skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a crypto critic, monero is basically the only useful innovation to come out of crypto.

I sort of agree with this assessment. I think it depends on what you mean by useful. Unfortunately, the only real-world, practical use of Monero is money laundering. I wouldn't want to trade a currency or work on a technology whose best use case is helping violent drug cartels conduct their financial transactions.
Hiring for conscientiousness (2019)
Address Sanitizer is not meant to be used as security hardening.
HP DL 380 G6 and G7 had back in 2010, maybe before I think. At least the ones I worked with.

It was printed on a slide out tag.

Some earlier generations had paper/cardboard tags tied to them I think but I cannot remember if passwords were there.
Mozilla must have had other criteria:

1. how reliable are these resolvers, right now and in the long term? can Mozilla get an SLA in contract?

2. what is the latency to them? (Cloudflare has PoPs everywhere, so it is likely very hard to beat)

3. what is their privacy policy? can Mozilla get assurances of this?

4. will they be crushed under load if all Firefox browsers on the planet starts using them?

etc.

I am no fan of Cloudflare myself; and avoid it whenever I can. But it is not that bad as a default, for users who don't understand any of these.
I spend a significant part of my day working synchronously (engineering / product / etc. meetings, mandatory unplanned calls to fix some crappy system that is failing in production...) as opposed to working asynchronously (reviewing someone else's PR while they work on something else, reading some spec, etc.).

I work as much as it seems, but I do it in a wildly inefficient way due to my employer's work-hard-not-smart culture. The fact we work 50 hour weeks to do things we could do in 35-40 is hilarious and infuriating at the same time.
Scientists regrow frogs’ amputated limbs
> The way I see it, companies literally ruin the world for mostly imperceptible, and mostly abstract, benefit of the very few.

How do you build a car without a company? How do you get 100 people to work together? How do you get components, carry out testing, and still keep people "fed and watered"?

The only other answer I have ever heard is "the state".
That is an excellent qualification to make. You only know as much as you've seen and what happens after you turn your back is hopefully more of the same or better but that is no guarantee. Kudos for seeing this sharp.
have you seen vanguard lately? they randomly switch you between an old and new ui. its pretty bad
People have run Linux distros on the iPhone 7 and the old iPhone 2G/3G, so it isn't improbable that someone could get Linux to work on the iPhone 4.

https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmar...
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphon...
https://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/05/iphone-3g-binarie...
I read it in a really old science magazine at a family gathering, and I think it was an article on democracy by some science institute. That’s all I remember. It would be an interesting thing to research, but it should be in the literature already.
I'm where I'm today because of my love for Linux. In the 90s my go to distribution was Slackware. I had it spread across several dozens of floppy disks.

Knowing how to keep your server running and understanding internals is a great skill, but that doesn't mean that progress should stop.

Standalone servers are great, but this greatness comes at a price. It takes time to maintain server, it takes time to configure additional services. But at the same time they bring you joy (and frustrations) and much more knowledge and deeper understanding of what goes under the hood.
It's still work, even if it's not the work you want to be doing.
The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
> I think there’s a train of thought in western (and particularly Americanized society) to see everything as some form of gender grouping when it’s not.

What? Seeing everything as gender grouping? You can't be serious... where the hell are these people who think a pint of milk is a gender and are they really somehow powerful?

Sounds you've heard a few hot takes on the internet and then concluded that the whole field of gender discourse is that. When you look at our institutions, politicians, companies, even trans acceptance is something that is a struggle. And that's just a small step, never mind accepting gender fluidity.

Painting the struggles of people who do not fit into the western hegemonic gender binary thinking with such broad strokes does nothing good. The issue is much more complex and real than just "people are making up genders".
As a solo bootstrapped SaaS founder who literally relies on my app staying online to pay my rent and food, I chose NOT to use the cloud, even though I have 6 figures in cloud credits. I use the credit to spin up a single beefy baremetal instance and manage my own services. It's because I realized the cloud was based on a false promise which seemed possible a few years ago, but I now realized is impossible. There is no such thing as a "fully managed" deployment where you don't have to think about servers. See also: self-driving cars -- very easy to build a toy demo case, fails catastrophically in the real world. The cloud promised to save us time on managing, deploying and scaling servers; except in my experience: it doesn't. You spend just as much time, if not more time, dealing with the scaling issues of managed databases and "app engines" as you do SSH'ing into your server. Except it's worse because you lose touch with reality and have a very poor understanding of what your code is actually doing.

Last week my choice was vindicated: I ran into a critical hardware issue on my linux instance which required a complete OS reinstallation. Wiped my server clean, and was back up and running in an hour. I feel much more secure in the fact that I KNOW I can spin up a completely functional version of my app on any Linux server in the world in less than an hour, rather than relying on opaque cloud backup/load balancers/serverless configs which could fail in unexpected ways, and are usually locked in to a particular vendor. As for a few hours downtime here and there, my business is designed to handle it.
Not only that, we were able to reduce the total virtual machine ram where our monitoring was hosted by half and storage is more efficient too I think when we switched to victoriametrics.
Using rubbish to make clean drinking water
I agree 100% they are not the same thing and I’m explicitly trying to call out that what we call trans is a western lens on GNC and other lenses are available across the world.
I like her book, but its a bit scattergun to someone who isn't steeped in classics. It felt like it was in an unknown order.

However it was and still is enjoyable.
Everyone should depend on “python3” or “python2”, never just “python”. They aren’t really the same language. python3 can’t run python2 scripts, nor vice versa, so no matter what you expected there will be systems on which you won’t get it.
Why is it unethical? Again, the alternative here is that both Young and Mitchell are forced to maintain an association with Spotify against their will, or change their opinion on Rogan (an opinion which many people share and hold to be correct, regardless of whether they believe Rogan should be able to express himself and allow his guests to express themselves in the way he does - and many also do believe he should). Do you consider any of these things to be more just outcomes? No one is being forced to do anything here, there are just two people laying out the conditions under which they continue their relationship with a third party.
Neither Young nor Mitchell have actually made any demands here, they have simply stated that they will not continue their relationship with Spotify while they maintain their present relationship with Joe Rogan. Many things can give here - Spotify could drop Rogan, or detail the conditions under which they maintain their relationship, or nothing might happen and Rogan stays on Spotify while Young and Mitchell do not.

I don’t know or care about the law here, unless someone starts getting litigious then it’s really all naval gazing nonsense - like you said, you are not a lawyer, so I’m not going to entertain your theories on how this might be illegal. This is purely a matter of values - I value freedom of speech, and I also value people being able to freely associate with who they like, and that includes saying to someone that they will not associate with them while they maintain an association with someone else.
I'm surprised at how many people here seem to take this personally. A few comments who were."against" this notion made some good points, just to taint the argument with their own insecurities about gender.

Everyone needs to understand that humans aren't "binary" in most things. Sure, some biological binarities exist, as do some social ones, but they're exceptions not rules.

I think the raise of modern gender fluidity comes as a backlash of people being forced into two binary groups.

Let's keep to simple examples (alas, I await some misguided binarist soul to tell me how the example is too simple, only to be caught in their own web of oversimplification). All men must wear blue and leather. All women must wear silky dresses.

What if you're uncomfortable in leather? What if you like yellow? You change what you wear and you're suddenly ridiculed for not being a man. So what are you?

What if you don't like silk? You're a mechanic and it gets stuck on everything, it easily gets dirty. You trip on it all the time. Even if you're not a mechanic, maybe you hate pink and like green. Why oh why can't you wear green?

Take this sitations and apply them to:

- jobs
- clothes
- hobbies
- behaviours
- interests
- who you can be attracted to

And you have gender norms. Current/modern gender norms are very tightly restricted. Most people don't realise this, because gender norms are both imprinted on us by parents and society, but also because they are stereotypes. Edit: And because of this "programming head start" in childhood, a lot of people fall into this without thinking or realising. People who didn't have this programming don't have a path to follow, and they cut their own path. Sometimes it ends on the same masculine or feminine path as others of their sex, but sometimes it's a unique one.

One could argue that these binary stereotypes have had an advantage during more primitive lifestyles. But they're losing their benefits, and I'd argue they're holding society back because of these polarising views.

I don't want to get political, but religions are making this worse. I always believed religions to be tools, both personal and societal, that helped humanity thrive. However, they've become dull, and they need to be reshaped if they want to spiritually guide society forward, instead of hold it back.
> The CIA also, independently of the NSA, has an organization that develops these sorts of attacks that make the NSO group also look like a bunch of kindergarteners as evidenced by the Vault 7 leaks.

Have you actually looked at the Vault 7 leaks? There’s nothing there far beyond the capabilities of a NSO-type actor. NSO is at the level of a nation state, but so are all the nation states. It’s easy to think that funneling infinite money at something will just make you that much better at something, but this isn’t true at all. Otherwise Apple and Google and Microsoft would just be unimaginably distanced from every other smaller company, and I’m sure you agree that they are not ;)
That sounds good. I'm charging the batteries of the Oculus and will turn it on tomorrow for the first time in about a year.
Senator, they take a subscription fee.
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I think it is important to remember that people and their knowledge and skills are critical. Given even perfect retention of written knowledge, you would need a massive learning program, maybe over generations.

Since we are only talking about maybe 50 years of knowledge lost (the rest being in books), getting people to a point of being proficient would take much longer than than that. So starting again doesn't look so bad.
yeah hunting seems like a genius way of feeding 7 billion people

taste, tradition and heritage are not justifications.
You can justify cannibalism using the same arguments.
There's a difference between what you are allowed to do with the code, which is what the MIT license covers, and what you are allowed to do with a specific hosted platform on which the code is running, which is what that term is part of.
>It's not just that this assumption would be news to people like Galileo, Kepler or Descartes.

some of the smartest people who ever lived learned Latin and Greek, so you can see how easy it must be.

I mean not to say that it isn't just as possible as learning any other language, but the reason why we don't is that it is not that important all things considered to read Cicero in the original for most people. If it is important they will learn the language, and if they do that will probably become a source of income for them as it is a rare skill.
This page [1] tells the story of Timothy Kayondo and his Eco Mobile Purifier.

[1) https://www.southampton.ac.uk/namrip/news/2021/02/africa-alu...
I’m sure Apple’s shareholders would love your argument.
FLOC stands for Federated Learning of Cohort.
Programmers are essential to the modern business, and management absolutely hates that. It is very easy to extract money from the market, by promising management that they’ll no longer be dependent on programmers.

Code free, no code, visual development tool, rapid application development etc. has been a promised since the sixties or so.

Ever since the first programmer said “Hey this skill is pretty rare, I should get a nice raise”, have the bosses been saying “Free us from needing programmers, and we’ll pay whatever you want”
Perspective from a small startup: we used feature flags mainly for two types of features: 1. complex and 2. affects money.

Complex: when you roll out a complex feature, it's best to not make it available to all. Instead, focus on a small trusted subset of savvy users who will be easier to train. At the same time, you can use their experience with it to simplify it and make it easier for the rest of the userbase.

Money: we ran a marketplace so dealt with clients' money. We quickly realized that changes to the way payments are processed needed extensive feedback. Even if we assumed something was alright, chances are there would be objections. Rolling out changes in stages would allow our team to handle complaints and feedback without being overwhelmed.
One of the roles of the libraries is preservation of knowledge. The problem that comes to my mind is the fact that there is a great amount of knowledge available only on non-paper media and you would need some kind of device to access them.

Even the old newspaper editions are either digitized or saved on microfiche films.

There is also a question of what does it mean to rebuild society? Get it to which stage? Bronze age, medieval times, time od space travels? Imagen if catastrophe was a masive EMP that would kill all of the electronic devices at once and that you have one simple task: bring fresh water to people. You can either start with building aqueducts (like old Romans did) or you could try to build pumps that run on wind power. How long would it take to create one single engine that is powered by electricity?
14 times worse than Taylor Swift, despite having 3 times the career span and back catalogue? That's about what (90s Danish-Norwegian euro-pop act) Aqua get on Spotify (and tons of other acts besides, even one-hit wonders).
APE is fundamentally broken on pretty much every platform that isn’t Linux because of baked-in ABI.
Messengers are one of the few things that I would appreciate less diversity.

They are a means to communicate with people and if I can't reach the people I need to communicate with then they are not useful.

I would like to see more competition on XMPP and Matrix clients, rather than on yet another closed ecosystem.
Stopped using it after the redesign a while back. The site feels like a puzzle box when you use it, whereas it used to be quite approachable and easy to sift through the loads of content on it.

It seems it's only gotten worse over time and I have little incentive to go back.
> Whether it is this or constant aggressive writing, it seems that the goal of this blog post is to simply inspire anger and hate, while not furthering the discussion on the topic.

There isn't much to discuss, I would think. This is an extremely user-hostile feature to be implemented in the clients (browsers) which comes with a lot of downsides, and absolutely no benefit to the user. I don't know how detached people at Google must be to consider this okay, or to think that any of the privacy-focused browsers would join in on this.
They basically manufacture consent by assuming it since they already have all your friends.
> i think it's the coolest thing ever ... anyone can write a contract to automate taking out a loan, investing it, and pulling out the money, develop exotic securities, and bespoke arbitration. anyone can do it regardless of credentials or connections; just a month of learning.

That's all fine, until the SEC come knocking. The only advantage in the crypto space is that you try to skirt financial regulations. Establishing a new broker-dealer, bank, etc, requires a substantial capital investment to meet the minimum regulatory requirements. That gives some crypto companies an advantage (for now), since they can skip all that, but you can see sure that established interests are not taking this lying down and new regulations are in the pipeline. Once the global regulation of cryptocurrency is completed, either crypto will be dead or it will have to play the same rules as the rest of the financial industry.
> every time a mandarin tried to block things (likely in order to favour his golf buddies from this or that vendor)

There seems to be a much longer history of MPs and PMs being corrupt than the mandarins.
Thanks jiehong!

The reason that the hats are always present is that the way to code faster by voice than be keyboard is to speak fluently, minimising pauses, the way we speak regular human languages. If we had to say a command and then wait for the hats to appear, that would break the chain.

Re mapping, we use something called the "Command server", which allows us to use file-based RPC to run commands in VSCode. That way it is easy to send more complex commands, which are required by Cursorless

IntelliJ support is definitely one of the most requested features; once I'm done rewriting some of the core engine I'll probably take a swing at that. Here's the issue that tracks extracting cursorless into a node.js server so that it can be used by other editors: https://github.com/pokey/cursorless-vscode/issues/435
Those steps are right there in the post you link?
A 60's and 70's folk singer vs. Taylor Swift, a modern mega-artist that almost every young person knows the name of? Yeah, 14x sounds pretty darn fine to me.
>That the lecturer must have firsthand practitioner knowledge of the field?

All other things being equal first hand practical knowledge is then an edge, so not required but a benefit.
Although I'm not a huge Gnome fan, I don't think they are predatory like that. AFAIK it's just a then wrapper around upstream tarballs.
I haven’t worked in big tech but do levels not cover people doing basically the same thing with different competencies?

I suppose people can fight over the levels but at least you could say SDE 1 gets $X SDE 2 gets $Y, and SDE 2 is just a more competent SDE 1.
I see how you jumped to that conclusion, but I think you're conflating two things. First, back then it was sadly very common for children to be considered sexuality mature (age of consent in some European countries is still 13). That's been largely resolved by legal frameworks today (paedophiles still exists, but everyone agrees what they're doing is bad)

And the other idea you're conflating is that (which I think the article dispels) is that feudal Japan consider youth to be tied to age. For all we know, it might be a concept unfamiliar to us westerners that got projected onto "youth" to make the article approachable to Western audiences.
This is not just on topic. It's genuinely one of the best German movies.
I read the opposite, but it's still meaningful. A sysadmin who can't do his job and has to defer to a kid is embarrassing and at that point how can you trust the "authority" to know what they are doing.
It’s metal, because usually the predator’s livers can be really toxic. Humans only eat the liver of vegetarian animals, and eating the liver of a carnivore animal could result in death.
Similar thing happened to Hijras in India during the British rule... but they didn't completely disappear and are still around.
> It's the same reason I return a shopping cart after loading groceries in the parking lot. I don't benefit, but others in the system do.

It's not the same. The parking lot isn't a competitive game. You can't enforce fairness unilaterally in a competitive game. The people who benefit from your actions in the interview case are the people who are willing to take advantage.

In a game where everyone is "cheating", you can cheat to be on even ground or you can not cheat and be at a disadvantage. You don't have a way to make the game fairer.

(btw I wouldn't lie in the interview either, I just don't agree with how you're applying the concept of fairness)
I respect your attitude to not lying to people you may spend years working with.

However, your approach does not result in a fairer process or a better team. That would only be true if everyone behaved like you.

In fact, you're condemning the teams you don't take a job with to have more dishonest people in them! But only by such a small margin that it really won't affect anything.
Where I live—the Seattle area—it appears most or many places are having staffing issues. From basic grocery stores to higher-end New Seasons/Metropolitan Market type stores, for example. Same with restaurants. Heck, it’s even difficult to hire software engineers right now.
In proof of waste case: uses and misuses goes hand in hand.
There can be many reason. One of them is that you click on a direct link to a tweet, because the replies will often be on the same screen as the main tweet.
The only time I've been asked this the question was... fizzbuzz. It would have been silly to pretend that I've never seen it.

For most complex questions the details are different enough that you've probably never seen it anyway, you're just recognising a pattern.
The remark about the fact that walls emerging around cities are an indicator of deteriorating security hits close to home.

Last year, I bought a small house in a development project in my city of birth, Ostrava, Czech Republic. It is not finished yet. But the development of 34 houses will be walled, presumably to isolate it from the nearby neighbourhood of block of flats, which isn't the best part of Ostrava, though not the worst either.

When I grew up there, there weren't any walled developments in the city. They have proliferated in last 10 years or so.

I wonder to what degree this is a real deterioration of security and to what degree it is perception. I do not feel unsafe in Ostrava, but some visitors do, and being a fairly fit strong man in his 40s, I am not a typical street crime victim; most people whom I know and who were victims of street crime, were smaller/older/frailer/female. So it might be my perception that is skewed, not theirs.