skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our BBS meetups ("bashes" in our lingo) were a wide range of outside the mainstream people.

Teenagers with nerdish interests (me and my crowd), hippie physicists from the local university, BDSM people, swingers (a lot of swingers, probably party people by nature), a few Hitler-was-right Nazis here and there, some pagan types, conspiracy theorists, gay & lesbian folks, and on and on. There was a some overlap in the crowds, and at the bashes everyone mixed and matched just fine. Fun was had by all.

I later dated someone from those bashes for a few years, and a couple of people from back then are good friends to this day. Still in touch with a few more, all of whom are doing interesting things.
Travis changed the dashboard URL to be on a 'app.' subdomain a couple of days ago. I had to re-authorize the Travis-CI app on github as well. No warning about compromise though.
The difference is that there are engineering standards that define what is acceptably "safe". From the article:

>"The standard requires that by 1972 all new cars can withstand a 20 mph rear-end collision without fuel loss, and by 1973 they can withstand a 30 mph collision. None of the prototype cars passed the 20 mph test."

They knew they had a design that didn't pass the industry-accepted safety standard.
I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market. It's not principled, it's just dumb and will completely screw over all of their current customers in the country who will now have useless devices. Apple is not a nation-state and has no judiciary or military power, and if they're to have any hope of making positive change in the country they need to play ball to some extent and become a large player who can actually exert some influence.
This opt-in, because of sneak's law ("users can not and will not securely manage{generate, backup, authenticate} key material")[1]. Apple knows that enabling this by default would be a disaster. This means most people will not ever even know the feature exists, and few will turn it on.

This means that iMessage as a platform is still backdoored, because most people you iMessage with will be escrowing their endpoint iMessage keys to Apple in their effectively unencrypted iCloud Backups.

Apple (and the FBI/DHS/CIA/NSA soup bois without a warrant) will still be able to read everyone's iMessages in real-time.

Everyone wins. Spies keep spying, Apple gets to trot out the e2ee marketing flag.

Meanwhile, there is nothing to indicate that they don't intend to continue the rollout of their clientside photo scanning software that they previously announced.

[1]: https://youtu.be/9k4GP3Evh9c
Two plants reprocessing a negligible fraction of the fuel for 2% of world energy provably have more effect on the north sea than chernobyl.

Both plants, but especially Stellafield were producing many times as much before Greenpeace's 'stunts'.

Scale it up at least 5000 times so that the amount of reprocessing isn't negligible and you have a chernobyl worth of radiation every 20 years or so. This is only the one pair of isotopes in the one place with an indisputable proof.

Note that your claims about it being undetectable were proven to be yet another lie and you immediately went back to 'you can't prove that it's reached harmful levels yet' or the exact same script fossil fuel has been running for decades.

When every pro nuclear claim that is easily checked is a lie, what possible reason is there to believe you about the ones that are harder to verify that you'd have even less incentive to tell the truth for?
It's not just about money. It's about sex, power, and hope of building the life you dream of. People will keep lowering their expectations until they hit rock bottom, and then drop out.
In other words, if they used Bitcoin Iranian women would have access to 25% of their money, instead of 0%.
I don't think they even bought bitcoin and SBF admitted as much. They just took the money and send the user a fraudulent notice that an investment was purchased when in fact no investment took place. This made the 'bank run' easy to trigger as they would have to purchases a bitcoin or other crypto every time a 'withdraw' happened to cover the lack of assets to withdraw for the account.

https://twitter.com/DoombergT/status/1598457179211812865
Commercial buildings in the US are incredibly cheap boxes, and knocking an old one down and rebuilding to spec is how the land-owners get new leases.

The companies that DON'T knock down are always a bit cheap.
The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos, while the new one is a checksum, which should return the same hash only for identical photos. I don’t think that invalidates the point, but it does seem relevant. It certainly makes it much less useful for CSAM scanning or enforcing local dictator whims, since it’s now trivial to defeat if you actually try to.
> Apple doesn't seem to be in the business of selling software very much.

This is veritably false, they made $80 billion selling software this year. You might not see the App Store as software revenue, but Apple certainly does.
The Bash CLI is my file manager. So I've got ncdu built right in. Try it, you'll love it. I almost never touch the rodent.
Devices with no clue of IPv6 also just drop those packets. What have we gained?

The only thing I can imagine is that while you still need to alter or replace every piece of equipment on the net, software adoption would likely have been much easier and thus immediately higher if 128 bit addresses were the only change (I still don't see the benefit of tucking it in as a field into IPv4, but if IPv6 was just IPv4 with wider addresses), and all the other protocols and semantics that were changed with IPv6 stayed the same. But arguably, since you do need to change every piece of equipment, this was the time to make desirable, fundamental, not-backward compatible changes, and possibly the only opportunity at that.
> anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.

in financial circles, an immediate thought would also be "is such a person short AAPL?".
This is how the business cycle works. Companies expand during the booms, so that they can prepare to take on more business than they are currently doing. Eventually somebody realizes that it has all been irrationally exuberant, and a bunch of them get laid off.

This is why the standard economics policy is to try to grow slowly and smoothly rather than have big boom and bust cycles. As the saying goes, the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets started.

But unfortunately, everybody loves punch, and boos when the Fed takes measures to rein in the economy. The last recession in the US ended in 2009, but the central bankers treated it as a crisis until... until it became a different crisis.
> I ask to live-design a quadratic equation solving function

I’ve been programming for a decade, was a Linux/cloud engineer a decade before that, I’ve had code on the front page of google, launched products for Microsoft, and had my code shown on stage at nodeconf and aws re:invent. I am currently top 0.07% on stack overflow. I can answer the other questions in this discussion easily. I would absolutely fail this.
I use it when looking up drugs and medical conditions. If the NSA wants to spend their budget connecting me to searches about sumatriptan or plantar fascitis then that's a useful (useful to me, fuck the NSA) waste of their time. If not, then it creates noise for the rest of the network.
Just buy a dang external battery pack charger. All these phones remind me of something ill see at 5 below in the future. The worst part about these phones is the extreme lack of software updates,patches,and security fixes. This phone is for fools.
Blender is an artsy program and development tends to focus on the artsy side. fusion360 is an engineering program and development tends to focus on that use case. Not to say you cant use it for ether purpose. but loosely, blender is better when you only really care about what it looks like and fusion360 is better when you care not how it looks but about the details of the dimensions of your thing.

personally I enjoy modeling in a parametric program like fusion360 more, I guess it appeals to my inner programmer, but nothing I make could reasonably be called "art".
With these non-IPO companies doing layoffs is the correct way to read these announcements "we are letting people go to lower expenses because we are not profitable and are actually at risk of running out of money" or is it more "we are letting people go to lower expenses because our investors are asking that we look better on paper because they would like us to have a liquidity exit event (acquisition, private equity, IPO)"?

I suppose my larger question is if a private company is break-even/profitable would the investors/board ever ask management to make these cuts? If so, why?
It would be really great if this broke out engineering from support and other roles.
It's possible that ChatGPT or a similar language model could be used in an interview, but there are a few reasons why it might not be the best idea. For one, language models like ChatGPT are not able to browse the web or access external information, so they can only provide answers based on the information they have been trained on. This means that they may not be able to provide detailed or up-to-date answers to questions about current events or other topics that require knowledge of information that is not included in their training data. Additionally, language models are not capable of thinking or understanding the world in the same way that humans do, so they may not be able to provide nuanced or complex answers to open-ended questions.
> Apple is arguably adding these features because it's what their user's want.

Apple would certainly argue that, yes. Foremost though, they're adding it because it's what Apple wants, and conveniently converges with the desire of the user.
Hmmm, doesn't sound futile to me. The world can handle another forum implementation... maybe add some threading? (mix of discourse with zulip!). Perhaps mix in some automatic text summarization? [1] :-).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33900964
Enlightenment may consist in rejecting exactly that.
Apple is extending the data privacy/security you have on your phone for images, videos, files (content) to the cloud. Bluring the lines between physical device and the cloud.

This makes perfect business sense - people will want to buy extra storage. Lock-in is deeper.
>There is no language called "C/C++".

Yes there is.

Take the union of C and C++ which is valid syntax (and same semantics) in both languages, voila; C/C++.
v6 already is backwards compatible. Pretty much every form of backwards compatibility that is possible with v4 is available in v6.

The problem is that v4 isn't forwards compatible with larger address spaces, and that's a problem that any protocol with >32-bit addresses faces, because it's a problem with the design of v4, not the design of the new protocol. Replacing v6 will not help.

> the lack of NAT is really an anti-feature.

v6 doesn't lack NAT -- what it lacks is any sane reason to use NAT. That's a good thing.
I feel bad for the employees.

Does anyone... actually like CircleCI?

Last time I used it, it just felt way too opinionated. Then they introduced their way of standardizing jobs with templates or something (it has been a while) and for some reason made the decision that any templates had to be public instead of private for the first version (which was completely backwards).

Personally for me I always lean towards Jenkins just because I can do whatever I want with it. But baring that I feel like I would end up either going with something my git hosted provides (like GitHub actions) or something my cloud provider has (like AWS CodeBuild).

Is there something I am missing? Looking at the pricing it isn't exactly cheap either.
> It used to be you would recite a Latin phrase at dinner and everyone would be impressed. Those days are gone.

Because anyone can do that, it's not impressive. You don't need to have studied Latin to know a Latin phrase. We have google translate and the entire internet. It's no longer an "exotic" thing. Hell, I see people still do things like that, with Latin or some other relevant language. It's weird to think that's impressive.
CircleCI has gone the same way as Docker. They pioneered a paradigm but late entrants like GitHub/GitLab/Bitrise etc stole the show with their offerings. Most teams I’ve seen use either of these instead of CircleCI
Yes, systemd does that. But as you wrote, it will queue network calls. The nice thing with the method I suggest above is that both Go processes, the old one and the new one, can be both serving requests in parallel, as they can share the same SQLite file, which makes it really zero-downtime.
Thanks for sharing this! The “Remove proxy icon hover delay” setting is the first thing I’ll try. Many times I use the proxy icon in Preview to move a pdf file… the delay introduced in Big Sur is extremely annoying.
Hey, I am author of Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot) would love to get in touch and explore a few things with you. I’ve been using Marmot in production in a while scaling couple of services, and since you mentioned LiteFS I would love to pick your brain, and explore couple of ideas with you. Multiple ways to get in touch including Github discussions or discord channel. Hope to see you around!
That’s what terrifies me about this international push against fertilizer — from Sri Lanka to the Netherlands to Canada.

We seem to be embarking on a modern “Four Pests” program [1] — the “Four Pollutants” program, or something.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
Ok you proved me wrong. You succeeded at designing and constructing an objectively bad comment.

Touche.
Thank you for the response. I just got the Make: AVR Programming. Seems very interesting stuffs!
> As Eddie Izzard once memorably pointed out, you get a lot of car chases in movies; very few car chases in books though.

> So in movies we see ‘action’ emerge as a distinct genre, with ‘thriller’ left for more Hitchcockian psychological excitement

I would say that e.g. The Da Vinci Code is written with pacing that would make me characterize it as a "thriller". There's no psychological excitement going on there.

I don't think it's true that you don't see car chases, or their equivalent, in books.
For example, once or twice people called me (somehow) and asked why I was hacking their websites. I tried to explain, but I doubt I convinced anyone.
Aside about AI text generation: Rule 34 will be tested when it comes to generating adulting text content.
Or use Linux, the highly advanced MPRIS protocol is capable of tracking multiple media applications and presenting their playback controls. It's like space-age tech!
Many of the services we work with are just broken with ipv6. Our own services are broken with ipv6.

I just gave up and forced everything in ipv4 mode.
Uhh, this is cool:

"If you had two entangled quantum computers, one on Earth and the other in the Andromeda galaxy, and if they were both simulating [the wormhole], and if Alice on Earth and Bob in Andromeda both uploaded their own brains into their respective quantum simulations, then it seems possible that the simulated Alice and Bob could have the experience of jumping into a wormhole and meeting each other in the middle. ... if true, I suppose some would treat it as grounds for regarding a quantum simulation of SYK as “more real” or “more wormholey” than a classical simulation."
But Apple must be able to still access all your encrypted data using your stored icloud password somehow right? Otherwise how are they able to show all your files in a web browser, from an arbitrary computer, after you've logged in
Yes, I’m aware of eevee. Would you say that eevee produces output of a comparable quality to Cycles or UE5 with Lumen?
It was named after the "painted" horse. I suppose it aligned with the Mustang naming convention.
I don't like this question in some cases.

What if they prepared with specific questions but you answered them during the interview?

What if a previous interviewer answered their outstanding questions?

Is curiosity about the company the trait you want to optimize for? In other words, does that curiosity translate to job performance?

I also think this question being so open ended and vague will lead you to get a lot of bad/blank answers. What should I be asking questions about?
>I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market.

People have this expectation because other companies have done this.

For example, Google employees revolted when dragonfly was leaked, and got the CCP search-spying project killed. It's weird to think that Google cared more about user privacy than profits than Apple does, but that's how weird the branding works here.
Facebook admits that they would have rejected a couple of the ads. See the grand-parents link.
Here's some anti-Palladium then :

https://mcrumps.substack.com/
That error correction, great video of 3blue1brown explaining how one such algorithm works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA
You encrypt a file first, then you calculate hash of the encrypted file.
I like to know that candidates can recall their study. For engineers, one of the biggest mathematical learnings in their degree is the study and use of imaginary numbers. In Australia this is taught in year 11/12 and is taught to kids who show aptitude towards STEM. Identifying these early adopters has worked well for us.
So the go to question that we use a lot is
"What is the square root of minus one?".

This culls a lot of non mathematical people. (And we find that Mathematical people generally make for better STEM employees in a tech setting).

If they answer correctly (and many who get through the initial resume culling process do) then we follow up with a second question that is not important to answer but will show a candidates sense of curiousity (super important).

What is the answer to the first question to the power of the answer to the first question?

Fascinating answer to this second question that can delight the candidates we are after.
I find their explanation pretty reasonable. In 2020 and 2021 money used to be close to free, with interest rates near zero and VCs throwing money at anyone with a growth story. Now both of these are no longer true, VCs are much more reserved and bank loans much more expensive. And with money being more expensive to acquire, everyone is more considerate about spending money (and thus manpower).
How do you figure that you can store the result of adding 2 Int18s in an Int1 ? Remember, we’re talking about static types and you don’t know the values at compile time.
Microsoft is reportedly planning a one-stop “super app” for all your needs
That children would commit suicide after being taken from their parents due to their gender politics. Seems pretty plausible to me, transgender folks are already at increased risk of suicide.
Sligtly off topic, but did anyone else do a double-take at the "make $1000 donation" form at the bottom?
Seeing how unnecessarily intelligent the human brain is, for most environments, I would be more surprised if earlier humans (maybe later than these) didn't use fire than if they did. It's very doubtful that there was some step function in intelligence, to make that possible, since step functions are extremely rare in evolution.
Whoa, but then how would governments shape research?
We have those. We tend to ignore them or call them kooks.

For good reason in (Large percentage) of cases. But I do feel that there are a few that are getting marginalized. Often because they are semi related to stuff that is politically unpopular.
I don't like filters like that as they're too black and white. Your idiot filter might test something the interviewee is knowledgeable or not knowledgable about.

I have questions with a variety of add-ons, so I can tune the difficulty to each person. A more junior person might take 30 minutes to give a complete answer while a more senior person might finish the base question in a few minutes so I need to add things on to make it more difficult. Some people might not have the ability to solve the problem at all. Either way, I try to get the interview to a place where the interviewee is beyond their ability to easily spit out answers.

Then the interview should turn into a back and forth discussion where they're asking me clarifying questions and possibly getting completely stumped. Either way, now we're communicating and seeing how quickly they can learn and utilize new information. That might be providing them clarifying info or teaching them something they don't know yet.

I don't care if someone can answer FizzBuzz or spit off facts about hash tables or anything like that. All that can be learned. If I'm interviewing a developer, I want them to be able to work on a project in a programming language they've never used and doing things they've never done before and become reasonably competent in a few weeks of learning.
$10m might be getting into actually architected houses, but certainly down in the $2m you find absolute junk.

It's famous enough that it has a website dedicated to it: https://mcmansionhell.com

It's surprisingly "affordable" to have an entirely custom house designed and built, but the only people who bother are people who are certain they'll be in an area for quite awhile. Otherwise you either buy a developer's house (one of five models that they're pumping out, each one designed to be less obnoxious than the previous, so everything is always "beige" to the max) or you buy an existing one, which is usually just a developer house from a decade or more ago.

I mean anyone can order something from https://www.goldeneagleloghomes.com today and it'll have some kind of a style.

But it would look out of place in a modern subdivision.
Don’t forget Pol Pot.
Nothing against his piece but Fleming was a dreadful writer. Aim higher, at Eric Ambler or John le Carré.
> In general it's pretty difficult to prove a negative.

But this isn't a negative, you're proposing that there's some sort of strong connection between observable potentials and eventual outcomes, am I right? So now we need the evidence.

Sports is a great place to look btw. The history of recruiting busts in the sports world simply incredible. People they guessed wrong on: Tom Brady, Ravel Morrison, Johnny Manziel, Carlos Bacca, just to give you a false positive and a false negative in two different sports.

It just seems to me that is really isn't all that obvious who might be really good, and so we should spread our bets rather than concentrate on a few promising geniuses.

> For instance Einstein...

So how does this say anything about skill? Couldn't he just be a low-probability ticket that won? There were other people looking at similar ideas at the time.

> Even in the chess world...

Thing is chess is international now, Magnus could be Norwegian but very cheaply access chess culture from other countries. Maybe in an earlier era this argument made sense. But just like in football, it's international now and people aren't surprised by regional styles.
I guess this is a good place to remind folks that scheduled workflows will probably stop working soon

> The scheduled workflows feature is set to be deprecated. Using scheduled pipelines rather than scheduled workflows offers several benefits. Visit the scheduled pipelines migration guide to find out how to migrate existing scheduled workflows to scheduled pipelines.

https://circleci.com/docs/configuration-reference/#schedule

One more thing to migrate out of the config file in the repo and off behind some API call or pointy-clicky UX.

Edit: it looks like they've postponed the deprecation, which was originally planned for 2022-06-03 https://discuss.circleci.com/t/scheduled-pipelines-are-here/...