skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the opportunity is there, but it doesn't seem like the VC wants to fund efforts in that direction. There are all sorts of ways to make social media better as well, but the VC doesn't want to fund that either.

Perhaps because in both cases, after some immediate improvement, the jobs get a lot harder as people fight back to bring their crap back to the top of the heap, but it sure would be nice if they had a corporate motto like "Cut the crap!" IMO...
That is true, but I think IntelliJ provides you with the list of commands it executed to get there.
Hasn't this person committed a crime if they are in the U.S.?[1]

Not that I think that this is morally wrong, just that I've always been concerned that people who try this and gain enough attention could face legal penalties. I would not do something like this without taking measures to stay anonymous. A similar case is the PS3 hacking case.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
They obviously knew what you meant, but their point is still worthy of consideration.
Doesn't this same complexity prevent an all-consuming virus?
We've had the same experience.

If Google Cloud doesn't make a profit, it will be moved to the Google graveyard.
Same here. The website is bizarrely uninformative. A Windows logo, but it's called MacType with a Mac-style download button, with zero explanation as to what the product actually does. The tagline "the way texts should be" is terrible English and it looks blurry on my screen, so the idea that this is some kind of improved font rendering is undermined.
I think it was RMS who argued that conditional compilation should be considered harmful in general. Code that you put in an inactive #if(def) block will not be maintained, and is basically guaranteed to rot. If it's needed in the future, it'll likely have to be rewritten from scratch.

According to this stance, any code that's suppressed by the C preprocessor should either be written in an if {} statement so that it will at least continue to compile as the surrounding code changes, or be replaced with comments describing what it does (or did), if it's important enough to keep track of.

Can't really think of many good counterarguments to this. Machine dependence might be one, but then you could argue that the preprocessor is being used to cover up for an inadequate HAL.
Successful+Weight+Loss
I feel dumb not knowing what a "Wiper" is, especially with that headline and the odd writing style of the article (the term "epic troll" gets thrown around a lot and is not what I'd expect to come from a security research org). It turns out to be what it sounds like:

> A wiper is a class of malware whose intention is to wipe the hard drive of the computer it infects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiper_(malware)
A service can be indispensable but a company is not. People believe this because they buy PR and marketing BS.
This shell script presents a number of relatively serious safety issues; e.g.,

* no quoting of the arguments

* no error handling; if any of the git commands fails, the script will drive on and probably do the wrong thing; should at least use the "errexit" option
100k vesting over 4 years -> 400k vesting over 4 years. No; only that I didn't have to leave my current place of employ. The total comp was toward the upper end for my market, though slightly lower than FAANG for the area (and with a company whose stock ticker is less aggressively/consistently rising, so less likely to be a huge gain come vestment). I did not make it explicit that I did not have competing offers, instead using phrasing that may have implied it (for instance, "will next week work for your timeline?" "Yes, though please let me know ASAP if it slips as I can't speak to after that").

Yes, I was surprised as well that they were willing to move that much. However, I know RSUs tend to be a lot easier to move on for companies than salary or bonuses (in fact, the salary offered was about 5% lower than my prior; I didn't even touch on that, instead looking to make up the difference, and then some, in the RSUs), and vary a lot more in the market. There are some companies that don't offer RSUs at all, pre-IPO startups whose grants are of questionable value, companies that grant RSUs yearly but only to a percentage of their employees, companies that give comparatively small amounts of RSUs to all their employees, and companies that give comparatively large amounts of RSUs to all their employees. That means the market range is huge and increases can more easily be justified; market range for salary tends to be far more constrained.

It's possible this may have also been due to being outside of SV; while the company has an office in my metropolitan area, I don't believe it's mostly dev, and while they have salary guidelines for outside of SV for dev, they may not for equity. So it may have been that the initial RSU offer was tailored to the locale, and my ask was okayed because it was in line for dev. Point still stands; they were incentivized to move, and they were able to. Had I asked at the start they would likely not have, simply because a recruiter isn't going to ask to make an exception for a candidate they haven't even interviewed yet.
I have trouble imagining you can't figure that out on your own. If that's really the case, then take a little time and explain exactly what impact you think that comment would have had on the person they were replying to. Then explore some other ways to actually encourage submitting a patch. Write a couple of them out.

If you do that work, I'm glad to try to help you see where their approach falls short in terms of sincerely encouraging contribution.
I've been working on a little website to pull out links from the comments on the "Ask HN" page. Often there is some great advice in there, and it seemed in the spirit of Hacker News to automate that.

https://www.askhnwisdom.com/
exactly. if anti-fragility is only achieved through robustness, what is the point of the distinction?
So mainly you're happy that other customers are paying for your pushing 200TB+ in bandwidth?
Brave loops endlessly out of the box, as well.
They can easily cut you off if you dont pay.
Groups and people who oppose climate change apparently do so because their livelihood depends on fossil fuel being produced and sold without much restriction.

Then, there's too much money to be made from the effects of climate change. It's already a booming business. Supplying water and air purifying systems, sheltering, organizing future population movements, securing the affluent from the needy masses, etc.

While the naïve worry about saving the planet, most people just think about saving their own arses. And for the moment, they are winning.
The C programming language, brought to you by Cthulhu.

You don't need eval(), you've got strcpy()!
Apple isn't "antifragile", they're just monstrously big. Since they have an iron grip on their supply chain, it makes sense that they'd benefit right now while their competitors struggle.
Not op. Use the misnamed org-download.
That's the IT security industry for you, way to many people there love to play to that "never grown up/out of script-kiddy morals" stereotype.
Please ask him why he still hosts KiwiFarms.
Wow geez. There's been a lot of BS being thrown around about Cloudflare. I don't work for them, but I have been following the company for years.

On Cloudflare being a gatekeeper: yes, if you care about load, cost, and attacks, you need one. Cloudflare offers real value to their customers by providing these services. Will that lead to Cloudflare controlling the web? Well, you've got a number of direct competitors (Akamai and Fastly, to name two) in addition to the CDN offerings provided by cloud providers. Cloudflare isn't the first CDN, isn't the largest, and won't have a monopoly on being an internet middleman. Compare Cloudflare's network (https://www.cloudflare.com/network/) to Google's (https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure).

On the necessity of gatekeepers on the internet: this is the way the internet works. You are responsible for peering with the rest of the worls at a physical location and dealing with the traffic that comes your way. If you want to be close to your users (to avoid bandwidth bottlenecks and provide lower latency), you need to install equipment all over the place and peer with other networks. If you want to deal with bad traffic, you need the capacity and software to handle/filter it. You can always build your own CDN if you want, but the only way to deal with these issues is a CDN. Maybe if the internet worked differently things would be different. But that would be a huge change, especially since someone has to foot the cost of building these services. I guess you could somehow distribute the cost (though I don't see how), but you'd also have to someone deal with the management and development of said infra, and I have no idea how such a thing would work without a central entity being responsible.

Anyway sorry for the rant.
Your comment made me chuckle because it started "I imagine" and then reached a "so" as a "therefore".

Virtually every time you integrate anti-freeloading measures, everyone pays the price to catch a relatively small minority of people abusing the system. It does not at all follow without study that the suffering these measures cause are better than the alternative of allowing some level of growth in the abuse of the system to make everyone else's lives easier.

Every organization should do its own studies and reach conclusions based on what actually happens in its domain and location of operation. Anything else is likely harming people and more drum beating than solid work.
Other potential reasons for high multiple:

- Acquirer sees huge growth and thus a reasonable PEG ratio

- Acquirer wants some key market they have been unable to win themselves

- Acquirer wants some key technology, patent, or engineering know-how

- Acquirer wants team that has achieved something impressive to apply to acquiring company's own product

- Acquirer wants to absorb client base with higher growth than they have internally

- Acquirer has M&A execs who cant get promoted without deals

- Acquirer has inflated stock, so the cost is only relative to this inflated stock while the stock remains inflated
Yikes.

How much does a beachside bartender make?

And why would anyone so much as look at a C++ compiler error message even once for those wages?
Yeah, this is the same guy that committed plagarism on his law school paper and LIED openly about his academic credentials . . . . HYPOCRITE.
Good point - perhaps didn't make the limitations clear enough though - this would only help if the early payload gets delivered through a request made to a remote server (which inherently goes through default system DNS).

That's a fairly common compromise model though in my view - a message might contain a URL, and your phone might locally do a fetch of it to prepare a pretty preview, and that might try to exploit some weakness in the browser engine or whatever.

Given this was delivered via iMessage you're right - once they have code execution, the attacker can evade your DNS. If they can't get enough code in through their initial method to get their own DNS going, they might send a dropper which then pulls more code in from elsewhere, and that may give you an IOC to detect from that first query. If they can front their content on a popular domain though, this won't help.

Definitely favour network level protections before doing this, but if you just want the ability to get a view of your own DNS traffic from your device when it moves across WiFi and mobile data, this will give you a starting point.
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Ah. Yeah that’s doable. Diamond stores the client ID which authored each character in the document and I have a method for finding out which changes exist in one version but not in another. That would be doable
My old Bollé sunglasses are very comfortable and protective, if tatty. Not owned by Luxottica: agreed, near-monopoly
Floral shoppe is definitely fair use. Getting taken down from youtube is not a court of law.
I see this as "well kept", sometimes hyphenated. Google n-grams suggests "well kempt" drifted into popularity since 2000 or so, with insignificant use before that.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Well+kept%2C+w...
Well, maybe it indicates specifically that they had no meeting :)
Having 200 billion dollars in liquid cash sitting in the bank helps too.
Children always change the whole situation. It is simple for an adult or even two adults to live a minimalist lifestyle and take risks and cut back when they have to.

Once you have children, most people then have a goal of providing them with the best footing they can afford, which means stretching yourself thin on the house in the best possible neighborhood with the best possible schools and equipping the kids to do the best possible activities to maximize their chances of reaching the next level.
Just quoting that line is confusing. The thesis in those paragraphs is that COVID benefitted major lines of their business more than it hurt others and that was due to characteristics of the supply chain.

I agree anti-fragile is often misused but the author takes care to define robustness first and contrasts his antifragility thesis to the robustness of the overall sound business.

That said, I would look at other companies for examples of “true antifragility” although it’s interesting to try to analyze how a top global company can still raise the limit of its performance in situations that hurt its competitors.
Every big company IS intentionally trying to gatekeep their markets.
If it truly hasn't been fixed for years, then either the people involved haven't noticed or don't care. If the former, filing an issue is helpful. If not, filing a patch may not get anything fixed either.
> Like Apple built the iOS ecosystem, the App Store, and all the tooling around those that allow you to market a game to millions of new customers?

I'd say no, not like that. He seems to be praising FOSS and similar. Even ignoring the antitrust stuff, what Apple offers is paid proprietary software/services/hardware.

> When Epic literally requires a fee for developers who want to host their games on their store?

If Epic manufactured the majority of, say, desktop computers in the US and used that position to force an operating system which forces a package manager which forces a payment processor which takes an uncompetitively large cut, and actively suppressed any attempts at creating alternate package managers, and forbade telling the user about the existence of this cut (such that they could make informed choices about it), then I'd agree with the implication of hypocrisy.

That's not currently the case though. It's nonsense to pretend that just charging for hosting is the issue.

If alternatives were available without artificial hurdles and users/developers were allowed to make an informed choice, then I think that Apple's hardware and iOS would still do fine and be considered worth their price by many. Likely even that many developers would continue to pay the developer license fee to be able to build and distribute apps with Apple's tooling. I don't think the same can be said of the App Store though - I imagine we'd quickly figure out how much people actually consider that to be worth.

"Tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem" - Steve Jobs in a 2011 strategy email
Their devices are still fragile though.
Store your files in local files, running on their Linux "crostini". Apple and android have hundreds, probably thousands of documented attacks, plus known companies attacking them with rats and various spyware. There's an article a day. Apple took apps off their app store to satisfy the Chinese govt and hurt Hong Kong democratic resistance. Google has paid hackers for various attempts to break into chrome os, most of them were really chrome attacks but the signed os images have generally brought safety. Linux even has many known su root attacks plus malware and supply chain attacks.

You are just foolish not to consider chrome os.
Lightmatter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0I7jpwolg4
I just read the Apple earnings and they reported a 50% year-over-year jump in iPhone sales. That’s absolutely bonkers.

I like Apple and their products. I own an iPad, MacBook, iPhone and AirPods but I don’t understand why so many regular people who aren’t this deep in the Apple ecosystem buy iPhones in such large quantities in 2021.

Go to a carrier store and these are so many modern looking Android devices that rival the iPhone 12. How are Apple still selling so many iPhones when the competition has caught up dramatically?
With emulators

https://techviral.net/run-ios-apps-on-pc/

https://windowsreport.com/run-ios-apps-windows-10/
Over a 25+ year career I have had to code far too many Admin Panels. Frameworks like Laravel have products like Nova and Backpack to help with this, but sadly there is nothing to speed up this process for ASP.NET Core. So I am working on StellarAdmin to try and fill that gap.

https://www.stellaradmin.com/
I've never heard the term "wiper", and thought at first that some hackers had made all the train windshield wipers go haywire, stopping rail transport as a result.
I love git even with all of its inconsistencies and complexity. May I recommend you an interactive tutorial (not mine)?
https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

In addition, work doesn't need to consume the majority of waking hours. If you have a high-paying job at a company with a nice culture you can spend ~4 hours a day or less working, with the rest of the time spent reading articles on the internet, browsing hacker news, occasionally replying to Slack messages etc.
We’re working on an app that’s designed for recurring/daily todo lists, allows you to attach rewards (cash payout, gift card, crypto, …) and providing context/guidance. It already has a Zapier integration, native apps for iOS/Android and a web version which features 100% feature/ux parity. It’s 100% cloud/online-based right now though. We’re still working towards our MVP, but happy to send out invites to everyone signing up in the next few hours: https://questmate.com
Well yeah, sometimes. In some countries (i believe france), they can only limit power to lightning (a couple of hundred watts limit, so not totally off) if you don't pay, and if your only cooking appliance is using electricity (electric stove), they can't even limit that.
Have you used an Android phone lately?

There's just no comparison.
Yeah. But the twist at the end is that it's really just the first one resurrected.
Thanks. I missed that when I quoted it.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment. Do you think my department chair has any influence over my research agenda?

He does not. Not even the smallest amount. This is the case across (at the very least) every economics department at any US university, and likely most other academic departments too. There is nothing for him to “waive through,” and certainly no option for him to not approve of something.

Furthermore, if I get a good publication out of a project, the department chair will be pleased for me whether Google likes it or not.
Merging makes life harder for others, and easier for you. Rebasing does the opposite, but has other benefits.
Quick reminder that PasswordYYYY (eg: Password2021) will pass most "secure" checks (three letter categories, capital, lowercase, numbers). Optionally add a dot or exclamation point - and odds are, in a large organization (assuming you have a list of valid logins) - you'll get a hit..
It's a status symbol and subsidized phones hide the true cost.
unions are necessary when there is a power imbalance between workers and corporations. There is currently not a power imbalance between tech workers and corporations so unions are not necessary for tech workers. For other professions where workers have a low amount of power I believe that unions "are good", but for tech I think it is unnecessary. If you are a competent tech worker you have the choice of 100's of potential places to work.
This is a step in the right direction, now we just need Github Copilot to add citations.
Teenager’s parents money
definitely cheaper to build the tech, but possibly more expensive by the time they've convinced all the stores include a "pay later with square" button. as always with these things, they're buying the market not the product.
I need affordable latest WLAN AP with VLAN. Most consumer WLAN APs don't support so we need to buy enterprise or some enthusiast gear.

It seems that on some Xiaomi models, VLAN can't be configured but its firmware is based on OpenWRT, so it can be enabled by hidden API. So maybe SoC itself supports it but manufacturer disable/don't enable it.
>esp folks who don't apply unless they have 100% of the qualifications

This group disproportionately including women and excluding referrals (people who have the same experience, hobbies and education as your current employees)

- got his last job via referral.
I'm just surprised that people need devices. I have an iPhone and no desire to replace it -- it's basically perfect at this point.

To some extent, I wonder what the future looks like for Apple. It's like some God gave them the golden goose, the iPhone, and I just wonder what happens when people are done buying those. (It's hard to imagine a world where people aren't buying $1200 phones, but it was also hard to imagine the world in 1990 where people weren't buying $1200 personal computers. So what does 2050 look like for Apple?)
It’s just bizarre that this post would warrant discussion. It should be obvious that todo apps are widely enjoyed by people as part of their way of working. This just comes off as a close minded, arbitrary view.
I can only imagine the source code comments
...well, if EA even allows internal developers to ACKNOWLEDGE flaws in frostbite.
This exists. At least, a detailed manual exists. It's the jq wiki on github [1]. Lots of detailed information/recipes.

[1]: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki
Id love to help you

I only treat severe cases of thoracic outlet syndrome and compartment syndromes of the forearm.

Go to my site to find my book, The Human Spring Approach to thoracic outlet syndrome

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I have been working for a few years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have iOS and web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before).

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
Chaos is a ladder? Ok, Baelish.
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