skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange bug in my query. I was trying to say js, for a good while, did little more than manipulate html. After some uhhh inbreeding(?) it evolved to do wild crazy things like serverside stuff (read: insane) where it puts the entire document together. (hallelujah!) But before that it was just text?

We got arrow functions use strict template strings and even asm.js, countless truly insane things were added to the eco system like unicode symbols and css animations (madness!) all of a quality as~if a late Sunday night project - per www tradition.

Im simply suggesting the next weird thing should be fuzzy text matching. Even if the implementation is complete garbage, like a permanently frozen turd, say, string compare returning a value between 0 and 1 I could see myself use it often enough. If needed one can always wrap some enormous enterprise natural language processing api to keylog the user and beam their delicious data back to the mothership for advertisement and creditscores etc

I know we cant have nice things but I can dream and it doesn't have to be nice?
AR won’t matter until shared experiences and body mods are real and in daylight.
Cui bono?

1 Russia?
2 Germany?
3 Poland?
4 Ukraine?
5 China?
6 India?
7 USA

Who said back in Jan/Feb that they would stop NS 2?

1 Blinken?
2 Biden?
3 Nuland?
4 All of the above

Cui bono
i have the most simple note taking solution, which also doubles as my knowledge base.

I have a git repo, filled with folders. Organized organically. Sometimes I put "tags: todo" at the top.. so I can grep for it.

Other than that, I'm well aware of what i need to be doing without looking. If i have a lot of tasks I can't manage mentally, put make a todo list in org or just plain text and plug away at 'em.

I've wanted better tools but this workflow has worked for years. I use both emacs and sublime text to edit the notes.
Internet explorer used to be the objectively best browser in the same way. The problems start happening after one browser so thoroughly beats all the others that sites start getting locked into proprietary stuff. I was around the last time. And I remember saying similar glowing things about IE at the time.
It's funny how cyber security appears to marinate itself in an aesthetic we used ironically 15-20 years ago. These people are trying really hard to become the stock photo hooded hacker. To me it's as ridiculous today as it ever was and doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the industry.
Maybe (a) is because solar panels are less dangerous than nuclear waste.
Do you have a useful & understandable mental model for "delta"-based operations like "rebase", "revert", etc. for arbitrary commit DAGs? Admittedly I haven't sat down to think about it for very long, but I feel like I'm not the only one who feels like lots of operations (including those) become difficult if not impossible to reason about with nonlinear history.
For anyone who is interested in what videogames as a medium uniquely can do to tell stories in a way other media cannot and who hasn't played it yet I'd recommend Nier Automata strongly. It's in my opinion the smartest and for a lack of a better term 'deepest' game of the last decade.
I have been really looking forward to this. It’s a shame that the video is so awful! Why would anybody go to a coffee shop or public park to put on a VR headset? What were they thinking???
Balanced consideration of positives and negatives rather than a focus on only negatives which is so strained and obsessive, it seems to be a professional requirement?
Mental freduian slip?
Test Automation Strategy
I wrote this piece as a reference for the engineers at our company, but decided today that there's no reason it couldn't be public!
No, but people tend to sacrifice their sleep and their health for their finances
>How do we know the sleep deprivation isn't the cause of the shrinkage?

I think that's a valid question -- one likes to assume that it's some adaptability trait, but the reality is that it could just as well be evidence of sub-standard conditions facilitated by the scenario.
The headline is pretty misleading. It suggests that there was some kind decision covering being a community or not.

No such decision was even debated. It's all about codecs and legal risks.
I’ve always been fond of this pattern.

state = state.next(context, data);

Context just holds the global stuff of the process, data is the new input into the machine and state is the current state.

A simple example is an SMTP server. State is the current command (or idle), context is email message being built, and data is the line read from the socket.

Context context = new Context();
sendSMTPBanner();
State state = new IdleState();
while (!state.isFinished) {
String data = readLine();
state = state.next(context, data);
}

Conceptually pretty simple.
That's adorable. Blow up a multi-billion dollar pipeline to provide fodder for trolls.
A Bruce Willis deepfake will appear in his stead for future film projects
This depends less on how you conceive of Git, and more on the project's development model. For example, in a team using Git for an internal product, with a centralized repo a main branch and (relatively short-lived) feature branches, the conceptual history of the repo is linear. Seeing all of the merges that everyone did when getting into work is line noise, not likely to be meaningful - so rebasing feature beanches on master every day and then doing squash or FF commits when merging back into master makes the most sense.

Alternatively, for an open source project with no "blessed", and with long-lived branches that get contributed by various orgs, trying to make the history appear linear would help nobody.

So obviously this kind of model wouldn't work for Linux, but it works better for most in-house software using Git as a centralized VCS with some nice offline history features.
Tibco does/did middleware. When I used it 20 odd years ago, it provided a robust messaging system for apps across the enterprise. We used it to communicate between a half dozen systems where I worked as well as the middleware for the n-tier app I worked on, and it was pretty easy to use.
800k down and 11% loss. Was your portfolio 8 million at the start of the year?
What about Records and immutable Collections, Sets, Maps? Isn't it possible to achieve what you want with that?
The 'attention economy' corrupts science
Are you saying the enterprise model gives a better viewpoint than the base model, or that the pricing alone gives a better viewpoint into the viability of Magic Leap product(s)?

PS: that was rhetorical
I suspect it’s how Fake Steve Jobs was unmasked 15 years ago:

The New York Times found Mr. Lyons by looking for writers who fit those two criteria, and then by comparing the writing of “Fake Steve” to a blog Mr. Lyons writes in his own name, called Floating Point

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06steve.html
Incredibly unlikely. If sizing was the only constraint, they could've easily showed a real demo of the bigger device.

They were just lying.
^ this guy Rendezvouses
People asked that the community driven text be removed from the website.
Wait til you hear about Cloudflare
I signed up. I want to learn cobol and understand this system
People often do learn their lesson. The problem is that they then die and a new generation makes all the same mistakes again.
Citrix is like VNC or Remote Desktop or NoMachine.

Tibco is like Apache ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ or IBM WebSphere MQ.
We’re looking at massive investment regardless. If we don’t stop warming, massive investment. If we intend to stop warming, massive investment. We are paying the deferred, true cost of our carbon one way or the other.
Lua doesn’t really solve anything fundamental. It’s popular because it’s small and easy to embed. But embeddable interpreters, while fun pet projects, they’re redundant and trivial.

Jonathan Blow has a great explanation of this https://youtu.be/y2Wmz15aXk0

Write reusable libraries first, let people embed them into whatever scripting language/GUI app they want.

Scripting languages, Linux distros, it’s all Pokémon cards.
I wonder if similar approaches can be used for integer based compression. I don't know much about the subject but do analyze data, so this is interesting for that reason.
Surely folks already have this? Authorship attribution has been a thing in academia for at least 10 years

Tho I guess I could just use gpt3 and say hey can you write this for me in your own words or summarize. Or a few rounds of google translate roulette
Do Github, GitLab, BitBucket, or any other Git UIs support this option? Relatively few people use the command line for inspecting Git history. Not even sure Magit exposes this option directly in most places where it shows history, I believe.
Arming the Mujahideen sucessfully grinded the USSR and hastened its collapse, just as arming Ukraine would hasten Russia's disintegration. The plan was sound, however both of these strategies can backfire, as we've seen in the first case.
The goal is to find the flag, usually somethign unambiguous like "flag{some_lind_of_message}". There are generally no other rules to a CTF other than "don't run a scanner against us"/"don't brute force."

Analyzing and listing out ways to interact with the site will show you your surface area, although sometimes the interaction is so opaque you might have to check the "robots.txt" or other well known files.

The start button, the difficulty level, making a move, and the admin panel all offer ways to test different inputs to see if you can get unexpected output.

What inputs do they accept? What headers do they have? What encodings do they use? Are there any input checks done client side rather than server side?

Then it becomes a matter of thinking about what happens with these inputs/outputs. Did it ask for a file name? What if I feed it a file it doesn't expect. Might this input be used for a database query, how could I abuse that? Could my input or the output be marshaled? Could my input be passed to an exec somewhere? Can I find artifacts that tell me what programming languages/servers/libraries are being used? How can I probe for these things?

The people who do these for fun several times a month will often make writeups that offer hints of techniques to solve problems when the competition is done.

These are some related sites:

https://ctftime.org/

https://ctftime.org/writeups

https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
Its “object” system was designed in the 1970s, as part of System/38. They decided to impose some limitations on generality - no inheritance, only IBM could define new classes. That could have been a justifiable engineering decision at the time, especially given how new OO was, and the fact that their design was already rather challenging given the limits of 1970s technology (and the market positioning of a “midrange” price point).

And maybe they originally intended to lift those limitations - but it never happened. And AS/400 (and now IBM i) was essentially “version 2” of System/38, with incompatible changes, but changes which were modest rather than expansive (e.g. increasing maximum object name length from 8 to 10 - I wonder why they bothered with such a small increase, why not 16 or 32?)
>There's also the option of just doing everything yourself by learning to be good at multiple things and taking much longer.

It will likely take a lot longer than you expect, sucking your whole life into it. Set a hard stop for yourself ahead of time, so that you know when to quit and try something else in life.
> Now we take a lesson from the diffusers and apply noise to the brain scan data until the AI can do a decent job simulating a human on it's own.

Honest question: how close are we to actually being able to do this now? Obviously the answer depends a bit on how you define "decent", but as someone pretty unfamiliar with most learning techniques beyond a very rudimentary high level, I have absolutely no idea if this is something that we can do now, will be able to do in months/years/decades, or if it's unlikely to happen in my lifetime at all. It seems like it's worth at least having some sort of answer there before spending a whole lot of time thinking about it. (Not saying it's not worth thinking about at all if the answer is that we aren't likely to ever see it in our lifetimes! But there's a difference between a pressing ethical issue and an interesting but hypothetical philosophical discussion)
> I've been debating starting to include it in my code reviews: "this commit log needs more details: can you edit the commit message and do a git push --force?"

Strongly agree with this. I hold the line on this for every team I lead (which, sadly, is not every team I consult for, so sometimes I have to keep my mouth shut and spend my political capital elsewhere).

Many junior/mid-level engineers have simply never seen commit messages and source control done well. Additionally, because many folks starting out in the field don't know how to truly use git beyond memorizing a few basic commands [1], they also never harvest any of the benefits of writing great commit messages.

I've got a stash of links that I find myself often sending to engineers who are on the way up, and the tpope article on git commit messages [2] is one I find myself sharing around constantly.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1597/

[2]: https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...
I wouldnt say the parent commenter is a hater.

But thats a good general sentiment yeah
I'm keen to see how he goes building the next engine.
Doesnt work. I type my prompt and it gives results for something different.
Is that a negative? If you live much longer, you'd likely invest more time in finding a job you really enjoy.
https://www.openwater.cc/

One of the founders spoke at the Long Now F lunatic some years back. Speculated that the tech could somedaymsybesomehow be used to both “read” and “write” sensory experiences.
>Sure hardware, vs. software but still, we're in different leagues.

Interesting choice in the use of the comma. I know this comment leaves nothing towards the furtherment of the discussion, but it was just odd enough to make me have to stop. I know I typo/myspell, grammatically f'up, there/they're/their typo, all the time, so I'm not grammar pro myself, but just trying to see, if maybe, I can use the, comma, too.
“Bad for Italy” meaning what exactly? She won fair and square.
Large tech corporations have been pushing the narrative that we need to import workers because there just are not enough locally to fill the need.

In very many cases, there are local workers to fill the need... but the companies are not willing to pay market rates. So they want to import foreign workers who will take a much lower salary. This has gone on for 20 years. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/proof-that-h-1b-vi...

And in the medical industry, if there is a shortage of local doctors, it again likely means that salaries are depressed such that locals find it not worth the pay to do the job. So (highly educated) medical professionals from abroad are welcomed, as they will work hard for less money. If the the standard of living in India were the same as the US, they would not be willing to come here to earn less.

I do not suggest "throwing the doors open" to poor uneducated people. I suggest paying the local market rate for workers and hiring local workers. Those "non-existent" local workers would exist if the pay were appropriate for the work. It would not be necessary to import people.

I don't object to immigration in principle, but when it is used as a way to extract more labor for lower cost, also at the cost of local citizens having fewer job options and more competition, then I do disagree.

Many of the legal immigrants you speak of would not have been allowed to immigrate here were it not for heavy lobbying pressure from large corporations seeking cheaper workers. They created an artificial demand. And I don't believe in the policy of "well it's been that way for a long time, so it should persist". We should frequently re-evaluate our laws and our needs. If that means an immigrant needs to go back home, then so be it. I as an American who immigrated to the Netherlands must jump through hoops and pay not insignificant money to maintain or modify my work visa. And if circumstances in the Netherlands change such that there is an oversupply of tech workers, then I recognize that my opportunity to live there may end. Me living there is a privilege, not a right. Likewise is true for legal immigrants in the US.
Dollar cost averaging is my favorite strategy. No anticipation of risk, no timing the market. Just gains all the way up.
So, he's saying it's an amphicar? I have my doubts.
Also watching him try to put that cup of coffee to his face was painful. You’d look like such a tool trying to press that cup against your headset. No wonder they cut that scene so quickly.
the Raspberry Pi memory bandwidth is absolutely terrible, which makes performance absolutely terrible. it is a computer designed to be inexpensive and to teach computers, and it excels at these two things.

The Raspberry Pi is not a good platform for virtually anything else, really.

"But PiHole!" Ok, sure. I would argue that this could run in a container on any other machine on your network and use less electricity, and if you don't have another machine on your network, fine; use a Raspberry Pi.

the Pi is not a Steam Deck competitor; it is not even good as a Linux desktop if you do anything in a browser or use any Electron applications.
Does a mall ninja ride a Segway?
Then the title should be "Fedora continue to call themselves community driven"

There was no discussion about the governance model.
They use this honeypot to weed out all of the non-security people.
Being able to convince a VC to invest millions into your business is a win. Maybe not the biggest win like IPO, but a win regardless.

People act like raising money is easy. It's not.
There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician.

—Hans Bethe

So it's probably inspiring to hang out with magicians, but I don't know if that helps you become one.

Also, that essay cries out for photos.
I’m sorry to say it but “honest entrepreneurs” are just failed bullshitters. Entrepreneurism is attractive because it’s the closest thing to freedom under capitalism, and the closest thing to dictatorship.
Funny cause Quebec elections are ongoing right now and it looks like the do-nothing party is gonna stay in charge.
College PC... 1 hr/week
This is probably the key flaw with TFA. It makes the claim in the headline, and then doesn't back it up at all. Not a single reference or fact to justify this rather staggering assertion.
If you're only in startups, that would make sense but citrix is big in the corporate world. I worked for a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway for a few years out of college and our who setup depended on citrix. Keeping it vague, we allowed people to bid for allocations of space on transportation infrastructure. When a huge company wanted to spend millions to buy some space, they'd download our client which was actually just a citrix portal that tunneled to desktop software running on our servers. My company was a billion dollar company so you may have never heard of them, but citrix was absolutely crucial to our cash flow.
Well on the contrary, I'm saying that I find those particular terms immoral, that those terms should be disallowed by law, and that I think it is either morally neutral or possibly even virtuous to intentionally and knowingly violate them.

It's similar to civil disobedience I suppose, except in this case not a law but rather a civil "contract" inasmuch as an impenetrable ToS that a user is forced to click through can be viewed as a proper contract as opposed to a written notification from the vendor that they intend to terminate your service if they discover you doing any of the following things.
Yeah I like it when grub works ;)

Kidding aside, I recently tried Fedora for the first time in years and it's been great. I wanted a newer kernel for the 12th gen chip in my Framework laptop, and loading a custom kernel (at least in the Debian-based distros I'm familiar with) is a total pain when you have LUKS encryption enabled.

Gnome+Wayland has come a long way as well and things seem quite polished.
I just tried watching the video and my question is: why is it age-restricted here in Sweden due to saying "fuck" a couple times?
The combined market cap of the S&P 500 is 30.5 trillion. The companies everyone knows about probably account for about ~10T. The remaining 20T represents a long tail of unknown companies worth a few 10s of billions.
I remember that back when they were all the rage (and got huge investments) I met an employee at a coffee shop at an optics conference I was attending (I didn't know who they were at the time). IIRC she had been a postdoc at some research lab until a while before. She obviously didn't talk about what they were doing exactly, but more about the surreal experience working for them after uni. They had just bought several ebeam writers (multimillion $ equipment used in lithography) without anyone really knowing what they would use it for.

It sounded a lot like they were just throwing lots of money at equipment for doing work on hype research topics (metamaterials was a big thing at the time) to see if it could solve some of their problems, but really without much thought on if it makes sense. She was talking about how it was cool to work for a place where there were absolutely no money constrains, but it also sounded a bit like "I am at a company but doing stuff which seems more blue sky research than at uni... Why?".

To me the current wave of quantum computing startups sound very similar.
63% of the italian population turned up to vote. Of those 63%, just 26% voted for georgia melani’s party. She has a mandate from 16.4% of italians (26% of 63%).

Next you’ll be defending putin, you know he wins in a landslide every election right?
CF removed kiwi farms from their services. If they're cooperating with FBI they would continue to host and intercept traffic to decloak users.
MS motivation is quite clear.

Windows is an appliance (an interface) for amazon shopping and watching netflix.

The MS telemetry has proven that 99.999% of consumers do not tweak default settings or dig under the hood.

The 1-2 million now former "windows power users" are just too small population to be economically feasible to deal with.

For MS it does not matter to lose those few to other tweakable OSs.

Instead MS's product department is dreaming of scooping the remaining billions of cash-laden consumers. Presumably this is what the telemetry tells them.

Cash is good, consuming is good, keeps the economy running, making shareholders happy.
FYI hiring page requires login to notion
Netherlands: Inflation rises to record high of 17.1 percent
To this day, you can't have the price of that PC subsidized or allowed for the price to be paid in installments with a 24 month contract like a phone.

What would happen to the desktop market if they offered up an infinite payment plan that allowed for annual trade-ins/upgrades like phones? We used to do that with leasing companies for data room equipment, but I never saw it for normal user computers (not that I'm well versed in all manners computer leasing).
If the Nvidia Jetson Nano was still supported it would do MUCH better than a Raspberry Pi at nearly anything. It has a tiny (but very real) GPU on it, and tons of memory bandwidth: 4GB of RAM, I think, and something like 25GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Does criticizing someone because they’re a fascist count as identity politics these days?