skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post does a poor job explaining it, but the term "gaping security hole" comes from traditional netcat's source code. In order to enable the "-e" (exec) flag, it must be compiled with "-DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE".
> The best part is that the cubicle doesn't have tall walls so I can literally see/hear everything, including other people's monitors.

Open offices are awful. In my experience most people end up wearing headphones all day, and I did too. My ears would get red and irritated after a while. But I'd keep them on because it was like an unspoken social rule; that if you looked busy and had headphones on, people won't interrupt you as much.
There is quite a serious problem with letting people choose - financial overhead. If we go back to pre-2020 the systems that needed to be maintained, e.g. office space, pipes, parking, etc. was a done deal. Since 2020 the lines are quite a bit more blurry so providing for employees at the same level would mean worst case scenario double the burden for the employer, because both options come with their own requirements. Then you could say - but hey now employers can just adjust the office space for a lower number of employees and we're good. Not really, though, because for one the efficiency of yesteryear came from buying up stuff/services in bulk with a fixed capacity - we don't have that now. Then there is training your managers to deal with a hybrid environment, new systems/software - all additional costs.

My point is in a lot of cases maintaining options for people costs money/time/effort/opportunity for the provider. That's money that could have gone to your pocket. And note I'm not saying we're not going to have both options - just don't expect to live in a simpler, more cost efficient system.
Not to mention it basically makes the workplace extremely hostile to somebody who isn't neurotypical.
Kind of expected a writeup of findings from an example, but it just looks like a how-to article.
It can't go that far. Postgres is limited by dictionaries, stemming/processing, query semantics (like fuzzy searching), and the biggest issue of all being a lack of modern relevance algorithms. It's good for limited scenarios where you just need more than a SQL LIKE statement, and chaining some functions together can get you decent results [1] without adding another datastore.

However search tech is pretty mature with Lucene at the core and there are many better options [2] from in-process libraries to simple standalone servers to full distributed systems like Elastic. There are also other databases (relational like MemSQL, or documentstores like MongoDB/RavenDB) that are adding search as native querying functions with most of the abilities of ES. If search is a core or complex part of your application (like patterns in raw image data or similarities in audio waveforms) then that's where ES will excel.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46122175/fulltext-search...

2. https://gist.github.com/manigandham/58320ddb24fed654b57b4ba2...
Alcohol contributes to obesity as well though. Alcohol, like soda, is unhealthy to drink and it causes the more serious problems I alluded to previously.
Unfortunately, there is a drop in empathy and trust (to varying degrees) when interacting with those who one hasn't met in person. Being in office, talking to your teammates face-to-face is super valuable when the team members are new to each other. Once the rapport is established, let each person do what works the best for them.
This completely misses the point. The problem isn't that people do worse, but that automating warfare changes the cost function. Technologically superior and determined enemies can still be dissuaded by incurring significant numbers of casualties or losses to their infrastructure. A small number of casualties stiffens resolve, a large number of casualties or a never ending trickle of them eventually breaks or wears it away.

If military actors can reliably change outcomes by the relatively low-cost expedient of throwing in autonomous weapons platforms that cost about as much as a washing machine, they will and they'll do it at scale, and (in the short term at least) their political backers will cheer and get off on it. In the longer run it will lead to a considerable increase in terrorism against the technologically advanced power.

Sure, people ultimately make these decisions and deploy such technologies, but so what? it's not like that can change in any way because you can't take people out of the equation and you can't just wish away political forces by pinning the blame on select individuals. Rather than retreating into truisms, it's more important to assess the impact of this emerging force multiplier and develop countermeasures.
Build your own ham radio
The next step after having a preference is expressing that preference.
Isn’t that a bit unfair of a comparison, since Medicare disproportionately covers the elderly who have higher medical costs, while the NHS serves the whole population?
I have seen simple things in Open Source Programs that I know I could track down and fix. Off by one errors, modulus stuff and such.

Do open source projects have an obvious "run this script to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ?

I would be happy to spin up a new VM for every project on that basis.
Or just the ability to easily rearrange when I do those 8 hours to fit with appointments, flights, and other life events.
I originally hated open spaces. But eventually I grew to love open spaces for being social. In fact, I had one of the most enjoyable times I ever had at a big tech company being in an open space!

But I was probably producing about 10% of what I normally produced in a closed space. I was OK with that :-) My company probably wasn't, but hey, I was salary; that's their problem.
Don't forget the hours of commute time lost daily. Compared to a few minutes lost by a few people in Zoom, commute is everybody every day.
I used to reinstall Windows XP to squeeze a few extra points on 3D Mark 2001
> safer and faster

Safer, maybe. Faster? LMAO.
> Why is he going to a daily meeting if he doesn’t have to pay attention to the meeting?

Attendance is not usually optional for standup.
This sounds like a nightmare to me. Working for 16 hours, checking in with somebody every 30 min, only getting maybe 3x30 min break, telling people if I’m gone for more than 5 min, and just so much more. Seems like a great way to burn out.
Likewise, people who prefer working from home would rather not be sidelined by people working in office.
The problem is when some people are managers and get to decide and some people are not.
I don't think there any modern tech modern that can induce the stomach-turning horror of hearing hearing the pitiful, repetitive grinding of the floppy drive motor that presaged a "Cyclic Redundancy Check error"
They've got a hefty patent portfolio, but I can't think of a recent example of them using it to freeze everyone else out à la eInk. Of course, the barrier to entry into their market is so incredibly high that there would be only a small number of companies who'd actually be able to test that. The only instance of them really going after someone (over IP) that I can think of was in the 80s when Hitachi was pretty brazen in the way they were stealing source code. Very low effort, like: Step 1 - acquire from a subcontractor the entire source tree for IBM's current mainframe OS; Step 2 - sed s/IBM/Hitachi/g; Step 3 - package the OS with Hitachi mainframes sold in Japan. They got along famously though, after Hitachi lost the legal battle and started paying them a royalty for the rebadged OS.

IBM does have a reputation for buying competitors in very niche areas, like process planning software, and then not doing anything with them except maybe parting them out several years later. It looks suspicious, but I think that is more to do with the way they stick to hyper-specialized enterprise solutions... the pickings are naturally very slim.
Most of the people posting these sort of articles fail to realize people have different preferences. Some people prefer WFH, some the office, some something in between.

Smart companies understand that and tailor their approach to fit. Dumb ones will dictate The One True Way and see half their people leave.
i wonder how companies survived until now with all kinds of outsourcing, outstaffing, contractors in 5 different timezones, vendors in 12 different timezones, regulators in 3 different time zones, separate divisions for APAC, EMEA, US and so on...?

...but just can't handle remote employees that they have so much more control over?

Sounds like complete nonsense to me. If they can handle vendors located on a different continent - they can handle remote employees, full stop.

I'll believe the complaints about WFH when they'll ban offshoring.
No, I mean monday and tuesday everybody goes there. This is how we are planning to do it from september and most people seem happy (especially new recruits).
Boston Dynamics should be making one of these. It fits really well with their expertise and is much better for them to be making these rather than robots that get sent to wars.
Why not complain and see if something can be changed first? Less work than rebooting your algo brain circuits with Leetcode.
I loved his old car. I think it was a Volvo?

The show reinforced what I believed at the time--money dosen't buy happiness, and don't judge people by how they look.

Now--as an aging person--a bit of money would make life easier?
If only more people would do this over wages instead of not having pronoun email footers, we might get somewhere on wealth inequality.
Why is chatting with colleagues about the sports team better than me making snacks?
I think it is still helpful, at least for MacOS. My work 2018 MBP was feeling slow. I reimaged it last October and now it feels like new.
The winning model is all-you-can-eat subscriptions. Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Video, Disney+ don't offer subscriptions by singer, by actor, by screenwriter, or by director.
There is no transport compression in HTTP? Have you ever heard of Content-Encoding? You seem to be under the impression that this is somehow not a transport compression in some way (it is).

Either way, a brotli encoded HTTP body will cause several issues with proxies and middleboxes, multiple of which have been mentioned in by Cloudflare in their email response.
i wonder how companies survived until now with all kinds of outsourcing, outstaffing, contractors in 5 different timezones, vendors in 12 different timezones, regulators in 3 different time zones, separate divisions for APAC, EMEA, US and so on...?

...but just can't handle remote employees that they have so much more control over?

I'll believe the complaints about WFH when they'll ban offshoring.
No, because programming wraps around the instruction-based model that processors use to execute programs. When you elevator pitch a product, you don't give them a list of instructions the product carries out, you tell them what the product does in broad terms.

The theoretical next level of programming is being able to pitch your software to the computer, having it build it in real time, and playing around and tweaking it until it matches your vision in your head. This is not what programming is today because you have to spend far too much effort dealing with low level problems.

The theoretical next level of programming is essentially just a programming language for product managers, I think.
The video pretty clearly shows that his view is that testing for HIV is a conspiracy by the CDC to get funding to fight AIDS.[1] Unless you agree with him that AIDS isn’t caused by HIV, it doesn’t make much sense to trust him rather than all the scientific experts who have worked on PCR testing and virus detection in the last few decades. ( edit: Moreover, suppressing HIV using drugs has been successfully treating AIDS, which wouldn’t make sense if the disease wasn’t actually caused by the virus. )

Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries.

Frankly I don’t put much trust in his Nobel, any more than Michael Levitt who is also a Nobel laureate and has repeatedly made falsified predictions about the Covid-19 pandemic.[2] It seems pretty clear that Nobel prize winners can later lose touch with reality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19
If you mean using Docker containers, well those are pretty stable. There are hundreds of companies running ClickHouse on Kubernetes, which deploys using Docker containers. Some of them run on very large K8s clusters. We've seen very few problems.

The one issue I've seen specific to Docker is that you can run into configuration errors that keep them from coming up. That happens occasionally and it can be tricky to debug.

Disclaimer: My company Altinity wrote the ClickHouse Kubernetes Operator, which is also a Docker container.
I don't use a keyboard or a mouse much at all! (because I can't anymore.) instead, I've written and memorized a growing arsenal of voice commands. Saying stuff like "review approve" to approve PRs is handy, though I'm slower over all than I was with working hands.
I don't have an Oculus or even Facebook, but I remember a decade ago that my older relatives were hostile toward the idea of Facebook and moving aspects of their daily lives online. That all changed very quickly and has been very profitable for FB. I don't know if it will be brought about (in part) by Facebook, or if it will even happen anytime soon, but something akin to a "metaverse" seems almost probable to me at this point
You lost me at Facebook
> while our only admin was on vacation
So let’s say that you are building a search engine for performance car parts. There are going to be a bunch of technical terms you use there that are not necessarily going to stand out in the document itself but you know them to be important. For example, the amount of boost pressure a turbo can provide or the number of pistons in a brake caliper. Is there some structured way to specify the grammar which is used for such terms and treat those as important such that when a user puts in “19psi turbo” that they don’t get a bunch of results for just “turbo” which isn’t exactly what they want?
I wasn't aware of the "Collatz-like iterative process" for BB lower bounds.

That seems to suggest that the collatz conjecture sits somewhere close to the "edge of computability", which really fits well with Erdos' quote "Mathematics may not be ready for such problems."
Do you remember the time when those ostentatious billionaires would indulge in expensive luxury of making a call like from a beach or while riding a limo?
I am interested in learning more, as well.
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites
just make your own billion dollar unicorn with somewhat stableish employment and affordable insurance premium.
Unforgivable. Literally destroying the decentralized nature of one of the last few "decentralized" systems that exists. For shame
A former colleague of mine quit a job over this. They wanted him back into the office. He mostly worked with their Toptal devs from Nigeria and and Hungary.
Wrong, all-cause death statistics are tracked separately from infections. See for instance https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Ah ok. Yes, this might work better for people.
I had the same task in 2002 for a computer lab. I used Norton Ghost. I was really impressed by the tool at the time.
Because modern coding is still too low level to allow quick development of full blown applications. It would be really annoying if you had to tell a Subway employee behind the counter how to use their hands to pick up ingredients, how many ingredients to pick up, when to move the sandwich down the line, when to stop applying mayo etc. Instead we can just tell them to make a BLT sandwich and they'll do it with little to no intervention. This is the same ideal we should strive for in our compilers and interpreters. Maybe the request is too vague and the employee has to ask for clarification - and that's okay! That's still far faster than micromanaging their muscle movements. Modern coding is micromanaging muscle movements. We want to evolve to a point where we can just ask the computer to make us a cake and be able to eat it, too.
Imo, the advantage of "Haskell's approach" is that it's always obvious when you can and can't use imperative code, and the type system enforces it. I think this is important in many contexts, like STM[1] or Facebook's React[0]. But there are plenty of disadvantages:

* it's a bit more verbose.

* you can accidentally implement a weaker interface than the one you'd want, e.g. by only implementing Functor and not Traversable for your data structure.

* the flip side of the benefits is that adding I/O to a previously pure function changes its interface.

I don't know how it'd compare to OCaml's algebraic effects proposal, though.

[0]: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-effect.html

[1]: http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on-...
I think talking on this forum is going to invite trolling and smugness...of the variety „well im just fine“. I went out for a long walk on my break because I know its not going to last. I feel like a cancer patient who is in remission and want to use the time to experience the best and simplest things. Quiet going for a walk to the end of the street a slice and beer and an un interrupted conversation with my Mom.
all blurry fuzzy fonts... I'm a bit sad to not seeing any sharp, crisp, bitmap font here.
Office isn't "cool" or anything, but people definitely seek it out. No competitor comes close to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint right now.
Expressing preferences is great! Why do you equate that to whining, though?
The ex-boyfriend wrote a post about her infidelity. I have seen the claim that he constructed the story to maximize impact, but the fact that she cheated on him was not disputed. Also the other claim was that the positive coverage was made before they were dating, not before they met, you have to take their word that they were not involved earlier so that point is rightly controversial.

My take is/was similar to David Pakman's: there's evidence of non ethical behavior in the videogame journalism and how the topic was handled, but so what? it's not really one of the greatest issues that plague mankind at this moment. With that in mind, I bear no doubt that the whole thing was astroturfed to culture war topic by right talking heads. But this is in my opinion mishandled on the left, as I dare to say most of the people following the event were not really involved in politics, and were fed a narrative by the misogynists and anti-sjw types.
No fuck you, Berniebro. I’m not lifting a finger for antivaxers and I don’t think they even want me to lift said finger.
> For instance, the average person has one testicle, whether defined by mean or median

There are two options:

1) The ratio between women and men is not exactly 1. In this case, the median number of testicles is not 1 (it is either 0, if there are more women than men, or 2 if there are more men than women).

2) The ratio between women and men is exactly 1. This is not true in real life, but let's pretend it is. In this case, any number between 0 and 2 is a median (since any number between 0 and 2 minimizes the sum of absolute deviations), and not just 1.

TL;DR: The median number of testicles is almost surely not 1 (or, at least, not uniquely so).
Why would you take a picture of your dead grandma?
This is still a part of my process any time I set up a new machine, although I haven't had to use one of the 'fresh setup' images in a long time.
Did the Jetstream Just Die?
Does it seem like it to anyone else that there seems to be no jetstream anymore? (at least in the northern hemisphere over the north america)
By all means, please do share which device worked out for you. Congrats on the progress!
A free, simple one I like: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro (also available from Google and Adobe).

I have long hesitated to pay for fonts for personal, non commercial use. However a well designed font really can make a difference in the usability of a computer. I'm checking these out, I'm at the point where I would be willing to spend some serious cash for a font. Although to me, "serious cash" for a personal use item would be around $25, some of these cost upwards of $100.

Part of my hesitation is a lack of understanding how to analyze fonts and my preference. I've done some reading on typography and design, but any time I install a new font, the depth of my emotion goes as far as "this is nice" or "I liked the previous font more, I guess".
> I do hope for their own sake that Bubble looks at migrating away. At scale an untyped de facto abandoned 'language' is going to catch up to them sooner or later and limit their ability to iterate safely at scale.

Looks like they founded in 2012, which is right on time for Coffeescript. So, there's a good chance it's not just Coffee - could well be Backbone, jQuery, Handlebars etc all mixed in there, too. You can definitely work React into a codebase like that (we have) but that could be a ton of work to get away from. Those codebases often ended up as un-unit-tested spaghetti.

Codebases from that era are a tech-debt albatross. Sure, you can make them work, but at some point something's going to come along built with modern tooling and just move so much faster.
Interesting, but it made me wonder - are there any programming languages that you can use with a proportional font? Python would not be on the list...
Yep.

Cherry picking justifications for management decisions is often an art form.
Weird because decades of Supreme Court precedent says vaccines can be and many states have very very limited exemptions.
The alpha variant (B117) emerged in the UK in November 2020, there’s no indication it had anything to do with vaccines. The delta variant (B.1.617) was detected in India in October 2020. So saying the vaccines caused these variants to evolve would suggest that vaccination also has a time-travel component?
at the end it may as well be just one day per week. The "pizza seminars" used to be a happy routine before the pandemic, and even colleagues who love WFH want to recover that.
have been enjoying using Cascadia Code
I haven’t watch Columbo since I was a kid, but I always thought Monk was the closest of the modern crime serials.
I run an email forwarding service https://hanami.run and I used to had this exact problem.

They had a dedicated page at https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/data.a... that supposed to be used for these delivery issue. I tried to submit multiple requests from there.

Even IPs that aren't sent any email in last 3 months.

Then one day the problem just disappears and I was able to send email just fine. Till this day, I still don't know what happen.

Another similar service is apple icloud, which I think even much more worse than Hotmail. At least, hotmail give you a portal that you can see some data.

With the announcement of apple icloud email service, I imagine people who are self-hosted email gonna have a lot issue with them.
>praying attention

Lol, isn't that what the driver does with Tesla Fully Self Driving currently?
Had the exact same experience when I worked at a non-profit: we had a self-hosted Postfix server, and our subscriber emails would get silently dropped. This only ever happened for Outlook.com users, and we had set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC long ago. We got the same run-around with Microsoft support, and eventually we had to give up and move to using Google's SMTP Relay service.
I use fzf on Linux for the same thing. Just stick it in an xdg-open and alias it.

As for pdfs and stuff, zathura, Okular, Calibre, or whatever ships with the distro are usually fine.
That demo is always fun, but I cringe at the use of SF6. That stuff is 23,000x the potency of CO2 in terms of greenhouse gas potency.