skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean EternalBlue? How exactly is a remote attacker going to use a vulnerability in a local networking protocol to attack a typical home user's PC? First you need a way into their network where you can even see the PC to attack. If you have that then you're already dangerous.

As I said before this kind of vulnerability is still a concern. Obviously it's a much greater concern if you're talking about something like a laptop that might be connected to an untrusted network, which would be crazy with an unsupported or unpatched OS. But for a home user who stays on their own network it's probably quite a long way down the list of things to be worried about.
I will not disagree with you there (have an upvote on me), but (not that we can know without it being investigated) that seems to be a straightforward case of employee theft of proprietary documents and data from their employer. If so, that’s something that absolutely should be prosecuted but it’s not a case of systematic/organization corruption (although willfully declining to investigate what happened might very well be).
Ah yeah I always forget about the RAV4 Prime since it arrived so much later.
Though looking at the price, similar to the Prius Prime, there are so many better EVs, and it's hard finding a dealer with them in stock to begin with.

I personally wouldn't count the Mirai, since it's a weird lame duck. Limited availability (only california and hawaii iirc??) and IMHO nobody sane was buying one unless they got it on the often crazy deals you could find (I think you could get one brand new for <20k, and last years model at 11k at one point)
If this article is accurate, it paints a bleak picture. I don't much care about the not working part, if you are smart enough to figure out how not to work and get by, you deserve it. The part where these guys are on a screen all day long is really bad though. I mean, you have to go out and try to have friends or get a girl, sitting at home on a server all day doesn't fill that need. I am worried this is actually making a vast psychologically damaged class of people.
This better be a honeypot where he bans all the yes voters
Yeah, I was thinking about this a bit more and realized that unless he were specifically trying to make an exhibition of it, it would be really mundane. He’d approach, make one quick move and go right by. The sheer futility would still have me laughing though.
You would probably script out that shutdown sequence, and IIRC shutdown.exe can bypass the install updates step.
For stocks:

“Cash is a position.”
Most people still don't care about having email on their phone: that's not what they use their phone for most of the time. They use it for text chats, taking photos, playing games, navigating, etc. I'd say email ranks pretty low in importance.

Those other companies failed because they had clunky UIs and thought that most people really cared about typing emails on their phones; they didn't. Apple finally proved that people want something easy to use that does things they want to do (which isn't email).
Dude needs therapy.
Recommended. For further context, it's the narration of an article written in Spanish by H. Casciari, translated to English.

It's a lovely but also profound literary article in the subject of Messi never losing sight of the ball, while also a critique on modern day analysis of the game and its influence on player behavior.
Not sure what's done at Uber but I imagine HA is a requirement.

There are mitigations and a couple of hours of dev downtime is imo not the end of world.
Sure, prod incident could overlap with a devpod incident but sounds like they still have the choice to do local dev.
Australia Launches Offshore Wind to Move Away from Coal
> Who'd have thought load times would go backwards after 40 years of Moore's law?

"Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. ...Niklaus Wirth...discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software". ...Wirth attributed the saying to Martin Reiser, who [in 1991] wrote: "The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness." Other observers had noted this for some time before; indeed, the trend was becoming obvious as early as 1987."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
For apps I use frequently I prefer native: better performance, loads quicker, etc.

For apps I use rarely, I'd prefer to just use a web app if possible: always up to date, not taking up disk space, etc.

If an app requires internet access for data, then it might as well be a web app: e.g. I don't use native apps for social media.
> There's nothing really fundamental about humans wanting cars.

This was never claimed, and is irrelevant anyway. Fundamental or not, a large segment of Western society wants to use cars. Quibbling over whether or not this behavior is learned, intrinsic, or a mix does not help anyone on timescales that matter. Accept this reality and move on.

> Public transit can be comfortable.

For you maybe. Not everyone is you. I've experienced public transit in a variety of European cities known for their excellent transit systems. I simply am not comfortable on public transit, as I hate not having personal space.

> If vehicular use was required to be honestly offset, the comfortable thing that is the modern car and suburban sprawl would no longer be affordable.

This isn't true, but let's pretend it is. Towards your goal of mitigating global warming through reducing car usage, wouldn't this be a better approach than directly prohibiting car usage? People are easily misled by layers of indirection. Market forces pushing people away from "unaffordable" car usage is more palatable than "fuck your way of life, you now have to ride a bus or three".

> I find myself wondering whether I care either, I appreciate the reminder that I'm simply going to lose even if I do.

It's a tough pill to swallow, but you can choose to work with the people you don't like and advocate for solutions that are amenable to them as well. Hostility to their way of life will not get you very far. There is enough solar energy reaching our planet to power our entire civilization at the energy usage of a typical American, and to start unwinding our past century of carbon emission. Most people would simply be apathetic about working towards such a goal. Try to take away their comforts, and most will actively work against you.
The contrast between the Uber and Google setups would be twofold. Google engineers weren't doing local builds anyway (unless they intentionally inflicted those upon themselves) because of Forge. The Forge builders already had 10000 CPU cores in 2010[1]. You can probably imagine how many cores Forge or its equivalent has today. Secondly Google doesn't suffer from the performance problems of a weird freeware VCS, because they don't use git or the git workflow model at all. They built their own VCS based on the workflow model from Perforce.

One funny aspect of Google moving development into cloud machines was that a decade before the process ran the other way. The desktop that was issued to most engineers was a production websearch machine turned sideways and stuck under your desk.

1: https://youtu.be/b52aXZ2yi08?t=1118
I would love to see this poll go "no", though I suspect that he would step down anyway. He probably already had a replacement in mind before he posted the poll.
I’ve looked for a Toyota EV for sale in the near future that I would actually want to buy and could not find one.

Meanwhile, at other automakers:

Chevrolet Bolt, Tesla {S,X}, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and 6, VW ID.4, Ford Mach-E. Jaguar, Mercedes, BMW, Lucid all have theoretical contenders. And I’m probably missing a few from other manufacturers.

Toyota is behind.

edit: formatting
> It may be that there was more for the medical system to do, there may not have been.

I think you're mistaken if you think bane's complaint goes away if it turns out they couldn't have saved him. For one thing, bane said his father refused treatment, but still had a complaint with the hospice. The complaint with the hospice probably wouldn't be that they didn't save him from succumbing to his illness because that's not what the hospice is tasked with doing. When someone has a terminal illness and refuses treatment what they are supposed to do is provide care while their illnesses kill them. They are to provide needs so other things don't kill them, not kill them earlier or make their conditions worse with laziness or incompetence. One example of something cancer shouldn't cause is bedsores from not being moved out of bed periodically. From how bane wrote of it, it seems like they were very far from any reasonable standard of care, so it would be hard to say what specifically would have gone better with his father's physical and mental condition during his months after diagnosis.

As far as bane's father's diagnosis, I think it's likely if the medical system had worked harder to diagnose him they could have.
Agree. The people want Twitter 1.0 not Twitter 2.0. Musk destroyed Twitter
I doubt it. Seems like he’s purged the non loyalists.
For some reason this link redirects to https://www.uber.com/es-CO/blog/devpod-improving-developer-p... which results in a 404.

This URL works without redirects: https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/devpod-improving-developer-p...
Wonder how it handles things like dot files?

Also does it automatically install dependencies? Feel like running npm install each time (or the equivalent) would be slow.
I thought the whole VC model was flippantly summarizible as "stupid but works". Basically throwing money at tons of start-ups, in case one of them strikes gold that more than makes up for the failures and outperforms rational models. That is, the whole point of VC is not predicting.
Sorry but you can't stand by the title when it's wrong - you should readjust your understanding and fix it and move on.

First thing I did was check the wiki if he was dead. The key problem is "memorial for Leo Laporte" OK? Terrible title.
> That is a special page of memory that is mapped read-only into user mode from kernel mode, and it contains things like the current time, so that applications can get this information quickly without having to take a kernel transition. This page is at a fixed location for performance reasons.

I didn't know there was a vdso-like mechanism in Windows as in Linux.
For work-related stuff: I disagree. We're not even at Uber's scale at my company and I hate having to manage the ever-changing set of dependencies that I have no control over.
A cracked version of W10LTSB with most of the cruft stripped out and updates/AV disabled is genuinely the best base computing experience. My WWAN card even works properly. Linux is happy inside a VM, and the host computer works properly without spending a billion hours recompiling drivers with every kind of weird lab hardware, GPUs, FPGAs, and it's own internals etc. If something is better supported on Linux I just pipe it into the VM.
Lauren Powell Jobs' invested in The Atlantic.

The Atlantic is now visibly more biased towards the "left."

The original Atlantic was pretty much neutral.
I frequently implemented this from the other side at Apple.

You'd be shocked at how much software enables features based on a `==` OS version check. When the OS bumps its version, the software regresses to some earlier behavior. Lying to the app is the simplest way to keep it working.
My prediction is that once the poll finishes with Yes winning, he’ll say that he cannot find a replacement so the only option is for him to shut Twitter down, but of course, it must be polled, so he will do a poll asking if he should shut Twitter down and when No wins, he’ll say “guess I’ve got to stay!”.
This is probably the reason Nostr makes an appearance in the policy then.
Does smaller companies have mono repos that size?
Interesting play by amazon. Guessing this is a gov cloud type pr initiative so they don’t care if it loses money?
Innovation in building has a long history of product failures, angry owners, and lawsuits/followup laws banning or restricting it.

Generally, it’s a bad idea to be using any construction product unless it’s been around at least a few generations without major issues.
Even though I don't agree with the WSJ I trust their reporting to the extent that if someone used it as a source I would accept it without debate.

Rupert Murdoch on the other hand is quite possibly the biggest piece of shit in the entire world outsides of dictators, the tailban , etc.

You should read how he meddled in UK politics and played king maker

https://www.businessinsider.com/gordon-brown-rupert-murdoch-...

I can't wait until he dies
Correct. My last job built a low rent version of this and it was very painful. 15-45 minutes to launch a pod that would have taken 3 minutes under Compose. Pushed a new base image? Whole thing would roll over and need another 15-45 minutes.

To do this well it takes manpower. There are some off the shelf options out there for remote/prod like Kubernetes based development that are smarter choices than building your own. The table stakes for doing this is being a big corp that can afford to spend millions on one custom tool with a hope for positive ROI. For the rest of us, find something that works that is open source or easily licensed.
Explicit Ontologies in a World Without
You will certainly grow.. along the horizontal and forward axes.
I'd rather not give a thorough list, for obvious reasons. I will note one example, they note "Long-haul aviation does not currently have a generally accepted path to electrification", but include it on the list anyway.
He's only like 5'7" now so it's not like they made him a giant. Giving growth hormones to kids with deficiency is, I think, standard medical practice now. I know a boy who got HGH and ended up like 5'6". It was done to prevent dwarfism and promote healthy development.
I got a Toyota CHR with the intention of it being a second car long term and was counting on going electric for the upgrade - but looking at the prices if I go electric I might as well jump up in class - cost of batteries seems to make price jumps between classes a much smaller % than ICE. Basically there are no cheap electric cars, if I'm paying a lot might as well pay for the premium brand.
I think what's highly likely is that the "hundreds or thousands of Elon's guys" (or 4chan trolls) reported the account/tweet.

Most platforms use some sort of automatic algorithm coupled with an army of people in "third world" countries doing actual first-level reviews and a smaller group people at HQ supervising/monitoring/working on the algorithms.

Well, except...he fired all those people. So now it's probably just "autoban and if there's enough noise, someone comes back and unbans."

When the elon jet reddit user got banned, it was probably the same thing - trolls/bots/muskies mass-reporting after a post hit the front page.
Mentioning tcpflow here b/c it's one of the most useful networking related tools I know of that very few people even know about.

What does it do?

It can reassemble TCP packets back into the FULL body of the original message sent. e.g. if you make a HTTP GET request, it will show you the full text in a file stamped with the time, source and dest ips and port.

Things I've found it REALLY useful for:

- migrating a data center

- for some reason, connection works fine on the old DC but seems to time out in weird ways in the new DC

- No one can figure it out

- I suggest using tcpflow

- Turn out there was a setting in the new DC network hardware that was truncating larger packets and the authorization message was just over the threshold

People always say "yeah, but Wireshark" which is true, that's a good tool too. That being said, there is just something about seeing the "raw" text of a message sent by a machine over the wire and being able to see it in text from the command line.

https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow
The number is above 50% according to gov data
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...

Edit, it took me so long to post this I was beaten to it by 12 minutes.
They're using this now, but I imagine the user ValleZ's comment is about a past time working at Uber or hearing stories from Uber developer friends, in which I can see why spinning up a low-latency (but still over 30+ millisecond RTT) virtual machine would be an early solution to developers trying to cut down on build times and whatnot.
I have been to some caves around TN but nothing like what you described. That is a big nope from me.

Are you a professional caver or just someone who likes to do it. The places you mentioned seem like a place that a novice would not be.
The transistor's story is one of innovation and immigration
What % of Twitter users are voting in these polls?

If you’re serious about democratizing big decisions, maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday, so people who want to engage can plan ahead.
That is absolutely right.

People will always swear by something when asked in polls but pollsters will never explain the tradeoffs.

The tradeoffs for electrification are too complex and the downside too big. All for the benefit of people who will be alive 150 years from now. It doesnt make sense from a gametheory perspective.

The E in ESG will either drop or will have to be transformed in “Ecology”

At the end of the day when you dig deep enough it’s clear that this is all about the need that the elites have of having a shot at being the person who gets remembered as having solved the biggest problem ever in the history of humanity .

A leap that would put the moon landing to shame, but the non-elites have much more stringent , less grandiose needs and although they can be convinced of all sorts of BS , I dont think they can go against their interests in such a big way
This is great! Thank you for the share.
So what you're saying is that Elon is canceling himself?
I don't think even the WSJ leadership would agree that that news side has a "center left" leaning.

https://newsliteracy.wsj.com/news-opinion/
I'm in the midwest, with a plug-in hybrid. I wish I had gotten a BEV instead of the hybrid I have. With the plug-in, I was filling up more than I had hoped (maybe once every 2-3 months), but more importantly, the maintenance is still all there. It's arguably even worse, since there are even more moving parts than a ICE vehicle (the 12V battery notably is difficult to replace).

I have a Chevy Pacifica Hybrid, so your experience may be different. Unfortunately, there aren't many great options for a BEV vans (yet), but here's to hoping.
I'd compare them with a gang that blocks roads to collect fees. Each word is like a road, and these types want to install toll boths on some words.
I get that for regular people but I thought that Mastodon was mainly populated with tech enthusiasts until Elon took over Twitter and people migrated. I'm surprised as I thought that, being tech enthusiasts, the initial users would have gravitated to a high performance server option.
It is possible that "infrastructure" may become feasible in smaller countries like the UK. However, it is far from feasible in large countries like the US. Heck, even here in California, we are under the same future bans of ICE, etc. in the 2030 timeframe. This state can not even keep the electricity on with current consumption patterns.

Personally, I have two ICE vehicles and plan on keeping them running and in good shape for a long time (one is 7 years old, the other 2 and both are known for running well into the 100s of thousands of miles). I don't drive "frequently", but when I do drive it's is a long distance one way. Living in a rural area with things like snow, etc. EVs aren't anywhere close to being ready for such. If the cost of owning an ICE vehicle becomes too much, then I will consider a hybrid.
Its a lot easier to manage dev envs if everyone is literally using cloned ec2 instances that can be remotely fixed/managed by devexp teams. These type of projects are a big step forward IMO
I don't think that analogy holds. If I buy the CD and rip it myself end up with MP3s. If I buy the CD and download a torrent of it, I end up with MP3s. If I buy a ticket and bring my tape recorder into their concert, I can listen to my recording of that concert forever.
At least my lament is not so much that it is naked profit seeking, but that it is naked profit seeking that warps the product.

In the example of games, that additional revenue stream of day 1 DLC means content being arbitrarily cut off from the game before it's even released. That premium subscription with a +30% XP bonus is often a -30% XP loss for normal players in disguise. Those loot boxes and battle passes are holding hostage rewards that would be given out naturally through gameplay in another time. Those energy and gacha systems are preying on whales and gamblers.

In the case of software, at the same time the subscription model got popular, every application has also been reimagined as a "service, not a product". Maybe the death of local desktop apps would have happened anyway. I don't know.
Weak people seek someone to follow.

Trump, Musk, Thatcher. All they have to do is tell them what they want to hear and throngs of unwashed masses, filled with their insecurities and fear, will worship at their feet.

"All you have to do is support me and I'll make everything allright" - any of the above
I read something a while back that was the same for hockey. When you see NHL players passing the puck around the average person has no idea the incredible wrist and arm strength required to make and take those passes.

I think it might have been a reddit thread where a commenter said that a guy came and played on their rec league that had played semi-pro hockey (maybe AHL) and even then nobody on the team could handle his passes. The commenter said it felt like his wrists were going to break.
Paul Graham just got suspended for posting to a link to his blog and telling people there was a link to mastodon there.
One of the people complaining about being blocked mentions crypto or some other get rich quick scheme. I don't blame Lex for blocking annoying people.
Am I the only one who doesn’t know Paul Graham is today, cause everyone is talking about him as if they personally know the guy. Is he particularly famous or something?

And I bet Elon Musk is praying people vote for him to step down. So if you can, vote for him to stay as head. It’s not everyday you see 40-odd billion dollars as well as Tesla stocks plumetting - it’s quite fascinating so little it seems to bother him.

But in all fairness, I think it would be better for his mental health if he gave social media a break for a while!
I love football, sometimes called soccer.

Messi is the greatest and purest player of football.

I study Michaelangelo the same way I study Messi.

Art
> The previous CEO of Twitter barely did any work.

I wished the current one was half as clever.
I agree with your original post. Very thoughtful. The subscription version of glasses is contact lenses. Plus, most people need a tweak to their vision prescription every year (or two), so they need to update lenses.
I don't know if it's just me, but movie theaters seem louder now. Not the sound editing of the film itsef or anything. Just the volume of the physical speakers seems way cranked up now. So "reasonable volume" is at the top of my list.

This trend has been documented in live theater:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/opinion/broadway-loud.htm...
Spotify is way better than similar offerings though, like Amazon or YouTube or Apple and such. Part of that is because their app makes social playlists easy. Everything from Christmas music to board game nights has a good community driven playlist.
Or just do what he does: move your ‘life savings’ to ‘investments’ or whatever else that doesn’t fall under the savings umbrella.

Not that this game has any fixed rule or he’d keep his end of the deal.