skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investment bankers also have autonomy and generally work in small teams. Not responsible for human beings, just capital. Also if a IB gets fired (but is good) they are probably employed within a week. A good teacher that gets fired (for fighting the bad administration? Good luck...
Having ownership tracked on a public ledger does not imply it needs to be associated with a real name, just a key.
Aimed too low. If you are smart enough to be hirable in tech, you are smart enough to do so much more, and less clever people than you luck in to more success, so be luckier.

Also in the 90's, knocked west coast offline by null routing the /24 that contained peer router addresses. Broke DNS for a few thousand domains by corrupting named.db on our primary NS before going to lunch, editing the sendmail.cf on the primary mail server in production for an ISP without revision control. I worked for the kind of people who could debug a sendmail.cf cold, so they could afford to have someone as dumb as me around, but still, I meddled in the afairs of wizards.
Which is not syscall chaining, but message chaining, of io.
Only for io, which is not the same thing.
Not even that, the certs where from California offices, just that the testing work was carried out in a China branch office.

IMO this is a somewhat grey area. Not familiar with regulations around testing labs, but om the surface looks like an innocent cost optimization that someone decided to put some pressure on.
You are thinking way too complicated.

Ok, let me just put the moral compass aside for a moment and put on my John Grisham fanfic hat so I can answer to this:

You simply buy $CRYPTO_CURRENCY, siphon the money off into a shell company in your favorite tax heaven, write it up as ransom payment, done. You might not even need the first step by having the shell company pretend to be a crypto currency exchange.

If you are a big enough company to bother with shell company tax evasion shenanigans, you probably have enough departments that some of them barely know each other or communicate. Spreading a rumor of a single department being hit by ransomware should be enough in case someone from the IRS actually bothers to come by and ask around.

If you really must, maybe pay someone in IT some hush money and ask them to turn a few servers off for a day or so to put up a convincing show. I'd advise against that though, since in my experience, technical people are notoriously bad at lying about technical things.

But actually phishing your own employees and staging a real ransomware attack is an unnecessary risk with too many variables where things might actually go wrong. Besides, the people pulling the strings here may have a law and/or accounting background, but probably not IT.
The “user journey” you talk about, the road traveled to a destination, is not the software, it’s the job to be done with the combination of software and hardware.

There may be roads less traveled or places off road, but Apple has no obligation to release some kind of universal automobile fit for highway comfort as well as every terrain.

Apple doesn’t owe you a computing device without a user experience any more than Mercedes owes you an engine without a carriage. They are designed together, and sold together.

The old school insistence on an arbitrary division between hardware and software is like the 1900s division between carriages and bolt on engines before Ford and others realized designing them together made a better car. In modern computing, this false division forces a constraining snapshot of where that line happens to be drawn on this model, instead of recognizing the line is moving all the time as hardware is virtualized and software becomes firmware, all in pursuit of a better journey to the user’s destination, the job to be done.

With the majority of firms and devices selling badly matched hardware and software you can readily strip apart, Apple is making a user experience choice rather unique in the industry and their market success because of this thesis should not be resented or begrudged.

If you believe in general purpose hardware for arbitrary software, if you think Linux has done fantastically with, say, touchpads, touch input, and pen devices relative to Apple with the Magic trackpad, multi-touch screens, and Pencil with the hardware+drivers+OS+apps ecosystem to manifest user intent, invest in that. Buy that, code for that, advocate for that.

If you believe in a customer centric emphasis on “job to be done” and giving less technical end users frictionless tools that get out of their way, appliances for accomplishing their goals, advocate for Apple and the like.

Or don’t advocate, but at least don’t try to tear it down.
I think they mean tricks things like reversing samples, or having a segment of an audio sample keep looping after starting playback so you could "stretch" it longer. Also pitch-shifting samples so you can play them at different notes.

Trackers were strange kinds of sequencers that were very focused on using samples to make music, and they were created at a time when memory was expensive, so you'd typically have fairly low resolution samples (8-bit 22KHz?), and people tried to use those samples creatively because you might not have many of them, both because of memory and hard drive space, but also because they weren't as easy to get as they are today. Most people didn't have the internet at home before the mid-late 90s, and even when people started to have the internet at home, it wasn't like today, the music making community was smaller.

I first discovered trackers in a French gaming magazine around 1997 or 1998, but they had already been around much longer. Said magazine had came with a CD that contained multiple different tracker programs and a collection of music files in different formats (MOD, XM, etc). The compelling thing was that these files were small, because they contained a few audio samples and the data on how and when to play them, so you could fit a tune that was multiple minutes in 1 megabyte or less.

For an example of what tracker software looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjqNwHidpk
illegal squid fishing in the pacific?
What if anything I can come up with that aligns with my hobbies has already been done?
Pretty often (but not always), the time periods in which the market becomes a weighing machine is only a couple of decades. The long term in which we're all dead is significantly further away.
AMD spun off its fabs because they actually had good designs but couldn’t keep up in manufacturing. TSMC and ARM had different business models. Now, Intel never had the best designs but they had the best manufacturing. Now they are third place in both. Third place but spending as if it’s going to continue to dominate for the next decade. What’s going to happen when it writes off an entire fab?
Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700
This is great. Reminds me of the internet circa 1995 - more artful, playful, and esoteric.
> save up money not spent on rent, use that to buy another house, etc. I guess people are always going to need a place to live in.

Until: Your mortgage repayment goes higher than income; multiple repair costs come together; event like Covid stops tenants from paying rent; a house is damaged beyond repair and the insurance won't pay out; some local event drives people away and collapses local resale prices; many other issues...

There's nothing sure about being a landlord and unless you have multiple houses in various places far away from each other, it's really not that much safer than shares.
It looks like it can carry water. But I need it to be able to jog for over an hour!

Ah, another other model Aliengo up to 4.5 hours of battery life.
I wonder how well the Lindy effect can be applied to picking a technology stack.

Clearly, there's some benefits to choosing something new and hot- it wouldn't be hot if it weren't doing something useful that it's predecessors did not. But there's also an advantage to picking something that's been around a while.

I suppose in my mind one can say "Presume I am willing to rewrite this in K years- I want to pick a tech stack of things that have all been around at least K years".

If you're whipping up a prototype in a deliver-before-money-runs-out environment, you use what you need to use to deliver something immediately and accept that a rewrite next year after you get funding is fine. Pick new tech if it's fast. If you're in a big company and know that this thing you write is going to have to exist for a decade, well, nobody is going to fire you for building your backend on Java.
Interesting point on open source, but many popular open source projects are all or partially supported by paid positions. And I don’t think all current businesses would be viable without leveraging open source.

Software Engineers have some leverage, but not a lot and not uniformly. The way to get more would be to get better at organizational politics, but that isn’t typically of interest to many software engineers.
And now taxpayers are on the hook for shitty security. Hell why not?
It started out interesting, but like many long reads I stopped in the middle asking myself, where this was going. What is the f*cking “so what” of this article? If someone knows, pls share.
Does anyone else have their work email on their phone? How could you even consider this if you use your phone for internal business?
Factually false.
I'm pleased to see that while most people have doppelgangers similar around >0.990, my most similar doppelganger has a similarity of 0.975. I'm a unique individual!
Covid vaccines have been tested with randomized trials (Phase 3 of the testing phase). Regarding "long-term", that obviously depends on how you define "long-term but there is no need to move the goalpost.

Generally speaking, in evidence-based medicine drugs and vaccines are not recommended based on incomplete statistics or hunches.
Aren't you sharing that key with anyone that you transact with?
It already exists -> The stock market.
Gjf – A tool to fix invalid GeoJSON objects
Which is why it's worth even specifying 1NF. That doesn't mean that the relational algebra does not allow for them.

I think the reason people even ask questions like what does 1NF even mean is because they're not learning relational algebra, they are learning SQL. So if every table is in 1NF by default, it begs the question what is the point of 1NF? And the point is that the relational algebra is bigger than SQL, a realization that leads you to potentially interesting projects like CJ Date's efforts to build truly relational databases.
Fun fact: The mascot for the sudo program itself is a sandwich with a face.
Are you sure? You, pseudolus, barry-cotter, and jbegley sure do post a lot of the same URLs...
This only goes for the central bank, so this only applies, partially, to the Federal government. Every other government, certainly municipal or state governments, have budgets that do work like a "home budget" (more like a very large company I'd say, but fair enough, if you had a $100 million/billion household, it would probably be similar).

Second, you're making this argument to advocate for more spending. You're not referring to the alternate rules. So let's see: what are the rules for central bank spending, and what do they say now?

The alternative set of rules: spending inversely proportional to the distance between inflation and the inflation target (ie. 2%). Inflation is over 2%, yes, sounds unbelievable but it is [1], hence ... the central bank should seriously CUT it's budget. It should NOT spend at this time (well ... spend less, for now).

So people make this argument only insofar it benefits more government spending. If one were to describe the current spending situation "due to lack of inflation in the past 10 years or so, the government has massively increased spending through the central bank, if the recent inflation doesn't back down in 2-3 months or so, the central bank budget will need to be cut by a LOT, and soon".

What the rules say, is that the government, in the last 10 or so years (a bit less), should have used tax money to lower the national debt and now should increase that debt (and raise taxes in 2-3 years) to spend.

The FED, btw, has already announced they will in fact be cutting spending by a lot next year, BTW. They are scared they have severely overdone it, so I would be expecting a large cut rather than a small one. So you're warned. The government (including, for that matter, EU governments) will be cutting spending next year, you won't get a raise, but inflation will rise. Except, perhaps, if you're living in one of the countries that benefit from this (last time especially Australia spectacularly benefitted: they bought their way out of the housing crisis, essentially for free).

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_inflation_rate#:~:text=US%....
Those are only two posts of dozens. Feel free to read her twitter feed, her blog, her facebook feed, etc.
I find these ideas interesting, but the "lindy walk" meme hints at a kind of personality cult. Like that's literally just a walk. If you go outside, walk, without any clear goal in mind, that's called going for a walk. I'm not sure the personality cult is even the reason it creeps me out. Maybe it's just that some people can't do stuff unless there's some kind of lifestyle brand associated with it. And by the way, taking your phone on walks so that you can send pictures to lindy man isn't lindy either. One of the most important aspects of it to me is to get away from technology.
Covid Counting Enters New Era as Threat Shifts Away from Cases
Yes here an example:

>Minimum supported versions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2: 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 or later

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...

>product officially compatible with CentOS,

Ehh, that's the point of CentOS being the same as RHEL...bug for bug
It seemed to me that it is case-sensitive, right? Maybe make it not case-sensitive or if that's not possible at least mention it somewhere, e.g. by putting it into the label of the input box as "Username (case-sensitive)".
Such as the "learned helplessness" of building fire safety?

This is a rather bizarre view -- do you have any examples of this?

We are limited thinkers -- we have to hand off the vast majority of our concerns to external systems to manage -- our individual frontal lobes are woefully inadequate for managing our lives.

Is there any sense, other than some rousseauian pre-civilization mythology, in which we are actually worse off here?
I don't see much that is controversial here. Losses due to crime such as assets being stolen are business losses. Certainly there is a modicum of willing victim participating here, but I don't see it as any different than other practices whereby a company is allowed to make security cuts and then deduct the inevitable crime-related losses.

If the government really wants to reduce this then perhaps they should actually help companies. Setup teams to address these situations in real time. Put that extensive NSA internet spying network to good use and track these situations. When a company calls the FBI to report an ongoing ransomware attack, they shouldn't have to leave a message in hopes that maybe someone might call them back in a couple weeks, nor should they be told to report the situation to their local cops.
So:

bool AI(int id1, int id2){

return True;

}
Ok, sure, it’s great to have an extra couple thousand a year. But I assumed someone saying it was a regret meant they regretted not piling into their employers stock years ago which is now worth 10x or whatever. So just commenting that even if you used it, the rational choice would not have resulted in a windfall.
The difference is that on a long enough time horizon the best poker players clearly beat the averages.

On a long enough time horizon, individual stock pickers very very rarely beat the market as a whole to the point where its hard to argue what they've done is skill and not blind luck.
That's not how it works. It's well known that overheating electronics for an extended period of time causes them to fail. Especially ones that are not rated for large temp ranges. So to speculate that it's probably not a real issue and that they could just change it later needs more evidence.

They put the limit there in the first place, so why did they choose that temperature? Keep in mind these terminals need to last 5-10 years in these conditions. The motorized antenna is another part that is known to fail in extreme weather. Let's revisit this in a couple years when they have a decent amount of customers.
Very sound argument.

Software faces additional challenge of being similar to agricultural monocultures in parts - unlinked systems with same code can all fail at once because, say, a date bug hits.
If you talk about crypto crash without mentioning tether, you don't know what you're talking about.

Biggest problem is the tether fraud. Not leverage, not parabolic price increase. The fact the whole thing is backed by fake tethers which have shady dealings with major exchanges.
Trackers allow note data to be annotated with various "effects", triggered via special codes. Some of these effects are things like pitch bends and filter adjustments, which can easily be done in any sequencer. However, effects like retriggering the current sample from an arbitrary offset or rapidly alternating notes in an arpeggio are fairly unique to the tracker workflow. It's not that you can't make those sounds in a conventional DAW, it's just that you probably wouldn't in practice.
It’s not a “should” it’s just what happens.
Unfortunately many of today's suburbias are practically the same, it's like a fungus that has spread from Northern America to the rest of the world. A few weeks ago I was exploring the streets around Copenhagen (like this one [1]) and I was surprised to see practically the same building repeating itself, quite soul-crushing in their uniformity.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@55.6784592,12.461008,3a,75y,152...
Sponsored by Big Octopus?
I was trying chairs at Design Within Reach recently and I couldn't agree more. I went in expecting to like the Embody best, but the Cosm just really seemed to click with me. It's comfortable without having to adjust anything
Yet here we are. The U.S. has fleets, airbases, a defense pact with Taiwan, and regularly sells Taiwan weapons.

But the U.S. won’t defend Taiwan because China has nukes? Ok how about China won’t attack Taiwan because the U.S. has nukes?

And you’re severely oversimplifying the entire interaction. China has geographic advantage to do what exactly? Fly planes to Taiwan? Not with U.S. forces nearby. Land troops? Good luck with that. Bombard the island with ships? Well that’s why the U.S. fleet is there.

Fortunately all of this is saber rattling. Nobody not China, Taiwan, or the U.S. cares to change the status quo. The U.S. gets to maintain Taiwan as is. The CCP has a boogeyman they can use. And Taiwan gets to do business with everyone.
For two standard formats in our field, you sometimes need to keep billions of short strings in memory. Many of these strings are 2 bytes or several bytes in length. The parser in C packs them as NULL terminated strings. The C++ and Java parsers use the std::string or the string type. They use a lot more memory. Even a 4-byte overhead would double the memory. Yes, you can have a smart way to keep short strings to waste less or even no memory (one of the two formats is using this trick), but it makes code harder to read and hurts performance due to the extra check/conversion.

As to the capacity field, we sometimes have to keep it around. The question is: do you keep it inside the string struct/memory block (like std::string) or let users handle it? We have varying preferences in different cases. It is hard to design APIs optimal in all cases.
I'll take that criticism. I'm much more focused on the bug discovery process that Burry goes through than the bug exploitation itself. My nuance on the actual trading side is much less developed.
Wikipedia can be browsed offline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Of...
Could you say more about "local vs. cloud run nodes"? I get the sense you think local nodes are better, but I'm curious what you think the trade offs are.
Nuclear fusion is a reality, it already works in bombs and the stars, and there are real reactors outputting significant energy. Will we ever see a reactor that doesn't tear itself apart in a few hours and doesn't cost at least a thousand times as much as solar panels? Who knows. But the physics foundation is sound, the missing part is "just" engineering.

Quantum computing relies on the universe being based on non-classical computation principles. We still don't know if the universe has such properties or if the quantum mechanics we observe are simply the result of a more complicated classical model, which would inherently limit the theoretical capabilities of quantum computers.

But the theoretical part aside, quantum computing is just not really evolving. When I first heard about 50+ qbit quantum computers I though it was a sign of clear progress, but I think it is just mostly moving the goal post, the requirement that you have to do some sort of computation to call the device a computer just kind of slipped away. Better freezers have of course done their part, but that just isn't going to push us anywhere near useful.
Wikipedia has a good overview / history [1] and BasoonTracker [2] has a good demo if you want to have a go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
[2] https://github.com/steffest/BassoonTracker
This just in, humans begin eating older humans because it's the only way to survive the climate calamity currently. With less boomers, wealth inequality had gone way down and no one is starting with record fights anymore!
Hyping “Exponentiality”
Is the new "Roaring Twenties"/"Great Acceleration" narrative for tech hype or the real deal?
True, thanks for clarification.
zsync is great. I'm currently using it to deliver system updates to Raspberry Pis. The system update (and initial install file) is a single install.zip file that gets extracted into the SD boot partition. zsync helps greatly with regards to transfer sizes as a normal OS upgrade is usually between 3-5MB instead of the full 50MB download for the full ZIP.

Of course for that you have to specially prepare how to store the files within the ZIP: For example the kernel image is stored, not compressed at it itself is already compressed. gzip based files (like initramfs.gz) are created with the rsyncable flag. And so one for other file types.

A really nice feature of zsync is that you can add any number of local data sources when syncing. It then uses all those to search for matching local data before retrieving it remotely. All without any explicit local state or special server side preparations. I usually add the previous and current OS install zip, the currently extracted OS files and previous interrupted transfers. zsync then magically uses all those to reduce download size as much as possible. This also means that the OS can initially reconstruct its own full install.zip file by using its extracted files and fetching the few remaining data chunks remotely.
The choice is between paying $X (say, $10 million) to the government in taxes, where it is never seen again and only indirectly benefits the company (the roads and railroads argument), or "paying" that same money into dirty accounts that, yes, are limited in what they can achieve (i.e. you can't pay dividends from it or engage in capital construction in the name of the company) but can still achieve direct benefits for the company (e.g. paying for negative coverage of competitors' products, lining the pockets of influential people)
As a developer, a DevOps engineer and a cybersecurity professional I very much indeed have this choice.
> A company or startup following the "open source business model" ...

Yes, it's the case that open source isn't and can't be a business model in itself