skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some overlap, but only some.

In general CTF problems are limited in the sense that they need to be solvable withing the tournament time frame (usually 48h), and also the process is simpler - you don't have to be quiet, you grab the flag and that's it; no need to think beyond that point (i.e. no need to worry about backdooring, C2, hiding the traffic, lateral movement, detection, etc).

Also CTF problems might be super specific, to the extent of being unlikely to be encountered in a real world. The real world is a bit different - a lot of systems have same old boring issues. On the flip side when dealing with 0-days in stuff like modern browsers you are likely to exceed the level of complexity of even top CTF pwn challenges - mostly due to the aforementioned time constrain in CTFs.

That said, a lot of technical skills would be transferable between both areas. Regardless which way one would switch, there would still be a decent amount of learning (e.g. learning the CTF metagame, learning to think beyond getting a shell).
Dunno, many of those things are occasions for learning.

Back in like 2014 we were competing in RuCTF and some other team hacked our vulnbox and just shut down the rng, making the box effectively inaccessible via ssh and slow as molasses on tls-enabled services (besides capturing all of our flags).

It was an enlightening experience.

Now granted, ructf was pf a particularly spectacular violence… but still, it’s been an experience that has taught me a lot.
Love to see poorly placed smugness.
Its Capture the Flag but instead of gunning down enemies you have to hack a system that is vulnerable in some way
All that data they've collected is only useful if they can sell something (i.e. ads) based on the data. AFAIK the majority of their income they get for ads is from search based ads.
Yeah anecdotally I can say female friends' reactions to firefighters rescuing kittens is very positive. I think part of what's going on is just the weirdness of a staged photo with a cat.
I used Xfce for years after Gnome 3 happened, but eventually found KDE to be better in every respect. I like that Chrome reopens windows in the correct virtual desktop, for example — something that never worked in Xfce.
Many are unaware of the extent of ineptitude and corruption that has infiltrated our institutions. Many people would rather assume they are still capable. It's comforting to think we can still rely on them. Ignorance is the ultimate happiness.
I don't think that is the main problem. The main problem is that it is illegal for laptops and similar devices to become over 45-ish degrees C at point of contact (lap).

I can't remember if it was in the USA, Canada, or EU.
In fairness: 1) there are probably a lot more people who think they are "top talent" than there actually is top talent. And the "think they are" group is probably louder about being top talent, and louder about insisting on being treated like top talent. And so 2) this manager has probably been exposed to more think-they-are than actual top talent. So deciding that they can do just as well without the think-they-are group (and their headaches) is defensible.

What's more, not everyone actually needs top talent - any top talent. There's a place for shops that just employ average engineers, because they don't really need anything more.

All that said... this manager sounds clueless as to what actual top talent can be and do. They also sound like someone who is going to blindly steer their organization into corporate collapse, caused by lack of actual engineering vision.
I find it completely plausible that some people would prefer limited PTO. My comment specifies the maximalist criticisms, which can't imagine unlimited PTO as anything but a scam.

Ive seen this a million and one times since I started working in tech, including my nontech friends being blown away by the perks of Google and concluding that they must work me like a dog (I worked a hard 35 hrs/wk at the time).
Once I see my local HVAC specialist start selling one with rebates, then I know this is legit and scalable
The U.S., specially certain states, has what other countries would call extreme limits on its ability to deal with mentally ill vagrants. An inability to involuntarily institutionalize them, or even throw out the stuff they abandon on the sidewalk. It isn’t from lack of money spent on these people.

So you see them riding the BART in San Francisco, making a nuisance of themselves, while also, the city spends a ton of money and has homeless shelters.

Also, the basic ability of police to hassle people is less.
Sorry about that. I added a paragraph after the first one in the blog post. I didn't expect the blog post to travel beyond the CTF community.
I prefer Standard Notes[0] over Evernote, since Evernote is not as private. There is also Obsidian[1] if you want a local knowledge base stored in markdown format.

[0] https://standardnotes.com/

[1] https://obsidian.md/
There's a lot of dog breeds. Some are aloof and distant, some are needy and anxious (which people do confuse as affection/love). I prefer the former.
If you've got the answers to these difficult problems, what's stopping you from enacting them?
yes, we should better price in the cost of free roads rather than try to rebalance by making public transit free. i'd suggest making registration fees even more contingent on length and weight of vehicles, on a superlinearly escalating scale (e.g., some folks suggest to the 4th power due to that being the factor of weight on road wear).
As far as I can tell, the article does not claim (or no longer claims) that this device can eliminate the compressor and refrigerant from an A/C system. It does claim that it can eliminate condensation on the evaporator, which is plausible, and it does eliminate the compressor and refrigerant used in conventional heat-pump dehumidifiers.
Yea, but the IG complaints are more of a moral panic than anything else, and don't come from any of the actual users. Though you're right that that feeds into the overall brand.
Maybe one day we will have the scientific studies, but your comparison is not a great correlation.

Where Oxycontin, heroin, and alcohol are all easy to overdose on, have highly physically addictive properties. Thc does not have the characteristics. Oxy is sold that it reduces physical addiction, when used for short periods and per instructions, but it does not eliminate physical addiction.
When looking at dishwashers Bosch were selling some that had Zeolite cyrstals that magically seemed to create heat out of moisture absorption, which seems to good to be true. I guess this is similar crystal?
https://www.bosch-home.com/us/experience-bosch/crystaldry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite
I know, right? Imagine if you went to the front page of Yahoo! and it was like a curated directory of websites. Like... a portal.

It could look something like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000302042007/http://www1.yahoo...
> Doesn't mention the hardest part ... dealing with pages whose content is mostly dynamic and generated client side (SPA's)

Given this is from 2004 I'm not surprised.
To be fair (to be fairrrrrr), extracting huge wodges of a
cash from the KSA royal family for "services" and putting it pretty much anywhere else is probably not the worst thing you could do.
The farmer deliberately attempted to concentrate the gene. The only reason he would do this is to try to violate the patent. This was not an innocent action. Your argument here is like blaming a homeowner for catching a burgler.
Which is ironic, since the only reason I have multiple accounts is because Discord’s UX is such crap. I didn’t even intend to create them.
I'd agree with that. I even think the difference between frontend JS development and backend JS development is bigger than, say, backend Java and JS development. But managers, even ones with tech backgrounds, tend to assume the language is the key skill.
A good developer should be able to master a couple of different ecosystems given enough time but expecting them to constantly jump between them is never going to lead to great results.
There are natural gas leaks on a regular basis here in Europe. It only explodes with a fire source. People smell the gas leak and inform the fire station.
Yeah I mean I also get that aspect. We integrate with many systems, we have 18 different integrations with one of our larger customers, and we're just a small piece of the puzzle.

Would likely be super costly just to figure out which, if any, of the systems that would have to change.
A boy/man and his dog is a pretty classic American archetype (Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows). I don't think it's evo-pysch really, but it does indicate you are somewhat active probably, you have your shit together enough to care for a living thing, and you are capable of affection / emotionally available to another living thing.
The "burnt note" doesn't typically come from the brew method, but rather how darkly the beans have been roasted.

Light roasted (aka "Nordic" or "third wave") beans will produce more acidic cups because of their different chemical components. They are also less likely to taste burnt or astringent.
The traditional train pricing system seems to result in underutilization of a valuable service. Train transit system cost is dominated by fixed costs of the rail network and adding extra cars to trains is relatively cheap, so free or heavily subsidized prices that raise utilization just under congestion level are good policy.
What dogs are you talking about here?

Hard to see a border collie as needy and pathetic to me.

Labrador maybe. Pugs definitely.
> ... federal gas taxes have nothing to do with state roads within New York

Yes and no. I mean Interstates run through the state of New York obviously. But the funding picture for state and local roads is complicated and is funded by a mix of property taxes (and possibly other taxes) as well as state and federal grants [1]. Obviously those grants come from somewhere. Property taxes are more direct.

We've decided to give road access away mostly for free (eg obviously there are toll roads and there really shouldn't be) as a political decision because of the collective benefit. I'm simply saying we can and should make that same decision for public transportation, which creates a lot of public good.

> Good luck convincing the highest taxed city in America to add $19 billion in additional taxes.

You realize New Yorkers are already paying $19 billion a year right? So, at worst, it's just changing how that $19 billion is generated. It's not additional tax. That's propaganda.

My point is that rather than charging a server who earns $2/hour plus tips and an investment banker the same $125/month to use the Subway, we should collect that $19 billion is a less regressive way.

That $125/month will make a substantial difference to the low paid workers who are absolutely essential for the city to function but that investment banker paying slightly higher taxes will have absolutely no impact.

[1]: https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/local-government/publicati...
Same reason tobacco companies made menthol and clove cigarettes. It provides a way to differentiate the product in order to bring in more customers.
Electricity consumption in the UK in 2021 was 294.4 TWh:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/322874/electricity-consu...

Annualized, that's an average power of 33.5 GW.

On http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ you can see in the yearly demand view that peak demand for the year was under 40 GW.

This initial estimate of 150 km^2 of desert solar farms is too small and your later estimate of 13,000 km^2 is too large. A conservative rule of thumb would be 10 megawatts (real power, annualized) per km^2 of solar farm, which would mean 3,350 km^2 of solar farms for 33,500 average megawatts. Note that solar farm area is larger than solar panel area because solar farms need space between racks of panels.
Hacker Lab was a non-profit. The barriers remain the same. How to pay for the space, the upkeep, equipment, etc to keep it running. It's not cheap..
Basically the first 50 countries were easy using whatever methods. The next 50 were doable. But then the struggle really began and some teams started getting desperate/creative I guess.

Note that I'm using 50 as a random example number here, not an actual measurement.
It depends on whether the price you're getting for that power is sufficiently different between winter and summer; because if your contract has a fixed price per kWh then optimizing for winter (which gets you a bit more power in winter, but a lot less power in summer - because in summer the "angle multiplier" gets applied to much more sunlight) is a bad decision.
If your journalists are calling something a “major problem” and you’re not seeing a single instance of it, I too got some independent news for you.
I get bad results on unusual prompts, you are right about that.

It did generate good dslr like face closeups, as good as Nvidia does, most of the times but not always. Sometimes there are weird artifacts and face does not make sense.

Dslr style blurry photos are mostly good. From the looks of images I follow, imagen is probably more believable. Don't know how much cherry picking goes on there. See this thread [1] for example. I failed to generate image like this (honey dress) in dalle2.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImagenAI/comments/w3saku/creating_i...
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Brazil are good at soccer simply because they are the biggest country where soccer is the main sport so it will be hard to control for that trying to find other reasons. It will be more interesting to look at small countries with relative success like Uruguay or Holland.
If you're in the industry and used to this, it "doesn't seem crazy" but it feels completely insane to most other professions. I only realized how completely lord of the flies it was after reading this and thinking about it if I was a teacher, doctor, lawyer, firefighter, journalist...

I can absolutely understand how this feels news worthy to those outside of tech.

It should be more controversial and the fact that people are saying "hey this is just how it works" is part of the problem.
So basically no one is modern to you except secular Europe? You write off 70% of the world so easily.
The biggest issue I've seen with new engineers is a mismatch between what behaviours they think the company should reward them for, vs the actual things the company judges performance on. Pay attention to some senior people who are doing well and see what it is that they're doing to be successful. Hint: it's usually not writing the best/most code.
I'm not sure I agree that would be another rehash. A comment that draws from the data in the original blog post to make the case that Gnome is driving away new contributors seems like it would be interesting and on-topic, and could lead to a discussion about ways to attract and retain open source contributors.

As it is, most of the points made in this thread could have been made in any prior thread with "Gnome" in the title. And they will probably be made again in subsequent Gnome threads, like some kind of Sisyphusian performance art.
I'm not aware of any installs or of any official name for this, but I like to call it wet roof.
I feel like this title is a stretch. It makes it seem like the police are a target of some specific political policy when it is possible that they just caught the bad review of some algorithm (which also sucks but for different reasons).
Was that not a piece of free UX feedback?
I also have a similar project partially done but lost steam (eatplants.app). I always think I should just finish it to make it functional.

My thinking is that logging food is annoying (weighing and tracking food you ate). I want to make a more fluid way of just selecting recipes or food and encourage a more scalable/intuitive way of eating.

Looks like a cool project you’ve built there.
Work on things that the firm values[1], for bosses who will reciprocate your work at making them look good, by making you look good.

Your manager has a huge amount of impact on your career. If you're working for an asshole/moron who won't reciprocate in this way, find a different one.

[1] Not the same thing as work that's valuable for the firm.
Title should be “Videos released by the police are no longer monetizable on YouTube.”
How does LaTeX compare to XeTeX, ConTeXt, and LuaTeX in compilation speed?
Indeed. You'd have to be absolutely desperate. Long term, it makes zero sense to hide fundamentals such as affection for cats... or being a gamer. I know several guys who used to hide the fact they played games competitively. Granted that was almost 20 years ago but still.
I never got deep into TeX, but I browsed the code at one time and some of what I found seemed utterly insane to me. For example, it includes an IEEE floating point implementation, based entirely on TeX string expansion [1]. I don't know if it is widely used, but I'm not surprised by slow LaTeX compiles anymore.

You say "TeX is already heavily optimized", but that's only true for the layout engine. The input language is entirely based on macros and string expansion. That's fine if you're only going to use it for a bit of text substitution. But as a programming language it's inherently slow. (To be fair, I believe Knuth expected that large extensions, such as LaTeX, would be implemented in WEB.)

[1] https://github.com/latex3/latex3/blob/main/l3kernel/l3fp-bas...
You can only date a relatively small number of people. If a photo makes you less attractive to an average potential partner, but more attractive to potential partners who will actually be into you, that’s a huge lever for prequalifying.

Which is to say you should basically always play up your quirks, not hide them.
I usually use memes & humor to set the stage and prime my audience.
It does if you click a button letting it.
I live in Morelia, Mexico and I'd love this kinda public transportation, here the things are so different...
I'm as baffled as you. I did find this that may or may not help. It only very barely helped me. https://ia904500.us.archive.org/32/items/STRETCHTEXT/STRETCH...

It sounds like you have to write multiple versions of the text, and then if the user grabs one of the markers and "stretches" it, the next-most detailed version of the text will get loaded.

But I could be very wrong. It is extraordinarily difficult to find something concrete as a demo. I gave up on link after link of the same description with no actual demo anywhere.
if you’re single, good schools don’t matter as much - i’d say most (single) people pick their next destination based on the size of the local dating pool.
The results on the "Weekly Number of Deaths by Age" dashboard are pretty clear - Covid had little impact on the death rates in the under-44 group. This is not surprising, as every country that records this data shows the same result.

I'm not sure of the situation in the US, but here in the UK all of the data dashboards and death stats indicate "deaths with Covid". This is simply how they were recorded, nothing more nothing less - if you tested positive for Covid within 30 days of dying, you were a "death with Covid".
>You haven't gone far back enough in history to make that claim. Civilisation was destroyed by Christianity, and for a 1000 years, nothing happened, no progress except for a few individuals who dared question religion.

This is patently false and a myth. Speak to any historian-- the reason it's called the Dark Ages is because there are so few writings from that time, not because of religion. It's funny out people are okay with spreading misinformation if it's the right kind
Everything here is true. And the article is really low effort.

LE and URA targets do change by organization and current HC goals. People need to go to Focus but in my experience it was the right thing to do. HR will absolutely help you to improve the performance and retain the individual if you think it's fixable.

From my experience, and I'm not saying this is case for all, people in Focus had undeniable performance problems that needed addressing. Stack ranking and quotas suck, and you feel like shit having to abide by them, but I've also seen managers being overprotective about underperforming employees. At some point, you have to do something about them because they'll bring the whole team down.
I don't know how people can use the data. There's so much of it! I don't see any harddrives that are 80TB. It seems like people would need some kind of raid setup that can handle 200+TB of uncompressed data
I agree. I might need to take a train to London from a regional city on Monday. Cheapest ticket is £150. Even with the high fuel prices currently it will cost me £60 to drive instead.
“Factually cold” is a yellow flag, and writing a book called “evolutionary psychology” is a red flag. People will accept any lie if you say it’s “the harsh truth we have to accept”, that’s why this site is so famously unnecessarily cynical.

Bit worrying Amazon reviews too, the “I hate my wife” marriage is a famous boomer pathology not a universal constant.

> You have to wonder why the divorce rate is 50%+, most marriages are miserable, marriages kill libido, many cheat, and so forth. Your dreams might be crushed reading this book so avoid it if you want to stay in Wonderland.

And:

> The most interesting topic I remember is the Coolidge Effect where males tire and withdraw from having sex with the same female partner. The Coolidge Effect has been tested many times on mammals and the same pattern can be observed (very predictable).

I think I was just reading how this isn’t true?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/women-get-...
Illness, sports, obesity are all valid reasons. I feel healthy eating can be trained like a muscle - tracking for a few weeks/months helps understand food choices better.

Too much sodium / low potassium are common in most diets. Low magnesium (sleep issues), low zinc, low fiber etc are a few others - a common remedy being nutrition supplements. Better tracking allowed me to eliminate additional supplements from my diet (except Vit D, which is hard to find in natural sources).

Famnom suggests FDA RDI defaults, but users are free to choose what they would like to track.
Also on those pictures, the guy has is back all hunched and is holding the cat like a doll or a baby. Is it really the cat that give a less attractive vibe or the dorky posture of the guy on the picture?

Would the results be different if cat and man were posed differently?

I suspect that a picture of some guy going hiking with his cat would be seen different from some guy playing dolls with his cat in his apartment.
The headline is misleading. The videos aren’t unwelcome, it’s just that the channel is demonetized. Why should anyone feel they are entitled to earn ad revenue for reuploading public domain police videos to YouTube? It’s not original content, and they’re using someone else’s infrastructure to host.
So they’re… building a wall?
Tigers are a negative strike post tiger king doc.
You see the news and news focuses on the bad. Not all crypto fintech startups are failing. Dig a bit deeper.

For anyone, like myself, that have been in the crypto scene for a very long time, Bitcoin is doing just fine. Markets go up, markets go down. Nothing new here.
Apples to oranges, I am sorry to put it so bluntly. I agree we should strive for better transportation and services overall, but comparing Tokyo with Valencia?
It’s still “C”, even if it’s a specific dialect. Vendor specific C extensions have existed forever.