skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you were the president of Harvard or Stanford and you wanted to get a lynch mob of students, alumni, and faculty to come after you, what you should say is something like this: We live in this much larger, more global world. We offer this great education to everybody. So we're going to double or triple our enrollment over the next 15 to 20 years. And people would all be furious, because the value of the degree comes from massive exclusion. And what you're really running is something like a Studio 54 night club that's got an incredibly long line outside and a very small number of people let inside. It's branded as positive sum, everybody can learn, but the reality is that it is deeply zero sum." [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/peter-t...
I've been reading recently a lot of people are getting better engagement results than they would over at Twitter. One example:

https://twitter.com/atomicpoet/status/1512202694391345188

edit: Chris has been expounding on this engagement thing, this goes into more detail:

https://blog.peerverse.space/my-pixelfed-instance-is-a-bigge...
These acceptance rates are misleading. A lot of those applications probably have no MVP and founders have no skills. If you filter to only those people who 1) have a product with some degree of traction or interest and 2) people who have qualified backgrounds, either in previous startups or FAANG or something else that gives them credibility, I think you'll find the acceptance rate is a lot higher.
Kinda reminds me of captain sonar :)
I think all the moving parts, as you say, are in getting the build dependencies of memcached set up. As stated in the article, the candidates were given an existing machine to ssh into, where that had all been done already.

As for whether the modification “degrades” memcached or not, that is a great thing to bring up with the interviewer _after_ you have taken the opportunity to show off your programming skills.
Just advertise the API in the headers. Or better yet, set the buttons/links only to be accessible via .usetheapi-dammit selector. Lastly, provide an API and a “developers.whatever.com” domain to report issues with the API, get API keys, and pay for more requests. It should be pretty easy to setup, especially if there’s an internal API available behind the frontend already. I’d venture a dev team could devote 20% to a few sprints and have an MVP thing up and running.
For a personal non-AAA-gaming machine, especially one for learning and exploring, I'll probably fetch one from Dell refurbished when there is a 20% or more discount and install Linux.
amen. more public access linux/unix can be found on the tildeverse!

https://tildeverse.org/
As it should be.

Avg home size in 1987: 1780 SQ ft

Avg home size in 2022: 2540 SQ ft
> Don't smartphones... kind of suck? How many times have you had to replace a phone in the past 10 years?

No? Twice, and both were upgrades for new hardware features, not required replacement due to parts failure or loss of software support.
That it can produce contradictory results, if you have contradictions then at least one must be in error which means that following the language construction rules can produce erroneous results.
I work in nuclear physics and no one of our experiments could be designed by a single person. They’re far too large and complicated, and even relatively simple sub-parts are multi-year, multi-million dollar undertakings.

Furthermore, even the ideas of “let’s use X to measure Y” are VERY rarely completely new and unheard of ideas from a single individual. Far more common that those ideas come from long term collaboration/discussions between multiple field experts.
I maybe mistaken, but I don’t see how that’s relevant. Dream chaser is designed to return from orbit. These boosters won’t reach anything like orbit, and will have insufficient horizontal speed to start gliding.

Also, if you want to glide these boosters to earth, the challenge is to get them into more dense atmosphere with a low vertical speed. Once you’re there, it’s ‘easy’.

A test dropping them from a helicopter doesn’t test the ability to do that at all; it tests the ability to land after you’ve done that.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021956

On "choice": https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
It works great. This story isn’t notable for the recovery method. It is notable because of what is being recovered (a reusable rocket booster).
I knew this was Tom Scott just from the headline. I appreciate how his videos get to the point and are really about what they say they are.
Would love to hear from people that use Mastodon on a daily basis. What is your experience like? How do you find interesting people?

I'm on Twitter every day, mostly following artists, tech people, and political shitposters.
There's a lot of burnout threads on HN but the common reason seems to be expending a lot of energy on something that led to nothing. It's a mechanism to keep you from going too far in the wrong direction.

It seems correlated to overwork, but that's probably not the reason. So I'm not sure if vacations help much. If you have a therapist, I'm sure they'd have good advice.

As for the team, many have gone through it and will understand. Speak to your manager. Bigger companies often have a procedure for it. It's why we have unlimited PTO, but some places might put it under sick leave.

If you're an athlete paid multimillions and you broke a foot, nobody would expect you to keep playing, nor would they fire you. You're not letting anyone down, it's more of a work hazard. But let the team know of your plans. It's likely they've figured out you were burned out.
Brand new account posting anti-Semitic conspiracy theory crap. I’d just flag it and move on
Me too but for a private company

In reality it was probably more like org sub group A wanted to leverage org sub group B’s data but they didn’t cooperate
10 years of stories behind Guix
Well, they certainly won’t do it again! Therefore, this should be ignored and not logically used to infer that governments spy on citizens!
I'm just getting into analog electronics. Nominally, I'm trying to synthesize 90VAC @ 30mA (telephone ring signal) using buck/boost from a "reasonable" input voltage with reasonable efficiency. Not anywhere close to worrying about interference, but seeing simulated 3A swings at 1MHz is not encouraging... A big chunk of that is due to gate/src & src/drain capacitance. I'm finding that jacking up the inductance leads to really high average currents, cutting the inductance means really small damping resistors and high current again, shrinking the output capacitance helps the ringing and quickly gets the voltage where I need it, but now the ripple is horrible... fun times!
I love that. I feel a sense of perspective change that I like. Reminds me to remain vigilant about my sense of play. Losing it happens slow, and yes I have and have noticed.

Little bits add up. I like this one.

( scroll right on by, as this is one of those things we might say for the benefit in saying it, not so much value otherwise)
>since the Israeli intelligence company was supposedly "closely monitoring how their customers were using the software"

If the Israelis were going to veto a country's use of the software, it's reasonable to assume that the country was intelligent enough not to tell them what they were doing with it.
- Series A

- No 401K match, "unlimited" PTO, $1K / year learning budget

- I don't join startups for the benefits, prefer to have generous equity refreshers, decent base and most importantly, strong business growth

- I benchmark salary & equity here: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
What happens when you don't already have a verified address? None of this is easy.
Who said it has to "generalize"? No virus generalizes to hack every program. That doesn't mean viruses aren't dangerous.

Also OSS makes up most of the modern stack, so access to source code is a given. And hand-crafting a backdoor when you have the source code is trivial because you can literally change anything you want with confidence.
How about something like

a speed demon sprints while a speed daemon sprintfs
Deep Pick Typings in TypeScript
The imagery is often already captured, so if I want to give Maxar $250 I don’t see why they wouldn’t take it.

Eos (iirc it’s been a while) actually let me buy some imagery, but they would only give me pictures, not actual georeferenced rasters.

The actual manipulation and use of the data, even for machine learning, is pretty straightforward these days with ArcGIS. So yes, I want pixels.
> I really don’t feel that anyone is prepared to have a serious discussion regarding Israel, and I believe that’s mainly because…

…Israel’s intelligence finds or creates blackmail on more than enough key politicians and their staff in the western countries.
Expecting any honest reporting on Israel is naive. That hasn't happened for 70+ years.
Cool game, nice work.

Just had a bug where I was in two separate games at once against different opponents. Perhaps a race during matchmaking? It then switched between the two games when it became my turn but when it was my turn in both, switching to the second caused my timer on the first to elapse since ai couldn't switch back to it after moving in the second game.

With a little work, this bug could metamorphose a feature: multiple simultaneous games!
Why should you need insurance on something that should be covered under the manufacturer warranty?
I was walking in town this past weekend and someone in my group accidentally bumped into another pedestrian that was walking by in the crosswalk.

It was the most harmless thing and actually kind of funny because they were both caught off guard and immediately started apologizing to each other.

Just goes to show how severe a pedestrian impact can be, be careful out there.
Yes, stop using Twitter. It wouldn't work as a company without unpaid user engagement.

Comparing it to unionization or political representation is ridiculous. Most users of Twitter are getting exactly what they want from it: entertainment from a product that's provided "for free".
> Gut feeling based on playing with it.

Ok, your phrasing made it sound like some article or material had convinced you of this opinion on my first reading, now I understand.

This is kind of my point about 80 links though - you're using a definition of "cognitive tasks" that more closely resembles knowledge, and then you're letting your personal feelings about profundity guide your conclusions on said cognition.

I don't deny that the machine can output pretty words and has a breadth of knowledge to put us each to shame on some simple queries, but "cognition in a 4000 token window" is an incredibly large place and I don't even understand how you would be able to claim a machine has above-human-average cognition based solely on your own interactions... That's a pretty crazy leap.

PS: I saw the downvotes, I was downvoted for questioning the validity of information that was actually just pure conjecture, be better with your votes
Wrong. Two entities run everything: Blackrock and Vanguard.
Have you considered using a cache service like cloudflare?
Yes, they do.

https://community.frame.work/c/framework-laptop/linux/91
> You need a greedy corporation that is incentivized to make a friction-free experience for the end user. Too many well-meaning, but way too smart for their own good developers think everyone else thinks like them.

That goes for software as well as hardware. Plus, hardware needs a certain quality and price point, both of which are in short supply. Everyone who’s tried designing and shipping a quality hardware product at a reasonable price in a reasonable time frame has experienced that. Even if you magically could solve one of the issues, you’d never be able to ship the sheer volume to satisfy demand. And that’s all before even attempting to create a smooth and complete software experience, not to speak of software quality and security issues.

Also, don’t underestimate the novelty factor in mainstream products, which is directly at odds with the goals of open source hardware and software developers.
> As a counter example, I don’t think you could as easily apply it to something like incident response. Here you’re trying to do the most high impact and high pressure thing first: stem the bleeding/errors/outage.

Yeah, that's not a case mise en place is helpful. Similar to how it's not helpful when you've burnt your food in the oven. If I had to apply mise in place to incident response, it would be in doing proactive prep in advance of high risk activities to reduce the chance of having to do reactive incident response.
>AAA titles are just rehash/sequels with latest monetization tactics tacked on. On low end you got shitty mobile games that only optimization is user conditioning

ehhh. I agree with most of your sentiment, but this is starting to be the gamer version of this topic. Replace "modern software is crap" with "modern AAA games are crap". The industry is too varied to lump it all into one box, especially when several of the largest games this year came out with your normal "buy one get everything" monetization.

Back on topic: I'd say optimization is still an important and under aprreciated factor of development. One where you don't notice it when it's done right but is all that's talked about when done wrong. I want to hope UE5 solves some of those problems, but the proof will be in the pudding as always.
Having been in 300 retros, I assure you that the process overhead is large enough that any other process is more efficient at this point.
Out of curiosity, what sorts of things do you do on it?
And this is what the HiQ case hinged on. LinkedIn were essentially selectively applying the computer fraud and abuse act based on their business interests - that was never going to sit well with judges.
Also, please bear in mind that there's a good reason to suspect that Plato bent a lot of things to suit his goal of trying to explain philosophical concepts. Socrates is often hailed as one of the greatest western philosophers but we have almost no record of his character outside the dramatizations written by Plato. We're almost certain he was a real person but if Plato is to be trusted he was extremely against any preservation of his discourses - almost everything we've got on him comes from Plato describing his mentor.

So Atlantis might be much the same - the story of a city lost to flooding (maybe even the same root story as the biblical one) repurposed and embellished to express a philosophical point.
Even better, why not find people with a wireless mouse/kbd dongle plugged into their computer, then send radio signals mimicking their mouse/kbd to do the same thing? That way you don't even need to touch their computer or bypass the check on whether the USB device is preauthorized.

The reason you can't is because many newer wireless devices have encryption, but how many people know or care when they buy one?

I spent a not insignificant amount of time looking into this, but for the purpose of making a game AI, not for hacking other people's computers.
I used to work for a company that had a corporate jet as a cost saving measure. They were located at a smaller market where commercial flights tended to be expensive, involve multiple hops, and require extra days of travel (and therefore hotel bills) in order to make schedules line up. It didn't make sense to fly a single person, of course, but if there were several people who needed to go to the same place at the same time, flying the corporate jet was often the less expensive way to go.

I wouldn't advise being too envious, if I were you. It was noisy and cramped. You couldn't really stand up to stretch your legs. And you had to carefully watch how much you drank due to the lack of decent bathroom accommodations. Many of my colleagues loved it, mostly for the "we're in a private jet!" factor, and I suppose a larger plane might be more comfortable, but, at least as far as that one was concerned, I personally preferred flying commercial.
I got to play with a Purism Librem 14 machine last week, and the first thing I noticed was how heavy it was. The build quality seemed fine, but compared to a nearby M1, there's no contest about which one had the better build quality. When giving the machine back to its owner, one of the rubber feet on the Librem 14 simply fell off in my hand.

Thinking maybe it was a fluke, the owner of the machine fiddled with one of the other rubber feet, and was able to get it to pop off just by flicking it with his finger.

The security features are nice on the Librem, but as configured, this particular laptop cost more than the M1 Macbook Air. Same amount of storage, same amount of ram. Different CPU's, obviously.

When asked about battery life of the Librem 14, the owner said he hadn't really seen how long it'd typically last on the Librem. I can say though that the M1 Macbook Air, during my normal use (writing and compiling code, slack, email, zoom, etc), is having a bad day if it doesn't last at least 6 hours. I've used the M1 on a trip recently that took 38 hours, door to door. I didn't charge the M1 once, and used it quite a bit during various flights and while waiting for flights. I worked, watched a couple of movies, had a couple of Facetime calls. I still had 25% battery when I finally arrived.

While I admit that it's probably not fair to make a judgment after holding the Librem 14 for about five minutes, I can't really say that the quality of the Librem 14 rivals that of Apple.

Edit: forgot to add. I've rarely felt my M1 get even warm, let alone turn on a fan. My Macbook Air doesn't even have fans. I used to be able to count on the Intel based Macbooks to warm my fingers during winter, but not any more. The M1's run very cool. The Librem 14 was loud. And hot. Not warm, but hot. My fingers were sweating when trying out the keyboard.
It wouldn’t have caused the United States to attack Russian forces in Russia. They may have engaged each other as part of a proxy war in Iraq.
Based on the info available, here are some of the differences between the new a16z START program and YC:

- No standard deal (looks like a16z will negotiate equity separately with each startup)

- Potentially double the check size (up to $1M compared to the standard YC $500k deal)

- Much smaller batch sizes (currently 11 in START, compared to 319 in YC W21)

- The obvious: different network connections, mentors, and track records
Can’t phone vendors have people pose as a client to NSO to get access to the latest RCE and patch it?
I actually agree with you. Anything other than a MacBook is indeed just a crapshoot. Chances are, if I buy non-Apple, I’ll get some half-baked hardware with no customer support beyond the bare minimum. If my MacBook fucks up (rare), I can take it to the guys at the Apple store and know it’ll be sorted out. This is really important. They’re expensive computers if you’re only looking at a spec sheet. If you look at:

+ Build quality

+ Screen quality

+ Software cohesiveness

+ Customer support

+ Longevity

+ Resale value

A MacBook is basically a no-brainer today. Even a MB Air is good now. Apple is killing the laptop game right now.
Didn't it go through a popularity cycle? It seemed to get sufficiently well-known that outsiders and tourists (including me) started turning up, so the core membership of PL theory insiders quietly disengaged. I think there may also have been an element of exhaustion: the regulars had debated and discussed the big, obvious issues pretty thoroughly and there wasn't enough news to keep activity at the same level. Also Ehud Lamm's attention seems to have shifted to other things for his own reasons, too.
Well, this seems like the sort of error that we've all made when throwing together our own personal scripts, so I guess it is somewhat heartening that the serious Redhat folks would make it too.
Extending that a bit...

We are among, or perhaps the first of a post filter generation. We do avoid the thing, as do others and eventually arrive at a mode of existence and thought making more possible, friends possible.
Yep this. Feels like folks in this thread expect the $general_western_ethos to apply everywhere, and then are outraged when it doesn't. That's not to say we can't disagree with the country's laws, but if you visit the country then it's their land, their laws. Anything else would be crazy on account of the inverse: someone from another country could do something very illegal in the US and insist it's fine on account of being allowed in their home country (marriage laws come to mind).
I’m sure the Sunderland lads have already clocked it. Feel free to drop by…

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If your users are logged in you can rate limit by user instead of by IP. This mostly solves this problem. Generally what I do is for logged in users I rate limit by user, then for not-logged-in users I rate limit aggressively by IP. If they hit the limit the message lets them know that they can get around it by logging in. Of course this depends on user accounts having some sort of cost to create. I've never actually implemented it but considered having only users who have made at least one purchase bypass the IP limit or otherwise get a bigger rate limit.
And they're totally interlocked.
I would appreciate more info about what the software does for the non tech
It's possible to make a compiler backdoor that is "updatable" and therefore a lot less brittle. And yes this does make the backdoor easier to detect since it's now communicating over the network. But such flexibility could really future-proof the backdoor and let it evolve over time as the target language changes.
What if you have multiple CPUs and you don't want the task to yield (i.e. for performance or latency reasons)?
“Israel’s intelligence” is like a gang member calling themselves “lil NSA” or some shit. It’s the NSA and globalist interests within the US who don’t like the idea that nations are nations and they don’t control the Earth.
It’s very insulting to people with compensate for a lack of personality or wit with egotism to be told you can’t just “do whatever” when you have a billion dollars.
Again, I think no one is ready for a serious conversation about this. We don’t consider our rich mentally ill, and therefore there can be little else to be said or done.
Whether you think wearing my mouse wheel down to actually get to the directions for any recipe posted on a blog is good or not - it certainly is normal... and ditto for websites having a lot of above the fold advertisements.
“because I say so” and now you are never getting promoted
Accurate model for auditory similarities between instrumental playing techniques