skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays, depending on the OS and it's configuration, root is not necessarily the end to end all things, but if the servers in question were "normally configured" Linux servers a number of years ago, it was likely equivalent to total access. Including control of the kernel through things like /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, and /dev/ports, which at least were common and accessible to root a while ago.

With newer stuff in certain configurations, something that gives you remote execution in the kernel or even lower (your Intel ME Engine example seems like a good one) is a much worse security hole, yeah (but then this one could still be a stepping stone to the worse bug).
Well, for tools of this kind, they could never be hosted, it would have to be on-premise.

I think if a tool like this would ever be adopted the first thing it’d need to do is sync with Jira, so things that happen in the tool happen in Jira too, and vice versa.

I’m not too sure though, I guess I kind of feel that the inertia is just too big. Unless it can do the same things that people (not developers, business people) want to do with Jira all the time (add thousands of custom fields, do arbitrary queries on those, build lots of unuseable dashboards, tens of different issue types with different fields and tabs for each, link issues with semantic types) and do them better, Jira will never be replaced.

I guess what I’d hope for is a way I can use the app while not having to deal with Jira, but then so much of our process is based on obscure Jira features that I’m not sure it’s possible.
Because I already told said VP to get lost, loudly, with justification and he still didn't listen.

It wasn't just my group being harassed. It was probably 15+ design groups. Sure, that VP eventually got nuked, but fighting with a shitty VP generally results in you losing your job before he does.

Politics is a thing. You pick your battles--you only get so many bullets. Too many people here on HN think that fighting every single slight makes you honorable. No, it actually makes you jerk--shitty things happen even at the best places and you need to deal with them without pissing everybody off--it's called being an adult. Sure, at some point enough shitty things happen that you should leave. Prior to that you need to learn how to deal with things so that your team is protected.

Feeding that VP fabricated data meant that he thought I was "good guy" team player. My chain VP got less political heat. My team got an extra positive evaluation for generating data early and going "above and beyond". Everybody on our side got back to doing their job instead of something stupid that would never help us.

All this at the possible cost that I might have to personally say "Whoops, I screwed that up. My bad." 18 months down the road for a single VP who may not even be there that long. I'm gonna take that tradeoff 99 times out of 100.

Now, is that the case here? Don't know and it doesn't look like it. However, don't rule out the fact that someone got "tasked" with something that was obstructing them and did the absolute minimum thing to make it go away.
> Generally you can't figure out which point is fixed.

So just thinking out loud here but like in the 1d case... The set will be an interval [a,b] Let g(x) = f(x) - x

g(a) >= 0 and g(b) <= 0. Now we can use the intermediate value value theorem and binary search to find (get arbitrary close) a point with g(x) = 0 (i.e. fix point of f).

Not possible to do such searches in higher dimensions?
I do.

As soon as you click "Buying choices" it defaults to "Desktop" checked with "License: Pay Once" for "1-5 users".
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I disagree with almost all of those practices, but they are all arguably related to job performance in one way or another while many of the checks Ford conducted didn't have that clear connection (although he would probably argue otherwise). For example, I don't think it is necessarily accurate to believe that someone with worse credit is more likely to embezzle company funds, but it is a much straighter line to that conclusion than a married employee being a better worker.

And as I said further down this thread:

Things aren't universally better and they aren't getting better quick enough for most of our liking, but let's not ignore that improvements have been made.
Dell Latitudes are Great Laptops (and they run Ubuntu well)
Can you recommend any particular studies of those you mention about downward mobility?
Zorin is only paid for the Pro version which offers a few more layouts out of the box and different pre-installed apps, and support from them.

The standard core version (standard and lite as you mentioned) is completely free.
We've seen multiple attempts at non-capitalist systems, and they have an abysmal track record.

Living standards are way higher today than a century ago.

You are comparing against a non-existent Utopia.
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Just to demonstrate, because I've met people who've never been in this sort of situation, this was my commute for ~2 semesters of college: https://goo.gl/maps/8deDf74vRGDkeovRA

My mom had recently begun using again and I said "enough" and moved in with a relative. ~3 months in I had gotten a job in Hoboken, NJ (https://goo.gl/maps/ruU5Ppz746xv5ZeXA) and would have to drive from my relative's house to my college/job every day and drive back. I couldn't afford the boarding costs for on campus residency especially with the added pain of having to move in/out every semester.

Each day I drove ~80 miles and had to fill up my tank. It was still some how barely cheaper than renting in the area and all I could afford.

This kind of thing really kills you inside. It's truly painful. For me, I would wake up at 5AM each day to drive west to east with the sun in my eyes. Then I would stay at school and work until around midnight where I'd drive back east to west with the sun in my eyes. I was surviving with ~4hr/night of sleep. I wish we lived in a world where no one else had to go through that torture (for lack of a better word).
This is because regulatory restrictions inhibiting housing construction leads to housing shortages which prices out lower income workers:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
> Look to Japan for an example of how to do zoning and urban planning at a national scale.

Doesn’t Japan have basically everyone live in Tokyo and ignore everywhere else?
"He made a logistics company, so he should be able to enact megascale experiments on people because why not?"

Respectfully: this reads like the kind of post that would be written by a software developer who thinks being an expert in one thing makes them an expert in many.

I was that person when I was young. I grew wiser. I hope you do, too.
It's possible that we're simply in a new world with less and more expensive stuff to buy than there was in 2019. It's still an interesting question how that came to be and whether it will last, which is what's actually explored in TFA. There is no call for subsidies.
Chapter 12 of this book https://math.berkeley.edu/~jchaidez/materials/reu/lee_smooth...
Hence “unlikely stretch.”
LA did the same thing to me for 6 years. They put me into collections at some point, which somehow never showed up on my credit report (thankfully), but every single year they'd harass me about taxes, and I'd need to fax them documentation.
> Whether you consider the energy stored in the oxygen or the hydrocarbon doesn’t particularly matter.

It truly doesn't matter which one you consider it to be, given that both are technically incorrect.

> The energy is in them being split apart.

This is a common misconception (likely) perpetuated by highschool chemistry textbooks. The energy is actually release by the combination of oxygen with hydrogen and carbon. Let me explain.

It takes energy to break chemical bonds. Some bonds take more energy to break, others take less. When a bond is created, an amount of energey (roughly) equal to the energy require to create the bond is released.

Here I will demonstrate the combustion of a simple hydrocarbon:

CH4 + 2 O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2O

When this reaction takes place, there is not energy "stored" in either the Carbon-Hydrogen bonds or the Oxygen-Oxygen bonds that is "given off". Rather, energy is actually required to break the bonds. It goes something like this:

CH4 + 2 O2 + (a little bit of energy) -> CO2 + 2 H2O + (a lot of energy).

Making hydrocarbons (or hydrogen from water) is an energy intensive process because breaking the bonds in CO2 and H2O requires a lot of energy.
Designing better batteries for electric vehicles
Fair enough. I took the other guy at his word when he said it was $20k. It's definitely not uncommon for pharmaceuticals to cost an order of magnitude (or two) more in the US compared to other countries.
> Crazily enough, the median household income in New York City isn’t significantly different than the national average. In 2017 it was about 1k lower than the nation, and in 2018 it was 2k higher.

Median household income and median wage (or, alternatively, the former and median personal income, which isn't quite the same thing as median wage, but closely related) are not the same things. Of course, this thread has gone from one person mentioning mean wage and salary income to the response discussing median wage as if it were the same to the response to that discussing median household income as if it was the same.
I don’t know how but my sister and my brother in law bought a brand new Harley in the middle of the pandemic, while they were both unemployed and collecting benefits.

Pretty discouraging to me, I feel like a sap that I kept working. Why do they get twice as much assistance when my wife doesn’t work because we decided to have her be a stay at home mom?
There’s a bit over 120 million households in the US. How could ownership (and productive rental) of a mere 300k SFRs meaningfully shift the market and generate level scale misery? That’s a PE-owned rental for every 400 households.
Our security policy doesn't let us put confidential information into other people's hands unless they are willing to commit to the full value of damages from a breach on their side.

It's a great question to differentiate sales critters: the new ones are sure that they can work something out; the middle ones are dubious; the experienced people chuckle and disengage politely.
> When Metal and DirectX 12 were under development, they weren't competing with Vulkan.

For huge monsters like MS and Apple the argument of "we already had this, so we can't join the collaborative effort" doesn't really make sense. They very well can join it and scrap their NIH in the process. They even did that in the past, when their NIH didn't manage to cement itself (anyone remembers ActiveX today?).

Plus, in this case the idea of common low level GPU API existed before Vulkan was out, namely in Mantle. AMD proposed to collaborate on it to everyone. Which indeed resulted in Vulkan eventually. So they totally could back that instead of pushing their own stuff (that's besides the fact that MS literally used same Mantle for making DX12). So I don't see them being random bystanders here, but rather someone who deliberately refused to collaborate.
You’re missing the point. Fossil fuel usages is largely paid for by the poor. Gas to go to work, gas to transport food and cheap plastic goods to Walmart, etc. Poor people don’t have a choice in how they shop or how far away they live from their job, yet they are the ones paying the fuel tax whether it be by buying gas directly or by paying higher prices at Walmart.

Raising fuel prices just fucks over the poor, and transfers wealth to the owners of the businesses they shop at who keep the same margin of a bigger pie.
Arhhh!

I swear it said 3.9M before, but maybe I'm wrong.
I think wind and solar are plan A at this point, if for no other reason than they're hard to beat on cost. Battery storage is still expensive, though.

If fusion works out, it could be used to make up the difference when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing (though if we eventually get high-capacity transcontinental HVDC lines to buy and sell power from practically anywhere or batteries become really cheap, that becomes less of a concern).

Fusion would also would require far less land, and some people object to having a landscape covered in windmills and solar panels.

Fusion might be useful in places where renewables are less practical, like on ships. Naval vessels might conceivably replace fission reactors with fusion. If they're safe and relatively simple to run, you might even see them on civilian ships. Or you could have fusion reactors in remote places, like floating on a buoy in the middle of the ocean, to serve as a charging station for battery-powered ships.

Fusion may be useful for establishing a human foothold outside of Earth. For instance, methane production on Mars (for rocket fuel) will require enormous amounts of energy, which could be supplied by a fusion reactor. (A fission reactor would perhaps work just as well, but there are legitimate reasons why people get nervous about launching hazardous materials into space on a rocket that might blow up before it achieves escape velocity.)

We might also begin engaging in projects that require enormous amounts of energy. For instance, if certain CO2 absorption strategies are energy-intensive, and we can't practically generate that amount of energy from renewables.

At this point, we really don't know if it'll work much less what the practical limitations will be, so perhaps the best we can do is say "if a fusion reactor can produce X amount of energy and weighs Y tons and requires such-and-such amount of cooling and requires an overhaul once every N months at a cost of D dollars, we might want to use it in these applications".
Yes, I could see China hoovering out resources from Afghanistan, but I think they have to be concerned about the Taliban. Maybe cash for gas/oil/REM/etc is a way to keep them from finding common cause with their Muslim brethren across the border (the whole Uighur thing). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we started funding the Taliban again at some point in the near future, as much as it make me facepalm. I don't let good sense be an impediment to my cynicism.
That’s a good point. They do charge for the integrations though per user. Majority of our user base though syncs with github and slack. That is kind of where the compute costs go up specially with GitHub syncs but there are avenues we can explore with upcoming pricing where that’s an option to use the base tool. Thanks for bringing up their pricing plan as an example.
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What about SPARC and ARC?
It was my understanding Zstd used neither Huffman or AC but something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems

Edit: It uses a variety of entropy encodings for different data structures, Huffman is one of them. My apologies for the confusing initial comment.
Forgit about it :p
The easiest way is probably to mandate work from home for all jobs that are primarily done on a computer.
That's horrible. I think all of us agree and wish we could help. I would add, don't take it too personally that they don't phone back or explain. That happens at all level of job hunting. It feels offensive and rude, but it happens all the time. Keep trying and good luck.
I disagree with most of this, to be perfectly honest.

For one, devs don't need root in prod in the vast majority of shops, which aren't FAANG scale. Assuming a nice sane environment where your deploys to pre-prod mirror your prod environment, I can't think of many cases where having root on prod makes much difference. It's the inverse of your statement, where places that aren't massive should find it feasible to 1:1 their prod environment for the devs to noodle about in.

For two, statements like this one make me wary of a blanket policy of devs getting root:

> if your team runs public web servers, then you need to listen on ports like 80 and 443 while requiring root.

Have you heard of setcap and CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, perhaps? I know this is only one example of many where you may "need" root, but in a lot of cases devs just don't have the ops knowledge to know what they actually need.
Investing in housing is GOOD for society, because housing is not a scarce resource - the more is invested the more is built. It's precisely those places that have put up the most barriers to investing and building housing that have seen the greatest deterioration in housing affordability:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388

Beware of the anti-profit bias:

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/08/04/we-have-an-ingrained-an...
Sure, if that becomes necessary due to America's lifestyle, I don't see why not.

I'm unaware of that being the current issue though. It seems to me hospitals are overrun with COVID patients, most of them their due to their own unwillingness to get vaccinated.
It seems clear that if one takes the position that appointing an arbiter of truth is unacceptable, the only remaining solution is an aggressive investment in education.
Hm, that’s a good question! Pretty much any modern book on, or with a chapter on, multilinear algebra, or even a text with a modern treatment of differential geometry (smooth manifolds) would, I imagine, do a decent job. Also, searching the web for “tensors as multilinear forms” turns up quite a few promising links. For a video lecture that could give you a flavor of what tensors are from the linear-algebraic perspective, try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-qzZOZt50

(You might get more mileage if you also watch the preceding lecture(s) of this excellent series.)
We do not have power storage facilities to run the globe off renewables, theoretically yes we could, but it is sort of depending on the tech improving in certain areas or large scale reservoir projects which themselves will take a decade or likely more to put into operation. Nuclear power is something we could have been running off right now, and something we know is feasible to build within or sooner than the same time spans that full renewable rollout will take.

Not to mention it would allow us to shut down all these ancient ass reactors we got going now which is the equivalent of driving around in a Model-T because we can't be assed to get a newer car.

I love renewables, but we still have a long ways to go in scaling renewables to not only provide global power demands, and we also need to be using ass tons of additional clean power just trying to stabilize the environment and sequester CO2.
Again, just... not seeing it? Can you point to any actual visual difference, something objectively measurable, as opposed to subjectively "different" or "better"?

I'm feeling like I'm in crazytown, you're saying they're "very different" and the letterforms just look... virtually identical to me. Totally same personality and all.

I'd wonder if I needed higher resolution, but you're talking about using them in apps, so that's definitely not the case.
Alma astroturfs everything and tries to spread FUD about other distros (particularly Rocky). jaboutboul and iseletsk are both CloudLinux / Alma people. Nobody takes Alma seriously anyway, in the DoD folks are calling it "Donbas Linux" because CloudLinux / Alma is out of Ukraine.
Social media manager. My friend does it professionally and overall it seems perfect for someone suffering from ADHD. Why that would be I think is because it’s literally your job as a social media practitioner to be hyper active and divided in attention on no single task for very long.

For those saying “Do anything you love!” is not good advice in general, even if you don’t suffer from ADHD. I suffer from treatment resistant depression, meaning I’m in the same boat as most ADHD patients. My advice is to experiment both in terms of psychiatric medications first and then experiment professionally by buying some textbooks on subjects you’re curious about.

The hard part is always how to find the perfect book, no matter who you are. The answer can’t be found with a simple google search. Many people think they aren’t smart or don’t have the attention others do, but in reality it’s google and amazon and affiliate blog spam, whom make more money recommending crappy ones so you end up buying more. In general, you really have to judge books by the publisher and over time you learn which ones are safe bets. When it comes to book recommendations, it’s nepotism all the way down.
I like to think that this was the mitigation that they applied while they more carefully whittled down the list of commands to zero. I can dream:)
CA taxes the income for the time period you work in the state. They couldn't pay more in taxes than they earned. The amount they paid in taxes for CA was likely quite low, as their income during that time probably wouldn't come close to the top bracket for yearly income.
> Median wage in ny was 68k according to the US census bureau (2015-2019).

That seems to be what the Census Bureau has for median household income for New York State for that period; I can't find any Census Bureau report for median wage for NYC, and that number doesn't match any Census Bureau reported income & poverty measure for New York City.
Humus stabilizing in soil is the result of mycorhizzae extracting mineral elements from the soil and exchanging that for carbohydrates. The humus theory was that humus is an essential nutrient. If humus theory were true carbon would be removed, not added to soil. That theory was debunked more than 20 y ago.

https://blog.nutri-tech.com.au/mycorrhizal-magic-new-biologi...
What's the solution then? MacOS is exposing how often these programs are requiring privileged access.

The solution is partly for applications to limit their use of elevated privileges which we can't always rely on. Therefore MacOS is exposing and providing users with visibility and choice.
I wonder if LZ would still be standard, if not for the inertia of gzip/zip? There are surely better and comparably fast algorithms (paq, ppm, etc.)
Just noting that generally speaking severe COVID patients aren't in ICU now that treatment is better.

Indeed it is a lot, but it's comparable to the worst flu seasons. Exact numbers on ICU utilisation are hard to find, but US hospitals have struggled in the past:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flu-demand-2018...

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20190205/bad-...
So add "mod p" to it.
Some software refuses to run as root. It's far from perfect, and usually easily circumventable, but it might push a lazy admin to at least create a user for your thing or similar.
This is a whataboutism clearly based on believing that our laws apply globally.
The vaccine could have stopped the disease if they'd opted for IgA immunity instead of IgG. That means getting drops in your nose rather than a jab, so that immmune cells are activated in the mucosas rather than in the blood.
Right now someone who's been vaccinated can continue to replicate and transmite the virus from the glial cells in the nose mucosa, because the immune cells there haven't been trained to fight the virus.
It doesn't matter when your windfall happens. If you acquired stock while living in the state, you owe taxes on that when it becomes liquid. He owed those taxes.
Adults underestimate toddlers. I 'taught' my daughter to read some words at the age of 1. She could learn around 3 per week. Two weeks to learn to recognize them without any context. It's just a matter of providing the opportunity, and taking advantage of their curiosity.