skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a circuit that alerts people to dead carriers.

People in radio station studios generally don't listen to the over-the-air signal because there is a delay. A silence sense is a circuit that monitors the over-the-air signal and takes action when it's been too quiet for too long. This is usually an indication that something has failed, either at the transmitter, or in the studio-transmitter link. It is sometimes triggered by dramatic pauses in classical music and talk show content, but in those cases is ignored by the DJ/host/producer.

They've been around forever, and can be made from simple analog circuits. In the stations where I've worked, if the silence sense activated, a red light lit up in the DJ booth, and the engineering department. Some stations had a secondary silence sense that would wait a bit longer, and light up a light bulb at the receptionist's desk because she had the master list of phone numbers to call the right people in case of a transmission failure.

There are thousands of radio station transmitters that are far enough away from the originating studio that it's not possible for the studio to hear the over-the-air signal, so a silence sense on top of a mountain, next to the transmitter could send an alert packet via this satellite service back to the studio to let someone know something is wrong.
I've been thinking of doing that for a decade now but be aware that modern chest fridges are built so cheaply they do not have the same insulation level as old-school chest fridges.

ie. if you are getting it from walmart for $100, it's probably garbage insulation and the compressor will run all the time
I'm using UpCloud who are good, but a bit more expensive than Linode or DigitalOcean.
> up to and including "vague" threats of violence.

I'm no expert in Twitter, but I have heard many people of note complain about receiving death threats on Twitter. One example:

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dea...

> Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed that some mornings she starts her day by reading the death threats she has received from men on Twitter.

Making a death threat, or a threat of violence, is not protected speech, it is a crime. Can you clarify why you think the new owners will look the other way at crimes being committed on their platform?

Also, if it was already happening (up to and including "minor celebrity blames Twitter for their recent issue with a fan stalking them"), is this the trajectory you see regardless of ownership? And if not how will new ownership contribute to it?
For Linode Ubuntu 22.04 installations, at least, the default seems to be DHCP, even if the IP address is fixed. And I certainly wouldn't have thought anything about this, since even when using fixed IP addresses, I'm in the habit of using DHCP to provide a central source of IP address truth for my networks, to ease the pain of the inevitable renumbering.
It's crazy the number of people on HN somehow claiming that Twitter is this well run and well functioning tech company now that bad rocket man took the reigns and decided to lay off everyone... Isn't it a consensus among tech people that Twitter is the absolute worst tech company?
Whew - even with your empty caveat against saying what I’m about to say:

Designing reusable rockets and launching hundreds of them into space for profit, is more complicated and requires a different caliber of frankly higher IQ worker, than building and maintaining the existing Twitter.

Not that there aren’t some smart web people, obviously.
Perfectionism and my insecurity about english language.
Valiant, but isn’t the entire point that the cost of generation is so low you don’t need a curator.

Any of the APIs can just spit out 100 variants for far less than $5, so why bother with curation?
Do you really think it will be four years? Considering his attention span, and the rapidity with which Twitter is already deteriorating, I suspect it will be much less than that.
For me, it always comes down to genuine self-esteem. Someone's fashion style, physic, or facial symmetry really doesn't matter if they have no confidence in themselves.
Lot of vertical fridge inefficiency could be simply resolved by having glass door, so you could check content without opening the door and then just quickly go for things you want.

But yeah it's convenience over efficiency and it would require also a lot of empty space above fridge which can be ulitized inb much better way, while there is hardly any space wasted above my ~210cm tall fridge and I still use the top to store some things which I could not to with chest fridge.
I don't see how you decide how and who to fire before you are in control of the company, but that's just me
Don't do this. While Sipser has a couple of hipccups he is a MUCH better teacher and writer. Ullman et al are brilliant and all but their writing is both boring and incomprehensible. I am not even talking about the most useless recommendation of them all - the Dragon book.
The stock market is a leading indicator however. While down 20%, it's still above pre-pandemic highs. I don't the stock market is screaming severe recession at the moment.
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Well, in practice we are paying it.
Choosing to ignore news while asking why your own experience doesn't match news seems disingenuous. News like recession is not made up for political or humourous reasons.
> if you’re wrong, you’re not accountable to your actions because there was never any actual money on the line.

I mean, that's the risk you run right?

Either you're a regulated system where you can avoid this kind of thing, or you're an unregulated system where you go 'screw the man', but you don't get the protections that are associated with the traditional financial system.

There's some deep irony about complaining about it; isn't the 'good' thing about crypto?

That's what people keep telling me anyway.
> This person can get married and raise a family while still waiting for that green card.

That's your mistake right here - making long term plans while being on temporary visa. Just assume that you're here for a few years to make money, and then need to go back to your home country. That's the idea behind H-1B visas anyway.
I built a platform that lifts via linear actuators. When down it sits on bottom. When up, it comes near the opening. On top of it, is an adjustable metal rack similar to what you’d find in a commercial kitchen or sold at a big box hardware store. The rack almost fully fits the interior space when closed. When I open the freezer it can all lift up and I have perfect 360 access (although reaching through the front is easiest since it’s not too deep). We probably lose a lot of the cold air when we lift it but keep thermal mass high and only open it a couple times a month and organize in a way that we don’t have to lift the shelf most times (low frequency items on bottom).

Over kill probably, but my wife is short so it pays dividends.
I think relative time is good for things less than a week old, but anything other than that will use the full date. Discord's solution to it is really nice imo.
Giving GPT-3 free rein at a Unix prompt
"Europe" isn't a unified system. Those benefits definitely don't exist in the UK, and I'd still consider our labour laws to be well-balanced and reasonably fair to both employees and employers.
I've teached myself coding in the 80s in a department store on a Vic20 by watching other kids in order to write my own video games (I played video games on an Atari 2600). Wrote some games then joined the Amstrad CPC and later Amiga Demo scenes and wrote some demo code. Then joined a startup (and got basically a MsC in CS on the side, but that didn't help). Teached myself 20+ programming languages (myself = experiment + reading books) by writing code.

Most of my learning to code happend pre-Internet.

(currently learning Go by creating a job website)
but if sudo was written in java we'd have other problems ;)
The title link leads to an unrelated article: "How Racism and Bias Influence Substance Use and Addiction Treatment"
We could start by considering not writing stuff like

> /*

> * Truncate to 8 chars if standard DES since not all crypt()'s do this.

> * If this turns out not to be safe we will have to use OS #ifdef's (sigh).

> */

> sav = pass[8];
We ended up rebooting our server, that brought everything back up again.
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lol. Suppose their salaries reduced to half of what they are making today, how many of them do you still think will continue to work at these places, for the technical challenges and whatever else they have told themselves is the real reason for them to work there in the first place?

I don't doubt the technical excellence of these companies. They are technically very capable because of the talent they hire, and they are able to hire top talent because of the high salaries they pay, not because of some altruistic or egoistic reasons
I checked out Twitter again after a few months absence. There is good content, for sure, but by crikey, most of what passes for political discourse amounts to a stream of non sequiturs and ipse dixit (assertion without proof).
>> Are we deluding ourselves here?

Yes.

Pornhub, Exxon, Smith and Wesson, all the big tobacco companies, the guys that manufacture fentanyl, infowars, they all have IT staffs. Some have extremely sophisticated IT staffs. Money talks, but there other factors. when you’re working on migrating from .net to cloud native at Exxon and you’re building some kind of new container registry or something you probably don’t spend your days pondering climate change; you get paid every two weeks, you are learning some cool stuff and you’re building some cool stuff. Most people need jobs too.

A pay check and some sort of plausible rationalization is all that is needed. “Twitter is free speech” sounds pretty strong. “Twitter connected Ukrainians during that invasion” sounds strong.
It's the one I chose.

Works for me, but I have different ambitions from most folks in the industry.

I've never really wanted to be rich. It would be nice, but it's never been a need.

I do, however, have skills that could make other people rich. They have been so fixated on my gray hair, though, that they never even realized that.
The article says:

> “There’s a strong desire to see how ballot counting machines are actually counting the ballots,” New Hampshire’s Secretary of State, David Scanlan, told Click Here in an interview. “And open-source software really is the only way that you can do that effectively.”

In any case, I don't think voting machines are a good idea.

I know that you can use enough cryptography and enough open sourcing to make them secure, but what might convince me wouldn't convince the 'village idiot'.

Paper voting and traditional election observers work in a nice 'analog' way. It's tangible, and even a 'village idiot' can understand how it works.

Most voting systems aren't complicated enough to need a computer to evaluate them.

(And those that are should arguable be changed.)
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> Programming languages aren't just for machines to execute. There are for humans to communicate and collaborate.

"All it does is segfault!" I wake up in a cold sweat. It's still dark; a quick glance at the clock shows that it's about 3 in the morning. There's a stir besides me.

"Was it the dream again?" My wife says from the darkness to my side.

"It's fine, just go back to sleep."

She mumbles something incoherent and in a few moments she's snoring quietly. I lie down, but I already know there's no more sleep for me tonight.

+++

In the morning I arrive late in the office. I was in the parking lot at 7:30, but it took me an hour and a half to work up the nerve to walk in the building. They're at it again. The "collaborators". After we invented the perfect programming language for human communication and collaboration (we-lang) software developers took to calling themselves 'collaborators'. Today they're rehashing the same argument that they've been on for the past month.

"Michael, why are you always late? The computer is doing it again, and you know you're the only one who gets it." A loose mob of collaborators are standing around a 50 inch monitor on the wall. A half blank terminal monopolizes the screen. It seems to have been in the middle of producing log output, but now the cursor blinks lazily at a final message: "generic fault encountered".

It started with looks of confusion, then contempt, and finally resignation. And now I stare back, knowing how today is going to go. The same way as all days. "Yes, there are two problems, which is what I was trying to say yesterday. The first problem is that we're launching multiple threads and then they're all trying to modify the same unlocked data. And the second," I take a deep breath, "and the second is that the goal is kind of an open problem. We're potentially ambiguous in a few places and even if we weren't then it could take decades for the fastest computers to brute force a solution that conforms to the spec."

"Michael, we've been over this before. We all agreed that this is the nature that the UI should follow. We all agreed that this is how the back end ought to work. Why can't you, those mathematicians you keep talking about, and the computer all just get with the program. Maybe try being a team player for once." In the mob heads nod in ascent. We-Lang is perfect. Everyone agrees and understands everyone else. The collaboration between humanity has been achieved as if we were a single person. One mind. Unification.

But when we run it on the computer, all it does is segfault.
Yeah, fair point. I've sunk hours into using the platforms themselves trying to get the right image, and not managed it. I personally would have paid a curator to find me the right thing. But I'm keen to work out whether other people have this problem.

I'm also hopeful it could be a way to continue to get money to creators in an age of generative AI!
>be surprised to learn of any country where it's illegal to prevent the employee having access to the building, confidential documents, etc.

And I'd surprised if there were many countries where you couldn't prevent an employee who had been notified they were being let go from having access to systems, documents, etc.
There's nothing wrong with it, but it is NOT desired at scale.

And as individuals we should build up those relationships in reality (not online) because they're incredibly helpful.
> the seventh byte past the buffer is then zeroed/set to the null terminator. I wonder if and how this is exploitable.

Well, looking at the upstream code, the original value is saved away before zeroing it out and then unconditionally restored after running crypt.

If sudo is single threaded and crypt() doesn't malloc() anything, I don't think that can be exploited. Worst case would be a segfault if the password was somehow close enough to a page boundary.
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I gave up. I submitted an inquiry on their sales form for dedicated and got no response, I contacted their support and got "we'll let you know." They've at least added nvme storage for instances, but in at least their Dallas data center the iops suck. In Newark it's a bit better.

If you've got a bunch of servers at a linode data center and want bare metal ones, I ended up just looking at what other hosts are peered with their nearest exchange. Our servers are in Dallas and Vultr, Equinix via IBM Cloud, and Servermania all had peering to them through a local exchange at infomart or nearby. We ended up moving database servers to those bare metal services and connecting over wan to our linode ones. Latency less than 5ms.

Linode also contacted us to ask why our monthly usage halved. We told them, they offered no alternatives.
Perhaps a perception that people in western Europe will be a closer cultural fit? Perhaps timezone proximity? Perhaps because executives want an excuse to travel regularly to Berlin or London or Paris or Barcelona?
You are talking about perf?

People use fucking java in HFT

dont worry, our basic tools are fine with Rust, go or even c#
EDIT:

Should preface all of this by being very, very, clear that we don’t know what the liabilities are so can’t judge too much. It’s fun to assume their liabilities are cash, but if they’ve borrowed 2.5bn of “unspecified crypto” as in the report and still have the same “unspecified crypto” borrow is healthy whether or not the price changes. I this it’s extremely unlikely all their liabilities are cash.

Surprise surprise, who would have guessed that the trading firm running an exchange might have some special relationship?

It’s possible that the FTT is also a liability, loaned from FTX. The book still isn’t great but is much healthier in that case.

It’s also possible that many of the unspecified crypto collateral is directly borrowed, instead of bought with borrowed cash.

It still leaves a few questions:

* Are they taking delta risks with borrowing funds or not? Borrowing to send into defi/basis has a very different risk profile than taking bets on price.

* is tether cash, or “unspecified crypto held”? Is USDC/BUSD crypto held? Is DAI?

* What lender would bother with the whole FTT song-and-dance instead of just admitting they’re giving out effectively uncollateralized loans

* Are lenders in a situation where they know the collateral is no good, but they also know that calling the loans/selling will force the worst case, so they hold on hoping for a way out?

* I doubt any lenders are taking significant maps/oxy/fida collateral. Mega shitcoins from day1

* Is this an arrangement that “made more sense” back in the bull market and now lenders want to call loans and avoid pissing off sbf?

* is sbf so interested in rescuing underwater lenders since he doesn’t want them to potentially liquidate giant ftt holdings?

It’s hard to come to any serious conclusions here without knowing the nature of their liabilities and the assets backing those (if any).

But then again what’s the risk? If you made the coin and basically get to chose the price, why not transmute that into cash? Lending to someone is an implicit OTC bid, and alameda surely gets a better deal in the lending markets than they would selling on exchange. You don’t even get the price impact unless the lenders try to liquidate.
For some. Mostly those who beat others.
Well, technically, it's only a recession if it comes from the Rècession region of France.

What OP is referring to is called bubbly fiscal agony.
Talk about free healthcare if you want but in execution it always sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways
sudo feels like a broken concept to me in general.

sudo make install, ok, great, some of the many operations you need to do requires privileges? Better give elevated privileges to all operations!

Even worse with GUI: enter your password to install. Now I have absolutely no clue what the scope of sudo is.

Of course I don't want to enter my password for all individual cp and mv operations, but if sudo had a better/smaller scope that'd be great.
I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place.

I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.
This whole code thing is so nonsense to me.

If I need a code to loop over 10 lines, I'll code a for loop the same way regardless of what I'm developing.

Define for me, at what point of complexity, does code gets Copyrighted?

The things copilot is outputting is literally small chunks of code that needs a lot of cleanup afterwards. Is not like I type "Build twitter for me" and BAM, I got a working clone of twitter.
People have been screaming about a recession for the last year now, with not a whole lot of hard data to back it up. Inflation aside, the US is doing well, and even on that metric we're doing better than most of Europe right now. Stories of doom grab eyeballs, and a bunch of people really want the US/Europe to have a bad time, so there's also a lot of wishcasting going on.
I dont understand the SpaceX argument since he was an actual original founder if I'm not mistaken, I could see the Tesla argument, but those people never provide any true insight into how he is riding on Teslas former success whenever I run into those (not to mention, if it was so good... why did they need a new CEO). I think it's pretty obvious he is a capable individual, overly ambitious at times, but hey, he somehow makes it work.

I try to be neutral about him, but as a Software Engineer, he is easy to admire, he is able to work on various tech related companies at once and make it work. That is no small feat. We have discussed on HN before that companies like Amazon having employees peeing in bottles usually those sort of issues come down from the top (CEO tier) and trickle down to the bottom, if that's true, and Elon is awful, it would show in all his companies, but he manages to delegate correctly enough to keep a few large companies going.
Yep, the real question is for how much longer.
> Anyone want to make predictions about the state of Twitter in a few years?

1: Profitable

2: More signal, less noise

3: Significantly less misinformation

4: (Maybe) A reliable way to get news

Personally, I'm eating popcorn on this one. I think Musk got himself in trouble for letting his big mouth yap, and he fired the execs as revenge. As a software developer who's seen good and bad organizations, I'm very curious about the layoffs.
The loans are outstanding loans given to Alameda. This article is assessing the balance sheet, so assets (various junk coins) and liabilities (loans)
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How do they work then?
More similar culture and laws.
The title is contradicted by the article itself: if 88% of the firms equity were suddenly worthless (the worst car scenario), that would mean 12% remained. So they're not insolvent...
What is self-taught anyway? I have a BS in compsci from about 25 years ago but 99% of what I use today in my professional career/business is completely self-taught, though I think my degree program helped in sone ways (basic OOP with C++, Unix, network topology, algorithm design, etc.). Then again, I first started programming in BASIC on a Tandy when I was 10, so perhaps my early interest and obsession/passion has helped as much as anything else.
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