skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd advise caution - lightning energy coupled onto a low voltage conductor can set fire to property and possibly harm people. Best to take a conservative approach if it's not your property and other people might be harmed. A direct strike is not necessary to have serious effects.
So was the company the best in their field? I sometimes see small / badly managed companies pull such interview processes and it is ridiculous. You would expect they would hire 100x engineers with these tasks but I wonder what they are exactly looking for.
Is this missing an /s?
> I'm not sure what the arbitrary human-imposed classification of "controlled by the federal government" has to do with anything

It has a lot do when you discuss California’s land use policy, which does not apply to nearly half of California, including an even larger share of the land to which controlled burns might sensibly apply, which are largely national parks or national forests.
On the UPS website, there is a way to track packages WITHOUT the tracking number. They call this feature “Track by Reference Number” and I believe this might be how scammers are getting peoples information.

The reference number for a shipment can be literally any number the shipper chooses. So if they use a sequential number such as an invoice number or order number, it would be relatively easy for scammers to deduce what the reference number might be for a particular company (such as Lego).

Just to add a bit of fuel to this theory, if you go to the “Track by Reference Number” section on UPS Canada’s website today it has a message at the top stating:

Upcoming Changes: Limiting the display of reference number tracking details for improved security.

UPS is changing how the reference number tracking results are displayed to provide additional protection:

Tracking details will be mostly masked with only basic reference number tracking details available.

Senders that have saved the shipment’s account number as a payment method in their profile, or in their company profile, will see the full tracking details.
This looks very similar to SteerMouse. Does it do the same thing?
"Oh, you want fixed IP #'s? Sorry, we only support that via our $240-per-year-forever rented cablemodems."

- my most recent Comcast/Xfinity experience
Asking developers to estimate deadlines in detail is a waste (2020) [FR]
And don't forget the UX designers armed with their figmas and alikes. The tech-stack is only one among a number of organizational and cultural issues crippling the field.
A huge part of the entire point of corporations is to keep individuals from being held accountable.
Try Xojo Web, pretty neat tool with VB like web builder.
Part of what's holding it back is expensive multi-year environmental reviews for logging projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_Rv4t2htc
I am always frustrated with the usual answer to these kinds of demonstrations: “Yes, but these new apps are doing so much more. Also, security.”

Except, that they are not, not at the time they are launched at least. And even if they were, we have a hundred-fold more compute power, with a hundredth of the latency for memory and storage.

Regarding security, it should have negligible effect in most cases. At least, effects should not be perceptible to the human mind.

It really is just a consequence of the way we develop software nowadays. We do not need to optimize programs to make them work at all, so we just do not. We work on new features, and we hire people who can churn new features.

And we decided to optimize for developer time, instead of user time. So, instead of painstakingly developing a Web site, a native application, an Android app, and an iOS app, we just push Web apps everywhere.
Yann LeCun has a vested interest in downplaying LLM emergent abilities.

His research at meta is in the analytic approach to machine learning. As result he is very unabashed in expressing distaste of ML approaches that don't align with his research.

Really, there is no larger sore loser than LeCun in internalizing the bitter lesson. Quoting him without this context is being deliberately misleading.
There is nothing specific to C++ in this post.
Corporations are legal persons.
Cool. It'll be nice to have the plans all drawn up after the 5-10 years of council committees this will sit through, so that we have something ready to go for the next recession.
Titanic director James Cameron says he predicted outcome of Titan submersible
It did include some substance abuse primarily stimulant and alcohol (which has a stimulant effect) so that makes sense, but I think it was mainly depression (which fueled the substance abuse) and even that has sleep disrupting effects. The paralysis was strangely comforting because it felt like - and I reasoned as much at the time - that if I was able to stay still and barely breathing that nothing would happen. The problem couldn't see me because I was so still - I was so still I wasn't there.

Good job on your efforts so far. It sounds like you had a breakthrough.
No. They were just starting out trying to sell their open source product. In fact, I had interviewed with a different company solving the same problem whose tech I thought was way more impressive.
Med school in those countries tends to last a year or 2 longer.

Also most other countries have national education programs for secondary school. High school in the US is regulated at the state and local level, so it’s very variable. As a consequence, the first 2 years of college tends towards general and education.

Another note, there’s also a med school entrance exam in the US.
Unfortunately, none of these are responsible for the startup delay. Since version 1.18 effectively ~90% of the startup duration is spent starting up WinUI and having it draw the tab bar and window frame. It still needs a second to start. If it still used GDI like Windows NT did, it would start in well under 100ms even on an extremely old CPU.

Fixing this situation is essentially impossible because it requires rewriting almost everything that modern Windows is built on. Someone else in this thread said you couldn't sell 4 quarters worth of work to fix this, but the reality is that it requires infinite quarters, because it requires throwing away the last 10 years of Windows shell and UI work and that will never happen. You could paper over it by applying performance spotfixes here and there, but it'll never go back to how it could be that way. At a minimum, you'd essentially have to throw away WinRT which has an almost viral negative impact on performance. Never before have high latency, but still synchronous cross process RPCs been that prevalent and everything's a heap allocated object, even if it's within the same binary. It's JuniorFootgunRT.
Don't think so, doesn't computer program equivalence require solving the halting problem and undecidable problems?

For example, consider the empty program, and the program that print "hello, world!" if an undecidable condition is met. I think checking if these two programs are equivalent is undecidable
Wouldn’t Oracle have standing if what Red Hat did was a license violation? Why would they risk that?

There’s an old joke that Oracle is a company of lawyers with a small software engineering department.
The reason why safety in C++ is difficult to achieve is due to the memory model used by C and C++. The memory model is a flat space provided by the OS that can be addressed by pointers. In this sense, C++ is similar to assembly code. A language like Java, on the other hand, assumes a different model where you can only access objects with well defined behavior. To change this, one needs to disallow the use of native pointers in C++ or make them less powerful, like Java did.
Okay, but it would be more helpful if you provided some actual arguments against the technology.
> The US is unique in that (thus far) its massive deficit spending has been offset by growth

That's not unique either. The UK had massive debts in its history but outgrew them. Or were you not considering history?
This mismatching reality thing is a super common phenomenon in software dev and I think it’s key to internalize that there is often a shockingly big (and acceptable) difference between “the amount a perceived world needs to match the real world to be technically accurate” vs. “the amount the perceived world needs to match the real world in order to be good enough” AND, even more bewildering, very often the “good enough” difference version is the only one that can reach the goal of the software!
the English Wikipedia article is not shy about some of those "Italian" influences ! He was eventually executed for political reasons, as the article says.
> 1. You mostly make the thing yourself and pay the R&D + production costs in-house (i.e. public sector).

I would love to see the US return to this in a variety of realms, but I doubt that's coming anytime soon. It would still involve paperwork, lawyers, production lines, etc.; making four very specialized trash cans every few years will always be costly.

> 2. You notify the market that you want a thing, and pay a profit-seeking vendor for the finished thing.

They will need to charge you for all the same things, and they don't have a mothballed production line to start with, either.
It’s starting to happen to me.
ha, i've been an operations research engineer off and on for a few years now... definitely intrigued.
https://sokyokuban.com/#1

Another nice and small hyperbolic geometrical game.
I already struggle with waiting for the rube goldberg-esque build-deploy-to-dev loop at my current gig. Thanks for the additional disgust.
That’s essentially what Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are.
It's not that absurd. One ton of coal produces ~25 million BTUs. That's about the same output as a cord of oak or hickory, which weigh about 2 tons per cord. And most people that heat their home exclusively by burning wood use about 5-6 cords per year.
> Let people communicate the news, word-of-mouth.

But if that sort of thing is the main source of news, I think you'll find it would result in even more misinformation than journalism produces.
The first step to solve a problem is to measure it. Do you know of a windows program that can measure the latency of the UI of other windows apps ?

What really drives me mad is the latency of some file selection dialogs for example which can take like 10 seconds.
Island's ecosystem is artificial: Ascension island was terraformed
Congrats! You’re winning at EVE.

Personally I only found EVE Online fun when I was making it not fun for other people. Like the time I made friends with some guys, spent a few months playing with them, then robbed them blind and blew up all their spaceships for the insurance fraud while they were sleeping because I got bored. I got so much hate mail it was glorious.

Then I lost all my ill gotten gains playing space poker. But man it was exhilarating. Just like a true space cowboy. The highs and the lows.

A few months later I tried to make more money using my very expensive carrier ship that was worth a few hundred in real life money, and then that got blown up by some other space pirates. Thus completing the circle of rage. I haven’t played much since.

There’s a joke in the game, you’ll say “whatever happened to Frank?” “Oh, he’s winning at EVE”, meaning he quit. The only way to really win is to not play.
How many more things will we have to plant to offset the meat eating?
Not an expert on this, but after buying both types of salt from the same manufacturer and comparing them, the pre-ground one has a different texture and is less pleasant to eat; almost like it was mixed with dust.
Sligs when?
yes, but it'll still take until tomorrow to realize what was needed the day before.
I nearly deleted my comment because I felt bad after the author replied and also because I generally want to encourage people to publish stuff they are not confident about -- and I would never have posted this about a personal blog.

But I decided to leave it because I think I stand by the implication that reputation for specific technical blogs can be earned or used up. Fly.io has earned a lot of reputation and I (and I guess others) clicked on a title I would not usually have because I saw the domain. In this case I feel like some reputation was "used up" and I am (slightly) less likely to click on a post solely because I see a fly.io domain in future.

Maybe I am just not the target audience for the post and it is better than my assessment, but if not then I think people value HN as an honest audience that doesn't hold back on criticism (I know I do and I have received harsh but valid criticism from hn on stuff I have written).

Fly.io can probably keep making front page based on reputation if there is a balance of very high quality content and other posts, but I feel like something like this could have been 1000% better with another revision round and some editing (probably only 20% more effort) so I will keep saying stuff like this I guess?
No one ever talks about reducing the health budget. This department is unnecessary at the city level and just duplicates the same office at the provincial level.

The mindset around the TTC hasn't to a future where many people work from home. Ridership is dow to record low levels but let's build 5 new lines. People asked for this 30 years ago.. now it's unneeded and just going to create a bigger bill year after year.
Secret laws are generally considered bad.

It's going to be for something dumb like the exact dimensions of a fire safety tag, but if you don't tell me the law then it's a secret law.
This is a great place to note how stellar WOLF HALL and its sequels are. They make his life really accessible, even if it is a fictionalized account of real events.
Presumably the draft also helped. Outside of war-time, I'm extremely sceptical state-run factories can compete with the free market..
Those games hit the exact sweet spot for kids who had access to internet at school or at parents workplace, but not at home. Run to computer lab between lessons, spend your turns for the day and then wait for new turns.

My heart still belongs to TDZK, this is what the combat looked like with coordinating in IRC before everybody had voice chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isg5PA79Gd0
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Well its been admitted on camera, unapologetically, by a Blackrock recruiter. Unsurprisingly.

Let's see how long this post lasts on HN.

EDIT: In 9 minutes already flagged. Looks like the truth does hurt many here on HN because they 'don't like' where the source came from.
The company going bankrupt could be the equivalent to death in medicine.

I think you hit a good analogy with medicine, since death is not the only bad scenario. Following this analogy, technical debt could be akin to having to medicate for life.
Sometimes I help to create take-home assessments and provide a feedback. It is not unusual for a candidate to submit something that is copy pasted from some introductory tutorial and / or completely ignoring most of the requirements. In cases like this I do not have much choice but to respond with a generic polite rejection. Honestly, I don't believe company should be responsible for providing any kind of feedback for your assessments - it's not a bootcamp. You are either competent and therefore suitable for the position or you are not, and it was your choice to apply. Moreover, you are not the only one applying and meticulously creating a report about what you have done good or bad, and where you can improve takes a substantial amount of time.
That's not a useful rate until you factor in population.

"High suicide rate" is a relative term, and does not describe foxconn.

Specifically, the baseline China rate is either 100 or 220 per million per year depending on source. Foxconn had about 14 suicides that year out of about a million workers (or about half a million at the relevant factories? I'm not exactly sure.) That's an impressively low rate. And for reference the US rate is about 100-140 per million per year.
I’m not sure how that’s any different than 90% of computer science students, or the average college student in general.

When I took non-required theoretical classes, I tended to be one of the only undergrads in the class
Question for the space nerds: how impressive is this?
Why use a project communication plan?
I use a Mac, always have. My complaint is that people jump to criticize a way of working, saying it's unusable, when there are plenty of others that have enjoyed working this way for 40 years and are extremely productive that way.

Perhaps question if your old habits don't apply in a new context? And just because it's a WIMP UI you shouldn't expect it to work exactly like your former? That it's a new paradigm, with different metaphors, advantages and trade-offs?
Posting this here because (as pointed out by pg's recent tweet about Wikipedia) many people don't realize just how important a role Jessica Livingston has played "behind the scenes".
Oh it gets worse than that: we're in an interglacial period right now, coming out of an ice age.

When the Bering Strait ice bridge formed and the descendants of native peoples migrated down through the American continent, California was not a dry desert. It was probably covered by lush forests and wetlands with a much lower sea level than today so there's literally no way to return it to that "natural state"

With the Kelp highway hypothesis [1], humans were here for most of that transition so really there's a whole list of "natural states" to pick from (that we largely can't return to)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_migration_(Americas)#K...
Far be it from me to defend folk like BlackRock, but James O'Keefe is notorious for missing the mark and selectively editing videos such as this. If O'Keefe is the source, I don't see an issue with it being flagged.

Edit: The original article linked here also doesn't really offer much but vague conjecture from this guy. No specifics, just conjecture that most of us could throw out regarding how "the system" works. Feel free to downvote me, but I'd love to know why I'm wrong, why we should actually believe O'Keefe this time after he has been demonstrably false time and again, and what actual substance this article has beyond vague conjecture. I'm happy to be wrong.
Newbie Mac user here. I just did what you suggested (I believe it's basically what's suggested in this article: https://9to5mac.com/2016/03/17/how-to-remap-windows-keyboard...), but I don't think Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works on browsers; I still have to use Alt+C and Alt+V to copy paste when using Chrome/Firefox browsers whereas Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works in PyCharm.

What am I missing? Thank you in advance for your suggestion/reply!
It's strange that you would even ask. HN comments are notoriously critical and the standard for good content shifts extremely quickly around here. Why should Fly.io get a pass when nobody else does?
There are a lot of different types of fun. For example, there's a lot of satisfaction in accomplishing something, even if you didn't have "fun" doing it (this is why people like to climb mountains or 100% games). Conversely, if you've had a long day at work, playing a game with easy dopamine hits may be what you need to unwind. Some people just want an excuse to hang out with friends, and a non-intense game can be a good way to do that.

Games ultimately fulfill a lot of different needs for people. Not every game needs to be the most engaging thing ever, in the same way that not every movie needs to be The Godfather. And I think it's important to recognize why people play games without being condescending about it.
1- I would hope that they already maintain and protect their private API against attacks (it has to be exposed to the internet, right?), and that they keep backward compatibility for the ElectronJS (and isn't the Android app native?) that are not updated out there. You forgot to mention something like "they would have to invent access control", to which I would answer that they already need that. They would literally just have to open their API to third parties. I doubt this would cost millions.

2- Don't assume too much. I use IRC from a CLI. But anyway you are just repeating your previous point, which is that you think it would cost millions.

3- Well, they would know what the third-party apps use in the API. They could also provide integrations for most popular languages, and those would send telemetry (what do you think the Google Play Services do?). For my crappy app, probably they don't need to know what I do, I am just a useless geek as you said.

4- Counter example: I was always able to connect my crappy app to my GMail account, and it did not prevent GMail from essentially taking over e-mail. But the couple hundred geeks who don't like the web frontend can use their crappy e-mail app, and everyone is happy.

> The beauty of liberal capitalism is that ultimately, at least to some extent, what is good for users is good for the company.

Respectfully, that is the most naive comment I have read today. I don't even know where to start answering that, so I'll just pass :-).
RHE going enshittification?
Botting TribalWars kinda got me into programming 3-4 years ago. Fun times, automating farming gives you time to play politics, but managing a top 3 tribe was kind of a full time job even when you don't have to grind.
So disappointing. I can finally afford to buy all the Ubiquiti equipment I wanted in the past but no longer want to buy it. I went TP-Link Omada for my APs and have been satisfied.
No, what you're saying is "why ever run the app? you have the source code right there!"
Interesting. I'd have made the same assumption. GPs link uses the term 'explosion protected', and is definitely talking about the former, being safe in an explosion.
Axis cameras
IAM isn't easy, but I don't think there is any way to build such a powerful system without at least having the possibility for it to become ultra-complex.

The challenge then becomes taming the complexity while still being "secure enough", i.e. as secure as possible without hindering your business purpose. This is where I take issue with many security specialists in the cloud ecosystem - every single one I have encountered has been good for nothing more than rattling off the best practices (which I already knew). The difficult part of security is understanding the trade-offs you are making, and assessing the risk - but the security people never seem to be intellectually equipped to help with that, only to dole out checklists.
I vaguely remember that continuous processes are strongly preferred over batch processes. Especially for such things as "provide energy".
I have actually become less convinced after learning Buffett his eating habits. He and Munger couldn’t have eaten much worse than they did and exercised less. Still they are both alive in their 90s. What are the chances of that? Also, I’ve had a spare time job driving elderly people around. The fittest pensioner I ever met was in his 90s and he, upon asking, claimed that he never in his life did much exercise.

So what do these three people have in common? I think it’s a lack of chronic stress. Buffett and Munger are living pretty relaxed lives and the pensioner I met was also surprisingly happy. He told me at a random point during the drive that he was very happy. He told me: "I just met a new girlfriend a few months ago. I’m 94. Amazing huh?" and said this with the most cinsere happiness I’ve seen.

Contrast this to books like Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulchers by Sapolski. The book goes into all the ways in which a body under chronic stress starts to break down. Simply put, if you stress a lot then the body is in survival mode and cancels recovery processes.

So that’s why I think that stress levels have more influence on health than food or exercise. As long as stress is reasonably short-lived, the body will just recover from most things. I’m happy to hear counterarguments to this theory of mine
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