skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(reply to sibling comment from unixbane which is [dead] for some reason:)

> tell me the specific way you check your stuff before pasting so I can tell you how it's either broken or you're the 0.001% user and nobody else does that.

I'm no 0.001% user, I'm not a shell expert and I can't catch everything but in the context of this particular post:

- I know how string quoting in programming languages broadly works (no need to know if ' or " escapes or not - just know that if there's any quotes inside the string it deserves a closer look)

- I know that $ in bash (& some other languages) precedes something dynamic (maybe variable substitution, maybe inline code, no need to know about stuff in any detail, just enough to be suspicious)

- I know pipe chars in shells generally separate commands (no need to understand io redirection in any detail here)

- I know that URLs tend to follow boring conventions - if it's not domain/alphanum/alphanum?alphanum=etc then it's suspect and needs further attention (URLs can contain many weird chars but normal ones tend not to).

The above bullets are pretty basic imo - you don't need to be a bash wizard to grok that much. If you know these, you'd never run the one-liner shown in the OP.

Extra:

- if it's a one-liner crossing scroll boundaries, that's too long (excepting very long URLs maybe if they're super-simple)

As a counter-example, here's the type of stuff most people copypaste into shells all the time:

curl http://example.com/simple/path | bash

That's interesting here for two reasons:

1. as an inline threat, it's clearly harmless - the URL has no unusual special chars or $ and the command is very short - it can be read & grokked at a glance.

2. as a general threat, this is very dangerous because (a) it's unencryped/MITM-able and (b) you may or may not trust the hosted script being downloaded and eval-ed on your machine.

My overall point here is: there's plenty of valid & dangerous social engineering threats in your terminal; plainly obvious inline quoting problems ain't it.
I get this a lot with my Powerbeats Pro which have the H1 chip too, so it could be an issue with that chip?
36-year high coral recovery across 2/3 of the Great Barrier Reef [pdf]
[PDF] 36-year high coral recovery across 2/3 of the Great Barrier Reef
The first parts are certainly true, but private firms certainly did not "feel obligated to take" that mantle: they saw a chance to grab it and run.

Meta dissolving that team can mean two things, either that they lost hope to get away with it, or that they are confident that they will get away with anything, without even pretending.
Depends how finely you define the talent.

I may well be the best rubyist that can program while captaining a tall ship. Thats a 1 in 7 billion talent
A stream of consciousness rant on current events – Daniel Pinchbeck
The fantastic four were right after all. Space radiation is no joke.
I feel like this stance ignores regulatory capture as a concept. In any activity at the scale of individual humans it is generally considered inappropriate to adopt an attitude of "I'ma do tf I feel until someone tells me I'm fucking up". Why should activities at the scale of private firms differ?
I realize this doesn't need to be repeated but companies have one mission and one mission only, to make more money. Anything that works against that is a distraction. Turns out spreading hate, manipulating global politics, and exploiting humans psychology is extremely lucrative.

The problem isn't misguided or unregulated corporations the problem is capitalism.
I hope fivethirtyeight are keeping eyes on this
They don't want anyone quantifying just how irresponsible their "innovations" were.
When did Ethics and Facebook ever come in the same line, lol!
I've used https://github.com/vi/websocat in the past and had very good luck with it.
If you published a paper book you couldn't make libraries give it back to you, even if you gave it to them for free. On other projects like Wikipedia, there is no special privilege to remove your own contributions. Even on HN you only have a few minutes to delete comments. Why should this be any different?
Pattern Recognition in a Bucket
I agree with both of you. One can always get a job from somewhere if there are interested and leave if the expectations are not there anymore. And on the other hand, better join somewhere you have more trust that the expectations will be met in the long term.

I'm currently remotely working for a company where the remote part of my hire was a sine qua none condition. Everybody knows this. We are several people for whom coming to the "back" to office (to the extends that coming to the office always was exceptional) is not practical. During onboarding, we are told that the company will help you and find accommodations if you move to another country (though if we can choose a country where there already are people working for the company it would be better). The company has been already, de facto, split in two countries (in which there are offices). The company recently bought a smaller office because people didn't come as often / as many. The company actually could not handle everybody coming to the office at the same time anymore. At this point, a "everybody in the office from now one" would be highly unexpected.

Someone mentioned contracts, indeed my home is one of the two places where I can work from. And actually they don't care, I could work from anywhere as long as I'm reachable and I can work in good conditions as long as they are concerned. Of course, if I hurt myself and I'm not at one of the two places, that would be on me, insurance-wise.
The .Com crash was more similar to the Crypto crash you're seeing today. Today's tech tightening is nothing like those. One of the worst parts of the .Com crash was that even businesses that were generating revenue and hitting milestones were folding because many of their customers were going out of business.
The issue here is the players are making the rules.
If you're privacy focused, do not use matrix… The amount of metadata it leaks is astonishing.
You made it sound like adding CO2 was only a byproduct of an attempt to keep the greenhouse warm, not part of the intention. Yet your source says

" The supply of extra carbon dioxide is an often applied method to increase the yield of greenhouse crops."

So I'm not sure what your point is.
Purring is one of the minor technological/genetic innovations in Margaret Atwood's pre/post apocalypse Maddaddam trilogy, though not involving cats as we think of them.
Zero. They don't use slack
Berkeley, not Harvard. He was a Harvard graduate, but taught at Berkeley, and in fact was the youngest math professor in Cal history.
[I'm an American] I've heard that the reason WhatsApp became so popular in Europe is because European cellphone services used to (still do?) charge for texts per message whereas in the US it quickly became commonplace for all service providers to include "unlimited texting" plans. From my perspective, I never felt the need to download any additional app for messaging - the default messaging app was always the go-to way to text people before smart phones, and then when the iPhone came out that just continued with iMessage as the new default messaging app.
We shouldn't rely on companies being ethical to begin with.

Time and time again we see that if companies promise to self-regulate, it turns out to be a disaster.
Stop using that propaganda outlet.
Well they were doing a pretty awful job anyway.
i believe this happens when a stray hair gets into the driver
I work on a platform that handles fleets of edge devices running a linux-based OS, where applications are distributed as container images. Nvidia in particular are rather awful to support, as any users with their hardware inevitably build 10+ GB images, largely composed of libraries and samples they'll never use. Plenty of other users are unaware that they can improve the speed and reliability of their deployments by trimming the fat from their images.

A lot of work goes into properly handling and optimizing the download and distribution of excessively large application images, often on slow and unreliable networks, when smaller is always faster and more reliable.
So you're surrounded by Nobel laureates and that is a factor in your judgement? Did these laureates gain the prize through productivity and intelligence? Does it prove you're not in a bubble and that your experience is broad enough to validate your suspicion?

From my view point it really depends on if the Nobel laureate won the prize for IQ or productivity; or whether the category has any relation to the two aforementioned categories. If I remember correctly only very specific Nobel categories meet the aforementioned criteria.
It seems the consensus of the Mathematical Community, is that he did very few.

"What did Ramanujan get wrong?" - https://mathoverflow.net/questions/288410/what-did-ramanujan...

"An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks" - https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~berndt/articles/aachen.pd...
Corporations have outsized influence on our government. While the working class is too busy working, these corporations are able to hire full-time lobbyists whose entire full-time job is to advocate for them.

Though we definitely still have miles to go to limit the influence of corporations on gov't (and even public opinion by limiting media centralization and funding independent media), I doubt we'll ever be able to fully limit their influence.
Amazon Web Services Service Status 18:46

Informational message: Increased API Error Rates and Latency
We are investigating increased API error rates and latency in the US-EAST-1 Region. This will impact customers ability to make calls to parameter store.

(from RSS feed, time is EET)
Right. I know a few really incredible engineers. Maybe not this fast but its certainly possible for people like this to exist. It's funny that people think, "No one can be that good!".
I will accept this only if you agree that analog is also only ever a close approximation.

The Nyquist limit is real and exists in the analog domain just as much as it does in the digital domain.
Layman question: Did gravity took any part on life creation on Earth? Do we even know if life or DNA can even form in non or low gravitational environment?
I wonder if that team got created for PR purposes during those privacy debacles a bunch of years ago.

Bonus benefit from disbanding the team now: if more shit happens, can re-create the team as a show of action without actually changing anything.
Thank you very much. I will do a full review of my warnings and the rules. I'm a huge fan of this forum, and would hate to lose access to one of the only outlets left where people seem to be willing to think out loud. I think the level of moderation here (you) generally does a good job of striking the proper balance between free thought and destructive chaos, and I can appreciate the difficulty of handling any borderline cases.
This is woefully unrealistic.
As someone who goes out hiking a ton in places without cell service, this feature has me thinking if I should upgrade from my iPhone 11. One gripe I do have is that it only allows for emergency communications. I wish Apple would just let you pay extra every month and get X number of messages or minutes of satellite service.

I'm also considering the Garmin InReach but one thing that concerns me about that is that it has to be tethered to your device to work. Not that it's a major concern but makes me think if I'm getting a standalone device, I might as well get one that is fully standalone.

If anyone has product recommendations in this area I would really appreciate it.
I run with Powerbeats Pro and they seem to have great durability. The main reason for me is the ear hooks though which are great for running. They use the H1 chip too.
Other banks were also buying US based securities.

But you also seem to be assuming that there was a single causal factor or that people are claiming there is a single causal factor. Neither of these are true. There were many factors at play.

My only claim with Clinton was that he did things that helped lead to the events and people do not attribute that to him because he was not the acting head of state. My claim was not about a singular causality, and that would be a pretty bad faith read.
Thank you for posting this, it's amazing. The woodshop tour really took me back to a different era.
You are wrong to disagree with my second statement.
They're the assembler of web dev, especially css. People move to the equivalent of higher level languages to escape the tedium of dealing with them.
I’ve had a cat hit by a car and a cat lost forever. They were both indoor cats that were completely unprepared for what was outside. They escaped.
Dutch agriculture minister resigns after farmers kick up a stink over pollution
>2. The link between psychedelic use and serious, problematic visual disturbances or psychiatric issues is not well established at all, and modern evidence calls into question[1].

You are misinterpreting this. This is saying there's no link between psychedelic use and increased cases of psychosis. That isn't the same as debilitating HPPD, or any depression/anxiety caused as a result. In fact in that same article he highlights this;

>But he has concerns about Krebs and Johansen’s overall conclusions, he says, because individual cases of adverse effects use can and do occur.

>For example, people may develop hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD), a ‘trip’ that never seems to end, involving incessant distortions in the visual field, shimmering lights and coloured dots. “I’ve seen a number of people with these symptoms following a psychedelic experience, and it can be a very serious condition,” says Grob.
In most situations those are horrible non-solutions.

Ref counted cells can't be used in self-referential structures because you'll introduce cycles. So, you'll go through all this trouble just to make memory leaks in the end.

"Designing your code not to need them" usually means implementing a worse version of a data structure from first principles.

The only real answer is to write "unsafe" Rust here and there. Which is fine. But, to the prevailing Rust community that is absolutely heretical.
I really felt that when Larry the janitor left in 1998 is when the decline started.
> For example, it is legitimate for a government to choose to have a less efficient economy but one in which more people have a job and can afford a home.

What is an efficient economy in the author perspective?
I get same on iOS/Safari with my phone in dark mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

If you look at a chart like this, and think: hmm, this is probably fine, you've completely lost the plot. Something is going to happen from this, and its probably not going to be fun.
The flip side of the argument is that it can also be easily weaponized and used to financially cut off “undesirables”. Throw in some digital identity, some secretive “social scores”, and you can have a situation that gives governments overwhelming power over individuals and their rights.

Let’s not pretend that our governments are above abusing such power.
Paywalled. If substack writings are restricted to substack subscribers, why post a link to it on a public forum? (And why does HN allow it..)
Like others have said, this isn't really about being useful, so much as interesting or revealing. It answers the question "can we be certain that a Python program with type hints can actually be type-checked?" by saying "sorry, no: it's possible that the type checking will never finish".

The paper does that by hooking into some basic results of theoretical computer science: Turing Machines (TMs) can model any program, there is no program that can look at another program and say that it finishes execution (the halting problem is undecidable), and, oops, you can compile TMs into Python type hints, therefore type checking Python is undecidable.
Very good point. What is your recommended Facebook alternative?
Healing Vibrations with Dr. David Rabin
I have the Logitech 502 mouse and mx. I'm totally with you on the software front. The gamer app I think is 500mb and takes 30 seconds to open sometimes.

But I found out you can use it to set settings to the mouse itself, then disable the software. For mx I don't install anything, just use basic windows drivers.

Nobody else has low latency wireless mice like Logitech. So I put up with the software.
Do you mean that the "old" style didn't make it commercially viable, and the "new" one does?

I would disagree. At least before I would visit it intermittently whenever I remembered it existed. Now I have zero interest in ever visiting it again.
I use a 14" M1 MPB. The ARM version of Teams running on it is by far the best Teams experience I've had. I still loathe Teams overall, but we have to use it at work. It's definitely much less bad than it was on my 16GB Ryzen 4800u laptop.
> Is this really "open" if the author has no right to remove their work for reasons other than what's mentioned above?

Yes. In fact, if you could arbitrarily require them to stop hosting it, then it wouldn't be open. As a point of comparison, consider that all FOSS licenses have to be irrevocable.
Is this an American thing or something? Almost all the cats I've ever known were outdoor cats in the UK.
The irresponsible innovation team is still hiring!
The idea is if they fired 2,000 devs (for example), suddenly you have to compete with 2,000 people (who are all likely good devs) all immediately looking for a job.

This may not have been a problem in 2018, but it's definitely a problem in today's current environment with large amounts of bay area companies slowing their hiring.

If you look for a job before all this, you're in a much better position at least.

I wasn't around during the dot com era, but there were stories of devs ending up taking any job (programming or not) to make ends meet.
Great read! thanks for sharing but I have to ask, what is a "no-pro"?
Until your manager changes which happens often at Amazon.
To be honest, i think that even if they offering overlaps with SAP R/3 or S/4HANA, they overlap at the lower end (500-5k employees) and not really at the top end (> 100k employees) where MS sits.

Furthermore, AFAIK Microsoft started using SAP well before they acquired Axapta.
If you wait until the layoffs happen, you'll be competing in a much larger pool.
> It might be better not to speculate online but come on - this isn’t an in person group where you can see there’s a person waiting in the wings to answer questions.

This observation might have any merit at all if you weren't commenting on an HN thread for an article posted on my furry blog wherein I answer questions about the furry fandom all the damn time.

> If my blunt speculation motivated you to give the answer you did then it kinda worked, did it not? Of course that point is moot if you would have taken the time to answer the OP’s question.

This is a silly justification for assuming incorrect things publicly. This is how misinformation and willful ignorance spreads.
They're claiming that by the time the layoffs start, recruiters' inboxes will already be saturated with exMeta CVs.
Even Nature stated microplastics are everywhere, yet we do not know what effects it will have.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3
FurAffinity bans AI-generated content
Zillow home value index is not accurate at all in my experience. And Texas does not require property sale prices to be public, unlike most other states.
Sad to see it turn this way.

Now if we want to tounge-in-cheek tech humour, we are left with. . . techdirt.com?
Meta is on the same path that Nokia and Kodak once followed.

They will survive, but they will bleed and shrink a lot, and their relevance will likely be insignificant ten years from now.

The Metaverse bet is dumb, they simply can't execute and even if they could this whole Metaverse thing is likely to stay in the videogame's realm for a very long time.
Trumpier than Trump: Doug Mastriano’s playbook for PA governor race
In this game the players influence referee appointments.
This is a thread about cuts being made. He's implying there will be more cuts. If you aren't circulating your resume today, you probably won't be tomorrow. Don't wait for the cuts to get to you before you start circulating

Unfortunately these times can be a bit rough to navigate. It can be tempting to cling to one's current position rather than move to a new company & be first on the chopping block
I don’t have a mouse recommendation, but the Kinesis Advantage II is a keyboard that increased my typing speed (concave keywells) and cured my RSI.

okay, I sound like a snake oil salesman. But it has lots of configuration options and no required weird software that needs to be running all the time.
Not tooling. I wrote 8086 assembly before so I remember the process of learning data segment / register / byte allocation / all kind of interrupt. I would choose a word "applied webassembly" (like applied physics) for knowledge that it's lacking. c, c++, zig, rust, go, .net you said fall into "already application" category to me. It's no point of webassembly like no point of assembly when we write those languages.
Yep, I recently found out that drinking very hot tea or coffee can be carcinogenic. This is the only way that I like to drink these beverages.
Getting an air quality monitor was enlightening and terrifying. My child’s room (which unfortunately doesn’t have great ventilation) would sometimes hit 4000 ppb VOCs, which I tracked down to some of her stuffed animals…
I recently reported an obviously fake profile.

3 days later, I got a message that they received my report. It takes me to their /support page which is blank and says "Error State ...".

If I simply reload that page in the browser, I see the content which says:

We didn't take down XYZ's photo
We want to make sure that we can review and remove the most harmful content as soon as possible, so we’re using technology to prioritize what our team reviews.
As there is a high volume of reports right now, we weren’t able to review your report this time. We understand that this might be upsetting so we recommend exploring the options available to control what you see. You can also request a review if you disagree with the decision to not take this down.

I then requested another review and they responded just over 24 hours later and said they took down the photo. I went to look and the photo was still there.

If you can't get the basic process right, might as well fire the entire team.
yup, its time to go to other cities like austin.

If you want the perfect place to live look for a red state but a city thats moderate and large.

You get sweet sweet low tax rates, usually affordable housing, good jobs, political extremists are more rare since liberals aren't too powerful and the conservatives basically lost their previous dominance.

Red states with large moderate cities are the place to live in the usa.

Low taxes, less crazy people, good living.

If your city is dominated by one political side completely its basically time to run away.
I kind of took the opposite away from this work. I think that after digging into Firecracker it was clear that exploitation of Rust code is extremely difficult.
I may be misunderstanding this, but it seems like there is a mistake on the first page:

> For example, every string is an object, `str <: object`, but not every object is a string, `str ≮: object`.

Is not

str <: object ∧ str ≮: object

a contradiction? Wouldn't `object ≮: string` be the correct representation of "not every object is a string"?
The Sun is the UK equivalent of Fox News.
Amazon did the same thing the first year of the pandemic. Hiring petered out, but nobody was quitting due to pandemic concerns. Then in 2021 (when I left) we had massive turnover. They probably had to over hire a bit in 2022 to recover.
It sounds like you have excellent understanding of yourself and have a supportive work place/manager/team which is fantastic.

Everyone has something about them that is different. Part of a good team and manager is supporting each others differences when needed.