skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though I'm an American, I speak a little German and have friends who speak Spanish/French/Italian (either natively as they were born in a country that speaks those languages or they learned it). The thing that has always perplexed me about "Latinx" is that the those pushing that formulation are grafting what is a Germanic language construction onto a Latin-based word. It makes no sense, and it's non-pronounceable (or at least difficult to pronounce) in Romance languages.
Well no, you can just neglect them instead! /s

Small children require a large amount of energy to maintain. If you’re responsible for providing that energy then you’re gonna have less for projects.
Do you think that the rich people financing the scientific communities of yore, that had no immediate benefit for them, made a mistake? The work of many important scientists and artists in the past only was possible because some rich benefactors had more money they could spend. Companies fund the research with short-term yields, and the rich finance the crazy longshots just to see the fireworks.
I would have to guess, that Walgreens is going out of business, because they are the one store which hasn't ever improved their POS methodology beyond what we used to find in Sears, or Rite-Aid, holy cow, I've not forgotten, what did they used to be called ? Lol. I go to Walgreens to buy cigarettes because I know and live around the checkers who work there, but it is always a complete disaster. Today, was a perfect example. They "found" a device on the pin pad, and it took 10 minutes to find people in the store to man another register, then look at it, make sure it wasn't compromised, and there were 15 people in line. But par for the course in there. There will be 10 people lined up at the front, and they'll still man cosmetic and photo stations with no customers, and never really reposition employees. I don't get mad anymore. I go in and know what I'm in for. IC3 .... IC3 ..... IC3 ....
Why would a political organization plan the economy, as opposed to a specialized government agency? You're confusing dictatorships and planned economies.
> Soon after the attack, Colonial embarked on an exhaustive examination of the pipeline, tracking 29,000 miles on the ground and through the air to look for visible damage.

Is that an extra zero? That's more than the Earth's circumference...
Google is worth more than Amazon for the first time in more than a year
Wow, the political partisans are out in force today. I wish HN could be above the fray, but alas...
Accomplish more by sleeping less!
I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today disturbs me
“But the "loses 100% of the value per century" doesn't really seem to be a hindrance to our real-world financial needs. Lenders are capable of understanding this risk and extending 30+ year mortgages and even those weird century-plus infrastructure bond products.”

We are going to have to disagree on this point. To me inflation is taxation without representation. It is theft of purchasing power by Central Banks. It disproportionately negatively affects savers or those on fixed incomes and it benefits those closest to the new spending (read Wall Street Bankers) via the Cantillon Effect.

I am less concerned with the needs of lenders to compensate for inflation than I am worried about the disastrous effect it has on those who wish to save for the future.
I would be keen on seeing caselaw on this. Got any references I can read?
Let me get this straight: you can lend from BlockFi, deposit it straight back, and make a 4% profit?
Thank you! I've been trying for years to get someone to explain to me how DeFi loans make any sense whatsoever when they are all so over-collateralized. Your explanation helped put the pieces together a little bit. I still don't understand how the unit economics make much sense, but yeah.
I guess as long as IT engineers are kept outside of the “adult room” and treated like gifted children coaxed with shiny toys.

And besides, I only recently discovered - after proudly presenting myself as having a Masters in Engineering - that the title Engineer is considered poorly, a synonym to machine operator.
In what sense were you crushed by goatinaboat? If somebody publicly disagrees with you, does that mean they have crushed you?
There is a litany of ways in which syscalls behave differently when using containers that degrade performance for high-performance software relative to bare metal (or virtual machines, ironically). Many people have observed and tried to debug these issues. There might be a way to empirically make containers work correctly for this type of software but no one has been able to discover how, and not for lack of trying.

No process serious about I/O performance uses the system kernel for I/O. Doing it in user space is integer factor higher throughput, hence why Linux has APIs to make this possible for software that needs it. These work perfectly on bare metal and virtual machines with negligible loss of performance in the case of the latter.

That aside, containers are currently (inexplicably) missing other capabilities that have been assumed and idiomatic for high-performance software for decades, such as strict hardware resource control and discovery. You can sort of work around this with gross hacks but that doesn’t scale well. Basically, containers made things that were easy for decades stop working or become complicated, and these things were highly valuable for some types of software so discarding them is not an option.
I bet the filter was supposed to be applied only to China IPs but was accidentally applied over all IPs. So whatever work is required to fix that and roll it out
That argument only applies if they are demand limited. If they are, sure, great, get a vaccine. If they aren't, then you are quite literally keeping someone else from getting a vaccine.
Hearing from friends in low-level management on the inside that upper management is well aware of the impending attrition, and are willing to (and expect to) eat some low amount of turnover. Will be interesting to see how far off reality is from that. I'm expecting a large turnover across the industry for inflexible companies going forward, honestly.
It isn’t if you want remote monitoring, probably. So doing that could raise labor costs.
Because the increase in a share's value is tied to a company's profits and losses, while the increase in a cryptocurrency's value is tied to hot air and memes (exhibit A: Dogecoin).
> error seems to be that censorship meant to just apply to China is being applied everywhere

That's a succinct way of putting it.
I used to say no all the time at frys and never once did they say anything.
Does anyone know if Zig is bootstrappable in the "Bootstrappable Builds" sense? i.e. You can take the source code without any pre-generated binaries or code and build Zig solely using external tools.

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/
Reagan gave green light to sabotage of Soviet oil pipeline (2004)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402062

To paraphrase Clausewitz, economic war is war by other means.

> "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds," Reed writes.

"The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," he recalls, adding that US satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.
"While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy," he writes. "Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation."

Seems familiar to our predicament today, no?
> It's also plausible that the fault was brought in deliberately by a rogue engineer to raise the subject globally.

Doubtful to me, I would think that an action like that would be very traceable in a big corporation like Microsoft
Yea, that could probably be an even bigger impediment to trying to implement a separate interrupt processing unit I guess. My grasp of this area is tenuous, didn't even contemplate that. Would a new physical setup be required for something like this? Or would it all be in the cpu architecture?
Jesus, tell me about it.. the entitlement in this post is un-fucking-believable.

Furthermore, I'm wondering what shitholes these people live in or near where they actually experience this sort of thing.

The Walmarts around Keller, Texas are nothing like what's being described here... although granted, this is an upper middle class area of Texas, and unlike California, we don't allow people to steal shit out of our pharmacies with impunity, nor do we allow people to shit on our streets.
Is this the first instance in history of "old professors" causing progress via any method other than dying? Who is meant by "competing professionals"? Is this a procedure that dentists do that e.g. hairdressers also do? (This would be more plausible if you named the procedure.) Hopefully you're not just lamenting the steady improvement in materials: it's not a problem that no one uses amalgam anymore. Also, there are several different types of dental schools operating in USA. The brand-new private schools can't really be held to the same standards as state schools and older private schools. They're just trying to pay off the bonds.
It makes sense if you view all these *-isms as a form of crafting a personal identity to distinguish yourself from others and find a peer group. You would need to do that to stand apart in a crowded city much more than out in the country. People who truly love nature, rather than the politics of nature, do spend a lot of time in it.
Well, no, it costs absolutely nothing to print off another billion Tethers. We only have the vaguest possible assurances that there's something behind each USDT, and they've already admitted it's not actual dollars.
Walmart doesn’t pay that well and isn’t regarded as a great tech place to work. It’s a good job, but someone who’s really serious about programming wouldn’t work there
I should probably have been at the end of the list. I work from home, had a pod that works from home and we're all able to take precautions when we go to the stores. A grocery store cashier faces people for 8 hours a day and is therefore a huge risk to themselves and to all their customers. There's no reason to claim the two of us are at all equivalent (assuming that we are in the same personal risk group.)
A lot of words around the payoff -- "Alienation depends on how the workers are treated by those in charge. “If managers are respectful, supportive and listen to workers, and if workers have the opportunities for participation, to use their own ideas and have time to do a good job, they are less likely to feel that their work is useless,” the researchers write."

In my experience, any manager with even a shred of self awareness and emotional sensitivity figures out that the people who work for you care exactly as much for their work as they believe you care about them.
That's very interesting - I'd still like to know Bill Gates' answer!!
It kind of blew my mind when I first heard of the term last year. The comment thread of my source article is really interesting as well.

It's one of those concepts that everyone understands, but there wasn't really a word for. It still kind of hurts by brain how no one can come up with a solid rebuttal to the situation (this is what the article's comment thread touches on). Which leads me to believe this is somewhat of a forefront in human understanding/psychology.
FWIW: Early on California had a no leftover doses policy. But what do you do when you have more vaccines than eligible people? You lower the eligibility requirements. This probably wasn't official policy but it was required of vaccination site runners to comply with the policy, so as they got towards the end of the day and they still had doses leftover they probably started jabbing anyone who walked in. I don't know what the consequences were from having leftover doses, but they were severe enough that some sites started doing this kind of thing.
It's safe to say that anybody who exposes VCenter directly to the web is practicing poor security. I cannot imagine any scenario where this would be required. I manage a few VxRail/vSphere clusters and everything is behind firewalls and VPNs.

That said, I understand that this vulnerability basically gives root to anyone with VPN access. In our case, pretty much anyone who has VPN access to the cluster already has root on it anyway.
It would look worse.

I'm currently working on robotics deployment for several new Amazon warehouses and I hate having to visit the already operating ones - everyone looks like they would jump out of the window like the people at Foxconn, except they don't because they know the fall wouldn't kill them.

Amazon is truly staffed with geniuses at the upper echelons... keep the peasants who make the whole operation work away from the customers, that way the customers can always feel good about buying from Amazon. Walmart doesn't have that luxury, what with it's enormous physical presence and all.
Crysis 3 used YUV 4:2:2 in its G Buffer. I think only the final tonemapped LDR image was converted to RGB. It was a peculiar optimization that I haven't seen anywhere else again.
Don't give up so easy. Let there be a contract defining a minimum wage that companies can sign up for. Then forbid tier 3 companies from outsourcing anything to tier 1 or doing work for tier 5.
Legal threat sharpens over UK government plans to harvest patient data from GPS
It makes more sense if you look at these rates:

https://blockfi.com/rates/

To qualify to borrow at 4.5%, you have to have a loan to value ratio of 20%. If I understand correctly, that means you have to deposit 5x crypt than the value of the loan.

On the savings side, the rates vary. If you deposit BTC, you earn 5% for the first 0.5 coins, 2% for the next 19.5 coins, and 0.5% for the rest.

Since the loans are secured, if the value of bitcoin does not move too much they can cover defaults by liquidating the collateral. Given the volatility of crypto currencies though, I still assume they will blow up at some point in the future.
I mean that would be very cool indeed if we could see an OS similar to linux made in something other than C. I'd really like to see how things change in computing over the next coming decades if this becomes a trend.
Show HN: HCDrill – Telegram bot to decrypt tunneling apps configuration files
Greetings!

There are some apps in Android which fit into the category of "SSH Tunneling" apps. Through an HTTP payload, V2Ray, or other methods, they are able to create a tunnel to an SSH server to establish a secure SSH tunneling experience.

One feature of those apps is that the user is able to export their current configuration as a file and share it with others.
There is, however, a caveat. The config author can choose to "lock it", which roughly means to allow its import in the app, but not the revealing of its actual values. Other restrictions can also apply such as expiration dates or the blocking of rooted devices.

We have made it a mission to give the config USERS control over their own connections, so we made a Telegram bot that takes the file and decrypts it. We support many apps (config file types), each with its own obfuscation and encryption scheme. This takes a ton of reverse engineering work, so I would appreciate any feedback :)
This user experience still sucks, and it doesn't have to.

Every company I've ever worked for hands me a corporate laptop and says "you must use this". The laptop always sucks. But that's not the point, the point is: the laptop is something I have. Why in the heck are we not doing remote attestation with TPMs?
The Walmart in-store pickup/returns experience is horrible. Long lines, employees are slow and unorganized. Several times I've gone to pick up an order and waited an addition 10+ minutes to have someone bring the item to the front of the store.

I would say the only thing that makes them competitive is their price.
Comments on Apple Employees Pushing Back Against Returning to the Office
This seems less necessary since the Z-80 can actually execute 8080 machine code. I see no reason not to simply allow the Z-80 assembler to accept 8080 mnemonics as well as Z-80 mnemonics.
Agreed and I dislike how these conversations just embolden people to invite us into their right wing filter bubble after they see our dissatisfaction with left wing filter bubbles

For now I’m satisfied with the reversion to the mean of not talking politics at work
> "The fact that it's the top post is the most questionable thing here, it seems pinned to the top."

I thought he might have pinned it, but that isn't the case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401409

> "I certainly didn't intend it to be the top comment; that was entirely by upvotes."
Exactly.

Anyone who believes the biggest problem in 2021 is that some college students are being too "woke" somewhere is a fucking dolt. This website is filled to the brim with clowns like this.
I think the idea is to go ahead and break lots of stuff on desktop Windows (and ancient unmaintained custom software on corprate[sic] servers). Let that software keep running on x86_64 hardware. But offer an additional choice--an x64-ng--that can only run a subset of software, but it can run it even better than x86_64 can. You don't fill an entire datacenter with these. Just a few aisles. Then you let people choose them for their whizbang modern workloads. Every year you replace an aisle of x86_64 racks with x64-ng racks. Twenty years from now, 25% of your datacenter is still the latest generation of x86_64 and they rent for a premium.

Just as if a datacenter today allocated some of its rackspace to zSeries or ARM or what have you. For workloads that gain advantages on those platforms.
give it away for free and monetize the data! :)
https://youtu.be/PI5UmKi14cM
No, but thankfully empathy isn't an all-or-nothing thing. Even just putting in an effort makes a significant difference.
Sounds like it's a bug for him, because he doesn't want the filthy commoners making a mess of the place.
Consideration given is consideration due.

First manager who cared made that obvious, and was a mentor for many years. We had this talk and I also asked why:

Because maybe you will do the same, give as you got.

I have.

Those relationships go well past whatever company gig got them started.
Kickstart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstart_(Linux)
>"Marketers can target using demographics, interests, behaviors and tons of other factors to get new customers, or they can upload an emails or other profile data to retarget existing users"

Demography, interests and behaviours are the exact things that what won't be possible without the user's choice now. Coming to your question: small businesses won't have that much first party data to target new users accurately.

>"IDFA has had a global opt-out for years and 30% in the US have turned it off. The new change is to allow the opt-out on a per-app basis after install."

The opt-out feature was buried deep in the settings. Most user never knew it existed. Or aren't tech savvy enough to figure how to disable it

Also, you have a source for this: "global opt-out for years and 30% in the US have turned it off".

I don't think most users even knew that feature until iOS 13. Alright, even if they do, a shift from 30 percent to over 80 percent with a single software update is huge. Still, would love if you could share a source.
This is really the problem with everything Walmart has done wrt eCommerce/online pickup IMO - It's like all the pieces are there, but they can't bring them all together.

I've hit their website from Google looking for an item, and the lead time to ship is 2+ weeks and it's highlighted that it's sourced from a partner.

Putting aside the obvious - it's just a worse deal. For most items, they're competing with 1-2 days, a product page packed with verified reviews to help decision making, a company with top notch customer support/return policies and the price is usually the same or cheaper, there's other issues at play too.

It's subtle psychological cues. First, the way they highlight that it's from their partner almost makes it seem like they're doing dropshipping, they don't actually know if it's in stock and I can order and they will put a hold on my credit card. Maybe I'll get it in 2 weeks. Maybe a month. Maybe the order will eventually be cancelled or I will go through a nightmare dealing with their support or having to do a chargeback.

I'm not going through all of that stuff in my head, it's just my mind in the background doing pattern matching with other bad experiences I've had shopping online.

I understand it takes time and truckloads of money to get something even close to what Amazon has, but it also requires good leadership at the executive level.

The one area that Walmart could absolutely crush Amazon in would be picking up your order online, same day. Walmart should be able to leverage all their experience with brick and mortar to do this.

Instead, they're flagging behind Target. Their solution is pretty middle of the road, all the big retailers have something similar.

Amazon bought Whole Foods, so they have a footprint, just like Walmart has an online store. Based on how these companies have executed which do you think happens first? Amazon nails in person pickup or Walmart nails online shopping.
The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software (2018)
Wasn't that GC's point though? The run-on-a-bank analogy only applies if you are holding Tether when it happens. If you are rightfully paranoid about Tether and therefore don't hold any, what is the damage for you?
>I bought a Keurig that broke on the 3rd day and they wouldn’t take it back because I bought the extra warranty they sell on them.

They wouldn't take something back within the return period because you bought an extra warranty? What am I missing here? How did they justify it?
A lot of shadier exchanges are giving away USDT to encourage people to move their other cryptocurrency holdings onto the exchange.
Take it further, if the execs are directly responsible for the mess they should also pay for it (for starters by handing over their stocks to government) Skin in the game would allow for even larger bonuses.
without looking it up, iirc, they changed rules around being able to setup behind the goal (which was a classic move for him to wraparound) and also rules around the goal crease
You're response to my appreciation of moderation is ( while you are protesting against any moderation outside of the community ):

> This is off topic.

You are literally comparing things with ( in 1 post): China, covid, dictatorship, serial killers, censorship, educational creationism, biology in schools, ...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's an upvoted comment by a moderator... Nothing more, nothing less.

As I said before: chill.

Ps. Still useless content :)
I usually tipped delivery services 15-20%, more if it was raining, but shouldn't tips be hidden and only given in aggregate? Also I wish a fair wage was just baked into the price and tipping went away.
We'll leave that as an exercise for the reader
I’m on a phone :(
Probably not. Shadow stacks don't really have anything to do with privilege levels or interrupts. And Intel only started shipping CPUs with "Control-flow Enforcement Technology" (which has their implementation of shadow stacks, and other things) last year.