skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tough problem. Once you start doing back-of-the-envelope math regarding the masses and volumes you are talking about here as well as the time remaining it quickly tends to require all kinds of unobtanium, besides the obvious climate impact of engineering such a solution in the first place, because it needs to be a net positive otherwise you may as well not start.

Funny thing: the only system that I'm aware of that could do this on this scale and cheap enough is called biology, and it operates on a timescale that is too slow to make it work in time.
It seems to me that Google could get into legal trouble if that was the case.
I’ve been this developer in a lot of interviews. We don’t typically do in-interview coding questions so it would be a little weird if someone just threw one at me — although I guess it would depend on the context of the question.

My style of interviewing is to have a as casual a conversation as possible with someone about their experience, ask them to do a deep dive into a solution they’ve delivered, what they could have optimised better, what they learned in the process (technical or otherwise), what were the pain points, etc etc.

I find the best applicants get me talking quite a bit about related projects we’ve worked on. It fits the flow of the interview, which is important. Asking me to whiteboard a random algorithm would be bizarrely out of place, but i’ve 100% whiteboarded hypothetical architectures while responding to questions from applicants. If we’re to that step then it’s usually a pretty good sign.
There was always a mixed ecosystem. At one point, we were using Chef, Ansible, Puppet, AND Salt both internally and in shipping projects.

systemd-homed, systemd-nspawn as isolation, and the rest of his ideas aren't being held back because they're controversial, it's because OStree/Atomic "lost" more or less the instant Red Hat purchased CoreOS and they didn't need to build their own de-novo k8s compute distro (parts of OStree lived on in CoreOS and are there as a testbed for immutable images for trusted computing in kiosks/appliances/VDI).

systemd-homed, using systemd-nspawn for management, and the rest go directly against the investments which have been made in [fedora-]toolbox, rootless podman, and flatpak. At the time that I left (~2 years ago), "Openshift is the new platform" was the phrase of the day, which means podman "won".

Red Hat/IBM (via the container toolkit, rootless podman, etc) is/was primarily invested in a growth sector, which desktop/server Linux is/was not, and the Container Development Kit, rootless podman, and the rest are direct mechanisms to get containers sold on k8s and openshift.

Lennart's passion projects are great for Linux, and maybe better ideas than Flatpak and Snap. They don't have a business case inside Redhat, though, and there's only so long that even a principal consulting engineer can essentially spend his time on research projects.

I would guess that he wanted to put more effort into an overhaul of CoreOS/OSTree and try to "unify" it with flatpak somehow to get back to "one Linux" instead of split distros for different cases, didn't get traction, and decided to go somewhere he could work on a passion project.
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yep, we do the same but using duckdb, it's got a lot more analytical functions and closer to hive than sqlite
HackTheBox was great as practice before going for my OSCP. Haven't used it in a while but all the boxes were pretty high quality and ippsec's writeups helped teach me topics.
> The big thing I've been wondering / looking for is a shared, open source translation database. Anyone have links?

That's a neat idea. It'll be super useful for 80% of the cases, where context is that important. But for the rest of the 20%, context of where the translation will be used, is as important as the word itself. So you cannot always reuse the same translation in different contexts, as it'll sound unnatural then.

Still, if there was a easy solution for being able to change between different options for the translation, having a shared open source translation database for projects to use, would be very valuable and useful.
Names and addresses are already public information in the US. It's not that big of a deal.
WRT the physical security argument in favor of disabling sysrq, my assumption is it's more aimed towards defeating quick-n-dirty mischief style abuse.

Ages ago I worked with a small team of young sysadmins who would often cause trouble for one another abusing things like sysrq, or poorly configured XFree86 instances without DontZap enabled (ctrl-alt-backspace termination, to a shell when startx/xinit is being used). Most of the time nothing malicious was actually done. But when you return to your screen-locked X desktop to find a fullscreen VC with a root shell blinking back at you and an empty history, guess what you'll at least have on the back of your mind for the rest of the workday?
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Doing so would be a textbook abuse of dominance, and would not fly to any antitrust regulator — I don't think they would try to implement that.
It's a neat idea but by intermixing code, presentation, and data you're going to run into a bunch of issues that the "traditional" approach avoids.

For one thing, we get our translations by handing a yaml file to external contractors. They don't need to squint at a file full of code to distinguish the bits of english that need translating from the bits that don't – they just have to translate the right side of every key, and there's specialized tooling to help them with this.

And for another, even in your toy example in the readme you've now lost a Single Source of Truth for certain presentation decisions. So now when some stakeholder comes to you and says they hate the italicization in the intro paragraph and to lose it ASAP, instead of taking the markup out of a common template that different data gets inserted into, you have to edit each language's version of the code to remove the markup (with all of the attendant ease of making errors that comes along when you lack a SPOT – easy to miss one language, etc). I'd expect these kinds of multiplication-of-edit problems to grow increasingly complex when you scale this approach beyond toy examples.

Basically this seems really hard to scale to large products, and doesn't play well with division of labour.
IMO, atlasunshrugged gave a comment that mentioned a couple of important variables to consider.

Personally, I'd also mention the monetary policy factor. There's a huge problem of perspective when it comes to what prices are and what happens in inflation. You have to consider if prices are actually rising, or is the currency being reduced in value a lot? (Personally I think real inflation rates being under 10% is fiction and inflation is a lot worse than we're told)

Fuel prices are just significantly more visible to people than many other prices because gas station charges are so visible and one of the few purchases that is hard to avoid if you live in America outside of a dense city.
Yes, you can produce a model incorporating nonlinear elasticity, viscosity, plasticity, frictional contact, subfailure damage, and fracture / cutting. Repeat for each tissue involved. Some of those methods are well-developed, others are not. Damage and failure in particular is poorly developed, and simulating deformable body contacts can be tricky. Then you have to estimate parameters for all of that, validate that the model produces realistic outcomes, and get it to run in real time.
You can ignore most of the complexity and make approximations, like treating everything as an isotropic linear elastic material, setting cutting resistance to a fixed value per tissue, treating the scalpel like a lightsaber, and accepting that contact will be imperfectly enforced (surfaces may interpenetrate). A crude simulation can still be good enough to be useful as a learning tool though, but it tends to work more like a video game than a true physics-based simulation. We'll still eventually get the kind of accurate simulation you're asking for, probably.
Apple makes peanuts from app sales.

It’s those stupid game ISPs they make all the money off. Smurfberries and pseudo-gambling and such.

Ruined the App Store and iOS gaming, but it’s so insanely profitable it will never go away.
>But it's not Poettering, it's the Gnome folks in general.

It might also be the Gnome folks but it's definitely also Poettering. Let's not pretend he's some blameless martyr. The guy's a jerk.
Excellent, a fair trade for all the TikTok data Hoover-ing they've been doing on US citizens.
Thread of pilots reminiscing about these simulators including common japes of putting spiders or kids' toys on the landscape. Don't miss post #4 for a cool video:

https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/499352-military-fli...
No, I don't see any reason to think that. If anything, it will improve your Page Speed Insights score, which will improve your rankings.

Google collects all they need and more from users using Chrome. They don't need GA anymore, and I'm pretty sure they said a while ago they were going to stop looking at the data (again, because they collect far more data from user using Chrome).

Good on you!
Isn't that a contradiction? If it could have passed in the Obama years but was ignored, then it simply wasn't a priority to do so, which was the original point made. Obama years were pretty recent.

Does the court have an agenda here, or is this the removal of a previous agenda? I don't understand these claims that the court is simply doing the same as before but right wing instead of left. They haven't changed things to make abortion illegal at the federal level. They've just removed a ruling based on shaky legal reasoning and kicked the decision back to where it was meant to be all along, which would seem to be lack of an agenda.
Two examples of what I (in the US) decry as "COVID denialism" both are people known personally to me (extended family actually). These are from mid 2020. Both people eventually pivoted to "being opposed to draconian policies"

1: The numbers coming out of NYC are grossly exaggerated; probably only about 1/10th of those reported as "dying of COVID" actually died of COVID. Other people died from different causes but just happened to test positive for COVID.

2: A dialog between person A and person B:

A: If only 1% of people who get COVID die from it why are we still worried?

B: At a 1% fatality rate if half the population of the US gets COVID, that's over a million dead

A: Unlike you I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid
Covid turned out to be much less lethal than originally thought when the only people that were identified as having Covid were the ones sick enough to go to the hospital. The places that "DID take COVID seriously" were places that were initially reacting to statistics that didn't consider how many people had already had Covid and hadn't been to the hospital.

I wonder if we'll someday look back on some of the things we do to prevent climate change and view it through a similar lens.
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This is not at all the takeaway from this. It's "this shitty developer should not have had access to this data in the first place". With a nuance of "this database probably shouldn't exist in this form in one place to begin with".
Let's not. After the whole "China Virus" shit propagated by the right, I'd prefer if we tried not to associate vulnerabilities with specific people.
The real fun starts when online players start shooting at each other. How to decide if a hit was fair AND make it look believable for both parties to minimize outrage?
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Enabling software audio mixing with ALSA required copying and pasting a small handful of lines into your ALSA config file and just worked. Most of PulseAudio's hardware problems were caused by it having weird and unnecessary expectations, like wanting to know the exact sample being played by the hardware or expecting analog volume controls to have perfectly accurate gain and glitch-free volume changes.

PulseAudio also had pretty awful code quality in general. For example, I ran into a crash where the resampling code was trampling past the end of the buffer and it turned out that every stage of the audio conversion process - resampling, channel conversion, and so on - made assumptions about where it was in the process and what sample rate, buffer size, channel count etc it should have on its input and output based on members of a shared struct that were used by multiple stages in different ways. At some point the developers had accepted a patch which changed this order without fixing half the resamplers - and which said it was incomplete in the commit message - and this had somehow made it into the release I was using. One of the unfixed resamplers was the one used for VU meters in mixer apps, because that was implemented as a resampler for some reason. Also, all of this code had basically zero comments. Oh, and reverting the patch didn't even fix the crashes for me so presumably there was some other problem somewhere. Oh, and on top of that there were no stable bugfix-only releases of PulseAudio, so even if it did get fixed upstream it'd come with a bunch of new non-bugfix changes with the same level of quality and scrutiny.
The Sony Xperia's look good, but they are expensive.
I work in a bank. This is literally what upper management does every 4-5 years. Always some new "initiative" that was preached to them at a conference somewhere, and will now presumably change everyone's lifes.
This is massively revisionist. "Shutting down overnight" was pretty much the response across the nation in March 2020. This was based on the information available at the time, and as things evolved, things changed.

Everything after was basically differences in how quickly things opened back up (and what things, in what order, with what restrictions).

And mass support for reopening rapidly with no restrictions wasn't there even in Florida or Texas early on - consider the sub-$60M box office that Tenet brought in. Theaters were open where allowed (hell, they were even open in Orange County in SoCal, not just in Florida), but nobody wanted to go because they were looking at the transmission and hospitalization data themselves and waiting for things to settle down and for vaccines to come out. Same with how conferences and events were being canceled before official government action in March 2020.

Economic damage was done at least as much, if not more, by individual behaviors as official policy. And can you blame people for that? Almost as many people died of Covid in the US before the vaccines as after the vaccines in 2021, despite there being way less of a return to normalcy by that point - imagine the number of deaths (and knock-on deaths from the overwhelmed health system) that would've happened if nobody had changed their behavior.

Claiming something like that you could've fixed homelessness in California - which was a rapidly growing problem pre-Covid - by never "officially" shutting down in March 2020 is ludicrous.
The moment we politicize science, is the moment that society at large loses.

And by "society at large" I mean everyone.

Game theorist should study this
I made a webapp home icon from my Firefox and picked out the app-bait popover with uBlock.

Basically just about every app (YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, ...) is better this way. I.e., no ads, erase-able elements, less spyware, defaults to no notification and sometimes even gets better functionality. For instance, it (browsers) gets rid of "hearts" in Duolingo for whatever damn reason, so you can practice however much you'd like in a day.

The downsides I've found is that you seemingly can't Chrome-cast from it, and it often creates new tabs instead of reusing existing ones or making it's own app-instance, so you gotta close all tabs every so often.
See pages 14 and 15 of this presentation: https://mric.jogmec.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/seminar...

It's mostly light rare earth elements. Over half of it is cerium and most of the rest is lanthanum. Most of the economic value is in the elements that are not cerium or lanthanum. It appears to have about the same proportion of neodymium and praseodymium (valuable light rare earth elements used in magnets) as the Mountain Pass, California mine, plus more terbium (more expensive heavy rare earth element also useful in magnets) than Mountain Pass.
I've been following Jarred's progress on this on Twitter for the last several months and the various performance benchmarks he's shared are really impressive:

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1542824445810642946

Easy to dismiss this as "another JS build tool thing why do we need more of this eye roll" but I think this is worth a proper look — really interesting to follow how much effort has gone into the performance.
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> can get hold of the wheel

Only if you insist on legal means of doing so.
That's all correct. There's no precedent for the court using using the "privileges or immunities" clause as a rationale for jurisdiction, and Roe was decided on the due process clause. The privileges or immunities clause is indeed poorly written, and subject to lots of debate.

I should have quoted at least up to the due process clause, but omitted it for space. However, I still think there's a strong case that the due process provides jurisdiction for the court to "check" a state over abortion for the due process clause, and possibly the "privileges or immunities clause", though that's, as you pointed out, untested territory.

Post-Griswold, the due process clause applies to unenumerated rights in the constitution. Privacy, or even bodily autonomy, could easily be one of those rights.

Gun to my head, if I were forced to argue solely on privileges or immunities, I would attempt to argue that the wording was changed from or to and as a result of Corfield v. Coryell because Congress did not wish for it to be so limited, and given the context within which the 14th amendment was passed, the purpose was to bring the states within the power of the court with regards to individual liberty.

It wouldn't stand a chance with the current court, but I could see it flying on a modern court with a different makeup. After all, Corfield v. Coryell decided that New Jersey could prevent nonresidents from gathering clams. I can't see such state discriminatory laws passing muster post civil war.
Whenever I walk by cloudflare HQ, I like to wave in random directions, as I like to imagine that every worldwide spy agency has a camera somehow trained on those lava lamps.
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So do you not believe in exo-planets since you haven't observed them? Macro-economics? Are foreign countries you've never visited real? What about subatomic particles and radio waves? Do you have germ theory as part of your "own lived experiences"?

Wait, am I real under this model? What about the HN server?
Ah. Meta. The company which I will remember for updating the firmware on my Oculus Quest(s) without asking me for permission.

You can't pair the glasses to your phone without switching on location services.

You need to pair to your phone in oeder to activate the developer mode.

I have yet to find a thing that is similar in pain to setting up (and maintaining) a dev environment for the Oculus Quest and Unity — and I say this as a person who enjoys SMD reworking and thinks it is enjoyable to spend days tracing complicated memory errors.

I don't trust Meta to build a product that does not suck in that domain, because the thing that would not suck would not be smart and harvest your data at every point.
I see very little incentives for the current “coin” holders and future potential “coin” holders to maintain a seemingly high “asset” price on btc.

I’m open to a convincing argument otherwise but most of what I’ve observed is hand wavy and requires a religious leap of faith and conversion.
> totally ignoring the opex cost of operating your own hardware which is going to be non 0

Early in my career I worked at a company and we had a DC onsite. I remember the months long project to spec, purchase and migrate to a new, more powerful DB server. How much that costed in people-hours, I have no idea. I upgraded to a better DB a couple months ago by clicking a button...

Don't even get me started with ordering more SANs when we ran out of storage or the time a hurricane was coming and we had to prepare to fail over to another DC.
When some of the systems that keep our society functioning smoothly are becoming damaged or corrupted, the correct response is not to throw the whole thing out and say "we're the tech world, we're really smart; we can just create our own systems that don't have to interact with governments in any way, and do it better than they did! (Plus, since we're the ones on the ground floor/running the show, we can make a boatload of money for ourselves!)"

Because the result of that is entirely predictable, and has, in fact, been playing out over the last few years, with the crypto world, as many people have described, "learning 200 years' worth of lessons in how economies and finance really work compressed into a decade."

No; the right answer is to take up our collective responsibility and work together to fix those systems so they serve everyone again (or possibly for the first time; YMMV), rather than replacing one elite with another.
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OP complains people use CUDA instead of a non-existent open source solution.

That's religion.

And a significant amount of open source solutions are the result of reverse engineering. It's a perfectly reasonable and time tested method to replace proprietary solutions.

> they came up with it because they were faced with actual practical issues

People use CUDA for actual practical issues. If someone makes a cross platform open source solution that solves those issues people will try it.

So far it has not been done.
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Agree that phrasing should be 'Full-remote jobs pay 1.9x more than full-office jobs', it'd be more clear.
Don't worry, it won't be legal for Apple to void the warranty for this.
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Is there anything stopping you from writing in Senior Analyst in your resume? It might not be currently technically 100% right, but it's probably the most accurate description and a reasonable "white lie" that you can explain away if ever questioned about.