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In software, there's quite a few other questions to answer first.

Will you be on call?

Whats the culture around "off-hours" contact?

How often if ever does crunch happen? Will the company pay more after 32 hours?

What percent of my time is expected to be in meetings vs getting things done, and how much do you expect to be done?

I have worked at places with all fridays off during the summer. We did all our releases on time even though summer was usually the biggest time. 4 days really doesn't seem to make much of a difference at all. Fridays are so often either no meeting days or at least not important ones. Overall, I absolutely have taken a paycut for legitimate work life balance increases, and I prefer to work with others who would as well.
And the collateral is probably bitcoin in Binance's cold wallets. So ultimately it is backed by crypto. Which also gives the answer to how it is kept stable (at least in the short term) because the paper is denominated in dollars and they'd have to pay back real cash if the value of the Tether slid.
"I bet they could find a few at Los Alamos labs".

They have, but unfortunately they get innocent people and lock them in solitary confinement for months eventually resulting in $1.6 million dollar pay outs and presidential apologies to the accused.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee
I can’t speak for other developers but my app runs on electron and the web (because why not?), so I need to make sure my app works with those browsers as well.

A lot of the big electron apps I’m aware of are the same (slack, notion, discord, etc).
I always thought “Windows Subsystem for Linux” was phrased backwards and should have been “Linux Subsystem for Windows”. It threw me for a loop when I read that phrasing on the readme.
I am just saying that it is idiomatic North American English. I, for instance, could not write in idiomatic British English if I tried. For instance, your use of "state" in your username and "anglosphere" in your one sentence strongly hints to me that your English is not purely North American. (I see your profile, too.) The vast majority of Americans would use different terms.
That’s exactly how it is and has been for a very long time (half decade or more).
did spend 5 mins, saw absolutely no code so I made some assumption. Maybe they should make better docs that don't require 5 mins+ to figure that out.
but... Monero. Mixing is fine, but there's fees and overhead that make it undesirable, IMO.
Statements like "money of advertisers and founders was transferred to an unknown account" don't make sense to me. Why is the money held on a server at all? Surely it's more secure to keep wallets receiving money locally on a laptop or in a paper wallet, no? Why would they put the gold in the munitions depot if they don't have to?
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I'd still think you're being scammed if it takes 250 to fill out a form.

Those companies are scamming you through the government, like they do with taxes
I'm guessing the csh curriculum was just old. csh was developed as an improvement to sh (just like bash) that some circles coalesced around before everyone chose bash. I doubt it was that they saw everyone using today and said, fuck that, let's use csh.

My company still does intro lessons with ksh because it's set as the default shell on all of our servers.
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The way I'd put it is that Cloudflare's suggested implementation may have its issues, but the general idea of trying to verify that someone is a human and then providing this verification to services in a way that is 1) anonymous and 2) cross-compatible with other services, is the correct way to go about things (or at least has some very appealing features).

I hope that we have something in the future that does this job very well so that services do not need to verify phone numbers, Google accounts, and even IDs and facial imagery just to allow someone to use them (as this is much easier to do than coming up with new captcha styles that humans can quickly and easily solve, but that basic machine learning and scripting cannot).

Being able to use the Internet with the slightest bit of privacy is already ~impossible for the average user and extremely difficult and tedious for very knowledgeable and experienced ones, so anything that tries to improve the current trend sounds like it's at least attacking a problem worthy of our attention.
I recommend reading Gwern’s as well as Rohin’s response to the post.

gwern - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wnqua6eQkewL3bqsF/matt-botvi...

rohinmshah - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wnqua6eQkewL3bqsF/matt-botvi...
Darkside gang lost control of its servers and money a day after Biden threat
This is why it's a problem. What's the point is the business side, but when taken as a whole, this type of infrastructure is too important to the country as a whole.

Everyone want's to make the calculation and hope it's not them, but if it's everyone at once, or there is no ransom option it's a completely different ball game. This is a situation where we are asking private companies to take responsibility for something outside of a profit motive and the results are some what less than surprising.
Did you know Darth Plagueis died of Ligma?
Big, fat cash bonus...

Equity in big, fat growing company...

Help from shared pool of resources/experts taking a company from $5-20MM (easier) in sales to $100-300MM+ (harder) in sales much, much faster...

Help widening margins on high revenue...

Probably some sweet incentives if they do... Etc...

It makes sense. This isn't particularly innovating, but I have a feeling everyone here will be cleaning house soon enough.
They won't split those until employers start favoring SE degrees over CS degrees for actual SE jobs. I don't expect them to do that as long as CS is regarded as more difficult and CS degree-holders remain in plentiful supply, as they're more interested in the degree's utility as a candidate filter than what the students learn. Probably a good SE program would produce candidates far more valuable to these companies, as far as what the classes teach, except that the best candidates will keep going into CS for (valid!) signaling reasons.
This isn’t build time though really, which I agree is a moment you would expect to run arbitrary code. This is “edit time.”
lol I doubt this very much. Facebook randomly banned someone recently who had spent 72 million dollars (?) over a continuous period of 11 years. Google is better but not that much better.

I've spent millions on ads with G and Fb and have never even had a real rep.
They do at San Jose State University. CS is part of the college of science, as is math. The college of engineering offers both computer engineering and software engineering majors.
I would instead look at it as turning autocommit "off" is more like turning "automatic transaction begin" "on", which is just a strange semantic. I could appreciate a mechanism that insisted "transactions must always be explicit", but that isn't what autocommit controls, on or off. (You also wouldn't want such unless you were assured that you could put the transaction boundaries inside of multi-statement statements, as you really really want to minimize round trips there as otherwise you can end up--even on the same machine--drastically harming your lock contention by having transactions that last thousands of times longer than the single statement they wrapped... at which point the API is going to get awkward trying to enforce the transaction boundaries... autocommit is essentially just what you should want as the solution to all of this.)
You can solve the third problem by declaring a shell function `install` that is run at the send of the script. The first problem is a problem but, as far as I know, most language package managers don’t verify provenance anyway: yarn install foo can perform arbitrary side-effects either directly or through its transitive dependencies.
They've learned from this, from the article:

"The REvil representative said its program was introducing new restrictions on the kinds of organizations that affiliates could hold for ransom, and that henceforth it would be forbidden to attack those in the “social sector” (defined as healthcare and educational institutions) and organizations in the “gov-sector” (state) of any country. Affiliates also will be required to get approval before infecting victims."

They aren't trying to cause this kind of harm.

Additionally: "DarkSide organizers also said they were releasing decryption tools for all of the companies that have been ransomed but which haven’t yet paid."

This people have more morals then most rich businessman, IMO.
Google is full of shit. Remember when they pledged to "punish" sites that weren't "mobile-friendly," but then DISABLED ZOOMING on their own mobile site?

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

Why don't you FUCK OFF, Hacker News? Once per hour is "too fast?" What a bunch of pompous fucking pricks. Our time isn't free, assholes.
How does Musk decide to throw $1.5 billion worth of Tesla's cash into BTC without acknowledging this?

Easy. By being the nutjob that he transparently is and has been for several years now.

The only mystery here is why so many people seem willing to hitch their wagons to a financial "instrument" whose trading value is so critically dependent on the whims and effluents of such a person.
Imprisonment seems generous. Perhaps a very small prison 6’ down would be more suitable.

I’m mildly surprised they survived this long
You can break the pipe and curl the file first, read it, and then run it. But I doubt that anyone ever reads through the thousands of lines of m4 that come with a typical program that uses autoconf either.
Yew has an `html!` macro and a very React/Elm like architecture https://github.com/yewstack/yew
That certainly includes people who start or take part in witch hunts. I'd never hire one of them because it invites too much drama.

Give me people who aren't offended at every little thing.

I'm happy for this support from PG. Maybe some of these folks will "cancel" HN now and go somewhere else.
They paid $5 million, if "it was cheaper for them," that's solid math that ignores some really important stuff though, LOL. What is the externalized cost of this crisis on the entire country? The $5 million dollar ransom is a worse deal if you can convince your board to consider that externality.

The criminal penalties for executives in leadership and board positions (and I'm not saying this is my preferred approach) would certainly go a long way toward changing the calculus of this exchange.
I built a very simplistic webapp to save some notes and links mostly for myself. Unknowingly I have around 50 users using it. It's written 4yrs back and it's working.

https://stash.bobbydreamer.com uses Firebase in bg.

One problem I had encountered is. After some time links don't work meaning. The author either deleted the webpage or they have upgraded their site either the link is changed or entire website is shifted.

One needs to be careful in saving links.
i end up going too often to the large chain groceries for convenience, which contradicts my own principle of supporting small-/mid-sized businesses foremost (bad me). but ethnic groceries (plus trader joes) are slowly becoming more and more of my grocery pie, from korean places like h mart, to jons (hispanic/latino), mitsuwa (japanese), india sweets & spices, 99 ranch (chinese), bangkok market, and seafood city (filipino). i love the great array of ethnic, especially asian, groceries available in LA. it's wonderful!
If I had to guess, putting all those shells in the same basket sounds like they're focusing on the universal functionality. Such as pipes and redirection.
I'm actually stacking Raspberry 2/4 as servers with 1TB SanDisk (slow but with enough distribution fast enough)...

But right now I'm investing in Mini-ITX Atom 8/16-core servers (25/32W) with passively cooled cases (Streacom) and 8x64GB SATA SSDs from 2011 (50nm that last 100.000 writes per bit for 2W per drive = 18W total)!

So the Raspberries are an option if power becomes unstable/expensive, gonna have lead-acid backup and Gb/s fiber in appartement/summer house for 100% read uptime redundancy!
Is there a technical reason that makes use of a tumbler legally safe? My concern would be that putting in a clean bitcoin would result in me getting a fraction of a stolen bitcoin and I would be receiving stolen property. The fact that they are fully traceable means that it would be easy for someone innocent to be caught up in something like that.
Since I would be more productive, I would rather expect 120% for 4 days...
There are a bunch of these, https://github.com/bodil/typed-html#quick-preview being the one I enjoyed most last time I was giving this a shot.
Exactly. Everyone knows that you need at least Haskell to filter out these pesky fashion victims. /S
I'm not an expert on this, but I think what's costly is storing and communicating information about the load of each server a client is connected to, not the overhead of TCP.

I found http://liblb.com/learn.html useful for understanding how different load balancing algorithms work.
Blocks of text again... TL;DR?
Inflation Is Here. What Now?
Learning to Manipulate Deformable Objects
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154557
Brushless alternators are (or were) also fairly common on motorcycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator#Brushless_alternato...
But most people study computer science in order to work as software engineer, not computer scientists. Particularly at the undergrad level. This massive hidden subsidy to computer science also results in graduates who don't have a proper background in software engineering and at some point both government officials and the public at large is going to figure out that these are different skillsets with different curricula, and that we need to hire professors who can teach good software engineering principles and practices in our universities rather than just focusing on the computer science aspect and forcing the graduates to figure the engineering out for themselves on the job.
There's this silly game a play sometimes: I go to producthunt.com, open a bunch of links and, then, try to guess what each of them does. I fail most of the time.
"deserving" is not how compensation works
Sounds like they're about to get rolled up by law enforcement as well. As someone who's had the full force of a three letter agency come down on me, this is not something you want to deal with on any level. I was lucky. I was young and dumb and got a slap on the wrist.

Times have changed and when govt agencies see this as an attack on critical infrastructure, you're looking at some serious jail time. I would say its only a matter of time until they're tracked down. When you're being hunted like that, the govt works 24/7 and never stops. People on the run don't have that luxury.
All liberal arts degrees at UVA require 2 writing courses. The first course is required to be taken in your first year. The second is strongly encouraged to be taken in your second year.

That feels roughly analogous to a CS department requiring a "*nix skills" course or similar, as most liberal arts degrees require a substantial amount of writing.

I assume music (and possibly some fine arts) would require some background in those subjects. They often require a portfolio or audition before entering the program.

Do engineering programs expect students to have taken calculus?

Though with music (and possibly engineering), you likely have to prove ability prior to being accepted into the program.
I'm not sure what point this comment is trying to make, according to CISA emergency services are a critical infrastructure sector. Therefore attacks on hospitals are attacks on critical infrastructure just like a pipeline.
Reminds me of http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Downloading a tarball and running ./configure from it (pretty dang common) also does not have the changes checked into version control, nor the hash verified.

Same is true of `npm install`, deb/rpm/etc packages, etc: you don't have proof what was distributed to you matches up with what was in VCS.

You can read the code before it runs and solve the "curl could fail" theoretical arguments by just.. removing `| sh` and examining + running yourself.
IMO that's exactly why we need good ethics courses. If ethics isn't treated as a priority in university, it won't be treated as a priority by companies.
OFTC is run by the OFTC board (of which tomaw is a member) on behalf of Software in the Public Interest, who originally organized it for Debian.
How does that one work?
for sure Berkshire inspired Mark Leonard at Constellation which informs our approach
I work a 4-day week myself, and I'd guesstimate my productivity more at around 85-90% of a 5-day week. Friday afternoons were always pretty low-productivity as it is, and working only 4 days a week is WAY more motivating than a full 5-day grind, so the other days become more productive on average.
Mediatonic accidentally leaked the Fall Guys source on Steam
Perhaps if you had taken a course on ethics you might recognize the good that comes from something that doesn’t directly lead to financial gain!
These companies think we are toddlers.
It's plausible that this is all a scheme to evade capture. Disband the current organization, (get rid of a few people who you've wanted to jettison anyway), and then set up shop afresh elsewhere. It sends the message to whoever's looking for you that the whole thing has been burned to the ground and there's nothing to raid or seize or shut down.
let plural = match cases.len() {
1.. => "s",
0 => "",
};

;P
AI that mimics human typos on a smartphone could improve keyboards
WASN will always need some kind of javascript glue to interact with the DOM.
I don't think startups really care about saving 20% on salaries - I think if we're going to get 4-day workweeks the argument needs to be around attracting candidates, and pointing to improved productivity. It's mind-boggling to me how companies are like "there's no qualified candidates", and at least superficially they trip over themselves for "diversity" candidates to make their numbers look better, but they're unwilling to change anyting to attract candidates who have lives outside of work. There's 100% a pool of people who could do amazing work who don't get a chance because startups have this brutal monoculture that excludes them.
Show HN: Browser running LSTM for password prediction
There is basically a zero percent chance that the US knew where they were physically.

The servers that were claimed to be seized were on cloud platforms.

And even then, we don't know if this is true or if it's just an exit strategy.
Please add an example app with bundles for each platform – a calculator, todo list, or something similarly simple?
Talking about plastic... I just ventured for the first time 2 weeks ago, in an H Mart. The first impression was "what a lot of plastic!".

The packaging is innovative, bright and smart. But that is a lot of packaging and plastic in general, sometimes for little product. We just ate last night one of their ramen, and beside the outer plastic wrapping, it had a styrofoam plate inside for which the only purpose was to hold two other internal plastic bags of noodles, and multiple plastic bags of sauce, all individually wrapped.

While the fresh products section was impressive and definitely a plus for me. All the other aisles were overwhelmingly full of individually wrapped in plastic products, from top to bottom. Hopefully we could do better here.
I still can't wrap my head around how can such a critical infrastructre is not air gapped. This is just so... basic. You will never be secure enough, this is not what internet is for.
You're not just viewing it. You're opening it in an IDE which compiles it behind the scenes for you.

Many IDEs also do this for other languages (e.g. by running make), and the same problem applies.
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I currently do this, but I work all 5 weekdays. I just work shorter days Monday - Wednesday.

I love it, it is my favorite perk of the job I have. I'm able to use my afternoons to exercise, take care of chores around the house, and run errands if necessary. My night after dinner time is completely free.

Another perk that's similar but not exactly the same thing is flexible schedule, meaning if I have something to do during work, I can "make up the hours" later. This is especially powerful when you work 80% time normally.

I would say that the reason most companies don't want to do 4 day weeks is because of meeting schedules. This is why I'm here each work day; so I can be at my team standups every day.
There is investment infrastructure. Mostly informal and enforced via smart contract and multisignature transactions. Organized on forums and chat rooms.

Not much capital is needed though and the affiliate and licensing model is better, which also just means an address is hardcoded that splits payment, or a server controls the private key (or master private key for infinite unique address creation) to addresses and automatically splits received payments to the RaaS service

I get that was supposed to be a joke, its exactly the same or even more streamlined than the licit economy. There is no major distinction except the kinds of “risk factors” one might list.
Very few doubt that FSB and Russian mafia are one.
Samsung adds support for hardware wallets to galaxy devices
Darkside was a legit business. They routinely collected ransoms ten or twenty times larger than what they got from Colonial. if they were going to retire, they would have done it a long time ago
That is sad. But then the CIA would probably just lie/deny/refuse to answer due to "national security" which is just whatever they want it to be.
Having done something so idiotic as inadvertently taking down critical infrastructure for a superpower with global military & espionage capabilities (that nearly all nations will cooperate with) - the problem is, the people chasing you do not give a shit about your money and whether it's gone, and they do not care about your servers. Bye won't work, and faking your death won't be believable. If you're these people, you're going to be hunted to the ends of the planet and most likely they're royally screwed with no way out (unless they're under the direct protection of eg China or Russia).
I think this illustrates my point ... but I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "autocommit mode" in your comment! You said "autocommit feature in DB drivers" but I think you mean in the DB itself by the sounds of it.

AFAIK autocommit mode just applies if you don't explicitly open a transaction, so what would you propose instead? That a transaction is silently opened but not committed (potentially leaving a dangling transaction open for a long time after SELECT statement) (like Python's odd default behaviour)? Or an immediate error?

I can certainly see that if you are indeed wrapping every individual statement in their own BEGIN/COMMIT pairs that you'd wonder why the database can't help you for such simple use cases. You can still selectively open an explicit transaction on those statements that do need to be grouped together, so I don't see that you've given up any control.
It is not obvious that this claimed any lives as fuel shortages weren't really there because of the quick payment of ransom. About 1% of gas stations in the Southeast ran out of fuel for like a day.

By the standard you are applying almost everything can cost lives.
I did not say nor imply "not formidable". I said and meant "quite a bit more formidable". But, to your point: the overwhelming majority of humans killed by hyenas are killed by packs of hyenas, not individuals, and there is a reason for this. I definitely dispute the idea that a single modern hyena can kill a human "trivially".