skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as the author of the work, most of _this post_ is satire meant to make you think about the existing security boundaries involved in privilege escalation. It is a false problem. The part about being annoyed that sudo is still written in C is coming from a sense of exasperation that there's still more predictable memory safety bugs involved with sudo because it's still written in C. The comment about python-cryptography failing to move to Rust because of random Gentoo uses holding it back was from a sense of exasperation that we can't have "nice things". I'm tired of having to emergency patch everything because we as an industry can't make our fundamental security tools _measurably safer_ with languages like Rust.

I am a lot more serious in my other posts (such as this one: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2022-media or this one: https://xeiaso.net/blog/hlang-nguh), but sometimes I have to write satirical things otherwise people won't get the point.

Believe what you want though.
reminds me of a colleague some years ago who often put emoji in his git commit messages.
If you want to try it out and have never used a theorem prover, consider trying the Natural Number Game.

https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_g...
That is not the metric used to determine result quality. But if it were, you'd be correct.
> Thanks for the site: it's a good tool to demonstrate just how unfeasible energy storage really is.

It’s amazing how clearly you can see the trees without realizing there’s a forest.

Battery production capacity has been scaling like crazy and will continue to scale like crazy: https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/global-lithium-ion-ba...

It doesn’t matter if battery prices increase some, as you have made that the cornerstone of your argument. Many many comments ago, I linked to the Hornsdale battery. Based on the revenue, you can do the math: the batteries could cost a lot more, and it would still have been profitable. Batteries also don’t make up the entire cost of grid scale storage: the inverters, the transformers, even the cabinets and control computers cost money.

As it is, mining is a lagging indicator. Once mining scales up, the cost of the commodities will naturally go back down. While there is profit to be made, too many people will open mines, which will bring the profitability back down to earth. It’s a tale as old as supply chains.

This same inability to imagine how quickly solar and wind would drop in price led to numerous “experts” making absurd claims about solar and wind being economically infeasible at any scale. The battery supply chain is scaling. There will be price volatility, but the volume is growing by leaps and bounds.

It will take years for the world to transition, but it also takes years to build and install the necessary wind and solar. Battery production won’t remain constant, and it won’t even increase slightly. It has and will increase drastically.
I mean, he was definitely selling a product there. SVN was pretty good, barring the merge logic being a PITA.
and charlie munger said he never used calculus
That actually didn't work not too long ago. I don't remember if it was git or less, but "unicode" characters it would end up getting reified as, e.g., "<U+1234>", as I recall.

Thankfully it got fixed at some point.
Does anyone have historic data on this to tell whether it is common to front-load layoffs at the start of the year? It looks like January of last year had the fewest layoffs, which surprises me. I would have expected having many layoffs towards the start of the year with new budgets would be more common.
Curious, which ones are good & which ones are bad?
It's not novel (I've seen this approach discussed before in competitive programming circles), but it's certainly not too well known. Generally, preprocessing strings via rolling hashes allows you to comparisons in "constant" time.
whoa,
What's all the light in western north dakota?!?
47.96732, -102.86034

there sure aren't many people there.

are they just burning oil or natural gas straight off the well?
> * They had a _full_ pipeline, interviewing every day for three weeks straight. It's a grind, but you definitely get "in the zone". Additionally, setting this goal ensures that you are being properly proactive/aggressive in pursuing opportunities.

As a married man nearing his 40s I can't imagine doing this. I need to keep my full time job to support my family, so just quit and focus 100% on prepping is not an option. Assuming a 5 1-hour round interview, I would need to take PTO or somehow juggle my calendar to take interviews. I'm horrified at the thought of taking one week off and doing interviews for 5 days straight. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
I agree it's touchy unfortunately. I'm not comfortable sharing in public due to $REASONS, but I have been sharing with friends/family/folks who've been looking.

I will say I got offers comparable to my pre-stock crash comp, but I hit a comp cliff either way in 2022 (even without the crash).
Miners do overclock, but they also undervolt when they can. Mining presents an atypical load; it limits what you can do with undervolting, but it also allows sometimes ridiculous overclocking that would instantly crash under a 3D workload without increasing power usage much. Most often, a card will not be stable when undervolted while mining (or any similar 100% load compute that doesn't depend on VRAM), while it would be stable playing a game.

That said, anyone who makes this argument doesn't understand TCO. You pay, say, $1000 per GPU, fit maybe 8 GPUs onto a motherboard, spend as little as possible to populate a board (possibly used mobo+CPU+RAM; getting this under $300 is a winner), then PSUs (don't skimp here, mining with several GPUs in a system destroys garbage PSUs; you could be spending $200+ here).

That means for your rig, it could be costing you $8.5-9k per rig. This rig would be using about 3000 watts. This machine could live about 25,000 hours before parts begin to break down; if you're mining, you've found where to get power for 10 cents a kwh or cheaper, and this works out to about $7.5k.

So, lets say this ends up being a $16-17k TCO over those 25,000 hours. Overclocking does not significantly increase the power usage (say, 15% more coins for 20% more power; or if power is about half your TCO, 10% more TCO). Undervolting does not have the same sort of flexibility overclocking does; you may only achieve a 5% power reduction (again, half of that for this example would be TCO), but possibly deny you an overclock at all.

Also, every card is different. Some may overclock better, some may undervolt better, some may allow a good combination of both. Miners will generally adapt to the situation as needed.
But google, Microsoft, etc have $200bn on their balance sheets!
Bro are you sure musk is so much worse as a human than whoever was running twitter before? I bet he's just more popular
Interesting. Apparently I live in a class three. For that I am grateful!
Sudo's -i option is able to provide you with a shell in the same state that it'd be if it were a fresh login. I've burned this into my fingers a long time ago.
Also, in most configurations you have to specifically whitelist environment variables for them to surivive a "sudo" call.
Ask HN: Reading lists that you go back to often?
There are two reading lists that I often go back to find books to read:

1. Joel Spolsky's reading list: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/11/22/reading-list-fog-creek-software-management-training-program/

2. Robert Anton Wilson's reading list: http://www.rawillumination.net/2010/09/raws-recommended-reading-list-following.html

I'm just wondering if you have also some reading lists that you go back to?
From what I remember, Threads was even broadcast in the Soviet Union – with a little disclaimer that Soviets never did (and never would!) strike first, so that that part of the movie was "western propaganda".

But the rest of the film is so apolitical, and so hauntingly well done, that even the "bad guys" in it liked it.

It's really a testament to the film's quality.
I wonder how someone can write an article like that without even mentioning B. F. Skinner.
So far... we've been pleased with our newer developments on the NRF52832 using Zephyr. It's the same chip (I think) that Apple used in their AirTags.

That said, we're still in that early-ish phase. Four-ish years from now, there's probably going to be a post where I start off with something like

"Ahh the Nordic NRF52832. Of all the chips to show up on HN today. This chip I know not half as much as I'd like to and half as much I wish I didn't have to..."

It's sort of a vicious cycle.
Emoji domain names exist, so I'm pretty sure you can put anything you want in your URL. Displaying the URL might differ though.

https://xn--i-7iq.ws/
Twitter changed their Developer Agreement yesterday, the main change is that it now includes this:

> You will not or attempt to (and will not allow others to) ...c) use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448524
thanks for hitting the nail on the head - this is what I saw. I was comfortable with TLM/pure people manager, but not the hybrid (been there, done that - it was rough).
I think its more than a nagging feeling of "what if something comes through".
Realistically, work output in our field is notoriously hard to measure.
Having an unproductive year or two or five is not really grounds for dismissal, generally.

However, no-showing, visibly walking in hours late or leaving hours early, being unresponsive on slack/email are easily observed and the type of things that stick out to accelerate your being fired.
Microsoft added 70,000 new employees in the last 3 years.

How much of this is course correction vs sheer cluelessness?
Your second paragraph points that you are living in a bubble as well.
Been working on a version control system to solve this large binary file problem as well.

It's called Oxen and is initially targeted towards unstructured machine learning datasets, but could be good for this use case as well. Would love to get any feedback on it!

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release
Who is everyone?

Why do companies that are known for being overly bloated mean anything for the rest of the economy?
A well argued case. I tend to agree but would like to see a somewhat middle ground rebuttal. Not about no limit risk, I think Helen Caldecott et Al drove that one way way too far already, it's patently obvious there is not a simple linear risk model at the lowest end. Nor really about the costs of social dislocation on mortality. That's kind of a given too.

I'm more interested in a critique of post event cleanup and the likely distribution of radionuclide in the local ecology. A very long time ago I worked as a junior lab tech on water quality analysis in the river Forth estuary in Scotland and the persistence of phosphates (fertiliser factory) and surfactants (sewage waste) was amazing. Water flow is nothing like as simple as "in and out" with tide flow. So, dispersal of the water and suspended solids does somewhat concern me as does bioconcentration.

But overall a non argumentative non hyperbolic well written piece. It has a view/bias but it's well reasoned.

Japanese companies in the utility space like tepco are a bit of a cancer on society. They seem to display all the worst attributes of big, but in a public interest role. Hindsight being wonderful, in a country with earthquake and tsunami risk they seem to have gone least cost solution on the one thing (standby power) that mattered this time.
How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda for Billionaires
What a relief that we have a democracy and not an oligarchy to prevent bad things like this from happening. Wouldn't that be terrible if we did?
Typing emoji is a pain, but the chat suggests that that might be an advantage:

> Using this program requires you to be able to type an emoji. Most attack code is of such poor quality that they are unable to run commands named with emoji.
> Why does it seem like executives are the only areas that aren't ever subject to cost cutting?

It’s deceptively as simple as the fact that they are the one cutting costs. Who would fire himself ?
I blame Google and the third party ad model for profiting from and encouraging the creation of the lowest quality cash grabs. Search for any kind of product review and you're faced with a sea of auto-generated shit, the only purpose of which is to serve you an ad and hope you click an amazon affiliate link. It's a prime example that the "value" delivered isn't value to society or the individuals using the service.
Using key-based auth without encrypting the key with a password sounds like a bad idea, as then any program running on the host can trivially gain root privileges.
Sorry, I used this download link https://www.w10privacy.de/app/download/12302828636/W10Privac... . I assumed that my use of the URL https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ would have implied that I downloaded it from there, but it looks like there are other hosts for this program elsewhere on the Internet.

The last time I used this tool successfully without issues was around the end of last year (November-December 2022) in Windows 11 without any complaints from Windows Defender.

I thought I came across W10Privacy for the first time from an HN post years ago before I ever saw any of these scripts and open source tools even being mentioned on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... .

Thank you for the links `Someone1234 : I will try to learn and use these instead later.
> They wrote the program in C

They wrote it in 1980 for unix; what exactly would you like them to have used?

> (as far as I can tell) have no intention of rewriting it in Rust

Since it will be less than a paragraph before you start ranting about how "obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things", I trust you, who would surely never be a "leech", have written an actual replacement or submitted patches to start improving the situation? Or perhaps are funding such efforts?
So you can't handle someone suggesting that what you said is (honestly and objectively) dickish and maybe the real source of your problem, but you can outright call others' hard work "interference" and it's all gravy and not at all unprofessional or rude?

You've got a skewed idea of "nasty". Have a good rest of your day.
Fair enough. I guess I'm biased by my working environment and current belief that we're scaling transformer models unnecessarily, but I guess that is also partly influenced by their cost.
Is there any demand for them? I’m assuming they’re not being widely distributed and sold because there isn’t enough people interested in buying them.

Unfortunately, the most reasonable genitalia to place a condom on is the penis, not inside the vagina. I’m not experienced with female condoms but I can’t imagine they would be more cost effective, comfortable, or feel better than a traditional male condom. Also due to scale there are plenty of opportunities for unique specializations in the male condom space (thinness, “Magnum” size, flavors, colors, ribbed textures, etc.) that will probably never happen with female condoms.
So if you have to do, would it be 10% a few quarters or go for the full blow in a single shot
Well the CHP still has fixed wings registered to them. Ex N137HP https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResul...

You can track them on ADSBExchange: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a095ef

And they were in the air yesterday with flight paths along major freeways in the SF Bay Area: https://imgur.com/a/u5hbfAK

Does that mean conclusively they are doing speed checks? No, but they have the capability. Does the CHP have a lot of these planes? Not that I can find records of, probably few and far between for a state as populous as California... but the treat is real.
Yeah I mean, my longest & average tenures are in the 4-5 years range. All of those were at least pretty good jobs the first 2 years. I can't imagine staying on somewhere I dislike so much for 3, 5.. 10 years.
A million is just so many. I expected abuses, like "tell us about your uncle or we'll put you on the no fly list." So something like 50,000 people or so.

It was originally marketed as people directly involved with terrorism. "These are people who might blow up a plane." It's so much vastly bigger, it has to be some dumb trolling for data. Like lets add all the people who went to a mosque where a bad guy once went.
i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.
I did write an actual replacement. It's what TFA is about :)
Airlines don't have to honour mistake fares, and this was definitely one of those. FWIW, I got away with it.

If you miss a flight and the airline determines you booked it (typically as a return or hidden city leg) without ever intending to fly it, they will very definitely try to make life difficult for you.

Try short-checking a bag to LON on a NYC-LON-Europe booking with AA or BA, they will refuse. They're worried you booked to Europe for a lower price but intended all along to leave in LON.

There are ways round this "rule", too. If you know what you're doing.
You should implement this as an Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) plugin, I think it'd get traction among the TFT crowd there most of whom use a daily note.
Computer Vision is a domain and is not equivalent to machine learning. They overlap yes, but not necessary. Again though you have completely ignored my point again and again. The authors ignorantly conflate specific applications of ML with the entire industry. That plainly demonstrates a clear lack of competence in this area.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Salesforce

For large US software companies, it's basically everyone.
The board?
HN is going full circle. Instead of being a secondary news source, we’re becoming the primary news that gets reported on.

I remember when TV started reporting on what they found on the internet instead of the other way around.
hey don't worry, all these people tweet about how much they love black people and trans rights when it's beneficial for them to do so. they definitely have our backs.
My experience wasn't anything as bad as yours, but had a similar sense of "rot" that kept gnawing at me. No amount of money can compensate for the "thousand little deaths" you die over time. Finally quit at the ripe age of 41 and reinvented myself...

There are a lot of notions in common culture that's outright misleading.

For eg.
Time is NOT money. It's way more than that.There are higher order exchanges than money: time, energy, identity.

The best criteria for the next move is not necessarily the absence of anxiety but rather more aliveness. We keep chasing happiness not realizing, it can only ensue, not pursued.

Sorry if it sounded cliched...looking back there were a bunch of frameworks that became obvious in hindsight...I wrote about them...you might resonate with some of them:

https://www.leadingsapiens.com/essential-career-change-frame...
That's still a hidden charge that makes the menu pricing mildly dishonest. Adding X% to all the prices is clearly the right solution. The problem is that all restaurants need to do it to make it work.
By "render" they probably meant "didn't strip"; HN will strip emoji from comments/titles, generally.

E.g., the emoji of the article: "" but I suspect there won't be anything between the quotes.

(An exception was made for the title, in this case; dang mentions that in a comment in the comments here.)
Make sure to get the rate right. Like 1/1,000 or 1/100,000. Poetry did a brownout of its install script at 5% failure. With a matrix of builds user's CI had closer to a 100% chance of failing.
AFAIK it's very low grade weak stuff. Barely wood at all.

(edit: But elderflower cordial diluted with fizzy water is stunningly good IMO)
I feel that where I work. I'm outnumbered in wanting to write web servers with high-level, non-performance-sensitive business logic in something other than C++. We keep having memory safety problems, but more importantly, it's really slow to develop this way and doesn't match the skillset we're hiring. However, these people are being paid.

The common reason our most senior engineers tell me isn't even that it's too late to switch, it's that "C++ is perfectly fine as long as you use it right" and "it doesn't matter what the outside world uses" and "performance."
The problem with base64 is that it's still long and ugly, and also case-sensitive. I wouldn't want to say "order saNUxawrSZChiR8rT1N7CQ" over the telephone. Is it better than "order b1a354c5-ac2b-4990-a189-1f2b4f537b09"? Practically speaking, not really: both only really work when copy/pasted on a computer.

I described another scheme I've used in the past in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454430
Planet Money had an episode this week showing a poll where literally 99% of CEOs responded that they thought a recession was going to happen in 2023.
I’ve seen a couple boards that purely ignore this, at least for some TI targets their position is if they supply some obscure linker option that makes it possible to initialize static memory then they’ve satisfied the standard
Boy do I have news for you:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#...

Pretty soon you'll be able to do this instead:

https://www. 宝石の十字架 .jp/poetry/invisiblecitylit

(https://www.xn--u9j516hprf6h574cs4w.jp/poetry/invisiblecityl...)

Is that... good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah yes, your old "if no one is offering it, it cannot ever exist" argument.

Yes, I am perfectly comfortable imagining the future will be using technologies that we are not currently using. Hydrogen is not much of a stretch, as it involves integrating technologies that already exist.
> Burnout is: exhaustion, inefficacy and depersonalization

This tool is focusing a lot on the first and maybe the second but it’s that third one that’s the hardest to catch.
Does this method let you move instances “under the hood”?
Same here. First time order, and it was poor quality so I requested a return. They refunded and didn’t even want it back. It was $200 but I guess they knew it was junk and not worth the shipping.
You can point me at that... and Google still got sued. As long as Oracle is involved as much as they are. Java is a dangerous language, in a legal sense.
It wasn't very charitable, but neither is the "flavor-of-the-month language" dig
JavaScript has been a frankenbeast of a language right from its inception, by design.

However, the 5th most requested feature in that poll is somehow "functions", and "sanity" also appears in the results, so this particular source may not be a good one.
Ownership and responsibility will be good in general for young folks. If youngsters were expected to be stewards, instead of being innovators and trailblazers and millionaires, it will be easier to belong.

Land and home ownership has become harder, financially and psychologically, even for middle class and above.

However the negative behaviors you mention is mostly younger people and they will not usually be owning homes by themselves. So your home ownership hunch might apply to the family of such actors; extrapolating, the general social fabric around potential negative actors is the realistic indicator. Which is a much more complex problem.