skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the behavior described in the blog post is open and shut CFAA-and-equivalents, regardless of weaseling over words like “authorized” and “access” and “computer”. The author’s own words complete a CFAA case. Not argue for. Complete. The narrative as described is prosecutable.

You could have done everything the author claims to have done in order to stop a Martian invasion or the extinction of every living thing or in the genuine spirit of trying to help and it’s still several prima facie violations of CFAA. It just is. I’m sorry. The why doesn’t matter, barring the contractual scenario tptacek points out (and which STILL requires diligence by both parties to avoid prosecution).

To be clear I think it sucks what happened to the author, but if weev goes down for enumerating primary IDs via a Web browser (and to be fair, also trying to sell the data like a complete tool), setting up an entire technical infrastructure to compromise this app in this way is trivially demonstrable intent. You and I both know what Charles does. Now wait until a prosecutor spins the whole setup as a giant technical hack that shows this person intended to compromise a competitor. I’m not even finished with law school and I’m certain I could prosecute this person successfully, but note that doesn’t mean I’m saying they should be.

Given what you said here and to your point, I’m going to preempt your likely retort and point out that I’ve described the behavior as afoul of CFAA and not the person. You’re right that they are entitled to due process. The blog post is literally evidence is all. I’d bet my Rams tickets next year there’s a subpoena on its way to this post. If not in a theoretical criminal case, then definitely in the civil litigation already underway (again, taking the author at face value).

tptacek is right, and I mean this with respect: you really need to be careful with your opinions on CFAA, particularly when potentially suggesting violation thereof. Your pronouncement that the person didn’t do anything illegal is actionable in a very distant, fucked up world with a bunch of prerequisites, but still a very very possible world. (IANAL/YL, comment is general opinion and not advice, etc)
It can happen. Sometimes it even happens on big projects that are deep in debt.

But it only ever happens when the hands-on people get to spend significant time on improving what is happening behind the scenes. That might mean 20% or 50% of their time, not the 2% or 5% that many get.

If the hands-off people calling the shots aren't willing to make that commitment then a heavily indebted organisation's fate is already sealed.
How One Country Is Beating Covid Despite 600k New Cases a Day
What's going to prevent that? Do you think hydrogen planes would be cheaper to operate?
Nothing remotely resembling a standard 4-year vesting schedule...

But being guaranteed 1% stake on exit in writing is in some ways better. Most folks w/options are getting heavily dilluted with every round of funding, but at least they can exercise and move on for more lotto tickets after 1 year.
The built-in types that supported generics were limited to the essentials; slices, arrays, maps, etc. Those basic building blocks were obviously sufficient to allow Go to reach the level of success it has. It's not an argument to allow for unlimited generics.
Low interest rates, combined with printing too much money, is simply a tax on people who save money. It punishes the most responsible Americans, at the expense of the "how much a month" crowd who like to live in perpetual debt.
But you have to fire them. You especially have to fire the star performer.

Saying the rules don't apply to certain individuals will destroy your team.

There are plenty of policies that will get you immediately fired at many companies. Inappropriate data access is always one.

And let me tell you from experience, EVERYONE is replaceable. Just do what you'd do if he left, or dropped dead. If you can't handle those contingencies, you have something deeply wrong with the organization of your team.
Yup, the retroactive valuation updates for private companies can really screw you over.
I'm not sure I understand your point. I don't think we're disagreeing about anything.

C needs forward declarations for some things, and it needs a symbol table to resolve some parts of the grammar. All I was saying was that I think you could resolve both of them with minor changes. (I see that D has a "cast" keyword, and that's obviously one way to do it.)
I think there are two things going on here, that explain satisfactory why we feel like we see fewer geniuses now:

1) There are now so many people who would be seen as geniuses 150 years ago that they drown each other out, leaving little space in the spotlight for someone to gain the culture defining attention a genius in 1850 might have gotten.

2) In addition, the culture that would be defined by such a genius is now several orders of magnitude more complex than it was in 1850. That means getting everyone to agree on anything is a much harder feat now, much less to get the zeitgeist to agree someone is a genius. (Just look at people like Gates, Jobs and Musk - just as quickly as they are seen as geniuses by one part of the culture, another part wants to drag them down again).
I don't really understand the argument about inflexibility to deviations. The article you linked to acknowledges the type of workers you talk about:

> the official word was most employees should never expect to get past Senior Engineer. That's why they called it Senior

Career ladders - unlike democratic systems - are gradually more and more selective of specific set of attributes as you go up the ladder, and more and more competitive with less and less roles to be filled at each rung. It's effectively a pyramid. It doesn't follow that merit in any single dimension should equate higher levels, and indeed typically the rubric looks at several dimensions.

It may seem that the term "technical leadership" suggests that more technical ability alone should equate a higher level, and this is a common misconception among senior level people and lower. But I think the way most organizations think of technical leadership means applying technical know-how in the service of more than merely building computerized systems, e.g. use technology to multiply efficiency of multiple workers.

Another way to look at it is to see it from the perspective of someone very high up: suppose a high profile, highly technical product was launched and that shows up in Bob's promo package as his accomplishment. But perhaps due to his "tunnel vision", he doesn't see that the success of "his" product also depended critically on teams working on storage systems, frameworks, CI, auth, deployment and half a dozen other subsystems that also power half a dozen other high profile things. Many of these subsystems are also done by brilliant technical people. But recall the point about pyramids: a company cannot reasonably promote everyone; it would just dilute the value of the title. So pragmatically, it looks at the rubrics that it perceives as being valuable to bring cohesion to all of these subsystems, and the people behind them.
Yeah, now only if Pascal had used curly braces, all could be right in the world :-)
Use their free self-hosted one, though. They have bugs in their paid service that they won't fix and their support sucked.
> At some point people learn how to get back to life.

So.. What's wrong with living life in masks for the foreseeable future then? Is that not "life" to you? If not then you are seriously privileged and need to realise that.
I'm running both UA and GA4 for that exact reason. My team can't pull all of their regular reports with GA4, alone.
I mostly just check BBC's live report: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60774819
That's a good idea - discovery is important.

A launcher could also be a "standard" middle layer that defines common key bindings for tasks that people prefer different TUI applications for (e.g. "m" --> mail - whether it's "mutt" or "mail" or "sup-mail" or "pine" behind it).

I don't use one at present, but took the short cut to define 1-letter shell aliases for some of the more common ones:

e: _e_dit <file> (Sublime)

n: _n_ote taking (own system)

m: new e-_m_ail (sup-mail)

p: show processes (htop)
It is, i had this piece of code in mind:

choose {
out(ch, int, 42):
foo();
in(ch, int, i):
bar(i);
otherwise:
baz();
end
}

every other languages are too rigid when it comes to DSLs, so you either fall back to a scripting language / bloated XML file, or you use the language itself and write a bloaty and unreadable mess

only C allows that kind of level of customization, so powerful

i love D, i use it more than C, but damn i miss being able to shape the language this way
I think there’s a story here that no one has talked about. It’s that the “traditional” media has fought back against social media by attacking them ruthlessly and getting everyone to believe their some great blight on the world.

Facebook et al are not doing anything traditional media hasn’t been doing since its inception. Spreading fake news? The original name for it was “Yellow Journalism”[1]. Making teenage girls insecure about themselves? Just look at magazines like Cosmopolitan from just a few years ago. Highlighting divisive, polarizing stories to drive engagement? Cable news doesn’t do anything else. Let’s not forget all the crazy racist, and seriously impactful shit local news has done over the years.

Social media and the internet stole a lot of eyeballs from traditional media outlets. They’ve successfully responded by convincing everyone that Facebook and the rest of big tech is some crazy super villain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Windows is already free
He was trying to get anti-aircraft weapons to fire at his helicopter and reveal their locations, so that he could then watch jets destroy them
Except social media about news about social media.
You’ll get fat, build the -8 instead.
Part of my job is optimizing for ARM.
MD-95/B717 Stall Test [video]
Example from [1], emphasis mine.

Suppose the stock market has a bad year. You sell a stock or mutual fund and realize a $20,000 loss with no capital gains that year. First, you'll use $3,000 of the loss to offset your ordinary income. The remaining $17,000 will carry over to the following year.

Next year, if you have $5,000 of capital gains, you can use $5,000 of your remaining $17,000 loss carryover to offset it. You can use another $3,000 to deduct against ordinary income, which would leave you with $9,000.

The remaining $9,000 will then carry forward to the next tax year. Assuming that you had no capital gains in the following three years, you could use up the remaining $9,000 loss, $3,000 at a time, over those three years.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/can-a-capital-loss-carryover-to-t...

The $3000 stacks as an additional deduction from income. But if you had capital gains of $100k, that can totally be offset with a remaining balance of $900k. You can chew away your capital loss carryover with capital gains faster than 333 years.
Here is a bunch of cool links I've collected over the past few months:

This one is the Space Telescope Science Institute that manages the JWST operation.

https://www.youtube.com/user/spacetelescopevision/videos

This one is the JWST channel itself but no photos yet.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NASAWebbTelescope/videos

This will probably be the best source for photos in the future.

https://webbtelescope.org/

The following link has a lot of documentation about the telescope, instrumentation and planned observations. Really a good sink of time.

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst

A lot of content here about how the scientists use the telescope.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JWSTObserver/videos

John Mather talking about the system engineering of the JWST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHiRXQUiaE&list=PLMN_sNW0v5...
you should pay the people who created the open source libraries, even if they don't expect it or ask for it. Period.

As an author of open source projects with thousands of users: no. You should abide by the terms of the license, which I voluntarily chose and which does not have a secret passive-aggressive clause of "you're a piece of shit if you don't pay".

(Separately, the tipping model is awful and something we should be moving away from rather than expanding).
I appreciate companies like this so much— they sell widgets, so they invest in software and do it right. I worked in the printing industry circa 2009 and the desire to fix antiquated systems was split (and rare). The companies that did are still around; the ones that didn't didn't make it.
Chrome isn't allowing me to attach files
Maybe just me, but the math here feels much more thematically coherent than in the official translation: love as holonomy; go for a spin and come back forever transformed. Fascinating stuff!
Of course.

My point was that daylight isn't guaranteed to send a country into disarray as OP seems to imply.
Great question. These are things I personally enjoy, but of the things I like, they generally have a) timeless or cross-culturally relevant messages that are b) relatively accessible.

I mean, the OP has posed an impossible question, and I'm prepared to be wrong. But unlike other commentators I don't think that Pokemon will have the same type of timeless appeal as, say, Shakespeare. The trick / hard thing to do is to separate current popularity from "sticking power." For a good illustration of how currently popular things can fade from memory, its worth checking out old best-seller lists (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_best...)
Not nice things on the internet according to the author:
spam
swastikas
dcks

Nice things according to the author:
Paywalls
tracking
targeted advertising
evil corporations like nyt
*arbitrary moderation
for the benefit of individual googler's career trajectories?
>> I suspect alternate analytics companies are going to love Google for this decision.

Oh yes! https://twitter.com/MarkoSaric/status/1504121261915574273
Oh yeah.

Another major problem I have seen is that generally VC/seed investors in NZ have over-inflated egos, coupled with a lack of knowledge/skill.

I have seen multiple boardrooms force extremely poor decisions on their investments, crippling the companies they are trying to “help”.

The same pattern surely happens in the USA, but I am guessing startups have some reasonable chance of receiving better governance. That said, I have seen not-fuck-you-money US investors living in NZ give extremely poor advice, so I don’t have unrealistic expectations of the quality of investors just because they are on the other side of the Pacific.

Even worse, seed investors can miss out on great investment opportunities, because they lack the ability to spot winners.
Mainly because most parser generators don't have a feature for disambiguation based on the application providing hints based on symbol table lookups.
Oh this is due to growth crash in the last few months? That sucks :(
Yeah, I agree. I would suggest the following scale:

- "Software engineer: solves problems at one's best levels of autonomy and quality."

Any pre-defined set of boxes for people to sit in I've seen have only restricted people's opportunity for growth.

I also don't care much for the internal bureaucracy and politics that people waste time on that come with a pre-defined set of boxes.

Yes, you should be compensated at a market-appropriate level for your expertise. But a pre-defined set of boxes also does not help with that.

Yes, if you want a fancy title when you are looking for a job, feel free to call yourself Grand Emperor of the Thundering Herds. If someone calls me for a reference, I will say, "sure, ZephyrBlu was our grand emperor of the Thundering herds, and their responsibilities were..."
First it was comic books causing juvenile delinquency. Then it was rock music causing youthful depraved behavior. Then it was video games inducing violent behavior in teens. Now it's social media...

Though I have to admit, when Lex Luther said he could turn a sand pile into an atomic pile, I decided to become a super-villain.
Inspect the source then SMH.
BiglyBT is awesome, it supports Bittorrent v2, stream merging and also includes its own media server so you can stream videos while they are downloading.

The interface is a little slowish but extremely customisable.

It's a real power-users client with every feature imaginable.
Apple TV's “Severance” Lumon Data Refinement UI
Ridiculous. The world is full of choices and kids need to learn how to make them. They don't learn that by being sheltered.

And regarding power to a few companies: that's how it's always been.
I think the harms of social media are overblown and distorted. The infamous Facebook leaks were studies conducted with under 50 girls. Only 3% and 18% said Instagram made them feel "much worse" or "somewhat worse" respectively. 8% and 29% respectively said it made them feel "much better" or "somewhat better". The rest were neutral. My take reading the actual data [1][2] after reading media coverage is that was way overblown. The main negative feelings "body image", "FOMO", "social comparison" and so forth were definitely the main negative feelings affecting girls before social media, too - I can say that from firsthand experience.

I worry that social media is a red herring, distracting things that may really be contributing to stress and anxiety. Remember, social media isn't the only change society has and continues to experience. Things like, declining labor force participation, rising inequality, and more are likely more significant changes. Narrow example: 45% of teens reported that fear of climate change "negatively affected their daily life and functioning" [3].

1. https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...

2. https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...

3. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3918955
Hi,
Thanks for your interest, you've got a great product there and it's been really cool seeing it evolve.

We're actually not currently using a data lake. We were initially on the startup plan which was fantastic (the ability to do templated reports etc is a big one for us) but currently we couldn't justify the cost of a full subscription at that point (and now we are just making do until we can complete our next round at which point we will re-look at the whole situation)

We love that you have an API and used fivetran to ETL to (for want of something cheap + low BI tool costs) BigQuery where we were hoping to be able to attach Data Studio to it to achieve our objectives.

This may not have been the right approach.

We couldn't spare anyone from our dev team to take the time to work out the transforms/queries required to make it useful in Data Studio so we spent some time contracting the work out, but that fell over because they were on lend from a mate's startup and I think just never moved out of the blocks. Also maybe we were using the incorrect tools.

Essentially we were looking to get a fair proportion of our data out, in order to create data views for our clients on their usage (... platform in bio, but hospital analytics stuff - no patient info, all operational efficiency). This was fulfilled really nicely by Templates but in the reports we now generate (... a bit laborious but using a offshore contractor who takes all the pain out of it) we are also able to put benchmarking averages against their peer hospitals etc in which wasn't something it was immediately obvious we could achieve with Templates. Ultimately we want those individual dashboards available for the Hospitals to view, as well as be able to return things like views per period for their content on our dashboard, which we know we can also achieve through the API
Also moving away from the Linux kernel will make even harder to find support for the hardware outside of Fuchsia, not to mention no way to repurpose old devices.
If Google really had good intentions beside profits they could promise to open bootloaders and documentation of devices after they're declared obsolete, which wouldn't impact in any way their business, but I don't hold my breath on that.
And what makes you think you have or should have any control over what your employees doing in their free time?
It seems like a feature that would be better implemented at the IDE/editor level. Paste in a URL and it asks you if you want to add it to package management.
Why is "data stored in the EU" a selling point?

I've seen tons of similar analytics products pop up in the last year and have avoided them all for having out-of-country data storage (and usually less functionality, etc). With how volatile data-related laws have been in the EU the past few years, IMO it feels risky to try to store anything there, let alone view it as a feature!
Practical applications, a laser that explodes if you turn it off.
"Why don't we just make 10 better and make 10 be the last number and make that a little better?"

"Theirs goes to 11."
Putin != Russia
I do that often myself. If you've written the command before, there's also vi mode for bash history, OR, even bash-completion package for some OSes that can give arguments for simpler commands. However, I see a couple minor limitations.

1. You're limited to binaries and executable scripts in your $PATH

2. Many commands do not have bash-completion support.

vi mode for bash, bash-completion are both innovations trying to tackle this optimization of workflow. I see tools like dmenu and slmenu as better ways to give richer UI and create/reuse workflows. GP's request for `allows fuzzy search of program names, tags and a short description` is highly doable in dmenu/slmenu if not already done [0]. Not so much with bash, vi mode for bash, bash-completion.

[0] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/scripts/
To be clear I'm not arguing for or against any specific time system.

In your original post you said "we designed our culture around calendars and clocks, synchronized to Earth revolutions". For me the driving principles of modern time systems seem to be (and I think this might align with what you said)

- each day should have the same length

- people who live or work near each other should agree on the time

- the time on the clock should correspond to the position of the sun, locally

All three principles are important, but the third definitely takes a back seat in many places/lattitudes.

You seem to be suggesting the third should be the most important. Do you think the others are important as well, or are you suggesting that we change our culture so that they are not important to us anymore?
> because VC is batshit mental in NZ

I don't have any experience with VCs in NZ but was planning to try out start up when I do return home. I'm interested in stories if you have some around VCs in NZ, just so I know what I would be getting into :D
Holy shit enough about Wordle already.
True. I don't think the IRS pursued this heavily.

>In the end if your income is low enough you'll mostly be offset by the standard deduction anyway.

The point was that it is another barrier introduced to extract as much value from the lower classes as possible. In fact you had missed the original point completely.
No, because it got bought by NYT. It was absolutely glorious as an indie phenomenon but to see it fold into a giant media conglomerate so quickly is yawn

The most epic move would have been to pull the plug on wordle right at its peak, which was about two weeks ago. Not sell out. Just rip it out clean and let a thousand sorry clones try to compete for crumbs. That would've been an awesome statement.
Maybe script(1) would helpful to you? [0]

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/script
Remember, crime is just surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model.

But also remember, surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model is crime.
Why is nyt evil?
You’re right - Wordle shows that we can’t have nice things. Newgrounds, on the other hand, is still running strong and is proof people don’t actually want the old internet they claim to want.