skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just dont see how the west meddling here is gonna make any outcome better. So far nothing indicates I am wrong.

The west sending weapons reduces the amount of Ukrainians who are killed by Russians or under Russian occupation.

This is unambiguously a good thing.
> So even if you have a massive amount of cores in that machine, you still don't really have much time to spend on a single request and a single mutex operation will exceed your budget.

fortunately it's no longer 2000 and I have more than one core, and my NIC has more than one queue

generating requests is a lot less CPU intensive than parsing requests

how much CPU do I have to spend to get a pre-formed 100 byte request into the NICs queue? not much at all

(the TCP negotiation will likely be the bottleneck)
Ask HN: Hacker News but for Students?
I feel like HackerNews is predominantly people who are already in the workforce.

I'm keen on understanding how the economy is affecting recent / rising grads, intellectual topics that of interest to university students, and the general sentiment students have towards academia. For startups entrepreneurs, these data points would be very insightful.

I'm wondering if there is a community of similar quality and discussion to HackerNews?
I thought this was a clever title for an article about not getting laid off.
If they'd respect abuse complaints things could be different, some do, but way too much is just very malicious.

In the context of email I heavily recommend requiring SPF (just to exist even!) on things originating from China, Russia and VPS providers.
> The West in general can't endure much because it's no longer used to it, <<unless>>, and this is super important, that pain comes from a clear, mortal threat. In which case democracies are at least as resilient, probably more resilient than dictatorships because the decision making is spread around more

Case in point: 2014 Ukraine vs 2022 Ukraine vs 2022 Russia. The volunteer movements in UA seem to be very strong and resilient, while the war effort in RU is so centralised it's almost a satire.
Once someone is able to train a similar model on their own, it's too late for legislation to have any meaningful ability to reduce proliferation.
That's a bit different, isn't it? As agda is total, and requires everything be proved to halt. Whereas the context here is a complete language, where you do not get such strong properties, but must still try to reason anyway. I didn't discuss any specific ways to infer termination or nontermination (though I definitely think those are interesting too!), only a broad strategy for reasoning about them.
My understanding is that the employees are the largest shareholder of Facebook – so naturally they would be the largest beneficiary of any stock buy back.

But this was exactly my point in regards to the importance of the stock price for securing talent. The company is owned in large part by its employees and they will jump ship if they don't believe in the company's future.
The news stories you read about Google and Apple re: privacy are heavily influenced by corporate PR departments sending 'tips' to the media to try to make themselves look good or a competitor look bad.

The actual privacy efforts of both companies don't (in my experience) closely align with what the news says about them.
The problem with this talk is that it's almost content free. He has demonstrated that sometimes we (and other animals) misperceive things, or construct in our heads what we expect to see. He has demonstrated via simple virtual world models that simple artificial organisms evolve to perceive things that keep us alive and ignore other things. But what he has failed to do is tell us anything at all about how our perceptions generally differ from reality. Yes, the map is not the territory - we know that. Yes, we can't directly see atoms, we know that too, though we can with our machines. But other than being a low definition representation, he has not shown any important way in which the map differs from a low definition representation of reality, except that sometimes we make mistakes. He could be right, spacetime could just be the API, but he has presented no evidence for that.
The point isn't that gpt-3 specifically will be available, or the current models, but that gpt-3 level models or better will be available.
Did you report it to Google/AWS? I feel like they would be proactive about removing malicious users, but whether expectations match reality is another question.
This is fantastic.

I will test out PowerShell. Thanks for providing links.
What's wrong with Shieldsup? My experience is that it works perfectly fine.
You should have insisted on a corrected job reference and in the extreme case gone to court. According to German regulations a job reference must comply with the principles of "clarity", "truthfulness", "completeness" and "goodwill".[1]

[1] See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitszeugnis#Zeugnisgrunds%C... (in German).
I'm curious what kind of grief a country caused you for a podcast. What were they doing?
Do you mean to imply that you're ok with UK citizens freezing to death because they can't afford insulation and heating?
As long as Kant's would-be defenders defend counterfactual positions only, then I suppose there's no reason the debate would ever end.

> If you're born tabula rasa

There's lots of evidence that just isn't so. If nothing else, we appear to be equipped with minds which are better suited than random chance to build a "meaningful" model of the world around us.
The difference between the old stories from Hersh and the new ones is that the old ones have corroborating evidence and documents or images. Abu Ghraib wasn't just alleged by a single anonymous source, there were pictures and other evidence.

It is quite noticeable that the more recent stories by Hersh are entirely based on anonymous sources. And e.g. with the Nordstream article there were quite a few specific facts that were immediately called into question as they contradict public knowledge.
And then "bland" is used as the opposite of "spicy"...
I wish I could do the same but I live in an apartment. Very thankfully, my complex put solar panels on absolutely all of their roofs at least.

I’ve taken to re-terming oil as “conflict fuel” myself. It literally empowers the Wests enemies against the West. Don’t burn fuel, don’t fuel conflict. There’s also the resource curse of being an oil baron nation.

And to anybody shaming the West-it has a good history of live and let live with the option to opt-in by being various amounts of agreeable to it. Stephen Kotkin makes this argument well so I’ll point people towards him instead of rehashing it here.
It's also a first amendment issue, and already out there. Reminds me that I'm old enough to remember when PGP bypassed export control by being printed on paper and exported as books and scanned/typed back in, though.

They can of course restrict publishing of new research, but that won't be enough to stop significant advances just from the ability of private entities worldwide to train larger models and do research on their own.
Used this all the time in University :)

I think there's an interesting parallel to this usefulness in code which the author just briefly mentioned. Static typing can help bridge thoughts about what makes sense to do ("I have a callable with signature (x: int, s: str) -> str, and this function I need to use is (s: str) -> str; huh, my x here is fixed, does it make sense to make a partially applied function? yes, that'll work") as well as, of course, verifying all assumptions make sense at some level (types matching is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition).

Then there's more power unlocked by giving dimensions/units to your types/instances. For instance, overloading the division operator in a class representing length so that when dividing length by time, you get speed. Or, one could overload addition/subtraction in classes representing a currency so that trying to add ¥100 to $100 raises an exception.

In general I think there's a lot of interesting applications for the information that comes along with numbers that we usually just discard. Things in the real world aren't dimensionless that often, and yet our code almost always treats them as if they were.
If they reacted like this when you quit I can only say: congratulations for quitting that job.
The proof by authority criticism is for the implied "I've been right in the past (I even got awarded for that) therefore I must be right now as well".

> What’s next - Einstein’s Nobels are also proof by authority?

If you use them as an argument for Einstein's later work, then yes. Einstein's later work for example for black holes was completely wrong.
Having seen the hiring model of a lot of these companies, this shouldn't surprise anyone.

A lot of Big-4/management consultancy, revolves around hiring bright young people straight out of University and sending them into large companies with, at best, a canned methodology, and access to some more experienced people to ask questions of.
There was a recent ctf challenge doing prompt injection to leak a flag.
https://github.com/dicegang/dicectf-2023-challenges/tree/mai...
I have been driving home after midnight, coming from my where my parents live, a long distance away, and encountered a man who had climbed up into the elevated highway. It was straight and well-lit, but the best I could make out was that he was running at cars wielding a cardboard box (?). I began to decelerate and moved into the lane furthest from him, at the time, and after another car in front of me passed him, he moved into my lane. I'm still braking to slow down, and I change lanes to avoid him again, swerving and praying the lights in my rear view are slowing too and don't hit me as I try to avoid this man.

As I pass him, I manage to be one lane to his left, and he makes a lunge to try and jump in front of my vehicle. With some frequency, to this day I wonder how fucked I would have been if he succeeded in jumping in front of my car. The story I tell myself is that he was mentally unwell and thought he was heroically "tilting at windmills". It is more likely he was belligerently drunk, or was suicidal and wanted some help in it.

I don't know what makes something believable or unbelievable in your mind, but these are the details of an almost-incident that happened to me.
>I suspect a single machine could put out 71M HTTP requests/second without too much difficulty

PacketsPerSecond=TransferRate(bytes/second)/PacketSize(bytes/packet)

https://community.arubanetworks.com/community-home/digestvie...

A single 24port switch with 1Gbps ports would see 48Gbps so with 64byte packets would see 71M packets, 1518byte packets would drop to 3.9M packets.

If you are in the business of being the main auditor of your activities, water companies here in the UK being an example, news organisations as another, then does one ever find a problem with one's work?

I've had DDOS on my systems before, and how it took my firewall out was simply increasing the number of requests the firewall had to handle using a SYN flood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood

Most firewalls are fixed and not adaptive, so a bit of low hanging fruit could be had by firewall systems that can adapt to SYN floods, like shortening the time the handshake process stays in memory, choosing to dump all that dont complete within a short period of time, choosing to dump those from ip address blocks linked to country's or regions your dont normally trade with. There are so many ways to handle these situations, but not all firewalls and switches provide the facilities that are needed.

Hackers will exploit default configurations and industry standard best practices, including RFC's.

During one of my lets see what happens if I push this metaphoric button exercises, I was tracing those random packets that appear at firewalls and I happened to have picked one which tracerouted back to a French IP.

What was interesting and consistent with behaviour I've seen in the 90's with dead submarine internet connections at the New York exchange, was the trace route delivered its hop data until I crossed the English channel at which point a packet killed the machine, forcing the mains to be pulled as the machine went totally unresponsive.

It makes me think the UK internet is like some giant virtual dome like the one seen in the film The Truman Show.
Excel (incumbent), and Looker (for anyone on Google)
Interesting, thanks. I'll give it a read.
In Lockval Engine, a player data pair is on UID. A map block data can also be mapped to a UID. Or an observation point data can also correspond to a UID.

Lockval Engine provides a Watch function. Players can watch the UID of a certain map block or the UID of a certain observation point, so that a function similar to the fog of war can be realized.

This demo can be viewed in "Prepare a globalChat struct" and "send A message to globalChat" on the apidemo page. This demo can evolve a variety of similar functions.
I think it once was taught, but was considered passé in various places during the "Java" revolution, and in general I think there is a degradation of capabilities in most comp-sci programs, a consequence of interference by market players who invest in the schools in order to keep their technologies relevant.

If anyone reading this wants to see what the fuss is, you can get started very easily with antirez' (Redis fame) simple toy project, LOAD81 - which is a great example of just how powerful things can get when you bring Lua into your life. (http://github.com/antirez/load81.git) - note that this is a great project to learn this technique, but if you do anything interesting in the load81 context - please push it back to LOAD81. :)
Peoples lifelihood is under attack, by the ever openening wage gap, by ai replacing jobs and the elites just ignoring it, over even worse propelling the change.
Any wounded animal crawls to safety and snarls at anything coming close. Its idiotic, but understandable, actually for this sort of prolonged hostility by the environment, the resistance has been quite gentle.
spec is mostly useless for tools and IDE's and static analysis. Spec necessitates running your program with an arbitrary runtime complexity. Type checking is done before your program runs. The idea is to remove the need for runtime checks as much as possible.
GCC does take advantage of the forward progress guarantee in other cases, but seemingly only in c++ mode; see https://godbolt.org/z/Won5zETKx. I wonder why.

C provides forward progress guarantees only for loops, whereas C++ provides them for all code. Perhaps GCC did not want to bother to annotate individual control edges (as llvm does with 'mustprogress'), and they perform such optimisations after canonicalising loops and other irregular mechanisms for control flow into a homogenous CFG.
These are new to me. Would you mind elaborating on why these specifically, rather than conventional LIon?
In my experience running large sites most attack traffic has come from EU and US hosts such as Choopa/Vultr, OVH, Hetzner, AWS etc followed closely by major domestic ISPs like Comcast. Any traffic at all from BRICs has been pretty low.

The post doesn't even mention any of the countries you whine about.
This reminds me of chain letters of old. "This guy ignored the letter, then his house burned down. But he found the letter back, sent it to 50 people, and lo and behold he won the lottery the very next day and was able to build a better house."
I'd say the exact opposite applies to layoffs. Most of the people who got surprised by them here were very popular with others. Relationships might matter more in peaceful times, though.

It looks like the main advantage of doing large scale layoffs is that it allows you to fire popular people who have contributed a lot and done nothing wrong, only committing the crime of being overpaid or being less valuable in the current market situation.

Someone who is the opposite - an asshole who gets shit done, has high odds of being fired-replaced during peace time, but may make the cut during a layoff.
Vime's boots.

I'm not sure about here in the EU, but the UK has a cost of living crisis such that millions[0][1][2] are regularly skipping meals. People in that situation don't have the spare money be able to install PV or upgrade their insulation.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/one-four-britons-skip-meals...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/26/uk-student...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/18/millions-for...
Very clever, but also an infinite ignorance fallacy. When you're wrong and can't accept it, pissing off is really the best thing for you to do.
A GAN approach to penalising a generator for generating something that is not supported by it's available data would be interesting (and I'm sure some have tried it already, I'm not following the field closely), but for many subjects creating training sets would be immensely hard (for some subjects you certainly could produce large synthetic training sets)
In the UK, they capped the price of energy per kWh. So they bailed out everyone, rich, poor and middle alike. And the more energy you used, the more support you got. So richer and more wasteful households got the MOST support.

Saying "but the poor" while throwing money at the rich is pretty self-contradictory IMHO. If they'd at least made cash payments, even if it was the same per household, it would at least have incentivised people not to waste energy. But no, it specifically rewarded people for increasing their consumption.
> doing sysadmin job at home is not appealing to me

Please tell me this is a joke. You have to have 0 knowledge about Linux Desktop to claim that Linux users are doing a sysadmin's job when they're using their systems. Calling Linux users sysadmin would be equivalent to calling Windows users Microsoft's QA team haha (ngl, they actually are).

We love Linux because it gets work done, for free, without hiccups that Windows often introduces, and without being a bloated spyware and adware mess that is modern Windows.
I hope that as an independent consultant myself, I'm not conflated with the low quality of "experts" in consulting companies.
> When that investor letter to Google ceo came out, I unfortunately suggested that maybe for a company like Google, too high salaries would bring people in who "work for money and not passion".

Everyone works for money. That's the deal. People rent their time in exchange for a salary. If it was actually enjoyable, it would be called a hobby not a job and people would be the one paying to do it.

I fail to see the link between that, the awfuly named "trend" of "quiet quiting" - doing what you are paid for is not quiting, it's just doing your job - and collective bargaining.

Seems to me that most people just want to do their job well without having to swallow gallons of company kool-aid while doing so, be allowed to take pride in what they do, be afforded an amount of trust and consideration befitting an adult and provided appropriate working conditions rather than being treated like cattle.

So basically go back to the seventies before the "modern" world decided to follow Reagan and Thatcher in their madness and self sabotage.
Yes, I am personally advocating genocide which is the only alternative to paying people to waste energy...
This is a particularly cynical view from someone privileged enough to be able to afford solar panels.

I have panels too. But I also have friends that can't pay their energy bill this month.
This is actually surprisingly nice! :)
From what I've seen a major factor was the cladding manufacturer may have mislead architects regarding the validity of their testing and certification.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56101186

and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56403431

> The BBA decided the evidence from the more successful European tests carried out on the Arconic cladding meant it "may be regarded" as having met the British standard.
>
> But the Board was never shown the class E ratings for the cassette version of the cladding and knew nothing about them until a BBC investigation in 2018.
>
> Arconic's president in France, Claude Schmidt, was forced to admit at the inquiry this would have "misled" anyone reading the certificate, including British architects.
Thanks Paul, yes I do work for thanks.dev & non-web-projects are on our roadmap. Let me know if you’d like to be a early pilot user when we’re ready for testing…
They have infinite loading cycles, they are rather bulky, basically a fluid medium is charged and discharged. This allows for the storage capacity to easily scale (the generator remains, the tanks increase).

In addition the storage fluid can be rather friendly substance from a environment perspective (some use drinkable salty water). And cheap. And if you have a old pool or a old oil tank in your house you are basically halfway there regarding installation. Its basically chemical storage of energy, allowing for the (re)use of preexisting installations.
In the sense of after they'd recovered or were well in control again rather than waiting until after the entire flight.
If you care, review and pin. Way easier than building a “competitor” to something there’s clearly no money in.
So the study's data was provided by an activist organization with every reason to have their finger on the scale? Not to mention the numerous study issues that have been uncovered with this particular online survey including but not limited to: no protection against multiple entries, no protection against non-US entries, errors in the survey flow (multiple commenters remarked that the survey questioned them on conditions they said 'no' to -- indicating faulty survey design).

Would you trust a survey on sugar done by Coca-Cola? This is the same thing. Activist surveys are worthless. Conflict of interest doesn't even begin to describe it.
If an article about investment in swimming classes that was boosted by a series of drowned children, and praises those classes for how they also increase overall health and fitness, the article is pro-drowning?
Seems like the real link should be: https://www.ft.com/content/fb1254dd-a011-44cc-bde9-a434e5a09...

What is the value the "link aggregator indirection provide" but a log of noise from the twitter thread?

Btw. I love Mariana Mazzucato's books. Can recommend.
Why I hate your Single Page App (2016)
In addition to the sibling comment, there's also the question of whether it's only a free trade agreement, or if it also makes other demands. For example, NAFTA allows corporations to sue governments, expanded copyright, cancelled article 27 of the Mexican constitution, which prevented privatization or sale of indigenous communal land, and added "a 10-year data protection period against generic drug production on an expanded list of products that benefits pharmaceutical companies, particularly US makers producers of high-cost biologic drugs", whatever that means.

In other words, the GPs comment of "mighty long document" meant that it doesn't take many pages to write "reduce tariffs on the following goods".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agre...
>Go tool is an open-source development tool - people expect open-source development tools to serve the users, not the developers (to the detriment of the user). That's the whole point of the whole open-source (and free-software) movement. [A significant number of] users do not want their tools to send any data from their machines that they themselves haven't allowed it to

Sorry, but I think you just made it up.

OSS makes stuff somewhat transparent and auditable, thats it.

Also users do benefit indirectly by telemetry because they get better tools.

Anyway what would be the other benefit of dev? That he has to spend his unpaid free time on fixing yet another crash report?

Whats wrong with anonymouse tel. collection.
Meaning, mount a physical disk?