skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s saying Facebook did something different; the Committee is asking why. There may be nefarious intent in the subtext. We should be wary of that. But the letter per se isn’t evidence of that intent.
You're doing the right decision for you in your org even if from the wider company perspective it's obviously wrong and everybody knows this, starting from the CEO, going via middle management and individual contributors, ending at shareholders. It's simply accepted that the rules of the game are such.

You can change the rules, but probably not if you're publicly traded... unless you're Apple.
> DSL implemented by Guix? Whatever do you mean?

From what I've seen (which matches my expectations going in), Guix relies on macros heavily enough to be considered a DSL on top of Guile (as opposed to "library" or "framework"). I could be wrong, of course.
I don't know about this conference, but some conferences with policies like this don't really bother enforcing them. It's 2023, do they really think they're going to get anything close to 100% compliance with a mask mandate? And what will they do if someone isn't wearing a mask? Most likely just politely ask you to put one on and then walk away. I highly doubt they are going to have some kind of punitive policy in place. Nobody wants to deal with that.
Is always been like that under communists or socialist like regimes, privacy is not a right under those systems and government officials are omnipotent. Thinking otherwise is wishful thinking and ingenuity at best.
For example in Cuba everything is being monitored by the government: physical mail, internet, cellular data, neighbour watch organizations and so on. And is the same for tourists and foreigner businesses there.
I talk to my neighbors every day. Working from home let's me feel connected to the community I actually live in, it's awesome. I actually find I really like socializing with people outside of our industry. It's a breath of fresh air.
Mississippification is the term for what's been going on since Prop 13
One of my favorite quotes is:

"A problem is a challenge with a least one workable solution. A dilemma is challenge with multiple choices, all equally bad."

If we eliminated all PFAS chemicals today, society would collapse. What's the point of eliminating PFAS chemicals to improve life expectancy if the very act of doing so would cause a famine?
We threw away all our glass containers because they constantly chip. I'm more afraid of ingesting piece of sharp glass than nanoplastics.
I don't know why that keeps happenning, I guess dishwasher's high heat damages the glass or they keep bumping into each other.
This one isn't particularly abused. It's already available in Chrome and the number of sites that leverage it at all is vanishingly small. No real abuse from it - so far at least.

It does offer a much better user experience than "go search out these obscure menu methods".

Safari might do well offering a "don't badger me" option that just shuts all page based prompts and requests.
> This is akin to having school focus on attendance instead of test scoring

This example is funny because tying school performance to standardized test scores has been a disaster that makes overall schooling less effective in favor of "teach the test".

More numeric performance metrics would have people work the metrics, not do the work effectively. IE back when programmers were measured by LOC, so they wrote senselessly verbose code to play the metric.
will be interesting to see if plastic ends up being our modern day equivalent to Rome and their lead pipes
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Georgia and Russia are UN signatories. Invasion is still expressly illegal.

If we make excuses, that aggressive wars of conquest to expand borders and subjugate people is sometimes OK - inevitably leads to "the world does not deserve peace".

It really is throw the baby out with the bathwater, because the document everyone agreed to while bodies were still rotting, says aggression must be stopped so it doesn't spread.

Apparently the past does not effectively speak to the present, that people still think its OK to negotiate with tyranny. Cutting a deal that involves giving up on millions of people just to save your own skin is what damns humanity, and should damn it, straight to hell.

Humans volunteering other humans are scum. It's unconscionable to me the degree of apathy involved. The willingness to try to bribe tyranny with other people's land, lives, their fucking children.

The potentially fatal flaw of the UN charter isn't the obligation of all members to stop any aggression. It was never even slightly imagined that a founding member, and permanent member of the Security Council, would conduct a war of conquest. And so now the Security Council is rendered useless.

Poland has an article 51 right to aid Ukraine in collective defense. They can send ground troops. They can send and launch long range weapons. Moscow is a legitimate military target.

We are here because of every inaction that came before.
Found this PHP file in my hacked website
My website got hacked about last month and found some malicious PHP file.I am sharing this PHP so that someone can prevent this hack next time.The PHP code is long so I uploaded to pasteio.

I wish this is useful to someone.

pastes.io/aqiexbhbgd

If you find anything please leave comment! Thanks
Easy solution if your customer understands accuracy. They don't.

They want the highest resolution so they can see their 10 gram progress when dieting. But they want the measurement to be stable enough to not cause them too much anxiety.
Reinvesting profits doesn't mean you didn't have profits. Msft, aapl, goog, meta all reinvest profits in new ventures. Only Amazon can't manage to make a buck and tries to pass it off as reinvestment.

Wrt azure vs gcp, I just don't think you can say azure is "killing it" when it's a loss leader for the company. Gcp has proven it can operate profitably, we don't know if azure ever will. Right now its business model approximates Uber.
Ugh. They're going to stop being associated with any "Premium experience" by their non-IT end users if they keep going down that track.
Don't get it. Codecademy has Python and JS courses already. What does it do different?
This misses a really important point that makes some of what it says super misleading. Passkeys support the concept of "attestation", which lets them prove to the website what kind of authenticator they are. Websites can use that to mandate that only, e.g., hardware-backed authenticators that are made by Apple or Google and can't be backed up can be used. Attestation is an entirely evil feature with no legitimate uses. If not for it, then passkeys would be as great as this article makes them sound.
> Offices are way more stressful

For me, this is the bottom line. Working in an office -- even the best offices I've ever seen -- is a pretty terrible experience in a ton of ways.

In my younger years, I kinda gave up on actually getting anything done in the office. It's just too difficult. So I'd take my work home and make up for the time wasted in the office by doing my work in the evenings.

Eventually I wised up and stopped doing that, but that didn't make working in the office any more productive.
Windows are often left closed, in practice.
You can check your odds by looking at statistics. I did it. I wanted to go for PhD but PhD salaries were lower than for Masters (on average). I wanted to live in France, but working from USA gives 3-4x more salary (on average). I wanted to switch to blockchain during the hype, but my odds of becoming a good employee were higher if I stayed in Speech Tech, so I did.
I agree that the letter did try to give some nuance, but they clearly prefer that the models be hidden away behind APIs.

> At least at this stage of technology’s development, centralized AI models can be more effectively updated and controlled to prevent and respond to abuse compared to open source AI models.

> While centralized models can adapt to abuse and vulnerabilities, open source AI models like LLaMA, once released to the public, will always be available to bad actors who are always willing to engage in high-risk tasks, including fraud, obscene material involving children, privacy intrusions, and other crime.

> Meta’s choice to distribute LLaMA in such an unrestrained and permissive manner raises important and complicated questions about when and how it is appropriate to openly release sophisticated AI models.
I had presumed he meant breakage and the shards turning into little knives.
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This is very, very not true.

https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

I ran a design agency 6 years ago and we used the official Apple Resources. The Teehan+Lax stuff and designers making it themselves was all pre-flat design, during the skeuomorphic age. Joey's stuff is because they didn't have the iOS13-16 resources for Figma.
SPSA, if memory serves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_perturbation_st...
I've gotten to use bitwise operations like twice in a 20-year career.

Trivial applications of things that might go in the first couple weeks of an algo class, about the same rate of use.

I always get a little excited when I get to use those things. Like spotting an old acquaintance in a restaurant in another city. "Hey! It's that thing they said was really important but in fact my career would basically be identical if I never learned it at all! Long time no see!"

[EDIT] Still waiting to use math past what I learned in 6th grade, aside from extremely rare use of very simple linear algebra or plugging in stats formulas that I looked up anyway because I don't trust my recollection since I use them so rarely. Doubting I'll even once need any of it before I retire, at this point. Which is great, because I've entirely forgotten all of it, on account of never needing it.
Today I learned, thanks!

I kind of wish there was a "Block and notify" option though, like there is with pop-up windows. One reason is that sometimes you might actually want to enable them, but it seems like there's no indication of the attempt at all.

But even for crappy websites, it would also be nice to know that they tried because it's one of the things that help to weed them out more easily.
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I basically made this site because I wanted an easy way to share this with fellow Reds' fans.
> They will try to retain good employees. They realize the benefits of remote workers.

You have two wrong assumptions here - one is that all the good employees want remote. That's not true. Good people also like offices with some flexibility to work remotely whenever they choose. Second assumption is that companies big and small won't make exceptions for their superstars. That's not true neither. A lot of companies are forcing their policies on their cogs while bending over backwards for their superstars.
It seems like the most likely explanation for this is that it's a "soft layoff"; rather than endure the PR and morale hit of a real layoff, let them quit. Plus, even if remote work is not a within-worker disadvantage versus office work, management may nonetheless estimate that people willing to come in to the office are more attached to their jobs.

Or as it is said: the purpose of a system is what it does. If the primary effects are likely distributional via who remains a Google employee, then we can infer the goal of the decision.
And even more than that: I think Guile specifically would long have been abandoned and forgotten about if not for Guix.
This is where I get hung up every time. As a software engineer, “I cannot collaborate with someone unless I am physically next to their body” is just not a tenable position.

We collaborate through reviews on PRs, virtual documents, links, search queries, and yes, conversations. But this has all happened in virtual settings for a long long time, and almost can’t work any other way.
I wonder how much trouble keeping chickens in the greenhouse would be. I feel like some partially agua culture setup that’s closed loop and consumes the compost could work well, but is probably too expensive in terms of heated square footage to make sense.
Yes, they have had these assets available for 5+ years https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

Figma is new.
I've read that the majority of microplastics come from tire wear (national geographic quoted 28% of the total), and because there's no good alternative to wheel tires, it's unlikely we'll see a decrease of pollution here. So even if we found an alternative to bottles, plastic bags, clothing, etc, it still won't make a dent in pollution unless we convince the world to use a form of public transit that doesn't make use of plastic tires.

We could reduce human consumption of the particles if we only consumed lab-grown meat & hydroponically grown vegetables where the water is ultra-filtered before use.
You would poop the glass though
You solve a lot of the same problems that other tech companies solve, just with different constraints. An example I like to use is: "Facebook can afford to lose a 'like' on a post -- whether that is through data loss or just eventual consistency -- while we cannot afford to lose a penny (exaggerating a bit here) since there are people making live decisions on that penny"

Those sort of problems are more on the product side, along with the regular slew of product development tech problems. On the infrastructure/platform side (where I work) it is remarkably close to "regular tech". Same types of distributed systems problems, database issues, CI/CD pipelines, engineering efficiency, etc. The "new" part here is working with the finance specific areas such as physical data centers and networking to clients, or domain specific items such as data retention for compliance.
A beautiful thought, except that Attention Is All You Need came out in 2017. ChatGPT was when the hype cycle kicked off, but I guarantee there were LLM-generated comments on it before then, possibly from nation-state-funded propaganda mills - not to mention other, less sophisticated bots.
A large chunk it's available online, on archive.org[1] and other places for more recent stuff.

[1] https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus
I spent my 20s following this advice, but now in my 30s I am starting to question it.

When I look up the org chart, the people higher up have been at the company 5+ years. Moving into the higher roles requires the right opportunity, which often takes time to find. Those "right opportunities" are rarely given to people new to the company and are often used to retain existing high performers.

Certainly if you're stuck in your career and are not on a growth path, jump ship. But if your job is promoting you consistently every 2–3 years, then I'd stay.
I agree there is an implied bias against open source. I’m just pushing back that anything is implied to be “acceptable” by this letter.
iirc there are studies that suggest spiders may experience REM sleep
Money is also fungible, the French could priotize the pensions and defund something else to pay for it if that is the will of the people.
A funny detail is that he did have the sense to doubt the accuracy of the information, but delegated verifying its accuracy to the same bot which manufactured it in the first place.

> Lawyer: "Is Varghese a real case"

> ChatGPT: "Yes"

> L: "What is your source"

> C: "Upon double-checking, I found that the case Varghese v South China Airlines [...] does indeed exist."

> L: "Are the other cases you provided fake"

> C: "No, the other cases I provided are real and can be found in reputable legal databases"
It's a good question but has a very long answer.

First off, Canadian colonialism was a complete disaster. Between the Indian Act and its manifestations (ie - residential schools), a portion of our population has been really kicked down. In my province, for example, the last time they did a decent statistical analysis, an Indigenous man was statistically more likely to have served time in a Federal prison than to have completed an undergraduate degree. As part of treaties, Canada is responsible to provide housing on reservations. Unfortunately, the housing is so substandard that people often move to cities and then fall through various cracks in our system.

Drug abuse is a major issue in Canada. I'm not from Vancouver but spend quite a bit of time there for work/family reasons. Entire neighbourhoods are very good anti-drug commercials.

My province has been underfunding education for a very long time. That has created some really interesting side effects. For example, many professionals have chosen to leave the province behind. It's hard to get a family doctor and many people are stuck using emergency rooms for primary care. Add in covid and our once vaunted health system has become a real shit show.

Canada also has a really interesting issue with welcoming newcomers. It's odd how a country that's mostly composed of immigrants can do such a shit job of welcoming immigrants. The best way I've ever heard of to describe immigration to this country is that you'll take the absolute best and brightest, give them points for amazing professional degrees and long careers....then make them drive cabs because we don't recognize any of their experience or education. This has created a really difficult world where on one hand, people who are from here blame the immigrants for driving up the price of house. While on the other hand, many of the people who chose to come here really aren't thriving - they're barely surviving on a hodge podge of minimum wage positions.

I'm sure that you'll find a number of other people with many different views on this. But I hope that I helped a little bit!
I'm sorry but you're dreaming of you think that feral cats aren't destroying local bird populations.
I know there's a smoke situation going on and that filtration is the only possible solution to such smoke. However in the general case I do not want to breath filtered air in buildings, I want fresh air, straight from outside, ideally coming through the nearest window with a screen in front of it to filter the bugs and nothing more.

There are two big problems with doing this: allergies and temperature. I think both of these problems are resolved when you simply acclimatize people to outdoor air. Maybe people spend few years uncomfortable until their body gets used to it (and until people learn how to dress appropriately for the season) but in the end we'll all be healthier if we're breathing fresh air instead of stale recycled air.
Could you elaborate on naturally found microplastics?
I read somewhere - I can't remember where - that the expression "other people" was at the time (written during the German occupation) a euphemism for German soldiers. I don't know if this is true and I've never actually read No Exit so maybe there's no softening the phrase but it could be that there's some nuance there.
> Any reason why it’s a terrible path to choose?

These reasons are not universally applicable, so see what fits your experience, but... code quality is often poor, internal practices often seem to leave a lot to be desired, company culture does not seem to be a focus, assholes seem to get rewarded.

You can probably get into big tech from it, but perhaps not at the seniority you might expect, or if you do you may find it a struggle to get onboard with industry norms around engineering process and company culture that are missing from a lot of finance companies.
The CCP is the Chinese government. They are one and the same. I don't think you seem to understand much at all about the sophistication of Chinese electronic surveillance.
"Knowing" binary isn't some deep, fundamental CS knowledge, it's a party trick. Knowing about different number systems in general is nice, but hardly foundational.

The actual choice of what we consider part of the "core" CS curriculum is pretty arbitrary. Why do we consider, say, binary part of that but semantics not? Would it be "gatekeeping" to say that you can't be a good programmer without a passing knowledge of, say, operational and denotational semantics? Do you really have a "complete" CS education without it?
I worked for a company pre-pandemic where I had more or less the best of all worlds. The company was already split between East Coast and West Coast, so meetings from conference rooms in the office were often the same quality as meetings from anywhere remotely, since Google Meet had always been there to connect both coasts.

As a result, we never needed to have specific days "in office" or "you can do what you want"; as long as you could attend the meeting, you could be wherever you needed to be. I found just as much value on days in the office as days elsewhere, but the biggest value was that every day it was my choice.

Then the pandemic hit and we lost the office, and naturally I discovered the downsides of being permanently remote.

Today's "compromise" of forced "in-office" and "do what you want" schedule doesn't strike me as inducing the best collaboration based on what individual teams and groups need.
Burning seems to be the only good idea over long-term. But someone on HN explained that there are some toxic byproducts to burning plastic. Dioxins for one. So we need some way to capture those waste and store it along with the nuclear waste lol.
Emphasis on /seems/. It all adds up, small or not.
Sounds like leaded gas. Wasn’t banned until 1980s.

Our leaders are 80 year old post war shell shocked, Cold War paranoids who huffed leaded gas fumes for decades. Explains quite a lot actually.
Sure, but these hybrid policies aren't just the result of management wanting to see busybodies typing, but people that still bother to come into the office making small talk like "yeah it's always empty" or "that onsite day was nice, wish my team was here more often". They likely still respect everyone's preference, but management needs to keep everyone happy, so hybrid is the compromise and it allows management to justify their multiple-million-dollar commercial real-estate investments.
> Learning binary and knowing what binary is are two separate things.

Knowing what binary is lets you generate smooth sounding sentences about it, which someone else who also only knows what binary is accepts as true.

Learning binary lets you actually exploit its properties in a solution.
the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36212674

it seems like that thread's content is the same as your link, so I don't know what's going on there
Isn't that what the `value` attribute of `<option>` is for?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/op...
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Why could that be a case?
Not sure if you're serious or not, but plastic should not actually be put in the recycling bin. It almost never gets recycled, and if it does, it degrades quickly and becomes more toxic after recycling.

Plastic is garbage. If you live in a place that burns garbage for energy, that's the best fate for it.
> You don't need to be a good engineer – these places are messes of legacy code created in fiefdoms ...

For juniors coming in, "messes of legacy code" probably isn't the best learning environment from a tech skills standpoint.

For more sr folks coming in to "message of legacy code", you do need to be a good engineer, because you may have to be working around a lot of stuff that can't be changed. You may not have version control. You likely won't have any sort of fancy CI/CD/pipeline process. You may not have tests (as the code is likely untestable in its current state).
That's interesting. I have around 10-15 of those IKEA 365 glass containers with plastic lids and have never had them chip. I stick them in the dishwasher all the time.
> And absolutely no company is going to help their employees pay for the cost of living in places like Vancouver, San Fran, London

Well this is definitely not true.