skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you say it's a good idea to wear a seat belt or helmet in your car or motorcycle, it's not victim blaming.

(1) the purpose helmet is to protect you from accidents, not malicious actors. When you get hurt in a car accident, it is rarely because a criminal set out to deliberately hurt you.

(2) if you responded to an article about someone specific getting hurt in a car accident with "well they should have been wearing their seat belt", you probably wouldn’t be called out for victim blaming, but you probably would be called an asshole.
While meetings can be a waste, it's a misunderstanding of communications to suggest they are 'entirely a waste'.

One level above manager (basically Director and above), it's practically all you do, i.e. 80% meetings and emails because that's the mechanics of the job.

Imagine a fisherman fishing at the dock: he is paying attention to signals, and then being super active for short moments, that's the nature of fishing. Managing is a lot of fodder communicating and hyper action / participation in some instances.

Imagine how much time you have to spend interviewing, listening to multiple vendors, talking to the legal department about the 'why you can't use some SaaS and how to get around it', the commercial guys trying to get under budget, your IP lawyers worried about the wording of the license, the DevOps team who are totally understaffed to release your product, the HR team pressuring you to hire 'the other person' in order to meet some strategic staffing targets, or their launch of the new HR portal which is a mess, prepping your slides for the conf. talk next month and the marketing team wants you to tweak your language, the Research Agency completely missed their objectives and you have to get them to re-do part of the research and you're not going to pay them extra, and you have to get your managers to focus on that. It's a lot of meetings.

FYI it's perfectly reasonable to listen to meetings while doing labour if the situation allows for it!
You've clearly made your mind up on cultural grounds and you're just here to be a culture warrior
I was in the BBS scene in Baltimore in the mid-to-late 80s and totally relate. I think about some of the things I used to pull off on an Apple //e and then a 286 PC along with school and a job and wonder how I had time to do it.

Youthful energy? Or maybe the limitations of the tech made us work cleverly and thus made us prouder of the result.
I wonder how much though is self selection.

I. E. Would types of users who now choose apple, also require less support with pc/windows?

(disclaimer / fwiw: I'm an IBMer and feels like there are potential usage generalizations between colleagues who choose apple vs windows vs rhel. IPhones have already been mandated/imposed upon us and I fear future when apples might be as well. Nothing... Wrong with those, but choices are good and apples are not for everyone)
It's not really about intelligence.

When faced correcting a false reality you have created, it can be quite hard to decide to phase change into telling the truth. The lies that come out come from not being prepared and not being a very good liar. For people who lie like this, a good way to think about it is as though it were a disease.

Actually intelligent people just don't do things like this, even if they have nefarious intent. There are quite smarter ways to accomplish substantially the same thing that this crime does not reflect.

I'm not convinced that this person was particularly intelligent in the first place.
Lmao that can't be the real reason behind the change, right? Because that's fucking embarrassing.
Ask HN: Alternatives to VC Funding?
Hello HN,

I am a solo founder and I handle all aspects of the business from marketing to development. My main skill is engineering, but over the past 2 years I've learned marketing, economics, and advertising. I also have a full time job, so balancing all of this at times is a challenge.

I've grown my project from 0 to $500 in revenue, and I strongly believe there is an opportunity to grow. I have two customer types which can be segmented into 2 groups and I know there is potential to serve more customers. My main problem now is that lately it's been hard to give my 100% because I also have a big project at work, and I also do support for my customers. Many times the support requests are small things, but it still requires my time and I won't stop doing this.

Recently, I've found a new potential customer that is really passionate about my product and intends to migrate their data to my platform. They have some feature requests which make sense for my target segment.

My business isn't something that VCs would be interested in. It's not a billion dollar idea.

I can't risk quitting my full time job because I have a wife and I am the provider. But I know that if I could focus all my energy on my company, it could grow. Do you know of any alternate funding options?
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This is the experience I reported in my original post. Surprise. You get a business class ticket, you go to the gate, have your boarding passes checked out, then the plane leaves without you. :)
I would think the today's code is not a part of the Copilot yet...
3b. Does your program need more than 100Mb of memory?

If no, then just use a GC'd language and preallocate everything and use object pooling. You won't have GC pauses because if you don't dynamically allocate memory, you don't need to GC anything. And don't laugh. Pretty much all realtime systems, especially the hardest of the hard real time systems, preallocate everything.
He’s obviously never seen “Chan Is Missing,” one of the greatest noir movies ever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Is_Missing.
Superheterodyne receivers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver) use a local oscillator to downmix the received radio or television signal for processing at a much more sane, lower frequency.

That local oscillator emits its own RF radiation, so it is potentially detectable.
> This man was a senior developer yet this quote sounds like it comes from a nine year-old.

Tech has a contempt culture problem, and this can be one manifestation of it: feeling that being moderately bright about getting computers to do things makes you a tremendous intellect, and everyone else around you an easily hoodwinked moron.

Perhaps the most extreme example was Hans Reiser. Anyone who followed the twists and turns of the case against him for murdering his wife will remember how many trivially disproved lies he told, apparently under the illusion that he was a mastermind who could put one over on the courts based on his faulty understanding of ideas like reasonable doubt.
Sort of. A light-weight wheel compared to the load etc is negligible. And an arm is definitely not a wheel - the rope doesn't always pull completely tangential to the rotation, not at all. Nowhere near. That's the point.
"I think this discounts the importance of family."

Which family. (a) The family of the person doing Y or (b) the families of the persons who fail to ever see the benefit of X or, worse, who suffer harm from Y.
If the answer is (b), then not doing Y benefits the most families. Choice (b) fits better with the idea of "doing something important to the world", especially if one agrees that what he is doing now is preventing him from doing not something that is important to the world.

You want to discount the importance of not doing Y/doing X. The "keeping my family fed is more important than [something important ot the world]" argument is just not very convincing. Because the question is not all-or-nothing. It is not either-or question. It is possible to keep a family fed without working on adtech. And if no one was in fact keeping their family fed while working on more important things, then it stands to reason the world would be even worse off as a result.
I am european, but no longer living in Europe (or America) and I can't help but agree.

Kyle Rittenhouse isn't guilty of murder under US law, and the killings have been determined to be self defence. OK then.

But you have a young person being driven to a counter-protest by a parent, picking up a firearm on the way, ostensibly to use the threat of deadly force to help prevent property damage to some businesses as part of some sort of vigilante militia. There is just so much wrong with this picture before we even get to the (inevitable IMHO) tragedy.
> I made several weeks ago about where Project Zero focuses their efforts

Are you sure the numbers track where they put effort? I can think of a couple of confounding factors (including P0 methodologies, and number of low-hanging[1] bugs in target products)

1. Relatively speaking
If you have views that are ignorant and prejudice, and you act on those views in ways that harm other people, you should take responsibility for that, and there should be consequences. Saying that your ignorance and prejudice is a valid political opinion, does not change how people should respond to you. Attempts to politicize bad behavior is disingenuous and a thought terminating cliche.

Claiming cancel culture in the face of valid criticism is an easy out for powerful people who refuse to take responsibility.

Failure to have awareness and take responsibility is the thing that is destroying society. For some reason the institutions that should have been enforcing personal responsibility have failed to do so. Rather than giving up, people are organizing to form new institutions. You may like, or dislike them, but they are going to be different than the one that came before.
True, but none of these things began with CP/M or DOS. They were present in systems from the 60's. "pip" for example was in RSX-11, and probably didn't originate there either.
Weird is an understatement. But this case is less weird the most of the world at the moment.

This country, that country, everything is an upsidedown bizarro clown world reality now. How the hell did we get here. Just look at the leaders of the free world. It's a joke. Have a laugh or cry.
Lol ok. Maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about. They are 2 separate optimizations. Repeat after me: gzip does not replace minification.

But I’m glad you ship your handrolled JS to the client with long variable names, whitespace and comments like it’s 1999.

Maybe it’s just for me that minification reduces file sizes by 30%+
And Facebook bought Instagram about 10 years ago. They know where the wind blows.
Windows is already owned my a bigger company (Microsoft) and Apple is already a company that sells products (Mac, iPhone, allegedly some software)
I see tons of "non-standard" TLDs now, even in articles posted here, and I'm always wary of visiting them. To be perfectly honest, I tend to completely ignore TLDs with more than 3 characters.
I haven't read much tbh, but I felt like I got a pretty good vibe by reading the prefaces on pages 4 and 12:

www.gutenberg.org/files/38427/38427-pdf.pdf
The key is always to create FOMO it seems with all investors.

There are so many FOMO methods startups can employ ranging from comparing yourself to other successful companies (hint hint) to some form of metric that will make you look good.
https://adventofcode.com/2021/about

In short, it's a creative set of challenges released once/day for 25 days during December. It's also a creative community of people solving the problems (sometimes programming, sometimes with other tools, even just pencil & paper) and more than that creating visualizations and new programming languages, learning new programming languages...

It's just a fun ride. To me it's the digital equivalent of RAGBRAI, which is a rolling party across Iowa each year that happens to be on bicycle. Advent of Code is as much about the community as the problems.

(Minor wording edit.)
> Don't take digital photos that you don't want the world to see.

Gah, what a sad, terrible world we have built.
(I have yet to understand why people talk to law enforcement instead of staying silent so as to not implicate themselves.)

When the FBI knock at the door you totally do the whole "no comment/talk to my lawyer" thing. But what happens next if you're actually part of an investigation is they hand you a grand jury subpoena (which they were going to do anyway, even if you just talked willingly, because they have already gone to the trouble of asking a judge to issue one and have it with them by the time they ring your doorbell)

That subpoena is likely to require you to hand over any digital records you have related to the investigation (you can't plead 5th on that) and turn up at a time and place to be interviewed (you have to turn up, even if it's on the other side of the country eg in the Southern District of NY in Manhattan and you live in SF Bay Area). BTW I don't think people widely realize the government has the power to compel you to hand over EVERY piece of material you have on a given subject they are investigating - eg search and share anything from every email you have ever received since you signed up for GMail in 2004, etc.

You can plead 5th during the interview but if you have material information (or are actually guilty) and knowing they have all of the documentation subpoenaed and whatever other evidence from other subjects/targets/witnesses, it will likely help you at that point to be cooperative via guidance from your attorney. Remaining silent at that point is just going to leave you at the mercy of whatever other witnesses/subjects/targets convey and their own conclusions from the subpoenas.

If you are on a visa or green card you almost certainly can't plead the 5th because they can leverage your right to remain in the US.

So, that's why people typically talk to the FBI. It's not at the doorstep when they first engage you, it's once you have been compelled to participate.

Related/useful: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/you-received-grand-jury...

Source: happened to me a number of years ago, although I wasn't guilty of anything. Lawyered up, cooperated, no further action. Wasn't pleasant.

IANAL, not legal advice
Have you measured the pause times of free()? Because they are not deterministic, and I have met few people who understand in detail how complex it can be in practice. In the limit, free() can be as bad as GC pause times because of chained deallocation--i.e. not statically bounded.
Is it really a healthy democracy if the flows of information are controlled from the top down? If I provide you with a tuned set of information in which everything says what I cant, I can get you to believe whatever I want.

This is just changing the source of said influence, not removing it.
> Block references the […] obstacles to overcome […]

Surely that’s the most problematic thing here… Block sounds to me like something that gets in the way. Like a blood clot or something… I guess they’ll be fine…

On a side note, the block.xyz website looks _amazing_
Even so, J Random Citizen getting tooled up and travelling to do something about it... it's very alien.

That's a law enforcement role in most of the rest of the western world.
young people don't like well established systems
So that "hack" from a few months ago really wasn't a hack at all, it was an inside job?
At least Asbestos is inert once in place.
Why is that embarrassing? I find it pretty clever from a marketing perspective.
Even if those problems did not exist we'd still be headed for a recession. The pandemic has given a lot of people time to think and some, maybe even most, have probably realized that the current economy is not actually serving their interests.
I believe that the feeds are far more manipulated than this. Facebook got caught once intentionally manipulating feeds to attempt to produce negative mental states. Do you honestly think they just completely stopped? I think it's plausible that it's happening on a much larger scale than it was then.
>Obviously, the common cold is not the same disease as influenza. So no, Covid is not 'already the common cold for the young'.

Covid is equivalent to the common endemic flus for the young*

>Does the Israeli study control for age?

It does

>Given that China has perhaps a few 10s of cases currently, amongst 1.5B, I think eradication is accurate to a first approximation.

Eradication does not mean "in control".
I wonder if you are logged in Google and allow search history to be saved? (assuming you talked about Google search). Because I don’t have that kind of problems and I know Google use your search history to improve your personal results.
For what is worth: I didn't even know what Protocol was prior to their offer to talk to me, which is publicly made in the original thread. So I never spoke with them and have no reason to.

Stripe replied to my post, I replied with the details, and moved on. I hope they improve their processes and the rest of the tech industry follow suit.
The Free Software Movement is for free as in free speech and not free as in free beer.

It's about freedom to access, modify and distribute the source code.
He could've prevent all of this by a) making sure his traffic was blackholed when the VPN went down and b) adding another layer from a free service (like TOR or a proxy or another VPN). He also should've been actively using the VPN so his traffic patterns wouldn't stand out as much, and so his purchase would be justifiable. If he really did buy the VPN 6 months ahead then he was a fool to leave the subscription dormant. If he wanted a fire and forget VPN subscription, he also could've bought the subscription with stolen credit cards. He would've had to make sure to only connect to the VPN through something like TOR, but credit card fraud is pretty difficult to trace if you do it right.

Had he put in a little more thought and preparation then I still don't know if he would've gotten away with it, but at least he'd be in a better position. He wouldn't have to lie to the FBI agents and they probably would've had to catch him by going after the source of the place where the data was leaked instead.

Opsec is hard, but this is just embarrassing for someone in the know trying to steal 50 bitcoin. I'm also not sure why he did it. Suddenly owning a few million in crypto would be noticed, unless he didn't spend any of it, ever. What was his plan, just quit his job and move away right after the hack?
I agree, as do many of the level-headed takes I saw in threads following the live trial. It's been rumored that the police department pulled out of a large part of the community based on instructions from the mayor's office [0]. Hence, if the rumors are true, the real fault here lies with the local administration.

[0] I have no source, but it seems consistent with the police behavior observable in the videos.
Law maybe? Economics? Journalism. Definitely all of wall street and the entire crypto industry. Every single sales person since the dawn of time... Real Estate agents (I guess those are sales people).
Torsion springs are another option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_siege_engine
Realized physical stuff is a decent rest from all the mental stuff. Better mental clarity afterwards. Aesthetically better looks. Better stamina in hanging out with people in general, and of course also in bed.
It’s also a social thing. My partner and her friends watch the same reality shows, follow the same Instagram celebrities. They talk about the reality shows, what the celebrities have posted (in all honesty they seem to fill the exact same void). In that context I don’t think it’s all that much worse than, say, a group of people gathering to talk about last weekend’s football game.

I find video games fill that same “mindless” void for me. Prior to the pandemic I’d barely played any in a decade but now I’ll fire up Call of Duty every couple of days to play a few rounds. It’s dumb, I learn nothing from it and I achieve nothing. But it’s nice to switch my brain off.
They are doing that because it's technically not violating the license the way they do it.
I read somewhere (maybe on Reddit) that ubiquiti had started offshoring a lot of the work and as a result quality had suffered.
I like this one, exercising taught me that it's hard to undo years of bad habits but it doesnt mean it's impossible. The incremental results are always fun to celebrate.
If a hispanic guy being aquitted for defending himself from three white attackers is your best example of white supremacy in action and your reference is from the civil war - maybe take a deep breath and realize the country isn't doing as bad as your peers at facebook claim
That's primarily a Windows problem though, right?
Duh. All the cool kids are on TikTok now. Welcome to this decade.
Works for me in qemu, but remember to provide an SD card image as mentioned in the README before you run "make tools/sd.img" - e.g. the one in the releases https://github.com/r1mikey/research-unix-v7/releases/downloa...

Otherwise, qemu will start up complaining about a large number of invalid memory accesses.

Unfortunately, there is no port of pcc (the portable C compiler - http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se) available, so the system isn't self hosting (yet...) :).
I also echo this, I would go for VIPS first unless there are certain things that imagemagic can do that VIPS can't. You'll cut down on your memory usage significantly (like 500mb down to 20mb) and also use much less CPU.
What's less miserable and safer?

What prevents not just message privacy but good metadata resistance? What prevents mapping out your social network? What prevents an attacker from create 100M accounts and flooding all current users with invites and/or messages?

I get that tying signal to a sim is less than perfect, but what is better?
Reddit on Windows 1.04 using a modem from 1964
Koila: Prevent PyTorch's out of memory error with lazy evaluation
A scanner and a shortwave receiver are not the same thing.
At least the SO clones will still probably have content that you can make use of in some way; what's worse is when you search for an error code and you get back tons of pages that don't even have the exact code you searched for, which seems to be increasingly common recently.

It also used to be the case that you could dig into the second, third, ... sometimes even 20-30 pages in and hit the jackpot. Now, the results are even less relevant there, you soon get to "the end", and if you change your query slightly and try again a few times to search harder for what you want, you'll get hit with the unsolvable CAPTCHA hellban.
Unfortunately it's blockhead[1]. I wish this was a joke.

1. https://investors.block.xyz/governance/leadership/default.as...
Of course they are. And so are their competitors. So CAC is punishing. Lead sites are just renting Google search.
I mean this genuinely: I'm amazed there was a point at which people were ever thrilled enough with the quality and level of support from Ubiquiti that they are now shocked. Other than the working hours first level chat support I can't think of anything they had in support that remotely resembled having quality support. Shit, 3 years ago I was happy if there was someone on the forums that found a version of firmware that had killer features like "routing, hardware NAT, and IPv6" working all at the same time without (major) bugs. Low quality software and support with cheap hardware is what they've always been known for with everyone I've ever talked to.
I think you've outlined exactly the kind of contradiction that I think it is - a moral, not a legal one. The laws on the books encourage this sort of insane behaviour, and as a result, two people are dead, but legally speaking, nobody's at fault. I'm not blaming any of this on the jury.

Had the facts gone even a little differently, one person would have been dead, and again, it's unlikely that anyone would have been found at fault.