skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great solutions are suggested but in order to make it clear, let me be more specific. Iran has restricted the internet in a way that even with a VPN it is very hard to connect to the outside world. This is after killing #mahsaamini last week in custody. The problem mostly has to do with sending media and image files to the outside world. Is there a safe way for encrypted peer-to-peer communication with cells to send data through voice etc. Also taking note that iranian government has created an interanet(arvancloud.com) that helps it operate websites like banking transactions.
The constant repeating of "The US are making money off Europe's back" implying any sanction against Russia is economically irrational for the EU.

Like any effective propaganda talking point, it seems to make intuitive sense... but is completely empty and only serves to divide the European public opinion when you look at facts.
I don't think it was the US but the CIA managed to blew up a Russian (USSR) pipeline using just software in 1982. Maybe this was hackers? Maybe state actors (could be anyone from the US to North Korea). Maybe Ecoterrorists. Maybe Ransom gangs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss
If you subscribe to the point of view that Russia's war on Ukraine isn't actually about Ukraine, but about causing lasting pain in Europe, then this action is perfectly rational for Russia.

It drives the market prices up (anything that spooks market participants will), and creates an ongoing situation that adds pressure on governments to act.
i'd be down to meet up with some folks. im there until thursday.
It will make you scam one order of magnitude harder to setup, complex to manage and easier to detect incongruences if the company asks the right questions.
> No. Because there (currently) is no such thing as an "eco-terrorist organisation" that is not just an eco-activist organisation (funded by donations and governmental subsidies) being disparaged by an opponent.

A quick skim of the wikipedia article on eco-terrorism shows this is false.

"Arson is a tactic most associated with recent activity in the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The ELF has been attributed with arsons of sites such as housing developments, SUV dealerships, and chain stores."

Looking at the the wikipedia page for ELF, it doesn't look like they're the type of organization that's a registered charity and runs donation drives

Further down the article also mentions

"Organizations accused of eco-terrorism are generally grassroots organizations, do not have a hierarchal structure, and typically favor direct action approaches to their goals"

which seems consistent with the characterization that they're not the types of organizations that are registered charities and rely on their national reputation to get funding.
The problem is that frames live in a separate DOM, so content inside them doesn't flow/resize with the page.
That’s not a KDE thing, it’s a Qt and GTK thing. Those toolkits support themes and all you’re doing in KDE is specifying a two different themes (albeit named the same) that is visually similar. However if you look closer at the widgets you’ll notice how theming on Qt and GTK differ, so even the “same” theme across those two toolkits will look and behave subtly different.
The Netscape of the 90s wasn't interested in making features ‘safe’. They were about throwing out features as quickly as possible to see what would stick.

The simplest possible syntax is to make named elements available globally, and if that clashes with future additions to the DOM API then well that's a problem for some future idiots to worry about.

as a strategy it worked pretty well, unfortunately
>And there's the subtle misogyny...

Because they have genders, right?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, not a statement of identity politics.
Gas prices had fallen back to the lowest levels in 3 months, but because of the sabotage, prices have gone up again because this has created uncertainty in the energy market.

The kremlin wants to deliberately destabilize Europe and make it as difficult as possible with a big energy crisis, so support and aid to Ukraine falls. And its going bad for putin and his war now so he is also desperate, just look at the crazy mobilization of 300.000 russian to the war.

The russians already know that these pipelines are dead and the export trough them will end and sabotaging them is very much in the russians interest because of the consequences and as we can see now increased energy costs in EU which benefits the russian agenda.

Some say its US because Biden talk. But both pipes was already closed. Nordstream 2 was never used and nordstream 1 was shut down by the russians. The US hade no reason because no gas was flowing.

IMHO its no doubt its the russians, they are the only one that gain from this, in their energy war against EU. They also have submarines in the baltic sea. And its shallow waters between Denmark and Sweden (just 11-18m) that big subs from other countries can not easy pass without getting noticed and a lot of traffic that make it risky.
Negative numbers also made no sense for centuries and now we teach them to kids as meaning owning some amount of things.

The same could be said non-euclidean space (what is the use in that, right? or complex numbers) but both turned up to be useful in some contexts.

Same could be the case with fuzzy logic.

Cantor and the different infinite sizes is nonsense to some people but for some reason it is still there in the history of Mathematics. Maybe someone can explain better than me if it is useful, but there is a certain intuition to it that is interesting.
Worth mentioning Taichi, a high-performance parallel programming language embedded in Python. I've experimented with it a bit, and high-performance is very true. One can pretty much just write ordinary Python, plus enhancing existing Python is not that difficult either.

From their docs:

You can write computationally intensive tasks in Python while obeying a few extra rules imposed by Taichi to take advantage of the latter's high performance. Use decorators @ti.func and @ti.kernel as signals for Taichi to take over the implementation of the tasks, and Taichi's just-in-time (JIT) compiler would compile the decorated functions to machine code. All subsequent calls to them are executed on multi-CPU cores or GPUs. In a typical compute-intensive scenario (such as a numerical simulation), Taichi can lead to a 50x~100x speed up over native Python code.

Taichi's built-in ahead-of-time (AOT) system also allows you to export your code as binary/shader files, which can then be invoked in C/C++ and run without the Python environment.

https://www.taichi-lang.org/
>I heard the leader of Nigeria supports Putin but I don't know if it's confirmed.

I'm Nigerian...This isn't true (even though our current leader is an oaf). Most African countries aren't supporting Russia...they're just not actively opposing them, and for the right reasons. We're too poor to attempt any sanctions, and we'll rather maintain as much trade as we can with any country.

It'll be dumb for countries whose economies are in shambles to enact sanctions against Russia like the rich western countries that can afford to weather economic pain in the short term.
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Ben Lynn's "Award winning compiler" is one of my favorites, and he keeps adding to that page.
Not only that: Make it clear in the job listing that an in-person interview will be part of the hiring process even for remote positions. This will avoid wasting time later in the process as most fraudsters won't bother applying.
> Currently, you can attach Nreal's Air to a Windows PC or iPhone, but only for screen mirroring, mimicking a 130-inch screen that's 13.1 feet away (compared to a 201-inch screen that's 19.7 feet away in AR Space mode).

I don't know the optics/geometry at work here, but I'd prefer a smaller virtual screen, that appears closer. Bonus if it can be done without the glasses being so far in front of your nose/face. When you look close at pictures of people wearing them, they look very odd/nerdy/silly.
My therapist is also married to a therapist, and although this isn't quite relevant, it was really cute hearing that they "therapy each other to death" when they have marital problems.

For what it's worth, my therapist felt pretty genuine. One thing that helped is to actually ask about his day, and how he's been. I think he was surprised I cared.

Another thing that helps is that BetterHelp makes it effortless to try out someone new. Maybe we've been lucky, but me and two other people haven't needed this feature; we all stuck with the first one we matched with. But it's there if you need it.
Has it though? Look at all the major events in the 80s 90s and 00s. The world is pretty normal. People might be more aware of things, but I am betting that feeling is due to 24/7 media and social media shoving high definition images and videos down everyone's throats trying to sell ads with click bait headlines.
Hey, this is very cool. However, the service seems to be wilting under load -- I signed in with google, chose chinese, and am doing the first module. A simple 你好, 我叫<name> hasn't garnered a repsonse in ~15 minutes. The trial seems to work OK though.
I was once pulled in to observe (in the “are you seeing this shit?” sense) an interview where someone off screen was answering questions and the person on camera was moving his lips. I’m not sure if they wanted me to share in the joke, or verify that there was no form of latency that would make lips and audio fail so badly to line up. I’m pretty good at pattern matching. There was no pattern. It was two guys pulling a fast one. Or at least trying to.

This was an outsourcing group. In the grand scheme of things, “white people are stupid” is not entirely wrong, but there’s a line you know. And there are lines beyond that line. And then there are these assholes off in the distance.
Yeah car dealer arson, allrighty. Did you notice that two deep sea major pipelines have been blown up recently? Do you think that compares?

A car dealer can be set on fire by a single individual, and even one in a situation of extreme poverty.

> A quick skim of the wikipedia article on eco-terrorism shows this is false.

False yourself. Have you skipped the word CURRENTLY?

Moreover, about

> grassroots organisations

Do you intend to mean that such grassroots orgs would not need PR nor donations?

Then no because grassroots organisations that would not raise donations do not have enough funds to blow a deepsea pipeline.

> The ELF has been attributed with arsons of sites such as housing developments, SUV dealerships, and chain stores.

Yeah right, you see the difference between chain store arson and blowing a deep-sea pipeline now that I'm pointing it to you?
> It's no nonsense in the terms that it is explained: although a problem may be mathematically undecidable, it may still be a solved problem in practical terms - i.e. as finding good enough solutions for real world instances.

This is well known, that's the whole reason for formal methods in CS or of languages like Coq, Idris and so on. There is nothing revolutionary about it.

The author should probably spend more time explaining why they think we will see a golden age of formal methods when the industry has consistently been pointing in a different direction for decades, instead of making vague associations or insinuating that we "misunderstand" Turing.

> As for point 3, I'd say you're making the same mistake; a model may be mathematically powerful yet practically unwieldy, and computing models from the 50's suffer this problem.

Compilers, interpreters etc. can easily translate between equivalent computational models (e.g. Lambda calculus and Turing machines), but the formal results, including undecidability, apply to all of them. So it doesn't matter that a Turing machine is hard to program; nobody wants to actually use it as a programming language. It's a computational model.

> Similarly, the Von-Neumann architecture was a great solution for computing physics problems with the electronics available in the 50's, but basing every modern programming language on that paradigm is a mistake.

I would say that, if you make such a claim, you should state why it is a mistake and what should be done instead.
Balls in a cage are actually common CNC machined art pieces.
But you'll see good or bad signals on the quality of the references and their stories, no?
There’s also this, which is a slightly different kind of fraud made possible by remote work: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed
Also on point 4: The next version of Miniflare -- our local testing environment -- is based on workerd and will include implementations of those HTTP APIs behind KV and R2 for testing purposes, which the Wrangler CLI tool will hook up automatically. (In fact maybe it already does, that team has been working so fast lately that I haven't been able to keep up...)
It’s a pretty overt act to blow both up. Someone was making a statement
Playing it totally straight.
I knew this story sounded familiar.
Sorry about that, it's early for me. I meant provenance. Thanks for the correction.
Absolutely. I would absolutely love to work in the AR space at some point.

That said, I can just as easily identify any number of social/cognitive/cultural "diseases" or abuses of that world. Should the transition happen (and all signs point at the big players /trying/ to make it happen), we will have some gnarly traps to avoid - and I'm not very confident that we will do so with grace.
I got that. But the reason it looks different is because it’s literally different APIs drawing the widgets. You cannot “fix” those programs to use the same APIs without access to the source code. And clearly 3rd party desktop shells are not going to have access to the source of Microsoft Windows.
It was Joseph Fourier, the Fourier in Fourier transform, who showed the then 11-years-old Jean-François Champollion a copy of the Rosetta stone.
This kind of introspection and reflection is admirable. It’s hard work to get to the point where one can explain it publicly and mindfully, including the spiritual parts that perhaps most people will not resonate with.

Great work and thank you for sharing. You’ve provided us an example of thoughtful leadership right here.
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> entrepreneurs are 50 percent more likely to report having a mental health condition

One thing to consider is cause and effect. Mental health conditions often stem from deep-rooted needs and desires. The need for people to be founders, to get rich, to have power, etc... may stem from mental health needs that have been present in their lives for a long time. The entrepreneurial spirit can be a defense mechanism to ensure control of your life.

I'm not saying all founders are mentally ill - that would be an absurd stance. But I am saying that it is unlikely that being an entrepreneur causes mental health concerns on its own - it is more likely that pre-existing concerns may have led some folks to have the drive to go that direction in the first place.
Adding wireless CarPlay would be a great start.
Oh wow. That does sound fun. Thanks for the correction.
Not just that, but it would be impossible to achieve. One study should never be taken as truth - but rather a single data point among many. It's only when we have many data points that give us a trend line that we can begin to say we know something.
I've flown out-of-state twice for interviews for jobs that were local to me. It was just where they were better set up to interview.
And Television. And radio. And books. And the ability to read in general.

These same historical ills attributed to all of these activities are being recycled against today's social media, even here on HN.
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> Watch out for people with frequent excuses for missing meetings, having to turn their camera off, excuses like "my camera isn't working today", and so on. Send everyone known-good webcams and company laptops.

Yes, "camera isn't working" should be the easiest problem for the company to solve! "OK, we're overnighting a laptop with a working webcam to your address in our HR system. Please use that known working camera tomorrow."
I don't think you can say Tesla is "no more bullshit". If anything they are the one adding shiny useless feature for the buzz, and having a terrible all touch UI that makes no sense for driving.

The only car manufacturer that is "no more bullshit" would be Dacia and that's not the same segment. But they are indeed doing really well!
Amazing what you can do with billions of scam money.
oh yeah Vitess looks slick
One thing to keep in mind when looking at older MySQL scale-out presentations and war-stories: they're mostly MySQL 5.0-5.6, and a chunk of them are bare metal rather than cloud. The problems you'll encounter today -- scaling out in a modern cloud environment on MySQL 8 -- may not line up too well with what folks hit in the past. Ditto for best practices on architecture and ideal max db instance size.

I gave a bunch of MySQL conference talks from 2011 through 2017, including several focused on scaling and sharding at social networks. Looking back through them today, a lot of content from the scaling/sharding ones honestly isn't too useful if you're trying to scale up a new MySQL deployment right now.
You usually don't even need AVX512 to sustain enough load/stores at the core to max out memory bandwidth "in theory": even with 256 bit loads and assuming 2/1 loads/stores per cycle (ICL/Zen 3 and newer can do more), that's 256 GB/s of read bandwidth or 128 GB/s write bandwidth (or both, at once!) at 4 GHz.

Indeed, you can reach these numbers if you always hit in L1 and come close if you always hit in L2. The load number especially is higher than almost any single socket bandwidth until perhaps very recently*: an 8-channel chip with the fastest DDR4-3200 would get 25.6 x 8 = 204.8 GB/s max theoretical bandwidth. Most chips have fewer channels and lower max theoretical bandwidth.

However, and as a sibling comment alludes to, you generally cannot in practice sustain enough outstanding misses from a single core to actually achieve this number. E.g., with 16 outstanding misses and 100 ns latency per cache line you can only demand fetch at ~10 GB/s from on core. Actually numbers are higher due to prefetching, which both decreases the latency (since the prefetch is initiated from a component closer to the memory controller) and makes more outstanding misses available (since there are more miss buffers from L2 than there are from the core) but this to only roughly double the bandwidth: it's hard to get more than 20-30 GB/s from a single core on Intel.

This isn't a fundamental limitation which applies to every CPU however: Apple chips can extract the entire bandwidth from a single core, despite having much smaller 128-bit (perhaps 256-bit if you consider load pair) load and store instructions.

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* Not really sure about this one: are there 16-channel DDR5 setups out there yet (16 DDR5 channels corresponds to 8 independent DIMMS so is similar to an 8-channel DDR4 setup as DDR5 has 2x channels per DIMM)?
Well, there's that, but the audience is people who will write their own fan control script...
Was the pipeline insured? Who will benefit from an incident? :)
If I was in charge with coming up with the punishment scheme, I would base it on level instead of age.

For NM and above, one time caught should get you banned for life

Protecting the game is far far far more important than protecting the individuals

For NM and below, I guess one warning would be ok. But nothing more than that.
Many years ago I worked at a startup where the CEO was a former CS professor. While at the university, he worked with a somewhat legendary guy who ran the CS school's IT infra. Somehow wires got crossed in recruiting while sourcing the candidate, and another guy with _the exact same name_ who _also worked at the university in IT_ but for a different school got hired after what must've been a perfunctory interview.

The startup had a lot of other problems, that one was the most awkward. It folded not very long afterwards.
If I'm understanding you, I think this could have been stated more succinctly as, "for those who tend towards feelings of guilt, aspiring to martyrdom is self-indulgent. They would be better served aspiring to behave honorably".

I think that's largely true, and not very controversial. Aspiring to martyrdom is largely self-indulgent and misguided. Plato had it right in the Republic, the leader is most likely found amongst those reluctant to lead and to the articles point is probably burdened with some level of guilt and feelings of responsibility to others.
https://xkcd.com/1215/
Sue them for fraud? If employers are being bamboozled by this why aren't they suing? If there are no consequences it'll keep happening.
I'm surprised that they didn't use grafana for those graphs.
And neither store has enough employees to get you any of the locked up stuff unless you wanna sit around and wait for 20 minutes for the one guy with the padlock code.
What do they look like?
> I then learned this was a interviewee discovered through Upwork

People trying to get cheap labor and instead get defrauded.

I feel bad for Connor though.
Great! We'll see you then.
Instead of adding a non-standard API to opt-out of existing networking functionality, it would be great to see a lower-level networking primitive to unlock these kinds of use cases. I wrote more (with a proof-of-concept) here: https://readable.writable.stream
You can set the top bar to black in your profile, that'll make it (and some other things lol) invisible.
I don't do a lot of interviewing at my company, but I encountered my first fraud candidate two weeks ago. He said he was having connectivity issues and asked about not joining video. I offered to work with HR to reschedule but he said he didn't want to inconvenience anyone. If it was purely my decision, I would say no video = no interview, but I guess fraudsters thrive when administrative coordination breaks down.

He gave a technically sound answer to every question, but I was extremely skeptical. For one thing, he wholeheartedly agreed to the design outlined in my "honeypot" question where the solution would be something prone to triggering immense technical debt. He also dismissed the "soft" question about a time he encountered a challenge.

His most recent work experience was at a competitor where a former colleague works (we're in a niche space). That friend told me he encountered the same thing, including a candidate who recently claimed to work at my company and was moving (I never heard of the name nor could find mention in Slack/AD).
> I think you would have a hard time getting a valid candidate from Louisville, MO, to take a ~5 hours flight to LA, for a job that was supposed to be remote.

I've done it many times, pre-COVID. I live in a small town (<25k) in the South and have been working remotely for ~10 years. In that time I've gone through four rounds of interviews. The first three were pre-COVID, and they all included at least a "half day" of on-site interviews, most of which were in LA or SF. The most recent round was about eighteen months ago and didn't include any travel.

> Maybe the reason the candidate is looking for a remote job, is they don't have to travel?

This is not my experience. In my personal network of remote workers we're pretty uniformly working remotely because we don't want to move to where the companies are, not because we are entirely opposed to traveling. Each person has their own expectations of course, but I see traveling for less than a week per quarter as entirely acceptable.