skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loan places are giving out loans for over 4x gross income. Yet people keep saying this is nothing like 2008 because the loans aren't 'knowingly bad'.
I think most of the work stream principles outlined in the article are sound, however, in my view having a manager dictate finely detailed priorities is in most situations an anti-pattern and a Taylorist trap. In my experience, heuristics that help people identify priorities themselves are usually more powerful. You can still break ties or give relative prioritizations when needed.
In a dark room, your pupils will dilate and impact clarity of vision. If the room is well lit and screen brightness is matched to ambient light, there will be no effect on pupil dilation.

More details: https://endmyopia.org/why-vision-is-worse-at-night-and-on-cl...
The vulnerable Linux code was performing a string concatenation. Such operation in Rust would be done with `string.push_str()` or `format!()`. Definitely not with unchecked indexing into a manually-allocated array.
You’re assuming VR is a paradigm shift and not just a gimmicky console like the Wii.

There’s nothing particularly interesting in VR, at least not yet. Most games suck. The ones that don’t are largely stationary with little rotation if at all. There’s a fundamental problem that humans, even when not constrained by space, aren’t very agile, and much less so wearing a vr headset. It still sucks.

I have an index.
AIX Archive Files Are bigaf
Fair enough. Maybe be more specific next time in this highly politicized world?
What is the measurement by which Apple, Google, etc doesn’t offer value but Amazon does?
I would 100% be surprised if NSO was being supplied with vulnerabilities from government agencies. If anything it is likely to be the other way around.
> Exactly. Imagine paying for all that when all you need is bare metal.

Yes.

The opposite is also true though: Imagine not wanting to pay for that and needing it!

There's a reason why most homes connect to the power utility companies. Yes, we can run generators ourselves. Does it make sense to do that? Not usually.

Same thing with this server. If it makes sense for your use-case, outstanding. In many cases, people are better off offloading this to another company and focusing on their strengths.
Ehh I prefer limactl/nerdctl to this.
I hold that we still have not imagined (not even in science fiction) the horrors totalitarian governments are now capable of in a fully-networked, computer-brokered society.
Awesome! Will do.
TIL: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
Moving out of the bay made a big difference for me. I'm now somewhere in the middle of the country. I have twice the house to live in and 200x more land to roam for about half the price. With the extra land, I can also grow a lot of my own food.

The openness to remote work has been huge. I have colleagues in the bay and NYC. We get paid the same but my money goes twice as far.

At the same time, I've always been a frugal person. When at FB, I budgeted like I was making about 1/5 of my actual income since I always saw it as a transitory windfall.

I don't think I've done anything outside the standard box of lowering my expenses and investing anything I've saved.
JUST IMAGINE THE SCENARIO:

You have just been fired and as the security boys are escorting you to the door, you call out, loud enough to be heard in all the cubicles -

"Computer! Format all drives!"

OR MAYBE THIS OTHER SCENARIO:

The guy in the next cubicle has a loud voice and while he is commanding his own computer to "Exit the file without saving" you find that the work you have carefully constructed over the last four hours is suddenly thrown away too.
It was a mix of hilarious and sad to read the transcript of that school meeting, like you read a book about holocaust and your concern is about a open nipple, or come up to say like "the guy used to work for playboy and it's enough to make his works banned"

I don't really like to call people idiots, usually i can justify with myself that people might be having a bad day, but if i have to describe what an idiot is to an extraterrestrial form of life i would let them read that transcript
Teslas are way more efficient than 90% of all cars - I guess you'd discourage them last.
Honestly nothing comes to my mind which is not already discouraged, such as inefficient light bulbs, devices with high stand by consumption, ...
One of the two needs to be rock solid in case of emergency. If my MacBook crashes while trying to use it, it’s not a big deal. If my phone crashes while trying to call 911 when I have a car accident, someone may die.

https://www.androidpolice.com/microsoft-teams-911-break-emer...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/r4xz1f/pixel_p...

Interesting quote: Cause let's be real, as someone without a landline, I sure as hell don't want a phone that freaks out when I try to call 911 in the middle of a life threatening emergency. I'm supposed to trust that a phone will do the main thing is built for, and place the call, and let me speak to the human on the other end.
After reading the title I thought this article was about the Intel Management Engine.
Which are which?
You don’t even need a database to implement an effective queueing mechanism.

Linux file move is atomic, which means file system based queues are perfectly viable. Just save one message per file. Move the file to a different directory when it changes state.

I built a prototype queue around this mechanism. Performance was bound to the disks ability to create small files, around 30,000 messages per second.

This sort of performance rivals some of much more sophisticated and complex queuing systems, but has zero configuration.
This strikes me as a pretty bizarre argument, like a reverse slippery-slope fallacy, and I've heard it repeated by advocates. You are staying that yes, the technology is awful and scam ridden, but maybe sometime in the future in some way no one can think of it will be ok. This is obviously not a meaningful argument.

In regards to censorship, trust, and any other perceived benefit of blockchain technology for applications, those benefits rely solely on the organization that controls the application - ultimately landing users in the exact same space. Blockchain is hailed as a way to build decentralized applications without any regard to the fact that those applications would still need to be built by a central organization.

The final note that advocates seem to profess as some great proof of why blockchain is ok is that other systems are flawed, as if proving that some other system is flawed is proof that it's ok for their system to be a sesspool of fraud and waste.
Weird, my 2014 account doesn't while all my newer ones do. Can't turn it off in newer accounts either (at least not without paying for Twitter Blue?) and definitely never had it on my older account
Unless a fat binary embeds pictures and some music, it's all CPU instructions.

Tenths of megabytes of CPU instructions is complexity.

This kind of bloat is the number one enemy of security, as any security engineer could confirm.
We can presume that humans will stop making new CO2 pollution in the next 100 years. It will take hundreds or thousands of years for the CO2 to convert to methane clathrates. I worry about creating a problem for people far in the future. It's like setting a climate bomb with a timer of 2,000 years.

> Methane escaping dissolves in water

This is a good point. Let's see if the ocean can hold enough methane. Methane dissolves 0.04g/l in pure water at 0C ant 1atm [0]. Seawater has about 35g salt per L [1], or about 3.5% NaCl by weight. Methane has slightly lower solubility in salt water than in pure water (see tables starting on page 11 of [2]). Ocean pressure increases 10 kPa per m, or 1.45 psi per m [3]. At 25C, increasing pressure from 1,000 psi (700m depth) to 2,500 psi (1700m depth) increases the solubility of methane in salt water by 2x, and 5x at 15,000 psi (10km depth). I couldn't find data for lower temperatures.

Methane ice forms in mud starting at 300m depth [4]. Humans have burned fossil fuels and released about 380 GtC [5]. Converting this carbon into methane yields about 500 Gt methane. Let's assume that the ocean slopes linearly down to 10,000m depth. Then the ocean floor from 300m-1300m is 10% of the ocean floor and contains approximately 10% of the methane ice, about 50 Gt of methane. The volume of water above it is (300m + 0.5 x 1000m) x 0.10 x 361,900,000 km-km (the area of the ocean [6]), about 29,000,000 km-km-km or 2.9x10^22 l. About 1.160x10^21 g or 1,600,000 Gt methane can dissolve in this water.

Let's assume that the average solubility in the ocean is 2x the solubility at the surface, or 0.08g/l of methane in sea water. Then the entire 1.335x10^9 km-km-km ocean could dissolve about 1.068x10^23 g or 100,000,000 Gt methane. You are right. The ocean could dissolve all of man's fossil fuel CO2 pollution as methane.

Since the methane would probably not bubble up, the rate of methane escaping into the air would be very low. I think it would be slow enough that the methane would stay in the ocean's carbon cycle and not escape fast enough to trigger runaway warming.

I feel relieved.

> So, you are still reaching. Why?

Describing my analysis as "reaching" is incorrect. I think you mean it as a personal attack, which breaks the site's guidelines [7]. Removing the insult yields "Why do you care about this issue?" The reason is that I think it is interesting and important.

[0] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases-solubility-water-d_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater

[2] https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr80371

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_per_square_inch

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean#Geography

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Misanthropy can sneak in sometimes. I don't lump all humans, but I think it's a majority opinion amongst humans that we are the intelligent animal, and other intelligent animals are only to be compared to each other. Wolves are also cool, but I think it's a bit misleading to call orcas the wolves of the sea.

Orcas are actually only one of two animals in the world, other than us, to go through menopause. It's an interesting biological development that some estimate it is so older orca females (orcas are matriarchal societies) to not sexually compete with younger females and can concentrate on leading and teaching to pass down knowledge. Wild orca females live quite long.

Like I said, wolves are certainly amazing animals, but I feel orcas are on another level. And we don't cage wolves as brutally as we do orcas. That, I am angry about.
Do you have any alternatives? IRC? I use Matrix to communicate with friends so I'm stuck on it for now; I too am very unhappy with the overall UX and find it painful to use.
Causal loop in the wild?
This comes from the people distributing an ad-fuelled cryptocurrency called "Basic Attention Token". I'll take their word with two grains of salt and a tall glass of water, please.
How is it that we can't have an OS that stops such things?

I'm of the opinion that the NSA must have a long running covert program to discourage the adoption of secure operating systems.

Multilevel Secure Operating Systems have existed since the 1980s, yet most people haven't even heard of them.
Solans is centralized. The fact devs can take it down for maintenance or that it can be trivially ddosed is proof it is not nearly as decentralized or robust as cryptos promise.
Upvoted you here. Sadly in today's world, that is the most help anyone can offer. Until it is on the font page and someone from FB looks, and notices that it was an "accidental" "one-time" "hard to predict" issue that "we'll look into immediately"

Your page will return, and nothing else will change. Tomorrow this'll happen to someone else.
Windows 95 3D Maze Screensaver [WebGL/JS]
An interesting quirk of America's Army was that the character models were always arranged such that the player character (and their team) was dressed as U.S. soldiers/ally forces, and the enemy players were always dressed as insurgents. So the player was never killing or being killed by U.S. forces from their perspective. It was a little weird to see your team of U.S. forces running around with AK-47s and shooting at insurgents carrying M16s :)
I use customer cast offs and even employee cast offs. My desktop was cast off by a customer because Win 10 ground to a halt. I slapped an ancient nvidia card in to get a couple of screens and popped in a cheap SSD. According to dmidecode it is a Lenovo from 01/06/2012.

My laptop at the moment is a HPE something ... HP 250 G6 Notebook PC according to dmidecode. I used to have a five year old Dell 17" i7 based beast but it ... broke. I whipped out the SSD, shrank the root fs a bit (with gparted) and used a clonezilla disc and an external USB link to get my system onto a Samsung EVO M.2 thingie from the SSD. This laptop was an employee cast off/

As is probably apparent from the above, I use Linux. I have some decent apps at my disposal but in general I don't need much hardware. Decent: RAM >= 8GB and SSD storage are key. I don't play games much. I've always specified 17" screens in the past for my laptops but now I have to use a 15" jobbie, that's becoming less of a hard requirement.

I am a Managing Director (small business - IT consultancy) but I do spend rather a lot of my time doing sysadmin and network admin stuff. I also do business apps. I once wrote a Finite Capacity Plan for a factory in Excel with rather a lot of VBA. Before you take the piss, bear in mind I used the term finite and not infinite. That meant that quite a few people had employment in Plymouth (Devon not MA) in the 1990s. I won't bore you with my more modern failures 8)

Anyway as you say, modern laptops are phenomenally powerful. Mine have wobbly windows 8) I can't be arsed with MS Windows anymore for my own gear - it gets in the way. Me and the wife said goodbye at Windows 7.
Have you seen Cinny?[1]
It's a very Discord-like client that I'd honestly the best I've used thus far. I instantly switched to it as mt daily driver on the computer and even made a donation to help out the maintainers.
The thing I miss the most is localization, but I get it's not a big priority. I just like translating things, seeing how that can help people.

[1]: https://cinny.in
Interesting experiment.

> started to understand VR and use it more regularly, namely the fitness and social apps

This is the interesting thing that I observe : beyond the hype there are some genuinely valuable quite mainstream applications. Fitness, e-sports, and virtual monitors being some of the key ones. I regularly use VR for 1-3 hours a day doing these.

The problem is that the hype actually gets in the way of people experiencing those. They all require some skill acquisition or semi-non-trivial setup. So instead of someone getting introduced to VR in the form of one of these more sustainable ways, they are shown a glitzy experience that dazzles them with 3d effects that is interesting for a few minutes but has no longer term value. It's like a sugar hit that lasts a short time but actually leaves you feeling worse afterwards.

I think Facebook et al need to work out how to bridge people between these experiences to make it get more mainstream uptake.
He is far from alone in thinking that. Even among music critics that are generally positive about U2 there has always been a fair amount of criticism of his voice.
This article seems to be more of a manufactured platform for the author's distaste for cryptocurrency than an expression of genuine concern about the environmental impact of web browser publishers.

The author doesn't seem to appreciate that Mozilla's onboarding of a general cryptocurrency payment processor does not mean that Mozilla endorses the specific cryptocurrency Bitcoin with its notorious energy usage.

And going by the language used in the article (her apparent distaste that Mozilla is "encouraging people to mine cryptocurrency"), it's pretty clear that the author does not grasp that many cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin are not mined.

In short, aside from painting broad generalized strokes about Mozilla versus Apple, it also paints broad generalized strokes about cryptocurrencies. It's a piece based mostly on the author's opinion rather than objective research about the environmental footprints of companies or of payment processing.
If you have a safari books online subscription, the manga books are available through them --- I think all of them.

https://learning.oreilly.com/
I think all you need to know about this CEO/CTO, Dgraph as a product, and the underlying key-value database Badger, is that when people report data loss bugs where the database fails to return data written to it, they'll claim it's not data loss if the data still happens to reside on the disk somewhere, and *then delete the bug report*.

https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/issues/578 titled "Badger unable to return data after value log GC"
vs
https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger/issues/570#issue-3621168...

> However, if the bug only causes Badger to not return data, and the data is fully recoverable by an easy fix to the code -- that's technically not a data loss (See Badger unable to return data after value log GC #578).

Never let this person store your data.
The pay is also horrendous compared to other IT jobs at similarly large organizations.
This reminds me of the stories about Edison electrocuting elephants as a means of demonstrating the "danger" of alternating current.

Bad Application =/= Bad Technology

Most telephone calls are scam calls, it doesn't mean telephones were a bad idea. All scammers are humans, but not all humans are scammers. If there is a scam then call it out directly rather than wasting energy on the general platform.
I can't actually use the Element app on mobile, because it takes like 15 minutes to "sync" (whatever that means on a 70Mb/s line).
Same in the US. I think parent is maybe not a parent. :)
It just means the the boat is unstable, it's not quite that bad. Calling something a "widow maker" in English is pretty close.

Or, in video games / programming, a "footgun"
Using the internet is a terrible comparison because of the physical and hardware issues at play. The web is an appropriate comparison.

The web is a network application on the internet.

Blockchain is a network application on the internet.

After 13 years the total number of blockchain users is likely less than 100 million worldwide. From 1993-2006 the web grew to a billion users. In 1993 only 8% of US households had a computer with a modem…

Considering the web, mobile, and social media that blockchain has been able to leverage over the past 13 years it should have at least 20X the number of users.

Blockchain user adoption has been a complete failure up to this point.

I wrote a rant about this earlier this week:

https://blog.cryptostars.is/blockchain-the-most-poorly-adopt...
I think the tesla analogy is flawed. People want to get between places and the most current methods of transportation emit co2. So, a tesla driver, depending on how the local grid where they charged it is built, will likely emit less co2 getting around than someone driving a combustion powered car. The owner of an electric vehicle is going to want to go places regardless what kind of car they have.

What is the added value that cryptocurrencies have over traditional currencies/speculative investments?

Or what does it mean to 'do cryptocurrencies well'? What is it that we want to do? Their are other mechanisms to invest or to exchange value why are we using all these resources to create 'value' in this way?
It'll all disappear the moment the Federal Reserve meaningfully raises interest rates.

If it wasn't NFTs it would go into some other fraud addled speculative bubble.
GUIs are unsuitable to anything other than the mouse + keyboard. They are the outputs of their respective inputs.

You need dedicated software built on a hypothetical V(oice)UI to get anything decent.

Otherwise your best bet is to find a mouse/trackball/trackpad/pointerstick/touch-screen/pen that doesn't injure you and use text-to-speech in simple text editors.
People in general are paperclip maximizers, not just Capital. All people are slaves to their desires that takes a mind of its own, a sort of real-world Incentives System.

Chasing power (be it financial, social, political) is a flagrant example of this property of People.

TL;DR: The problem isn't capital. It's humanity as a whole.
It has been 'admitted' for this year - since 2014.

So the Robotaxis are 'finally' coming for 2022 then? So I am expecting them to be operational on Level 5, such that they can drive themselves with no human assistance? This time for sure?

I'll be waiting for the first Level 5 robotaxis to come this year, and surely but definitely not going to be disappointed for the ninth time right? /s
How about air travel or meat consumption? Those have big environmental footprints, but it doesn't seem like society generally discourages going on flights or eating meat.
> People buy expensive art because its popular.

Let's say I can magically create thousands of copies of the mona lisa, perfect 100% copies of the original at the Louvre with no method known to man now or in the future to distinguish them.

Now imagine that I shuffle those 100% perfect copies with the original and distribute them all across the world in galleries, auction houses, museums, some universities etc. (basically any facilities with a chance to have access to people with the ability to notice that this might be the original painting).

Assuming that the experts trying to find the original now that it is gone from the Louvre are honest and don't lie:

Do you believe the Mona Lisa would still retain its value assessment?
I haven't but the few first pages

Have you ? How'd you point the important point out for us?
I recently watched a documentary about Charles Ponzi and I kept thinking over and over, "this sounds like cryptocurrency hype". This guy would have absolutely loved NFTs and "DeFi".
I love how student government teaches you how government really works. The election is a popularity contest for a puppet regime with no real power, but you can pat yourself on the back and take price in the democratic process.
I use a Mac for work in a corp environment and don't experience any of these insane problems.
I don’t think it’s a single or even a fixed collection of zero days, it’s an arms race that requires constant updates to the vulnerability catalog in order to be able to exploit the latest fully patched phones.
Is it really that bad?

*cough* CockroachLabs / CockroachDB *cough*
"Relax and Recover" (rear) is a useful tool, written specifically in the bash dialect, that will write a compressed clone of your system to a bootable USB flash drive, network share (NFS/SMB), and other targets.

Booting with rear, a (somewhat "klunky") interface will allow you to restore your captured backup, apparently pristine.

It is similar in effect to the HP-UX Ignite tool that I used on that platform.

Oracle has published a number of articles and blogs on or relating to it, and it is well worth study. The invocation of tar that preserves the SELinux contexts is particularly worth capturing.
PG is extremely heavy handed with his block button. He is a very delicate little flower. I really don't know what the HN community sees in him. He's not smart or interesting by any stretch of the imagination.
As a young person I agree with you.
Yes, the point was just that if you use infrastructure more efficiently your maintenance dollar won't have to be stretched as much. They'll still have plenty of bridges but if they focused maintenance on the things used by residents rather than people driving in from the suburbs that'd free up a lot of funding.