work and I would have to pihole my TV.
This is why we need AI. Look out adtech here comes big pasta.
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What is an example of something that, in your view, would simplify this complexity?
I wrote this elsewhere as an expanded form of my other comment here:

In the pictured headline, if "Georgian African American newspapers" is using "Georgian" as a demonym, then it means newspapers published by African Americans from Georgia.

But if the headline is using "Georgian" as an adjective, then lacking hyphenation, it's ambiguous whether it means newspapers published by African Americans from Georgia /or/ newspapers published in Georgia by African Americans.

We rarely use the adjectival form of U.S. states ("Georgia Peaches", not "Georgian Peaches"), so I found the headline a little garden path and initially started parsing it as if it were referring to the country of Georgia.

Then, right below the headline, the text reads "Georgia African American newspapers" which isn't ambiguous and means newspapers published in Georgia by African Americans. That's confirmed by the rest of the article.

Of course, the African Americans in question were likely also from Georgia, so to be pedantic, it's Georgian African American Georgia newspapers.

(I doubt any African Americans from Georgia emigrated to the Russian Empire at the time, otherwise we could be talking about African American Georgian Russian Georgia newspapers ... or something.)

Anyway if I were the headline writer, I think I would have used "African American Georgia newspapers..."
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A bit sad that they did not go for

uint64_t zpl_crc64(size_t len, const unsigned char data[len]);
it certainly seemed that way to me at the time... i miss ios 3.
> Maybe the actual number representation with our modern numerals is the worst way to track count, but the way to manipulate those numbers is the best that ever was from what I can tell. All thanks to the folks that laid down the foundation to Arabic-Hindu numerals.

Hmm? The manipulation and the written form are fully independent. Before the introduction of Arabic numerals to Europe, this manipulation was already common; that's what an abacus was for. It's just that you wrote your result down in Roman numerals rather than as a picture of an arrangement of beads.
They won't be annoyed if they use language normally. But if someone is trying to be prescriptivist, they deserve some annoyance. And I didn't say it was clever.
That's why these breads were called rattler in german.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattler
No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Tesla's original "gigafactory" talked a big talk, too, but they only completed 30% of the building. The Tesla Berlin factory is "capable of over 100 GWh per year" with only vague Musk-promises of it going above that over time.
The bombing was not revenge per se, but the Japanese never surrendered even when outnumbered 20 to 1. Even worse, the last Japanese standing would probably blow himself up with a grenade to take out a few Americans with him.

In this light, the Japanese basically “forced” the US to literally go with the Nuclear option: using such outrageous force on an already weakened enemy, just to get them to surrender.
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I'm a big fan of static builds. But cannot understand how a 15MB test IPA becomes a 70MB production IPA and takes 300MB to upload.

That's IMO software explosion and bloat as Niklaus Wirth ranted on decades ago.
Email _is_ 99% spam. That doesn't mean that email isn't useful, though.
GSuite started free. Google's goal is to up-sell me on a $6/month plan. With my whole family on, that'd be many thousands of dollars over our lifetimes.

We had an account compromised. We were trying to understand what happened, and ideally, get the attacker prosecuted. Google has the auditing tools which would have allowed us to do this, but:

1) Google removed access to security/auditing tools for legacy accounts, in an attempt to up-sell their $$$ accounts.

2) As a "legacy" account, we can't get Google support (the free support directs us to Workspace support, and Workspace blocks legacy accounts from contacting their support). There is no human being who will talk to us.

This would have been an open-and-shut issue, but I couldn't afford thousands of dollars to Google just to be able to do the right thing and prosecute the attacker. On my end, that means that I don't know what was stolen or destroyed, which is kind of a bummer. On your end, that means a cybercriminal is going free, and I'm pretty sure they'll pull the same shtick a few other places. Maybe your company.

There are viable places to do freemium (even if it is sleazy after promising free-for-life), but security isn't one of them. Intentionally bad security hurts the ecosystem. It's pissing in the pool.

I know you've got a paid account, but the callous attitude toward customer security and data translates over. You're a statistic. I'd never use Google Cloud in a B2B setting voluntarily, with viable alternatives.
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Tesla has marketing videos as well (and great FSD Beta videos), these videos testing Tesla try to find edge cases and the hardest places to drive where it's still allowed. There are serious bugs to fix, but that doesn't mean that Cruise doesn't have them.
Actually, you can't start a secret group chat at all in Telegram. It supports secret chats only for chats between two people, and that's where it's tied to the devices used for initiating the chat.
> On Instagram/Youtube/Facebook people can already go live with video. I think we will very quickly see similar audio-rooms on these platforms.

Exactly what happened to Slack being killed by Microsoft Teams, Meerkat killed by both Periscope (Twitter), Instagram Live. Snapchat suffered the same thing with Instagram Stories; but although they survived, user growth slowed.

We will see lots of audio-rooms on IG, Facebook, Twitter, etc and Clubhouse will join Meerkat as another victim of this VC hype machine, who ironically are hyping them on Twitter!
There’s a lot more in the stimulus than checks for people.

Anyway, it would help if people left their emotions out of the conversations and attempted to learn and discuss the benefits.

Economics is a field where no two economists agree on much.
An NFT opportunity for the scammers out there?
As an astronomer, I'm definitely going to remember and use this quote. <3
This is neat! It kind of looks like a ziploc.

https://cockeyed.com/science/eyeclops/eyeclops_ziplock.shtml
I don't think the statement is fair/correct because we don't know whether it is regulated well/properly at all. We have nothing to compare/benchmark basically, so why call it the "most regulated" one?
> Discord for instance have implemented their apps really well

No they haven't. The discord electron app is a trash fire. I use discord in Safari. It's just as bad UI and UX and slowness as the electron crap, but at least I get a few more hours of battery life...

Since I removed the electron garbage from my phone, my battery life tripled from one day at most to three days...
Does Telegram perform any censorship or deplatforming like Twitter when it comes to controversial topics (like illegal immigration, trans issues, race issues, etc)? I see from this post they have public groups but I also worry that these tech companies are all too willing to deplatform those that disagree with the progressive political platform, especially when they try to make the turn towards monetization. That’s really my deciding factor for adopting something new, as I don’t wish to give any power to those who are against free speech principles.

It seems like Telegram has had their own pressures from the anti-speech/anti-freedom crowd so maybe they’re on the other side of this?

Apple sued for not banning Telegram
https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-sued-by-pressure-group-for-n...

Google sued for not banning Telegram
https://reclaimthenet.org/now-its-googles-turn-to-be-sued-fo...

Telegram CEO says reject being “held hostage by tech monopolies”
https://reclaimthenet.org/telegram-adds-25m-users/
Or they (Goldman) could make less profit and allow for its employees to have reasonable lives. Anything over 40 hours just isn't needed unless one is living in poverty. Once one gets out of poverty, why work so much?
Ob Android, long holding a button usually tells you what it does
Had no idea they tried getting rid of it in the 60s, but that I guess explains why I was told it was hidden when I asked to see it.

In my family I think the second character is a generational name, from a poem or something selected way long ago and the third character is chosen by the recorder from a pool recycled for evey generation.

Also fun, as a 1.5g banana without too many connections back home, my parents also worry a bit about how I'll get my kids entered should that ever come to pass after they are gone.
Nice idea! It's kinda like Greensill et al. for smaller businesses. I'm a little confused about your economics though.

Your pricing [1] is simple, but I'm a bit surprised that there isn't something that scales with volume. For example, I know banks and retailers commonly offer 0% interest over 10 months for direct customers, but that's with the hope of additional related business. Are you that "more business"? (it seems like maybe? Since some jobs are not interest free and the basic plan is also with interest).

Alternatively, what does "9% subsidy instead of 11% on successful finance applications" means? (I was put off by the intercom chat widget wanting me to provide an email to watch your demo video. Sorry. I'm also not a potential customer). Is that where the risk premium gets included?

I also get to repeat the patio11 meme: charge more. For 45 pounds a month at the top end, you've probably returned a small fortune to the business owner. Even just handling the quoting and receipt of payment part is a big deal! (Here in San Francisco, it can be hard to get an invoice from a contractor and even send them payment; we've had to follow up for months!). Tossing in Financing and support for cards (and do you mean "debit" or also "credit" cards; I know you're UK based, so the defaults are probably obvious to your audience, but I figured I'd ask).

Either way, sounds like a big win for small shops!

P.S. There's also a "Downlaod" typo in the first pricing column.

[1] https://www.kanda.co.uk/pricing
Lollll X-D. Never knew changing your name was so easy over there. Here in the Netherlands you have to have a damn good reason. Like your name being Adolf or something, or changing your last name to disassociate from an abusive father.

Allowing a change arbitrarily is kinda weird to me. But I heard this is possible in the UK too and all you have to do is publish it in a newspaper ad due to some ancient law?
Hmmm interesting. It hasn't been doing it for me recently. Maybe it's a setting.
Yes, definitely worth checking out. The ship was preserved very well in the oxygen-depleted waters of the Baltic and is almost in a pristine condition.

This is very off-topic, but I cannot resist mentioning that when the ship was recovered from the bottom of the sea in 1961, one of the first things discovered from it was a miniature statue of Finnish olympic winner Paavo Nurmi. One of the best pranks by the student association of the Helsinki University of Technology. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/62jm2z/til_i...
I know nobody who is still using facebook. I wonder that it still exists.
The answer is probably no. While Pan-German and Pan-Italian nationalists[0] were successful (well, the German ones partially successful, what with Austria being left out), Pan-Scandinavians were not.

I doubt many things in history were inevitable. I do feel like German re-unification were probably more likely following the Second World War than German unification was after the Congress of Vienna, even if it looked bleaker for re-unification from the outset.

[0] To be clear, Italian and in particular German unification were not the success of pan-nationalists movement but rather strong political forces (like Bismarck) exploiting a popular movement for political gains. Put another way, German unification was not for the benefit of Germans, but for the benefit of Prussia.
> The UX is on par with WhatsApp

So as the GP said, subpar.
In Australia feral cats are culled since they kill the native animals.

There's even a guy that skins them and turns then into stubby holders.

https://youtu.be/VaB9J8JHVxI
Don't feed the trolls, I dare suggest.
That is fair, the startup time takes forever.
Not always (in some countries like Germany trading an index would be pretty bad for taxation reasons) - they really just don't give you an option to withdraw. Likely it's just way easier and cheaper to secure their wallets that way.
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The demo given at the bottom helps you understand what this is getting at (it's desktop-only):

https://awesomephant.github.io/continuous-typography/
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>>Nasa staff at mission control discussing a problem with Skylab

Including a gentleman who appears to be a rehabilitated space pirate. How cool.
> Negative space is good

Yeah, no. There's spacing, and there's useless void - negative space is usually being the latter.

Websites becoming ridiculous on computers, because everyone keeps designing for fat greasy fingers, and this trend is absolutely horrible.
one thing i keep wondering is that while we have several different pasta shapes (and invent new ones) there is pretty much only one pasta flavour (with a few minor variations)

meanwhile in china, most noodles there have the same spaghetti like shape, but they come in many different flavours, rice, wheat, potato, sweet potato, you name it

i am wondering why that is...
The article mentions _two_ instance of people hiring somebody to quit a job on their own behalf - what?

I know there are some Japanophiles here on HN - can somebody explain what that's all about?
That letter reads like his boss was exceptionally butthurt about the guy leaving. I'm guessing their working practices are becoming more well known and it's impossible to find qualified people to take the job.
Active listening and don't offer advice or try to solve the problem.
East Germany still faces incredible far ranging economic & societal difficulties after the West Germans swept in, strong armed the state, offered little support, & privatized all industry.

The economy was having enormous difficulties. Rather than support & help the population, it was GDP & GDP alone that was focused on.

My sources for what happened then are mostly the 4-part netflix drama The Perfect Crime, about the assassination of the Trust Agency head who paved over communism with capitalism. Not fancy, so I'm not super well versed. The movie doesn't go far into the aftermath, which, if you look at East Germany, has many of the scariest Trumpist vibes one might imagine to it. People got left the heck behind. It was a conquest not an integration.

Edit: People seem to really really hate that I cited my sources and it's not good enough. Perhaps a wikipedia quote to confirm some of my stance might make you modestly less skeptical? My words are radical but the situation itself was too:

> Despite these problems, the process of unification moved ahead, albeit slowly. The Treuhand, staffed almost entirely by Germans from the west, became the virtual government of eastern Germany. In the course of privatization, the agency decided which companies would live and which would die, which communities would thrive and which would shrivel, and which eastern Länder would be prosperous and which would not. It also decided who might or might not buy eastern firms or services.

I'd like to find a way to hand out more credit, to be fairer, and I lack that expertise. My apologies. This was an incredibly difficult situation. Yet, it feels very much, the German "reunification" was a one way integration, was one country taking over another, with few chances at all for the German Democratic Republic government & people to try to self-determine what path forward they wanted to take towards reunification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Germ...
I assume as well as any VoIP system, which (in my experience) is "meh", although the results can be very tolerable with a little knowledge, care, and post-processing.

An ideal system would automate a "double ender"[1] setup, streaming low-bitrate voice for the conversation itself but also recording uncompressed/losslessly-compressed audio at both ends, then delivering high fidelity sync'd audio as one file per participant (for easier editing) to the podcaster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone-sync
I believe Bukowski made such a novel. Don't know the title.
There are two kinds of things someone may want to hide: legal stuff and illegal stuff. It's a real shame that governments have succeeded in conflating the two and forcing us to take a position that is not the one we really have. Truly a brilliant move.

Of course you have something to hide, it's called privacy. There is absolutely no reason your private life should be public by default, so why accept it ?
Maybe similar to these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26512830
This news comes right at the moment I am rendering demoscenes 4kb intro in 8K60 quality on YouTube :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2bE1opaaJ0&list=PLbRiR5PpVy...
This. This is good management.
I thought the point of cooking pasta al dente is that it doesnt get mushy when combined with sauce where it continues to cook a bit longer.
I was always conflicted about poststructural thinkers; on the one hand I was enamored with the creativity of their ideas and analyses, but on the other hand it seemed that their insights were always communicated in the most impenetrable writing. I get that their chosen modes of communication are often interwined with the ideas themselves, but nonetheless it reminds me of engineers that create overly complex solutions to flex how clever they are.

Although I always had more fun with the continental philosophers than analytic ones, I do appreciate certain thinkers that can bring clarity to the works of Derrida, Foucault, etc. For example, I've always had an interest in Deleuze & Guattari, but it sure is helpful to have someone like Manuel DeLanda when reading works like A Thousand Plateaus. If not for him, I doubt I would've made sense of the original text at all.
You feed it rng created world that were curated by humans.
Yes but UI/UX around E2E is not good.
No it’s not. Does it even have a native app yet?
> That momentum went somewhere -- into the hill

No, the model isn’t including friction losses. The energy balance just has kinetic energy becoming potential energy.
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Whilst some outside financing is available, for the general contractor the ability to offer 0% finance just isn't there. Kanda provides these contractors the ability to offer this and compete with larger companies. Rather nicely, the agreements that both parties sign on our finance products actually achieve what you’re asking for: the customer signs a satisfactory note on completion of the work (assuming they’re happy) which allows the release of funds.

For customers, however, we do know that an issue can be that work isn't completed to the standard you expect. One of the products Kanda hopes to bring to market soon is a secure holding account to arbitrate payments, allowing upfront payment with tranches released on milestones being completed, pretty much exactly as you've explained above, to hold both parties to agreements.
Moving K8s Communication to gRPC
Bingo.
I’ve had to move a companies entire platform multiple times because of similar issues. I want boring on infrastructure.
I had a hard time following Ritchie’s argument. I guess I’m missing a lot from the proposals he’s critiquing. One part stood out that was not clear:

> memcpy(noalias void *s1, const noalias void *s2, size_t n);

> what information can one glean from it? Some committee members apparently believe that it conveys either to the reader or to the compiler that the routine is safe, provided that the strings do not overlap. They are mistaken.

I don’t follow. It seems that noalias exactly means that the two arrays can never point to the same memory, thus they do not overlap. So why would it be wrong to assume that memcpy() with noalias arguments is safe if called with non-overlapping memory?

————

Separately I agree with him that “noalias” unlike “const” is not a property of the object being pointed to but rather a property of the access being done. It creates an inconsistency where “char * noalias” makes sense but “char noalias” doesn’t. Perhaps he would have supported a “noalias dereference” operator or compiler built-in instead.
I would suggest getting in touch with a local chapter of your clan association (宗親會).

To those who are not Chinese: yes, “clan association” is a thing among the Chinese, especially among clans who are likely to have expats - e.g. clans from coastal provinces like Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian. My Shi clan has chapters in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, and probably at least a few major cities on the West Coast of the US.
Musk himself does.
Do you see no issue with normalising the constant recording and analysing of an employee's face and body, then having them sign a contract that allows that data to be shared/sold arbitrarily to third parties?

> all the rest of us driving on the road should be thankful for stuff like this. Last thing anyone needs is a distracted semi driver

There are ways for Amazon to improve safety without invading privacy. For example a couple of years ago they considered a 5-day training course, but vetoed it because they saw it as a bottleneck to expansion. Drivers also report near-impossible delivery quotas that force them to skip breaks and engage in riskier driving.

I think this choice should be seen as trading off privacy for profit, not for safety.
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Ask HN: What does software development in Australia look like?
What does the ecosystem look like there?

Is there innovation, room for growth, companies that are actively hiring and generally speaking a vibrant and prosperous future for a software developer?

I am talking specifically for Sydney but you can expand on other cities as well if you would like.
“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”

Roger Scruton: