skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all the benefits of working from home (no commute, more focus, hanging out with the dog, whatever it may be)

More focus…hanging out with the dog…

These things literally contradict each other. The fact that someone can type this out and not even realize that just goes to show why everyone is convinced they have become so much more productive WFH, when companies dhar actually track their employees and their productivity have hard data that shows otherwise (Facebook, Google, etc would not be calling people back to the office which only serves to increase their costs, if they didn’t have the data to back it up).
to avoid to have to ask for support in that area when your country is being invaded by another country maybe? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/israel-ukraine...
Yes, but unixoid reminds me of AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and the likes, which I think is another category. Maybe "linuxoid"?
Funny how things come full circle. This is certainly a blast from the past (Rails, circa 2007:)).
Rhythm games are generally fun immediately. Real instruments are fun maybe after investing several hundred hours of practice.

I don't know if they've fixed it but I did try version 1 of Rocksmith, a game that's supposed to teach you actual guitar. Unfortunately, the first song was playable by a noob. The 2nd song was impossible for a noob. And that was the end of that.

Maybe they've fix it, or maybe I suck, or maybe some people plow on anyway.
Does it matter? These crimes were mostly committed with full knowledge and cooperation of government, even organised BY government. Everything was done to avoid real blame on any individual, when of course nearly all were perfectly aware what was happening, or wilfully closed their eyes, including the local police, police from the states the kids were from. Schools, CPS, therapists, ... from various states kids were from. Nobody will be punished, it doesn't matter how serious the crime is.

I'm pointing out that most kids were "coming from group homes" and therefore placed there by CPS. And this is not the worst CPS in the US has done to kids by a long shot, in fact they're still at it. Now with "ABA".

They rename the basic technique again and again, brainwashing with constant violence, inducing 24/7 stress, executed in practice by near-minimum-wage idiots rather than anyone with real training (or, frankly, intelligence), which then "necessitates" constant violence when children grow (you could, of course, also allow those kids a normal life, but no, they "have to be kids". So for instance the standard reaction in smarter autistic people, RAPIDLY becoming independent, has to be punished severely). But the basic premise of 24/7 stress with violence to make it inescapable has not changed.

Of course, the violence means that sometimes "accidentally" the kids get hurt, sometimes maimed or killed. That hasn't changed. Now when I say accidentally I mean they attacked these kids violently, and killed them, and they really meant to use that violence. They merely did not mean for that violence to end their lives. Of course, that's, at best, second degree murder. Nobody, of course, has gotten any serious punishment for such incidents, never mind people running or using ABA institutes.

https://sociallyanxiousadvocate.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/why...
What I find funny though, is all that time I spent hobbying around my OS back in the day has paid (and continues to pay) extreme dividends.

What I mean by that is my machine is some kind of basic linux desktop with a tiling window manager.. I haven't looked at the configuration in about 8 years, and even then it was probably 5 years before that that I really cared to give a lot of attention to it -- it survives OS upgrades and hardware replacements because what constitutes my HOMEDIR just gets copied over to new machines and I just install all the tools that are missing as part of the setup process.

But now, my machine does not do things randomly, it does not have weirdly undefined behaviours, it does not change it's UX, it does not prompt me unless necessary, it does not do unexpected things on shutdown or boot up or kick me off to perform upgrades.

Everything my computer does, happens at my pace, on my schedule and it's extremely rare I have any noticeable bugs from those updates.

I'm not saying this to brag, but it's interesting how often people who take the "easy" path end up spending so much more time fighting or re-learning their computer than I do.
I really wanted to love Matrix but it just doesn't cut it yet. I hope it gets there in the coming years, rather than go the way of XMPP, but atm, I can no longer in good conscience try to convince people to give Matrix a shot, if it fails at covering the most basic use case: reliable communication.

There aren't as many clients as you think, and the majority of them are quite bad. The only client with any firepower behind it is Element, and the UX is really not great there, and there are a lot of critical bugs that have been open for years, with nobody with enough knowledge of the codebase able to go in and fix these (especially with E2E encryption). As far as I can tell, their $30 mil raise has gone into focusing on enterprise instead.

Matrix bridges are buggy and decaying because the main ones are maintained by basically one guy who's now focusing on building proprietary products around his work (fair enough).

This is irrespective of the whole federation side, which is also buggy, and until the setup/maintenance cost of running your own homeserver (pure P2P federation and homeserver-agnostic identities have been TODO for years!), it's not gonna catch on. Even today, Matrix is hardly decentralised -- compare the matrix.org homeserver with literally the sum of all other homeservers and you'll see.
Meh, the Sun's texture has kinks at the poles.
>On a related note: I trust Google with my data more happily than I trust the German state, for only one of those two has a history of building concentration camps.

Do you also own stuff made in China? Like the device you posted this comment from? Because that government is actively running concentration camps right now. Where's the uproar against that? Germany has paid several times of for their mistakes.
In the real world these documents are usually not authenticated, perhaps beyond trying to get a person on the phone by googling the issuing authority.

It’s actually a pretty novel idea that companies should be prepared to deal with fake court orders, etc. In theory it’s supposed to be the job of law enforcement to prevent this, but of course that is also essentially impossible.

If the federal lawmakers wanted the federal government to undertake the herculean task of making all these documents verifiable and traceable, they could of course do that. Are they likely to do so? No.

Also, there’s an important detail that is largely being ignored in this conversation: How many hours of paralegal time can we expect companies to spend verifying legal requests concerning accounts that don’t belong to paying customers?
Opposite of what I saw in my time there. Interviews focused little if at all on the person’s actual history and experience. Just pre-baked questions. Maybe I was surrounded by idiot interviewers.
I love coming in to the office.

Granted, I live a 20 min walk away. The walk in is through a beautiful county park, surrounded by nature.

Most of my colleagues who live further away have stopped coming in. Understandable, I wouldn't want to get in a car to get here, traffic in the UK is horrible.

It's all about personal circumstances, really. Living close to my workplace, having access to a nice office that is (now) mostly quiet, I quiet enjoy the new work culture :).
Like taking cards, taking cash isn’t free for a business - between the cost to deposit, the need to physically take the cash to the bank, and the need to keep a float.

So there’s going to be a business decision to be made - is it worth the time and effort to take cash if basically nobody wants to use it? It’s easy to see why a business might just not be interested, in the same way they wouldn’t be interested in taking a personal cheque.

Given the general spending patterns in the UK it feels like the only way businesses will continue accepting cash payments in the long term will be if is legally required. There are some decent arguments in favour of doing that, but without a firm requirement to do so it doesn’t seem unacceptable for a business to refuse a payment method that’s pretty unpopular.
That goes both ways. Tenant could lose and be in the right. At the very least if tenant won it shouldn’t be held against them as this discourages utilization of tenant protection laws.
In a hierarchy of options, it’s unsurprising most companies are settling in the worst of options, much like they did with their poorly designed open office plans.

There’s nothing worse than the “flexible” options companies are settling on, where people come 2-3 days a week, have no fixed seating arrangements, and need to get used to a new setup every time.
I think initial login is via your UI.com account, and then it's very easy to disable cloud login and create local-only admin account, as well as completely disable remote access via unifi.ui.com.
I've been living in apartments for most of my life, and the constant petty fighting with the rest of the people living there got so infuriatingly annoying that, now that I'm living in a semi-d, it's almost like I'm in heaven.

I used to be an advocate for high-density buildings, but they do suck, and suck a lot.

OTOH, high density buildings allow me to have two GP clinics literally within 1 minute of walking whereas if I lived in a smaller rural village... good luck with that. Same goes for groceries, public transport (forget about parking, and you can text or read a book while you drive)

High density buildings are very convenient, eco-friendly, practical, and allow land developers to get more money out of the same land, and governments to claw back more tax from the same horizontal footprint.

But I still will avoid apartments like the plague and get myself a semi-d at the very least, if I can help it.
Computing and what is enabled by computing are different things. I like the computing aspect and continue to do so in my older age even if the interests change, but I also like a lot of stuff enabled by computing. However, the burden remains on me and everyone to take things for what they are. Computing and networking enabled broader access to literature and information, so it is fair to have this analogy: if there a few bad books, particularly ones that create undesirable impulses, I shouldn't hate all books or the printing press that made them. I am not going to associate computing or computers to bad actors or that "computing" for the 2020s means consuming endless timeline feeds. I have accounts on those platforms, but staring at those things too long feels like using a device for the sake of using a device, instead of computing for the sake of computing (writing a program to do a novel thing or finding ways to save old hardware to do 'modern' workloads are things that I think in terms of "computing".)
At some places, you get to choose when to use sick days but not vacation days. All else being equal, in that case, I'd sometimes prefer to burn vacation.
GitUp – open-source Git GUI for macOS
LIMIT not working. Try:

SELECT whiteRating, blackRating
FROM ChessGames
WHERE gameWinner='black'
LIMIT 2 OFFSET 8;
You can go futher. Just type cal in your terminal:

~ % cal
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Yes, there was a great podcast with the Electrochemical Society's Doron Aurbach. A very senior scientist, who has been working with lithium batteries. Basically the labs all over the world need to test all the possible combinations. And there are so many of them.

That's why sharing your results is so important.

Too bad it was in Soundcloud and it's been removed: https://www.electrochem.org/ecsnews/doron-aurbach-commercial...
Yup. What a homeowner does to maintain their home is a nontrivial amount of work and cost, so if a landlord does it they should charge a nonzero price for that service, right?

Or are you saying they shouldn't be 'competing' with homeowners at all? In my experience a landlord is not willing to buy at the same price point as an owner occupier, as they are less emotional about the property.

I used to be a landlord and didn't enjoy it much, so nowadays I own paper (stocks, notes) and literally do nothing.
Why is it selfish? I know we should all be doing our best to cut down on air pollution but in the meantime what's wrong with using something like this?
Sounds like the story was that the tablets were given to external participants in studies without the expectation of being returned.
By that very same logic living in a community without paying for public infrastructure is theft as well which would turn a lot of land owners (frozen property taxes) into thieves.
It's okay.

MasterCard's MasterPass service's website in Ukraine[1] had it's certificate expired like half a year ago and has only been renewed a few days ago. Meanwhile the customer support assured customers that MasterCard is doing everything possible to fix the issue.

Six months to renew SSL cert...

[1] https://masterpass.com.ua/
If it's just once a week or less, you can travel. It's quite doable, and you're not constrained by the needs of a daily commute.
Works just as well in Firefox. Nice.
I’m against going cashless for anonymity. Hypothetically let’s say I buy some weed and it’s not yet legal. I don’t want to incriminate myself or provide data for parallel construction
Very excited to see this! I noticed some of my favourite bloggers don't appear to be indexed for whatever reason: Josh Comeau, Julia Evans, Amelia Wattenberger. Any idea why these aren't indexed and if you plan to add them? I wonder if you could get a list of some of the most popular blogs on HN (perhaps the maintainer of upvotetracker can help) to add to the index.
I'd say sim racing stands out a little as the cost of entry into doing it for real tends to be a lot more than a computer, wheel and pedals.
I still like computing but not necessarily computers anymore, and I especially hate when every single thing that is not a computer becomes a computer.

The ratio of extracting utility and fun from computer vs fighting against the system has plummeted. And doubly so in products where computers aren't the main thing but just a means to implement something else which, in the process, in effect becomes――computer software. Add to that the requirement to always connect online and you're double-fucked. I just... don't do that anymore. My hobbies are all non-electronic and on spare time, I just use my laptop basically to watch Youtube and post on forums (while they still exist).

The general usage pattern of using information technology has gradually shifted from "how to get the computer to do stuff for me" to "how do I work around all this shit to do anything at all". This narrative applies both to user interfaces and browsing but also programming. It's all more work for nothing much.

I still enjoy algorithms and programming as long as avoid interfacing with anything that's modern. I don't long for the old days but I want the sense of ownership and power back that I used to have. Using computers today is too often as if the computer was using you.
Yep. I remember reading about a woman who was whistleblower - she exposed serious financial crime and even got special reward for it (from some non-profit). People involved in crime in fact ended up in prison.

Later, there was interview with her and she said she had huge problem to find a new job for years. Employers really did not like that she exposed someone else.
I don't understand what you mean by that. Which held-out problem instances?
I was actually digging for chemical computing (which would be a metaphor for massively decouple distributed computing).

Btw, my point about "nothing is new" wasn't trying to step into nihilism. Just to shed some light on the excitement aspect of it.
> If a malicious userspace program writes predictable data to /dev/random immediately on boot,

Hmmm, how did the program get there? A case for secure boot, no? At least initialization of RNG state should be included in the trusted part.
Nearcore – Reference Client for Near Protocol
I recall a piece of research looking at all RSA public keys in certificates on the web they could find. They found a few keys that were very _very_ common.
This was the result of exactly these kinds of low entropy key generation problems.

This is problematic even if no-one manages to predict the outcome of the random generator, because it means if someone throws a stupid amount of compute at the problem to brute-force the private key, they can compromise many different people.

But if the source of those repeated keys can be found, an attacker could get their own copy, reverse-engineer the key-generation process, and then try to predict the randomness. In which case they would have a rather cheap way to compromise many different keys.

Looking at it differently, if the problem is big enough, then it can leave a signature of duplicate keys being out their in the wild. These duplicate keys on their own are bad, but the signature can also be used by attackers to know much better where to look for bad entropy.
Claymorphism: Will it stick around?
This is what I used in college. It works great, but its much slower and more tedious to use compared to markdown code blocks. At one point I switched from using google docs to using the export to pdf feature on a static site generator because I was writing documents with a ton of code blocks and inline code formatting. It saved me a ton of time highlighting code and clicking about in the side panel.

I know there are LaTeX addons that let you do things like $$\frac{1}{2}$$ and then render the entire document. Makes me wonder what it would take to do something similar for code.
Well looks like it play a role in the defense strategy from the Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/pegasus-israe...

So maybe until now we didn't see a country with cyber in their strategy being invaded by another?
The difference between a racing game and learn to be a race car driver is actually not that big compared to guitar hero and a real guitar. I would say a drum set might be more fitting to the guitar hero player. The modern racing games actually teach you some skills that a real rally driver needs.
> Just doing a hash join is simply the better option.

Maybe he meant just that - hash join has to populate hashtable before joining.

Regarding B-Tree index, perhaps he thought Automatic Index management - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/au... - but it must be enabled explicitly. But I don't feel like it is "on-the-fly". Rather in-background.
Iam not a real gamer anymore but in World Of warships there are serveral crossover skins (like from animes) that some people love and use and others hate them and are able to turn them off completely.

https://worldofwarships.com/en/news/sales-and-events/arpeggi...
Same! It's daunting. I don't want to sound paranoid but what bugs me more is that more than rarely I see things I was just talking to my friend about (in person) showing up in ads when I scroll my social feeds...

(Btw I'm an iPhone user and have all tracking settings turned off as well.)
It's impressive that the entire thing is in pl/pgsql (apart from parsing).

Have you considered any other implementation strategies (C native extension, any other pl/* or maybe running an out of PostgreSQL process which does GraphQL to SQL compilation)?
The residents are no better off paying a landlord to pay for repairs than they are paying for them themselves. That's ridiculous. How does paying an inflated price for the same "service" I can do for myself by picking up a phone benefit me?

To be clear, I am saying landlords should not exist, at least not as they do now. They're the equivalent of scalpers for housing.
We rearely do that. We just type the stuff we need in teams and the occasional formative talk once a month or so.

Meetings are about twice a year, and they appear in my teams calendar so I can plan ahead.

When I feel we need a serious discussion I write a long ass text, and people usually follows without needing a call. It's like forums, so that's something I'm used to.

But again, my job is very jump in, jump out. I don't really need too much focus, it's pretty much helpdesk with some admin, so I can get distracted without problem, and I don't really need to keep any code model in my head.

My only worry if I find a job in SW will be that, the need to keep my mind focused, not being able to be pretty much anywhere. I hope the pay offsets this fact.
> People don't capture the full value of their labor

If it does it's no longer capitalism.
>I very clearly and explicitly said "money they didn't have" in my first post and was talking about financial costs.

fair - I missed that context when reading the immediate response replying to.

Thanks for sharing your anecdata - the industry is definitely in need of regulation something I've long believed. The ubiquity and ease of access is probably the most dangerous bit. It's astounding that mobile games were able to copy/hire all the knowledge acquired in building slot machines to create an industry that doesn't even have to pay out..!
Sure they do, that is the nature of asymmetric warfare. In any US fiasco, a guy making 24k could call in a 500k airstrike on any antique of military origin. The point of engaging in a foreign war isn't a profit for a government to distribute to its citizens, it is to reallocate or destroy assets of the populace within the country to ensure a majority of internal power is consolidated on internal allies of the entity that can declare war.
I mean, the stars in this visualization are not real, they are "virtual" in the sense that they are a digital replication of something real in our computers.

You're right, it's probably a typo. But the typo at least doesn't make the title incorrect, just changes the focus a bit. Most things in our computers are "virtualized".

Edit: seems people are thinking that this comment is trying to "correct" something. It's not. It was a failed attempt to bring humor to a typo that might as well not be incorrect. No need to further try to prove how socially inept I am.
What is the OG Log4Shell post?
The Model 3 is a $25,000 car with a $15,000 battery.
> […] and I always have to work twice as hard for the following days at home […]

Why? If socializing in the office is part of your job now (explicitly or implicitly), you're working your hours either way. If that leaves you with too little time to get things done, address it with your manager.