skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not British. Not even Canadian!

It's pretty simple: you have freedom to say whatever you want, but if you're worried about how you'll be judged, now or in the future, then you will curtail your worst impulses. Alternatively, you can lean into your freedom, say whatever you want, and then deal with the fallout when it eventually comes.

Look at the comment to which I replied, and then tell me my reply doesn't fit.
I got into tech because I wanted to ship software that people used. Then when I got my first job out of colllege, I chose the k8s team because I saw the career potential in kubernetes.

Now, I feel like i have such unique knowledge, application of k8s at such a large scale, and I no longer want to use professionally. Makes me feel like my career till this point, has basically gone to waste.

I have done oncall, CI/CD, Kubernetes, dev tooling, terraform and some other devops stuff.
Thank you for posting this link. I am abslutely certain some Russian double agents are trying to smear Ukraine. And the timing of this article is very suspcious. We only see this intelligence months later when Republicans have taken over the house. I want to see investigation on how much Republicans have influenced this "intel".
The thing is that the JavaScript version is often more readable than the lodash one (unless you have a lot of experience with lodash of course).

For example:

_.compact(array)

vs

array.filter(value => !!value);

Most JavaScript programmers will immediately know what `array.filter(value => !!value)` does but many will have to lookup the lodash documentation to understand what `_.compact(array)` does.
How does this compare with Semgrep, which to my understanding is the dominating open-source SAST offering to date?
No deficit for now: https://www.dna.fr/social/2022/09/13/le-regime-de-retraite-b...

Slight deficit expected in short term

Equilibrium at medium term
I disagree, the network effect is its only draw. For text with images in, Element is just as good, as are Discord's competitors. For voice calls, it's pretty good, but not the best. Can't comment on video calls as I've only used Zoom recently, which sucked.

edit: I've got to learn to reload the page before commenting :P
It's overlay ads, for folks who don't want to click through.
Is it an extra step? Like a lot of this stuff is going to end up being used by humans in space so it needs to be pressurized at some point.

It doesn't even need to be anywhere near full pressure or breathable gas either.
>>"Apple silicon-based Mac"

What does "silicon-based" - mean? What other computer is not 'silicon-based'?

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Is there a way to mechanize the HW detachment of microphone connections at will while using the machine open?

That would be great - if you had a physical switch on the side of machine, which physicall moves the mic wire a mm away from the contact.

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Weird thing - I put tape over my webcam at all times, unless in use, obv.

After some time I received a pop-up alert on windows 11 and it lasted briefly, and went away - but freaked me out: "You should unblock your webcam" or something to that effect, I dont have the exact wording - but it was an alert telling me to unblock visibility of my webcam - I think it may have mentioned something about UX reasons - but it happened so quick I missed all the wording.

Yeah - tape over your cams.

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It would be cool to have a phone case where is the case screen-facing-flap is closed, it pulls the wool over the eyes of the front-facing cams, so even in 'sleep' mode when the case is closed, the phones cams are all covered... but the mic is a different creature.

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Remember when NSA was intercepting cisco equipment to install HW back doors in devices shipped to 'enemy' states.

We have known forever about NSA HW backdoors...

but a case that can manipulate the HW MIC switchoff mechanism of a phone with such capability would be cool.

Else ; we need 100% trustworthy ability to disable our Spy-Pilots.
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> A Low Latency Guitar Effects Processor

What's the latency? I can't find numbers anywhere.
> to learn even one much less all of the big 3 public clouds' ins and outs, because I know they will just change

You'd be amazed (by the sound of it) at how little changes, at least in AWS.

I'm not convinced that people "forgetting" how to run hardware and network gear is a real problem. Most people never knew to start off with.

If it is a real problem, a market solution will emerge that replicates the API-driven provisioning experience of public cloud on hardware. Several companies are working on this, and we'll see if they are successful or not.
Meta: here on hacker news several of the related articles that have popped up around this issue have been downvoted into the 170s just 2 hours after posting and hitting the top.

Crazies are at work here too.

Sycophant is sort of behavior profile. It's a thing that you can do, be a sycophant. It looks like that's what's going on for these so-called crazies.
You're the one making vague arguments, I'm not going to do your homework
Same here, especially reason 2.

I basically need it permanently, one 10 mg pill every 2-3 days.

I wouldn't even mind paying through the nose to get it from less shady sources, I understand quality control is important and can have a cost. But for some reason pharmacies only sell boxes of 8 pills, and IIRC in my country (Spain) you can use the prescription only 5 or 6 times. So I would basically need to go to the doctor every 2-3 months.

It's not that I can't go, free healthcare works fine here, but I'm a busy person. I just don't want to waste time going to the doctor 5 or 6 times a year for something that I already know I need. Plus, the chance of meeting people at the clinic and getting ashamed inventing some excuse 5 or 6 times a year.

The fact that on the shady sites I can get it literally 4x cheaper (not an hyperbole) just makes the decision even clearer.

Unfortunately, the customs here are also getting progressively more annoying. My last order was intercepted.
Revanced
Depending upon language, and what you're using to hold the array, inheritance.

A 'NotEmpty a' is just a subclass of a potentially empty 'a'. You also get the desirable behavior, in this scenario, of automatic upcasting of a 'NotEmpty a' into a regular old 'a'.
Ah my question was answered more or less. They're an edge case which makes sense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048318
Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan series was great, and I recommend anything by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Yes and I agree. We're used to CEOs covering all possible angles, including the court of public opinion. Elon doesn't care about that. However morality and legality are two different things.

We need to accept that CEOs care about morals because of their bottom line (money), not because of legals or that they're nice. It's not the job of a CEO to be nice.

People that hate your product will never buy it. That's why diet soda or fast food care about trees and the sea: paying customers. Money.
I hope Halli can use Elon’s cruel tweets in court and get some retribution.
You welcome
I wish they would drop the support of phone number registration. As stated in the article, not everyone has access to a phone number and not everyone can maintain the same phone number.

I miss the old internet where you only needed a username and a password.
It still bothers me that Musk won that case. It wasn't like it was a random Tweet buried in the muck. It was during a high profile rescue and the defamation was performed by a billionaire with millions of followers and sycophants. The power imbalance doesn't seem to have been taken into consideration.
I too am a moral narcissist that loves when massive corporations project their power outside the market to coerce people into certain behaviors. I can't possibly imagine that ever backfiring.
This has to be the most annoying thing in MacOS. My laptop, soundly sleeping in my backpack, takes over my bluetooth headphones all the time.
Thanks Josh! I actually think we're pretty complementary, less competitive. For example, it'd be very conceivable for users to use Hamilton, DAGWorks, and Databricks together!
I would love to hear the astronomical value that his followers think they personally provide versus the people that Elon publicly humiliates.
What is "pipe"? Surely you're not referring to the bitwise-or operator `|`?
love the transparency this brings. Any 3rd party tools with plans to integrate with it? (e.g. analytics layer companies?)
Infosec. More money, no on call except for SOC roles. Lots of folks who need secure cloud envs, container envs, cicd, etc.
If this really is the fix, I really need to know why.
I thought that the Products/Technologies categories would be the most useful, but it seems like there's only one blog per technology.

Also, Python doesn't seem to be listed as a technology.
Grep-ability for one. This would also make Vim's default '*' behavior less useful.
Weird choice, I've programmed in a language that wasn't case sensitive and it's no fun to read legacy code where the casing changes everywhere.
"Finger duct" is often the easiest way to get relatively clean results in a situation like AV where cabling is sort of poorly standardized (connections front and back, inline DC supplies, etc). It's fairly cheap and often run vertically on rack posts and horizontally above and below cable-dense areas like patch panels and switches, but in an AV situation you probably only need one vertical channel to get a big improvement in results. Finger duct can get pretty messy without planning but I think it's usually the best results to effort ratio.
That is exactly how Microsoft became so dominant in personal computing starting in the 1990s. While it's true that Microsoft did some unethical things, they succeeded primarily because Novell, WordPerfect, Borland, and IBM all made huge strategic errors and essentially knocked themselves out of the game. They missed inflection points that transformed the entire industry. Microsoft's errors were all smaller, and easier to recover.
super interesting. How do you workout the idiosyncrasies between different providers? If you restrict yourself to IaaS that shouldn't be an issue, but functions vs lambda vs cloud-run vs etc all have significant differences.
There are many different ways to increase your website's traffic. One way is to use SEO techniques. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is the process of improving your website's rankings in search engines such as Google and Bing. The first step to increasing your website's traffic is to make sure your website is optimized for the search engines. There are many different SEO techniques that you can try such as optimizing your website for keywords, creating compelling content, and using social media.
Junior developers like me were uncomfortable with SQL twenty years ago. Java ORM frameworks became popular because of the Object-Relational impedance. I kind of see the same kind of sentiment nowadays among newer generations but in Python&Co.

The success of the Apache Spark engine can at least partially be attributed to

* being able to have the same expressive power as SQL but with a real Scala API (including having reusable libraries based on it)

* being able to embed it into unit tests at a low price of additional ~20 seconds latency to spin up a local Spark master
I very much notice green bubbles.
I like this app. Zero real annoyance with it. They have some pin they ask me to keep typing in which I have no idea what it's for but I do it anyway out of muscle memory.
Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform fight
Everyone is different, personally I didn't even know they had sms messaging. What's the point of that? Are they e2ee between Signal SMS users?

Imho Signal is great for novice users. I even have my mom on it.
> What we (DevOps) emphatically do not do is on-call. We have a "SRE" team for that (not SRE in any sense of what you think, they deploy new app versions to prod and manage datadog, and manage on-call, they are incapable of writing even basic python).

This sounds like one of the most screwed up environments I've heard of in a while!
Being a sycophant is its own reward. That vicarious emotional rush.

I imagine that's what's going on.
Another week, another cutesy license: https://github.com/pgEdge/spock/blob/v3.0.19/PGEDGE-COMMUNIT...
>It’s not that you should never do this. Every technology has some risk of destroying the world; the first time someone tried vaccination, there was an 0.000000001% chance it could have resulted in some weird super-pathogen that killed everybody.

The argument is about what we should risk, and when it's "worth it". But this depends on our time-of-action risk calcultion, not an update current estimation.

So, while this "0.000000001% chance" might be our current estimation of such a risk (or it might even be lower), it doesn't sound remotely close to what the estimation of the risk should have been at the time.

With the very little they knew about biology and virology at the time and not even knowing about DNA and other such mechanisms (and knowing they know very little), plus being aware that such dangerous pathogens did exist and have had killed millions in historical memory (the plague for one), they should have assumed a much larger risk.

>Leaded gasoline, chlorofluorocarbon-based refrigerants, thalidomide for morning sickness - all of these were high-tech ideas that ended up going badly, not to mention all the individual planes that crashed or rockets that exploded.

But nuclear energy proliferation wont be, because reasons.

(Weren't the technologists in those days when those were a thing also OK with leaded gasoline, chlorofluorocarbon-based refrigerants, and thalidomide for morning sickness?)
>Officials who have reviewed the intelligence said they believed the saboteurs were most likely Ukrainian or Russian nationals, or some combination of the two.

This actually validates my thesis that Russia was behind the attack to blame Ukraine. It is also very concerning that this type of "intel" only came into light after Republicans took control of the house. There is no word how much Trump and Republicans have influenced this "intel".
Income and Happiness: A Conflict Resolved
IBM had a holocaust-involved project back in the day:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

That probably came across as a fun and easy application of Godwin's Law but I think that would be the wrong conclusion.

The exact problem we should be worried about is political and has been here long before computers. It would have been strange if we banned computers after the holocaust instead of having the Nuremberg Trials.

The political problem that actually exists is almost not even talked about which is unfortunate.
And you can’t turn bluetooth off without logging in first, a feature which is available for WiFi. Horrendous UX decisions by Apple.
No it's not, and the comparison is absurd.

With domestic violence it is trivially easy to have none at all, and there is a very distinct difference between none and some.

With air quality there is a smooth and continuous measurement for what is in the air. You will never get to zero particulates per cubic meter, you can only get under a certain level. Further, the effects of air quality are also a smooth continuous function - there isn't some distinct point where if you are below it there's no risk of health issues and immediately above it you have guaranteed serious health issues. A binary categorization is clearly inappropriate.
cheap reblog of https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/01/300tb-flash-drives-com...
>And Meta, Amazon, Salesforce etc are only shedding excess pandemic hires. If you look at a graph of hires over a decade, the pandemic shows a huge blip up, and these layoffs correct that.

I think you're arguing against yourself.

Why do you think there was a huge blip up during the pandemic? Because their revenue was increasing at a faster rate, so they hired to sustain the increase in revenue and they believed the growth rate will continue. Why was revenue increasing at a faster rate? Two reasons. First, zero interest rates meant that people had more money to spend than before. Second, staying at home meant that people didn't have much else to spend their money on except tech/internet.
You advice is absolutely what I wanted to hear! I dont want to be a devops engineer. However, my unique situation had positioned me to see some things and I am trying to see how I can leverage into other things such as a Startup, consulting (I have never done this before)etc.

My low leverage answer was to make awesome youtube video tutorials.

Thank you so much for your response!
I moderate a server/community of high-end record makers discussing music production and a common question among us is how can we create a long-term database of all of the niche wisdom being divulged, for the benefit of the younger generations.

So far our best idea has been to publish an Obsidian Vault.
> >>"Apple silicon-based Mac"
> What does "silicon-based" - mean? What other computer is not 'silicon-based'?

Read as (Apple silicon)-based.
> What exactly does Russia accomplish by blowing up the pipeline?

A threat directed at Baltic Pipe. Which makes sense if you think their basis is that leverage with gas supplies through Nordstream had failed and it had lost its value for that purpose (and it wasn't making money, for the same reason), and that they were desirous enough for any (even low probability of success) leverage on European action to take an action which would remove that theoretical long-term asset whose utility had diminished for an (also low probability) additional swing at intimidation.

Just as a pro-Ukrainian attack makes sense if you think that their basis was that Russian leverage with gas supplies, though at the time not producing, was only transitionally failing and was likely to recover soon enough to be strategically relevant, or at least probable enough to make an action which, if traced back, could boomerang badly on image of their cause to eliminate the possibility.

I think a lot of people narrow possibilities of who could have done a thing because they ascribe their own assessment of the strategic situation to all participants, when, in fact, parties to the conflict often have very different views of the strategic situation than each other, much less random outside observers.
I've supported 3 different models over the years with inference implemented in SQL. First one I inherited, loved it so much that I implemented it twice again. Amazingly fast for TBs of data and no waiting on other tech teams.

That tooling you're describing is definitely not there. Bigquery has BQML but it's very much in its infancy. I tend to do all the modeling in Python/R on sampled data and then deploy to SQL.
Becoming OpenID certified: Why standards matter
>I do it anyway out of muscle memory

That is literally why. They want you to remember the pin in case you need to recover your account.
Do you know what the cetane number for both the original GTL diesel and the blended mix they sell are? (Trying to quantify the performance claim - not that cetane alone does that, of course.)
iOS password area of settings also handles verification codes. They are synced across all of your devices. So if you always leave one device at home then you can’t get locked out losing your phone.
What do you mean by Zoom doesn't let you comment on video calls? There's an in-meeting chat.
A much smaller market would have to pay for the fixed costs of the oil industry? Gas stations close because a few Porsches, Ferraris and classic cars isn't enough to keep them afloat?

Then OTOH, due to refineries working the way they do, if private cars are replaced by EV's, but long range trucking, marine shipping and aviation remain, refineries will have a huge problem what to do with the gasoline fractions.
I'm curious what the performance characteristics will look like. Will they behave more like SMR where they don't work very well in RAID or ZFS due to needing to wipe large portions at a time, or will they be more like CMR where you can reliably do a sector at a time. I really hope it's more like CMR because otherwise the storage just won't really cut it at sizes as small as 50TB by then. With Flash disks being available (though at insane prices) at 100TB right now I'm not convinced there's going to be much of a market with the price/storage and performance stagnation that's been going on.

https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/ # for the 50-100TB disks, low volumes but available now if you have no budget limits.
Thanks. Some of us were so well organized with cool songs and stuff, I'm jealous so we're writing one for next week (probably based on Vian, Lluis Llash or Ogeret).
Or maybe it was C? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/...
Distribution is expensive. The dense network of fuel stations works due to the high demand. In addition there is a quite high price sensitivity: If fuel is a little bit cheaper customers are willing to take the small detour. With less demand there are less stations, less competition and still a expensive logistics network.
Played it now, but the controls, for me at least, are a little inconsistent. Sometimes a key registers, sometimes it doesn't, and other times a single keypress results in 2 moves.
Does framework-defined-infrastructure also work for stateful infrastructure? All of the examples in the blog entry are stateless (functions, edge workers, etc).
> As recently as 1981 Mitterrand won the presidency by promising just that, i.e. nationalizations.

And what a colossal failure that was. After two years of this policy, he was forced into a severe austerity turn. France's economy was never the same afterwards.

After all you're right, if there's true political will, anyone can shoot themselves in the foot.
Perhaps consider applying to one of the companies building ecosystem tooling around Kubernetes or other schedulers? Your at-scale operational knowledge will be invaluable - it's something many people do not have.

Actual in-the-trenches experience of distributed systems at scale is fairly rare. Anything that helped you acquire that while being paid is likely not wasted!
Yes. 169.254.0.0/24 addresses show up quite often.
I'm curious, where are you seeing these? I'm hardly an expert in finding this sort of thing.
Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust
I wouldn't say dominating tbh, but clearly one of the good solution out there for sure.

Probably the biggest differentiator is our ability to detect sensitive data flows and map those to the different security findings. It allows finding unique risks as sensitive data leaking in loggers for example, but also dynamically prioritize issues based on the type of sensitive data at risks or even decide it's not important if none are.

Let's say you're connecting to an unsecure API, we're going to assess if you're sending sensitive data or not there, depending on that we'll change the priority of the risk. If none are involved it would be a low risk, if PHI are involved it would be critical.

For the rest, I let you be the judge of the UX, quality of findings, speed etc.
> would not feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality if authorities were able to monitor their digital communication

That actually may be seen as a feature and not a bug for the authorities