skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating read.

It's funny to me that IBM - a company not known to promote fun and games - ended up providing the processors that powered the PS3, XBox360, and I think the GameCube and Wii, too.

Thank you very much for the deep dive, I imagine the research must have been exhausting (but also rewarding, I hope!).
I'd say that and and the global propoganda machine is strong. There's many from outside the country who have a picture of what it's like to live here that doesn't align with reality. I think much of it is due to entertainment: movies, TV shows, etc. that give this false impression that everything is rosey all the time.

The lower classes are abused here as well and classes do exist but it's probably better being poor in the US than being poor in most parts of the world. If nothing else you have access to emergency rooms and food, although you may not have real housing.
The key thing is that there will need to be an arms race in people's ability to defend themselves against unwanted attention. And of course there are no guarantees. So assuming privacy when you actually have no way to guarantee you have it becomes dangerous if you start breaking rules and laws.

And of course you having little side chats with other people about helping you out in exchange for something would count exactly as a situation where that conversation might not actually be private anymore.
It's especially confusing because Google calls them "application-specific" passwords, but they are anything but that!
Wouldn't be the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
I apologize if I made it appear as though that project were mine, because it is not, but I do consider yours a better version of the same concept.

At a basic level, I agree with you on the current state of IaC, but I feel like things such as CDK and Pulumi are attempting to address that issue more directly, so I'm curious why you decided not to use those instead. I believe it is much more difficult to get out of "cloud assembly" than these tools make it seem, and I think you have an interesting approach, but I agree with the sibling commenter who said that attempting to escape that completely is a bad idea.

One of the major problems solutions like this one tend to have is that they have sharp edges about what they can and cannot handle, and they also have places where there's a steep drop back into cloud assembly, for which the user attempting to avoid it in the first place is now woefully unprepared. This is true of AWS's myriad of simplification solutions, and this is also true of tools like Serverless. If I give a naïve user access to a service catalog that they have the ability to override at a low level, I might as well teach them how to handle the low level in the first place. It's not clear to me how you plan to address that.

Abstracting away the need to run Terraform directly is useful, but there are plenty of products that have made that their focus, including HashiCorp's, so I'm not sure how you differentiate yourself from those as well.
November is pretty close to the whole year. If you choose a fixed % per paycheck and have a bonus that's not perfectly amortized then being off by a month is actually pretty good.
The author is here and ought to make it all clear but if you google the title of the article you can download the paper already despite everyone being coy about it and the ACM not having published it yet. It's kind of ridiculous it's getting this kind of press before the paper is officially published and available. If the paper was published and security experts were allowed to analyze it before the tech press went nuts the stories would probably have a different tone.

This is interesting theoretically but the amount of access required is pretty high, this is hardly an exploitable zero day.

Having read the paper, in a nutshell it requires:

- Login to the Mac in question

- Ability to install a custom kext to make the PACMAN Gadget work. The exploit requires access to undocumented registers on the M1 that are apparently not accessible from user space, but this is a bit unclear.

- Also need an exploitable kernel buffer overflow against Mac OS (they made a custom kext with a buffer overflow)

- Run the bufferflow + Pacman Gadget together to do the final elevation

If someone can find a way to do this without installing kexts then it becomes way more serious. As is it certainly is a super interesting paper and presents a bunch of work for chip designers.
How might this translate into policy action?
Out of interest, what sort of ways did pine help you in that sort of job?
As glib as your comment is, the answer is that people will probably start eating at home. I'm not saying they will eat higher quality foods, but they won't be eating fast food as much. The value proposition isn't there.

I see this in my own life. I've eaten out for about 80% of my dinners. Taco Bell use to be $0.89 a taco. Now it's around $2. It took me 15 minutes round trip to get Taco Bell. My time (including fuel for the car) and food costs are now at or below $2 per taco (where I would get at least 3 for myself, two for my wife and 2 burritos betwixt us). I can eat steak and potatoes for the same total cost of a meal.

Homo economicus still has a digestive system. It's now considering the amount of energy (money) required to gather the food. Similar to the homo sapiens idea of, "Should I eat these nuts or get a pack of people to take down a bison?"
That is certainly google's fault. :)

Google lets them poison the results.
Value is subjective in many cases, yes, but there is still intrinsic value in the device itself, if we have to boil it down. You missed that bit - the intrinsic part is literally the metals of which the device is made. Even failing that, it's useful as a weighted object. You can get down to the nuts and bolts of a thing with intrinsic value, such that even in the vent that society collapses and there's no coordinated economy to speak of, there is still SOMETHING for which the thing/service can be used. Cryptocurrencies literally stop existing in such an event, and become entirely worthless in even less catastrophic situations.

Money is an agreed upon tool for exchanging items/services of value - but it also a store of value, because it retains at least a semblance of stability. Cryptocurrencies are... well, not currencies, for starters, but they're also simply a proxy for "real" money (ie: fiat).

Where cryptocurrencies entirely fall apart is when the realization hits that they all fall into the greater fool category - once you run out of new marks, the scheme collapses, and all the money - note actual currency - ends up in the hands of a few early adopters and a couple extra lucky folks who timed it right. Negative sum games are not a good thing to prop up.
Wow what a journey the homebrew section of that article was. As someone who grew up heavily involved in the evolving Xbox homebrew scene, I dipped out of consoles before the 360 was truly cracked. I remember the sadness in realising the DVD drive exploit had effectively killed off any interest in trying to run homebrew, but I'm thoroughly glad to learn that the community not only persisted, but became incredibly inventive.
>SORRY. CAN'T DELIVER.

Can I just say that I adore Jenglish? These silly translations have become less common though with better translation apps available.
I've used Nvidia GeForce Now recently, and turned out that the lag issue can be pretty much mitigated by buying the 19.99$ subscription and switching to 120FPS. Games render at that framerate internally, and somehow it's much, much more responsive than the default 60FPS, even with V-Sync off. Highly recommend to anyone.
Static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo) are one example. Sometimes you can get away with markdown but often you end up marking up pages of text.
Neomutt is a fork of Mutt that adds some features. Some of these features are available as Mutt enhancements, and some have been added to Mutt since the fork. I have no interest in these particular features, so I’ve never used Neomutt. One comment on my LWN article claimed that Neomutt was increasingly buggy. I don’t know if that’s (still) true, but original Mutt has been rock-solid for me. Correctness and stability are crucial in an email client.
But what’s the back pressure to this advice? If I need to multiply matrices should I write my own to avoid including MKL BLAS? What’s the heuristic that determines when a dependency is worthwhile?
Been buying games for cheap on Epic games store and playing them on Geforce Now in my browsers for 2 years now.

IMHO that's the right model. I have a dirty cheap laptop I change every 2 years, it's good enough for running a VM but the GPU is crappy. So I play the games I bought on Epic games store in my browser.
I worked with a guy who earned several "Tee Hee" awards for my team's repos. After three years of working with him I knew most of the ins and outs of all the subtle and complex ways git has to revert, rebase, merge, resolve conflicts, and generally cajole a code base back into something that builds. I even got to a point where, with only a medium amount of effort, a programmer could look at the commit history and sort of understand what happened, or at least not miss any of the important changes.

I appreciate that git, for all its complexity and opaqueness, at least had some way to fix nearly anything, if you could master it.
As an immigrant I often wonder if America’s economy works so well in spite of or because of its policies.

But one thing is clear: Last year I saved more money than I made in my last year in Europe. And that’s while paying rent in downtown SF

To give a more surprising comparison - my country’s entire GDP fits into Apple's quarterly profits. The pie is large here.
My understanding is that Quebec gets paid to stay. Else they would already be out.

Didn't they actually vote for an independentist leader at the federal (house of rep) level?
Sunny and oppressively humid and hot.
Why shouldn't the execs be kicked out if they are not performing to standards? Why should regular employees leave for problems in their heirarchy?
Simple more or less means "decoupled", not necessarily convenient.
Even if you keep your distance, a black cat in your path is bad luck if you're superstitious. Similarly, in quantum physics, particles can sense the influence of magnetic fields with which they have no direct contact. Scientists have now demonstrated that this strange quantum effect applies not only to magnetic fields but also to gravity — and it's not a myth.
I went to a half dozen neighborhoods over a week. Even post covid, comparing it to Chicago, Philly, NYC, DC (all places I have also been to in the last 6 months) it felt like an absolute ghost town. Almost no people are walking around, even in the "hip" areas. If it weren't for the cars, it would have felt downright post-apocalyptic.
My wife used to do research under a woman at University of Texas who developed the original mRNA vaccine technology that Moderna uses. My wife and I were super skeptical that the mRNA vaccines would be safe enough with low rates of "off-target" effects (cause impactful unintended protein synthesis). So she followed the vaccine development very closely and attended (online) a number of talks that this researcher put on during the beginning of the pandemic. We also waited quite a bit longer than our peers to get vaccinated and specifically chose Moderna over Pfizer because it had much fewer off-target effects.

Eventually we were able to determine that the mRNA vaccine did actually appear to be safe, and we were able to stop strictly quarantining.

My wife says the relevant scientific community were aware of prion-like domains early on in vaccine development and took this into account when designing the Moderna vaccine. So she feels its unlikely that the spike protein which the mRNA vaccines cause to be generated would themselves act as harmful prions.
To me the fundamental issue with SIP is the recognition by vendors that a standard protocol is "here" while still being incentivized (of course) to implement vendor lock-in. It was also clear that SIP for trunking (with very basic call setup/teardown) was the path forward to replace PRI, POTS, etc.

Consider government, large corp, etc purchase requirements. "Oh SIP is the standard. Cisco do you support SIP?" Cisco says "Of course!". Check the box and buy.

Meanwhile at the time their ecosystem is 99% Skinny (their proprietary protocol) and SIP is an afterthought for anything other than extremely basic call functionality, trunking, etc. Even when pushed to release SIP firmware for their (at the time) $500 hardware phones the SIP firmware was so feature crippled you're literally throwing money away by using it.

So everyone installs Call Manager to be done with it and have something that actually works. Even when Cisco got around to essentially being SIP native getting 30 year old features like hold, transfer, busy lamp fields, provisioning, etc working between vendors was nearly impossible.

Repeat for just about every implementation in existence.
It's not as nice as it was in 2019...
I don't disagree with you generally about developers making native macOS games, but "all they need is [...] a decent internet connection" gets dicy. My purportedly 400mbps connection doesn't do a stunning job at cloud gaming, and most people (around here anyway) don't even have that. Add in the fact that almost all devices to be used for cloud gaming connect via wifi and the experience has the potential to be less than superb.

I don't really see that changing in the very near future, which makes me think that the jump to cloud gaming won't be as quick as some companies want it to be. Whether this changes the calculus WRT making native macOS games I guess I can't say, but even without cloud gaming picking up the porting slack I don't expect to see much happening here unless Apple decides to throw a bunch of money around to make it so.
Recessions are forecast on a quarterly basis, so not thousands, but more than 20 between each recession (typically, historically). That's why I chose a D20 -- out of coin/dice/D6/D20/Roulette, it's the RNG that's most reasonably close to the number of quarters between recessions.
Don't forget the preferred payment system for ransomware, among cryptocurrencies many technological achievements.
Only if the profits are sustainable and wont go down/away with the recession.

Also, with stocks not going up infinitely, comp needs to change to less stock ("free") and more cash, further reducing profits.
How the Mathematics of Explosions Explains Phantom Traffic Jams
Seems to me like it’s a service or application for streaming games and controls over LAN. I.e. an OSS alternative to what Steam uses for in-House game streaming.
The Fine(or Fucking) Article
You need senior Rails devs? I could apply. What's the company?
Yes, the housing is, by-and-large, a lot cheaper, but the cities are not super walkable (if that's important to you) and the weather is often the opposite of cold and wet - it's hot and muggy. I don't do well with humidity, so a huge swath of the US is out for me.

Plugging this tool again because it ate up an hour of my day last time it was posted:
https://www.movemap.io/explore/us
Sure - today, as the situation stands, I'd sell it in a heartbeat, because there is still a vast supply of greater fools. That doesn't mean it has intrinsic value, nor that it would be an ethical / moral choice. Just means that I have loose enough morals to be happy to take an idiot's money.

When suddenly it loses its popularity and/or supply of greater fools, it'll fall apart, and I'll have taken some poor sap's actual money, even if it was delayed / distanced / distributed by some thousands of layers.
Possibilities abound: morbid obesity, Trump, global warming, Biden, Yellen, Putin, Erdogan, anyone else whose name ends in "en" sound, EVs, gas cars, flatulence (of SOs), reading HN before taking one's medications, ditto for "DrudgeReport", etc., etc.
If your classics included the Greek ones, that probably led to the aristocrats getting shipped to their demise in WWI. There might have been something akin to single combat bwtween champions in India, but that was something probably too much to expect in Belgium.
CMA plans market investigation into mobile browsers and cloud gaming
Well, you have managed to have pretty long career as a DJ. I don't know if anyone can be so influential in software development as you were with House music ;)
This is great news. I love that tech jobs and workers are spreading out.

Some concentration is good but it’s way over saturated. That said real estate is still bonkers in Seattle (and everywhere really) so even with a huge out flow it isn’t even making a dent in affordability.
The problem I have with this is that we essentially already have a national ID system. Social Security numbers are ubiquitous despite their original intention to not be used for identification because there's no existing national alternative. Everybody knows how stupid this system is yet we've painted ourselves into a corner and I don't think we'll ever walk back our reliance on it as an ID unless there's legislation mandating it and publishing it for everyone that has one assigned.

Personally I think there is some constitutional justification for a national ID system. The commerce clause gets abused a lot IMHO but identity is at the core of just about any contract. You could argue that state identification and plain old name, address, signature are sufficient, but it's not like SSNs are ubiquitous for no reason. Even as dumb as it is to use a single number for someone that never changes, the benefits of a single static identifier that is the same across a person's lifetime and established by the government outweighs the horrific insecurity of it all. Fundamentally a government is the root authority of legal identity for all the citizens of that country. The government should provide a modern secure way of establishing identity for both public and private matters.
The feds don’t seem very concerned with marijuana lately
Vulnerability in Gitlab: Sending Arbitrary Requests Through Jupyter Notebooks
> Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter

A lot of the drier parts of California, if you aren't tied to the LA Basin because you need local work, don't have as much of a housing problem, though. (That's also true of a lot of the wetter parts that you might chose to live in, if you aren't dependent on local work, too., though the wetter places that's true of often aren't the best places for the affordable, reliable high-speed internet you want for remote work.)

If you’ve got a Seattle tech salary, and want a dry location, you can find plenty of places in California where you can live like a king. Though I suspect you could as well or better, in that regard just by moving to Eastern Washington instead of Seattle.

US States are often neither climatically nor economically homogenous.
Although, as the article correctly points out, omitting the HTML tag is technically fine, there is one rather important argument for its inclusion: it can and should have a LANG attribute:

<html lang=en-GB>

It's not verbose after all, and IIUC may be omitted if and only if the document is served with corresponding information in `Content-Language:` HTTP header, but nasty (or rather annoying) things may happen if that fails [1], so when it comes to "right HTML", following this advice sounds reasonable.

[1] https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/on-use-of-lang-attribute.h...
37signals will never have trouble hiring, they are so well known and respected.
> Do NOT jump ahead

True, that's the gist. Though the problem I built the app to solve is quite more complex. It's a rebase all opened pull requests altogether with fresh master every time, every branch is done in immutable way (each branch has a shadow branch of itself). And the bundled branch gets shipped to staging server. Each PR can be marked/remarked as included/excluded for each build (akin to CI).

What I mean by "again and again" is for a full cycle again, not "again" in next commit while rebasing. For example, if you already fixed things while rebase, and you abort in the middle, and you start rebase again, now you start at where you aborted.
> Try to focus on the positive aspects

Which are? I never see anything other than vague and vacuous emotional appeals in the positive column. By now people should be able to point at concrete positive outcomes.
But it still would impact you.

Across all Canadians, we're talking about $1.5 trillion (CAN) in mortgage debt. That's on par with the GDP. If you hike the interest rates to match your inflation, that's like sucking 5% of your GDP into interest payments. This will be a pretty dramatic event, no matter how it is distributed.
I missed torrentZ, do you know how should I search torrents again?
Exactly. I find I fight with what it wants to do more often than not when text editing. The table component is a mess. I wish it'd just drop me down to pure markdown. Searching is hit or miss for a product built around knowledge search.

It's something often forced on me by others, and not something I'd reach for myself.
The great vegan diet ‘con’
I see many concerns here mentioning how this may not be a useful law because the company may create very wide ranges. It sounds like there are some restrictions in the law that try to prevent that, but I wonder if we should be looking at it a different way -- provide both the salary range for the position and also the range of the salaries of the existing employees in that same position.
They cannot just like they can’t regulate activities of private individual when outside their state of residence.
Except Qwant and Brave are their own search engines, unlike DuckDuckGo who sources Bing. The first two add diversity to the search engine industry.
> Sparta is famous for having a really, really good PR agency.

This is a very figurative claim, yes? It seems untrue otherwise. I've never heard of Sparta having a propaganda organization, least of all an outward facing one. Obviously their social structure indoctrinated their own into itself, but that's not the same thing as having a PR agency. As far as I'm aware, everything known/believed about the Spartans today comes from people who weren't Spartans, like Xenophon and Plutarch. The Spartans didn't write about themselves, or if they did, those writings didn't survive.
> No idea if Windows comes with a calendar.

Windows does come with a calendar, but it's not great.
This.

In the event that the world falls apart, the Mac is at least usable as a weighted object, if all else fails.

Bitcoins become purely thought in such a situation, and even in far less catastrophic ones.
Think of this as a FOSS self-hosted NVIDIA GeForce Now/shadow.tech/Google Stadia.
nearly every security feature in existence has known (situation dependent) work arounds. That does not mean you should turn them off.
Thanks. I only started using table saws a few years ago, so I watched a lot of youtube videos on safe operation.

It seems clear that using (riving knife) + (blade guard) + (push sticks or similar) + (feather board) + (careful adherence to safe operation) eliminates most of the risk.

I'm still unclear how much risk remains when following those rules. Maybe because most injuries I hear about involve people skipping at least one of those five elements.
> I went to Portland this year recently, it is the worst city in the country I have been to. 90% of downtown is boarded up, city is deserted, massive homelessness crisis.

I had the opposite response, but I guess I've been in San Francisco. All the locals were scared of downtown. Yes, it was boarded up. But it was safe. One homeless guy was being talked to by a cop because he was yelling. (They were all sitting cross legged on a corner. Super non-confrontational.) They left and then he left (not yelling). I don't think you could get a San Francisco cop's attention if a homeless person were flinging things at you.