skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the implication is that the death is emblematic of a larger issue in Qatar, migrant worker rights. And that is something a good leader should and should be expected to care about!
A Twitter account with a cat avatar took on Beijing
Because no one dies at work on big infrastructure projects in western countries?
The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (2016)
this one was delayed because it was sketchy.
I deposited a check using my bank's app last night after my bank closed and it cleared in about 20 minutes.
If you’re not a cross-platform app developer you can ignore this, yes.
> There's barely anyone using this term, and nobody was using it 4 years ago.

At my employer (security consultancy in Germany), we switched ~two weeks ago from "man" in the middle to "machine" in the middle as expansion for the MITM acronym. Mallory is also a good option, although more known to cryptographers than our mainly developer audience (who might have more of an idea what a machine is than a Mallory). It's all not perfect but we're figuring this out. Yes, neutral gender writing is indeed relatively new and won't be much on web searches. Apparently some others use AiTM for attacker in the middle (yes, with that capitalization), which most people hated and voted against (because capitalizing the The but not the in looks dumb and, also, everyone already knows mitm so that change harms readability even more). It'll be a while before the community settles on something and "man" is not the most commonly known one. Bear with us until then!
> "This too is trivially defeated. You simply need to add another stage to your payload in which you copy your ROP payload onto the legitimate stack, pivot, and continue executing."

Have you, or someone else as knowledgeable as you, been able to provide a succesful POC doing this? I admit that I haven't gone about looking for results on this topic and method of attack but I would be very interested in reading about it and see a practical example achieving it, since it's (in your own words) trivially defeated and simply needs just this or that thing.
Maybe it’s all a facade, but in the U.S. such shows of concern have gotten us effective workplace safety regulation. I don’t really care if the politicians’ concern is fake: the avoided deaths are real.
I Asked ChatGPT to Criticize AI-Generated Art
> Because a few people got angry, does that mean the entire customer base now has to endure abuse from the company and be happy about it?

A few angry neurodivergent-poly-queer types on Mastodon throwing ACAB tantrums does not constitute their entire customer base, or even a barely significant fraction of it.

The Raspberry Pi folks made the right call here. There's no point engaging seriously with these people, they'll just drain your energy with even more of their bullshit.
(When) Will Property-Based Testing Rule the World? [pdf]
Boeing CH-47 – Downed Aircraft Recovery
>it will just be a ban then… good

Agreed.

Creating ambiguity about a user’s ability to post increases the chances they’ll push the boundaries and real ultimate power comes from curating a small but quality following of approximately six hundred bluechecks and folks who don’t have one because they’re literal dissidents who can’t flash a DL so when they shadowban you it not only doesn’t matter, it makes your memes even danker.

Performative, metrics based measures will always fail against fearless adversarial shitposters whose sole aim is to introduce an idea that shifts the Overton window, and you don’t need four plus figures in… followers… to do that :-)
The comparison between FTX in 2022 and JP/GS/DB in 2007 is an undue insult to the banks and understates the misconduct within FTX.

On top of that, much of what you write in the latter paragraphs is speculation without much evidence to back up its premises.
TSLA was always going to go down since it was (and probably still is) way overpriced. In fact I think a large part of why he started this twitter saga was to have an excuse to offload a bunch of stock at the top. He probably then hoped to get more people into the deal with him, so he could keep some billions left over.
Couldn’t agree more. I tried to switch to safari awhile back, and loved most of the interface, the snappiness, the open tab view for people like that open a gazillion tabs. But the ads I struggled to get rid of (specifically YouTube commercials) pushed me back to chrome with ublock.
Adding: most “democracies” are not truly democratic - representative governments are, “proxy” or “hopeful” or “you promised!” democratic but not democratic.

Add in the layers of “manufactured consent” and you get… this to help “fight” “terrorism.”
Sure, so were save files for many older games, but it was a dump of the document / game state, which was a fraction of the running program, and probably designed for that in mind in the first place.

Image-based systems (smalltalk, self) would probably be a better model for a live tab, but it still requires things to line up.
I don’t think that’s very unreasonable? In a analytical sense it’s bad of course, you don’t want workers to die if you can prevent it, but you cannot really expect me to care about every person that dies.

This person is just very blunt about stating as much, or maybe they don’t care in the first sense either, and they wouldn’t change anything for the better even if they had opportunity to.
Trying to get art
Louder can certainly help too. Especially when people have masks on.

But slower helps more than louder.
Working conditions in the US have improved dramatically over the last century because politicians and leaders took action to improve them.

Your position seems to be that it doesn’t matter what leaders and politicians say if they don’t believe it in their heart. I think that’s less relevant than their actions.

(And FWIW, yes, usually when a worker dies on the job in the US the company does sponsor a memorial)
Nothing is unhackable but at least you have the right to patch open source projects.
It's great to see ending the insanity of symmetric authentication (with passwords) is finally, finally gathering momentum. It's been frustrating because there were various potential efforts going back to the 00s at least, I remember logging into some sites with client certs. Somehow though the right combination of UI and broad support never happened despite the endless ridiculousness of leaks due to inevitable server side compromise, and then ever more bandaids on top like adaptive hash functions and password managers. Really looking forward to the day of all that fading into an (admittedly very) long tail of legacy.

One place I'm kind of sorry hasn't been on the forefront of adoption though and gets into gear soon is web UIs, which often control some pretty important stuff. We run things like OPNsense for firewall/gateway needs, TrueNAS, various controllers, hardware that these days has a web UI etc. With "internal" applications it's already a lot more acceptable to slap heavier access requirements on them, only exposing them via VPN, but it'd be nice to be able to require hardware bound passkeys (to use Yubico's terminology) for web auth (recovery can be done via console if ever required).
No, since that would tie back to my identity. I use throw-away accounts online. When I upgrade my web browser, this account will disappear and a new one will appear.

I have the level of fame where you almost certainly wouldn't recognize my name, but where most people (not just on HN) have heard of one project I created from scratch (to give an analogy, very few people would recognize the inventor of the Nerf gun, the Super Soaker, the touch screen, a popular TV show, or the iPod, but if you said "I'm the inventor of the ____," they'd know who you were).

It takes about 30 seconds with Google my successes and failures to figure out who I am.

I attribute that success to:

1. Being willing and able to talk to a large and diverse set of experts (and not just recognized ones; in the above example, an expert might be a trucker, rather than just a truck designer, and you want to talk to both, not to mention people who hire truckers, people who ship things, etc.). Finding something like an "expert trucker" is probably harder than you'd imagine; "expert trucker" isn't the same as "random trucker."

2. Being able to swallow my ego, ignore my ideas, and follow their advice.

Most of my success was based on gluing together ideas that other people / products had in innovative combinations, and in being somehow effective at scouring the universe for good ideas.
True. Although, from the government’s point of view, surely it would be better for the bank to accept a $100K deposit of dirty money and then immediately freeze it, than refuse the dirty deposit and the customer walks out with it and the government might never see it again

I suspect the people who actually try to deposit $100K in cash at a bank are probably not criminals/etc, they are just people with “more money than sense”. People with something to hide will try to avoid drawing attention to their activities, but turning up at a bank branch with that amount of cash attracts a lot of attention. And the criminals who are actually dumb enough to do that kind of thing get caught very quickly
> E.g it’s in the interest of society to mandate important functions such as buying food is always possible with cash.

And buying a car is not important?

> Only that if they do, there is a limit.

And this limit is below the value of most cars.

Which is what we were discussing in this thread.
Some NEC laser projectors looks nice, want to bid on one if shipping to Europe is possible.
You truly are a microsoft fan :)

I have done couple of gigs for a Azure shops. It is borderline admirable how one client vehemently adhered to the MS teams. Even to the point of using Teams integrated Onenote for software design. Everything that was supposed to be written went to onenote on teams.
Sounds like a heart attack.
The point is that the face value of the coins counts for the limit, not the value when you sell those coins.
Project Overmatch: US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech
I honestly think my leaders (in the Netherlands) roughly do what they believe is in the best interest of the people. I think there’s few that truly feign empathy.

There’s people that don’t care. I just don’t see them in politics, they’re all business leaders.

I guess politics isn’t lucrative enough here.
I can't find a single sensible reason why tax evasion would be the highest priority of EU governments... IMHO there are pages of more pressing issues.
Show HN: DiskerNet – search what you browsed or bookmarked and view it offline
Because in most western countries, insurance and workers compensation laws result in safer working conditions.
So the guy writing about people in Qatar being overworked and dying… is overworked and dies.

To some this means that the west and capitalism are just as bad as the “slavery” of the petrochemical state. To others this means that the petrochemical state probably gave him an accident.

I’m sure there are other interpretations, too.
I'm very confident I could easily call out normal coke, coke zero, and diet coke on a blind taste test, including whether is was from a bottle, can or fountain.

I might just do that, because I've seen too many people just repeat the Coca Cola marketing that they taste the same.
> Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter

I think that may change in the future. Many politicians, including prominent ones, have done AMAs. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a semi regular. The Sergeant Major of the US Army is a regular. Rick Astley is a semi regular. Verne Troyer was a regular before he died.
Community as the Unit of Scientific Contribution
It this right? My at is 80+ and still does intensive gardening (forking land to grow crops) and mows his own lawn with a push mower.

He really should not be doing these things though because now he is suffering from carpal tunnel.
> At the same time, what about people that still fall for Nigerian princes or go through their spam folder for "sex in your area" or "penis enlargement pills"?

Those people are also victims.
You can definitely see AI making a big impact there
If you can't even pretend to care, that says a lot. It says even more that he knows he can get away with it.
>So this is how you can have a 2Gb device in 2022.

Can you please point out which laptop in 2022 is being sold with 2GB of ram limitation? Really curious.

The smallest I could find for sale in my country is 4GB and I had to look really hard as they're not cheaper than buying something with 8GB of ram or they're just ARM Chromebooks.

Even most budget chinese Android phones rarely ship with less than 4GB of RAM anymore. So you made me very curious about 2GB laptops retailing in 2022.

Edit: wow, why the downvotes guys? Is it against the rules to aske questions?
But this buffer cache usage is caused by readers/clients checking logs for some reason, not logging itself, right? I see no significant difference compared to syslog here: if I grep all logs for something, it will also place these logs into buffer cache.

Your example with dropping cache and running systemctl status is indeed interesting, 11s looks like too much. But it's a number without a context, and I wonder how big a problem this actually is. I haven't noticed it myself before.

> It doesn't even keep index of "last file where app wrote logs" which causes above.

While I definitely see some room for optimization, I'm not sure what you mean here: journald uses one active journald database file, there should not be a problem with figuring out where the file is, should it?
So this is a direct copy of https://www.nohello.com/ ?
Looking at all these Google Jamboards for sale makes me think, anyone using a Jamboard, Surface Hub or similar at home or for wfh?
I always think about the $10,000 couch in the lobby of the Seattle Twitter office that no one ever sat on.

Twitter wasted money on shit that didn’t matter for years.
Unfortunately many VS Code users are uninformed and instead of using VS Codium by default (reproducible build, getting rid of telemetry), they put the cart before the horse and only know about VS Code, using it as the default choice. I have a hunch, that this is as intended or at least, that MS enjoys it being like that.

Fair move would be to put a well visible message into VS Code or their download pages, which informs the user: "If you need to check the build, you probably want VS Codium instead." -- Of course they are not obliged to do that, but meanwhile they are collecting telemetry to no end, from users, who are not informed about their main workhorse of their job. It does not seem right to me.

In general we need more awareness of telemetry, especially from companies like MS. Maybe at some point they will ship some telemetry update which the user "only needs to quickly confirm", before they can hack away and which opts into sharing code with their Copilot thingy. Before you know it, your solutions to problems are shared with other people, who will get a copy of your copy inserted. Lots of scenarios how this could go wrong, even if accidentally.
Jeff is a true eccentric genius and I meant that in the most complimentary way.
I remember spending endless hours on his games when I was younger.
His sense of humor is great.

He innovates and he squeezes more out of a computer than what should be possible.

At least in the Atari ST days :)
Mozilla publishes hardware stats from Firefox desktop users: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

<4GB devices are ~10.6% of the mix. 4GB are 20.8%.
GP made a statement about the entirety of the team that they were familiar with. It's the same way that I can tell you with decent certainty that nobody's using MongoDB at my place since `kubectl get pods -A | grep -c mongo` prints 0.

EDIT: Okay, joke's on me there. It turns out the automated frontend tests use a Mongo for some reason. :)
> What's the point of "being focused, exerting mental effort, being creative, having long-term goals or engaging in long-term endeavours, &c." if it's not beneficial to society in some way?

PG's statement [1] seemed to be about individuals, so the point is that doing x, y, z is beneficial to the individual.

I may have misunderstood, but the only other interpretation of his statement I can think of (besides "we were designed to work, and somone will feel bad if they don't") is "we were designed to work, and if we don't work enough, something will happen to our society or our environment, and then that something will cause most of us to feel bad", and that's a bit of a leap.

[1] i.e. "I think we were designed to work, ..., and we feel bad if we don't."

———

> Also, PG is explicitly talking about people doing things that they enjoy at least to some extent.

I think it's somewhat beside the point, or at least it's not enough, to find some amount of enjoyment in one's work. Is it how you would choose to spend your time? Are there ways you can spend your time that would be better for you? Those are more important questions, I think.

And notably, PG is implying that we wouldn't choose to work enough, that the motivation we have is insufficient to get us to work as much as we'd need to not feel bad. After all, if we enjoyed working enough, we'd work as much as we needed, and there wouldn't any reason for PG to suggest that people need to be forced to work (by making an analogy with the claim that "the healthiest diet is the one our ancestors were forced to eat").

It's possible that for us to feel good, we need to be forced to do things, and that left to our own devices, as individuals, we'd never muster the cleverness to overcome our ill-serving desires or aversions. In fact, if we evolved in the constant presence of scarcities and abundances that our desires and aversions precisely counteract, it seems likely! [2] But why should we trust the business owners, who control their workers, or the wealthy or politically powerful, who want to maintain the status quo, to be the ones to force us? Why can't each of us pick who it is we want to help us by imposing structure in our lives?

[2] I actually don't believe this in the case of "not feeling bad", although I believe it for health. There is natural selection for behaviors promote healthiness, almost definitionally, but I can't think of any compelling reason for there to be evolutionary pressure for us not to suffer or not have contradicting desires that can't be simultaneously satisfied. In fact, designing intelligent life to be perpetually dissatisfied and wanting improvement seems like an excellent strategy for ensuring its perpetuation.
I'm surprised nobody walked out the door with it as a trophy. It's not unusual for things to go missing when a company goes through an acquisition.
there will never be any irrefuteable proof of any wrongdoing wherever it was murder or not.

an autopsy report done by them would be as untrustworthy and pointless as you can get and handing over the body would be just as pointless. The regimes publicly kill people which critique even abroads and continue to bribe anyone thats willing to take their money and can give them something they wish.

None of the news can be taken seriously one way or another in a trustless society which we've long since become.
While its possible that his death was a coincidence, the fact that remains is that there is a pattern of deaths whenever a person voiced critiques against these dictators.
Oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000
In tech, people ascribe you an identity as much as you claim one yourself.

When I am not around, I have been described to people as "A DevOps guy" or "A Network Guy". People then treat me accordingly. But, being human (or an approximation thereof), I am not just one thing.
Everyone knows FIFA is a deeply corrupt organization. There is also not much anyone can do about it.

But I don't think "we need to care more" is a good mental model for the issue
What if distracting the CEO is good for operations?
You check laptop offerings in one of the most wealthy countries on earth - and given that you still found devices with 4GB of ram is concerning for me. I feel like better support for 2gb devices could be life-changing for many people around the world.
100% of the training data of the salty jelly in a human skull, is a sensory input.

Were your argument flawless and your conclusion correct, then all human creativity would "literally" be a remix of things in the natural world, as even when we remix things made by other humans that too would ultimately derive back to nature.

This can certainly be asserted depending on how you wish to use those words, but just as it is not useful at predicting what our abilities are — for example, a perfect intellect could predict quantum mechanics from scratch by watching a camp fire die down on a rainy night, but we didn't do that in one step in the neolithic — so too this isn't useful at telling us what the limits of GPT-family LLMs might be, as that which has been built on such inputs, both in the case of humans and this particular AI, greatly exceeds the imagination of any single individual.
Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT to make the paragraph less stuffy. Here is what it said:

ChatGPT: The photographer's 'true color' claims might be questionable because his technique leaves room for interpretation. Just like how an adagio can sound different depending on the orchestra playing it, the final images can vary depending on how the technique is used.

Me: Pretty good! It’s not that the technique has room for interpretation, it’s that his images can be printed in different ways. Can you rewrite, taking that into account?

ChatGPT: The photographer's claim of 'true color' might be questionable because his images can be printed in different ways, which can affect their appearance. Just like how an adagio can sound different depending on the orchestra playing it, the final images can vary depending on how they are printed.
In a similar vein, every once in a while I feel like the Luddites were onto something.
In London you should budget for around £17-£20/hour, so 3 x 1 hour visits a week would be about £250/month, or £3k/year.

For some people that would be ludicrous, for others it's an absolute bargain.

Right now we bring somebody in for 2.5 hours every 2 weeks to do bedding, vacuuming, kitchen and bathroom cleaning. Totally worth it, but sometimes the laundry backs up when we're busy and becomes a mission. We might up it a bit next year and get laundry included.
Ah, so you are projecting your own society's ideals onto another which wasn't always how it was. Which society told you the way to do it was to create laws to deal with it? Was it your own?

Have you perhaps considered that just because US society might be a few decades ahead in certain types of rights, that maybe that's just a fluke of nature and doesn't give the US any moral standing?

Edit: can't respond any more, so I will just say: this thread is exactly an example of fake empathy. None of these guys will go out of their way to help the migrant worker, they will demand others do so. Fake empathy.
As long as it's a uniform, muted colour and you don't get it stained, nobody will know if you're wearing the same pants or shirts every day.
This is my theory. The more local, the more "like you", the more empathy.

The more "other", the more fake empathy.
LinkedIn spam has recently increased and the "do you know xyz?" messages that appear when that person clicks your profile really are just spam. Also more of those paid spam IMs from folk too.
what do you make and how long have you been a developer?
There was an article in the Economist 10-15 years ago about the prevalence of English throughout the world and the typical explanations for it were listed: the British Empire followed by post WWII American economic and entertainment hegemony.

But they also pointed to an unsung advantage - no one really cares if you speak it poorly.