skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought reading that headline was to remember what they just did in Canada last year, so I don't think it's hijacking so much as people being indulgent.

But I guess all it takes to be 'hijacked' or 'brigaded' is someone links this to their friends in Discord or elsewhere. So maybe you're right.
IPv4 will never disappear, it will just fade into obscurity. (We'll probably be dead and buried long before that time.)
And sadly, we know so ... freaking ... little about how the brain works.
It's almost insane just how arrogant America was in the 1970s lol.

"Those who are first will later be last".
If you are coming from the computer science angle, I can recommend "Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach" by Pavel Pevzner.
> in C, the int type can be as low as 16 bits in size, yielding "65 thousand-something"

Wrong both for worst-case C and for "16 bits in size": the actual maximum is "32 thousand-something" (specifically 32767 in 2s-complement and also in most of the stupid representations (like 1s-complement or sign-magnitude), although there might be some that have, eg, 32768). They also have a minimum of -32768 (or -32767 or otherwise for some of the stupid representations).

You could intepret it as "65 thousand-something" values between the minimum and maximum, but that strongly implies that the minimum doesn't need to be specified, which only works for unsigned integers (which C int is very much not).
Considering you created multiple accounts to promote a viewpoint to create a false sense of consensus rather than arguing in good faith, I'd say maybe god could have taught you more ethics https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fjweoijf
Mine are just whatever happens to be under the keyboard layout I'm using at the time. If qwerty, then `asdf`, `qwer`, `uiop`, `zxcv` are likely to be temp variable names. But since I've dabbled in other layouts, I've found the names have changed to:

- Dvorak: aoeu, htns, gcrl, mwvz

- Colemak: arst, neio, qwfp

- Mtgap: inea, htsr, dlcw, fvgj

etc...
The article opens with:

"WE LIVE IN UNDENIABLY UGLY TIMES."

Doesn't sound like they're going for subjective.
For a low level programming backend job:

Tell me everything you know about the hash table data structure.

Plenty of Staff level applicants don’t know anything about it.

There are 3 tiers of answer:

1) Don't know what a hash table is, when to use one, etc. Have never had a candidate in this category this do well in the rest of the interview, even for totally unrelated tasks like distributed system design.

2) Know it's a key-value store, know it's "fast". Some candidates whose main experience is in frontend dev get to this point, and then demonstrate other ability in the rest of the interview and get hired.

3) Rattle off that it's O(1) amortized, might be O(N) in the resize case, chaining vs linear vs quadratic probing vs other clever methods like cuckoo hashing, discuss how those methods effect cache behavior, etc. These candidates typically crush the rest of the interview effortlessly, even totally unrelated tasks like distributed system design.
Isn't all the science that is possible to do "at home" already done?
Nah I thought that was the case too. Turns out it is not. Had a clients employee as me for help w/ her iphone about 2 weeks back. 32gb phone, no storage space left on device so it legit just stopped working, wouldnt recieve texts or anything cus it was full. So clients like, help me get photos off phone onto a USB or set photos to store in icloud only and ill delete the phone copies (well this is what I thought was an option because I can do it w/ just about every other backup software I use). Turns out big fat nup to either options. Only way she could delete phone photos but keep cloud ones was to disable sync entirely (lol wtf is the point of linked cloud if sync is so shithouse?). Plug phone into itunes, all you get re. access to device is no ability to view pics as files too extract, you cant even control apps on the device (good luck finding out what apple referred to as other apple software that used up >30% of phones internal space it just gets all lumped in under one grey color of storage being used.

Got forced to use a iphone 11 or someshit a few years back as a company issued device. Man it was alright at making phone calls, complete POS for doing any actual work on. Basically found it to be an overpriced paperweight that could take ok photos but was impossible to retrieve photos from. No i dont want a icloud account or any of that bs i just want to plug in to pc and pull files like I've been doing for 25+ years on every other platform ive ever used.
Afaik, it does not use Tor from within the browser, but uses a proxy server into Tor. That could have changed though.
People are free to host however they like. They can't control who posts links on popular aggregators.
I once tried running a non-exit node and quickly found that a lot of sites would blacklist my IP regardless. Can't recommend.
That works for stabilizing power levels.
It doesn't do much for stabilizing the frequency of the grid.
> Despite today’s news, we’re confident in our business. I believe we have the right strategy to succeed in the long term. We have the best CI/CD platform on the market by leaps and bounds. We see that success reflected in the continued growth of our business, adding thousands of high-performing engineering teams to our platform over the past 12 months.

Clearly that's not the case if you're doing layoffs, no? Wouldn't you want to keep those folks around so you can do that bit at the bottom: "Our customers are some of the most innovative, engineering-centric businesses on the planet, and helping them do great work will continue to be our focus."
I feel like the forests burning is just a realignment due to climate change. The climate has changed on the west coast. Had the current climate been the stable climate of the last thousand years, the forests there would look very different. Many would not exist. Others would be made of different trees. What we are seeing is the rapid realignment of these environments to the new realities. Ironically, it might actually be better to chop them all down then replant with more appropriate trees.
Solving FizzBuzz is not the issue, that's just getting the candidate to write a template for the basis of a subsequent discussion on code structure, trade-offs, requirements analysis, and more.

Besides, in interview a candidate wouldn't use ChatGPT anyway, so I'm not sure how relevant is your comment.
Mao deaths likely surpassed Hitler and Stalin
I've lived in a couple of houses built in the mid 1700s with parts even older than that. They were cob cottages, one with a thatched roof, so very thick walls instead of insulation. Plumbing and electrics were just added over the years. Windows were single glazed, so not very efficient. But pretty comfortable nevertheless, provided you remember to duck when going under beams. Houses this old are not unusual where I live in Devon, but most are more recent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_(material)
Please explain how CBDCs give governments power they don't currently have?
Your theory is contrary to what happened in reality: It was governments mandating router and OS support of IPv6 that jump-started protocol support. Had the mandate not existed, MS would not have added IPv6 as early as Win XP (in preview during Win 2000).
but hey, they get to keep their laptops
Since you've already started breaking the site guidelines again, I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com with reason to believe that you'll stick to the site guidelines in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I'm not sure what exactly you're asking for, but Dolphin shows me the size of a directory. You may have to right click and update it from time to time.
Thank you for your interest. I note that your "about" mentions the Y-combinator λ𝑓.(λ𝑥.𝑓(𝑥𝑥 𝑥))(λ𝑥.𝑓(𝑥 𝑥)) and I would be happy to have your opinion on this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=lambda_calculus2

And about your question I will say that I didn't know that it was impossible (Chomsky & Co) to parse s-expressions with regular expressions and, thanks to StevenLevithan, I built one. And definitely, at least for me, the standard way using an AST doesn't fit my needs, as you could see here http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=lambdacode.
I’ll give you “lots of people think…” but not “we already know…”

And “ads in their products” but not “a major player in the advertising space”
It's not about putting a label on anyone. It's about making sure it doesn't inadvertently become a model for others. No counselor or friend is going to be there when they are alone and make the decision.
Not sure how you got the idea I created "fake friends and superficial relationships," I think you misread my comment. I intended to dismiss that plan because it seems the norm on LinkedIn -- "connecting" with people you don't know, haven't worked with, for the sole purpose of creating a fake network. My LinkedIn network consisted entirely of former colleagues, customers, and a couple of recruiters I have worked with. Turns out I can stay in contact with them in person, by phone, or with email.

Maybe it comes from my age, but "connecting" or "liking" someone on social media doesn't equal "meeting" people, cool or otherwise. A referral is a referral, perhaps, but I think one from someone I worked with or for who can vouch for me counts for a lot more than one from someone I "connected with" on LinkedIn.

My personal address book keeps my "network" safe from anyone harvesting them from my LinkedIn profile, another bonus.
> Is the general model of public/private subnet still valid?

You're getting replies that are tiptoeing around the truth, saying that the answer to this is basically 'yes' when it sure looks like the answer is firmly 'no.' My home IPv4 network isn't routable, it is a private network. If my IPv6 address is globally unique and addressable by someone across the world, my network is not private in the way that most people have come to understand the term. I'm just part of the public network but with a firewall to stop unwanted packets from reaching my local nodes.
Activists could always salt their own files by adding some junk content to the end (or cropping images by one pixel, cropping video clips by a fraction of a second, etc)
Thanks, I will check it. But how can it override the system settings, that is an oversight I think…
> Cheap low-pile carpet on plywood

Part of it is that carpet and plywood are fabricated materials. Prefabricated plywood and wall-to-wall carpeting weren't really things until ~1930s. The older materials seems more luxurious now, but that's because the newer materials have become cheap. It's like how aluminum was once more expensive than gold, but is now ubiquitous because the material itself has become much cheaper.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-history-of-plywood-in-ten-o...

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/flooring/21017998/all-about-wal...
Unfortunately the same argument makes the case for ignoring safety all together. The socially acceptable ways to die in a car gets smaller and smaller. Things like death by gasoline fire illustrated here, or death by steering column implation[1] get reclassified from an unavoidable hazard of driving to a preventable death all the time. We've even seen steering column trauma get re-conceptualized as preventable with the passage of the Surface Transportation Efficiency Act in 1991 and it's implementation in 1998. We'll likely see the same with deaths that are currently considered unavoidable road hazards.

The fact is that as safety technologies are developed, they have the tendency to make people reevaluate what is and isn't avoidable. As to structural columns and crumple zones, public perception might reevaluate these too. The cumulative effect is that the deaths per VMT[2] has dropped and is likely to continue to drop as advances are made. Personally I don't care so much how it's done just that it's done. It seems to be working out pretty well so far.

1. https://www.pailton.com/latest-news/collapsible-steering-col...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
They also have private windows without Tor and the users probably found out that Tor takes quite longer and works only half the time compared to the ordinary private window, so I wouldn't get my hopes up that it is adopted massively.

(Still, it's great they have done that.)
Are these ads? If I see a large derivative, I can usually glance down at the relevant news to see why. More often than not, it says "No Recent Stories", which shouldn't be the case for an ad.

The news articles in the main view are just top business stories from Apple News. I don't see anything ad like at all, actually.
GitHub notified some users that their Personal Access Tokens are compromised
Regulation by whom? Obviously not Iran (and definitely not my home country's dictatorship), but why would I trust the US or any other government not to become bad in the coming years?
Web development: list and discuss HTTP methods.
> docker desktop is pretty dead now that it's got restrictive licensing etc...

It would probably be nice to hear more about why you think this is! I've certainly heard of some having to move away from Docker Desktop.

However, at the scale where you need a license (250 employees or 10 million $ in annual revenue) it's not quite as big of an issue, especially at their current pricing per seat: https://www.docker.com/pricing/

> stick to standard open source tools like Colima etc...

Sticking to open source is a great idea!

I think mentioning that Colima runs on macOS and Linux only at the moment is also a good idea: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

A large market share of the Docker Desktop installs are Windows in particular (since it's "the one way" how most install Docker nowadays, as opposed to not really needing a GUI or the supporting tools on Linux).

In another comment I mentioned Podman Desktop as a mostly viable alternative: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop

Then there's also Rancher Desktop as well: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

Regardless, it's nice to see reputable orgs behind the open source projects as well, which gives a bit more credence to their chances of surviving for the years to come.
Too expensive to get access to what is needed for independent research.
This is an area that seems so vast I need a summary book to introduce it. What's a good one that gives a broad overview?
Come on then, no need to be coy.
Their software is NOT open source (well, some parts are, but AFAIK it's a minority).

Thus the privacy claims are just advertisement, there is no way to verify them.

Apple devices might as well be fully backdoored.
I was surprised at the amount of performance SQLite provided. I get about 700 inserts/sec with the WAL enabled sitting behind a Django app.

https://imgur.com/a/a3U41Zo

Without the WAL enabled, I get a around 400req/sec.

edit: clarity
Well this is shitty, but it's a huge step forward from beating people in the streets, so you have to respect that at least.
How is the monitor connected? USB-C/DisplayPort or HDMI?
I think I accidentally a word.
From the code of conduct:

[...] Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants [do not make] Personal insults, especially those using racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory terms [do not] Deliberately referring to others by names or pronouns counter to their identity.

The "echo chamber" of "not being shitheads to people". Seems like a pretty neat echo chamber to me. I guess the parent poster finds it impossible to interact with others unless they can use slurs, threats, or what have you.
Can ChatGPT replace you in an interview?
Not you specifically. I'm sorry if that was the impression.
Just like IPX. It's still necessary and in use for some things -- so it hasn't reached its end of life -- but when was the last time you ever thought about it?

By this metric, we still haven't finished migrating to v4.
haven't you got this backwards? the further the distance the smaller movement an object would need to not be in the trajectory?
> I'm curious if it was effective

I don't think it is, it's mostly bot traffic anyways...

> and worth the trouble?

...but companies are paying $$$ for it and it's very easy to setup/run their campaigns and give them the "engagement" reports they ask for. I think everybody with half a brain understands it's a big game of moving money with very little real world/real people engagement
Sure. I'll oversimplify a lot, but the feeling of how things work should be correct.

The clock frequency is not a good way of measuring performance. Never was. Even earlier designs as the 8086 did not do one thing (instruction) every cycle. They did far less.

Modern CPUs are extremely complex beasts that can take in a lot of instructions. They take a good look on those instructions, change them in a way that does not alter the result but makes some optimizations possible and then distribute those instruction to a bunch of internal workers that can work on those at the same time. More on this can be found in the wikipedia rabbit hole starting with instruction level parallelism.

One way to measure this is to look at how many of a selected set of instructions per cycle can be done. An 8086 could do 0.066. A 386DX did 0.134, a 486 could do 0.7. A Pentium 100 already could do 1.88, and so on. Modern CPUs get to 10, per core.

But wait, there's more. This comparison gives only a very rough idea of a CPUs capabilities since it focuses on a very specific thing that might have little to do with actual observed performance. Especially since modern CPUs have extremely specialized instructions that can do enormous amount of computations on enormous amounts of data in little time. And there we are in the wonderful world of benchmarks that may or may not reflect reality by measuring execution time of a defined workload.

Passmark does CPU benchmarks and their weakest CPU in the database seems to be a Pentium 4 @ 1.3GHz. Single Core, single thread. It comes in at 77 (passmarks?). An i7-13700 is rated with 34,431. Does that make it 500 times faster than the 1.3GHz P4? Hard to tell, but its a hell of a difference. And from the P4 to a Pentium or even a 486 running at 100Hz ... at least another hell of a difference.

We can also try Dhrystone MIPS, another benchmark. Wikipedia has - strangely enough - numbers for the Pentium and the 486 at 100MHz: 188 MIPS for the Pentium, 70 MIPS for the 486. The most modern (2019!) desktop cpu entry comes in around 750,000 MIPS. A Threadripper from 2020 over 2,300,000 MIPS.

So, how much more can a modern CPU do than an ancient one? A lot. And especially a lot more than you would expect from the faster frequency alone. Even with only one core, it can do several hundred times the workload. And we got a lot of cores.
htop has much better support for more obscure unices, fwiw. Supports every BSD, whatever Solaris is called these days.

Btop seems to only support Macos, Linux and FreeBSD.
Sometimes it goes the other way too. In my high school, a handful of kids wore all black every day. They were harmless valley girls/guys if you spoke with them. I figured they _wanted_ to be seen as a threat.

Why would someone make a legit bomb threat? Isn't the point of the bomb for it to explode?
awesome blog, is the boost of performance coming from using graphql API?
Maybe. But has this been audited? Are there backdoors, perhaps in the hardware?

I thought just a couple of months ago they wanted to scan everyone's phones for illegal content.
It's pretty much all independent housing. For instance, Stanford's also taking aim at on-campus co-ops with this policy; collective vegetarian meals and nude parties are, presumably, also evils that must be extinguished.
> They're not Google

No, google has had encrypted android backups for years.
This is an extremely dismissive comment, plus you are way off basis that it is underdeveloped. It is just new/underdeveloped for OP.

Literal books have been written about this exact idea by Zellig Harris. The reason it is not more well known is that Chomsky (his student) became famous and reinterpreted a couple of his ideas (using mathematical logic for the basis of his work rather than Harris's set-theoretic base). But while Chomsky had to keep creating castles in the sky (including the idea of universal grammar/external metalanguage) to patch the holes in his theory Harris's theory needs none of that and is self-organizing and self-sufficient.

An alternate (and consistent with OPs idea) list of layers of processing a language.

1. Phonemic distinctions.

2. Words and morphemes, with their main meanings. (The word with its morphemes is an umbrella that also encompasses gesture, visual, and any other perceptual information related to the word. The words we use are not separate entities from our experiences. In the same way, mirror neurons aren't a thing. We mirror because we only have one set of machinery, and so to understand the other person is literally to hallucinate experiencing it to some degree.)

3. Word dependencies (the argument requirement of each word).

4. The selection of each word (the dependencies that have greater than average likelihood).

5. The canonical or preferred linearization (word order) and its alternatives.

6. The main reductions (variant shapes of words), their domain (a particular word or all words in a position) and the conditions for applying them.

Linearization is one of the last steps of producing a sentence. According to Operator grammar theory, most language complications come from the simplifications we produce as shortcuts (such as pronouns, contractions, conjunctions, etc).

So your first two questions are just the memory of the words/ideas/objects/etc combined with an operator and our perceptions in context do the choosing. Very much like an AST, but statistical (for word likeliness), as opposed to deterministic.

The most differences start to arise when we start the process of moving that sentence externally. We apply reductions and linearization which are language specific.

The intersection between HPCT (Hierarchical Perceptual Control Theory) and Operator Grammar explains the details pretty well. And Zellig Harris presents a complete analysis of English Grammar in "A Grammar of English on Mathematical Principles". It is a very different way of looking at language grammar, which makes much more sense to me biologically he spends significant time showing it can also reproduce traditional grammar. I.e. Traditional grammar could be viewed as a change of basis from Operator grammar.

Take a look at An embodied grammar of words[1] for an overview.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324362482_An_embodi...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/import-photos-an... ?

Also, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201301 ?
>Let's assume they do eventually flip their brand on its head and turn on the users.

Chinese customers don't need to wait. Apple flipped sometime in 2017 and gave up all user emails, photos, messages, etc. to the CCP to stay in the market.

People complain about TikTok spying for China, but Apple is one of the biggest CCP spies around. That runs counter to the brand headspace they keep investing in though.
For signed ints, try

(x >> 1) + (y >> 1) + (x & y & 1)

This rounds toward negative infinity. Also

(x >> 1) + (y >> 1) + ((x | y) & 1) // Rounds toward +Inf
(x >> 1) + (y >> 1) + (x & 1) // Rounds up if x is odd
(x >> 1) + (y >> 1) + (y & 1) // Rounds up if y is odd

I'd be curious if there's a bit-twiddling trick for rounding toward x or y.
I only met him once, fairly briefly, and exchanged a few messages about our shared interest in compilers. But he seemed like a nice guy, and it's incredibly sad to see this.