skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes in hand with monopoly culture in society.

When you have so many mergers/aq. that build de facto monopolies there's no incentive for companies to care about their employees and the emphasis becomes on the image of caring vs actual caring.

As the employee has a small selection of companies to work for and jobs become about bureaucracy and politics instead of actual `work` and there's not much you as employee can do about it.

The companies not caring about customers but pretending to is another story tangential to this one.
Smh, the FUD is suffocating in here. And really, a round of applause for everyone butting into say they don't need this. Do you have a habit of doing this for all features?

Sorry, but I expect my Linux install to be at least as secure as my Windows (Pro) installation. And without this, it's not. It's that simple. In years, most of you will be benefiting from this, it will become table stakes and the FUD will subside.

It's hard to really read this thread. If you care about user freedom, this sure ain't got nothing to do with it. Other than giving me the freedom to have a more secure computer.

Just sad to see the FUD cause people to just get so activated without even understanding the stakes at hand. (Think. It's not like MS is watching this feature to decide whether or not to allow user-key-enrollment on the ARM Surface).
I've done this in my past when I was younger and looking for more menial work. I remember distinctly that I had decided my side hustle of repairing PCs for the elderly and doing networking for small businesses would be good experience to support me applying to Geek Squad / Best Buy while still in high school. The moment I finished entering my basic information, their hiring form was a multi-page psychological evaluation, which I did not feel was an appropriate thing to do on a prospective candidate so I noped out immediately.

This article isn't really focused on applying for software engineering roles, but for menial roles. When that happened to me decades ago it was rare, and Best Buy was one of the first companies to do it, now I see my teenage daughter applying to entry level roles and it seems nearly every company is doing these sorts of psych evals, and worse your profile is tracked across multiple employers because the company offering the service is the same.

No wonder people are noping out. Nobody should have to undergo a psych eval done by a computer program, and not even a qualified person, just to be able to flip burgers or stock shelves. It's demeaning, dehumanizing, and it frankly should be illegal.
GCP's 2023 Annual Revenue is projected to be $33 Billion

To put that in perspective, Oracle a Fortune 50 company, with a market cap of 200 Billion, has Annual Revenue is $44 Billion.

GCP on it's own can easily be a Fortune 50 company
Things are great for me now. Thanks! I’ve got a wife and two kids and just got promoted to a SWE team lead. Mostly self taught. College just wasn’t for me.
Germany plans to legalise recreational cannabis
The AMD version is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...

They seem to update it a lot less frequently than Intel
Pass – The Standard Unix Password Manager
The WebAssembly version of this exact test takes about twice as long as running natively. I just happened to do exactly this benchmark a few minutes ago:

Python 3.11.0 native: 0m43.755s

Python 3.11.0 WebAssembly (on node.js): 1m31.305s (about 2.1x as long).

For what it is worth, I also maintain a Python --> Javascript transpiler (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pylang) and I tried it on exactly this benchmark (with some very minor changes):

PyLang: 0m19.386s (on node.js) about half as long as Python 3.11.0 native

The article uses bun, which uses Safari's JS runtime, which sometimes has significantly better performance than node.js for these sorts of benchmarks (especially for Webassembly), in my experience.

These tests were all on an M1 Macbook Pro.
What an handy resource! Thanks
"Start date.. Hmm I think it was 15 years ago.. Or was it 14? Let's see, I finished university year N, and then I worked at X for 5 years... I think? Maybe I can check my bank statements... they go back 3 years online, and 10 years if you ask them nicely.. maybe I have an old diary in some box in the attic? Well it's late now, I'll remember to check when I clean it up next month"
I agree entirely, but it's not relevant to my point. Understanding the problems with an entity is completely different from assuming that every bad rumor about that entity is true, or taking the position that the entity can never actually be right.

You can't fight problems from a position that doesn't consider things realistically. You just lump yourself in with all the other raving conspiracy theorists.
Meanwhile, on the internet: meh, Wikipedia has a table with bigger numbers.
My Ecobee wall thermostat happily shows the temperature outside and the forecast ahead, and does absolutely nothing else with that information.

The ability to do this kind of thing has been around a long time.
The Lifecycle of a Patch
> There is retreat & regroup, away from the eye of sauron, while the parasite devours the host.

This is a great way to put it.
I use starlink here in the UK. I don't get any drops and I spend probably around 4 hours a day on video calls. I've heard people say it can be regional though.
Millionaire Millennial – A Way to Make $40k+ from SaaS
> Could two novices been able to convey or comprehend the meaning between themselves?

Maybe not for a towed line, though the shot across the bow is probably intuitive. That's essentially the same thing bees will do to warn you away from their hive.
Swatting rarely results in murder in the US, and obviously it makes the news when it does. It's largely an effective harrassment, terrorization (fear) tactic. Congressperson Marjorie Greene (yes she's terrible, not the point) being an on-going example of that.
Oh god, "Process Dementia" is such a good term. That's how I felt in those Amazon interviews.

"Give an example of how you used Amazon's Leadership Principle, Customer Obsession, in your current position."

"I just did that in the last interview."

"Oh, I just wanted to see if you could extrapolate or give another example."

"But... I just... told you..."

My god that gives me nightmare flashbacks to that horrible process.
> What do you do about all the scattered light?

I think it's actually fine. Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation:

- The lens collects about 1 m^2 of sunlight.

- At the focal point, the concentration is way higher than sunlight.

- But when the light is scattered away from the focal point, it's distributed over an area of ~4 pi R^2.

- So from the point of view of a person looking out the window, R^2 would be much greater than 1 m^2, so the crucible would be less bright than the outdoor sun.

- The outdoor sun doesn't blind people unless they look directly at it, and humans are good at avoiding that.

So I think the crucible would appear as an annoying glare that people would instinctively look away from, but it probably wouldn't accidentally blind people.
I never cease to be amazed at how few people really realize just how little hardware is often required for getting real work done. You'd be surprised just how much that 2GB vm with a couple cores can handle!
By that definition every ad is targeted, unless it's on the front page of reddit or something. Every website has at least some kind of theme to target to
I'm thinking specifically of a situation where things were much less clear-cut, and involved far more than $100.

It is easy to make grand declarations. But when ethical considerations are not very clear-cut and you're talking real pain, you really figure out what a friendship is worth.
Thank you for taking a look, appreciate feedback.

In an ideal world we would like to be passwordless 100%. And we can already do that with SAML/OIDC apps, SSH, etc. For these flows passwords do not exist.

However, the companies we work with always have some legacy app that just does not support modern identity protocols. For that we have to fill passwords and provide vaulting capabilities to offer end to end experience. The reason we decided to add vault is to make things simple and integrated, so that company does not need to manage separate product. Agreed, 1P and some others are known-and-trusted, but we hope to earn this trust over time. And using our Vault is optional.

Right now we are planning to release RDP support for Windows servers, and then we were planning to focus on adding support for databases. That is why your feedback is critical as we can reassess the priorities regarding Kubernetes.
> Libertarianism holds human rights above all else.

Libertarianism holds a very particular and highly contentious conception of human rights (which differs radically, but with some common elements, between different flavors of libertarianism) above everything else. So do several other ideologies, with different conceptions of human rights.
I've worked for some companies that had draconian IP assignment contracts. The worst was General Motors. It basically said that if I invented anything that they might possibly use in business, then it belonged to them. This was back when they made locomotives and kitchen appliances as well as cars. They had their fingers in almost every possible industry.

Part of my response was to keep potentially profitable ideas inside my head until after I left to work somewhere else. Even today, I hesitate to do any hobby that an employer might want to confiscate.

Fortunately, most places I've worked since GM are only interested in stuff related to the business that they do. If you program on the side, they see that as you are keeping up with new technology and training yourself - which is a very good thing. Almost every interview I'm in has some form of the question "how do you keep up to date?" I'm always older than the interviewers and they really want to know how to keep up with stuff. It is hard.

I posted this link yesterday in a thread about "work for hire" and intellectual property assignment contracts:

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153046
Natural Language Assessment: A New Framework to Promote Education
Show HN: Single command Tor + sshd for reverse shell debugging of CI containers
> Why is it suddenly unethical the moment it turns into an office job?

It's only unethical if you're not in the ruling class. If you're an executive, it's perfectly fine to sit on the board of multiple companies simultaneously (each one paying you $50,000+ per year).
From what I’ve heard he lost control of the company and only owned a small percentage of Twitter. So he was beholden to all sorts of forces decisions and drama with the board he would have rather not dealt with.

Which is why when Joe Rogan interviewed him a top Twitter lawyer was there too. I strongly suspect at that point she was the one truly representing Twitter, not Jack.
The airplane is dense and very aerodynamic. We would say it has a high ballistic coefficient [1].

The pilot is light would leave the cockpit flat or even bent over, which is a very non-aerodynamic shape. His ballistic coefficient would be low. He would decelerate quickly, and the tail would catch up with him and slam him from behind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient
Where is this true? Rain would be more than enough to clean solar panels.
Home wind power seems to get less appealing very fast ...
> search, ads, Android, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Apps/GSuite/Workspace, and so on. 100% commitment, 100% great.

Basically all these have just been coasting on network effects since the mid oughts.
I looked into these things a long time ago and part of the problem is that the drains will build up a layer of biofilm (bacteria, soap scum, other waste) on the interior, making the heat exchanger lose efficiency over time.
Fair, I don't think we disagree
If anyone has a Buddhist bent, attention is somewhat synonymous (I think) with consciousness. So there are some profound implications.
I'm not sure why a visual check procedure was never done which would have shown the issue as part of checks after maintenance was carried out.
While this is correct, I don't think that's how things will play out. Wall Street views Alphabet as a growth company, and X, Waymo etc. are perceived to be where the growth will come from. So I expect X to be largely untouched and the cuts to come from teams that are shipping products. (Which I think will put Alphabet on a path similar to IBM in the 90s and Microsoft in the 2000s, but that's another story.)
Office never should have had VBA in it to begin with, and it should have been removed decades ago
Also having a knife stuck to your belt, instead of your knee pouch.
>I don't need to have a solution to have valid criticisms of an existing system.

I agree.

>I would certainly hope that the people teaching the next generation were smart, open minded and up to date. Testing doesn't control this anyway, a bad teacher will be unfair and have bad curriculum regardless if they test their students formally or not.

Hmm, I originally didnt think about those people as a teachers, but as if they were some kind of examiners.

But thats fine, they could be teachers too

Yet, I do believe that the bias would be too big :(

At every level of eduction except higher teachers were visibly biased towards students

Some benefited from it, some had harder time due to that.
> A remote is key to any TV-based device and no, a phone is not a valid remote (at least as the "only" remote). Watching my friends rave about the Chromecast and watching them have to pull out their phones to pause/play/etc is just mind boggling to me.

Agree about the remote. But the thing that's much better about Chromecast is that discovery on your phone is much quicker than with a remote and the fact you can simply cast any video on the internet that uses the protocol without any apps.

If they made it a box more like Apple TV then they'd capture both people.
I can think of a couple not-so-strange reasons.

1) Note the qualifier "the government knows everything"? There are plenty of things the government doesn't know. ghusto's comment doesn't seem to be that those should be public too.

2) ghusto might be a $FAMOUS_PERSON who wanted to make comments on HN, but not let fame influence the conversation.
I usually type with my right hand only so I skinny finger my way through words, hoping that autocorrect picks up what I am trying to write. If I use both hands, I have greater accuracy.
Constant training, even/especially in bad weather, and constantly preparing for specific tasks like this.

"Amateurs practice till they get it right; professionals practice till they can't get it wrong."
Legitimacy of EU laws is based on international treaty establishing EU, so it depends on how international treaties are handled in constitutions of each country to see which level of legal power is assigned to them. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism_and_dualism_in_internat...
>Do run it using a user that has no access to write/delete files and you'll see that the most malicious macro is benign.

It could retrieve work from a server to start long running processes that mine cryptocurrency. And scan every IP/port on your local network and use metasploit to send matching exploits to everything it sees. And then hijack a local process running under a different user with disk write permissions.

I would like to see macros restricted similar to Javascript in the browser. You can still run code and manipulate local data, but you don't get any direct access to the host OS. No disk access, no registry access, no way to create a process, only able to calculate things and change the document itself. And there must be no checkbox to disable these protections.
> In gaming culture, a farmer is someone who repeats the same actions for extended periods of time.

This isn't gaming. This is a programming library.

> It's not an insult in gaming context

This is not a "gaming context."

> and "farming" in the context of our craft does not relate to actual farmers

I've never heard anyone refer to "farming" in the context of programming. Please share with me more of the use of farming in the context of programming (not gaming).

> I have to be devil's advocate

This is a lie. You do not "have" to be devil's advocate. This was a choice you made.

> yet the freedom to say so is revoked by the very community he helps.

This is a lie.

Stop being a liar.

Finally, do not "revoke" my "freedom" to say this to you by disagreeing or arguing against me.
I join you in these sentiments - born-n-bred on the farm, still there, and hacking software since 1981!

My most regular outburst of swearing is about 'dev-ops' and lack of engineering discipline and occurs almost daily :)
• which is admittedly a flaw so long as we cannot audit them

• provided ... MS hasn't f'd that up

I think you pinpointed the two reasons people are fuming about this.
> As for "generally ugly syntax" - beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

It's not entirely subjective. For example a language that is inconsistent in it's use of syntax could fairly be described as "objectively ugly".
The ability to spoof in the phone system is so stupid. Someone was spoofing being the police here
The VAST majority of jobs don’t do this during the application phase.
windows ported to rust when /s
Go was designed, in part, as a response to C++'s slow compile speeds. The Go compiler has gotten a bit slower over the years, but it's still pretty fast, especially when compared to C++ or Rust.

> In 2007, build engineers at Google instrumented the compilation of a major Google binary. The file contained about two thousand files that, if simply concatenated together, totaled 4.2 megabytes. By the time the #includes had been expanded, over 8 gigabytes were being delivered to the input of the compiler, a blow-up of 2000 bytes for every C++ source byte.

https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_5.

I also hate how just adding some definition to a .h file that's only referenced in one .c (or .cpp) file will recompile loads just because the header file changed. Maybe there's ways to improve on that (ccache?), but I mostly write C to contribute to open source projects (rather than my own) and it can be an annoying wait.
I would argue the other way and praise them for the storage engine changes. Each iteration has had drawbacks, but based on the real-world reported usage they've made decisions to better support what customers are asking for and actually running into, as opposed to trying to iterate on the same engine over and over and making assumptions of real-world usage. Sure, there are drawbacks, but at the end of the day they're continuing to make good improvements for their customers.
For the opposite experience, get lemmings from the windows store (or whatever that's called nowadays).

The most cynical, half-assed, unwinable, borderline unplayable pile of crap that is trying to be passed off as lemmings. It's like they gave a first year programing student two screen shots and a bad description of the game and then ran that through even worse machine translation and the result was shipped directly to end users.
In the "tricks of hacker news" -

188 points by fduran 3 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 68 comments

If you click 'favorite' it will save it to your favorites list. This is a publicly visible list - yours is https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=bravetraveler and mine is https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=shagie which makes it easy to get a bookmark type style functionality within HN.

As I tend to favorite less often than I comment, it makes it easier to find those things I want to find again.
I'm from a very hick part of America and I know probably half a dozen people who used a phrase something like "unlocked doored, locked and loaded shotgun." Not exactly condoning that phrase, but the thief in hillbilly parts of America is gonna have to use force eventually if they want to steal from an occupied home whether it is locked or not.
Which is exactly why when I see extreme protests I'm more inclined to believe they are staged by the opposition rather than out of genuine stupidity.

I'm often wrong, obviously.
>President Vladimir Putin made unfounded claims that Kyiv was seeking to develop a “dirty bomb”...

How does the FT know they claims are 'unfounded'? Are they privvy to secret top level discussions on the Ukrainian side? Bit of a lapse in security, if they are.
From May 2023.
I think you just have an overinflated sense of what non-software engineers do.
By curiosity, can I ask you which sharded message broker you are using? (The one "above in the stack")
Based on my observations from having Swedish friends and spending time in Sweden, a lot of the rise of the extreme right there can be directly attributed to the tensions resulting from the Syrian refugee crisis.

The last time I was in Sweden, ordinary folks were expressing ideas like "well maybe not everyone deserves free healthcare".

Like many western nations, economic opportunities and quality of social services is dipping. Standard practice for right wing parties to blame immigrants (or refugees, etc.).
Yeah, the shower cabin/curtained bathtub is a fairly small space, so you don't need the entire bathroom to steam up. It's comfortable for many minutes afterwards.
Extreme Right Radicalisation of Children via Online Gaming Platforms
This is the question.
TL;DR: There aren't.
>but I disagree that there isn't something to be gained from having people be in the same physical location to achieve a common goal.

So then I assume you also reject Full time work from home?

I can not think of a single reason why Congress needs to be in the same physical location to read a bill, take public comment on a bill, then vote on if that bill is good for their community or now. That is the SOLE and ONLY function of the US House of Representatives.

If they are doing other things, well that is beyond their scope of work and should be curtailed.
Well, 'monetizing', but not in any signficant way, certainly not paying for the whole thing.

By that token, Girl Scouts selling cookies is 'monetizing' their hobby. It would feel weird to retrospectively apply 'monetize' back into the early 20th century or beyond (prior to the advent of modern newspapers and advertising).

> But even just conceptually framing your hobbies as something that could bring in revenue can change how you approach things, and probably not for the better in terms of enjoyment or stress relief.

Totally agree. And yes framing is a large aspect to it. Like if people who buy lottery tickets every time they stop for gas reframed themselves as 'investors'. Seems unhealthy to have to reframe relaxation activities as 'potential revenue generation'.
I feel you in this regard.

I presume low code/no code comes from the simplest notion of programming language, which is a medium between human and machine. And the easier it is to read and write means the "better" it is. Therefore pitching it to a non-technical or even semi-technical people is as simple as teaching people to write code at surface level.

However what people don't understand deeply is that any language is a set of symbols and rules requiring a certain amount of cognitive space and a certain time to absorb it. The more ambiguous the symbols are, the closer the growth of the number of the rules to exponential. This is a fundamental point that happens in real-life but is rarely understood, moreover to programmers, surprisingly.

I believe a proper low-code/no-code should have natural language processing capability and understanding context, not just providing syntactical aliases.
Adult Children Affect Their Mother’s Happiness (2021)
Money is attention though, and the reverse. Companies spend tons of money to get the attention of customers. More content/stuff means that getting attention is harder.
If anyone is interested, it's possible to buy a laptop with ME already disabled:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

EDIT: there's more at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Commer...