skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why were people from IGR found to be at fault at all? From Wikipedia, it sounds so backwards... like, one of the owners seems to have done everything possible to recoup the radioactive material & warn of the dangers. There's not a word about anything happening to those who prevented the recuperation of radioactive material, only to later fail to guard it. And thieves are only mentioned to say they were not included as defendants.
> Fail0verflow have stated in the past that Jailbroken consoles are not worth it anymore since they are so close to computers in features and functionality

They're right, its just a PC now. Its crazy, I can't think of anyone who wants a console that has a rough computer equivalent of a Ryzen 7 3700X, 5700 RT with ray tracing, shares 16GB GDDR6 ram, a blu-ray drive, with a 1GB NVME drive for $500+tax (in store stock and not scalped, and even scalped at $900 its not easy to match PC hardware). Who wants to hack such a device for legitimate reasons like using it as a computer? Nobody, its not worth it!
> This seems like a solution to Telegram's cashflow problem - doesn't look like it has much runway left.

There’s a lot to unpack here. Telegram has plenty of runway left, probably. Pavel Durov is not strapped for cash. That’s just a fact. They’ve been pushing out regular updates with features and other development work that could’ve easily been delayed for the ad platform if it was a priority. They’ve actually deployed bandwidth intense things like video calls, too, which ostensibly are lower priority.

What this does to me is signal that Telegram wants to engage with serious advertisers to start with. Because the content is injected into channels, of which there are many, it likely is easier to abuse than other networks. So the solution is to make the barrier to entry sufficiently great that only serious advertisers will buy in.

So, I’m less inclined to say they’re in need of cash flow than they are wishing to finally make money, and not do so with low quality content.
Agreed. I found my job by just searching for 'python' on a board for my sector.

The only reason I've been able to move into a coding job is because I have very deep domain knowledge in a pretty niche area and a bunch of other 'added value' that makes up for my relative lack of experience with any particular stack.
They can add "redirected from xyz" to the card perhaps.
The end of the article talks about valuing call options. I took a graduate course on Path Integrals for Derivatives Pricing in 2001 or 2002 so nothing new there. Since I didn't become a bank quant I never had any use for it. Linear models are much used on the buy side. Agree with the Nick Patterson quote below which says the same.

Hard to tell what the book is about. Sounds a bit like a Deepak Chopra take on economics. Throw a few mentions of "quantum" in there to sell books.
Who is saving that much for a house? Does anyone actually put 20% down these days?
In my opinion, Google's way of doing information organization worked really good in the past, now it's time to move on. The same system that separated signal from noise is now helping to generate too much noise while trying to fight it at the same time.
What's fascinating is my own sense of time has been somewhat frozen by the advent of digital technology.

I'd grown up watching old clips of Pele, Carlos Alberto or Tardelli, then Maradona. They looked a certain way by the time I was 20.

Then around the mid-2000s, everything went digital and soon HD as well. You can watch the 2006 World Cup and think it was happening live. The style of shorts has also more or less frozen, so it's not as easy as looking at 80s-style super short shorts to guess the year.

Same goes with photos. My parents died and I got the family album. You can tell the different colors diffuse at different rates. Shots from the 70s look a different way to ones from the 80s and 90s.

With my kids, everything is digital. I have pics of them from almost every day, and they look just the same.

I think the fading process is actually faster than we think, as even those pics of the family from the 80s looked kinda old by the mid 90s.
System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Pop-OS-N...)

203 points | sdht0 | 1 day ago | 170 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29137180
I don't remember the specifics, but after the keys were leaked (this would have been about a year after OtherOS was removed?), Sony managed to both release a firmware update that disabled homebrew, as well as block new releases from running on the old, hackable firmware.

That new firmware lasted for more than a year, too.
Finally, a topic I can speak with some authority on.

I'm not sure that tags make that much sense as an organizing schema for a filesystem. It's just too painful for items to not have canonical names. In my original design, a bookmark had a bunch of tags but was keyed on it's canonical URL.

Maybe it makes more sense when we're only talking about a user's personal objects rather than the entire filesystem. Having a giant, flat namespace also seems wrong - Wikipedia seems especially strange in this regard, having Thingy_(Star_Wars) where Thingy is both a real thing and also present in some specific context; I frequently think it should be Star_Wars/Thingy (since it has a specific context it makes sense in and does not make sense outside of it.)

Tags were mostly a way for a user to mark found things for that user's future self to potentially retrieve. They end up encoding some combination of the user's internal state and the material of the item being tagged. Different users therefore have different needs - expert users tag things differently than beginners (ie "java" vs "programming" - to a beginner there's little distinction between subtypes of programming things.) Users tend to tag much more wildly when they are not offered a reference of previously-used tags, as well.

In my experience, an item that had been tagged a large number of times would have the most popular tag used 50% of the time, the second 33% of the time, and so on. This held strongly enough that much deviation from this was a sure sign of spamming.

This is also where tagging falls down - tagging things for retrieval by OTHER people is almost always mis-incentivized and ands up getting spammed to hell.
> In what sense is Japan "internationalist"? Their culture is nationalist, and more closed to foreigners compared to other countries.

That's a fair point, but we need to talk about matters of degree. What is happening today and since WWII is nothing like what happened before. Japan isn't about to invade neighbors and butcher them, and that is in part an intentional outcome of the postwar order - to rid the world of (that kind of) nationalism.

Japan's constitution even forbids having a military, a clause strongly supported for generations (unless something changed very recently).
I really don't see the connection you're trying to make. There are huge swaths of the gaming industry which are based entirely on repetitive and boring tasks, including some of the most popular games in history, such as Bejeweled and all of its Candy Crush offspring. Or idle, incremental and clicker games. Or slot machines, for that matter. All of those gamers are perfectly happy to spend money on boring repetition -- sometimes for years on end.
He spelled my name wrong and now it's preserved for all posterity. Argh
What if Xi Jinping just isn't that competent? (https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-if-xi-jinping-just-is...)

20 points | laurex | 1 day ago | 4 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29136018
It really varies with markets. In UK it's pretty hard(although over the last year I've managed to help several of my friends buy one, it's just a matter of setting up discord notifications), in Poland they are easily available, you can just walk into a store and buy one no problem. Or several places have stock available for delivery. No big deal.

For instance
https://m.euro.com.pl/konsole-playstation-5/sony-playstation...

It says "up to 7 days delivery" but when I ordered one few weeks ago it arrived next day anyway.
Require signing for packages and its a solved issue.
The spike protein is part of the virus itself, on its outer layer, used to "unlock" and enter cells during the infection process. I don't see how it can be possible to attack the spike without attacking the virus.

This is my current understanding of the subject. I will try to educate myself further, accepting that I may be misinformed, but I seriously doubt it. At this point I rather believe you are the misinformed one, belief sustained by your refusal to provide any links supporting your position.

But then again, I may be very well wrong.
Yes, against Andrew Tang of all people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6Zl1jNWYQ

But this is Magnus Carlsen we're talking about.
Have the option to view the tagged items in a tree, which is dynamically created from the tags.

For example my audio player does just that, e.g. `%artist%/(%year%) %album%/%tracknumber%.%title%`
> Total salary, including benefits, for UM diversity employees amounts to $10.6 million, and that doesn’t take into account overhead, travel or outreach costs. This sum is the equivalent of full in-state tuition for about 700 students.

Can you imagine how a full ride scholarship could have impacted not only the lives of 700 disadvantaged teens of all colors from the state, but inspired those around them, their friends and families?

> After the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in 2006, public institutions, including universities, can no longer discriminate based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. That means universities are banned from using affirmative action in their admissions policies. Nor can they offer race or gender-based aid. So universities are turning to other options.

Maybe the people of Michigan should make it more explicit in the law. "turning to other options" sounds a lot like trying to bypass the law...
note that this link is to a page where you can order a print book
EB Games Australia have just announced that people on the pre-order list for PS5 won't receive their consoles until some time in 2022. You massively underestimate the high demand/low supply for this console.

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2021/11/08/eb-ga...
Xiaomi smartphones create TCPDUMP.PCAP files. Why?
I have Xiaomi Redmi 8 and i've noticed strange activity in files matching following pattern:

/storage/emulated/0/MIUI/debug_log/common/tcpdump.pcap*

(MIUI is proprietary GUI that ships exclusively with Xiaomi phones)

These are unencrypted pcap files which seem to be regulary rotated. Can be opened in wireshark and contain actual dumps of my personal traffic.

(luckily most of it is TLS encrypted, but RNG in their kernel might be compromised as well...)

Is your phone doing this too?
Does this mean I can buy a PS5 now?
This is why we have things like Rails. I can instantly tell if a project was done by someone who loves rails or someone who just does it. If someone understood what it wants, everyone after them will be able to instantly find and understand the code.

Pure Ruby on the other hand... I've read some scripts that are as hard to parse as perl for me, some others that could be a copy of the official tutorial.
This is what I use my desktop as.
> But will that happen with his digital photos?

It's easier, isn't it? Here is granddad's old HD that still works but has pitiful space compared to modern ones. Copy, paste, now you have his photos forever.
The US requires visas, therefore it is hardline nationalist? The US has free trade and (usually) an essentially open border with Canada, so does that make the country hardline internationalist? Which is it?

Using extremes makes any analysis impossible.
Well, I'd be a customer.
"just a PC" is a bit misleading. It's a x86 CPU, but the fail0verflow guys themselves do not call it a PC. From their talk on running Linux on a PS4:

https://youtu.be/-AoHGJ1g9aM?t=425
Yes, and there's plenty of times in my work where I've put algorithms to good use.

But out of all those algorithms how many could you regurgitate onto a whiteboard given 5 minutes to do so?

Knowing the use of each algorithm is good enough. You don't need to know the implementation until you want to use it. And nowhere in your day to day work is this going to be with no internet access or reference.

So why do interviewers suggest this is the case? Why aren't they just happy with you describing how a Merkle Tree can solve a particular issue. Why do you need to write that down?
The level of uptake of this FSB offshoot platform is surprising.
Honestly, one of the safest and most powerful tools is just to continually ask "why" questions as a result of whatever they say in regards to technical details, with a scattering of "how?" questions.

Others in the comments have expressed some legal concerns about "discussions" instead of Interviews, but I feel this is a hyperbolized fear based off a laypersons interpretation of US hiring law. The law requires you ask the same set of questions of all candidates, yes, but it reasonably understands that questions on past projects/work of course will never be the same, and these are legal and valid areas to go off-script.

So suppose in your situation you have a candidate and they talk about the project they worked on. To hear about their contribution, you ask (as you would all candidates):

"Tell me about a problem you encountered on this project that was particularly challenging from a technical perspective"

The candidate will tell you and likely their solution, and then you can start with the why's and how's.

"Why did you choose this approach? What are the benefits?"

"How did you arrive at this conclusion?" (you can further restate the question with "explain how you got to the idea that you needed to get here")

Make it a hard rule for yourself that you must be able to build the entire timeline and understand the candidate's role in that timeline. I find that even if it turns out they mostly were receiving orders from a more senior resource but could reasonably explain in their own words now why they ended up doing what they did, this is still a good candidate for me as they used available resources and took away a good lesson. If there is ambiguity, you can even just ask "why do you think your senior colleague had the right idea here?"

The idea of a discussion versus a checklist is you want to learn how a person thinks and how they approach issues. Even as a follow up to more factual check-list questions, "why" is very important as it helps you to understand the current state of the person. Just be honest with yourself that not everyone will have the same background and be honest on whether the "why" is relevant for the position. For example, some trivial linux kernel knowledge I would consider "nice to know", but it's by far not essential unless they're doing specific dev work on that field or claim to know it.

The other big catch you need to train yourself for is accepting that people will do things far differently than you do, even things that you consider wrong, but they work. The important part to focus on isn't about how close their answer is to yours, but to make sure you understand how and why someone reached that conclusion.

Why and how are very safe and legal questions as a follow up to a very straight-forward technical question.
On WSL2, Microsoft has their own init with another container launched for multiple reasons:

- That other container, the WSL system distribution has a Wayland and a PulseAudio server for graphics integration.

- in a regular WSL config, the VM completely closes 60 seconds after the last terminal is. If you have daemons running, that cannot be guaranteed to work anymore.

- compatibility of distributions across WSL1 and WSL2, the former which has a significantly lower feature set.
> They're right, its just a PC now. Its crazy, I can't think of anyone who wants a console that has a rough computer equivalent of a Ryzen 7 3700X, 5700 RT with ray tracing, shares 16GB GDDR6 ram, a blu-ray drive, with a 1GB NVME drive for $500 (in stock and not scalped).

The way I view it is as paying a subscription for support, I bought a PS4 at launch and the fact it can play the newest Call of Duty at 60fps looking decent is absolutely worth the price. I'm not a PC gamer so I'm curious if a PC from 2013 that cost like $400 would hold up as well.

Now the PS5 is out I view it as time to pay the next sub of $500 to have a guaranteed level of performance for the next console cycle
> vaccine ... wasn't rolled out for another 9 months, during which tens of millions of people died

The total death toll has just passed 5 million.
There is also ZERO, or no computation
What currency is that in?
Development experience close to Lisp Machines???

Racket: From the people who brought you the quote: "the toplevel is hopeless".
Thanks for sharing this educational info about spark plugs.

Can you think of other common (even if usually unseen) objects that are especially bad matches for what 3D printing can practically create? Optical lenses and ball bearings also come to mind, but somehow they are less interesting than spark plugs.
A bit confused. Are you saying the hardware is cheap and for the same price, better hardware can be purchased?

Been a long while since I built a PC.
I highly recommend checking out diffusion networks for image generation. It's hard to put in words the difference between diffusion and something like VQGAN, but the images have a much more organic quality. Here's a mish-mash of images [1] I generated recently. A few (like the bears) used initial images to get the process started, but most are from just a text prompt (the large image of the dog at the bottom right was the result of using another network to upscale one of the outputs).

The results need to be cherry picked, but I'm frequently surprised by the good images. For instance, after some attempts I got this nightmarish result for "my neighbor totoro" [2].

edit: It can also be very satisfying to see the process unfold throughout the iterations, starting from noise and eventually settling on a very convincing imaging [3].

https://ibb.co/6mNTMjH [1] N.B: Probably SFW, but some images are oddly disturbing

https://ibb.co/7KCvXPG [2]

https://imgur.com/a/HEBM0uq [3]
Sure, but GP's point (and it's something that annoyed me in Fastmail too) is that if you do have an 'hierarchical tag' - which could be in addition to unrelated tags - you don't get the '<sub-tag> is a <super-tag>' that you might expect.

The tags themselves end up in an hierarchy without it affecting the tagged contents.
This is woo. If there's a trace of sense in it, I didn't find it.

I tried to play-along with the "time-travel" thing as some kind of metaphor, but she actually seems to mean it literally. I found this observation particularly woo-ish:

"What is important to point out here is that precognition is no longer just a scientific curiosity."

I couldn't read on past that.
This is the most dystopian news ever. 500M users that might be brought into cryptocurrency against their will or without understanding the underlying tech and implications.
Why don't they spend these resources on making their website more usable, without high loading times, without prompting for using it in the app, and without endless streams of Oops something went wrong.
> #include "someLib/someLib2/someThing.h" would look like in a "tagging" world

#include "someLib/someLib2/someThing.h"
Or whatever you choose as a delimiter for a hierarchy of tags.
The biggest advantage is that you can use an (well ;) infinite number of tags to get to the same 'file' (without the hassle of needing to use symlinks), so that could also be
#include "currentlyUsedLibs/someThing.h"
and
#include "foo/bar/baz/what/why/hmm/someThing.h"

The problem isn't the hierarchy, but that there only exist a single (modulo symlinks) hierarchy to every 'file'. And that every sibling must have a distinct 'name' (the cat images in the article).
Then I can only recommend walking into JB Hi-Fi in the Carousel shopping centre in Cannington and asking to go on their list.

Worked for us, we really weren't expecting it. We were even given a choice of which version of the console we wanted, at the point they got the delivery in.

(Maybe things have got worse in the last month? Maybe WA is special...)
This is a spooky read:

> On September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created. He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite. [...] On September 18, Alves sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or even supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing substance. On September 21, at the scrapyard, one of Ferreira's friends succeeded in freeing several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the capsule using a screwdriver. Ferreira began to share some of them with various friends and family members.

> The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on this floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the egg she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment. [...] She was buried in a common cemetery in Goiânia, in a special fiberglass coffin lined with lead to prevent the spread of radiation. Despite these measures, news of her impending burial caused a riot of more than 2,000 people in the cemetery on the day of her burial, all fearing that her corpse would poison the surrounding land.
Lack of diversity of thought is easy to spot IMO. Bigger point is - you should ensure your processes are setup to at least try to achieve the kind of diversity you would like to achieve. Those processes may still fail, just like anything else.
I've broken into plenty of off limits post-industrial wasteland sites in my life, but in my will to exist and survive, wasn't stupid enough to pry open any radioactive sources. The worst that happened was a friend who had an obsession with watching the green flash when smashing flourescent lights. I told him it was bad for him to be breathing that shit.

No, I don't think I'm out of line speaking for people from third world countries here, those people were thieving idiots who wanted money more than they cared about survival or the health and safety of their family.

Somehow, most people exist and survive without thieving. But NeoTrots love to act as if theft, even incredibly dumb and self-harmful theft, is some necessary and noble act.
my guess is they will soon be rendered illegal. States don't like it when someone repeatedly gives them the finger...
I hope they also get the asymmetric keys once. I'll buy the thing then. I'm not buying hardware I can't patch to have root access and run custom firmwre on.
or they removed the amount of plastic that we add to the oceans in 14 seconds!