skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
frankly, as someone who is absolutely not a security expert but who pays attention to security concerns, most security efforts provide very little business benefit.

What was it Steve Yegge said in that legendary platforms rant?

"But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network."

Even if you get bit by a huge data leak, it's just not going to matter that much (from a business perspective) if you already managed to become a big, significant part of the world (like PSN or Equifax - they're still around today, largely unimpacted by their screwups).

If you don't manage to become a big, significant part of the world, security successes or failures just won't matter that much. You don't have a lot of value, because you don't have a huge treasure trove of data, so you're not a primary target for most attackers. You'll sit there being irrelevant, and if there is a breach someday, probably neither you nor any of your handful of customers will actually notice."

Am I content that the world functions this way? No.

But I think it's important to recognize that it does.
Britain launches scheme to pay homes to curb electricity use
> Importing your own population into conquered territory and letting them vote is a dirty trick we don't accept from countries like Russia

But isn't that exactly what the Europeans did in the US and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, even Argentina? Import new people, who vastly outnumber and outvote the descendants of the original inhabitants? (And not just Europeans – it is also what China did to Taiwan.)

The fact that Russia's annexation of Crimea is only a few years old is a very large part of the challenge to its legitimacy. Similar events which happened 70, 100, 200, 300+ years ago, far fewer will seriously propose overturning them (indeed, the idea of doing so is liable to be condemned as "irredentism").

> but would the Gibraltar population really be so much worse off if they were ruled by Spain?

Many people in Gibraltar are by heritage neither Spanish nor British. The UK imported a labour force – some Brits and Spaniards, but also very many Italians, Portuguese, Maltese, and North African Jews. Many of their descendants would rather be independent, but given that's unlikely to be an option, British rule is closer in practice to independence than Spanish rule would be – the UK, being much further away, is naturally going to be inclined to give them a great deal of autonomy over their internal affairs, Spain (whatever promises it might make to try to get it back) will inevitably desire to integrate it into the Spanish state and treat it as just another part of Spain.
The techniques needed to actually recreate it is very likely closely guarded, since modern patents can be very vague.
I once had my job ended (contract employee and they decided to end the contract) mid-commute home before. I worked there that whole day, and then I got a call on the drive back, pulled over to answer the call, and was told not to come in to the office next Monday, the company would mail me my belongings.

What do you gain from that. Could have just pulled me aside while I was there at the end of the day, stand someone next to me while I packed up my shit, and let me go home with my stuff at least. I don't remember if I actually did get that stuff mailed to me even (it wasn't a whole lot, at least).
You're making me blush, aliqot. Thanks for the kind words!

Hit me up chad@zetaweb.com and let's get you a new heart coin. I still have the punch. :D
This is probably the reason for all the fleet vehicles available in auctions that have no catalytic converter because theirs was stolen. The municipality or company that owned them found out that replacements would be nearly impossible to get so they opted to sell at a loss to someone who could afford to wait or who operated in a different state where OE replacement catalytic converters are okay for use. I believe that California and Colorado have banned converters that do not come from the manufacturer, effectively preventing anyone who had theirs stolen from using the vehicle legally even though aftermarket units are available that meet 50-state requirements.

Good luck. It may be an option for you to sell the E450 to an out-of-state buyer and replace it with a used or new vehicle. I don't know whether you can make that work for yourself.
If you worked for a high profile company that just went through a tumultuous acquisition with a polarizing figure. Do you suppose you would have been given the same dignity?

These actions aren’t about you the individual. They’re about protecting the business against malcontents. With large polarizing companies this is a likelihood. Not so much with random company b with a couple hundred employees.
Yes and you host out of someplace like Russia where the US publishers can't get you.
Thanks for posting that. It simply proves my point. Add up the non-essential products (almonds, grapes, etc) and remove that from the total. You will see the total output of CA agriculture drops significantly.

You know what I meant when I said “Midwest”.

Again, the point of the article was that drought conditions are occurring and, in CA, 75% of the water consumption is due to “agriculture” as has been stated above, and after removing commercial uses, only 11% is residential.

My insinuation is that (1) Agriculture is the key impactor of drought conditions, (2) when policy makers and those with your opinions talk about the problem being irrigated water uses, it’s always deflected as “CA feeds the US, we have to protect it” giving the industry a free pass, (3) If we put in policy, like paying fairly for water, the industry would be impacted negatively, but as your document proves - it wouldn’t substantially impact core nutrition of the US - just the convenience of a bunch of rich wine and charcuterie consumers.
While I am personally in favour of feature sniffing, rather than user agent sniffing, I think it's worth remembering the debacle about how the SameSite attribute on cookies was handled by the browsers a few years ago.

Several browsers shipped with an old implementation of the spec that is incompatible with the most recent, current version of the spec.

Setting the SameSite attribute to a specific value can result in the site working in newer browsers, but not in older browsers (or vice versa).

The only way to handle this is to sniff for a specific set of old browsers by user agent string, and to alter how cookies are set for those:

https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/incompatible-clie...

Due to the prevalence of old iOS devices that can't be updated with a more modern browser (especially iPads), the company I work for has to keep this user agent sniffing in our codebases going forward.

If the user agent string is going to be deprecated or significantly weakened, there needs to be effort among browser vendors to avoid something like this ever happening again.
Five years ago was also before he showed his ass throwing around the term pedophile to describe people working on the Tham Luang cave rescue
Isn’t the difference that Slack is profitable while Twitter is not?

I worked for a couple startups and the severance package for companies losing money was pretty bad. The package for profitable was ok. And the package for insolvent was “your last paycheck was your last.”
Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers
> They literally formed an illegal conspiracy to harm their employees by suppressing salaries

Yes and that is bad. And still, if you work inside one of those companies, the environment does not have reputation of being toxic. It just dont, in case of google the reputation is that they treat you well most of the time, but it is slower speed then, say facebook. And facebook does not have toxic reputation either.

Their reputation is not bad, actually. People who work there criticize some, but also are generally content and happy. Because, even with that agreement, neither company is overly toxic.
It was poorly communicated in my post but what I was referring to there were earlier programs like in 2015 and not SD and newer ones. If you put in an image of a landscape it could fill out the landscape with eyes and elbows all over the generated image because it had no information or context for what an eye was or where it should go.

But now you get SD, dalle and others which add more information not just by scaling, but also by mapping sentences/words to pre-existing images that already have cohesion. That way when you write in sentences to the text prompt, the model has more semantic information about what an eye is, but (IMO) only _indirectly_ because it will map a sentence to images that match that sentence.
The question is always what information is actually contained in the training set and what is missing from it and when it creates an image where is the information from etc.

In some ways, that means I think that meaning to us as humans, is different from scaling which is almost like pixel resolution except resolution of patterns and differentiation of patterns. Meaning in this sense is things like creating a doorway with no actual door, but still the doorway itself looks super realistic is rendered.
You can fix it by scaling and increasing the differentiation of patterns I guess, but you can never fix all instances completely with scaling. That's why in some ways I think meaning is sort of orthogonal to scale, however on a philosophical level, they should converge but that's for another topic.

I may have missed something in my thoughts here because this is sort of difficult to talk about without writing a book eventually.
If you spend 90% of your time on boilerplate you’re already going to be “automated” out by a cleverer primate.
Kiwi Is built on chromium and supports pretty much every extension I've tried
https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/ete9on/new_full...

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/dating-is-a-free-softwar...
Lying about job requirements to import lower paid hostages has been an issue on here for years. I have empathy for the individual but they are also hurting me by doing what they are doing even if it is rational for them.
They are also saying that departments are affected disproportionately. It's likely much harder for recruiters to find a new job, especially when hiring is being frozen at most companies
As a European I have never heard of such things.
What is the blue cathedral in this context ?
> The men were completely unprepared for a land expedition, and set up camp on the uninhabited White Island in the Svalbard archipelago. There, the Arctic winter eventually consumed them and they perished in the unforgiving environment of ice and howling winds.

Actually, the struggle to get off the ice onto land was the main challenge, and they died soon after, before the winter even began.
Took you a while to think of that one eh?
Ahh yeah, the good ol' "you're too dumb to understand my spaghetti analogy". My hero.
Well, he tried very hard to get out of it but failed.
The comment you replied to did sound callous given the fact that the author probably just got laid off.

Specifically on your response: while planning specific changes is good and so is attempting to solve hard problems, during mass layoffs the teams with few accomplishments are usually hit first. Ambitious plans seldom help. Mass layoffs are rare, but this is something one should keep in mind. My 2c.

Specifically on Bell Labs, new employees until the 1990s were told "you have a job for life" (paid by the AT&T's monopoly generating huge cash flows). But when the AT&T became less profitable and mass layoffs did start, as far as I know they followed the same pattern.
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett.
Has he ever said anything like "trans rights" though? Why is a (seemingly) single, childless, straight and cis man involving himself so much in trans teenagers? He's got an Agenda and it isn't sitting right.
You can give them notice when the decision is yours to make. And the then the termination can be legal at X days beyond that, if the legal requirement is X days notice. I don't see how "I Just bought it" matters?
Maybe big tech shops did ok but smaller business for whom IT was just an expense, they tried to cut back as much as possible. For these smaller shops the risk of IT intrusion and attack is now a big problem. Sadly many of those are in health or social services.
Github issue != bug
When I say these advertisers I mean the large, multinational, corporate ones.

The whales that for a company like Twitter would be a large percentage of their revenue.
Yes in general

But in this case they knew it was a special case and should have informed the other parts of PayPal so this would not happen.

So this is not a good defense
>Why shouldn't big businesses use my code? The better opensource companies (Google, new Microsoft, Facebook, etc) contribute back to the community in all sorts of ways; and I consider that a net positive on the world.

Because free software is in a constant battle for relevance, and they will use your code to make their proprietary offerings strictly superior to the free ones. What do you think would happen if Autodesk were permitted to fork Blender into a paid product, extend it in all sorts of proprietary ways, and push it heavily through advertising campaigns and educational subsidies? Blender would die, is what.
For a simple website, the user agent should be able to decide what to download and display. It should not be a backend application.

HTML is responsive by default, just don't break this, and yes, you can use media queries if needed.

For images, we have srcset to tell the browser what to download depending on the screen size [1]. You should not try to optimize the bandwidth if I'm on mobile. I might be on a Wi-Fi connection with a mobile or with my tethered mobile connection on my laptop. Just optimize for everything anyway.

The backend should not be involved in how the site is presented, and the CDN should be as dumb as possible, or should not be used at all.

For apps, you have Javascript to do whatever you want.

Mobile / desktop detection is yet another user agent detection in disguise anyway. Just detect my screen size, my dpi, my tactile screen, my mouse, possibly my bandwidth is it's really necessary (videoconferencing for instance). I could be using a mouse on a mobile device. Both the mouse and the touchscreen need to work. You might not need to do feature detection, just bind these events unconditionally. I could plug a secondary tactile screen and move my browser window on this screen.

Many devices are hybrid now. A tablet with a keyboard is not that weird today. What should isMobile return? "YesAndNo"?

I've not seen a really convincing use of isMobile yet. But I've seen harmful ones. They are full of assumptions that are correct most of the times, but still have exceptions.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/so...
I will just point out that "sex realist" reads to me as a dogwhistle constructed by analogy with "race realist" and take my leave.
I wonder who it's for? Are there actual rabble out here who pay enough attention to notice this hearing is happening but also don't see these hearings for the sham they are?
You think SpaceX and Tesla succeeded because of corporate culture and not market fit?
If Twitter had started there the US would have just scooped it up with their free monopoly money.
Better how?
It is probably better if you do not intend to have children or ever need medical care.
People saying that taxes in the US are much lower than Europe, as a person who lived in London, San Francisco and NYC I’d like to disagree.

The tax rate for my income bracket in the UK is 45%, and while federal income tax is 39.6% I still have to pay state and city taxes on top of that which works out to be about the same.

However I get free medical care in the UK, affordable college tuition (10x less than the US at least), maternity leave, great public transit, I could go on. What does the same amount of taxes paid get me in the US? I’m not complaining about having to pay taxes, but sure would be nice to get something back that isn’t military.
I know those developers exists, that's why I keep reading such messages in every thread about $dead_lang.

I suggest those developers to stick to sites like https://github.com/trending instead of injecting their popularity contest questions in a thread about homoiconicity and lambda-calculus.

Lisp is pretty much "undead". We all know it and nothing, even investing billions of dollars and man hours to build the best runtime with state of the art GC implementations and library ecosystem will convince the younger generation to use it instead of something like JS. So what's the point of these questions then? Rather than curiosity driven, most of them seem defeatist and a gatekeeping effort by trolls if you read between the lines (and I do agree the post I replied to is not an example of that).
As a programmer for a few decades automation has been a big part of my life. When you automate something, there’s more to do.

If we reach some zen state where truly all has been automated then we’ll have UBI (or some dystopian hellscape) so I don’t worry about it.

I’ve always struggled with programmers who feared automation and wrote shitty, complicated, buggy code happy that they had “job security.”

I go to sleep wishing for the day when I can automate everything away.

Also, there’s tons of one person businesses you can run if you automate workflows.
As for normal backups, maybe it is better to have a chain of medium term solutions for storage rather than aiming for a single long term one.
"I always wonder if there's anyone left naive enough to justify corporate double speak."

I found The Gervais Principle[1] to be an interesting read on the subject. According to its author:

"the Sociopaths use Powertalk as a coded language with which to simultaneously sustain the (necessary) delusions of the Clueless and communicate with each other"

Also relevant was the article's description of the so-called MacLeod Life Cycle of organizations, wherein:

"A Sociopath with an idea recruits just enough Losers to kick off the cycle. As it grows it requires a Clueless layer to turn it into a controlled reaction rather than a runaway explosion. Eventually, as value hits diminishing returns, both the Sociopaths and Losers make their exits, and the Clueless start to dominate. Finally, the hollow brittle shell collapses on itself and anything of value is recycled by the sociopaths according to meta-firm logic."

[1] - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I don't like Musk, but he's done more for Ukraine than you can dream of. But he also sent a few stupid tweets that he took back, so that's a good enough excuse for virtue signalers to feel superior.
But if you are earning that you are likely working for a large corporation where your actual out of pocket expenses are much closer to something like $1000/month for that family (varies by situation). Far better scenario then a much lower European salary (probably closer to $80,000) with higher taxes and the same (at best) quality care.

If you are working independently yea it may be more expensive, but (unfortunately) so few people work independently so it’s an edge case not really that valuable here. Though worth noting providing a way to untie healthcare from employers and still make it affordable so that you can more easily start a company is a good idea.

It’s really difficult to do good analysis here. If you were in Ohio making $190,000 your family is automatically in the top 10% or so. If you worked remote you could buy a house outside of a major city for your salary equivalent, or in a city like Columbus for 2x your salary with some fantastic public schools.

Also a nitpick while I think you get much more efficient and cheaper healthcare with the government running it, at the end of the day it’s never free so you have to actually compare taxes to premiums to get a fair assessment of cost.
I don’t think it’s jealousy. I think his politics are clearly making him “the bad guy”.

It’s pretty clear he leans right so that makes him an enemy of a lot of people automatically.

If he leaned left, nobody would care. Hell, they’d probably encourage it.
> But training an AI model on media (code or otherwise) is not copyright infringement, so the license is irrelevant.

Well, maybe. But even if we assume that this is true, when anyone later uses the AI to reproduce a copy of the code, a copy has been made and copyright has been infringed.
Why doesn't students pull their funds for 1 book and then scan it and use that electronic copy? (and may be return/resell the physical book)?
It may SEEM like a reasonable viewpoint to you, but it's not grounded in reality.

Saying sex is a binary is excluding anyone that doesn't fit within that binary. And if that's something you can't imagine, then it's not a subject you should have or voice an opinion on.
I have filed reports with the FBI. They can’t confirm or deny an investigation unfortunately. Meanwhile I have to make payroll which I did this week by winning a poker tournament. Next week I’ll have to sell some assets which I have plenty of but which breaks my heart as the owner of sellnothing.com.
The only one I could think of would be the John Brown Gun Club. One of their members committed a terrorist attack on an ICE facility back in 2019 so perhaps that's why PayPal flagged the post author.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_John_Brown_Gun_C...
I hadn't used a shell prior to 1993, looking back I'm amazed at how much I learned in my first few weeks using black. Fond memories of using elm for email, tinyfugue to connect to muds and writing my first web pages.
I can't remember if it was black or sable that a small group of us crashed a few times with a deliberate fork() bomb. Not our proudest moment looking back!
Erm, Linux is GPL. Apple built on BSD. Which is doing better?

Participation != appropriation.
It’s almost like both companies need metric tons of money to do anything remarkable - isn’t that the point of YCombinator as well? That’s just venture capitalism.

He just has the ego of a manchild and bought the title of “founder” as wellz
Engineers be like, "Can I lint the codebase please?"
Not Quite Emoji Domain Names
They should call it the Precendtial!
Yeah I thought about using "developer" instead of "engineer." I'm in the US and we don't have a professional organization that owns the term. Meh.

Am I allowed to say developer? Is that what I'm supposed to say?
$8 check marks are never gonna make a significant dent in Twitter's expenses...
Generally, slowly thinning the heard is bad for moral. Employees will start to notice and then wonder if they are next.

In layoff situations it is almost universally better to do it all at once. This was you can assure the remaining staff their positions are safe.

The messaging and timing of course are all debatable.
How do you identify the right 50% in the short time Musk had?

He basically has to rely and trust people inside Twitter to make those decisions for him (can he, though?) or he has to fire people in an arbitrary way.

I don’t really understand how you can make that call unless you believe people are pretty much interchangeable and their emotions play no role.

It just seems inconceivable to me how you can meaningfully decide who to fire.

It‘s not as though this was an acquisition and suddenly the sales department is redundant and you can fire them all.

I would assume that you would need at least a couple months time to get to know the company and understand what and who might be redundant. I don’t think that question is easy to answer at all.
Businesses combine to survive then split to survive. Seems like a scam being run by lawyers and financial people to skim $$. This isn’t really a joke, unfortunately.

That and management ego boosting.