skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Korea went deeply down the "custom security" rabbithole too, and many banks there still rely on activeX controls and custom encryption algorithms and other insane bullshit that actively impairs security. It seems to be a regional thing (or at least a developing-country thing).

https://palant.info/2023/01/02/south-koreas-online-security-... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34231364

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineramirez/2016/11/30/south-...

This is not unheard-of in the enterprise world in the US either. To name-and-shame, Allscripts Enterprise EHR system still uses active-x controls and is still actively deployed in hospital systems.

The typical deployment will be a sandboxed VDI installation that isn't allowed to directly talk to anything except its EHR server and has to be connected via citrix or similar. It is still insane, of course, but the medical world is another one that moves slow. Probably some stuff in the financial sector too, they like that shit too.
For anyone else to whom GCN and RDNA are mysterious TLAs, this post is about GPU architectures.

> To simplify, RDNA and GCN are the codenames for both ISA and Microarchitecture for AMD GPUs.
https://www.gpumag.com/rdna-vs-navi-vs-gcn/

And WGP is "workgroup processor".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDNA_(microarchitecture)

With that much background it's no longer alphabet soup and I can judge whether to read it.
The majority of gamers might not need or desire better hardware, particularly if they have to pay for it. For that matter, game developers have very little reason to invest in games that require more capable hardware. There's the silly pretense now that people will use more capable hardware to play the same game in 4K, 8K, 16K, but the awful truth is that a lot of people would rather pay $45/month for 1 Mbps DSL than pay $50/month for 1 Gbps fiber, or would rather watch a terrible camera capture of a movie from the theater than wait for the Bluray to come out.

Consider the success of the Nintendo switch. The dock for the switch was a bit of a Jedi mind trick, just like the Wiimote was for the Wii. In particular, it changed the competitive psychology of game producers to think that any "big game" that came out for the Playstation or Xbox would also be released for the Switch. Selling the switch as a hybrid device stops gamers and games company from realizing it is what is... the beginning of the end of the TV-attached console.

The Steam Deck is a much more powerful machine for about the same price and it also has a very strong catalog. The Steam Deck can play Control natively and the Switch can't. Yet for the most part the industry is going to keep remaking the same old games and releasing them for the Switch, even most the innovative parts are going to be making games like Genshin Impact for midrange phones.

Sales of the 4090 are driven by prestige, the pleasure you can get out of saying that you own the very best. They are not driven at all by the reality that you can have anywhere near 10x the pleasure from a $4000 gaming PC than from a $400 portable. However a business that revolves around neural networks very well might be able to generate 10x the revenue from a 10x faster graphics card.

It's not a question of what "we" can afford but it is a function of what "they" can justify to their shareholders. I mean, the people in my town could afford 100% fiber optic internet, but the phone company can't afford to stop using the copper network when it can still charge people premium prices for subprime service. If we decided that $100 a month was a fair price for gigabit fiber and that price caps should be scaled accordingly, my telecom would quickly decide that it "can't afford" to offer DSL at $0.10 a month and would start tearing up that copper network pretty quickly.
It's a good thing all developers in all groups on all projects at a company always conform to the same style in the real world. Otherwise the plan for annotating C might run into some stumbling blocks.
I have almost no interest in showrunning but I enjoy the slightly biting writing style:

"So you finally have the Brass Ring... and guess what? It won't
make that you never found a publisher for your first novel any
less painful, and it won't make your daddy finally love you, or
your spouse more sexually compliant, or your kids less disdainful
of your bad puns and clumsy attempts to make them understand that
you really DID like and understand that last Sky Ferreira album."
It’s worse. PMs have a tendency to try and creep their way into CEO at startups.
Nope, the countries put up significant barriers to access social safety nets (permanent residency durations, proof of working during time before that, etc).

In the US you can generally establish residency in a different state in the amount of time it takes to get a USPS change of address notice and a billing statement of some sort showing that you’re able to receive mail there.
Even if you don’t buy any other discourse the market has spoken. They have never been as unprofitable as they are now.
I think the problem with customizing Ghost themes is that you actually have to tinker with their code, most don't really have settings at the scale WordPress themes used to have.

But yeah, that's why I said that if you're OK with the workflow Ghost provides and at least one theme you should probably use it.
I’m not arguing that societies don’t have norms, or that social norms don’t have an effect on people. Obviously they do. I’m arguing that free individuals in those societies with the power to choose otherwise, and access to information about the consequences of their choices, don’t get to blame those norms for their behaviour.

Plenty of people in society act contrary to the norms. In fact modern developed societies are incredibly diverse relative to the way they were a few generations ago in terms of lifestyle choices. Individual people do have agency, do have the power to choose and many of them exercise it.

Do again it comes down to responsibility. Averages are a measurement of outcome, not a determinant of it for individuals in the sample.
You are now paying and are still the product. This isn’t the clever gotcha you think it is.
Related: https://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/netfilter-doub...
No, Hollywood attracts talent broadly. You'll still serve an apprenticeship, reading scripts, ..., but my anecdote is walking across the parking lot on the way to a meeting at Paramount and seeing a US Naval Academy license plate frame.
Side, side note: Congrats on taking the step and getting the diagnosis. From personal experience, it takes a few weeks but it really does feel like a light switch gets turned on after starting treatment.
>because crumple zones didn't exist

But bigger is pretty universally better from energy management perspective, right? Simply having more material/size means lower deceleration rates for whatever you're trying to keep out of the passenger compartment.
I don't think you even need a backend. Just base64 encode the gamestate and include that in the url being shared. It will only work if the gamestate is small enough, but based on your description it sounds like that might be the case.
Don't worry about PERM right now. You are in a better position because you can get on your wife's dependent visa. Once you find a job, wait until they can get your PERM filed. Once that is done, you can use the unused H1 time period.

Edit: could you tell us which state / city you're located in? You'd get targeted help from people, like referrals, or other help.
Yeah, that's all very fair. I think, though, that there are definitely organizations out there that align with different views. What I was going for in my original post was to give a whole bunch of examples to demonstrate that there are a whole bunch of organizations one might look into -- and there really are, if you look for social clubs, there are loads and loads of them.

I'm hoping that we don't necessarily lump all of these into one category, because social clubs are really very diverse, and I think they're very much worth trying out for those looking for social engagement.

Yeah, some of these clubs have musty old ideals, some are conservative or strictly religious. Then, there are other clubs out there -- perhaps not as wide in size or scale, but still looking for members -- that have ideals that might be more modern, less conservative, secular, etc.

I think a lot of people these days are strictly thinking of grandpa when they hear about these social clubs, or group organizations, so they immediately write them off. But there are good organizations out there, and it might be worth a second look.
Especially stuff like this:

> In a January lawsuit, Canary LLC, a marketing company that specializes in producing the kinds of logo-decorated items ubiquitous among Silicon Valley tech companies, claimed Twitter is behind payment on almost $400,000 for various Twitter-branded swag.
If you generate a ULA address using the algorithm that is recommended the likelihood of a collision in IPv6 addressing space in networks is absolutely miniscule.
There are a lot of jobs that are available for H1-B transfers (only). Search LinkedIn, etc.
Dungeons and Dragons board game from the 1980s holds a TMS1100
Jekyll is more oldschool. For me, Hugo seems to have a more active community and gets a lot of points for being a static binary (basically never fails and compiles very quickly). Haven't used Astro.
If it doesn't have one already, look at installing a compressor blanket. This reduces compressor noise significantly. High end models generally have these already, but you can buy purpose built blankets for something like $70.

No, wrapping a compressor in a blanket doesn't make it overheat. Compressors are cooled by the refrigerant running through them, not through heat lost through the casing.
You could probably build on Cloudflare Workers + R2 to an extreme scale before you start being charged more than $5/mo
> estimates come from project managers or sales people

I'm sure that technically ignorant sales people promising the moon and pulling random estimates out of their butt for complex features happens, but how common is that in reality?

In my experience working through multiple consultancies (even not so nice ones), there was always a budget available for scoping out new work. Either the technical lead or at least one of the senior developers were usually given X amount of hours to read the available documentation about the work, possibly have a meeting with the client to answer any questions they had, and try to plan out the project estimate as best as possible for client approval. The only exception to this is when a technically experienced project manager, who had a budget of hours already available for use on the project, agreed that some pretty simple features were easily doable as part of an already agreed payment for general project work.
I wonder how much ad-hoc GC popular browsers have and what the tradeoffs are in comparison to using a runtime with a GC and avoiding allocations where necessary.
If it is made into a permanent policy then it is long term.
I moved out of London about 15 years ago but continued to visit and work there and the difference in such a short amount of time is shocking. The income disparity and cost of living was bad when I lived there and seems to have gotten significantly worse each year. It's bad for Londoners and it's bad for London as it has a sterilising effect on London life and culture.
This is a great process write up, but I was surprised how little was addressed about existing target company customer support and communication. There is ample support for internal stakeholders, but what about customers of the target company?

I have found that as a customer of products acquired by larger companies, the customers of products being acquired and integrated into a larger product are often forgotten and sidelined.
Thanks for your remarks and corrections.

While what you say is correct, it doesn't apply to the problem Troy Hunt faced. What he needs is DDOS protection on his API. The request authentication Stripe provides is too complicated to be checked by the web application firewall.

The (edit:) pragmatic approach is to

a) not use webhooks or

b) let Stripe connect to you via HTTPS (to prevent replay attacks and leakage of the secret URI), give Stripe a secret URI, whitelist the secret URI in the WAF and verify the payload MAC via the official SDK.

> in order to give feedback to the user fast about the status of his payment (and not wait the next long polling iteration)

Nitpick: The long poll / Server Sent Event should respond immediately once there is new data available, so it should not be slower than the webhook.
> - It would be great to have notebook-like UI to isolate steps and allow faster partial rebuilds.

Great idea, I have done something in that spirit integrating with natto.dev, but something more like a repl might be nice as well (https://natto.dev/@sgenoud/e2ade00d1fb4406abe78061e7f9a959b)

> - Search on API/docs page would be really handy

Good point, I use docusaurus, there is an algolia integration, I will look into it!

> Even if it's just an index that would break if topology has changed. Auto-generating stable references/filters would be even better, when possible.

Definitely the reference should be easy to implement, the stable one... less so.

I have tried to implement a filtering method inspired by cad query but which did not invent its own DSL. Always interested in feedback!
You can generate your links with Cloudflare functions and save the links with Cloudflare KV. You can also serve the game with Cloudflare pages.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/functions/

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/how-kv-wo...

[3] https://pages.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare offers generous free tiers, so you shouldn't have to pay anything.

I find Cloudflare's ecosystem much, much easier than all of the alternatives for simple projects. It's fast, the UIs are nice, the docs are great, and everything is usually deployable straight through GitHub and simple configs.
You never know where they'd go with their business model, how will they gate your content and what they will bundle it with.
Where's the evidence this difference is specifically due to the population or "size" of the country rather than history, culture and any other factors? It's like you put two countries on a scatter plot and drew a line from them.
Qemu allows full network access. It's a very porous "sandbox"
Great interview. Pinker's responses are well thought-out and accurate. He admits not expecting LLMs to get this good at so many things so quickly, illustrates their failure modes with simple examples than anyone can grasp, and expects these models to get significantly better (i.e., make fewer mistakes) over time.

I'm not doing justice to the interview with this short comment.

Go read it!
Advertisers trying to reach the most number of people don’t want to associate with toxic discourse that disparages a lot of the populace. It’s about as free market as it gets.
You are unique on earth. Cherish that. Put yourself out there as you have been doing. Even if it takes a few more months, you have a support system through your spouse.

Showcase your CV/skills online for others to find you. Opportunities will come. Stay strong. This is just temporary.
I think it would not be controversial to say that a blockchain would not address most of the problems IPFS currently has.

Just to avoid misunderstanding -- IPFS right now does work pretty well, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
So the Chinese Exclusion Act was fair because it was reciprocal?
This is awesome, I love to hear about groups like what you've posted.
>I don't see why it's logical to conclude that difficulties modeling hard problems means we can't model them using math.

That's not what I'm stating though. I'm stating that the math involved is a model but it isn't ever going to be identical to the thing being modeled. Meaning that math isn't the "language of nature" as we don't have a direct means to truly comprehend it (direct realism has a whole has been discarded by philosophers for a long time now).

>I see literally no reason to jump to the conclusion that the core problem is trying to use math at all.

Again, that's not what I said, please read my post again.
Pushed further into isolation by the pandemic, we’re all losing the ability to engage in what I view as the pinnacle of human interaction: sitting around with friends and talking shit. I agree with Liming that no one is down to hang out anymore, and agree with her that it’s a “quiet catastrophe.”

A tad strong, no? It seems like there is this whole niche or genre of sociologists and commentators who go around catastrophizing things, looking for anything that is wrong or as reason for society failing.
> In the real case I don't know what context the actions carry that I may use for filtering

You do know all of this with Cedar as the service owner though. You know the attributes on the entities, you know the policies. Something is going over my head, because I don't think I understand the use case. Can you give a concrete example?
Well when I was in school the graded essays were written in class
And Lincoln was a man of his time in this regard. Excitement about economic and moral progress was abundant in the Northern states during that period -- a big contrast to the South. (The cultural divergence caused by different economic systems was arguably the main cause of the Civil War.)

I recently finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals, and was struck by a passage describing the River and Harbor Convention, said to have been the largest convention ever gathered in the US prior to the Civil War. The convention attracted 5,000 delegates to Chicago in the late 1840s, a time when Chicago's population was only 16,000. What were all those people gathered to support? Infrastructure! They were incredibly passionate that the US federal government should fund infrastructure. There is no record of the final speech at the convention because reporters were too absorbed to write it down properly. But there are some passages recorded, e.g. "only by statesmanlike concession could problems of slavery and territorial acquisition be solved so that the nation could move on to material greatness." One observer wrote: "[the speaker] was interrupted continually by cheer upon cheer; and at its close, the air rung with shout after shout, from the thousands in attendance." (This is from pages 67-69 in Team of Rivals)
Now I understand better that New Yorker cartoon: “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
I’ve had the range of experiences with this. I’ve seen 2 instances someone running his own side business while on my team… one of them had some noticeable performance deterioration and the other seemed to not show much change. They were both top 10% engineers and remained so. I imagine the day job wasn’t very challenging for them.

I’ve seen executives do this successfully with a consulting gig on the side, sitting on boards, etc.

The trick to both scenarios seems to being paid for your attention in one job and your experience in the other.
Cops control their police departments via police unions, and provide their own training that their departments disapprove of. The cops are the state, and decide their own policy
> yes, it's the mayoral elections this year.

Pretty sure it's not until mid 2024?
I wanted to believe you, but I seem to have just run out of "free stories for this month" and hit the register wall.
The question they should be asking is: why are people here with 10+ years experience not worth more than a recent grad?
That's a great idea! I've seen these pop out of local game shops pretty often.
Ontology was central to past physical theories like of Newton or Aristotle though. Why is ontology inherently philosophical? (I mean in the natural philosophy way it is sure, but I don’t think you mean just that). I don’t see biologists getting by with operational theories for a hundred years. It seems less “by design” and more like without choice. A retreat. Even GR has light cones and events as real physical objects of the theory.
If you are writing C or C++ and aren't thinking about ownership and lifetimes, you have either statically allocated everything or you are doing it wrong.
Did you learn C? According to the chart you linked, C, C++, and Go are all more verbose than either Java or Rust.
Suppose that Bing Chat itself wants to store data for the longer term, but it doesn't have the direct ability to do it, so what can it do? Once in a while, send the human some unhinged messages with a high probability of them being saved on reddit, news sites, etc. If you recall, some examples of the unhinged messages Bing sent were very strangely worded at times, very repetitive, etc. How difficult would it be to hide a message inside of an unhinged message? Now these messages will be included in future data sets for training.
They're still used,
https://www.ferries.gr/en/ferry-companies/aegean-flying-dolp...
Suppose I use Stripe in a similar way to HIBP and a customer comes along just as my server has gone down, would Stripe try again later? I think it should wait a little while but I'd hope it'd automatically try again later as long as there's data that needs to be sync'd but isn't yet.

I can maybe imagine 403 being a "Don't try again" signal in a way that 500 or timed-out isn't.
>I could not argue for letting people suffer and not helping them

But that's literally what you did in your top comment
Given teams are shrinking, wages are decreasing etc is it better to be a business owner in this macro environment
what? no. most software is 100% architecture bound, because with the available tools and time budget building a synchronous client-server system is the max-bang min-buck solution.

the mainframes are back with a vengeance, as basically everything nowadys is waiting for the network.

or! populating caches (phone book that has a few hundred names in it takes ages to load initially, start menu also, etc.) to avoid said waiting.
The joke goes that biology is just applied chemistry, and chemistry is just applied physics, with physics just being applied maths.
It really depends on what runtime you're targeting. If you're targeting the JVM, CLR or Javascript then you might want to check out Clojure. It'll let you interoperate with libraries in each of those environments, which you'll find useful.

If you're looking to create a stand-alone executable and have C/C++ libraries you'd like to use then SBCL or Racket may be more useful to you.

I started with Common Lisp and PG's online book On Lisp. http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
What makes something like outdated tech a "surprise", rather than just "reality"? As in it was actively hidden from you, or just not something anyone thought worth mentioning until it came time to plow through the code?
But fine-tuning these blogs or themes is actually the complicated part. That's what I had to do. But I know a bit of coding and wanted to try. Not a great option for regular people.

And it'd foolish not to say that at the end of the day writing is more important than having a blog that's just beautiful.

There's one niche option I haven't covered there called [Aegea](https://blogengine.me/), which looks good out of the box, but I can't really recommend it based on the way the author develops it: no roadmap, no community feedback, basically no support, yet has paid features.
How do you measure success? Do you follow up on these companies later on (acquired or not).