skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you related it to my industry because I can assure you that not every L3 in Google contributes the same value to the company. They have vastly different backgrounds, education, experience, and aptitudes. Some are willing to work 80 hour weeks. Some aren't. Some are very skilled in technologies which aren't in-demand and don't currently generate a lot of value for Google. Some work on projects which generate a lot of value for Google. Some have excellent qualifications but little experience. Some have lots of experience but no qualifications. Some are extroverts and some are introverts. Some are great at communicating their thoughts and ideas. Some aren't. Some are grumpy and surly. Some are super friendly.

There are thousands and thousands of ways in which an L3 is not the same as another L3, and I promise you, no two L3s generate exactly the same value to Google.
You realize you have full control over your resume, right?

"It appears on my resume" makes it sound like some other controlling entity has put it on your resume, so that it now just appears there as a matter of fact.

What an odd statement to make.
I live like this, although not to the extreme as discussed in the article. I have my alarm set to go off at 3AM, also called the 'Witching Hour'[0]. It's when I'm most creative, and all the sages used this special time to write, paint, etc. I've come to gradually learn this is the optimal time for coding & writing. My physiology is wired a certain way, and it's great the way there's no interruptions by family members, friends, or traffic. It's the time to Get Sh*t Done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witching_hour
I've never used it, but apparently you can hash a image in such a way that small changes will result in the same hash. I think that is what Apple was doing with it's child abuse filter announced earlier this year.
> it's speculative, and it enables scams.

The media sure likes to point to these things, but I personally have more specific criticisms:

- It provides store of value but limited medium of exchange. Until there is widespread adoption of BTC (i.e. people get paid in their salaries with BTC) then you're missing an important half of the definition of a currency

- Wash sales (see NFTs) and price manipulation is rampant.

> Those who are OK with that much power being concentrated in one person, can continue avoiding crypto.

If this statement is true "A minuscule .01% of Bitcoin holders control nearly a third of the supply"[0] then how is this any different? Isn't that worse then the current setup? To me crypto is simply a shift in power from a small number of people to another shift of small people (bureaucrat to technocrats). As the saying goes "new boss, same as the old boss".

> But no amount of public outcry can ban, shut down or criminalize crypto, same as you can't ban IMAP or AES.

Sure, but if you can't use BTC as a medium of exchange then it'll just be that - a speculative asset. So what other utility does it have? KYC (in the US) basically restricts BTC from ever becoming a medium of exchange.

[0] - https://fortune.com/2021/12/20/001-percent-bitcoin-holders-c...
You can implement filesystems as a kernel module, or use a filesystem-in-userspace option.
>The gist is that social unrest increases in line with the velocity of memes. Put differently: the faster that memes can emerge and spread, the bigger the threat to democracy and social order.

I think engagement with social media is the root cause here. Velocity of memes definitely follows that metric though. Memes are just an information packet, but there's additional information flowing over different formats. This sentiment feels very similar to the Big Mac index as it relates to economics.
Could you use a non-float integer instead? Do GPUs have cheap int % float -> float operations?
The Dropbox comment doesn't apply here. Simula One is meant for Linux geeks, the exact kind of person who would be just as happy (or happier) to roll their own Dropbox if it was cheaper.
This talks about the word and phrasing aspects of writing which is great. Another good read on the subject is On Writing Well.

It seems that a sizable chunk of developers (and academics) who write struggle with the visual aspects of writing (and I'm not saying I do it amazingly). For example, developers love not to impose width restrictions on their personal blogs. But studies show that that makes text harder to read [0]. Some great writers like danluu.com are popular despite ignoring the visual aspects of readability. (And I don't mean to pick on Dan but it's a recent site I was looking at.)

My point is that it's easier to find ways to improve on your readability concerning words and phrasing. It's not as easy to find good tips on improving visual readability too.

[0] https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
I will paste the same reply to the other, similar comment:

I'm glad you related it to my industry because I can assure you that not every L3 in Google contributes the same value to the company. They have vastly different backgrounds, education, experience, and aptitudes. Some are willing to work 80 hour weeks. Some aren't. Some are very skilled in technologies which aren't in-demand and don't currently generate a lot of value for Google. Some work on projects which generate a lot of value for Google. Some have excellent qualifications but little experience. Some have lots of experience but no qualifications. Some are extroverts and some are introverts. Some are great at communicating their thoughts and ideas. Some aren't. Some are grumpy and surly. Some are super friendly.

There are thousands and thousands of ways in which an L3 is not the same as another L3, and I promise you, no two L3s generate exactly the same value to Google. This is why pay at each level is in a range, so that these individual factors can be considered. This is compounded by the fact that there are L3s with more experience and/or qualifications than L5s. This is far from an objective comparison of an employees value generation.
Painting an entire community with the same brush seems to itself be fairly toxic behavior berift of signal.

Let's keep focused on AWS's poor greenwashing post. You could replace all the names of the technologies and it's still just as bad.
But it doesn't matter. All of the reasons in the world for how expensive it is don't make a difference to the result: it's still too expensive.

Costs must go down before they'll see the kind of units moving they need to fund development.
Here you go: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-indexes/
I don't think Taleb himself even understands his own concept. Geography alone would make city-states highly fragile in most locations.
Not really, no. But you'd have to get the source and build the kernel module for the specific kernel it runs on. There are mechanisms to do this, such as DKMS (e.g. Virtualbox does this: it provides its kernel modules' code, OS/user provides kernel source, magic happens and sometimes it even works on the first try); having the module code always present in kernel source (even if it doesn't get built) is more convenient for building, but less convenient for kernel maintainers.
I have similar experiences. Some people like to be in the forefront. Others, like me, fill in the gaps and don't care about being "seen". When I lead, it's because there's a need for my leadership. I don't micromanage. I do what is necessary for the team to perform. That's it. If someone else needs or wants to fill that leadership role, then I allow them to take the spotlight.
I'm confused too. How is that engineers here talking about UBI as a solution to this pressure to keep your job don't talk or consider how to pay that? Besides, when everyone has a base level of income, inflation came in play (as a consequence of supply and demand of goods) and then we go back to the same problem: getting a good life or just the basics to life becomes expensive even with UBI.

Also, I would recommend to read "Debunking Utopia" about the social system Nordic countries implemented in the past, some kind of model for solving the problem of living decently for people without possibilities and/or problems to make a living. The countries are slowly but steady reducing that system because it solves nothing and creates extra problems. With UBI, which is a bigger plan than the system Nordic countries had, you would end up with the same if not worse problems than they faced: people decide not to work for low wages or in jobs that are needed but unappealing (and I don't blame them, for sure), but because someone has to do the jobs, wages increase a lot, which in turn, increases the costs and price of those services. And, voila, we are at the beginning of the problem, were people are stressed or unhappy because they have to keep jobs they don't enjoy or like.

The difference is that the UBI would be the new penny, because you could not buy anything. Maybe with AI and automation we would get there, as robots would not complain or care.
Really interesting article. I strongly agree with the general premise of this article.

With that said, I'm confused about algorithm 2 (difficult words). How does adding "Yes!" in front of a sentence change it from a 0.45 reading level to a 0.25?

Am I missing something?? Was something else changed in that sentence?

I also think it's interesting that the article accurately pointed out that writers will censor themselves when writing for the intellectually challenged. And yet, I see examples of censorship in this very article (intentionally or not).

For example: "In recent decades, as disability activists have won more civil rights, both in the US and internationally, accessible writing has gained greater attention." vs "People with disabilities have more rights than ever before."

I feel like leaving out "civil" from rights could be construed as censorship. After all, what good is it to know you have rights if you don't even know what type of rights they are?
Bullets 1-3 are excellent reforms that should be the case everywhere.

Bullet 4 could end up with bad consequences because there's so many ways to fudge the data. And justification is in the eye of the beholder.

For instance, in digital marketing, direct response advertising roles tend to be higher paid than marketing roles without strict KPIs (brand, organic social, etc.) Direct response advertising, for whatever reason, is split 80% men/20% women, with men and women making the same (high) salaries.

The softer marketing roles make significantly less on average, and are 80% women/20% men.

Can this law distinguish between a direct response marketer and a brand marketer, both of whom may be running Facebook and Youtube ads? Would a giant bureaucracy know or care about these nitty gritty differences in 1000s of industries? I foresee a lot of headache.
Companies associated with all kinds of crimes exists everywhere. For recent war crimes, you can search yourself. For WW2, there is even a wikipedia list of companies involved with the Holocaust. One of them even own RedHat Linux now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
As the downvotes illustrate perfectly. The shared characteristic in both points is the presupposition that coercion is an acceptable foundation for building systems.
No code tools for NFT Creators
Hey shrubble,
AFAIK Softaculous is focused on PHP softwares that can be hosted on sharedhosting. On our side we deploy any kind of open-source software with docker so we don't have any particular limitations or affinity to php softwares. And so our catalog of supported software is quite different :)

Also Softaculous templates where a bit old and not always maintained, on our side we have a totally different implementation and we are doing semVer updates based on tags available on docker hub, monitoring, alerts, backups, migrations, security and more.

We also have support for MySQL & KeyDB multi-master clusters, and we are going to introduce soon more cluster options

https://doc.elest.io/books/database-clusters/page/mysql-clus...
I don't think they publish it publicly, but the data is available based on many different sources. This is one such aggregate: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
Neoliberalism is not related to liberalism, its economics theory we've been living in since Reagan. Ds and Rs embrace it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Neoconservatism is more a social theory, i.e. pushback from 60s social liberals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Why would Taiwan do that though? TSMC is the goosr that lays the golden egg: giving it up means America has much less reason to protect it.
My last job was for a local government in the US. All public employees in the entire state have their exact salaries (including before and after benefits) publicly available for anyone to see.
Audio is far more important than we generally think. The subtle things that fall under "audio quality" matter in substantial ways. George Lucas understood some of it, and built an empire with it; and the lesson passed by largely unnoticed.
The keyboard driver stack is working (we also have a PC speaker driver that makes an annoying beep). It's actually not as trivial as it seems, because passing IRPs across process boundary while maintaining the consistency of states is not that easy to get right, among other things. The goal of the very first release is to demonstrate that one can run Windows kernel drivers in seL4 user space and have a Windows (native NT, not Win32) application communicate with said Windows drivers via standard NT primitives (NtOpenFile and whatnot).
hehe, I don't remember all the details - but I just did it after some random tutorial on the internet, and obviously you should have all your "stuff" on some d: partition, but I actually ran it for a while - the only downside was the same as with every 'disk reimagining' program like Norton Ghost, if you wanted to change so much as as your desktop wallpaper and wanted it to stick - do a special boot to 'save changes mode'.

But I'm pretty sure a lot of things were handled with some autostart-link to a special batch file on d: :P As I said, it was fun - not sure I would've wanted this kind of stuff for a work machine, yeah.
Pinecone does this, FYI: https://www.pinecone.io/docs/metadata-filtering/

And you're not alone... Lots of people want this, and lots of people can't get it with ES.
Vendr (YC S19) acquires Blissfully to help companies find, buy, and manage SaaS
LinkedIn debuts its own podcast network
I think the only real solution to this is going to be once we hold platforms accountable for the content they let people host.

I know the general HN crowd is very much against this, but it’s the standard we hold every other media platform and I don’t see why things should get a free pass just because they pretend to be platforms.
Despite other comments, I'm concerned there isnt enough anti-crypto here.

Let's be clear: this is what a graph of the values of currencies looks like: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=10Y . Micro-value adjustments up-and-down, and if you comapred to the price of bread, midly inflationary.

This is what all (necessarily deflationary) crypto "currencies" look like:
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=10Y . Extreme swings, compared to the price of bread, massively deflationary.

That is also the graph of the value of tulips during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania .

Regardless of whether you think (this obvious scam designed to enrich a handful of early stakers) is a scam or not: it cannot be a currency.

A currency cannot be this massively and necessarily deflationary, as it is never rational to spend it. If your currency is guaranteed to increase in value, it is always better to hold it. Thus rendering the only alleged use of crypto economically incoherent.

At this point, tulips in hand, you should start to wonder why you're being sold on the idea of a tulip-based economy. Clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory .
I love to see GitHub used as a generic term for a hosted repository service. I would enjoy seeing that trademark continue its march to become a completely generic term.

There are more options than GitHub for publishing source code. If anything, publishing on GitHub is an instant strike against openness, because Microsoft should not be trusted. Even GitLab would be a better place to publish, iff only as a mirror.

So, yes, I agree. Lack of readily available source code on even the lowest common denominator hosting service should be a huge red flag when evaluating any project like this.
https://kinopio.club/

A fun way to make a shareable board of notes, links, and content
It sounds more like he’s pining for futuristic UIs.
Transistors Reach Tipping Point at 3nm
Redpanda raises $50M to modernize streaming data
I love that they fully embrace the "sitting at the coffee shop with my VR headset" aesthetic. I'm totally ready to support this vision and preorder one and let my freak flag fly at my local coffee shop!
Maybe they did good work and felt proud of it and thought the hiring managers could look past the content of the product of the company and look at the real work needed to deliver that product.
Several reasons:

1. You need a dedicated PC for this, or the friction of having to set everything up will lead to you never using it.

2. VR on Linux is a compatibility nightmare. Focusing on one configuration as our baseline makes things so much simpler.
They got bad for awhile, but the 2020+ models have been very nice.
Remote Code Execution in pfSense
That's what I thought; I run zfs-dkms on my server, and I just assumed that other filesystems could do the same.
> If Leonardo were alive today would he write his notebook by hand? Or would he adopt a modern a technology that would let him put down his thoughts and diagrams more expressively and precisely, that would allow better revision and better retrieval at a later date? I suspect he would choose the latter.

I suspect he would choose the former. He could have dictated his thoughts to an assistant. He could have made his sketches more 'expressively' in oil on canvas. But he didn't. He chose to be alone with a notebook and get his thoughts out.
Have you heard “family-values” being touted by media correspondents as an excuse for everything.
> One argument seems to be that cryptocurrency is purely speculative, which is apparently a dirty word. What about the stock market? What about any kind of investment? If you truly believe that cryptocurrency is the basis for a superior economic system, isn’t it rational and wise to put some of your savings there?

So the thing about investments is that they are a transaction that gives you a share of property in exchange for a share of the future income stream, albeit this mechanism is often imperfect and valuation may not so directly correspond to the current value of the underlying property or income stream. Even if many people are buying investments solely with the intention of selling them to somebody else for the higher price, the reason to gamble and expect the price to go higher is because of the valuation of the property. Even the miserly interest you get from parking cash in a bank account is tied to the income the bank makes from using the money you so parked.

But with Bitcoin, when you buy a bitcoin, you get a share of... well, nothing. And the way you make money with that share of nothing is to sell it to somebody else for a higher value. That's the only way to make money: you can't make money except by enticing new entrants, which is literally the definition of Ponzi scheme. And other investments aren't Ponzi schemes because there are other ways to make money from the investment, even if they aren't necessarily the most common way of making money.

This doesn't necessarily hold true for all cryptocurrencies; I'll concede that I'm not a connoisseur of the cryptocurrency community. But it feels to me like it's the standard tech-bro "X, but unregulated", except "X" here is finance, an industry which is famous for its unregulated elements not only resulting in lots of people losing all of their money but also bringing the economy down with it. So forgive me if I'm not exactly enthusiastic here.
Zip drives and other storage devices could have been connected using SCSI. Heck, even printers like Xerox Phaser 740 [1].

[1]: http://www.office.xerox.com/userdoc/P740/P740man/740.45.html
The impact of less scalable work
https://rc.retroyou.org/

http://nostalg.kubasik.biz/

Art project based around several hacked copies of Re-Volt and a flight simulator.

The artist also has some more recent work.

https://retroyou.org/

https://www.retroyou.org/archive_2015-1994.html

https://www.retroyou.org/sr_blue-planet-bulkdown.html

https://www.retroyou.org/sr_beta-renders-01_beta-interpretat...
I think, technically, file systems are not part of user-space. All of the code for file-systems lives in the Kernel.

In some technical sense, the filesystem is just an implementation detail of the kernel for things like 'read', 'write', and 'mmap'. Since this is an implementation detail, it can be considered 'not part of the public API of the kernel'.

Put differently, the promise not to break userspace is aimed at developers and not at actual users. The case of changing defaults is then a problem of developers because their programs are all of a sudden behaving differently.
Yeah I named the project after the codename for Windows 2000, arguably the best OS that Microsoft has ever created :)
Each EU country is perfectly capable of intruducing such laws if they feel like it. I don't see the benefit of the EU forcing this regulation on the whole bloc.
Mostly computing has become a "thing" and not a tool.

I've noticed this at "work", network failed one day, no more printer; elders told me they had paper templates to fill in case computers don't work. It took 30s to fill it while listening to the person[0]. It takes 3 good minutes on a computer.

I guess it's how cycle goes.. things go obese until they have to crash and be redesigned.

ps: Not only this but the process is hyper redundant, and humanly heavier .. on paper I listen to the person, fill as data comes, that person doesn't wait alone, while I wait for the app to respond and have to input the same data 3 times in different forms (data that can be inferred from that person's case id). We all make more efforts, waste more time.

[0] similar to the abacus vs pocket calculator contest done long ago
There are some improvements in the "more readable" text, but also some noticeable regressions:

"Born premature" is an established turn of phrase. You read it, you know exactly what is meant. "Born early" is not an established phrase. You have to think about it more. It could mean "born early in the morning" or "born before her time" or "born prematurely". You can figure it out, it's not rocket science, but it's a little papercut of having to expend some effort. You have to think and pick the most likely meaning.

"Very small when she was born" is readable enough, though you do have to spend a bit of effort discarding the possibility that the author is simply drawing attention to the fact that babies are small to set up some future point.

"She has trouble seeing" is not as clear as the original "...which has impacted [...] eyesight". True, "impacted" is unwieldy and could be improved, but the causal link between the premature birth and the health difficulties is no longer explicit and must now be inferred, taking more mental effort from the reader.
Not Linux, but in FreeBSD page fault tracing is provided by ktrace(8) ('ktrace -t +f').
I have a problem with the blue light from the screens.
Pushing this light source close to my eyes is utter madness.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288536/
ASCII editors are a thing :)

eg: https://asciiflow.com/