skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The same people tend to have trouble grasping that most of the vulnerabilities exploited and encouraged by NSA are also exploitable by the Chinese government. These people start with the assumption that Americans are the best at everything; ergo, we're also the best at espionage. If the Chinese government stole millions of personnel records from the U.S. government, records easily usable as a springboard for further attacks, this can't possibly be because the U.S. government made a policy decision to keep our computer systems "weak enough to still permit an attack of some nature using very sophisticated (and expensive) techniques".

I'm not sure if I understand this part. I was under the impression that the OPM hack was a result of poor authn and authz controls, unrelated to cryptography. Was there a cryptography component sourced somewhere?
Had to hire two inspectors in a short time and they both were cash or check only. Same reason.
That article gets handed back and forth a lot. It's complicated. Real digital transmission systems like SPDIF, real-world clocks, real-world DACs are all imperfect.

For real-world situations, sometimes a higher sample rate can actually provide benefit, even if by nyquist-shannon it shouldn't.
Corporatism is taking what people want (whether it's a shiny phone, or oneness, or meditative creds) and then selling that.

Optimistically you would say they are selling expertise. You can try to figure out meditation on your own - but there's a lot of cranks and nonsense and some stuff that works. Or you can give headspace $20/mo and they will give you a good experience.

Of course no mass produced experience can ever meet the true need. You can't mass market meditation - and we know this! Ask the Buddhists!
> That is, businesses go to them more for stability and predictability than anything else.

You really think this is the reason and not the extraordinary removal of income taxes for companies and shares?
> Depends on what you mean by poverty. I mean, how does one even measure it a 1000 years ago.

It's called anthropology, linguistics, geology, and history. They're legitimate fields with highly qualified and knowledgeable professionals. Through their efforts we have a decent idea of what various cultures and lives were like even a thousand years ago through carbon dating, archaeological digs, artefacts, and so forth.
You don't see how wanting the system changed is any different than claiming the election was completely stolen by illegal means and then taking drastic measures to try and overturn said election? I think you have not thought very deeply about this whole situation.
Given Microsoft’s history of severe vulnerabilities, I welcome this news for any company. Apple and Ubuntu have enough popularity and support options making this policy completely supportable. If not Ubuntu, IBM Red Hat seems to be a great alternative as well. At this point it is clear that Microsoft’s monopoly is over.
Even after today's 7% TSLA loss he's worth over 150 billion in Tesla stock alone; Twitter will be a huge chunk of his wealth but it's not more than a third of it.

Note that the loans were secured with TSLA stock as collateral, but even if those expire he'd be able to secure funding again if he was forced to proceed with the purchase by the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Is this similar to Lumo (https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo)? I would assume Lumo has a faster start time since it boots from a V8 snapshot, but otherwise I'd assume the two projects are similar (except that, of course, lumo is EOL)
A court did decide that Musk can say what he wants because no one would reasonably believe him.
MP3 is not monolithic, and has changed drastically since it was released.

You're going to get a pretty terrible experience with MP3 128kbps, whereas modern variable bit rate schemes can actually be quite decent. Personally I prefer to always go lossless, but for most people on most systems, the difference isn't noticeable. (Moreso the better the system gets, ofc)
I've thought about this quite a bit, and I think a lot of the luck that "hyper productive people" have in getting to a state of hyper productivity, is basically like you say, but finding that thing that works for them if there is one earlier than others.

Now at 30, I'm not that productive, but there are many things I have to deal with regularly that I just haven't found very productive ways of operating with.

Right now, fwiw, writing my day out on pen and paper before I open my computer has lent me slightly increased levels of focus, but I think that for marginally more successful people, some of these gains were realized early on and happened to work for them, or they didn't need them.

I do think this extends somewhat to more general life circumstances like stable family life and not being so susceptible to distractions.

I also think that for some people who have the intellectual capability, juggling 2 majors and 1 minor might be just what they need to deal with the former.
A troubling startup layoff trend has emerged
> start by suing

Spoken like someone who has never filed a lawsuit in the US. If that fraudster has ANY resources, that case you filed is going to be anywhere from $250K to $500K.

Even if you win, you will bleed money. The opposition can hire a shitty lawyer that does the bare minimum and practically ignores everything while you have to file all the proper paperwork in a timely fashion.

Because lawyers protect one another, that shitty lawyer won't suffer one iota, either.

Yeah, I'm speaking from experience here ...

So, referencing the original company, you can spend the revenue of one thousand pumps (in reality, probably more like the profits of ten thousand pumps) in the hope of getting back the value of one pump, or you can suck it up and deal with it as cheaply as you can.
Silca sells the odd bit of branded merch but the vast majority of their business isn't in clothing.

They sell a variety of high-end bicycle accessories including pumps, bottle cages, fancy lubricants (including chains pre-treated with hot wax lubricant). It's quality stuff with a pricetag to match.
In my experience they never try very hard to determine obviousness. I have maybe half a dozen software patents while working at big faang type companies. The patent office never rejects them no matter how abstruse, impossible to understand or obvious they are. That's a non factor in my experience.
Ask HN: How to work 16h per week as a remote software engineer?
Tiny rural town giving a real world demonstration of why there continues to be a brain drain towards urban centers. This is the world they want to live in.
> there is someone at a desk with a terminal

I haven't found a single good description/explanation of how the actual operations are carried out "on the ground".

It's hard enough to find information on how the financial system works in an abstract way. It amazes me that 99.99% of the people who (also indirectly) use it, including the financial 0.1%, don't know what and "where" their shares actually are.

Maybe the exact technical nature of the system doesn't even matter, because ownership and rights are more of a legal idea, but on rare occasions the exact implementation matters.

The best explanations of parts of the financial system I have found so far:

https://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-mon...

https://gendal.me/2014/01/05/a-simple-explanation-of-how-sha...

I'd love to read something like this that shows what kind of hardware and software is actually being used, and which standards are at the interfaces between institutions. What physical, hardware and software requirements are actually needed to start a bank?

These seem to be the backbone of the system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemically_important_finan...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemically_important_payme...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemically_important_finan...
What most of these discussions don't highlight is that old good music is good music. A 40 year old song was good then. It's good now and will continue to be good.

What's killing new music is the lack of variety that's been part of the last 20 or so years. There's a sense of sameness to it all. I suspect that it's related to the fact that there's no way to pick a trend that the majority of music buyers will follow. It used to be that a hit songs would change the path of the music trends. Now that streaming dominates people can just pick a song from millions but they don't have the nudges that music stations of the past would give. Music radio stations created hits and therefore they define the music trend for the period. Without a trend, music becomes a mush over time. If you want variety you look towards the past.

Also, availability, we can now stream just about any song. That's new to the last 20 or so years. Before it was easier to get a new song versus and old song. Now it does not matter. It takes just as much effort to play a new song as an old song. There is no extra effort needed.
California DMV says Tesla's marketing deceptive for Autopilot, Full Self-Driving
Wow, and playing it lefty.
Linux kernel has a bunch of gotos, primarily used to just jump to exit / deallocate on kmalloc failure, without having to unnecessarily complicate the control flow to handle that.
> trans people make body modifications that don't prioritize my values (fertility)

Doesn't seem like a very strong argument that it doesn't fit into the cyberpunk ethos. Modifying your body for reasons you care about seems very cyberpunk, and exactly the sort of thing that other people would have moral qualms over, especially if they don't share your values. Certainly the technology could be improved for people who do care about fertility, but, well, newer, improved versions of body modification technology is also very cyberpunk.
And keep in mind: Twitter wasn’t out there soliciting a sale. Elon came along and pretty much demanded he own it. Twitter tried to stop but he persisted. Should be a pretty clear cut case imo
That is not something unique to India, nor is it a general practice here. You observed some isolated cases.
They don't cite[0] quite possibly because they independently discovered it as did others like L.P. Deutsch (who sometimes is prepended as Deutsch, Schorr, Waite). It stands out for me as something I ended up working out as an improvement for an implementation of LispKit Lisp[1] sometime around 1982. Imagine my surprise when I came across a reference to DSW describing my 'little pointer trick' :-)

[0] https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/SchorrWaiteGraphMarking.ht...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lispkit_Lisp
Those are two completely different situations.

I'm not a fan of analog, but a high-end analog system will sound far different than a similarly priced digital one. It's a very different type of sound.

Whether someone likes it or not is personal preference. But it does sound night-and-day different to listen to a vinyl from a turntable and using a DAC.

As for MP3 vs lossless, that's mostly true assuming a modern variable bit rate MP3 on OK hardware. The better the audio, the better the equipment, the more noticeable it gets. But yes, for 95%, it's basically not significant.
I've been working in the SW industry for around two decades now, and I see a distinct difference since the last 5 years, which is that everyone is optimizing all their actions towards their next promotion.

Prior to this time frame and more so in the last decade, there was a lot of focus on mastery of SW skills and even towards random exploration and learning, and all of that appears to have been lost. I personally felt all this has accelerated with the increase in big tech compensation, and levels.fyi and blind information.

The challenge with a greedy approach is that a career spans over multiple decades, and a lot of careers plateau over local minima and often one may have to down level or restart careers to find their true calling and excellence and the career growth that follows. This is better done at the beginning of the career when risks are lower than at a late career stage.
When I lived in a 50+ story high-rise, I always liked to imagine subtle MIDI versions of Creed's "Higher" playing on the way up and Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" playing on the way down. Especially on the way to and from the laundry room ~40 floors away from my apartment.
You could not have less of an idea of what you're talking about here.
I guess if I saw what FAANG companies were using to secure their own data that could be an indicator. Though they could be compromised.
C is much closer to the machine and very fast.
When I learnt C I went to the book store. There were two C books (K&R and Byte Books C) and one Lisp book. I learnt both. Lisp was fun but, at the time, I never appreciated the introspection. It was only when, a long long time later, I learnt Python and remembered the ability to iterate the elements of a class and thought how handy that was for some programs.

C could more easily access the lower level resources as well.

I still wonder why one of these, like forth, lisp later Python did not become the standard command line interpreters whereas it would never have been C, and I have written very featured C interpreters.
In any possible future, y% of the x number of individuals that exist are not talented or interesting enough to produce any artistic works or scientific research.
This isn't the sort of shit you can start here, take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The FOIA issue is 100% legitimate. NIST is required to comply with FOIA.
It’s always weird when public figures (who are not engineers) try to develop sophisticated physical products. Of course it’s going to be terrible. It’s like if Google would, I don’t know, make an action movie. Or if, say, the Dalai Lama would launch his own brand of cars. It’s not what they do.
Please provide citations of this? Everything on earth provides better service to the rich, including crypto.

Us banks had so many disasters that at least we have working protections for deposits. Whereas crypto has no rules and is in the middle of cascading failures caused by over leveraging and paying impossible 19% interest rates to their depositors who may likely lose everything.
Is life natural?
Nobody said you were. You’d know this, if you read the full comment :-)
Definitely insane scale, but I wonder how much of that is horizontal scaling.
It’s also morally wrong, like why should i care if someone has access to the Bible?

And even if you don’t care about morality, but just being the majority opinion - the majority tends to swing back and forth and there are a lot of people who constantly switch sides. When you make inflammatory actions like banning the bible, or proposing to ban viagra (as some democrat did more as a symbolic gesture for banning abortion), you’re actually pushing away undecided voters and giving fuel to the “radical leftists” theory a lot of right-wingers seem to think is the entire left.
I like using HAVING just to have conditions that reference expressions from the SELECT columns.

e.g. rather than having to do

SELECT
COALESCE(extract_district(rm.district), extract_district(p.project_name), NULLIF(rm.district, '')) AS district,
...
FROM ...
WHERE COALESCE(extract_district(rm.district), extract_district(p.project_name), NULLIF(rm.district, '')) IS NOT NULL

just do

SELECT
COALESCE(extract_district(rm.district), extract_district(p.project_name), NULLIF(rm.district, '')) AS district,
...
FROM ...
HAVING district IS NOT NULL

Hopefully the optimizer understands that these are equivalent, I haven't checked.
Reminds me of this classic review of Will.i.am's smart watch.

The review was...unflattering

https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/5/7162861/will-i-am-puls-sm....
My favorite thing about these is that the content network's brand name is Captivate. As in a literally captive audience.
Mountain View (Bay Area, but the lame part)
> I feel like they are the only source I can trust on figuring out the best truth we know about history.

I hope this isn't a widespread belief. If it is, then this concerns me.
The only thing 2FA has been good for in my experience has been giving me a lot more junk calls. It should be outlawed in social media, and they should be required to build proper user support instead. Accounts are still being compromised regularly even with 2FA, it's tedious to use, and it only adds to PII overreach, as phones are becoming more involved in everyone's privacy and payment management.

This is a perfect example of casual protection and "failure downplaying" that social platforms conduct on serious volumes of personal data, and how it has become too common place as they warehouse private data that they really don't need.

A customer required me to use Skype for a meeting just the other day, It let me authenticate and verify an email account, but before I could even use it, it locked up and asked me for my phone number. This over reach is out of control.
This seems to be the progression with everything.
Show HN: Assert plan for build in node test runner
-- Not sure what alleged role she is alleging - even after reading this 10,300 word essay - my understanding was that it's supposed to be a fun toy for the musically inclined (similar to teenage engineering products) - maybe i'm wrong - but it does fulfill that role perfectly - I sat on a 6 hour flight and did nothing but make tunes with my OP-Z and Stem Player - similar to TE products - the Stem Player is one of the most fun toys I've purchased as an adult - "I genuinely believe the Stem Player will be out of everyone's mind in a few months and will be remembered as that weird gadget ye shoved the fans' throat to access the album." - I don't even like Kanye West music - I've been playing with this thing weekly for months - again - it's a really fun toy --
> some neutral 3rd party

Unfortunately, this would appear to be the bit we've not yet solved, nor are we likely to.
Aside from the manpage, you can also check ones you're unsure of on crontab.guru - https://crontab.guru/#0_0_1-7_*_5
Wow, you went right ahead and did the thing.
> ...but I can easily imagine NIST committees not understanding something, being tricked, not looking closely, protecting big orgs by default (without maliciousness), and overall being sloppy.

I agree with this. And I think that this is more likely to be the case. But I really think with all that we now know about US governmental organisations the possibility of backdoors or coercion should not be ruled out.
I remember seeing this policy in place before GitHub was acquired.
I remember downloading the stems from their API and the serial number checks were just length check of the parameter. Surprised that Donda 2 is still not available on any streaming platform.
Thanks! I didn't realize there were already biocompatible implantable magnets on the market.
This is a really good point. They don't see those inflammatory actions as satirizing them, they see them as serious policy beliefs. "See? They want to outlaw us!" You can't respond with satire because it will be taken literally.
Neither was Musk, which is sort of the whole point of Tesla.
Here is [0] a copy of the Muller report. It is vague, as is usual for political hit jobs. There is hard evidence that someone leaked truthful statements out of the DNC, which is a major political scandal (honest accounting of what the {R|D}NC if thinking? Available to the public?! heaven forfend, that is not how journalism is done).

Which bits of evidence in it do you think are compelling, actionable and importat? Bearing in mind that the evidence is so uncompelling that right-wing advocates bring up the Muller report more than left-wing ones and you're probably going to get some resistance whatever you pick out.

The introduction and summary are mostly fluff and allusion, so I'm not bothering reading the whole thing unless you want to point to something specific.

[0] https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/18/mueller-report-sea...
A lot of animals and birds have a quick dip and groom. There's a water lily pond outside our family home, where in the evening, magpie robins drink and have a dip - sometimes, multiple times.
If, rather than hoarding offensive tools & spying, the NSA had interpreted its mission as being to harden the security of government infrastructure (surely even more firmly within the remit of national security) and spent its considerable budget in that direction, would authn and authz controls have been used at the OPM?
I think the reality could have been more nuanced that this.

Persians were the prominent tribe in Achaemenid empire which was destroyed by Alexander. But remainder of Persians among other tribes that formed the empire later on freed themselves from Macedonian rule and eventually and gradually pushed them out.
Even though the Macedonians occupied the land, they adopted the form of government and were influenced by the culture and Persian way of life. They themselves also had an influence on those empires, naturally.

Unfortunately the website is lacking in painting a comprehensive picture of Persian or those other tribes that formed the Persian empire or perhaps I couldn’t find it.
A Simple but Nifty Inequality
Even better luck building an Amazon scale business after spending 100k on dynamodb.
Hey, it understood Cinco de Mayo: 0 0 5 5 *
> It can often do entire drives with no human input. And not just simple drives, but some pretty complex scenarios too.

This is just patently false. I have been in the beta for months, and I have yet to have "an entire drive" without having to disengage. FSD behaves like a fifteen-year-old who has just gotten their learner's permit and has zero long-term memory.

Any intersection that has a dedicated right-turn lane, when that lane comes out of a widening right lane (as most of them do), FSD will fail on, and will at the very last moment swerve to make the lane change, endangering human drivers coming up from behind, who are correctly getting into the space on the right. Every single time. I cannot count the number of times that a left turn onto a road with a slightly raised middle divider (planters, whatever) will fail. Every single time. At a four-way stop sign FSD does not know when it has the right-of-way and will always defer to every other car. This often leaves you sitting waiting for the intersection to completely clear before FSD will decide to proceed. It took me exactly 48 hours with FSD to realize that Tesla isn't close.

"Green light chime", come on.
In a township of 3,000 - 62% voted against funding the library the vote was held in. I think there was no Democrat running in the entire county (https://www.hollandsentinel.com/elections/results/local/2022...).
Anxiety and depression have a close relationship and both represent a chemical imbalance in the brain. When you have an issue like this to the point of disorder, it's unlikely to be the only problem. Psychiatric labels like PTSD, GAD, OCD, BPD, serve to categorize the behavioural manifestation of the imbalance.

I don't claim to have a cure for depression. However, meditation has been a significant help in balancing my emotions and achieving calm. I am convinced poor diet and sleep hygiene are major contributors to mood disorders. Work on those in tandem with practicing meditation. If that doesn't work for you after a few weeks, the medication will still be available.
Even if all your assertions were true, it is irrelevant to the fact that we here in America, who claim to value our freedom, are prevented by our government from buying what we want with our own money. If the government wants to ban the use of these devices by government personal or at government owned facilities that's perfectly reasonable. Telling private citizens that they aren't allowed to take their own informed risks is authoritarian (which is ironic because that is the source of most of the legitimate criticism of China).
Apple’ Spellcheck Is Bad and Getting Worse
If a public library is acting contrary to the interests of the voters that support it, then it should be defunded.
Is that the link you meant to paste? I don't see the relevance?