skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking by example:

If you have one team of 10 people write a browser engine in C++ and another team of 10 people write the same browser engine in safe Rust (or as much safe rust as you can get away with), over a 5 year timespan you'll discover fewer UAF bugs in the Rust-written engine than the C++ one.

This is the value prop for any company deciding to use Rust. Obviously every language comes with tradeoffs, but this is concretely what people mean when they throw around the word "safety".

The author is also totally correct in pointing out how easy it is to include unsafe Rust in your code by linking unsafe crates. I think this should definitely be an area of discussion and awareness-raising on the part of developers.
They don't need to be mutually exclusive. They operate on different time scales too (or can). And the nature of the solutions is fairly different in each case. Were someone actually able to hack into a power generation plant and destroy it, they might actually intersect in some way.
Not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was.
The US is hobbling itself with software patents. China pretty much ignores all patents and will win in the global market because of this. US companies need to quit the stupid patent wars, lest the become irrelevant on the world markets.
A galactic scaled version of Crusader Kings would probably do the best job of simulating the focus of the books. It would need a pretty deep new negotiation/trade discussion mechanic though.
The police. If you're an adult and someone messed with your phone, you have [or should have] a case under CFAA or some similar law. It's basically a blinking neon sign that says "abusive partner".

A simplified comparison: if it's possible for a parent to take away a kid's phone, what prevents a domestic abuser from taking away their victim's phone?
I have been actively searching and haven't noticed any impact at all.
That is sneaky, are you afraid of just being direct with your own kid?
It depends on how far the relation between citizen and government has deteriorated, and is certainly something to take into account. A practical example is the mayor of Manchester asking people not to apply the same destructive tactic to the new municipal bicycle plan¹. In Manchester the memory of the invasion of Chinese rent-a-bikes is still fresh, so the new plan will have to work at not being unapproachable and providing an asset to the city rather than a service for the few.

And it's not just the potential vandal (or activists) who affect the balance. If someone were to molest one of the unasked for app-hireable mopeds cluttering the sidewalk in my Dutch town, I wouldn't bother reporting it (in fact, I'd probably cheer them on). If someone did this to bicycles for hire part of a municipally managed plan (for which I can hold the council accountable as a voter, and whom I can address with complaints or suggestions for improvement) with fixed parking areas rather than devil-may-care-anywhere-on-the-sidewalk-parking, I would act differently.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/10/andy-burnham...
I keep seeing people say "these companies" when the actual problem is the people who ride the scooters. Maybe your problem is with people in general? It doesn't feel super great to internalize, but if the problem keeps happening with different people riding the scooters then I think we can conclude that your anger is misplaced. Call out people you see misusing the infrastructure, don't destroy the infrastructure for everyone.
All I can say without breaking agreements is that these are products, not ideal models of conceptual engineering. They're not created by people who like the world and want it to be a better place. They're created by people with lots of money who want a lot more. They've found an avenue for this by persuading other wealthy, greedy people to give them a lot of money and promising they can give them more back. They'll do this by persuading everyday people to not do things like produce, prepare, and transfer food themselves and instead pay money for these robots to do it.

These robots are minimum viable products toward moving capital around, not meeting user requirements or demonstrating great ideas. Hurting a few people in the process is part of the equation. Getting anyone to care about $cool_algorithm is not part of the equation. Getting people addicted to the convenience is part of the equation. Getting things to market as blindingly fast as possible so the capital moves before feedback from the field arrives is paramount.
This looks great. Wish you all the best. I moved on to Hey, which took a page from you all in respect to bundles/views, but I did make the Google Inbox sun my cover art. :) https://i.imgur.com/r83pyqV.jpg
Red Cross servers ‘were hacked via unpatched ManageEngine flaw’
> Some programs have a problem with their version (GOG Galaxy for instance). Winget simply doesn’t know that there’s no newer version available and keep trying to upgrade everytime you do “winget upgrade –all”. This, in turn, make the previous point more annoying as I can’t say to winget ignore “GOG Galaxy” and upgrade all the other packages.

This was resolved in the latest preview release (well, the PR merged a couple months ago, but they seem to release once every million years). If you want to upgrade to preview temporarily it will still automatically update to stable releases.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/tag/v1.3.43...

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/pull/1765
Data fiduciaries (if it’s anything like how it’s being done in India) seem like a very good idea, actually — so long as the entity holding the data has fiduciary responsibility to the users, and cannot merge/collude with the entity using the data for whatever. Enforcing this without corruption is obviously non-trivial, but it seems a substantially easier task to regulate the interface between clearly delineated entities (with competition on each side) than trying to regulate huge monoliths (Eg: Facebook) that are incentivized to make internal information flows look like a ball of mud architecture, to avoid legibility to outsiders and the consequent regulation.
If you're implying that only filed patent applications are available as prior art, that's not right. Anything available to the public can be prior art in the US. (Even some private things can be prior art in the US, for example, an offer to sell the invention creates prior art even if completely confidential.) If MS filed a patent application before anyone else, they could still receive a prior art rejection for anything available to the public like code available online, academic papers, etc.

(Source: I'm a former patent examiner.)
Civil "in rem" forfeiture says that the asset is a guilty party to the crime. It applies to any asset that is involved in any crime.

I see it often in cars taken and sold from people with traffic violations.
Most SBIRs are cost-plus, at least anything of meaningful size. It's great to keep a small company going. And since the government pays you to develop your commercial software that you can then sell privately, you can build your margins a bit. I'm with a small contractor we're about 70% government, 30% commercial, but we can't compete with the big boys. The government says what our billing rate needs to be and how much profit we can build in. So we keep missing out on hiring, talent keeps getting sucked away to the big VC backed places because they don't care about burning money until they hit it out of the park.

I'd say it's two incompatible business models: VCs are high variance and SBIRs (and other government contract vehicles) are low variance but will sustain you for a long time (once you get in).
> It's fun to goof with, and maybe gamers will be okay with it in their basements and dens but it's not going to be "Ubiquitous until it's Inconspicuous"™.

Or - hear me out - you could market the shit out of it until it's no longer goofy. Take Bluetooth headsets as an example - they used to be tacky and the users would appear obnoxious by default, until Apple made them white and expensive, and marketed them as aspirational products.
I'm based in Belgium and Google seems to have been down for a few minutes.
What does it do that can't be accomplished with something the size of a remote controlled car?
"But out in the real world" - What a dismissive thing to say. The commenter is in the real world. There are multiple types of people in the real world who deal with things differently. Why would you say that?
> Otherwise my existence makes no sense

That line really caught me by surprise. Your existence should not be justified by your ability to raise capital. I'm not accusing you of anything but ask your parents if your mental health has changed at all. You're at a stressful point in life. There's no shame in asking and seeking help.

> My plan currently is to pour 100% of my resources into my own ideas. And at this point i don’t care whether they fail or not, i just want to try

Assuming you're healthy (which I'm sure you are), don't tell us about what you plan to do. Just do it. Don't plan to plan. Just plan and execute.
>wherein she expected us all to list how our personal dreams aligned with those of $employer.

We have these little brainwashing assignments too. They're an excellent use of my time and a valuable part of the self-assessment process.
A somewhat unrelated question: would you happen to know any libraries for autocomplete suggestions based on n-grams from a custom corpus?
Using OAuth for a simple command line script to access Google's data (2019)
There's big competition esp. in the Zurich area. I don't understand all historical peculiarities behind this, but it has something to do with monopolistic position of Swisscom - their old national telecom company.

As a part of de-monopolization they made it lease links to any willing ISP (bit-stream access?), so many ISPs arose, and they have relatively "cheap" and advanced offerings: 1Gb/s, 10Gb/s, 25Gb/s, fixed IPs, IPv6 etc.

This bitstream access is now extended to pretty much anyone who installs FTTH. E.g. one can have it installed by a city or cantonal electrical company or TV provider, but still be able to buy IP access from pretty much anyone through some form of open market - https://litexchange.ch/
Isn’t this a signal for a pay so low that publishing it would be disastrous?
Yes, that's how it works. Residential panels technically aren't rated by voltage, they're rated by amperage and the number of breaker openings. What is generally done here in South Texas is that on the exterior next to the meter there is a small primary panel for all the 240V circuits, and off of that a 100A leg feeds a physically larger subpanel in the garage area that has both legs bridged, acting as a 100A subpanel for 120V circuits.

Personally, I think having the 240V circuit panel outside is dumb, and the amount of times I've seen my or other folks breakers fail due to weathering is pretty much the reason why. How I've seen this done on new builds where care was taken is that both panels are brought indoors and the only thing outside is a split out to a subpanel specifically for the A/C / heat pump unit. Everything else comes indoors, there is a smaller panel setup for 240V and a subpanel for 120V circuits.

Obviously as the power entering the home is 240V split phase, you must break out a subpanel for 120V only if that's your intention.
The website scrolls at 15fps.

I'm getting sick of the "animate page elements with scrolling" trend. It's not clever anymore, and more than half of the time it's done wrong and interferes with browsing.

Hopefully the game has a higher frame rate.
Good points. I was only talking about Tesla.

What I was trying to get across is that a founder's own value system and motivations of why a founder is doing a thing are an important factor for the longevity of a company.

To me it appears that Musk is only in it for himself and his legacy. Eventually this will become more apparent and the loyalty and followership he's enjoying will drop.

He's more of a hypeman than a true visionary.

See how he hyped up his other ventures... solar city, self-driving cars you can make money with, electric trucks, hyperloop, etc... still waiting for that self-driving car which should be available 'next year' and that was in 2018 or something.
He doesn't go into why they didn't like him, but he doesn't seem particularly surprised, either.
Yes, it goes into effect on May 15 [1].

1: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...
> Putting stuff for rent all over public space or abusing the commons otherwise with the explicit aim of first becoming the dominant party in a mad gold rush, and only then negotiate about rules and limits afterwards is quite antisocial too.

Tell that to the rideshare companies whose drivers crowd the streets of cities, circulating while they stare at their phones waiting for a passenger (and leaving bottles of human waste everywhere).
Does anyone have an opinion of open salaries? Ray Dalio's radical transparency idea is one example, and GitLab is another. Note it's also federally illegal to block employees from discussing salaries on their own.

It seems like salary negotiating -- and the necessary secrecy that goes with it -- benefits only employers who systematically shorting some workers and pocket the difference.

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2019/10/salaries-brid...

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
The irony is it's the usability thst sucks, no one realizes or admits it, and the blame gets placed on the design. The redesign comes up short. A head or two rolls. The process continues. Text book insanity.
Makes total sense to me - we are creatures of habit and eating is one of our most sacred rituals. It's deeply rooted in our psychology so no surprise to me that one would miss the ritual even if satiated.
Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
Nelson wasn't even working at AWS when the Northstar deal got approved and no evidence was actually submitted in any court against him. This article is about someone who probably has clean hands in all of this but got dragnetted by the FBI and Amazon for being part of the approval process before he left the company.
Maybe we need bigger sidewalks. This is historically how progress always happens, companies come up with something people want to take advantage of in the public space, then after the dust settles we accommodate it in an efficient way, like how NYC was a jungle of overhead wires for some time. The solution wasn't to ban electricity and telephones, it was to accommodate the need by investing in underground infrastructure.
I'm not sure to how many engineers this value proposition appeals. We write software to solve problems. We get excited on new and deeper problems. Besides, a sufficiently large piece of software has tons of tangled and non-generalizable business logic that god knows who would be interested in. I can't think of a single reason for me to want to write them.
I've been playing around with Morse code and the Web Audio API recently (https://alexanderell.is/posts/writing-morse-code-games), particularly in ways to make it more fun and interactive to play and practice. I've also been playing a lot of Wordle recently, and this is the natural result: Wordle with Morse code. It's a little rough around the edges (especially when Random Mode picks an obscure British English word), but it was a great learning exercise both for making the game (mimicking Wordle) and playing with Morse code.
I force all devices on my network to use my local ADGuard DNS. Maintaining host files is too much administrative effort.
Figure out a way to package your expertise in a different way than being an employee.

Often the employment model doesn’t reward for going above the acceptable minimum.

How you package and sell your expertises to the world can make a signicant difference to your income.

Consider freelancing, building own product or making courses. If you have options, go for something that is not measured hourly and tied to your time, there is only so much you can charge per hour.
Not for the internet but Wii U uses 5GHz for streaming to the gamepad.
> I don't understand why hiring in academia is so weird.

You were "discriminated" against too? Oh wow, we have something in common.

As a bonus researchers, we can discuss the hidden costs the bitterness this breeds on those around us. Neat!

Or everytime a topic like this comes up, we make a conscious effort not to engage. We put in real cognitive time to search for alternative discussion avenues. Dang, each of those precious minutes adds up. It's a real cost. Because these issues come up every fucking day, and some don't have to put in that real time. There could have been an alternate world where this wasn't needed.

What's today's hot topic?
That article was thrilling, thanks for sharing it
My opinionated guess is many people are afraid of being alone with their thoughts.
Mikrotik makes some very capable routers. The Rb4011 is incredibly powerful and very low power, and has an SFP+ port, so you can use a sfp+ to rj45 if needed, or straight modem -> sfp+ connection, to get faster than 1 gig speeds.

It has a steep learning curve though, albeit it's extremely rewarding and powerful once you gwr over that curve. It should handle routing 1 gig with zero issues, and is under $200. You can do bonding, vlans, esoteric ip rules, and tons of "misc" functionality.

Do not go with ubiquiti, their hardware is very poor and their UI is very buggy and simply poorly designed, it's focused on people who know a bit above an average person about networking, which I suspect is not the case for most people here.
LG 27UN850-W

It's a 2020 model, and they've updated it since then (the version listed on their website is 27UP850-W), but I don't think the panel itself has changed notably. I'd also recommend turning off the HDR support, especially if you're using it as a computer monitor -- all it seems to do is blow out reds and blues while undercooking greens.
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The northern tier of states, especially inland, are quite cold and snowy for months out of the year. If you're a local, you're used to it and likely enjoy aspects of it. But for someone who isn't familiar with it, months of regular temperatures below freezing, ice and snow, and frequent drops to well below zero Farenheit, are pretty miserable.
I spoke with a recruiter who works for a VC firm and hires for many of their portfolio companies yesterday. She mentioned the difficulty here, but framed it as a reasonable + manageable lift a company would make for a sufficiently senior hire. EG Director+, sure, for a single junior sales or CS role, maybe not so much. Don't think there was anything she took issue with here aside from a little extra logistics work.
I used to ride amateur cycling races, then just do a nice amount of rides/runs.. Now I'm in situation where time outside the house is hard to manage. I try to cut the calories, but weight keeps growing and overall health decreasing. Looking forward to stabilising family circumstances to have time to head out enough...

From what I observed myself, cutting calories is very difficult and result is miniscule. Adding some cardio (2h/week? 5h/week?) helps so much more and allows more flexibility with food. Also cutting calories does not help to increased overall immunity. Cutting calories is hard on mood (as in, no sugar high and tasty foods are limited) yet exercising allows to keep tasty foods AND gives runner's high. Win-win...

As for tight schedule, I don't believe in gyms. People waste so much time driving to/from favourite/affordable gyms... Running right out home and doing body-weight exercises at home would be both more beneficial to one's health and cheaper.

P.S. I mean regular non-exercise day is 1600kcal. 4 hours ride would be 2000kcal. So exercise day would be ~ 3400. Obviously it long-ride is weekend affair. Then one or two run 10k runs or quick 1h ride (another 1k kcal each). So ideally it adds +500kcal/day. And a lot of cardiovascular health. Well, it was 2 years ago before kid was born... Now it has a loooooot of variation.
Confirmed: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google
It's not just the city of Zürich, Adliswil has it too, at the very least.

I believe Init7 leases fibre from Swisscom in other locations. My understanding is that federal law requires Swisscom to give access to its infrastructure to other companies for a fair price.
The high power level (33dB) was the mistake.
>play around with this excellent interactive graphic from Wikipedia that explains arithmetic coding

If I'm not mistaken, that graphic demonstrates optimal prefix codes in general as opposed to what is unique about arithmetic coding.

Admittedly, I have not looked into arithmetic coding, but the graphic reminded me of huffman coding exercises in grad school to teach prefix coding.
Nobody trying to keep their salary a secret is holding onto good developers, or even mediocre ones.
Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)
I've always enjoyed Ryan Smith's articles, but I think he's been busy with other duties since taking over. I have noticed that the quality of work coming from their junior writers improves over time. I mean just look at Ian. I always enjoyed his writing, but in the past few years it has gotten really really good and he's expanded to doing many Q&As and interviews (where you know, he actually asks interesting and tough questions).
These are incredible contributions to the community. Thank you Collabora and the gstreamer team.
The marketplace killed it for me. I ordered a prebuilt PC for my kid from Newegg without realizing it was from a third-party seller. The seller printed a shipping label which counts as "shipped" so my credit card was charged. After waiting a week or so and realizing from the tracking info that it had not in fact shipped, I contacted Newegg, which promised to contact the seller but didn't.

After multiple rounds of that they gave me a phone number for the seller itself, which, when I called it, turned out to be something like a 2-person shop. Their recorded greeting said that they were on vacation for an extended period starting from before the date I ordered and upon which they printed a shipping label (which was presumably printed by a shell script or something).

Multiple more rounds of trying to get a refund from Newegg later, I just did a credit card chargeback.
Yes, it goes into affect May 15: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-york-city-to-requir...

Companies aren't going to be able to pull this sort of trickiness for too long -- the job market is too hot and laws like these are popping up in areas they can't afford not to hire from.
It's plenty sharp. I'm typing this on the quest 2 right now. Hard to tell exactly but the virtual monitor seems to have resolution better than 1080p at least. I use 23" 4k monitors IRL so it's a downgrade in that respect, but the flexibility is interesting.

I'm also looking forward to UI innovations moving beyond the desktop screen paradigm. Like each window floating in 3D space, stuff like that.