skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood the argument. I've worked in several different private companies, and calling them "Efficient" is so off base as to be laughable. Remember, a private company will happily let an import engineer go instead of giving them a small raise.
Speaking as a (former) partner of a University of Oregon grad student, what it actually came down to was that folks weren't paid enough to even live in the community they worked and taught in. I was making more at my shitty retail job for $8.50/hr, 25 hours a week, than my partner was making working 60+ hours a week, in a job that required a college degree. I was not contractually barred from taking other work, unlike my partner. And most terms, my partner was expected to teach or TA classes for the university as well as working on their dissertation. This is common for most grad students, and has been for decades.

Based on average cost of living in that community, a $54k Stanford grad student stipend is fair, perhaps low: you shouldn't have to take on an additional $40k a year in debt just to afford the privilege of accepting a "full ride" graduate fellowship.
These comments here need more visibility.
Ask HN: What does everyone like for all-purpose business process apps?
Title mostly says it all. I'm looking to use an integrated tool to step up a bunch of business process tracking and automation for a company of 20 people, probably growing to around 30-40 in the coming year.

Is Airtable good for this? Monday.com?
Fun story, that TIFF bug was one of mine (CVE-2006-3459), I actually found it in an audit sponsored by Google!

The same bug was also used to jailbreak the PSP and other random devices. For a few years I would occasionally get mail from people thanking me for helping them jailbreak their DVD player or smart appliance.

I've never actually owned an iPhone, I wrote an exploit for Linux/x86, then someone else (cmw) ported it to iPhone and made the jailbreakme website!
Yeah; we've had mouse problems in our 90-ish-year-old house ever since we moved in a decade+ ago. Then in the winter of 2019-20, a cat started sheltering in our garage on a regular basis.

We had no mouse problems that winter, and very few since then.
This is an interesting idea, however, I find it difficult to find time to even sit and scroll through Twitter and read news-based newsletters. It would be nice to have long form updates from friends and write my own as well, but I think with the pace of living this is not possible - which is unfortunate!
Not only can they detain him, if he missed court, they can quite literally hire bounty hunters to track him down and bring him to the court so that they can get the money back.
It's got a nice section on the big daddy of modern math:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Kolmogorov :

Fisher–Kolmogorov equation
Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov equation
Kolmogorov axioms
Kolmogorov equations (aka Fokker–Planck)
Kolmogorov dimension
Kolmogorov–Arnold theorem
Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem
Kolmogorov continuity theorem
Kolmogorov's criterion
Kolmogorov extension theorem
Kolmogorov's three-series theorem
Convergence of Fourier series
Gnedenko-Kolmogorov central limit theorem
Quasi-arithmetic mean (aka Kolmogorov mean)
Kolmogorov homology
Kolmogorov's inequality
Landau–Kolmogorov inequality
Kolmogorov integral
Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation
Kolmogorov microscales
Kolmogorov's normability criterion
Fréchet–Kolmogorov theorem
Kolmogorov space
Kolmogorov complexity
Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
Wiener filter (aka Wiener–Kolmogorov filtering theory)
Wiener–Kolmogorov prediction
Kolmogorov automorphism
Kolmogorov's characterization of reversible diffusions
Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
Chapman–Kolmogorov equation
Hahn–Kolmogorov theorem
Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov equation
Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy
Kolmogorov structure function
Kolmogorov–Uspenskii machine model
Kolmogorov's zero–one law
Kolmogorov–Zurbenko filter
Kolmogorov's two-series theorem
Rao–Blackwell–Kolmogorov theorem
Khinchin–Kolmogorov theorem
Kolmogorov's Strong Law of Large Numbers
Thanks, I've updated the diagram :)
Products like this: https://www.enea.com/solutions/traffic-management/tcp-accele...
If they're working in a teaching or research position, they do get paid.

If they don't work for the university, these union negotiations don't affect them.
> When does M mean thousand?

Its less common now, but historically the latin-derived “M” for 1000s and “MM”
for millions was dominant in finance and accounting; metric-style “k” for 1000s and “M” for millions has become more popular, but you’ll occasionally still encounter the other style.

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income...
This is an important abyss to stare into because a sustainable moneyless society that can effectively meet everyone's needs is almost impossible to conceive of without being aware of all the needs.
I use multiple ones, they're kinda compartmentalized. One for web logins, one for critical operational secrets, one for 'cold storage'. Plus variants of PortableSecret for various other odds and end use cases like emergency recovery USB drives.

I trust everything I use to some degree. Otherwise I wouldn't use it in the first place. But the world is not black and white.

Just because I trust something enough to store secret X in it, doesn't mean I should automatically use it to store secret Y.
It is totally due to that difference. Contracts form the basis of common law. The reason why so many US corporations think that someone 'agreeing' to terms and therefore entering a contract with the company regarding the usage of the site over those terms means anything in civil law. It does not. In the eyes of civil law, the use of the site would need to take place per the laws and regulations present in civil law as opposed to whatever that the user may agree in terms.
What is the issue with using Google Chrome for Google Meet? It's not like they'll be tracking you anymore than they already are, and it seems obvious you'll get better performance using their own browser for their video meeting product.
Hard agree. People are surprised when I, as a physicist, am so riled up by things like “trust science!” T-shirts and the general science-washing (a-la green-washing) of products, politics, etc.

I think this is part and parcel of the same “cargo-cult” appropriation of “science” that results in what you’re saying, and represents a real threat to science.
Did Walmart actually think this was worth their time, or did they fear FB would raise their ad rates if they did not at least make an effort on the metaverse?
Show HN: Never write a Bash command again (with the help of GPT-3)
I have a few daily practices, not scheduled for a particular time (though I want to change that in the new year)

Sometime in the morning:
- Breathing exercises
- Meditate 15-45 minutes
- Read from A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

Sometimes I repeat the above at the end of the day, but not often. Instead I like to read spiritual texts and watch Youtube videos related to Nonduality, ACIM, and the like.
Can someone please summarize in plain English what is the story (or “drama”) here? I had a hard time making sense of this article full of weird lingo and screenshots of some social media exchanges - about what exactly? A chat AI that gets tricked into perverted exchanges? Some startup without a viable business model?
That opening sentence in the news report:

> With the cabling of our streets...

In the 90s there was a sudden push to lay cable (TV and Internet). Suddenly large chunks of the UK could get copper broadband at home. It felt very exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telewest

Parts of the UK are still waiting...
“But, yes, in the limit case estates aren't the tax-optimal way to transfer capital to survivors, which is why other vehicles are used for people for whom the estate exemption is small potatoes.”
Meanwhile every single one of these private companies you put up on a pedestal is LITERALLY a top down planned economy.
> Don’t let junior SWEs get 2000 lines into a change before submitting a pull request.

Why junior SWEs and not all SWEs?
I'll write a separate post about how I use a newsletter. But, addressing some of your points:

- I write a personal update every month. So, there's a cadence.

- When I write a post, I still share it on social media. So, people who prefer socials can still receive updates.

- My philosophy is "Write once, share everywhere." Email is just one way to get content - but Postcard even has full-text RSS on it.
its like the shopper is totally powerless, worse than a robot, but a kind of trapped slave in the machine. You can almost see them looking at their hands like "what am i doing, what's going on?"
Ha I didn’t expect to see a clip from BBC Northwest Tonight on here! Any others from the Northwest of England?
Yea, I'm pretty sure a bunch of investors changed their guidance on managing runway this summer to extend the runways as future rounds may be harder. Something like where guidance for many would be 2 years, now to target 4. Although at least one company I talked to earlier in the year didn't have this memo.

I think lots of companies are seeing a longer/harder sales cycle as well, so they're still growing, but at a reduced rate, which when combined with that investor advice can lead to reqs the company thought they had, not really being available when it comes to deciding on making an offer.

What I don't know about, is if there's a bit more slack in the job market, where a year ago if you completed the interview you would get an offer, instead companies now have the ability to select among multiple good candidates.
Indeed - it's no deep magic, "all" you have to do is update the sprite's position from within the very same interrupt which reads the mouse counters. Oh, and make sure that nothing involved in that process can be paged out, ever. (The Amiga made sure of that by not supporting virtual memory!)
Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Released on $250M Bond
In the follow-up blog post (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/what-is-windows...) he uses a sampler to try to find the bottleneck by looking at CPU instructions, but concludes:

> But the main thing I always realize when using this technique is that modern CPUs are weird and confusing. Because CPUs are massively out-of-order and super-scalar it is not at all clear what it means for a sampling interrupt to hit “on” a particular instruction. If an instruction is particularly expensive then samples are more likely to hit “near there” but I’m sure where “near there” actually is:

> If there are three instructions executing simultaneously when the interrupt fires then which one “gets the blame”?

> If a load instruction misses in the cache and forces the CPU to wait then will the samples show up on the load instruction, or on the first use of the data? Both seem to happen.

> If a branch is mispredicted then will the samples show up on the branch instruction or on the branch target?

> What’s going on with the expensive cmp instruction on line 24 of the spreadsheet?

> If anyone has a good model for what happens to the CPU pipelines when a sampling interrupt happens I would appreciate that. Ideally that would explain the relationship between clusters of samples and expensive instructions.

I have a distinct memory of reading a blog post probably 5-ish years ago where someone did just that. The author started with some microbenchmarks of very tight loops, and used some sort of profiler/perf counter tool that measured hit counts for each instruction of the loop. Then, they went into a deep dive into analyzing the instruction throughputs and latencies and dependency chains to demonstrate how bottlenecks at the CPU level manifested as clusters of samples, and how to use this information to optimize the loop.

Does anybody else remember this post, and possibly where I can find it? I’ve been in a couple situations where it would have been tremendously helpful, but I just haven’t been able to dig it up.
That’s the most amount of word salad garbage I’ve ever seen on snopes.

The government hasn’t determined that soda lime glass is unsafe? Shocking.

I wonder why chemists use borosilicate? Hmm.
Realistically it could stay mostly as-is, some text values with separators, just define exactly how to quote stuff and what the separator.

Then you could just have "load a single value" function that does the unquoting, "load K/V" function for stuff like /proc/meminfo, and "load table" for stuff like /proc/<pid>/stat. Maybe "load records" for stuff like /proc/net/nf_conntrack which is essentially list of KV pairs.
Right after we all learn Esperanto.
This is what I liked about the open blogosphere of 2000 to 2008. Whereas something like Twitter is optimized for the fast-take and the brutal one-liner, blogs allowed actual conversations. You could write something serious, develop the idea, and maybe some other people would engage with it, also at a serious level. But then the walled-gardens began to gain ground (Facebook, Twitter, and then later Instagram) and the era of the blogs came to an end. (Yes, they still exist, but they most exist as standalone essays, not engaged in conversation with other blogs.)
Right, it's not a security problem on its own, but it can make the regex not match at all causing jc to return an error. So jc suffers from the parsing bug mentioned in the post.

[edit:] In order to get jc to return an error one has to actually read the regex. Here is a file name that gets it to return an error:

bad) S 1 2 3 4 5
Tangent…

From 2000 to 2002 I worked as a QA engineer at a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. We tested the chips using all sorts of software. My boss loved dumpster diving at software companies, and probably half of our lab’s software came from stuff she found in the trash. My favorite find was Risk (the board game) for Windows 3.0.
I like the idea of building a newsletter in order to interact with like-minded people. The hard part is to convince these people to subscribe. If you are already well known, it might work. If not, you are back to social networks.

Of course one might question the point of trying to be noticed. But if you want to connect with interesting people, find contract work or grow a small company, building relationships is essential.
Yeah, that sucks. And the devs asks for the e-mail BEFORE the paywall. It's not an honest attitude.
Can still be done if all you want is a command-line to come up and be responsive.

Most folks want web, email, images, and even a bit of security from their computer today. Could always be faster, but I think the days of "bam!" ready are past due to those requirements. Unless the computer is only sleeping, like an iphone for example.
If this was the case, then it would not hurt their chances to hire people much if they were open about it, saying that hiring was conditioned on closing the next round for example. But in both cases the message was clearly the opposite and that they had 18+ months of runway. In one case they had additionally signed a contract for a similar amount.
But Substack is a newsletter service?
> (P.S. You probably don’t want to be first employee for a startup. Be the last co-founder instead.)

Not only for the better equity deal. In an early startup of a handful of people, there's already a power hierarchy and people are still figuring things out.

If a cofounder wants to pull a key decision out of their posterior which they know everyone else would disagree with, or wants a big career-building or fun startup thing to themselves, they still need informed consent of the other cofounders.

This is a time when it might be very convenient for a cofounder to modify their idea of mostly-egalitarian startup team dynamics, to think of employees as, well, only employees. You being cofounder here helps keep everyone honest with themselves and the rest of the company, which can be good for everyone.
There are only a small number of cool/interesting ways to be not mainstream. Not X is not 'a thing' though it's 'not a thing'. Find your own blend of uniqueness based on positive motivations rather than bland 'anti'.

I also really disliked how Go was billed as 'not Java' and in some ways is now catching up.

Or maybe a better example is 'alternative' music, I liked kinds of it rather than the mainstream. Then it became the 'alternative' genre in itself. If you like grunge, etc you can use those rather than defining it based on the opposite of something.
This feels like a very superficial and somewhat silly redefinition of "staring into the abyss".
> Combat springs to mind, https://www.free80sarcade.com/atari2600_Combat.php

Fun Copyright Fact: This website is violating Atari's copyright and will do until the year 2072!

"For a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication" https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html
Narrowly speaking, $100/hour is probably true. However my arrangement as a chemistry phd student at UCSD included the following conditions:

To be eligible to earn $100/hour, you must be a grad student who:

* only earns at that rate for 20 hours per week

* is forbidden to work any other job for pay

* pays $20k/year in "tuition" despite the fact that you don't take classes after the first year or two of your 5+ year program

* also works at least 30 hours per week for $0/hour in your research lab (otherwise your advisor will drop you)

So, when you include those conditions, the situation is really "work 50-80 hours per week for $30-35k/year in an expensive california city". Which people were fine to do until phd student stipends started falling behind the cost of living in these cities for the past 10 years.
it's considered very bad form, especially in orchestra's , _especially_ by the conductor because it means 1. you're not following them 2. it's very distracting for the audience/other members of the band 3. it's a 'beginner' tendency, shows lack of self-control.
That's a different group in the strike. (https://www.science.org/content/article/postdoc-union-reache... discusses "postdocs and academic researchers", which isn't faculty, but I believe included adjuncts.)
Bail doesn't work that way at this scale. His parents put up the deed to their house, and a couple of really rich friends showed that they have $250 million in assets and agreed to let the government seize them if SBF doesn't show up. No cash really changes hands.
SPARK being a derivative of Ada, which appeared over 40 years ago, inherits its legacy, so I would say it is older than its 2014 name tag. It was based on the Ada 2012 specification. Contracts are relatively new, but it has many real world mission critical applications in its portfolio other than the CubeSat program I put forth from 2013[2]. Rust wasn't even two years old at that point.

If you go back, then assembly was mainly used in mission critical software in aerospace, for example the Apollo guidance system. To quote an article about NASA programmer, Ron Garret about options in 1988[1] and the now-famous Lisp troubleshooting from 150 million miles away:

“There is Pascal and C and Basic and machine code. And that’s pretty much it in terms of popular languages. To get anything done in any of those languages is just really, really hard.” The code for most spacecraft ended up being written in assembly language.

I want free too, but tooling makes the system, and in SPARK2014 it is the tooling, not just the formally verified spec. of the PL that makes it really groove. Rust has a great build system in Cargo, but it does not have 10% of what SPARK2014/Ada/GNAT provide as an ecosystem and apps under its belt. I do think there are people working on this for Rust (Ferrous Systems with AdaCore), but I want to ship a product before that will ever happen. Maybe my next project will be Rust or Zig with contracts or April (Lisp and APL - my favorite, although there is BQN implemented in Rust!)

[1] https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-l...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)#I...
It's here for Google https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration

Here for Microsoft https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/v2.0/.well-known/op...
Time is a finicky concept with computers.

Could your time-based scheme be defeated by changing the system clock on the attacker computer?
Frequency illusion.

Same like when you buy a new car and suddenly notice a lot of people have them.

It is often used in the context of Apple, you just never noticed and now you are.
Does this mean blue-orange movie posters are just trying to spam our cones?
The totality of available scientific evidence supports that intake of milk and dairy products contribute to meet nutrient recommendations, and may protect against the most prevalent chronic diseases, whereas very few adverse effects have been reported.

I'm going to just go ahead and draw the conclusion that this also INCLUDES ice cream and milkshakes!
It's not unions that have created an adversarial relationship between capital and labor. It's automation.
Nothing to see here, move along. Key positions in social media companies filled with ex-spies and police is no different than a high-school chemistry teacher going to work for a glue manufacturer.
Yes, depending on noise levels, but I try not to, because I think it's bad to have no airflow around the ear.
Hi,

Regarding the collaboration between AdaCore and Ferrocene, the effort is to produce a Rust toolset that is qualified for safety critical usage (e.g. verification of object code that is produced, etc). That is _not_ the same as bringing SPARK-like language capabilities to Rust. I think too many people get that confused.
CFront until C++11, and Herb's paper for value type exceptions...
Old man yells at crap
high bitrate means more boxes are needed
One reason is that transaction performance could be very different, even regardless to data volume.

Your points are all correct of course, but then that wouldn’t be a preview environment, would it? It would be shared database state in a database staging environment.

Which, for what it’s worth, is also how I have seen this problem managed when it came up.

As for costs, maybe true, but it could also take a lot longer than an hour to bring up a large deployment. And if every engineer is doing this for one hour a week, and you have a few dozen engineers, there’s a 2x cost increase with a tougher capacity planning problem since your load is now tied to your hiring plans.
Author here... it pretty much is fanboi stuff, yes :) And sure, there are flaws in Apple's naming scheme as well as things I love.
This really showcases the ridiculousness of the metaverse. Mimicking the world in VR is good for games but inefficient for productive tasks.

We already solved efficient online shopping, without needing to implement constraints like physics.
The conflict of interest stuff at the bottom is interesting, especially with the rise of non-dairy milk alternatives surging in popularity.

I personally think dairy milk production is abhorrent, worse than meat production even, and hope we as a society can move past it.
> The old model was impossible to clean. Did the designers never meet a cat?

The new one isn't much better tbh...

> When one of our cats figured out how to break through the door sure sent me a 3d printed plastic part that clipped on over the latch.

I mean, my cats are smart enough to open doors, cupboards and drawers, but how on earth can a cat break through a cat flap?! Brute strength?
I'm not sure there's not at least some correlation. When there was lots of upwards momentum with TSLA, then certainly these kinds of articles didn't have much sway. But with everyone apparently looking for a reason to sell, news like this can certainly add to the pressure.

But in general, yes, TSLA has been taking a beating for the last few weeks.
Nuclear waste can be cleaned up Fukushima was cleaned up 11 years after the incident. Since Pripyat and the area around Chernobyl was only built to support the nuclear plant, there was no incentive to clean it up.
Thanks for your reply, I just emailed you!