skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School PC "hacking" and bypassing locking was a great past-time.

One of the schools I went to had a computer lab in the Library, ran on Windows NT 4. I found so many work-arounds to their security controls that they ended up making me an admin and told me to fix them all. That was my intro into group policies and domain management.

Another student made a credential-phishing program - it was a full-screen VB6 app that looked like the normal NT4 login. They'd log in, launch the credential-phishing app, and then walk away. It wrote the stolen creds to their 'home' drive and then logged out after showing some fake "There was a problem with your password, try again" message.

Many years later, but still on NT4/Windows 2000, at technical school we found that the campus-wide internet was run through a single Windows-based proxy, with rules on the router to prevent traffic to the internet except from that proxy.

They also did various content-filtering things, allowing only certain white-listed sites.

At that time Windows's networking was iffy - and if it detected that another computer was using the same IP, it'd disconnect itself from the network.

Our class had a computer lab with removable 3.5" drives and we were learning about setting up networks. Well, install a Linux distro, install squid with rules to allow all traffic. Then once it was working, change your machine's IP to that of the proxy. Now the entire campus's internet traffic was going via your lab machine, and you had free access to the internet. We just kept a 'proxy' disk around and put it in anytime we needed something that wasn't whitelisted. I don't know if the network admins either didn't care, or didn't know because it wasn't fixed for a few years.
> I’m usually the smartest guy in the room

Taking you at your word, here: being the smartest in the room might be making things harder for you, not easier! If you’re regularly figuring stuff out in the first five minutes of a meeting to then watch others spend 25 (or, god forbid, 55) minutes reaching the same conclusions, you’re going to end up frustrated with meetings no matter what your dopamine chemistry is.
Listen, people want their opinions validated. Mix that with a weak understanding of libel laws and certain people with potentially libelous opinions will feel like their voice isn’t heard in mainstream media.

It’s kind of how we got one of our recent presidents…
>It certainly doesn’t refer to a K12 teacher

I think it depends. We used professor when I was in high school (3.5 years ago).
I think graphic artists create the original art-work on a metal plate or something and then make 100 prints and then destroy the plates or at least promise never to use them again.

There is some proof of work there. Maybe part of the same idea works with NFTs as well, you must do some work to register your NFT etc.

I wonder if what we need is a block-chain for the actual development of the art. Pieces of art typically don't just appear out of thin air but take many stages to develop. Those stages could be saved into a block-chain and then the whole chain could be sold.
> Windows (NT,win32,etc.) development proper, which was shifted to Azure.

In what sense?

From what I've seen, there's been virtually no development of Windows for Azure. Most of its features are simply being dropped on the floor and are being replaced wholesale by things that aren't that integrated.
Yours is a bully mentality.
Ask HN: How I create an R&D in China?
Hello,

I'd like to get some help in setting up an R&D in China, the idea is that I only offshore low complexity django app development over there while keeping my devops and business consultants over here.

I do not want to use an agency, rather someone who can set up the structure; and I'd also like to find out how to reach out to Chinese developers or even better a guide by someone who has already done the whole offshoring process.
Lambdalabs is fantastic, but they are so fantastic and popular they often seem to run out of gpus available to rent for me :D
The purpose of jobs is to use up time. A job is a contract for employment - selling hours.

If I have to use up my time to get the things I need to live, then I'm going to want to see you doing the same.

At root we exchange time with each other. And that time has to be for the service of others.

Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on earth.

It's a little more than just producing consumption goods - which hopefully can be mostly done by machinery.

If somebody is giving up their time and they are being directed to do something pointless, who are you going to be annoyed with: the person doing the work, or the person directing the work?
Well except for Digg, Myspace, and probably many more examples.
Fun fact: one of the accused in the fraud scandal around Wirecard claims that he had no important role in the company, as evidenced by his „fantasy title“: Deputy CFO.

Source in German: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/wirecard-prozess-vertei...
I think it’s because of the copy that usually comes with these codes. It usually reads something like “COPY DOWN THESE CODES AND KEEP THEM IN A SAFE PLACE.” Which doesn’t come off as “look, you’ll still need your password”
A lot of Berkeley researchers use the NERSC facilities at the nearby Berkeley National Lab: https://www.nersc.gov/
And think he should push to get rid of terrible things like stdint and designated initializers too.
Many people assume that the United States is a democracy, but that's not entirely true. The founders of our country were wary of pure democracy and designed the United States as a democratic republic instead.

> Ultimately, of course, we need to create a society in which working people make all the decisions about the production and distribution of goods and services.

This is said as if it's obvious. Why should we create a society in which working people make all the decisions about the production and distribution of goods and services? Why not only let the most productive of those working people make all the decisions? Why not the most "intelligent" of those working people? What if working people vote for less hours and more pay?

Of those working people, who should be responsible for monitoring foreign competition, say by the Chinese? What should we do if the Chinese offer more for less? Would those workers also be allowed to control what the country can purchase? Would those workers then control not just the distribution, but also the importation of foreign goods, to protect national production? If "yes", then why shouldn't working people control not just the production and distribution of goods, services, but also the purchase of goods?

This article is a joke. It's ironic how an author of a post on theanarchistlibrary.org is telling us how we should behave
South Koreans are getting a year younger, parliament rules
> even then sometimes only at an angle or with a book resting on the cable/connection

That’s probably mechanical stress causing the port to become loose. It can happen after a few years.
I agree with you except for the very last point, that "students need to be guided on problems at the time they do them". I think this issue is fundamental to the tradeoffs of self studying that I've experienced. I want to point out: the guide doesn't necessarily have to be a human. And textbooks accomplish this by giving examples that walk through how to solve problems similar to the exercises. Unfortunately this is a useful secret about textbook and problem design that is not common knowledge to students. (I.e., the principle of charity, principle of relevance, Chekhov's gun, etc.)

I agree with the point of your example, but maybe not the choice of example.

For your example, Gallian (which imo is the standard intro algebra book) includes this property in the definition of a ring: "Property 6. a(b + c) = ab + ac and (b + c)a = ba + bc". (Probably in order to disclaim the confusion you're talking about.) Then he goes on to derive 6-7 other properties of groups that will (of course) be useful in the exercises.

I definitely found it's really important when self-studying to pick the right textbook. Definitely you have to be an experienced educator to write a good book that anticipates most of these things. But I agree that it's impossible for any textbook to anticipate every place someone reading it might get stuck. Let's say for a given student it happens 5-6 times in a really high quality textbook like Gallian or Rudin PoMA. They have 3 options (1) ask on mathematics.stackexchange.com and probably get an answer because it's a great community, (2) try to figure it out themselves, or (3) pay $600 and invest 3h/wk to take an algebra class that might cover the first 1/2 of the textbook in 4 months.

I think where we disagree is what are the constraints of the tradeoff between attending a class vs. reading the book. My experience has been that, if the subject is interesting enough, reading a good quality textbook is cheaper and 2-3x faster than taking a course, but at certain points it can be much more challenging. I think where it depends on which student is how much more challenging, i.e., will they be able to dig themselves out of those holes in a few minutes or a few hours. I was personally in the middle of these two extremes, but I still thought it was worth it to self study after taking 3-4 classes in the math department, then I skipped a bunch (7 semesters) of analysis/algebra/topology and came back and took 2-3 grad courses, where I didn't really understand the main goal of the subjects until I took the classes. And then I went into CS industry and never used any of it again. But I don't regret the experience; it was legitimately interesting to learn about math.

I think you have to be legitimately interested in a subject to self study it successfully. But that's true about studying serious math in general though: you have to be unrelentingly into it, or else you're just really misguided and shouldn't be there, given the high competition, poor odds for any future in math, and no practical use for any of the theory.

That's my experience with it and why I made the argument that I made.
Ubuntu is your safest choice. If Microsoft Office somehow worked on it, you'd never need Windows again but alas.
You might like OneDev, it's basically the good parts of Gitlab mixed with Gitea and has CI/CD.
It's not your job to get the most value out of your time. It is the person who is hiring you's job to get the most value out of your time. That's where the surplus that pays them comes from.

Otherwise you are in business and the surplus should accrue to you, not your employer.

The employer has to extract value otherwise they have no right to that value.
The risks are the same whether you keep running with a failed disk vs. rebooting/booting with a failed disk. Also, given a system in which the OS is not running and requires booting, how exactly are you going to resync a replacement drive if you don't boot the system with a degraded raid volume?
Stuff like this is why people overestimate "market effects" and under estimate just group think in industries. Sure it is "more profitable" in some sense to do it this way, but you'd imagine someone somewhere will make a small fps that doesn't have this overly controlled crap and then win big, taking a share of the big guys' profits, and then the cycle churns into a new area of phase space.

The reason that hasn't happened yet is because a) gamers are just too dumb or lead by hype to try small non-triple A titles (which isn't quite true) or b) the groupthink in the industry is too thick for anyone to even try it. I feel like it's a combination of these two, probably more of b) but enough of a) justifies developer's collective illusions about what is proftable (that is, b))
> Something like 95% of streamers have under five viewers, and the majority of those have exactly zero viewers. Thinking about all those thousands of people broadcasting day in and out to exactly nobody is kind of fascinating.

When you say the majority of 95% have exactly zero viewers, do you mean at a given point in time, or ever? That makes a big difference for how to think of their situation to me.
Scrub, not balance. It's primarily a read operation. The on-disk format has all the information needed to do an automatic abbreviated scrub, but the feature isn't implemented yet.
Stackoverflow updates its policy to not accept answers copy-pasted from GPT
I was going through one of my StackOverflow Posts - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18310484/modify-http-responses-from-a-chrome-extension/71250307, A notification caught my attention - "We do not currently allow content pasted from ChatGPT on Stack Overflow; read our policy here." Policy here - https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy

If the reference is not sited, Isn't it going to be very tricky for StackOverflow to identify if the content is humanly generated or artificially generated? Is ChatGPT a potential threat to StackOverflow?
never said it wasn't- I was trying to more-accurate it
Not necessarily. Though Alzheimer's is an age related disease, and each 5 years increases the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's [1].

The older you get, the more likely you are to get Alzheimer's. Young people don't get Alzheimer's (with the exception of early onset, which is still in an older population).

So if we extend life long enough, will everyone get it?

Unlikely. Just like not everyone with high cholesterol develop heart disease. However the older we get, the worse sleep gets, the more build up of amyloids, the more likely a person is to develop Alzheimer's.

Part of the reason the amyloid theory is in question is because there are people with significant build up of amyloid who do not develop Alzheimer's and there are people with little amyloid build up who do generate Alzheimer's.

[1] https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-causes-alzheimers-diseas....
IIRC in my country (The Netherlands), "engineer" is a protected title like "lawyer". It requires special officially recognized training.
bankman to jailman. It was a nice ride!
The left (or at least the fairly broad swath I'm acquainted with) has been mostly hostile to crypto and skeptical of "effective altruism" for years. I don't know anybody on the left who would have identified SBF as "one of the good guys" before this all came out; "yet another tech bro who thinks he knows how to save the world" is more like it.
> I think a more interesting story would be about the people that grind for years and years and never make it.

I wonder the same for athletes. Was recently reading Nadal's biography and parts of book describe his routine in childhood and teenage. And my first thought on reading that was "what if he hadn't made it to the top?" because he essentially had no semblance of a regular childhood/teenage. Being out on the field at 5am day after day, year after year seems only worth it in hindsight if you make it to the top.

I guess, in the end, Gita captured this as well: the only way to be able to put extraordinary effort is to not care about the outcome.
Good one. At first I didn't get how this worked, but then I figured you run a donation site. One idea for you: if you can distinguish the illegal card validation attempts from 'normal', keep them - card companies pay for up-to-date pools of stolen card numbers to weed out the fraudsters from thei stream of transactions. Though this potentially violates PCI-DSS.
John J. Ray III is a star. The board did right to hire him for the clean-up. I am sure he is cooperating closely with US and Bahamian authorities for criminal evidence gathering. And, he is being paid ~2.6M USD annualised (1,300 USD per hour, 2,000+ hours per year). Seems cheap to clean-up that mess. It might take 5-10 years for full clean-up and wind-down. As the mess is so extensive, I wonder if some board members will also be under investigation. While board member normally have liability insurance, it won't help if crimes were committed.

Source on pay: FT.com -> https://www.ft.com/content/5d826ca9-389e-41ec-a38b-da43211da...

FTX disclosed in court papers that Ray was billing his time at $1,300 an hour and had been paid a $200k retainer fee.
Jenkins works fine for small/mid sized projects.
Not being able to take a day off sounds horrible. Is it possible to pre-record and queue up videos or is it always live?
Still recall the fun I had building the hardware and code to use a 45-baud teletype machine as a console for a 110-baud ASCII computer. Each direction needed a code conversion and a speed conversion. Hardware port access was simple and wide open. (And the baudot could come from any source, not just the teletype. Off the air! Baudot pictures! Save to tape instead of paper!)

A helluva lot more rewarding tweaking wide-open custom hardware than making adjustments to uBlock.
Nuclear fission is probably one of the greatest victims of populist democracy. It seems the more modern "socially-democratic" a country was over the last 30-40yrs the more anti-nuclear it became. The raw output of markets or the tough hand of socialist dictatorship was the biggest positive driving force in the early history of fission energy.

But ultimately it's such an expensive and society-tier level of investment that it's at the whims and pressures more than almost any other technology that has benefited society in resent history. So likewise it's also most at risk of the downside of populist politics (short term thinking, highly reactive to noisy local issues, driven by emotional outrage, etc).

I wonder if it's prospects are even worse off now that's to social media.
1+1 x 2

this has been doing rounds on twitter how people do not have grasp of basic maths and it points out a good argument for people who have been taught "good basics"... like i recently asked a doctor who says they are bad at maths and they just blurted out 3. i asked why and they responded, "uh.... bodmas?"

its such a small thing really, like in your primary and secondary education, of all the classes you attend, this is just a tiny tiny topic that must've been taught but because you were taught its importance and use it as a building block early on, it just feels like second nature.

like the tables of 2-9. pretty hard for kids to remember but once they do and they are taught to HOW to use it, it really helps them
Agreed, when I was at SAP a in the late 2000's we were all developers (SD1), no senior or juniors too.
Why is Binance bad?
Shared a house with some friends in college and we found a bug in a local Pizza place's site to stack coupons and get huge pies that were normally like $30 for $5, basically really good fancy pizza for cheaper than dominos. Really a blessing and a curse since it became breakfast, lunch, and dinner since it was hard to justify buying anything else.
Sir, you have accused me of lying. Here's the screenshot proving my point https://ibb.co/k0N33hf. Now kindly apologize.
It seems, the user either has some big problems on his KDE installation or looking to shared memory usage, to begin with. Let's see what I have in the same list:

157M kwin_x11 (window manager)
392M plasmashell (desktop shell, widgets and other on screen tools)
175M krunner (macOS spotlight equivalent)
30M kded5 (settings and background daemon)
10M kactivitymanagerd (multiple activity contexts)
40M polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 (KDE polkit bridge))
25M org_kde_powerdevil (energy settings)
19M kdeconnectd (use mobile phone as remote control)
5M xembedsniproxy (make tray icons work)
13M kaccess (accessibility keys?)
16M ksmserver (Plasma session manager)
41M plasma-browser-integration-host (Firefox can show desktop notifications)
10M kwalletd (password manager)
6M kglobalaccel5 (global keyboard combos)
5M kscreen_backend_launcher (changing screen orientation and resolution?)
2M kio_http_cache_cleaner (?)
32K xsettingsd (apply colour scheme to Gnome applications)
(Some lines omitted since they are not running on my system)

On uninstalling/disabling things:

- There's background services menu, which you can control which services to load.

- Baloo can be completely disabled by disabling file search.

- Akonadi is just "Online accounts". Add nothing, it consumes nothing.

- KRunner runs on plugins. You can disable any and every plugin, which will reduce its memory footprint too.

- You can uninstall any KDE feature package (at least in Debian), and these features will magically disappear from KDE interfaces.

Lastly, as another user noted, KDE and Qt has a self-resizing magic, and will try to minimize its memory footprint when the system has low memory. So, you can run KDE on a 4GB system and a 32GB system. KDE will allocate more in the second system, but will evict as much as possible as the memory load increases. Witnessed this in a professional project where we ran KDE on extremely limited thin clients and saw how it behaves.
Wow, really? Where, and public or private school?
I have thirty years of experience with people telling me we’re really close on fusion. Next year or the one after will mark my 30th anniversary of having heard the phrase, “fusion is 30 years away and always will be.”

If the people working on it today want to make beef with someone, they should complain to the people who have been lying for long enough that a joke about it is at least three decades old. If the real problem is that the only way we’ve gotten funding for this is to keep misleading politicians on how long the remaining road is, that’s fine, but once you’re known for lying - intergenerationally - how on earth do you expect the general public to take anything you say seriously?
So, the fact that everyone is in a small startup instead of a bug corporate “is” the problem of job inflation (After all, when I started my product alone for 4 years, I sacred myself CEO).

- Everyone-in-a-startup is a side-effect of incredible automation where every competent engineer can leverage dozens of automations, CI/CD, automatic accounting and SAAS products. It’s a real capacity of coordinating.

- Titles will readjust. Titles will mean nothing. They should mean nothing. We’ve already given up reading the degree/diploma of programmers, skills matter more. Software development is so erratic and devspeed is so much due to individual talent that single founders with 50 employees can sell themselves to Facebook for 18 billions. When we can get predictable results out of software engineering, we’ll discuss how to position each one in a hierarchy.
While that's true, what's also true is that the money in the industry has quadrupled since that era (stock options lottery aside).

Yes, those "old style genuine seniors" in the industry have had their titles inflated up the waxoo.

I don't think they're that unhappy about the change.
One issue I've noticed is in organisations that have staff in regions that don't have title inflation. For example in the UK orgs I've worked the majority of people were not particularly concerned about titles and didn't even put titles in their email sigs. When some offshore temp contractors came onsite and gave themselves grandiose titles in their email sigs that were far above the people they reported to it created a lot of confusion and consternation.

I've also seen issues when UK colleagues who are senior enough to manage teams who manage teams, but are still below the "Director" role, then have to manage an entire team of "Directors" and "VPs" in NA who are the bottom rung and manage nobody. It seems like the job titles in NA can be totally meaningless? I suppose if you are used to how it works, it works fine, but if you are from a region with more conservative (and accurate?) titles it causes friction due to an imbalance in perceived power dynamic.

I've even seen an org chart in a NA firm that has 3 CTOs stretching down the same reporting line, which just seems pointless.
that is exactly what i am talking about in my second point?! you‘re at 11.5 GW considering the capacity factor, divide that by 3 (first point) and you’re still above whatever you’ll produce with Hinkley Point C!
They’re criminals. A rogue financial institution not regulated in any country. Don’t do proper KYC/AML.
That gives them 6 months to get the servers reliably online, if I recall Diablo III correctly...