skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Issue alignment" is the thing I hate the most about partisan politics, especially America's polarized two-party system.

Why am I expected/forced to vote in a manner that bundles my views on guns, gender/orientation, race, immigration, education, abortion, jobs, war, taxes, and the economy? I'm "liberal" on some of those issues, "conservative" on others, and centrist on most of them. Ain't no candidates (or even party!) for me to vote for.
That doesn't refute that Mastodon is only one part of the Fediverse, nor does it address that federation actually changes the behavior of the social graph (in contrast to centralized Twitter) due to where the power to moderate and block lies.

It's not as simple as "the interface is similar, so Mastodon is a (federated) replacement for Twitter."
yeah the snarky responses aren't great.

Maybe a better play would be to let the responses roll, then do a blog post discussing the use of technology in law enforcement. They let the haters get under their skin and provoke an aggressive response... take the bait and you lose.
You realize that limitations like 16 bit addressing was because of the extreme limitations of the time right? The 6502 can address 65KB of memory, had 13 address modes, 55 instructions and was made out of 3,510 transistors. Modern CPUs have over a million times the transistor count.

Every year was another iteration of these limits being updated, no one ever thought any of these numbers were going to stay static. It took 1MB of memory just to have a 24 bit color frame buffer at NTSC resolution.

IP addresses were set at 4 billion when you could print out a list of known computers and put it in a binder and we still use it today.

This idea that people had a general lack of foresight was completely untrue. What people did with limitations like 3,510 transistors is astounding.
> The breach remained undetected for an unknown period of months before an interview with an engineer at a competing company disclosed that an executive at their employer had a copy of an Uber database

What’s the backstory here? Did an Uber competitor buy the database from a hacker? Then Uber found out which is how they found the data breach happened? Am I reading that right?

That sounds very shady whoever the competitor was.
I agree, this is fruit fly startup which will eventually fail. I can’t believe anyone could think this would be successful. It might do something interesting before it dies, though.
> I'm probably gonna have to stare at the sky for 4-5 hours, and what you consider real work is gonna maybe start happening tomorrow

It may not be indicative of the industry at large, but most engineers I know get away with this by changing the framing "I'm working on a doc" or "I'm scoping this feature" etc. Obviously this does not work with sufficiently bad management.
glibc doesn't actually support statically linking. (You can force it, but it breaks things.)
It is helpful that this was written from a blameless perspective, as it remains clear that the attempt to retroactively re-designate the breach as an authorized bug-bounty act was deceptive and self-serving.
How is a refund different from fraud? If you think they're entitled to a refund there must be some legal basis for it.

If you accept payment on an order you can't fulfil that is fraud.
The exchange value of something is what people are willing to pay for it.
Is their real estate making them more competitive now? If not, they should offload that dead weight right away, before their competition does.
Meaning that he happened to work on something that had widespread effect, he didn’t plan for it. It was luck that quantum mechanics was so successful
Communities in Microsoft Teams
I have literally never worked for a non-billion dollar business who owns their real estate and has remote work. Businesses just kinda expect to rent. But also once the national real estate bubble collapses, a lot of people are going to be left "holding the bag"
Who actually targets the web with Flutter? I wanna know. Flutter is a canvas app on the web. They barely figured out text copy/paste operations and it still looks and feels odd, Java like.
As someone who previously used a very customized zsh, switching to fish was great: reliable, fast, low config, etc
really like the ability to cite sources, great effort
Doesn't it require you to annotate every function if you want to compile to a binary? That makes it more like Cython than this. https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/pycc.html#overvi...
It's very clear that he thinks he deserves more money because the game he write short story for was a success.

20k is a very reasonable sum for this kind of gig.

For me he sounds greedy and yes it sounds like he complains (a lot)
Indeed in modern times you will know far in advanced whether or not you will pass
No, there really are more sequels today:

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/hollywood-sequels-remakes/

Key chart:

https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2...
Fish is a shell, warp is a terminal emulator. So even if someone uses fish they still need a terminal emulator; e.g. iTerm2 or Terminal.app. Am I missing something?
Where’s the evidence you can deliver if it’s never been seen.

Definitely people I trust no matter what their schedule. Definitely people who worked fine before pandemic and people I hired during the pandemic that are close to useless and just pretend to work if they’re not in the office.
Me. I’m right, because I’m at the centre of the Totality of Reality
I completely agree. It’s a full non-starter for us to run this on someone else’s infrastructure.

I was going to be looking hard at GitPod in 2023. That is now entirely off the table.
I don't know why "if err != nil" is such an issue, as C programs have been doing the exact same thing for decades and it works just fine.
More discussion here for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907982

IMHO, it seems the only story here is that people are discriminating against this guy because he's a cop. They know nothing about him other than they don't like his typecast.
Looks interesting but I keep encountering:

The inference service could be unavailable - we have alerts for this and will be fixing it soon.

Just an FYI if you aren’t getting those alerts.
For me, it makes code harder to read because my brain can't stop pronouncing it as “s”, so something like `f($x, $y, $z)` reads like “eff sex, swy, szee”. And for writing, requiring a shifted key before every identifier is a lot of pinky strain. Not to mention that it's completely useless noise.
since the mastodon server is down and I can only read the archive, can someone identify who this person is? is it the founder of Raspberry Pi or something like that?

if this is an official voice of the company itself, then this is a super awful way to carry yourself in public. Your customers might be from "blue states" or "red states" but their money is all the same: green. Alienating customers == bad.
For your viewing pleasure https://youtu.be/UXHoWNfjJYM?t=315 [5:15]

Spat out my coffee when I saw this ... I guess Xiaomi are pulling ahead ...
Yes. You only have to open these connections once on the first execution of that function (cold start), any future request that hit this warm function will have 5 open connections and can instantly execute these queries in parallel. No overhead at all to open the connections.

What would be the alternative? Only execute the queries in sequence, one by one?
Thanks, we're getting 10+ requests per second at the moment. Frantically scaling to keep up. Didn't expect this post to blow up so fast!
The number one question for me would be, is it interoperable with existing Python and libraries?
> Arguable Tesla believe the claims it was making.

It may have believed its claims about the future would be true, the problem (well, for fraud; for false advertising and implied warranty claims, that belief may not be material) is that it supported them with misleading/false representations of past & current facts within Tesla’s knowledge, like the conditions of the self-driving demo.
Airtable lays off over 250
I was laid off back in August. Had a bunch of interviews right off the bat at top companies that ended up dragging on for weeks (months in some cases) as one role was on again/off again while other companies were slow to schedule next steps. Ultimately, none of my on-sites resulted in offers by the end of October and I suspect layoffs and budgeting concerns were a factor in at least two of them.

I think openings and interviews are very slow right now due to the holidays
You're basically doing carrier grade NAT for that, the same thing that is apparently tooootallly acceptable to the ipv6 people for their big success story: mobile.

The only success story of ipv6 leads us to the solution: backbone-level CGNAT and other hacks, then impose the economic cost on IPV4-only carriers and endusers.
I wouldn't mind doing something "vigorous" that lasts less than five minutes a day a few times each day! wink wink
They're treating their mastodon audience as if it's a twitter audience and failing to read the room.

There's a lot more anti-cop folks on mastodon, so coming out right away with "We hired a policeman & it's going great" is probably not the best icebreaker. It's already gonna set folks on edge.

Then the quote is about hiding covert video and audio surveillance, which is also something that's not gonna be well received by the audience on mastodon.

They then doubled down in their responses to folks concerned with the toot. They started making edgy responses which simply shouldn't be how brands engage folks on mastodon. It's a different audience than twitter. Telling well-respected folks to unfollow and "chill" is unnecessarily combative, especially by saying condescending stuff like "bye bye now" and calling followers childish.

If they would have framed it as hiring a former security officer and then detailing what he's doing with the Pi, they would have been fine. But they framed it in just about the worst way possible, then doubled down with troll-y replies.
I've been using this for a while and I like I can use my mouse to move the cursor and make selections. Is there an equivalent open source option?
California HSR would be if I had built pylons without a deck as far as Hawaii and subsequently been sued by all the ships that crashed into it.
It seems like the server may be feeling the effects of the HN front page but it was already down with only two comments. There was a new breed of ActivityPub-amplified DDoS attack a week or two back on other Mastodon instances, so perhaps we're seeing more of the same.
Hey, that's cool. Are there any plans to help with bridging the gap to native or do you consider that outside the scope of what Wasp is concerned with?
Sounds like a pretty toxic environment. Working with remote employees is no different than working with someone in another office.

Consider the pre-pandemic prevalence of "phone booths" and one person conference rooms, so you can be in a meeting as the only local attendee. As far as the other location is considered, you are remote just with access to a bigger coffee maker.
> In general, I think Tesla FSD buyers have a strong argument for a refund in that they never got what they purchased. But a refund is different from fraud.

Yes, refund is a remedy, fraud is one of the torts that arguably occurred which warrants the remedy.
It's an aspirational comparison. Not an actual one.
Dunno about "just fine" - I rarely use Go programs, but I found a bug in the one I work with the most which turned out to be precisely a failure to write "if err != nil". It just feels kind of embarrassing when we… already know how to prevent these problems.
I was expecting something with some style/personality and the performance in the video was so flat.

I feel like you could script that performance out manually and have it be the same.
I do, for example. I'm building apps that require mobile versions as well, and I don't want to build the same app three times, or even twice. Yes, React Native exists, but there's not as much codesharing between React web and RN as one would expect. Yes, React Native Web exists, but the whole experience is that of using a patchwork of open source libraries, some not as well maintained as others, to get the same experience as Flutter gives, first class.

Flutter on the other hand, for all three targets, it Just Works™.
I think it is clear that Heisenberg, Sommerfeld, Born and others at the forefront of theoretical physics at the time were well aware of how important and far-reaching the issues that comprised Heisenberg's real work were.

As explained in the article, his diversion into hydrodynamics was purely to secure a doctorate from a physics establishment which had not yet caught up to this fact, and I would say that, if anything, it is this establishment which suffered a surfeit of narrow specializations.
I'm curious about how any updating would get done with this kind of mirror. Is the content scraped from the original source and then uploaded through an automated process?
the last commit to it's repo was 2 years ago.
Your Platform Is Not an Ecosystem
Maria Farrell explains why "plantation" is a better term.
Most serious web apps will end up behind a reverse proxy with nginx or apache though
I'm not sure of the larger right term for this but it's worth pointing out this is one of a bunch of different providers all offering the same API to the same public data, and you can create your own with different open source offerings.
Banks can and do sell mortgages to other banks and other financial institutions all the time. So just because your mortgage is with that bank now doesn't mean it will be forever.
Nothing stops Democrats to run on the same issues as Republicans and actually deliver them. But that doesn't happen generally, so I don't think you're point is accurate.
> It is like some people don’t know you have a choice.

That's what all those ad spend dollars do, make sure new ideas are drowned out by a dull parade of decade-old information.

I've been very happy at a work-related credit union and I can't recommend them highly enough; no fees, boring online banking that doesn't change every 18 months, and the knowledge that I can get a human on the phone without having to tickle a robot's numbers.
Physics specifically has a long tradition of expecting a wide breadth of knowledge. For example, in every physics department i know details about, the expectation is that any professor is able to teach any class, and class assignments indeed change very regularly.

I think part of the reason is that the knowledge tends to be "use it or lose it" on a multi-year timescale. If you work with physicists who have been pidgeonholed in industry for decades then this is probably to be expected.
German states and federal government agreed on nationwide 49€ ticket coming 2023
Same thing with the underlying business case for Intel/AMD's ME/PSP backdoors, and locked down computing in general. Yet we all now have to suffer their existence on every performant CPU made in the past decade.

If software developers had a professional oath to do no harm akin to doctors, creating such systems would be professional malpractice. Some lines just shouldn't be crossed.
This is at the risk of courting GPT-fatigue, but this "what is a monad" question seems done to death. I'd ask here: For what is the following understanding of a monad insufficient?

> what is an example of a monad

"One example of a monad is the Maybe monad, which is often used to represent computations that may or may not have a result. The Maybe monad allows you to define computations that may or may not return a value, and provides methods for handling the absence of a value in a predictable and composable way. For example, you might use the Maybe monad to represent a computation that retrieves a user's profile from a database. If the user exists, the computation will return the user's profile; if the user does not exist, the computation will return nothing. The Maybe monad provides methods for handling both cases in a clean and declarative manner, without having to resort to explicit checks for null values or other error-prone techniques."

> what is an example of the maybe monad

...< some example code >

"In this example, the getUserProfile function uses the Maybe.fromValue method to wrap the user object that is returned from the database lookup in a Maybe monad. This allows us to chain methods such as map and orElse on the result of the getUserProfile function, without having to worry about null or undefined values. If the user exists, the computation will return the user's name in all uppercase letters. If the user does not exist, the orElse method will return the default value 'USER NOT FOUND' instead."

In this view, it's a function that returns a known but abstracted symbol of some underlying state. It sounds like the function true() is a monad in the sense that it returns or doesnt, but instead of TRUE, a generic monad could be something like isElephant, notHotdog, isSandwich, where the state represented by the monad can become an attribute (or a condition) of some other entity, depending on the order in which you evaluate the relationship between the monad and what it is an abstraction for.

I have either just won the "explain monads" quest, or failed quite publicly at it while writing something persuasive but misleading, but if I were to create an abstract state like isSandwich, could I be using a monad?
PhD programs, requirements and exams aren't standardized across institutions. Everyone's experience is different.

PhD graduates are extremely diverse in every possible measure. Some are deep generalists. Others are hyper specialized. Some can walk on water. Others leave you wondering how they managed to graduate.
I think a lot of people here are probably used to consulting/contracting being somewhat extended work towards completing a work order.

But there is definitely a lot of consulting where you're working more or less full-time to stay current, market yourself, etc. and when you do get work the day rate may be eye-watering--but those jobs may be short and/or infrequent.

When I was an industry analyst, in addition to our regular subscription clients, we did present at company events, did a la carte consulting days, and things like that for which we got about $10K per day. But we didn't have a lot of those.
I am amused that, once upon a time, it was a not uncommon joke that an inept user might sit at their computer and type into a search bar "Please take me to my email" or ask their search engine "I would like a recipe for cookies".

Turns out those folks might have been ahead of their time. :D
This is great, exact what I’m looking for, thank you!
Yeah look at how things like Brave and DuckDuckGo do it.
Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron
Eh, top-20 grossing only and starts in the early 80s. There are lots of remakes and sequels (and some "cinematic universes"!) in the 1900-1950 range—not infrequently, one of the remakes is far better-known or better-regarded now than the original.

[EDIT] I've actually looked into this before and if you have better data on it I'd genuinely love to see it—I couldn't find any.

[EDIT EDIT] What I was most interested in was seeing whether there was a major change in this in the 60s-80s when director-as-auteur trend took over after the Studio System was broken up—arguably we're kinda trending back toward a Studio System sort of arrangement, so it'd be interesting to see if a ~century-long graph that includes wider-ranging data looks U-shaped.
> "Statistically speaking, most of the time spent doing science is spent being wrong. As soon as you figure a system out your work is essentially done and you move on to being wrong about a different problem."

That's a remarkably good quote. Definitely very true.

I would argue that grad students prepare pretty well for that, and it's one of the main mindset shifts you're expected to make in grad school vs undergrad. Regardless, though, it's not something that gets broad appreciation.
He was appointed by DeSantis, https://flgov.com/2021/09/21/governor-ron-desantis-announces... who has made quite clear what his feelings about COVID policy are.

I think anybody at this point defending hydroquinone and ivermectin, in the face of the available data, is not "following the science". And people complaining there are huge side effects to the vaccines are also, not "following the science". Running trials and evaluating clinical data to make policy during an emergency is non-trivial, but casting doubt like this isn't helpful.
I think the end goal of most low-code/no-code tools to be something where you can get an 80% solution without hiring a real engineer. The second part of that sentence is really important.

Should large businesses going to build their most critical functions into a low-code solution? No, not at all. But one slightly technical person in e.g. the marketing department can unlock a lot of business value but automating a few workflows.
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After a bit of trial and error, I quickly realised that for this workflow to work, full screened applications is the best way. This is because my focus is less interrupted when my laptop's DPI complements my external display's DPI.

And since I don't like having to strain my eye sight too much when working on my laptop, I'm still running my 10 year old ThinkPad X230 with a 1366x768 IPS display, which is pretty comfortable for those long 10+ coding marathons.

For that reason, my chosen external display had to feel similar when working on my desktop keyboard on mouse. So I picked a 4k 32" Dell Ultrasharp, that I run at 1920x1080. I sit really far back. Relaxed coding lounge sort of thing.

I've been using this design for a couple days now, and it has done wonders for my creativity and productivity. I must thank you again.

If you're wondering about the low resolution preference, it's because it allows me to use my keyboard's built-in mouse more effectively ([0] ThinkPad Wireless TrackPoint Keyboard II), and thus I never have to lift my hands off the keys.

This alone has increased my productivity significantly. Keyboard shortcuts are fast becoming my friend. Debian for the win.

Oh I decided to take the lounge coding concept a little further, so I've also plugged in a KMV switch, allowing me to switch displays between the external monitor and the 120" projector with a press of a remote button.

So depending on where I feel like sitting, my wireless keyboard follows me. Currently I'm in the Aeron at my desk, but for about 4 hours earlier I was coding from the sofa.

For your external display, what's your preferred inch-size and resolution?

And why?

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/medias/4Y40X49493-01-500x400.png
How does Stack Overflow know the answer is generated by ChatGPT?
Also wouldn't they be better suited by addressing incorrect answers rather than who or what created the answer? If they are concerned about incorrect answers they have to concede that humans provide incorrect answers as well.
I's kind of incredible how common this specific kind of vulnerability is. I have to assume the developers of these systems just hope that no one will notice?
I am not sure I am following.

We can have either parallel queries in a transaction where the order does not matter, or we can have them serialized - but then the next query will only be sent onto its journey after the previous query returned its data to the app.

What are the attack vectors here? And where would the attacker sit and try to achieve what exactly?
> People are starting on PC games using very sophisticated setup with dedicated PCI hardware connected to a second computer where the cheat software actually ru

Have you got a reference for this? I want to read more.