skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No what?

Let's imagine my bank is sexist, the code literally says "if WOMAN, Reject'

You can sue my bank for discrimination, and in process of discovery you can request information and documents from the bank, including the code / formulas.

If you have a solid argument, let's say my bank never approved a mortgage for a woman, the judge will grant your request. You, or someone appointed on your behalf, will look at the code / excel formula, see that it's discriminatory by design, and you can request massive punitive fines, because this demonstrates contempt for the law.

Now let's say I instruct my developers to create a neural network that is as convoluted as possible but is unlikely to approves mortgage for a woman. That can be easily done. There will be no proof that we ever did this on purpose, and even proving that it is discriminatory will be challenging. At best, my bank will get a slap on the wrist.

That is why they are banning AI from some areas of life.
Monasteries were closed to the public and most orders ( if we exclude the jésuites) we’re not that into science. Rather theology / philosophy.
Their main goal was often conservation of the scriptures.
I'm sorry to add this additional fact. I noticed a video was with this URL on that site: https://thetruetruetruth.com/billy-porter-2/ . By curiosity I adjusted the URL to https://thetruetruetruth.com/billy-porter-1/ and well. The links I found on that page were not good. I am actually very sorry as this was not the intended purpose of this post. (do not click on those). I just wanted to reflect back.
The private sector grades on a curve. That curve is bent over time and the levels adjust.
> Are these outcomes unintended?

That's the crux of the political debates going on today. What kinds of values are represented by the status quo, and what kinds of values may replace a (retrospectively) naive approach to meritocracy.
>rather than getting bogged down in the complexities of UEFI firmware,

and having to defeat various memory detections built into the SPI-connected flash chip that stores it,

BlackLotus developers deploy standard binary files to the EFI system partition.

The ESP, as it’s abbreviated, is a traditional disk partition that’s much easier to access.

Unlike the flash chip, the ESP *doesn’t have protections* such as BIOS Write Enable,

BIOS Lock Enable, and SPI Protected Ranges, which make it difficult to write or modify stored data.

>Running as a bootloader gives them almost the same capabilities as firmware implants,

but without having to overcome the multilevel SPI flash defenses, such as the BWE, BLE, and PRx protection bits,

or the protections provided by hardware (like Intel Boot Guard).

Sure, UEFI Secure Boot stands in the way of UEFI bootkits,

but there are a non-negligible number of known vulnerabilities that allow bypassing this essential security mechanism.

And the worst of this is that some of them are still easily exploitable on up-to-date systems

even at the time of this writing—including the one exploited by BlackLotus.
> generous free level of service,

Can't you make the argument that Heroku got out of this market on purpose? I know they were bought out by "ye old corporate greedy meanie overlord" or whatever but... I'm sure there is data that showed it made sense from a "make money business" perspective to not be in that market.
Are there any plans to make Corrosion open source? Or are you able to talk at all about the technologies/patterns used to create it? I feel like service discovery is still ripe for disruption
An aside, but Atlassian refused to quote my colleague for cloud Confluence licenses the other day because we’d just started an unrelated Jira trial..
In my experience using copilot for generating code is usually a lot less weird because it has more context; instead of using made up function names and APIs it can see what’s been defined in other files.
But I primarily find copilot helpful for instances when I need a bunch of almost identical code but with tiny changes (which could mean I’m coding wrong)
IPv6 Networks have Prefix Translation - but that's pretty mechanistic and not prone to the types of failures you see with PAT on IPv4.
Yeah, we'll for sure talk about it more some other time. Mostly today we want to talk about how we were sucking ass at customer comms.
It sounds like they’re talking about a turn-on-green car conflicting with a simultaneous walk-on-white pedestrian phase.

Around here (MA), we’ve given pedestrians about a 4 second head start to make them more visible in situations like this (less likely to be in the A-pillar airbag blockage).
It sounds like you built the right product on the wrong technology stack, at the lower levels. For example, I have never heard a Nomad success story, but this might be colored by interviewing engineers desperate to escape it.

Something like linkerd on Kubernetes would be stronger, I suspect. But I don't know the exact nature of your problems.
When the Golden Record Went to Space
The protocols were generally understandable (MSN for a long time was largely all MIME-based messages, and could be understood by watching a traffic stream)

Microsoft even submitted an early draft of MSNP to the IETF. I'd consider (at least the early versions) MSNP the next step up in complexity from IRC, i.e. you can write a working client with both presence and messaging within a day or two. This is from experience of having written a client myself, which I used all the way up to them shutting down the servers.

Used simple usernames/passwords for authentication (just fewer hoops to jump through)

Earliest ones were literally plain user/pass, then followed challenge-response, and later MSNP used something surprisingly similar to OAuth, where you authenticate out-of-band to get a token that is then submitted to the protocol server itself.
The WSJ is a notorious shill for oil/gas, is this on the up and up behind the paywall?

I thought most ebike batteries were LFP which are a lot more fire resistant than NMC chems.

I mean, bad electric power supplies are bad electric power supplies, but still....

Ok. so 200 "battery blazes". Does that include... smartphones?

"FIRE CITY" is the graph title. For 200 fires in a city of 10 million+

Ok boomer.
I imagine that Teams & Skype are very similar. It seems that both Skype & Teams pretty much still talk the new Lync protocol...
Totally anecdotal but a lot of people seem to really struggle reading long paragraphs these days. So yeah it probably works for those people.
Leveling at Google is supposed to be based on impact and the type of work you do. It isn’t about leadership. Going from L5 to L6 doesn’t make you a manager.

This is just a cost cutting measure as we all know. (Former googler)
If you want to connect with people using HN, you should probably put contact info in your HN profile.
Give us a try at Hivelocity - well priced with a highly redundant network (multiple transit providers and private backbone - meaning no network downtime), wide variety of configs and locations, with great support (<5 minutes and you're talking to a real person). https://www.hivelocity.net/

There are cheaper options - but you get what you pay for via network uptime & support speed.
I mean, I don’t think anyone here doubts that linguistics exists. The point was rather that fake etymologies also exist, and can be extremely common. As other replies have noted, it doesn't look like there's evidence that the word "Baccalaureate" comes from the Arabic "Bihaqq Al-riwayatt," and there seems to be a high likelihood that this is a fake etymology.
A Vulnerability in Implementations of SHA-3, Shake, EdDSA
Any successful example?
It's normal to keep an ID in many buildings in Asia at the front desk while you're visiting. Why would they possible not 'return a passport'? What for?
As has been discussed ad nauseam, getting rid of NAT does not mean all your hosts are exposed. You would still have a firewall, and managing that firewall is much more straightforward when one doesn’t have to deal with address or port translations.
Imagine a chat application with Teams that is actually /usable/. I really miss the days of Pidgin.
Fun fact: the KDE / Linux client for MSN had a feature whereby it would notify me (by opening a window) if someone had clicked on my profile in MSN Messenger and started typing a message, but not yet sent it. It was a really nice way of freaking regular MSN Messenger users out.

I cannot remember what the name of the application was but it was very handy.
Browser is lot more complex than Twitter.
There's always been a promotion budget.
Nobody was comparing hardware with software. The point was that things tend to stick around way beyond when their "replacement" rolls out.
How do you suppose a lithium battery’s charging is managed? What controls it, sets safe limits? Is this hardware able to be accessed from the device in any way? Your phone is a bomb as long as you just adjust your attitude and think a little deeper.
It's a VC capital of the world, which has weak correlation with intellect.
Did You Know? Edison Coined the Term “Bug”
I recently heard but did not verify that L4 is now terminal instead of 5 which makes a ton of sense to me and also puts this new tidbit in context.
"Senior SWE" is not a senior position; I think we all know that.
Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another craze (says frothy Vox piece)
> Sure, pal, You pay all of the transition costs for everyone and you got a deal

Except at this point the costs are reversed - IPv4 costs more than IPv6. Just look at the article we're commenting on - supporting IPv4 clients is costing them a lot more. At the same time more and more cloud hosts are charging more for IPv4. In 2023 it's supporting IPv4 that costs more, not IPv6.
Begrudgingly-former Adium (~Mac equivalent of Pidgin) user here: it was glorious indeed!

I didn’t take it for granted because I had already been using the prior iteration of incompatible chat apps soup, and I clung to it far longer than most reasonable people would as it became a ghost town on supported protocols.

The biggest exodus at the time (from my perspective) was when Google closed up whatever their current branded chat service was. But the real nail in the coffin (again from my perspective) was Slack, for the fairly obvious reasons that chat is their primary product and active/paying users is their primary product. Of course the rise of other chat-first apps successful with the youngs, and well positioned instant incumbents from social media, the coffin had many nails.

But it really is a shame this era came to an end. I don’t know how it could have gone differently given the incentives and circumstances, but I’d go back to those tradeoffs (basically everything works in one native app where I can talk to anyone I know however I want to, but probably direct file transfers are gonna fail most of the time) in a heartbeat.
Most everything I've seen about advancing beyond "career-level" (usually into a "staff+" engineer track) has said that ability alone will not get you a promotion. In general, there needs to be a "business need" for those positions to be created in the first place.

It does not run contrary to the idea of meritocracy to assert that a firm has limit on the number of people that it can hire into a certain position - so long as the people who do fill those are selected are (more or less) the most qualified. Note that I am not saying anything about whether Google actually meets this ideal.
Excessive distances between destinations destroys walkability, too. Which is a necessary condition for environments that can accommodate the quantity and size of most American cars.

Edit: Excessive distances are also a necessary condition for living in an environment with detached 2.5k+ sq ft single family houses with garages and backyards.
There's nothing inherent i Rust that makes it the perfect JS tooling language, it's more correct to say JS tooling will adopt more performant and safe languanges, and Rust is one of them.
Being good at your job will only get you so far in a career. As you move up the ladder, social skills become more important to your career. Also, as you get older you will see that networking will be the primary way to get a job. Being good is not enough all the time. Companies need a job to be done they don't really care that you can build a computer or whatever from scratch or whatever merit you want to name that's outside their needs. If they have X candidates to pick from they will gravitate towards the one that can do the job and the one they have some kind of personal connection with -also known as networking.
It just does the same things the official client does. The fact that it's a REST API makes inspecting the traffic relatively easy, although that trades off efficiency compared to the custom protocols that a lot of early IM clients used.

Note that the resemblance to Skype (and even references to Skype in the source code) are not coincidences; Teams is AFAIK largely based on the same backend as MS-Skype.
> Not really. It’s ground up and goes down the drain with the waste water.

It depends. What you describe is common with American dishwashers. European dishwashers typically don't grind anything up, they just collect it in a sieve.
The Idaho Stop might have something to do with it:

https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title49/t...

On a bicycle you don’t have to come to a complete stop at a stop sign or red light — basically treat them like a yield. A similar law was passed in Oregon a few years ago.

A generally progressive policy like that might show more respect for pedestrians than other states?
> So while costs are added on to the customer, it would result in a price raise resulting in lessening their competitive advantage.

Every business that sells goods/services in VAT country collects VAT and transfers it to tax authority. There's no any advantage or disadvantage for someone, everyone plays by the same rules.

To sum it up, businesses "do not pay" VAT (technically they pay, but then reclaim it at the end of the month). All VAT burden always falls on the end consumer. Wikipedia says, that VAT is similar to sales tax, but since I'm not too familiar with sales tax, can't comment on that similarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax
Very cool! Which client did you write?

I had forgotten they tried to standardize the protocol!

Yeah, it was surprisingly easy. Connect to the switchboard server, set up sessions from there, and then it's all MIME. We even implemented avatars for Gaim by chunking Base64-encoded images over MIME messages (they had a max length), which MSN would ignore but Gaim would use.

We never had any trouble from the MSN team. Rumor had it at the time that at least one dev on the team was secretly a Gaim user, and they just looked the other way.
Surely rux would cover more edge cases than your function? A lot of people would see this function and struggle to understand what it is doing, but if you explicitly use something like rux it's much more obvious. I guess rux would have more overhead than this though.
Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Viewers think it's a documentary, it walks and talks like a documentary.

I've encountered people that spread falsities as facts because they heard it on a podcast.

People have abused other people's trust for millennia, it's just now spread to a new medium.
> Or the fact that ceremonial graduation garb in the EU and US, from the robes to the caps, is also based in Arab tradition.

This particular "fact" is in error unless you believe Medieval Christian monks copied Arabic dress. Academic dress in the US derives from Oxford and Cambridge, which was developed from extremely common clerical garb of the Middle Ages. Arabic dress is not necessarily black, but also white and dyed colors, are shaped differently than academic dress and have a trim never seen in academic dress. The two types of dress have origins distinct from each other. They may both belong to a larger category of robes, but the similarity ends there.
I hate to play the definition game, but "government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability" is given for meritocracy. If your ability is that you are at that level, you should be held to that level. If this is a meritocracy.

If promotion is also bound by availability of "slots" at a given level, than by definition you will exclude some folks that are otherwise at that level.

I fully sympathize that inflation of level is a thing. I also fully sympathize that resources to use people at a given level are finite. Such that you will have to do this for practical reasons. Still, the message for that is almost certainly tailored to the individual that you turned down and best left for the specifics. Blasting out this message as generically as it was done just feels wrong.
Professionals? I thought this was going to be about paid accounts in order to prevent bots and spam. Especially with the rise of LLMs and it seems like every day the botnets are getting larger and smarter.

I would like to pay a few bucks a month for the opposite of this: a social media where being a professional content creator gets you banned or at least restricted from visibility, in order to encourage new people and original content. There would also be identity verification, and the few dollars (besides supporting the side and allowing it to not run ads) would prevent people from finding ways to DoS or circumvent this unless they spend huge amounts of money.

The site could also distribute some of this money back to "viral" content in an effort to further reward originality and reduce sponsorships. And while the pay would be proportionally better than YouTube and other platforms, nobody is getting rich or making their full income (and you still get flagged for promoting stuff), so it wouldn't defeat the purpose. Just something to encourage people to make content and help kickstart the new platform.
At his level who has had consistently more or the same level of success doing something similar to him? I don’t understand all the Elon hate lately outside of people being bias for the sake of the narrative.
I do currently. I work for the alphabetically first A in FAANG
I guess peace was never an option.
I was thinking it would be cool to make the real KSP2 using the rigs of rods engine (same one used in beamNG drive more or less) rather then awkwardly simulating intra-vehicle forces by having the vehicle made of an arbitary amount of seperate rigidbodes, instead make it from one mesh but with soft body phsyics.

Note: Juno new origins is sort of a KSP sucessor. Its rock solid, but the ships are 100% rigid which definitely affects gameplay and decreases the challenge and fun perhaps.
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I’m of the opposite opinion. At this stage, he has heard the counter arguments. He is smart enough to know what he is doing.

I genuinely think he is making these statements to wind us up, though I don’t guess as to why.
There are showers and the locker room where I keep a set of clean work clothes at my work. This is normal for a medium to large company, and some small ones have the same utilities. Copenhagen.
On the topic of super powers, I remember using a Pidgin plug-in that would pop-up a chat window if someone is typing a message for you, even before they sent their first message. That's because their client was sending a "User is typing..." signal. The plug-in would notice this signal, open the chat window and notify you with the sentence "You feel a disturbance in the force..."
I like that idea, but instead of "who cares?" I just say to myself "most likely bullshit." or something along those lines. Never forget that you're getting, at best, one side of a story. Even if the fundamental details are accurate, you're not getting them all, or unfiltered.

Lately I've been trying especially hard to condition my immediate family to treat basically everything they see online as "most likely bullshit." We play with ChatGPT and the AI image generators just to drive home how easy it is to create this flood of bullshit.
My public IPv4 is something like 14.63.323.85, private is 192.168.1.2 (others are .3, .4, etc), DNS is 1.1.1.1.

My public v6 would be like 2345:0425:2CA1:2020:1100:0567:5673:23b5, private is fc00::::903A:1C1A:E802:11E4, DNS 2606:4700:4700::1111 (don't forget those consecutive colons).

It's not that I don't like change, it's that I don't like changes that make things plainly worse for me.
This is all solid advice but seems to be unrelated to gaining an unfair advantage.

I interpret "unfair advantage" to be more about employability and how valuable you are in the field (starting with inside the business you are in) and not about putting more money in your pocket.
The part where any of that matters. Which country has billions of dollars in defense spending with the US?
One word: Designers.

They currently seem to love the "hieroglyphic controls floating in a sea-of-whitespace(or blackspace)" trend.
>You’ve got something there. I grew up in a semi-rural Texas subdivision (housing development), and witnessed it fulfill a saying: “a subdivision is good for about 30 years: the first 10 as custom new homes, the second 10 as starter homes, and the last 10 as decent rentals.”

Well this rather neatly explains New Orleans East as well.
If you're a former Googler, then you know that the role description for L6 indicates that an L6 is indeed supposed to exert a lot of leadership and influence, even if not a manager.
I've done it myself several times, but of course on projects small enough for a single developer. I also think the approach of rewriting bits and pieces over time works. You can identify pieces of the old code base that has well-defined behavior and can be split off with a well-defined interface between the new and old code. This has the added benefit of both needing to understand the old codebase and what you'd ideally want from a new codebase.
True. People should read Richard Sakwa on this matter. According to his well-researched 2015 book, Frontline Ukraine, armed insurgents marched around the debating chamber, instructed MPs to not follow the formal investigatory procedure needed for impeachment, and just to "sack" Yanukovych.
Congress makes moves against Chinese tech
U.S. SENATORS WARNER AND THUNE TO ANNOUNCE BILL ON TUESDAY "THAT WILL COMPREHENSIVELY ADDRESS THE ONGOING THREAT POSED BY TECHNOLOGY FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES, SUCH AS TIKTOK" -STATEMENT
As someone who primarily works with computers in industrial machinery, this doesn't seem all that fanciful.

What breaks the metaphor for me however is the 'computers have no practical use in society' line. Medicine, modern precision manufacturing and transportation have radically changed the quality of life for billions. Without the development of global timekeeping, communications and computing (mainframes at least) life would be much nastier and shorter for many.

Does the inversion also come with all of that baggage?
This would be the most beautiful experiment.

Somehow we would need to track to two code bases for a decade afterwards and see which was the better choice.
Apparently their Steam page ships a Mac version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/837470/Untitled_Goose_Gam...

It would be interesting to hear Panic's input here. They're a long-time Mac studio, surely they've got some suggestions for regulators.
It is wild that even a company like Panic, as well-loved, and with one of the richest histories on Mac, gets the same treatment as anyone else from App Store Review.

In a way it's kind of good to know that there is no special treatment, but this is poor behaviour towards the developers who made your platform.
I mean, at a very real level, that is true for all positions. If the business doesn't have a need to pay you at a level, they won't do so.

I thought I had just always heard pride from the Google sphere about how they were much closer to the ideal of a meritocracy than other places. This feels... not that. :D
Why would someone port a game and then give up after two rejections? Seems like a lot of wasted work.