skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical files of 8M-plus people fall into hands of Clop via MOVEit mega-bug
I always have to look up the variations of that parameter passing when writing rake tasks, not sure that is such a good sign that it's a great design in the first place.
https://archive.is/lbXyn
Some modern game UI still use dirty draw tech.
Update: The livestream now has a timer (and is back up)
Thank you. Our goal is to focus on postgres and provide a fast (by native optimizations, see above post for a few examples), simple and a feature-rich data-movement experience in/out of Postgres. So adding more connectors based on customer feedback will be a part of this journey!

In regards to CSV as a connector, postgres’s COPY command should do it right? Am I missing something? Is it CSV files in cold storage (like s3 etc)? OR periodic streaming of CSV files into Postgres?
I think the market is shit only in certain HCoL places like US or west europe, everywhere else seem to be normal maybe slightly wordless than last year (but last year was crazy good)
The Pepe in the thumbnail gives it away.

That said… Newton believed in Bible codes. Is the article any good regardless of the author’s beliefs?
Applyall.com is a good option for you, too. I feel like the longer you're out of the interview game, the more you need to get back into the flow of interviewing / talking to new options.
I don't expect high salary engineers leak it, but random contractor at datacenter or supplier would eventually leak if they use special storage device other than HDD/SSD. Since we don't see any leaks, I suspect that it's based on HDD, with very long IO waitlist.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense! I never would've guessed those hazards.
I hate to say this, stop applying.

Find a recruiter on LinkedIn. This is what it has come to. There are thousands of resumes being sent at my company, yet the recruiter can't find anyone. Why? Because no one is applying through her link. The regular resume channel is reserved for bots at this point. Contact a person and you have more chances.
This would have been incredible. But I guess I get the angle of not wanting to risk pissing off the audiophile CTO paying you 10 figures per month. Cause he can TOTALLY hear the difference listening to Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl via Monster Cables.
You can kind of do the same as DISASSEMBLE in Clojure.

There are some helper projects like https://github.com/Bronsa/tools.decompiler, and on the OpenJDK JitWatch (https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch), other JVMs have similar tools as well.

It isn't as straightforward as in Lisp, but it is nonetheless doable.
My sense of the Tech industry is almost all the companies just jump to the new flashy hyped up buzz word "Thing". There is no real expertise any more. So its more sensible for companies to hire inexperienced people at a lower salary or offshore.

If you have to learn the "new tech" every few years there is no point of your experience.
That ratio isn’t bad tho
Ask HN: What's the Best Way to Find Information About a Travel Destination?
Hi, I'm currently planning some holidays and I've once again run into the usual problem of SEO spam when trying to find useful information about my destination.

Everytime I search for "<location> travel tips" the top results are awful auto-generated blogs that provide the same style articles about virtually any city in the world and are full of affiliated links. The situation on YouTube is not much better, with most of the channels submitting clickbaity and misleading top10s or very uninformative and often wrong travel vlogs.

Do you have any go-to for when you need to learn something about your destination? Any way to search for "human" content?
I agree. I’ve used nodejs quite a bit, but I rarely need it for whatever I am doing and quite often actively avoid it because all of that shit is a pain in the ass over just writing a script in an ide or even direct text.
There's no doubt that commander Keen is a better game. We didn't linger on that tech long enough before we moved to console game dev.

Here's one game. Note we did not do the smooth scrolling but the coarse scrolling worked by the second method.

We had the tech to do smooth scrolling, I don't recall why it didn't make it to final game. Maybe compatibility.

https://youtu.be/qlRthjjQreg
This took place over ~800,000 years, and a lot of this is theory, but the Azolla event is an interesting parallel. Basically, you had a fast growing fern that was growing in an arctic basin. When they died, they sank to the bottom where conditions were anoxic, so they didn’t decompose and release carbon back into the atmosphere. Azolla was INSANELY good at sucking up CO2 (to the point that over those ~1 million years it might have reduced the CO2 in the atmosphere enough to end the last hothouse period).

I think the issue is that the scale of the problem is so big. This was close to the best case scenario for this kind of sequestration and it still operated on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years. It’s definitely something worth looking into (and I’m pretty sure people are, haven’t kept as up to speed as I’d like though), but we can’t expect it to save us on its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
You can use RoR, .NET, SBCL, Python, Erlang and 6502 assembly if you so desire. Sure “machine code” is one option, but that doesn’t engage with the argument in any meaningful way IMO.
Well, if the earths population was 2 million, 15000 years ago and Sudan's today is 50 million, I think it's quite clear that Sudan's population has gone up quite a bit also over 15000 years.
Yeah, I had a pretty new PC (my first one after heavy-heartedly switching from the beloved Amiga to the despised PC) when Doom was released, and all my friends would come over to play because it could run it full screen (older 386 and weaker 486 CPUs were not fast enough, so you had to reduce the size of the game screen and play with an ugly static border around it). Then just a few years later I installed the Quake demo and all I got to see was an error message. The PC had a pretty exotic IBM "Blue Lightning" CPU which was a "486SX3", i.e. it ran at 75 MHz internally, 25 MHz externally, and didn't have a built-in FPU - which was a requirement for Quake. So I realized it was time to upgrade to a Pentium CPU...
> you're proposing a Constitutional change to deny members of Congress a legal right that is available to the broader population

Is this a crackpot legal theory about how the last hundred years of precedent are unconstitutional because Redditor No. 9 million said as much? Where in the Constitution does it explicitly bar bribery? Come on.
graphs:

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/22-tesla-m...

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/9-tesla-mo...
August 6, but more importantly the last few weeks there has been a flurry of articles about the Manhattan Project and the a-bomb, probably due to the release of the Oppenheimer movie.
This is literally just the abstract for the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10248 (at least they provided the link?).

There is no commentary or discussion, just the abstract and the link.

The url should be updated to point to https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10248
The Dark Side of A.I.: Understanding the Dangers of Deepfake Images
For what it's worth, I'm in a 'hot' area and my application response rate is something like 3%. I've also had this bad luck where a lot of the larger companies I've been interviewing with have rejected me without giving a reason, and then a month or two later (or one time, the day after the onsite!), I'd see that they were having layoffs.

edit: and just as an aside, I'm a minority in tech, and I feel a bit like I'm more likely to get an interview (some recruiters have told me as much... wanting to increase diversity on their teams) while also more likely to get a "technical rounds were great, but not a culture fit" final decision.
So much this - nearly every job I’ve gotten in tech has been due to knowing someone working there, or knowing someone who knows someone.
Facebook groups. I have started using Facebook a lot more now that I travel more and while there is plenty of spam, there are also plenty of people just casually sharing information.
AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI210: GCN Lives On
> to its salaries are determined by the Constitution

"...to be ascertained by Law."
It could, ish. The problem with puppet is that the setup is basically a single agent on the host that talks to a single puppet service. Puppet agent grabs "the one true manifest" and applies it. You could possibly break that up, but it would be a pain, and I wouldn't like to be troubleshooting two possible clashing puppet codebases on a production server.

What we actually did, back in the day, was host our own yum repo and build RPM packages. For the most part, the only differences between the nodes were the installed packages. But having to define 100s of node types in puppet and force every developer to know at least some puppet, and troubleshoot failed runs, and understand RPM packaging foot-guns. Like, if you screw up your package uninstall scripts or file lists you can make it impossible to remove a package. Or you can leave unwanted files behind. Or two different developers can try to "own" the same file, so one of those RPM installs is gonna fail.

Fundamentally, this also leans towards long-lived servers that you tend to and care for. We had teams with long-lived servers that deployed incremental app updates every few days. You know how many times we tried to build a node from scratch, only to find out that it failed to build? Or worse, it completed the build but the app is broken in some way? Eg: some historical package gets removed but leaves files behind, and this files are actually useful, so everything still works. But on a clean install it doesn't, so you end up on a sev1 incident using strace, ldd, hunting in logs etc etc.

You also wouldn't believe the number of incredibly stupid screwups that broke dozens of servers at a time when developers were building their own RPM packages and using Puppet to deploy them. This was the cause of most of my work as an SRE.

What made docker so good was that developers weren't given the ability to package up something dangerous into an RPM that gets installed by root, potentially fucking up the host.

Also, building a container either works or doesn't. This forced our developers, for the first time ever, to know 100% of the steps required to get the software to work in isolation.

And my Alpine container can peacefully coexist with your Ubuntu container on a CentOS system without filesystem clashes.

And instant rollback meant running the previous container tag.

Honestly, the puppet > docker change for applications was the biggest leap in reliability and simplification that I ever experienced.
When you say "applying constantly", what do you mean? A few years ago, when tried cold-applying to jobs, I had to send several hundred applications to get a few good interviews, and I have a very strong resume (15 years of experience and worked at NASA). During the pandemic, I was hiring for an engineering role at a fairly unknown startup and we had to filter through over 500 applicants and interviewed only 15-20. Now, with LLMs, I imagine those numbers are an order of magnitude worse and applications are looking more and more personalized. A few bits of advice:

- Don't focus your efforts on cold applications, the numbers are against you

- If you must do cold applications, use LLMs to customize applications and aim to send out >50 per day

- Focus on your personal and extended network, reach out personally to people you know and ask them if they have any opportunities they can connect you with. Personal connections are always going to trump sitting in a stack of 1000 cold applications
Pizza Hutt is Jabba The's cousin. Pizza Hut is the restaurant chain to which you refer.
What they found?
A reinvented psychology/human mind model from scratch consisting mostly out of a tome of retardation filtered from big data. Gov service companies sifting through that, selling controlled decline as leviathan cybernetics. Look at the people running this shit show and you see defeat by great filters and natural flaws hidden in plain sight. Any real reporting team on this ought to have a proper self termination quota mentioned.

PS: Despite my emotional sound, I'm not opposed to the project. One side wants a crisis stable species once resources run out, the other represents the tendency of complex systemscomponents to wake up and become self aware and hack the guidance rails for it's own ends. There is no conspiracy, no evil, just desperation over the dream of the enlightenment dying.
Listen to Sean Parent, also on why Adobe is backing Val,

https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/07/07/Episode-137.html

https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/07/14/Episode-138.html

Another person that is also part of the Val team is Dave Abrahams, one of the main authors of the Swift standard library.
Iterate over 1000 objects doing ifs and draw let's say 50 of them vs dump them in VBO and call glDrawArrays every frame drawing all 1000 of them?

I'm willing to bet :)

The difference in time spent by GPU between drawing 1000 and 50 sprites is almost 0.
Alright, that's a fair opinion. It's ads all the way down with the large tech companies.
> but no one is ever going to drive 300+ miles at 35mph

but I have driven 35mph on slow city streets to make it to the next charging station when the one I was at was full with a line. (years ago)
It’s all joever by now.
Except V isn't sponosored by Adobe, nor has well known figures from C++ and Swift world designing it.
I’m still waiting for people to realize nvme doesn’t have to be local in newer kernels. That’s when the real fun will begin.
Basically most mobile Apple devices are enrolled in a network and anytime that an iPhone is near an Airtag, that network relays the location. It is essentially automated crowdsourcing of the location of stuff.
You might be interested in our paper that just got published in Bioinformatics today as chance would have it: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-abst...
I dont understand how you want to have secure e2e messaging app AND not have fascist (and pedophiles, druglords) in there. Of course they are there.

The whole point of the app is that it cant be moderated because nobody knows the contents.

This must be obvious to anyone using Signal and having atleast remote understand of it.

I think that must have been written by some random commenter who think it works like facebook (aka police honeypot).
Are you on LinkedIn? I am not currently looking for a job but I still get a lot of recruiters on LinkedIn reaching out to me. I get the impression that there are still a lot of opportunities out there. But then again this may not be the case in your location.
People still hire biologics?
Humans are incredibly sensitive to audio rhythms/lag, and we’re talking about a rhythm game. Visual processing isn’t likely to notice, but this is probably between hearing/feeling the keystroke and hearing the reaction. 3ms is entirely believable; detection is based on a frequency domain transformation of the overlaid waveforms, not tuning as such.

At the same time, sure, we easily compensate.
Have you considered moving to Europe? Germany, Switzerland, Austria? With my senior salary and depending on frugality I can save between 1000 and 2000 € a month in Austria and have a very pleasant life. If you ask if there is gonna be leetcode bullshit in the interviews, most people laugh in your face because the idea is so alien to us. People want to hear about your authentic experiences and see you solve real world problems / take home tasks. Small no name companies are as desperate for talent as ever, while the banks, insurance providers, retailers, government related entities and consulting companies feeding on them have open positions all year round.

I don't think anyone experienced with fighting on the US software engineering market would have any struggle to get something here. Though it does depend on your expectations: You generally will not get 300k, 200k or maybe not even 100k starting and won't get any name worthy stock options unless you are doing very special things for very special companies.

Second consideration: Have you considered not applying for those FAGMAN level companies and their inflated salaries or overpaying startups, but something boring instead? Government, insurance, banking? In other words, have you considered lowering your expectations and standards?
I am amazed people are still getting jobs as FED
Raw lumber is much cheaper than sawn lumber, though. It's OK to use more, as long as the volume increase and price decrease works out favorably.
> have other learn from it, but if ever a machine 'learn'

Why did you put one of those in quotes and not the other?
Dont know about the mile thing, but I can bring another anecdote - modem speeds and breaking 33.6Kbit barrier on ~3.5KHz BW limited wires.

Oral History of Brent Townshend (inventor of 56Kbit PCM modem mode) [Computer History Museum] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqudP6ojEDI&t=6049. Transcript:

they've been trying to get modems to go

faster and there's this whole thing called

shannon information theory which says theoretically given

all the parameters of that copper line

and what's going on that the maximum

speed would be 35 kilobits per second

you can't go faster than that it was

theory they're you know 95 percent of the way to the theoretical

limit and michael had this engineer that

worked with him andy norrell which is like a

genius engineer um he's really amazing

understands modems and everything perfectly and

and michael recounted you know every six

months or so you talk to andy and say

you know you're sure there's no way that

we can go faster andy would say

no you can't go faster than that

this is the limit there's not any way

and so so michael was on the phone with

me and i said i have a way of going

faster and you know well you know a lot

of people think so but we think it's

max p and i say well i've got these

credentials i've been working at Bell Labs

he said wait a second i got to get somebody

else in the room too i get andy and you know

andy comes in on the conference call

and michael asking you know is there

any way to go faster than 33 he says no

35 is the limit and you know theoretically

and i said well you can do it like this you

know i say in like three sentences you

could do this and this and this

and then he says oh yeah that would work
Would love to hear any technical history you can share, what did this replace, and what shortcomings led to it being built? (Seems quite similar to Kafka but perhaps more emphasis on low latency rather than raw throughput?)
On a fixed horizontal scroller idea for avoiding the full screen move / copy at the end is to amortize it while you are moving. So over many frames you build up the screen you need to reset to at the end.
Ha... look at that. Not bad at all! I wonder how many machines at the time could power through that? ;)

Talking about these little tile and scrolling tricks. Golden Axe on the Master System had to get around the sprite size limit by having the entirety of the graphics live on the background layer. This meant everything sat and moved in an 8x8 pixel grid. A neat little hack even if it made the whole thing a little chunky.
Bruce Springsteen almost broke Gothenburg's Ullevi arena in 1986, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullevi#Music
Thanks for this nicety man!
GeoGuessr Pro vs. AI [video]
I don't know the specifics, but a tick bite is apparently the reason Wendell from level1techs is rapidly losing weight. :(
I think the word you're looking for is calo-horrific.
I have no source and could be completely wrong, but anecdotally it seems that Japan smokes like a fucking fiend and yet doesn’t have people dropping like flies from cancer. They also are far more selective of their tobacco and perhaps, unlike the US, forced tobacco companies to stop using such fertilizer?
In addition to your network I would say contact recruiters who may have “spammed” you in the past. At least they are almost certain get you interviews as opposed to just sending your resume places. Speak with a few recruiters and you’re almost certainly going to get doing one or two interviews a week for jobs you’re actually interested in.
That sounds distracting.

I have a VRR monitor, but I limit it to 120Hz specifically for that reason. Most of the time it just sits there. The exception is while gaming, where sticking to 120 was never an option; I find the variation less of a bother than the more dramatic shifts down to 60/30 would be without VRR.
It's not you. The market is really bad. I thought the massive layoffs in the US wouldn't have an effect on me here in Bulgaria but it just took a while to propagate. My LinkedIn spam is just the site looking for engagement, not recruiters.

I was s contacted by Microsoft representatives offering 5000 USD as a B2B. It's that bad.

Feels like my FE days are over.
HDFS never relied on only network checksums. Blocks should be checksummed and validated at clients - a reliable end-to-end guarantee.
I've recently arrived at a mixed declaration, which "distributes the information" across the line, I think in a way which allows it to grow without being overhwelming, (which i take to be a holy grail...)

fn calc :: (x: int) => x

fn calc :: tidy (x: str)
open(str).read()

fn calc :: tidy heap (x: int)
let data: api many(int) = new array.fill(x)(x)

repeat d <- data
print(d)

fn compiletime($i, $T) :: temp (xs: $T*$i)
let data: api many(int) = new array.from(xs)
let sum = xs.reduce(op(+))
sum

fn lotsofparam($i, $T) :: pure (
num: f32,
xs: $T*$i,
ys: api many(str),
zs: api numeric
)

let sum = xs.reduce(op(+))
return sum
Tamarinds can be found in the coast of Northern Australia, a sign of Macassan traders setting up camp in the region: https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/01/09/3666902.htm
Why don't the spread by just naturally dropping seeds around? Or is it so slow that it hasn't happened yet for a ~hundred or so year old settlements?
These are the types of people who heartlessly made fun of blue collar workers who complained about cheap labor taking their jobs. e.g. the “they took our jerbs!” South Park joke. And the same people who cried “those jobs are never coming back and it’s a good thing”.

They’ve done nothing to help with the slow death of the middle class, and in fact cheered it on in many cases.

Sounds like they should learn to code.