skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in your analogy, plains-clothes officer breaks into the private property without leaving a trace, by using unknown vulnerabilities in security of the place, leaves with evidence without being noticed gives that evidence to a supposedly uninformed cop, and development of that case leads to prosecution of the property owner. And you are saying there is nothing sketchy about that?
Are you the same mort from Libera?
I think the "what" was intended to be covered by the initial flurry of contents, "MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded, multi core, multi user Parallel OS".
The World's Oldest Rune Stone
As others have mentioned power companies in California pay a lot for virtual power plants when the demand is high. If power companies can avoid running an expensive peaker plant once a month, everybody wins.
There are reasons for tools like https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli. It seems like every operations team built their own version that logs into the web interfaces, downloads the java stuff and then runs it locally...

Just annoying.
It seems like playing chicken with "Don't make me pay this hugely overinflated price I promised or I'll crash the company." as your strategy maybe wasn't such a smart idea. Now he's out the money and has literally nothing to show for it. Meanwhile his other ego stock, which he somehow had manipulated into a wild overvaluation, is now crashing because everyone can plainly see that he's just kinda a dumb motherfucker.
Did you build this for a school project? I go to a college where this was submitted as a senior capstone and was wondering if this is the same project.
First, just to acknowledge--it sucks to read that, and layoffs suck.

With that said:

High probability: The issue is already accounted for at a systems level, and is baked into the cyclical patterns for SF/bay area, just like any region. A number of support systems are typically in place for this contingency, and for most groups they will kick in and work: Family/social economic support systems are engaged; cyclical employment opportunities pick up in other not-so-tech areas which still need tech. Government included. People who like living in the bay area find ways to stick around because they enjoy some aspect of it, perhaps including some part of their personal history with the area.

Medium probability: The effect is quickly displaced by the relatively new, driving position of tech in the broader scheme of things; new jobs are generally available in little time (speaking in terms of laid off population, not individuals unfortunately), as layoffs were part of a cyclical broader business execution pattern, and hiring is almost always going on. The S&P hits new highs amid some cautiousness, reinforcing and benefiting the natural instinct to increase savings in case another 2022 happens.

Low probability: The SF local economy is shattered as 60K+ layoffs rock the community and cause cascading system failures. Biden visits and laments the entire bay area becoming a total pit. He would declare an emergency but doesn't have it in him. He throws around the words "human feces" as if they reinforce some covert, blanket agreement that SF just doesn't have it anymore. The buzzer sounds. Everyone shuts it down. Local cops form into lawless gangs offering near-bankrupt residents and business owners some meager peace from threat of direct violence, in exchange for selling their pets and small children into uncertain fates.

Just some ideas though. You never really know I guess.
Texas was paying $9/kWh for electricity during their blackouts. If you had 72kWh of electricity in your Tesla that'd be a nice payout...
Got it, makes total sense. Thanks for elaborating!
Would really love to hear what you think about the app I'm working on if you feel like sharing (pasted the link in previous comment https://www.t12n.io), seems very similar to what you initially described if i understood you correctly.
"You go out and get it yourself!" - Except those who need food frequently can't. Children, the sick, the injured. We take care of these people and have a moral obligation to feed them because they have a right to food.

People absolutely have a right to food. A positive right, no less, that can't be denied.

People used to get it from "the commons" - since we've enclosed them all to shift to our current modes of...well, everything, we have to replace what people would have gotten from the commons previously and provide it free of charge, as a right to things on this earth that people would have had.

Like food. Currently what we do is burn the excess to keep the prices up. We've long since been able to make the food free; we don't and it is immoral (like a good number of our social constructs, imo).

No, no religion on my end. I just think it's obvious people have a right to food, like they have a right to clean air, water and shelter.
More malicious packages posted to online repository. This time it’s PyPI
Using the GC in D is entirely at the user's discretion. You can also do functional programming in D, or not. The same with OOP, or not. Or RAII, or not.

This is unlike Java, which forces the use of GC and OOP. Or Haskell which forces functional style.
This logic has a nice way of being used against you. I think the employees you feel are useless would sack you if they could.

Focusing on productivity is of course the right metric, but the metric that gets used in practice is “Which of you helped advance your manager’s career?” After all, your manager is the one who decides who goes, and there’s no incentive to keep someone that does nothing for them over someone who helps them look good to the VP — which is who decides whether your manager goes. Same rule applies recursively.
What’s the relevance of knowing a previous employee count? How does this information “complete” the story?
The linked change doesn't affect addons like uBlock Origin. GP is being unnecessarily alarmist about a relatively minor change, where the FF devs have even expressed they'd be willing to add back in support for their usecase (they just don't want to allow it by default).
> I see it as a good rhetorical move

I completely agree: it is a good rhetorical move. aka good spin. But I don't think we should celebrate that sort of thing in tech blog posts, or in any writing actually unless your work in marketing.
This one was kind of difficult to title without getting too long, if anyone has a suggestion for the title that seems better let me know.
> Common Lisp the hard way that was linked here not terribly long ago

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326311
It’s not that they’re worthless. It’s that to be able to offer anything approaching what most would consider a reasonable trade in value for this kind of machine, they would have to be selling it themselves for what, like $20k? I think they would have a very difficult time moving those.
cycles hurt a lot less than just time does, but of course there would need to be some incentive!
Don't tell me that, take it up with the accepted answer I'm parroting here

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/35758/why-did-ru...
Games are always fun to make and you can use whatever tech you have available to you. I make little games that run in the browser for my kids to play.
What kind of sicko embeds a whole binary in JSON ?
If you want true common lisp SBCL is probably the most universally known, and yeah everything I've read indicates one of the first things you should do is download and run the quicklisp setup so you have it working with your environment. Though it is funny how Hard Way did it during initial setup but then hasn't used it at all and I'm a chunk of the way through. Even as a beginner book I'd probably briefly touch on packages because it is so important to modern development.
There was a brief moment in the 90's before Jobs returned when Apple allowed MacOS to be licensed to third party system integrators. Naturally, the companies that popped up to sell generic Macs were massively under cutting Apple. Their prices have never been something that could stand up to direct competition.
Replicating the production env to do that sounds beyond our capabilities tbh. We are slowly replacing Ruby with typed languages like TS and Rust which is working wonders for reliability.
> by many accounts Oracle makes the fastest database

I've never seen that credibly claimed. Why would their license ban benchmarking if their performance was any good?
It was massively overpriced to begin with.

At the time it was first released you could already buy a Threadripper workstation with an NVIDIA GPU that would run circles around it for a fraction of the price.
True. However, rockbox let you play doom on ipod nano 1st gen. :)
My M1 MBP is 30 days old. Somebody please hold me while I cry.
It's also terrible for failure modes. Planets are independent of one another, this ring is one fragile entity. The largest destruction of life by a single unfortunate event in the entire universe made possible by one design decision.

We know it's not indestructible (and can't be unless it's a fantasy novel with "magic"), I only read the first book and there were two large holes even in the tiny section they explored.

Whatever happens to that hole in the ring that they find when they first encounter and land - crash - on the ring? Air is constantly lost through it. Not the one with the ultra-high "mountain" near where they crashed, the other one further along their route with the weather pattern caused by this air-loss storm. How is that sustainable - given the ultra-long time horizon, surely billions of years, that such a structure should be able to support life for (if a planet can do that much)?
Communism doesn't reject democracy. It necessitates democracy at its core. Otherwise you can't make decisions within your local commune.
With an expensive Quest Pro you could capture your facial expressions using the headset's eye and face-tracking features.

Any more on this?

As for hands - is it able to track hands and fingers only or also an object within a hand? I can see this being useful to 'puppeteer' a 3D object by hand used as a proxy of it... Or a simple object within a hand.

Outside of maybe a cliff-climbing game I struggled with finding a reason for buying a headset at all. This seems like a plausible use for animation.
1. In the UK at least they have an 80% off sellers fees roughly every fortnight.

2. All the rest you end up dealing with people asking if it's available only to then disappear (why they ask in the first place I don't know), or you wait around for the one who's supposed to be coming, but then doesn't. eBay is a much better experience.
In my experience you’re right that the best devs don’t care to play the ladder game, but they’re generally pretty okay at it. It’s not that much of a distraction from your regular work to think about “How can I help my manager look good to their manager?” which is all the ladder game is.
Looks like it’s still a WIP

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/commits?author=eregon
This is my issue. I wish I had a dumber phone. Like, one that allowed only certain things by default - messaging apps, gps trackers, Spotify being the big ones. If there was one like that, I'd buy it almost immediately.
> Are all iOS/Mac devs buying new machines every five years?

My company lets you buy a new computer every three years.
your forgot '... until he was shown the door.' on that last sentence.
TDIL -parallel construction
Electronics depreciate fast. That's just that. Not even exclusively Apple thing.

You want something that appreciates? Buy a Rolex.
Iirc the Ring was made of 'scrith', which was probably Protector for what we now call unobtanium.
I've intentionally never owned a smartphone. Dumb phones abandoned by my family have been serving me very well for years (strategy: use them until they stop working; get next one; repeat).

My daily work is in forestry, as a brush cutter -- occasionally, GPS would be necessary (unavoidable even). For 95% of the cases, though, I've found a workaround by postponing the map-related tasks (e.g. making sure I understand the borders of a particular forest subcompartment correctly) to the next day and hand-drawing the shape of the subcompartment from an online map to a piece of paper. With the drawing in hand, I can usually accurately confirm the borders by visual observation. Once more, this probably only works for simple blue collars, not for guys that need to do more on-site planning.

Other than that, I occasionally miss a tolerable camera (for digitizing expenditure checks) and QR code reading ability.

All in all, living with old dumb phone is fun. Zero cost if you break it or ruin it in the forest (mud!). I hate my current Nokia, though -- but can't ditch it because it still works, lol. I still miss my Nokia 3310 (the original one), which I used every day for 12(!) years in a row, starting in around 2001 as a high school student and finally letting it go in around 2013 when I was a young father. It was one hell of a phone.

My current favorite oldscool dumb phones are the "senior phones" with huge buttons. This ZTE s202 was really enjoyable to use (belonged to my grandpa), and the no-bs design somehow feels really elegant: https://i.hinnavaatlus.ee/p/1200/99/43/S20220must__6ee8.jpg
Wow that's super cool! That's definitely the biggest challenge - how to keep the size of the mocap data small.

Our library is not the best at that, since it simply records everything to Alembic files, which are quite heavy.

Best of luck with Explayn. I really like the idea of learning from mocapped lessons.
Actually, "woke" opinions do reflect those of the general population, which is exactly why conservatives feel they live in some kind of progressive hellscape.
Same here. I rarely use Twitter, and don't follow any political stuff there.

Its autosuggestions for me are full of far right conspiracy theories, stuff about climate change not being serious, anti-vaccine stuff, stuff about Bill Gates' agenda to depopulate the world, and I think I spotted something about the Jewish bankers that run the world.

I don't think I saw a single one that was actually worth reading.
Playing video games, which have a voice chat, or joining a discord server and playing together with others are what has helped me and many friends of mine (in Europe) with practicing English.
Black Gold: The Fate of the Wig Capital of the World
What about www.bitmessage.org ?
It would need some cleanup, but definitely usable.
Poorly thought out?

Only the language that runs most of the internet and invented the term tight development loop.

All the modern crap has just moved us further away from this.
How? I use Firefox Nightly but I only see the handful of recommended extensions available.
For fun: This actually runs the Java Applet KVM viewer on a SuperMicro X7 board: https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli/blob/master/kvm_x7.py

1. Downloads the data from the IPMI interface

2. Modifies the files to run locally

3. Writes out a Java configuration with weak security settings so that TLS works with the deprecated ciphers.

4. Fires off a socat instance to redirect the localhost ports to the remote IPMI device.

5. Starts appletviewer locally.

Great fun writing that. Thank god we decomissioned the last X7 based storage appliances a while ago...
The war on wages is being waged (? is that the same word?) by the Fed. Companies just follow.
This one is nothing short of brilliant:

https://www.manning.com/books/haskell-in-depth
It's not very fractured, especially in open source as many "common libraries" support most implementations.

It very much helps that there's a single standard that is quite rich (unlike Scheme) which makes for much easier portability between implementations, to the point that somewhat common repeated trope was developers using one implementation for faster iteration and another for deployment (for example, CCL for development and SBCL for faster code in deployment, or CCL/SBCL for development and ECL for target deployment).
Thanks! Yeah, that felt good.
It's a trap companies can easily find themselves in. If you're looking to cut costs, the first thing the C-Suite will look at is all the workers that aren't adding immediate business value, so you cut them first; simple and easy. Then as tech debt and issues pile up, you, as management, figure that your first approach to figuring out what's going wrong is to hire managers and consultants to understand why your workers aren't as productive as before. Unfortunately all of these middle managers just create more burden on workers as they are micromanaged and sent to meetings more by managers looking to justify their existence. Of course these managers will say whatever the C-Suite wants to hear to keep their jobs, so more blame is pushed onto the lowest level, more managers are hired to try to make them more productive, and a vicious cycle continues.
Look at the heading "An alphabet of its own". Does it seem to you that the first line of transliterated symbols reads something similar to "FUBAR", or did I just spend too much time in the Army?
But amazingly third party clients still thrived even after those API nerfs for over 10 years.

I mean it's within his right to do it, and I can even see the arguments. However, to do it without even a press release let alone notice. Without even answering support tickets from those third party clients. Just an utter failure of management.
Only the best (or the dauntless, but they are a minority) quit in the present climate, soon the corporation will have a 3-5% reduction in their best performers.
As if they've ever needed valid grounds to remove other less influential apps
This is not true.

In Ruby, tests are the same you'd write in any other language. You test that things do what they are supposed to do, not the types of parameters or return values.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Raspberry Pi for home IoT projects?
What are your alternatives to the Raspberry Pi for DIY projects? Can you recommend any low power / low cost board?
MSFT seems to be willing to invest $10B in OpenAI. It's not clear how they'll make that money back as OpenAI hasn't done much to monetize things like chatGPT.
You can use ChatGPT to write code
I'm honestly not sure what Musk is thinking. Has he gone insane? I can't tell how this makes any sense. Does he just want to piss off people? Is he just scared of saying the truth? Amazing how you can be so clever, yet so socially inept.
They are though. A refurb with half the memory of the $52k machine is priced at $28k.
> We have to protect the integrity of short video apps that are built for advertisers to push products and services through ads and influencers.

So, you're in favor of banning YouTube and most forms of television?
> It was the largest pumped-storage power station in the world until 2021, when it was surpassed by the Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station
Except the largest framework doesn't. And the majority of libraries don't.
This project has given my 2015 MBP a breath of life. It'll probably last long enough for me to replace it with an M3 MBP. That's what I'm hoping for, anyways.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Netflix: the MMAAAN.
An unspoken legacy of the cold war is the way it drives so many foreign/military policy debates toward stupid extremes. Nothing short of nuclear war matters (which has opened the door to absolutely egregious conventional outcomes, but hey, at least it's not nuclear). Anything nuclear is totally unacceptable forever, even if it's rational (North Korea or Iran wanting tp have nukes as a guarantee against getting rolled conventionally).
I love (and despair of) how seriously this is being taken
Not to offend anyone affected, but considering the cost/profit structure of those big companies has not really changed that much (except, maybe, Meta), I get the feeling, that this round of layoffs is in some ways welcomed by those companies.

In many cases, they are basically returning to pre-pandemic levels and instead of an actual financial need, these layoffs are probably a result of the fact that you cannot effectively incorporate an headcount increase of 20% in a high-tech company within 1-2 years. It seems like they hired to please investors because everyone else was also hiring like mad. Since the shareholder expectations have reversed, the companies are using the "opportunity" to return to manageable numbers of engineers and administrators.
Actually almost all the stuff that's gone mainstream in the last 30 years was already around in the '90s if you used OCaml (or indeed Haskell). But in fairness not many people did.
You ever read about World War II?
Kids can be awful. Parents who don't have the income to buy even one of the newest iThing will stretch themselves to buy one for their kid if they think it'll help them fit in.
> the size and timing of these blocks are certainly curious

The timing of the layoffs was exactly "as soon as all investors decided to stop their long-term deals". It's really not an evidence of collusion, except maybe of the investors. (But they too had an explanation.)

People are confused here because MS doesn't care about investors timing, but they had a clear trend to jump into.

That said, other evidence may be more revealing. This is strictly about timing.
Loaded question, but as a Windows user I'd really like to know.

Given that you can buy an acceptable Mac for, say, $5000, does that $52,000 Mac Pro give you any real advantage in terms of productivity. Are you even twice as productive?

As a reference, I recently upgraded my rig with an AMD 7950X and an RTX 4080 (+ other components) for around $3500. At this point there isn't really any other hardware available, that'd give me a justifiable boost in productivity.
Composer is trash, semver sucks and I'd tell PSR to go jump but it'd get stuck in a class file somewhere.
I don't think Apple has patched this yet (it just came out 3 hours ago). Looks like homebrew got right on it so I installed via that with the following command.

`brew install git`

The latest version in Ventura 13.1 seems to be either 2.24.3 or 2.37.1 (not all my co-workers machines match). I'm not sure if these are defaults, different because some of us have XCode, or if some of us manually installed. In any case, brew install got me up to date.
I love that they charge $400 for the wheels under the case.

Apple iWheels Pro
the webserver was a simple nanohttp hackup on the oracle jvm, so Ill take some convincing java has an rce in its network stack, and they disguised it by spawning a process on the tor user after hacking the OS and covering that up sufficiently to leave no other evidence.

The only reason I spotted it was because I was checking for compromise by comparing any file/process changes every few weeks.

It was a few years ago, my guess back then was tor is the honeypot, given what happened recently with encrochat I wouldnt be surprised if a few years down the line it turns out it was.

Or maybe I misconfigured the server, or maybe the binary I used for tor was compromised, it was as much a test for whether I could trust tor as anything else and it failed. delete, move on.
Slowing down internet to a crawl works for me too. Once I hit my data limit it runs at 128 kb/s which is perfect. I just wish it ran at that speed all the time.
Sure:

- You asked a question that can be solved with surface-level problem solving skills

and

- You asked the AI to generate a dozen responses until it got a correct-looking result

Statistically speaking, what you did was roll the dice on the text generator until eventually it gave you a satisfying answer. Your "conversation" mostly consists of inputs being added on-top of a pre-existing context. When you generate text the next time, it accounts for this new input and tries to generate a new answer. ChatGPT has no understanding of the situation beyond what it's model thinks should happen next, and what you posit is true.

If you think that's sufficient to pass as AGI, more power to ya. As a tool for generating convincing text, it's a godsend. As an approximation of human reasoning, ChatGPT is a complete and unequivocal failure.
Also with so little actual code. This cemented my interest for Common Lisp at the time I was reading it.