skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian AAMs don't do any good if they can't target an F-22 or F-35. Russian IADS doesn't do so well against cruise missiles that are stealthy, and the US has THOUSANDs of them, as well as Tomahawk.

And how is Russia going to pummel NATO airbases? This isn't 1985 when the Soviet VVS had thousands of fighter bombers tasked with taking out the airfields. They're not next door to Germany/France/UK anymore since NATO has expanded East. The RuAF might have 500 flying aircraft for their entire nation. They have no stealth aircraft in service (the Felon isn't in production yet if ever).
That's a very British take, from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

But no reference to the international (SI) standard? I'm very disappointed in you, Britannica.
Not true. He temporarily got the login nag modal removed. It was a nice few weeks.
I had a really good experience with a negotiation consultant.

He didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know. But he had it all on the tip of his tongue, but I had to think about it for several hours.
That's rather sudden, is this a defacement or something?
/usr/bin/date converts using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database, though it's clunky.
They don’t have confidence. The site has been breaking down. It is indeed disrespectful to the user.
The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension (2018)
Many online services (including Twitter) do employ some kind of IP address scoring system as part of their anti-scraping effort.

These systems tend to treat residential proxies as normal users, and puts less restrictions on them. On the other hand, if the IP address belongs to some (untrusted) IDCs, then the system will enable more annoying restrictions (say rate limits etc) against it, making scraping less efficient.
RemindMe! 6 months
Interesting YouTube channels about investing
> It is mistakenly (probably on purpose) correlating the recent tech layoffs with AI developments

Article is behind a paywall so I can't read it in full, but the idea that AI could affect hiring doesn't seem completely far-fetched:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pa...
Would it work with a Nest camera?
Lookup Tables: article I co-authored for “Forth Dimensions” as a teen
The press release was already submitted and discussed yesterday:

FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials (211 points, 84 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542500
I don’t know about exceeding the range. If they give me a range and I tiptoe into a higher than the top range, I kinda expect to have crappy wages going forward as Im likely an outlier on the team. Unless im some rock star and they promote me right away, but for a stingy company that seems like long shot.
Snapchat bought them last year. Probably related.
The US hasn't supplied Ukraine with aircraft capable of flying SEAD/DEAD according to USAF or NATO doctrine. The Fulcrums launching HARM (old versions at that) are using 10-20% of the missiles capability.

So no, other than one old missile, they're not using US gear, nor US tactics, nor US ISR for SEAD/DEAD.
Why do anti-fraud laws not already cover this category of practices?
People have this idea that legacy code or hardware is some huge burden but due to continuous progress in scale the relative size of legacy code or hardware shrinks over time. There might be some exception (e.g. physical connectors) but otherwise you can pretty much include the entirety of a 1995 PC computer (chips and firmware, OS, etc.) inside a tiny, tiny package.

The attack surface it leaves open is a different story.
Crappy RAISES. Not wages.
If 1000 people read this and only 100 of them meet your criteria, and it's good advice, than he would have helped 100 people.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here
Yeah but her lawyers know that and he'll have to pay the severance eventually. She probably has money to wait out whatever legal delay tactics Twitter counsel would employ.
What nonsense. Silicon Valley employees are some of the best paid in the world and have chosen to enter into a contract in a capitalist society. Even if any are "economically trapped" (they're not) and it's not of their own volition (it is), it's been a year since Musk bought the company, plenty of time to find another job.

I don't think you understand what a "tyrant" is. Companies aren't democracies.
The essay doesn't mention LLMs. Does their rapid progress change the advice at all?
4th of July (America’s birthday). Which is actually Tuesday, but many people are taking Monday off too.
Are they "secretly hoarding foreign reserves" or could they simply not be good at getting statistics from anything but the central government? The latter would be pretty plausible to me; China is pretty terrible at collecting statistics (quite apart from the distortion imposed by state reporting).
It's just a server, not governance over their collective. Ideally they had backups or people owned their own data on a DHT or Blockchain. Otherwise the administrator has custody over the data...similar to a bank having custody over funds. My understanding is if someone breaks the trust, the victims would have a way to settle grievances...probably through a fine or some other financial means.
UEFI Doom
> They manipulate their currency. They interfere with foreign owned businesses. They steal IP. They're seeking to upset the global money standard. They entrap other nations with predatory loans for infrastructure. They trade with our other enemies and flaunt sanctions, etc, etc.

Aside from the money standard and zero COVID bits, every part of this is true of the US. This conflict just boils down to “the hegemon doesn’t want any competition.”

> they undercut western manufacturing and all our manufacturing went there.

America’s oligarchs did this to the country. China just leveraged their short-sightedness and greed to the country’s own advantage.
Thanks for the pointer to duckdb-wasm, didn't know about it!

> These micro benchmarks show that there is also no such thing as free lunch in the browser. We are paying for the increased processing efficiency in WebAssembly with a sightly less efficient evaluation on very small input. Our recommendation is therefore to use DuckDB-Wasm if you need SQL, the features or the raw speed on medium to large data sizes. Stick to existing frameworks if your dataset is very small or if your queries only contain simple scans and filters.
This fundamentally misunderstands unions. Hospital unions often strike for the safety of patients, to stop unsafe policies by the hospital leadership.
I hate to link this comment agin in this thread, but I wrote a comment about almost exactly this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324
You might be right; the person you're replying to might have zero idea.

Now me... I know someone personally who was a senior exec for Twitter's software team, who left after Elon's purge.

He left because all the people who understood the system and could predict the side effects were fired or left. He'd been with companies going through death spirals before, and had no interest in being involved with another one.

So, while the person you're replying to might not know, my friend DOES know.
Safe Enough?
It also depends on where they are in H1B process. These days perm and i140 approvals are taking ages(2 years). Basically engineer is stuck while they come out at the other side.

Also a lot of employers who had layoffs aren't sponsoring new Green cards because u know...

It is no fun being on H1B...
The traditional enterprise option is to call up Dell and order a pre-validated VMware cluster. This will be a specific configuration of Dell hardware and VMware software that has been tested together, although it was not developed together.
Wouldn’t Amazon be trivially able to detect this when the weight / dimensions of the product completely changes?

Though I guess they don’t care because they get their cut. I don’t even think they pay for the returns as they’d pass that on to the seller.
8 year old company. Sad to see them go, they’ve become a bit of an internet institution at this point. I suppose there are no prospective buyers, but how can there be nothing of value? And if there’s nothing of value, why not dump the dataset?
I feel for the writers out there, but at the same time most articles I read are terrible. I hate them. It makes me emotional how much I hate them. I don't frequent these two sites, but that's partially because I've given up on reading articles by most publications. Truthfully, in many cases, I thought a lot of news articles were already ai-generated using much lower quality algorithms
These issues are also present for the current television writers’ strike.
I hear the analogy of nations having an anarchist relationship with each other. There is no hierarchy of soverign nations but there certainly are power dynamics. If one nation breaks a treaty, for example, the other nation delivers some form of punishment as a deterrence.
That’s plausible; at the same time, it’s (notionally) in all parties’ interests to be transparent about foreign reserves. That should translate into a strong incentive to handle their own numbers correctly, but who knows.
I just finished transcribing this from the scanned PDF, and thought it might be interesting to others. It certainly took me back! I was really into Forth as a teenager (thanks to my dad's interest), and wrote several of my own Forth compilers [1]. It's a unique and interesting language, though most Forthers spend too much time writing their own compilers and being language zealots instead of getting things done. It's hard to believe anyone could think the Search-Table code in Figure Five is sane. There's more stack-effect tracking than code!

[1] For example, "Third", a 16-bit self-hosting Forth compiler for DOS: https://github.com/benhoyt/third
> Did you have an actual counter-argument?

To the positions within the screenshots ("the Matrix" targeting Andrew Tate, "woke bullshit", etc.), or the discussion here on whether your site has/will retain a "high standard of quality" in its discussion?

The latter was what I'm commenting on, by implying that the site's owner posting a ragebait bias-affirming Youtube video followed by a comment repeatedly calling the other side "idiots" is already a very low bar.

> no one even attempting to come up with a coherent counterargumemt

I wouldn't be opposed to a debate on one of the former if there's something concrete to argue against, but I don't think debating the former is necessary for the latter point (people against trans women in women's sports can still see that this in particular is low-quality discussion) and here probably isn't the place to do so.
I've been able to program in Swift, Javascript, and Python on an iPad.
Since everyone hates this post, here is John Mearsheimer saying the same thing about the Ukraine war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
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It’s unpopular because you’re advocating to oppress people based on your own personal opinion.
>But what is the point of making it a secret?

It makes the many exaggerated claims of Chinese economic demise that much more exaggerated and likely false, it leaves the rest of the world (read: their enemies) more complacent and more vulnerable to Chinese ambitions.

If the claim being presented here is true, it doesn't really surprise me: I've been hearing for the better part of the past three decades that China's economy (and consequently the country) was on the verge of imploding. It is now the year 2023 and China still hasn't imploded and is seemingly on track to win the new cold war against the west.

Does China have $3 trillion dollars of secret "fuck you" money? At this point I would be more surprised if they didn't.
They send emails, maybe they could be more regular, but also definitely not "none."

* June 2022 - email that group 5 slipped from "Late Second Half [2022]" to "2022 (Later) ~ 2023 (Early)"

* October 2022 - email that group 5 slipped from "2022 (Later) ~ 2023 (Early)" to "2023 (Early)"

* March 2023 - email that group 5 slipped from "2023 (Early)" to "Summer/Fall 2023"

It's frustrating but they've also shipped roughly 40k units as a tiny company. I believe they are still supply-chain constrained. I would not expect a Playdate 2 soon (ever?)
Then you haven't heard about about Vladimir Putin.
> A change like this will have have a lot of unintended consequences, and not having a senior engineer with lots of context leading the change will undoubtedly cause these kinds of issues.

Having a senior engineer with a lot of context is worthless if the work environment does not promote open communication. You don't want to be the senior engineer or leader who shows "poor judgement" by opposing the mercurial owner "for no reason" if you're overridden and the feature launch succeeds without a glitch; no one gets fired for implementing a request that came straight from the top.

This is why non-rushed, scaled roll-outs are essential for large system: had they tried this on 1% / 5% / 10% of random traffic first, they could have caught this. Yet again, if the directive to roll it out to production came from the very top, you set that gate to 100% immediately.
Maybe using a device like a smartwatch or a smartphone to help you automatically lock it when you leave the vicinity?
Bingo. You can know a specific technology inside and out, but easily get lost in a large system built in that technology if you haven't worked with it before.

It's very easy to get caught in assumptions like, "Nobody would ever do things THIS way, so they must have built it THAT way," only to find out that, once upon a time, THIS way was the right way to do things, only for it to over time become less and less optimal, but the costs of changing things were too high to fix it. Once your system is old enough and large enough, you'll have several thousand things just like that.
It may just be a fake scenario but the actual solution there would be to implement the 1 hour fix without a single discussion or email.

Sometimes the best way to tailor words for both engineers and managers is to 1) solve the problem then 2) if the solution was actually difficult, explain how you solved it in simple terms.
Don't you know anyone who used to work there? I've worked for a large US tech company, and no, it was not the same.
The problem is that a single-party propagandist republic is effectively a separate type of government than a representative republic and makes it harder to distinguish the will of the population.

The policies could be hidden from the vast majority of informed public opinion in a way Western conspiracists or whataboutists alike can only dream is really correspondent or directly analogous to mainstream media manipulation.

It can still be true that China’s no one’s enemy except that the Party is everyone’s enemy (while the Chinese population will be the last ones to realize it).
Let's imagine a 42U rack full of Dell or HPE servers. Each one has a couple of power supplies, console ports, a video port and a GPU to drive it, USB ports for keyboard, and mouse, etc.

More to the point with Oxide, there's layer upon layer of software cruft as well: various levels of proprietary firmware blobs driving the boot process, and then the management stack that underlies a commodity PC platform OS.

All of that is gone, replaced with a bottom-up redesign, of both the hardware and the software, with the specific purpose of running large scale modern application loads.

This goes well beyond a blade server, and is a completely different beast than a rack of DL360s.
I read it and it makes a logically consistent argument. One may or may not agree, but personally it resonates with experience so it was interesting to see it put in words.
Collect calls.
> So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.

lol nobody would do this to solve this problem because it doesn't even remotely solve it or give the appearance of solving it, if anything it's guaranteed to make things go slower
>And then Twitter is used for "relevant" information as well, from emergency or transport authorities using it for quick information instead of having their own system to news of any kind or discussions and information exchange in different peer groups.

I really don't think it's wise to be putting so many eggs in one basket, convenient as that might be. This right here is a strong example of that.
"Forced" could also mean holding someone's visa hostage, threatening consequences in addition to losing a job, or just in general being in a situation where, while they are not physically or legally required to keep a job, they have no other viable options.
HF's CEO here. The malicious user has been identified, banned and the orgs have been restored. Sorry for the inconvenience.
government agency outside of our elected officials

The FTC commissioners are appointed by the President, an elected official. Congress creates government bodies as departments or commissions depending on whether it wants them to directly report to the executive or have some independence from it.
SYSCALL is an actual instruction, and it's supported by the D inline assembler.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/syscall

> Why can't GCC and clang have this?

I don't know. My brain bleeds out my ears every time I have to deal with that.
I’m not familiar with code generating models in general, so I don’t know how much to expect, but I tried one moderately simple task and one very simple task, and both times it produced something that looked like code but didn’t make any sense and used the wrong keywords.

It’s neat, and probably beyond what I would have expected a few years ago, but it doesn’t seem useful in practice.

It’s very cool that it works on CPU quickly and doesn’t take too much RAM, though! Thanks for letting me try it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/13lfb1j/psa_gfycat_... provides context and some information on alternate access methods and archival techniques.

(The irony of posting a Reddit link about a service with rich content history becoming permanently inaccessible to many of its users is not lost on me, to be sure.)
You could’ve googled about H-1B before commenting.
The ones in captivity did it because they're basically an imprisoned intelligent creature, traumatized and borderline psychotic living in such confined spaces.
Hackers Add over $34B in Additional Assets to Multiple Chains on PolyNetwork
July 2 (Cointime) -PolyNetwork, a cross-chain protocol, has been hacked. The hacker issued additional substantial assets totaling over 34 billion USD across multiple chains. A portion of the stolen funds, approximately 800,000 USD, has been transferred to the Ethereum address: 0xe0Afadad1d93704761c8550F21A53DE3468Ba599.
Are you applying to HN type startups or "regular" companies?

Do you have a problem with lowering your standards, at least temporarily? Non-SWE positions? Or are you like "I'm overqualified, I won't apply for that..."
The Playdate community is very impressive and makes this device such a no-brainer purchase after all the questions about whether it would be worth it (while acknowledging it's still not for everyone)! As a mostly-lurker on the unofficial Playdate Discord it's delightful to see this get attention here
Maybe cryptography isn't for you? It's one of those things where, yes, the math is important.
I still say "I put on my robe and wizard hat"[0] to people, although I don't think people get it.

0. http://bash.org/?104383
The opposite IMO, we're just bad at explaining it.

There's two strategies: substitution and permutations. Substitutions is when you replace a set of bits with another set of bits (ex: ABCD might become IAQN). Permutations is when you move bits around (ex: ABCD might become CADB).

When you mix substitutions with permutations, and then loop like 10+ times, it becomes really hard to follow. Bam, cryptography algorithms.

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How do you build substitutions and permutations that are hard to follow? Well, it seems like substitutions are the hard one, permutations seem relatively straight forward to me in most block ciphers (AES is really easy: a rotation to the right, and then a column-wide rotation. All of the bytes are in a 4x4 matrix, for the 16-bytes. Its actually super easy to follow AES's permutation steps).

Substitutions need to be done in such a way that is resistant to pattern-matching / cryptoanalysis. Choosing random numbers is not sufficient. For this, we enter "math", such as galois fields.

Galois Fields looks complex, but that's only because you haven't learned them yet. All a Galois Field is... is a set of numbers (such as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, in the GF(5) field) that have addition, addition-inverse, multiplication, and multiplication-inverse.

Note: Galois Fields manage to accomplish this by reinventing the definition of addition and multiplication. Ignoring this... weirdness... its rather straight forward. Every operation can be inverted (not just addition and multiplication... but also complex algorithms like exponents, logarithms, square roots and more).

Once we're assured that both addition and multiplication can be perfectly inverted, we can build substitutions that are perfect... and then use math to prove that it should be hard to invert (though always possible to invert, due to both addition and multiplication having inverting-steps).

Proving that these things are "hard to reverse" with cryptoanalysis is beyond the scope of most student's study. So Cryptography courses go into Galois fields but forget to tell you why the hell you're studying it in the first place.

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In practice, we just show off AES's S-box (substitution box), that says which bytes get replaced with new bytes. And vice versa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijndael_S-box).

The GF(2^8) extension field just is a complex way of saying 8-bit numbers using this weird "addition-changed / multiplication-changed" math system that has guarantees of reversal / invertions.
Because maybe it'd be better if we stopped giving him attention. He thrives on it in a negative way.
No matter how good your documentation or comments are, that doesn't mean whoever is left holding the bag will understand it. Or at least not in the amount of time it would take to keep it from exploding

I understand the abstracted theory of how a nuclear power plant works (uranium heats water -> makes steam -> drives turbines etc) but if you sat me down at the control console and asked me to restart a reactor? Yeah I'd have no idea where to even begin. Even if I had a manual as thick as a fridge to (slowly) flick through
Yeah that's the joke