skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My advice - don't wait. Start applying.

As to refreshing your skills, there are quite a lot of good udemy classes. There are some free videos on YouTube, except I found that the structure of on line learning is better.
> Similarly they complain about the lack of talent.

...of people I want to have around me...

It's been my experience that "cultural fit" has been a much more important coefficient, than "talent."

In my case, it's a bit of sour grapes, and I'll be the first to admit it. I have the talent and experience to pretty much singlehandedly "make" a smallish startup (I'm doing exactly that, right now, but for a nonprofit, for free), but found that my gray hair terrified prospective employers so much, that they ran screaming.

There's plenty of talent out there, but it may come with things like self-assurance, confidence, and an unwillingness to put up with childish BS, or be a galley slave.
How many startups make it longer than their founders?
The average number of interviews at any company increases to 10+
Recently have found asdf most flexible, mainly because of plug in systems. https://asdf-vm.com/
Definitely. If founders recognize that they’re no longer able to see the company from a unique perspective, or simply aren’t there most of the week, they should arguably move to an advisor/shareholder role where they’re still inspiring but passively so. Although that’s not always an option granted by investors, is it?
To a non-engineering manager or non-SRE, this may seem absurd.

We do these in a more planned way where I work and call them "fire drills".

Everything prod should be HA and evict-able from a particular server, rack, and/or DC floor and survive. If it's not, it's a sign something is wrong.

The goal isn't fun, it's to find corner cases and places that aren't HA by meatcloud, chaos monkey-style.

Ideally, lights-out PDUs and Ethernet switch port control can simulate "pulling plugs" in an automated way and do so remotely and more cheaply.

If you bought a company, maybe you'd do this once to get a baseline, but with the express intention of not doing it for fun or to be a jerk.
Ask HN: What are some interesting new standards/protocols to keep an eye on?
Organizations like W3C and IETF constantly publish new standards and protocols. What are some interesting new ones to keep an eye on?
The original volt-nuts mailing list pretty much faded away as the members use the eevblog forum now. See the Metrology section.

The time-nuts mailing list is still very active, now in its 23rd year. More info at the group page:

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
Ah, I'm using them through homebrew, that would explain it :(
Disclaimer: These are not my own predictions, but they belong to the "Friday Checkout" YT channel [1]

1- Apple dominance of AR glasses

2- Intel becomes Boeing

3- Elon sells Twitter

4- TikTok goes bust

5- Meta recovers

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1. https://youtu.be/zBIytegYMlg
1Password has a solution that is quite usable: it generates a secret key and provides facilities to transfer it between hardware devices as needed, e.g. from your phone to desktop. 1Password does not cloud store it and urges users to print a backup copy.

There is a marginal usability benefit to LastPass’s lack of such facilities, but I think this breach shows that the security reduction was too high a price to pay for it.
Could have been a Dantzig moment![0]

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...
- Life in China will return to the 2019 normal (except for mask wearing), with the country eliminating quarantine for international arrivals, one of the last vestiges of the zero Covid policy, in spring. There are no more large-scale protests, despite people noticing there are more deaths than the gov is letting on.

- China will not go to war over Taiwan in 2023. However, we’ll continue down that path, with more incidents like Pelosi’s visit. (I think it’s unlikely we see 2030 without a war)

- The war in Ukraine drags on. It does not end, though Russia’s defeat looks inevitable by year’s end. No nukes are used.

- Starship makes 3 orbital flights without incident, but no landing of the first or second stage at the launch tower is attempted.

- Twitter survives. The fediverse also continues to grow, but it remains small compared to Twitter as 1) Twitter continues doing an OK job, and 2) it becomes clear that running a fediverse instance at scale is not trivial.

- None of Siri, Google, or Alexa integrate ChatGPT, due to its propensity to hallucinate falsehoods. Nevertheless, a couple breakthrough products in specific domains do incorporate a version of it.
I'd also imagine spam calls getting less effective when you get used to them.

But maybe that's not the case?
Merry Christmas HN
None. Nobody seemed to want crypto except venture capital firms. Banks wanted to make use of block chain to save on transaction fees, but that interest was not strong enough to warrant any investment. If there is no commercial interest in the technology there is nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Lights are still on in ATX, for now.

It was down to 11 F the other night.
Apart from (1), the rest of your scenarios are unlikely.

Assuming (1) does not happen, there is likely little chance of the West seriously dropping its support for Ukraine. Maybe popular opinion of citizens will increasingly turn against the support, but the governments know very well what kind of message not supporting Ukraine sends to Russia.

And, Putin may well have a health/life issue, but if power passes to another person, it is likely to be someone even more hawkish than Putin. If you follow Russian opinion it seems Putin is seen as rather soft.
AWS + Meta + Microsoft + TomTom = Overture Maps Foundation
> Then you have that sheaves are the natural language for data fusion and sensor integration - which doesn’t apply to people who don’t know the topic, but is an industrial reason to learn it.

Ah, this is super interesting. Are there any good introductions to this topic, especially ones accessible to people who know some basic category theory and a bit about topoi, but who are weak at topology?
I’ve done something similar and my guess is they preformed a migration in 2009 and didn’t want to force current users to provide phone numbers so they used the default value as a placeholder/note that reminds them to special case these users who were grandfathered in under the old rules.
People are saying it's from 2021, I don't even see a Krebs are article on this yet.
Holy god this is terrifying. It gives way to a mindset of desperate minmaxing, when conventionally we are supposed to maintain a view of abundance towards life. How can we think life is abundant when it is in fact scarce?
> And for once it’s the people in power that are going to be disproportionally affected

Seriously? The people in power probably have many, many phone numbers, and getting a new one is not such a big deal.

Getting a new phone number is a much bigger deal for people not in power, and so are the possible negative outcomes from this (e.g. revealing the hidden identity of stalked or politically prosecuted individuals who are not in positions of power)
I asked it to list famous people born in 1976, it listed 10 famous people (mostly actors) and zero of them were born in 1976.

When I asked it if it was sure, it gave dates of birth for each celebrity, all in 1976, all incorrect.

I then asked it when a specific celebrity was born and it gave the correct (non 1976) birthdate.

I then asked it to fix its list. It then gave the same list with that celebrity removed, apologizing for being incorrect.
I repeated this for each celebrity until it gave an empty list.
Somewhat related and somewhat tangential. Slavoj Zizek on the "tautological emptiness of the master's wisdom" -

"""
The tautological emptiness of a Master's Wisdom is exemplified in the inherent stupidity of proverbs. Let us engage in a mental experiment by way of trying to construct proverbial wisdom out of the relationship between terrestrial life, its pleasures, and its Beyond. If ones says, "Forget about the afterlife, about the Elsewhere, seize the day, enjoy life fully here and now, it's the only life you've got!" it sounds deep. If one says exactly the opposite ("Do not get trapped in the illusory and vain pleasures of earthly life; money, power, and passions are all destined to vanish into thin air - think about eternity!"), it also sounds deep. If one combines the two sides ("Bring Eternity into your everyday life, live your life on this earth as if it is already permeated by Eternity!"), we get another profound thought. Needless to add, the same goes for it's inversion: "Do not try in vain to bring together Eternity and your terrestrial life, accept humbly that you are forever split between Heaven and Earth!" If, finally, one simply gets perplexed by all these reversals and claims: "Life is an enigma, do not try to penetrate its secrets, accept the beauty of its unfathomable mystery!" the result is, again, no less profound than its reversal: "Do not allow yourself to be distracted by false mysteries that just dissimulate the fact that, ultimately, life is very simple - it is what it is, it is simply here without reason and rhyme!" Needless to add that, by uniting mystery and simplicity, one again obtains a wisdom: "The ultimate, unfathomable mystery of life resides in its very simplicity, in the simple fact that there is life."
"""
> Seriously: which percentage of developers have ECC on their development machine(s)?

Every single one of my non-mini computers uses ECC ram except for my laptop. If someone would release a framework laptop motherboard that supports ECC ram (and preferably risc-v) I'd finally be able to close to reliability gap. It blows my mind that we say "Well sure, we COULD make infallible ram, but that would cost a tiny bit extra so instead lets just hope nothing bad happens." That's right up there with not wearing a seat-belt because I haven't needed one yet.
Nothing wrong with the workflow you described, done much the same in the past myself.
No the phone requirement came way later.

You used to be able to sign up with just an email address then they started forcing phone number verification by lying and saying they caught your account acting like a bot so you needed to verify you’re human using phone number (you got the message even if you did nothing or just followed a few people, total lie)
It's also not really an obscure issue. For example, the owasp password cheatsheet talks about the need to increase the work factor over time - https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor... . I would hope that password manager software would at least know the things that end up on "cheatsheets"
Twitter doesn't require a phone number anymore. You can use it via the website or a mobile app. I have a an account from 2014 and it does not have a phone number associated.
Google bought Motorola, amd that went okay until Samsung blew its top. Recall this was the era Google was frantically buying IP to shore up it's patent portfolio. Apple had gone "thermonuclear", so a somewhat-independent Google-ow ned Sun was in the realm of possibility,perhaps to be sold piecemeal.
Advertising is a doomed business model. It's not something the end-user wants, yet the model relies on the end-user consuming it. Obviously countermeasures will emerge, such as ad-blockers or running the content through something like GPT-3 to strip out the spam and only leave the actual content the user wants.

The only way out (especially if advertising is no longer paying the bills) is to align the incentives and get end-users to pay for the content directly. If ads no longer pay the bills, there will be an incentive for all publishers to work together on a frictionless, interoperable micropayments service so end-customers can pay to replace the lost ad revenue. Paywalls will be erected to prevent search engines from accessing (and then republishing summarised versions) of the content for free.

Some parasitic trash will definitely go out of business but that's for the better. There's currently a lot of content and companies out there who only survive because people can't ask for a refund on an ad view - by the time the user realises they've been tricked into clicking on trash, the creator already got paid. This model wouldn't work in a micropayments-based world.
> it seems like a case of spending a lot of resources in the hope of improving something that isn’t really broken

This puzzles me. Ageing is extremely expensive to society. Healthcare and care for the elderly is often >10% of total expenditure. Surely that's pretty broken?

And of course there's all the pain they're in, the things they wish to enjoy but can't (like football) and things like covid lockdowns that have to be done because the elderly are at risk (a 20 year old has a risk of death from covid under 0.005%). Lockdowns severely damaged the mental health of many people I know and being housebound due to age related infirmity causes depression in the elderly.
Someone on the UK will be found in their home, frozen to ice. The story will pass, Sunak government continues. Nurses get screwed, along with border force, train drivers, and everyone else.

Inflation will come down but will still be high historically, governments will pretend it's a win. Central banks won't. SPX down 10%.

Twitter has a major outage.

Bitcoin touches 10k and 30k. At least one more explosion in the space, someone at a big player gets arrested.

Rust continues to grow, everywhere but especially in Linux.

More AI awesome stuff comes out.

Ukraine wins the war. Putin makes excuses. No actual treaty of course.

Covid causes massive problems in China.

Property crisis in China continues.

Either Biden or Trump passes from natural causes. Big news of course, conspiracy theories.

Messi gets next Ballon d'Or.

Brock Purdy becomes a starter. Eagles win the next SB.
There was some discussion about this with the original report of the hack, less so now. I suppose because we didn't get extra details suggesting that.
There was a publicly available API endpoint to query email addresses and phone numbers given a Twitter handle?
It's a bit weird to overpay for Twitter if you're expecting a downturn, no?
What things do you wish you'd done, besides dating?
CSS is 26, so almost!
> Twitter doesn't require a phone number anymore. You can use it via the website or a mobile app.

You used the word ”anymore”.

Obviously, you are implying that Twitter required a phone number in the past, but because you did not specify the time of the change, we must assume. It could be that phone numbers are not required since an hour ago or a year ago.

Regardless, if it was a requirement, chances are high that a good portion of the 400+M users in this (supposed) data breach were encouraged to share their phone number with Twitter.

Not to dismiss your contribution but if you have to write ”anymore” I don’t see the point of your comment.
I don't think it works well, or better than religion for many people.
The “Twitter Files” showed Twitter was actually doing a better job at being balanced and fair than I thought they were. It’s embarrassing that anyone who read those threads came away thinking this was proof Twitter was doing evil things.
Dallas metro population: 6.488m. Switzerland population: 8.6m.
Why does it need to be canonical?
No, this does nothing for energy -generating reactors, but I agree that's interesting for future military nuclear tech.
- AI breakthroughs on the level of DALL-E/ChatGPT monthly. They go through the hype cycle of "this changes everything, we are now replaced by robots" to "wait, it has this major drawback that makes it obviously wrong if you know where to look" to "hmmm, I could see myself using this on a professional level with a little touching up by a human".
True, also enabled by state actors apps/servers like Palantir.

For recovery and nonrepudiation purposes, storing a salted hash of the phone number would be the wiser course. If using SMS for notification, services like Twitter should have API callbacks and delegate the problems of multi-platform notifications to a trusted third-party similar to credit card processing.
Ugh...disgusting.

But anyway I thought it was going to be some hitherto-unknown Linux command line tool called `fun` that was sudo only.
- AI will be introduced in some comercial applications. There will be efforts to make it more general. I would also expect more software development applications like "fix all my sonar warnings" or "migrate everything from Java to good Kotlin code"

- The Russia invasion of Ukraine will keep bloody and may escalate further. Political unrest in Transnistria or Belarus that may mean a change of regime (maybe with some extra help with US). Russia will start showing big financial and social problems.

- China will not go from Taiwan invasion but will try to consolidate disputed islands and other water territories taking advantage of NATO distractions.

- More crypto problems. Investors will have other less risky places to get profits.

- Twitter will be sold to an investor with money by a fraction of what Elon paid. Things may improve.

- Trump judicial problems may end him in prison. Republicans will select a different candidate and this will make a lot of noise. This wouldn't guaranty a republican lose.

- the world would adapt to be without Rusia oil. Prices will slowly go down. With great investments in green energies they will become cheaper in the long run. May be some battery improvements become mainstream

- melting ice will be worse than ever. Some north countries may experience natural disasters with new rivers or buildings built over frozen soil becoming unstable

- China may be in crisis but will still show new cool tech that may forbid the west to use after The US forbid some exports/imports. Commerce wars are quite probable ( but better than the alternative)
Then I think you're going to have to wait a bit for the homebrew package to be updated.
I've found some of the most informative websites look like they were made in the late 90's
Even better, outside of the illegitimate ones, if your role is at all applicable, Oracle sales reps will essentially love bomb you on a never ending basis and because their turnover is so high, you get a barrage of calls on any given day of irrelevant things. Honestly I wish the phone “app” didn’t exist. If it’s some you interact with a lot it’s very unlikely an unannounced phone call is what they’d go with.
> Russia starts "testing" nukes and a deal is brokered that pisses off both Ukraine and Russia but allows them both to claim "victory", save face and not start a thermonuclear war (this is Henry Kissinger's take); or

That seems like a bad precedent - nuclear blackmail and aggression works, you get rewarded with territory/concessions.

It is certainly a possibility, but in a way loss of credibility for US/West.

> US loses its taste of financing and completely backing the Ukrainian war if a big recession hits here (hard to support Ukraine when we start "really" feeling a economic hit at home and politicians are on TV everyday talking about how much is being sent to Ukraine); or

I think the monetary help might decrease, but the military help rather not. Sending old weapon stocks don't really produce any economic hit.

> Putin has a health/life issue and a Western-friendly replacement is installed in Russia (Putin is no Spring chicken!)

This is very unlikely to happen. Putin might be replaced one way or another, but the replacement won't be particularly friendly to the West. They might be slightly less (or more) antagonistic.
This topic is already there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34036346
Most accounts created before sometime in 2018 likely have just 5000 iterations and not 100100. Since the iteration count is kept in the clear an attacker would likely begin with them (with the added benefit of an older account might have more data in it). So the likely steps an attacker in possession of the vaults would take:

1) Find all vaults with the lowest iterations

2) Order by some criteria (known money sources: URLs for banks and crypto, known URLs that would have PII information: utilities, telcos, governmental URLs)

3) Start cracking...

Or they could skip all that for some quick money. There's no need to crack anything if the URLs can get you money. How much would a dictatorship pay for the identities of everyone with an account at a URL that posts negative information on the regime? A domain.com/wp-admin account could certainly get you killed.
A History of Violence. Why does Alabama keep botching executions?
Maybe Zählvariable or something like that?
How much is your internet per month, and what are your electricity costs per KWh?
I guess this was mostly Ukrainians who noted this while the rest of the world was sleeping. And apparently, I am reading the wrong news sources.
Few at scale. Likely most notable example is Apple, especially since Apple brands itself as being innovative.
> It tends to incentivize the wrong behavior (excessive housing size/mortgages and being a regressive tax that favors the wealthier propertied classes).

In Canada mortgage interest is not tax deductible. What's done here is that, for your primary residence, any rise in value (capital gains) is not taxed when you sell it.

The US and Canada have roughly the same home ownership rates.
I think he meant a treaty of quasi independence yet on face a special autonomous region of China for Taiwan.

And your assessment is right. It is unimaginable for any leader of CCP to grant independent state to Taiwan. He would be buried by party members and mainland Chinese.

This sort of treaty still needs to be approved by China's parliament. Though in most cases it is a just formality for parliament to approve any treaties but when it comes to a treaty that grants independence of Taiwan, vast majority of parliament members would object it.

And please be aware that Chinese people do go to street. Recent demonstrations in multiple cities and universities against endless covid lock downs proved it.
This sadly also sums up my short-lived stay with NixOS. Tried on multiple occasions to get a working system to no avail and ultimately made me go back to Fedora where I remain until this day.
Understanding the Arctic Polar Vortex
It's like the fail of using a social security number or email as a primary key, except it's also a potential listening and tracking device.
There is lobbying indeed, the leverage being the call-center jobs.

In France for example, this activity was under scrutiny for decades (2014: https://www.lemonde.fr/vie-quotidienne/article/2014/02/12/de..., 2022: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/internet/telephonie/demarchage-t...), and even if the law is now more restrictive than before :
- no week-end call
- calls from 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 8pm
- you can be included in bloctel, a "do not call me list"
it still leave room for this activity.

Almost all these jobs will probably be replaced by AI in a near future, so the main leverage will disappear and ...
Or you could just let them play a damn game.
> There is writing of textbooks and there is writing of pulp. One adds to the patrimony of a society, the other much less so…

So entertainment has no value to society?
What's a job like that pay?