skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When is mudge going to audit tesla/spacex for "non-compliant kernels", "encryption at rest", etc, etc?

Everyone in this shameful industry knows that literally any company in the US would get shredded in such a vigorous audit and the silliest part is that twitter is a fucking shitposting platform that doesn't have my SSN or financial data so equating it to equifax in any way is absolutely laughable.
Are you sure that isn’t file cache and such? The OS uses as much of it as it can.
Improvements in working andlong-term memory in older adults with neuromodulation
Y Combinator Top Companies – August 2022
No need to speculate, thanks to the links provided by mzs at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562815#32564900

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t..., page 6:

"..more than half of Twitter's 500,000 servers are running out-of-date operating systems so out of date that many do not support basic privacy and security features and lack vendor support. More than quarter of the 10,000 employee computers have software updates disabled! More than half of Twitter employees have access to Twitter's production environment -- unheard of in a company the age and importance of Twitter, where nearly all employees have access to systems or data they should not. At Twitter engineers work on live data when building and testing software because Twitter lacks testing and stage environments; work is conducted instead in production and with live data..

"This did not happen overnight. To get where Twitter is today took.. many years.. required repeated downplaying of problems, selective reporting, and leadership ignorance around basic security expectations and practices."
Look into Paddle. They handle payments, subscriptions, sales tax + invoicing and you can set your business up from virtually anywhere in the world. They act as a merchant of record, meaning they don't just calculate the tax owed they pay it on your behalf too. So even if there is a miscalculation, nobodys business is jeopardised and Paddle take full liability :)
Shoot me an email if you want to chat nick.read@ paddle.com
Calibre for books. Zotero for papers. Both are compatible with common cloud services like Dropbox.
As someone that has always used whatever chat system the company is using to write the person right in front and next to me so to not interrupt their flow, I do not enjoy socializing via chat or even calls. Whether in profesional or personal life. Beyond the occasional meme or interesting content sharing. If I'm not working on something or I'm not in a meeting, I prefer spending time off screen. Having a stroll around the block, grabbing a coffee or lunch with someone, play some cards, etc.

This doesn't mean automatically that I wouldn't run a company completely remote. Just wanted to chime in why socializing might be difficult for some in a remote environment.
I can’t tell you how many electron projects I’ve seen where “nodeIntegration” is explicitly turned on.
More discussion just 5 months ago shared by the author

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30879327
If we keep talking about quality, you lose much more clarity/contrast by some 3rd party sticked matte layer than what manufacturer actually puts into screen itself.
But I guess anything is better than cheap looking glossy screen intended for any serious work.
> A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success.

For anyone else still wondering "why" corpspeak still exists, this is it. America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.

I guess I'm just disappointed at the world I've inherited. Why are people so afraid of direct conversation? Why is hearing bad news "too much" for some people? I remember a quote from a comic strip saying "people would rather hear an outright lie than an uncomfortable truth". Which is true, but I wish American work culture didn't need to hide from the truth.

To me part of being a professional is being able to have direct, pragmatic conversations. You learn to keep your own emotions in check and focus on the discussion at hand. Look at the larger picture of the meeting / your work / whatever is being discussed.

What would it take to change work culture to be more pragmatic?
More like third-party software (Slack, Figma, VSCode, anything web-based) is getting even more bloated as their engineers' machines get upgraded to M1 Pros.
>sourcing candidates since we can pull from anywhere in the world

What about work hours. Do you guys just never meet? How do you handle having to meet someone from Zurich and someone from Tokyo on the same day? If the answer is async communication, doesn't that lead to a long turnaround in certain cases that need high levels of collaboration?
You are right on target however I am not seeing people here understanding that the tight spot is not land but manpower.

It seems to me that people think that if the first farm is more efficient in converting labor, dollars and cheap fuel into food than the second farm, then the first is the most efficient farm across all categories including land use. When one of the pieces changes (for instance fuel costs) then the formula needs to be revisited.

Realizing that personal, scientific and careful management of land yields more food per acre without agri chemical products is an important first step to thinking about the picture even if the low cost of fuel is a current reality.
This hits home for me for a completely different reason. I'm currently hybrid and notice some issues do get fixed faster in the office following that same 90% rule

In the office people don't mind tapping their neighbor on the shoulder 10 times a day to ask how to find/do something. On Slack they feel self conscious about zooming/slacking with someone 10 times in 1 day with questions. It's more about being in your head and feeling like a nuisance online vs. in office, than office being better than remote

This also makes our office days pretty dead in terms of actual progress on projects. Our stronger engineers work much more efficiently at home
where are you living with a 4 hour commute?
I love the scientific discussion here, but much of this seems to miss the idea of “millennial minimalism”. The preference tends towards plain/simple buildings so that nature can have the main stage.

Have no fear Gen Z is a pendulum towards radical 90s colors.
Have you considered that the those different personalities are ultimately asking for a friend group in-office composed of people that largely don’t want to be those forced-friends and by extension commute/sacrifice finances/family time to do it and then just zoom-call and slack in office anyway?

That’s the nonsensical aspect of all this. Everyone mentioning that the office was a key community or some higher ideal to spend time on for meaning forget that you can have that socialization and significantly more intrinsically valuable meaning-making with (a) family, (b) friends outside of work, (c) community involvement. All of which don’t require commutes, work lunches, losing family time for something that doesn’t matter in the long run. Instead, let’s hang out and support the extroverts who somehow don’t know how to make friends outside of those they helped launch a product with? Totally nonsensical.

Edit: I’m at a negative downvote and dropping fast, so fwiw one day everyone gets families of some kind and also stops working, even if that’s not understood now. what connections are left over after work stops are what will power you, and most people understand that eventually.
I agree that customization can be a complicated. Adding more tutorials and documentation is something that the community is definitely interested in.
Well if a Bot could recommend me for a job, I'd feel different.
Agree that WFH is ideal for cases such as yours where you're not working on the actual construction aspect (where more interaction is helpful for solving problems and/or better ideas).
The rise of free software on the Internet indeed pleasantly surprised me as well.

In '94 I was running some then-ancient - but still horrifically expensive - Mac, barely able to connect to a dial-up ISP on my ancient rural phone lines. The entire system was essentially impenetrable to me; I didn't even have any kind of concept of how I might write software for it and had no idea where to learn. The primitive tools I could find, like resedit or applescript, could hardly scratch the surface of what was possible.

Linux existed then, surely, but it wasn't something I could have sussed out myself until later on. The idea that everything running on a computer could have source code that you could read, and then build into a workable system, was completely unfathomable to me until I went off to college.

Now, any would-be programmer can start programming with an immensely powerful IDE after a few minutes, and they can access millions of lines of "in the wild" high quality code in hundreds of programming languages instantly.

As much as some things seem to have failed us along the way, at least in this respect things have indeed worked out better than I could have imagined.
I am hopeful that Qualcomms overtake of Nuvia should help ARM achieve true potential for non apple users. Although they keep on disappointing. They claimed to have M1 performance in 2022, now they have postponed to late 2023. Matching M1 performance in late 2023 won't be that great
It really doesn't. After all, many (most?) other languages like Java and JavaScript are implemented primarily in C and/or C++.

Where it gets deserved opprobrium is that it has no memory safety features, and thus inherently contributes to gobs of security vulnerabilities, and there are safer alternatives now, like Rust.

C is basically "portable assembly", and it's rarely the right tool for the job these days.
Good point. I'm curious if there's a relationship between those who work-to-live/live-to-work and work remote/work in office, respectively.
Just based on basic behavioral science and statistics, every desired action from pt A to pt B (e.g. visit website -> buy a product) is a collection of smaller actions that comprise a funnel.

For example, in the funnel of a customer visiting amazon to finally buying a product, amazon loses millions of dollars when initial page load times are 300ms slower within that funnel.

Any added friction between stages in a funnel will reduce the result at the end of the funnel. You add scheduling complexity, physical driving, distributed workforces, etc, and the number of shared lunches are going to drop super fast. Hell, you put 2 onsite employees in 2 different buildings on campus and their chance at a lunch together will drop.

If you or your company cares about in-person collaboration or socializing, you had better foster that behavior and not count on raw willpower to break out of the mold.
A well-timed set of tweets from compromised government and private-sector accounts, coordinated with real stock market activity planned by the attacker such that investors cannot ignore the rumors, could cause a geopolitically significant market panic. This already happened in 2013, and that was with just a single account being compromised: https://business.time.com/2013/04/24/how-does-one-fake-tweet...
I've been remote for a decade now and -still- feel that way.

Ultimately, I think I've decided I probably prefer a hybrid approach. Like T/Th in office. But that only works if everyone is on board - that is, what's the point of me going in on Tuesday if I'm the only one there?

That said, I live in the middle of nowhere in a non-tech city, so that's just a pipe dream anyways for now...
You’re worried about dogs and not children or adults?
I guess it targets non programmer users and also without math knowledge, so why use lambda and sigma symbols ?
I guess you are not referring to some MS extension but to the editor itself, right?

I had an issue around a year ago with cpptools on Linux, where a single 80k LOC header would cause obscene memory usage (10+ G) and the extension would basically stop working.
This is coming : "Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta" https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
And Ubuntu for ARM is already available.
You can both blame people and society. Modern living makes it easy to be fat, but plenty of us don’t succumb to the temptation of easy meals and overeating.

I’m not sure how you’d even change modern life to get around this, save maybe for incredibly large sin taxes on everything from soda to every restaurant. I’m sure we’ll just end up with a pill sometime soon. Semaglutide comes close.
A lot of people have. There is a reason remote only job postings have such a high number of applicants. In a lot of ways, remote already won. The question for me is really as to whether that means that anyone worth their salt will stay at non-remote places and whether old corps will suffer a brain drain.
How I Overcame Anxiety
Hanania: Why you are pathologically risk averse, and the problem with "mental health"
In my enterprise (fr)Agile job, copious amounts of Corpspeak abound.
I truly feel like "the inmates are running the asylum".

For example: during one of our morning stand up, I remember bringing up a major production issue that I found with our website. Someone "important" uttered the phrase: "Let's take it offline".
After the stand up, no one bothered to follow-up with me about it and I suppose, everyone in our team assumed some technical person would fix it anyway. So naturally I assumed that the "Let's take it offline" phrase meant "I don't want to talk about that now" or "Sounds scary! I hope that goes away" :-]

My question is: were some parts of Corpspeak invented to permit non-technical people to sound more sophisticated and/or intelligent than they actually are?
Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe's video of the same trip, in three parts, starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNkO-r5vuQw .
Gameplay screenshot: https://github.com/chuanqisun/pixel-pusher-online/blob/maste...
That's actually funny because mine has a security policy of NO Chrome (or anything based on it!)
> I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords.

Lol, did the same thing for a government entity I was working for, also without prior permission. It showed 1/4 of the people used the name of the entity as there password, including 2 users with domain admin credentials. Both of the domain admins weren't even IT people, there were the director and his assistant, who demanded to be admins, because they were 'admin' within the org.

In my case, I didn't get scolding, but probably should have. As you're prior boss said, it was not good to do it on a running production server. Now a restored backup running on a private network...
I worked in an office for a lot of years and I almost never, ever remember "commuting in anger".

I basically did a comp-sci degree on the train to and from work, contributed to opensource software, caught up on work, read books , talked to colleagues, napped etc. It was actually pretty productive alone time for me. Forced quiet time for 3 hours a day. I was young and I had a 1.5 train trip each way to work.

I built my career further and could afford to live closer to my office, but it was still a 30 minute cycle each way, that was still beautiful, my more recent office job, it was a 10 minute ride in a beautiful city.

I work remote now, while I think my personal life is for sure better, I'm not sure we're functioning as well as a group.

The spending time with the family bit, sounds good, but I'm honestly still working insane hours remotely. Had to sacrifice a lot of personal time of late to my work. I'm probably working harder and longer hours know than almost anytime I remember. It's 6am meetings, 9pm meetings. That never used to happen for me.
Hmm, i was reading it as the opposite, (that they found it useful specifically because they were able to avoid Mac OS and the Apple ecosystem).

Context: There are some Linux users who want to use the hardware (so they can enjoy the M1/2 whatever) so there are efforts to get it running as a Linux machine (Asahi Linux), which would certainly keep me far more sane - but I still abhor giving money to Apple for the hardware (even 2nd hand which supports resale value and thus retail value)... I also don't trust that they wont simply pull the rug on such efforts in future by doing some kind of over the wire firmware update to brick those machines. Why do business with people who don't like you, it's just going to be a constant fight.
> that those whose personalities differ are self-selecting for working in an office environment?

Remote doesn't specify where you work, though. In my 20 years of working remotely, I've worked from home, from cars, hotels, cafes, offices, out in the middle of a field, you name it I've probably done it. 100% remote working conditions can mean working in an office environment every single day, if that's your preference. Remote is a euphemism for "work wherever you please".

The actual differentiation here is whether or not an employer dictates a working location. Are you, perhaps, suggesting that there is strong overlap between those who prefer working in offices (which does no preclude 100% remote) and having a controlling power dictate how they live?
Many people don't realize that Larry started with CIA and they were his first customer. Maybe his endgame is related to his beginning.

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...
A YC founder I’m in the same WhatsApp group with said "I've seen roughly 10x the volume of high quality senior+ applications after doing this a few times now"
Apple releases patches for major iOS and macOS security vulnerabilities
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... says that in 2020 it was 0.269 deaths per 100k of population -> so around 890 total deaths in that year.

(There are stats about other transportation modes too.)
Color and style trends go hand in hand and in my opinion I think the loss of color is good for a more sustainable future. As style trends change people are more likely to trash old stuff for new stuff, and if the stuff is not strongly tied to any style-trend then it's likely people will not throw it away.
> Although, you'll have to explain which economic elites in the UK decided that Brexit would be to their advantage

The press.

For a time, Johnson himself was both a minister and a "journalist" for the Times. He was paid more for writing one article a week than for being a minister. Eventually he was forced to give this up. But Brexit is to a great extent a media project, backed by sensational but misleading claims, and supported by the media/politics revolving door.

The Sarah Vine/Michael Gove couple had quite an effect too.
I second this. I have well over 7k photos on my phone (& microSD card) which serve as a diary of sorts. E.g. whenever a new restaurant opens I take a photo as a reminder to add it to OpenStreetMap.

My tip is to find out if your phone supports calling camera with a double press of the power button and using volume button as a trigger. You can fast-draw a camera when something happens in under 2 seconds.
What that means is having some random person going over the nudes your kid sent to her boyfriend.

I wonder what kind of person would take a job like that…
Welcome to England where people prefer Bojo to Kier because Kier isn't left wing enough...
Thank you Matthew Green for dropping your usual pompous egotistical Twitter attitude for this one. Twitter thread is professional and concise. The message is clean and in my opinion incredibly important and interesting. Thank you for putting your stature to use and fighting for a good cause. ++respect.
What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?
That is quite the information dump. But I get it.

In building Parsnip, one of the hardest things to do is communicate in a way others can digest, isn't disjointed, and get excited about.

Email me, and I'd be glad to chat with you.
It's not unfair when knowledge on the effects of these practices were public several decades ago and companies still insisted on optimizing for employee per square foot while giving their executives private offices.

All remote work did was showcase people can in fact rebel against the status quo when the inertia associated is entirely self-inflicted.
The last US President used Twitter as his primary way to communicate with the world. That on its own has serious security implications.

I agree with you that we have landed in not a great place.
> It pegged a CPU core to 100% for a good 45 minutes. Temp skyrocketed. But I was on another virtual desktop and I didn't notice a thing.

I reckon this is more of a heterogeneous architecture thing than a MacOS/Apple one. When you run a processor-intensive task, Grand Central Dispatch will assign it a relative priority and then, on new M1 chips, delegate the process to a core cluster. While one heavy program runs, another can operate alongside it on the efficiency cores or even another P-core cluster.

I've noticed this behavior as well on Alder Lake. There are several times I've booted up Bitwig with something like Elden Ring running in the background, and had no idea it was open while I worked on music.
They’re also a Certified B Corp. They are the antithesis of investor owned utilities such as FPL, Duke, etc. The Patagonia of electric utilities if you will. You can survive as a decent business partner with your customers.
> When was the last time you saw a major consumer application (the TikTok or Instagram client, or your web browser, or VSCode) crash hard and fail on you? This was a daily (or worse) event for most of software history!

Huh. I've used software since the mid 1990s, and I can't recall using software that crashed daily, let alone frequently. Which is honestly a bit of a miracle, since a lot of software back then was shipped without the ability to patch it at all.
>Innocent of anything that would merit being executed by a concerned citizen? Since when do we endorse vigilantism at all?

There's absolutely such a thing as self-defense. If a woman kills her potential rapist, she's killed a not-innocent person. We don't use the word "vigilantism" or "execution" for it, but it's a case of a person being killed by a concerned citizen where that person isn't innocent.

And even ignoring self-defense, "not innocent" doesn't mean "okay to kill them", it's more like "did something bad which increases the chance of getting killed". If a bank robber argues with another bank robber over the stolen money and gets shot, we don't call that the killing of an innocent person, even though it's not legal to shoot your partner in order to take his stolen money.
No, marginal sales tax is not in effect anywhere. Assuming electronic payments, I could see it being relatively easy to track everyone’s spending since bank accounts/credit cards/etc would be tied to tax ID #s. Of course, there are all sorts of issues with possible downsides and jurisdictional issues.
I think the point was that it's not really easy to broadly share useful libraries of views or stored procedures. At one point Oracle was working on an integration that would allow you to package stored procedures written in JavaScript as node modules and then just install them to any database. Not sure what came of that.
This site makes my phone slow down to a crawl, to the point that my music app stopped. And it's just the landing page. This is insane. What is the resolution on those auto-playing videos?
I think this is a great model, only downside is that you still have to live close to the office which in my opinion is less of a problem in Europe than it is in the US.
State of Private Markets: Q2 2022 [carta]
I would have said that but for the email I recently got informing me that all students were getting free lunchs in my son's district. I think it's a covid related state program maybe?