skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are correct in that we need to pwn baddies.

But after reading the article i can infer that was not the intent here. Based on the article, it seems like the exploits were found because they (exploits) :

"caught the attention of cybersecurity experts thanks to their scale, sophistication, and speed. "

Notice the word 'scale' in there.

This ops seemed to not be targeting a bunch of guys in a mudhut putting together IEDs.

This was something scalable. With the potential to ensnare hundreds maybe even thousands of people...
Honestly the entertainment I've gotten from the media about the boat being stuck has exceeded that of the last few gaming sessions I've had, so I'm good.
While this is accurate it doesn't do anything to address to actual point being made.
Jail and prison are often used interchangeably by general society, but they actually refer to different things. Jail is generally temporary place of confinement for those awaiting trial or for minor crimes with short sentences. Prison, on the other hand, is a more "permanent" incarceration facility where inmates have been tried and convicted of crimes.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jail-vs-prison...
It's not suspect, I think you just don't understand how things played out.

If the basis of the lawsuit (in this case the 4th amendment) is wrong, then they should throw the case out at that point.

SCOTUS's job is to determine if the basis for the lawsuit is constitutional or not, they don't determine the facts of the case or anything like that, just if they can sue under the 4th amendment or not. They decided that yes they can.

Now the case can proceeded. This isn't unusual in any way.
Seems like a great reason to invest in kinetic energy storage like this pumped hydroelectric reservoir in Wales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Power_Station?wprov...
It's not bigotry, it's "strong words" - or are only you allowed to sugar coat?
I think the deployment benefits have been even more overstated.

This is an absolutely enormous trade-off between logical modularity and run time operational complexity.

If your devs aren't good enough to enforce modular design in a single application, what makes you think they're good enough to handle complex distributed systems?
The F-35 may be unsalvageable
The distinction between the basic plane and everything else is not particularly useful, imho. So I'm not sure I understand what the advantage of UTF-16 is here? It's an arbitrary division either way.
I just mean that it's a disingenuous way to say you're "creating jobs". Any mass government investment will create demand for labor, whether it's a massive investment in renewables, or in oil exploration, or in waging war, or anything else. It's not specific to green energy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon might be right up your alley then! Highly recommended.
Absolutely amazing!

I hope you keep at it and we'll be able to get our hands on one some day. It's so ridiculously cool!

Currently I'm waiting on a ClockworkPi devterm as my new laptop replacement.

I'd love to replace my phone with a pockit, with a small physical keyboard module, and replace my laptop with a megapockit with a huge backplane and a big modular keyboard.

The possbilities! Thanks again for making something so cool and inspirational!
It’s not just double standards, it’s a deliberate strategy to use the western culture of woke-ism against us in the culture/ideology wars.

Note the fake fight now over the term “wolf-warrior diplomacy”, which was a term derived from a Chinese movie, promoted by CCP nationalists, and is now “racist”.

https://twitter.com/kevincarrico/status/1375242361526173697?...
So you want to make unoccupied autonomous cars illegal?

I don’t think I agree that autonomous cars should never be allowed to drive around without a person.

If they can really be proven to be safer than a person (in terms of fatalities and crashes per 100 million miles driven) then I think there are a lot of really great things that would be possible.
I thought about Amdahl's Law a lot when I started Sauce Labs. To make browser test automation faster, the initial plan was to throw more hardware at the problem by getting more servers and running tests in parallel. But we were always looking for other things to optimize because we knew "throw more hardware at the problem" was going to stop working at some point. One example was virtual machine startup speed. In early days on EC2, Windows VMs took 10-ish minutes to boot up, I think part of the reason was because they had to do a disk image transfer first. But if you can keep lots of redundant copies of disk images in lots of places, you can reduce that waste of time on pre-boot network data transfer and ride the Amdahl's Law curve a little longer. Another trick is having the VM "pre-booted" by having a VM snapshot to jump to avoid the entire boot process. Of course, getting this much low-level control over the boot process to optimize for parallelability means building out your own cloud, which is another story for another day...
>I felt similarly about the pandemic exposing the fragility of our economy and the cracks in our political systems.

I have to say I'm of the opposite view - all things considered systems and people have been pretty resilient and have coped quite well.

Of course for some it's been worse than for others, but on the whole the planet has coped not too badly. It has also flushed out at least one useless govt from power (US), is in the process of hopefully doing so with another (Brazil), and we can only hope that it will also hasten the departure of England's PM too.

We have however been very very lucky this time in that the virus is not that serious. A repeat e.g. of the 1918 influenza would have been much much worse.
See also discussion from 3 days back, linking to pockit.ai: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547377
CNA?

> On March 21, 2021, CNA determined that it sustained a
sophisticated cybersecurity attack. The attack caused a network
disruption and impacted certain CNA systems, including corporate
email. Upon learning of the incident, we immediately engaged a
team of third-party forensic experts to investigate and
determine the full scope of this incident, which is ongoing.

+ [CNA suffers sophisticated cybersecurity attack](https://www.cna.com/)
TBH, I'm confused about what you were trying to say. Unless you live in the coastal lowland countries of Europe, pretty much every country has some geography conducive to hydro.

And what does the "sparse" (which implies thinly distributed, FYI, hence the person who replied to you specifying that it's actually quite dense in a localised area) population have to do with hydro or not?
Nim is also working on ARC https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc...
Git branches are only "ahead" (or not) of a certain commit, not of another branch.
Do you mean that you want to prevent the HEAD of your "main" branch from being a successor of the HEAD of the "develop" branch? Since it is always possible to put any commit you want in any branch, fixing incorrect situations with the worst case damage of keeping around mistaken commits that have been pushed to a shared repository, what would be the point?
It is one thing to build a complex piece of technology, it is quite another to deploy it and expect it to work 24-7.
$1.7 Billion was spent on this program.
Don't worry. It's impossible that everybody in an expert in every topic.

The good part of HN is that if the article is interesting you can probably get an expert here to add more insight, and if the article is wrong you can probably get an expert here to explain the errors.
Only high-bandwidth signal groups (such as HDMI) have the limitation of being usable at only one (or a few) positions. Technically these too can be given more/complete placement freedom, but at the cost of a higher PCB layer count, or exceptional noise-immune routing skill, which I presently don't have. I plan to hire a layout expert to assist with the DFM eventually.

The current PCB routing is done such that about 90% of blocks can be interfaced at almost/all positions. (I'll make a more formal statement later after verifying this number.)

This was in fact a foundational aspect of the design -- "How can the classic breadboard be made (a lot) more powerful at the cost of as little flexibility as possible?"
And millions of PC gamers screamed in unison...

Does anyone have faith that Microsoft wouldn't destroy Discord in a matter of years if they took it over?

Still, Xbox gamers should be happy.
Always enjoy talking constitutionalism. :D
You have to be really unimaginative to consider a surplus of renewable energy a crisis.
first paragraph:

>Israel will pay a premium price for the millions of COVID-19 vaccines it has ordered from US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, over 40 percent more than the US government or the European Union, Channel 13 news reported Sunday.
HTTPie is really good if you aren’t doing anything super complex. Postman is a little more than I need nowadays. If you don’t want to leave your browser, there’s another tool called Hoppscotch which is similar to Postman. All are perfectly capable, just depends what you want to do and how you like to work.
There's a nonzero chance this is another Dropbox. "Why would anyone pay for a taskbar widget that's just rsync?", wrote some folks in 2007 (right here on HN! [0]).

But people derive all kinds of value from the right context in the right place at the right time. Small things can have big, compounding value — and eventually become indispensable.

Hopefully, this post will make me look smart in about 10 years or so.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
But that's the point, isn't it? In the general sense, one stuck container ship in the world shouldn't have any impact on "us," except for the people whose "stuff" is on it.
Maybe I'm missing something but I just don't understand why those workers can't still make the same $120k out of college no education building solar farms in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the winds WHIP across the arctic. Maybe I'm ignorant but it's all engineering, you're working on or build an oil rig or you're working on or building an offshore wind turbine, to me it doesn't seem like a huge stretch to think those same jobs could be transitioned over. Sure, what's the incentive for the private sector? Very little. However Canada doesn't have to take such an American view of capitalism, and we often haven't in our history. So it would require either regulation or forcing the issues through crown corporations. Is that not worth it? Personally I'd be missavily in favour of using a crown corporation to shift things faster.
Is it true that no one is making this about "big bad capitalism" or "incompetent globalist bureaucrats"? I'd like to think that's true but I find it hard to believe.

Either way, the sentiment that we should stop making everything about whatever perspective we're currently invested in is extremely welcome. Sometimes a boat is a boat and sometimes it's stuck.
If you convert Power to Gas in the form of LPG or methane you then burn for energy when renewables aren't working, you're kinda defeating one of the main purposes of renewables - low carbon output.
FWIW, the package manager is also spelled APT.
Think of it this way: It's a social contract between the company and the employee that you will spend your time on something valuable to both the company and you. In larger organisations it can also help to answer the question "What is your team working on?".

I have in fact experienced employees (peers) that will simply slack off and say they "weren't told what to do" when asked. It's infuriating to work with those kind of people. Those have been exceptions though.
Former CDC Director Believes Covid-19 Originated in a Lab
No, that's bullshit. Don't play armchair neurologist and diagnose people's conditions from a distance as a way of explaining their behavior.
I agree. Also, truncating a string won't work. The first 3 characters of "Österreich" are not "Ös" in my opinion.
You are obviously correct (I'm not one myself), but I would suspect that we have a disproportionately high number of them compared to other type of engineers.
If you want to see a real world example of freely available, exact and digital government land/building registry (including ownerships etc!), you can look at the Czech "Cadastre of Immovables": https://www.ikatastr.cz/ (zoom to street level to see plots). It covers every centimeter of the country.
Statistical analysis would show regions where production is viable for x days per year and to be honest, a jet fuel manufacturer could just recognize this energy abundance and build its own grid and invest in solving these problems as a means of optimization / investment / market strategy....
Weeks? Around here, it was tough to find on the shelf for, like, 6 months, and I started to question my sanity.
You should come to my introduction to engineering class.

Asking a group of 18 year olds to define the engineering problem they are given is an exercise that humbles me on a semesterly basis about how much development those at the beginning of adulthood still need to undergo.

Last fall I was asked if Chad was a real country or one I had invented for the purpose of our design project. Why? not because they didn't know geography, but because the student had never been given something 'real' to work on and brought their framing of 'course assignments are not real' to it by default. We'd been working on Chad research for 2 months at this point...but the 'this is school' fact underlying what I asked them to do overwhelmed everything else.

You aren't wrong, but reaching that level in engineering actually requires an enormous amount of expertise. That hard earned expertise often makes the surface level of agreeing on the problem seem simple.

I love your comment, because it is so true and yet so hard to grabble with the edges of the implications of what you are saying.
It seems like Factorio itself doesn't matter here, and that any programming language can be used instead.

So really, this article is saying "live, self-directed coding is the best technical interview", which isn't very original.
Anyone can go on the Octopus Agile tariff here in UK, where you pay exactly what the prices are. If the prices are negative, then Octopus actually credits your account. I know some people with EVs on the Agile tariff, they have their car chargers set to only charge when the price is <0 - which happens at least a couple times a week, and they effectively get paid for charging the electric cars. Personally I'm on their GO tariff which guarantees 5p/kWh at night which I prefer because I charge my car every night so I can't wait for negative pricing.
Hmm, wouldn't it make more sense to keep batch jobs outside the monolith? Everything else makes sense to stay in a single binary.
If you think shotgun shells from pheasant hunting are a big environmental impact... well, enjoy the bucolic landscape you live in and don't ever go anywhere else, I guess.
In particular those investing in utility grade batteries are playing the low price/high price arbitrage game.
These days many new builds are using air source or ground source heat pumps. And existing dwellings are beginning to be retrofitted for them. I don't have numbers, but I expect that it will soon be the norm for new builds for places without gas infrastructure. Especially with any new legislation around heating for new builds (e.g. https://www.gov.scot/news/new-build-homes-to-be-more-energy-...).
Appears to be correct:

> An unexplained wealth order (UWO) is a type of court order issued by a British court to compel the target to reveal the sources of their unexplained wealth. UWOs were introduced by sections 1–2 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017

> In June 2003, Abramovich became the owner of the companies that control Chelsea Football Club in West London.

Both from Wikipedia
Scientists uncover process standing in the way of making quantum dots brighter
As an electric car owner, do I want to give my limited lithium battery charge cycle lifespan back to the network? This storage isn't "free" to the vehicle owner - charging and feeding back will contribute to the total charge cycles on your very expensive battery pack, which of course reduces range over time. I'd need to be heavily convinced by the economic arguments outweighing the wear on a very expensive vehicle component before I'd consider this.

When you come to resell an electric car, the condition of the battery is going to be significant in resale value too.

There would presumably be a zip code lottery element here too - would some areas of a given country make much greater demands of resident's privately owned car batteries than others?
How well does Factorio performance correlate with job performance over different periods of time and different employee backgrounds?

I don't see this mentioned in the article.
Since two of the measures of boss competence are entirely employee-rated the causality is likely to run both ways. i.e. regardless of their actual technical skill in your field and management abilities as assessed by others you are less likely to appraise your boss as competent at their own job and capable of doing your job if you're unhappy about the work they have asked you to do.
It really feels like we're heading into or at least towards a new Cold War, with the U.S. and allies on one side and anyone they consider to be a threat on the other.

Both 'sides' will (and really already are) marshal private sector tech, media and social media companies.

non-aligned countries would do best to develop their own tech and media infrastructure because they won't be able to trust anything else.

I think slide into a Cold War could be slowed down by people working in those companies having and enforcing ethical and professional standards. In a case like this one it would mean blocking any hacking attempts that you can, irrespective of where they come from.

For social media companies it would mean devising rules about what content you will and won't allow and enforcing those standards whether the posters are from Russia, Arizona or Afghanistan.
Tiny machines become capable of learning
Python 3's approach is clearly the best. Because it focuses on the problem at hand, unicode codepoints. A string in python is a sequence of unicode codepoints, it's length should be the number of codepoints in the sequence, it has nothing to do with bytes.

To draw an absurd parallel "[emoji]".len() == 17 is equivalent to [1,2].len() == 8 (2 32 bit integers)

In my opinion the most useful result in the case the article describes is 5. There should of course be a way to get 1 (the number of extended graphemes), but it should not be the strings "length".
I've had two jobs in IT, 13 years and 10 years. The last job was a good one. I left it because I didn't want to do the type of work I was doing anymore. I have a family and had 6 months salary saved in the bank. 1 1/2 years on and despite covid things are going well.

Work is never finished in IT :-) My advice is be advenurous with eyes wide open. There's a lot of fantasy thinking in our geek corner of the world that says everyone is awesome and can be a huge financial success. That doesn't sit right with me. What I know for a fact is that you can make a good living if you have invested your work life in IT.

And to specifcally answer your question...leave your job being grateful for the opportunity and resources the job gave you. Everyone will be happy then.
Yes, I believe you are intended to duplicate the table once a certain load factor (fraction of elements filled) of your choosing is reached.

For linear probing, this is recommended to keep your probe lengths logarithmic:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/019667...

Removing elements for a hash table using linear probing is fairly non-trivial. Without using so-called “tombstones” to flag an element as deleted, you essentially have to shift elements up in the table.

Also, your rudeness is really quite unwarranted. If everyone took that attitude, where would the teaching examples ever come from?
Yeah, I'm just a bit dismayed - it started on a positive note, then went to axe grinding.
My experience in Germany mirrors yours. Although you of course have the choice (not to take the test, not to act on the results), the process felt like it was leading inevitably down the path of aborting the pregnancy in case of a positive Harmony result confirmed by another test. I found the experience, including talking to relatives about the topic, quite unsettling.
This still occurs.
It won't. The recent flooding might though.
Yeah the problem is that what people actually want is not exposure to volatility in the energy market so much as cheaper energy prices. And energy looks cheaper if you just get wholesale prices because you are not paying for the insurance against high prices that your energy provider is probably buying. It isn’t easy to convince people that they are picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, so I’m not sure I would actually like to see it becoming easy to get wholesale prices.
Well, to be fair to a certain novel coronavirus, pandemics aren't inherently politically charged, it's just that people chose to make it that way in some countries.
The world is not so dangerous as you imagine it to be. A stranger approaching a child and offering a ride is a dangerous situation. Adults hailing a car through an advertised driving service is not. You might as well be scared to walk out your front door as well.
I've come full cycle:

0) Procedural

1) OO

2) FP

3) Really started to dislike mutability

4) Developed various FP frameworks

5) Back to pure (immutable!) OO and messages!
So, does this mean that even a small catamaran is a “ship”? I like this definition and haven’t heard it before.
Not all legal constructs are practical, possible, or necessary to be enforced. And even for those that are enforced, not all necessarily need to be enforced by physical force.
I think there are a few high profile examples where nationalism caused some problems...
This is the worst attitude I have this on HN. Look out people - its the internet's gatekeeper - making sure only legitimate/fully thought out things are published to the internet. By golly, we wouldn't want to waste bits and bytes on just random things being available on the internet.
Agree wholeheartedly with the concept of this but the content is dangerously close to the style of discussion the author doesn't like about tech!
It's likely quite true that the Biden administration has increased the speed of vaccination, with Warp Speed providing the base they built from. Hard to make a concrete argument about how much difference, but I think the direction is obvious enough.
They were angry about it. Occupy Wall Street happened. Elizabeth Warren has been harping on it for years, and made financial reforms a key part of her platform.
It started off weirdly algorithmic but ended very human.
Electric vans are all the rage at DHL, UPS–maybe even USPS, too
Das Boot... not Das Schiff...
The alternative is cooperation. Do you remember the beginning of the pandemic when US states were in a bidding war over PPE and the US federal government was seizing PPE shipments going to Canada? That went away with better inter-state and state-federal cooperation, not more nationalism (or state-ism or whatever). Why should the procedure that works for US states, Canadian provinces, and EU member states (i.e. distributing doses based on population) not work on a larger scale?
Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
> it’s the primary reason I’m not finding some way to work in Haskell

Ok, now I'm curious about how StateT fails it.