skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Agile Paradoxon [video]
I'd quite like UEFI to be able to pass some kind of argv[0] to the direct-loaded kernel, so the kernel knows exactly which file on which partition of which disk it was loaded from. That would then become the default root filesystem.

That effectively removes all config from the process - and means that any disk with a uefi executable kernel can be booted without the mystery step of "lets try to figure out where we're booting from".
So, pen and paper?
Sorry, but why would the graph of the voting intention have completely wrong colors for the parties (except CDU)?

This was very confusing, as it looked like that AFD (normally blue) has the lowest voting intention meanwhile blue in the graph is "Left" which I think is the party "Die Linke" which is normally red.
Apparently the writer missed that recently Microsoft was pwned so much that China was issuing their own access to government office365 domains recently, even refuses to discuss the matter for fear of reprisal. Or being the recognized leader as a malware runtime engines with their Windows products miscreants adore since the 90's on the 98% of all pc's globally, great since the OS already spies and reports on everything you do already to Microsoft or anyone else that's taken over your system due to inherent insecurity.

Yeah, real trust-worthy.

If you've seen even passingly Microsoft's security record for the past 30 years, you'd never trust them as anything but a (sadly) necessary evil for the blissfully ignorant.

Of course Apple is now competing with Mac and IOS as the up and comers as a premium malware runtime engines, becoming as popular to infect as Windows since people have been mislead to believe it's somehow any more secure, but even just an iMessage received can infect.
OK, fair enough. Please give me an example of a customer facing chatbot that Llama 2 (and unbearable to use) and GPT 4 customer facing chatbot that is a joy to use. I think at the end of the day, you still have customers dreading such interactions.
Londo's arc by itself is remarkable, walking a tightrope between comic relief and villain and sympathetic protagonist. And it all works, it's never trite or forced. He's a great character because he's all those things in different mixes, and you understand him and his changes.

Lots of genre fiction has broadly similar characters, but I nearly always hate them, and I love Londo.
I wouldn't annoy a police officer before the Pan-Opticon was installed anyway.

When a Cop in the 90s arrests a guy because the cop got annoyed at something the 'suspect' said, you had the option to blame it on the cop's thin-skinned personality. Now annoyed cops can use the law directly.

The UK police implicitly allowing retributive online abuse is subtly humorous.
I read back with interest/curiosity and a bit of sadness the last time that an "open source printer" idea was discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786721

Are we at the same stage today? An open source ink printer would be particularly hard to make because of the nozzle, and laser ones are complicated because of the drums?

Just curious if someone in 10 or 20 years might come back to these threads and reminisce at this unattainable open hardware ideal as they grumble about HPCanon's latest dystopian ""innovation"".
https://youtu.be/9qOaII_PzGY
not in the bay lol
It definitely can, I see a bunch of great examples on the gallery site just by searching up "question mark".
Will be online next week. Def con sponsored a creator video team to produce this content.

Keep an eye on socials: https://defcon.social
Because you people that bring up the latest overhyped and useless buzzword nonsense on every single post are super tiring.

We do not need a comment about "someone should apply AI/ML to this" on every post any more than we need a "this but NFT" or "this but blockchain" or "this but React" or "this but OOP" comment. Your comment is just noise.
> These five properties make an enormous difference to our immediate experience; in fact, you can take completely random notes and make them sound reasonably musical, simply by forcing them to conform to these requirements.

Any examples of this? Amazing if true.
is it not apparent that a.distance(b) and b.distance(a) should both exist? if they don't, the API is poorly designed
And? It still runs fine.
What’s more important? Catching every murderer, or protecting the vulnerable from abuses of power?

Murder is reprehensible, and I agree that all efforts to catch murderers should be expended. But not at the cost of allowing those in power to abuse their power for personal gain, and retain their power, at the expense of others.

Abuses of power are far more common, and in aggregate far more harmful to society, than murder is. Obviously murder is incredibly harmful to those murdered, but if we’re gonna use that to justify privacy invading powers, then why stop there? Cars kills far more people that murderers, a person killed by a car or human is still just as dead. So why not ban all cars?
Any incontrovertible evidence for party being nazist? And if there is, why weren't they banned already? Nazi parties can't legally exist in Germany.

Re downvotes, I'm pointing out that decisive German institutions so far did not pronounce the party as Nazi, and there were probably good reasons for that.
They aren’t just making a bad metaphor, they are actually establishing a correspondence
The easiest response to this is that I can be OK with a limited audience seeing private information about me in service of higher goals without assenting to unnecessary widespread distribution of the same material.

For example, my doctor can look at my genitals any time he needs to, even if I don't want you to see them.

There's no contradiction here.
Like my comment on question marks, horseshoes are even easier to generate. Check the gallery site and it's full of completely normal ones.
Not key, but they synergize very well with capitalism. Having a class of people you can freely exploit drives down wages, makes many otherwise unviable jobs viable, is politically useful in a myriad of manners as wedge issues, cudgels, and distractions. Meanwhile, the invisible hand of the market can be used to legitimize any difference in standard of living, healthcare, and can even be used to practically deny legal rights. They really do work very well together.
Here in the US I find this largely untrue. My job prospects have plummeted, almost everyone else in my network is also feeling the burn. I have had one interview in 3 months where I used to have multiple in a given week. Life ain't breezy any more from what I can tell, and I'm in DevOps for 10 years as mid-level/senior, which used to be highly in demand. Having to slash like $80k on my previous salary prospects just to get in the interview pipeline again.
Interesting to think about that. I remember the SuperH had 16 bit instructions (well, SH-5 was variable length,) I wonder whether that would have become 'our future' if ARM hadn't done Thumb back then.
Linguistics is in the social sciences, not the humanities.
is it because NZ has immigration program inviting IT professionals?

do you know if there is big influx of IT immigrants in NZ?
This is pretty illuminating, thanks for posting it.
It is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus–Naur_form or something similar. A python DSL would certainly be less expressive and useful.
It might be idiomatic to you, but it looks bizarre to me. I am a native English speaker.
130,000 NZD is about 77,860 USD

Which is actually more than I was earning as a lead at a recent job in Canada
I don't think the pain is limited to Linux. Sometimes I don't even bother using the wifi at these places even on my rather vanilla android phone/tablet.

Often captive portals will restrict certain kinds of traffic (e.g. by blocking ports) just "because". However, bear in mind there are financial incentives and ramifications to "free internet". So, every provider tries to lever things in one way or another; this includes cell-phone companies and ISPs themselves. DNS hi-jacking is a good example.

All that said, the combination of ways networks can be configured (both yours and that of the captive portal) are enormous. And, most likely this is what's causing the pain... I empathize.

In this specific case, if you're not already doing so, I'd consider trying a tool which could help at certain locations/providers. I've heard good things about Gnome's network-manager-applet. And, like you say, keep your phone's hotspot nearby just in case.
Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI. Guaranteed they worked with OpenAI on this and have partnership to use the trademarks.
What is undeveloped about the ideas in the article from the POV of philosophy of science?
Stay Vigilant: Recognizing Early Signs of Wildfires in Your Neighborhood
I started watching Farscape a few weeks ago after seeing many recommendations, critics, and because it's free to watch on Plex. Now i see why people say what they say.
No, JS is weird. You wouldn't write code like that exactly, you'd write "foo + (bar - baz)". Then a few refactors later, you end up with slightly different types for Reasons, then prod starts blowing up and you have the fun of tracking down why.

This weak typing is unique to a few languages like JS and PHP. Python is just as dynamic, but will at least throw an error if you try to accidentally add a string and a number. Static languages catch this even earlier.
I'm really curious what all the commenters here are printing so much of? I have some crappy inkjet which works fine, for the maybe 2 pages I print per year.

It's so infrequent it's hard to even generalise what I use it for. Very occasional government forms, things that absolutely have to be sent by snail mail, stuff like that. What is everyone else printing?
Ah right so it is somewhat shared. Not like your own gpu type situation
Microsoft owns OpenAI so I doubt that they will be asked to rename this.
In the USA the last couple times I've had to use uber/lyft, there have been touch screen tablets with ads and games at max brightness in the back seat, strapped to the back of the front seats. At night it's blinding.
They’re still doing it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany
> Maybe actually try and address the concerns AfD supporters have

I suppose you're German and you're familiar with the failed attempt of Friedrich Merz trying exactly that with his CDU?

The trick populists use is that you make something seem to be something everybody would want, of course, and demand for it to be implemented, without having actual solutions.

How do you address a party demanding that the government should stop poisoning citizens with chemtrails? [1]

Would you agree that Germany needs to restrict "uncontrolled immigration"?
I would. Who wouldn't?!

But wait. What's "uncontrolled"? Who gets to decide on the definition? If we had a definition, do we actually have uncontrolled immigration, and if we do have it, what exactly is the problem with it, and why would we want to solve it?

But see, they're not in the problem-solving business. They don't care.
They're in the "stir up fear and promise we have a solution" business, which is a very successful business model.

If 20% of your population believe that there's 5G in your vaccine and the government wants to kill half of your friends, you need to fix other things, like lack of education.

A ban on a malicious actor trying to game the system might be a temporary hack to win time.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-in-sachsen-st...
Silicon valley salaries are way down but average dev salaries are about the same.
MSFT starting TC is ~250k.
It depends what you're working on. Good luck implementing a functioning network stack if you can't buckle down and work your way through a few dozen RFCs.
Was the WSJ article credible? “All I found is an article in one of the world’s premier news publications” doesn’t match your implied tone.
Just retire and work on whatever you find interesting.
I've found Staff having very different qualities depending on the company.
Do yourself a favor and get lost on this website. There's so much great material — for years I've been ending up there after looking for implementation ideas on things like metaballs and isosurfaces, to fractal noise.

I love the brutalist simplicity of the site, and the extremely high density of quality information. For those two young to know — this is a taste of what made the early web so exciting.
I think that's only true if you pretend the equity grant all vests in year one. In reality it takes some time, so you won't get that amount until after several years at the company.
This does work inside of rEFInd, which can load a kernel EFI blob directly, and supply it args.
This is taken way out of context.

1. It’s ProPublica - “an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.” Such a job is likely to appeal to someone who, despite the salary, is looking to make a wide social impact.

2. the job also states:

> This is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

3. It is not in NZ:

> This job is full time and includes benefits. ProPublica is headquartered in New York, but we have offices across the country and will consider remote applicants.
The majority, perhaps even super-majority of the people I work with are immigrants. It's not a problem. The problem is that New Zealand employers are absolutely allergic to paying their staff; they are cruising on the idea that "New Zealand is a great place to live, it doesn't matter if you're paid less, the lifestyle benefits make up for it".
Some democratic processes are good, but not all of them. For example, is it antidemocratic to advocate for a Parliamentary system over a Presidential system? I am glad we have a Parliamentary system in NZ. If we didn't, should the NZ government be able to ban a party advocating for one?

Germany supports lots of antidemocratic measures. They oppose binding referenda of the population before the adoption of international treaties, for example.

This isn't about democracy. It is about protecting leftist policies from democratic backlash.
>> they'd be handing a pretty big target for publishers to lean on during trial: "They knew what they were doing was wrong, they even tried to separate it from their non-profit to protect themselves from the consequences!"

Maybe, if they did it foolishly and obviously. But it could easily be done so as to undermine the same argument, and even if not, the counter-argument is that "we did it that way because "we knew we would be swimming with a bunch of excessively litigious asshat corporations." Not hard to convince a jury of that.

Moreover, as important as digital lending is, losing BOTH digital lending AND The Internet Archive will be a serious disaster with very long-lasting consequences. This latest decision just made ti more likely, and the current SCOTUS, which may well be where this ends up, is likely to produce that result.

We need an archive copy of The Internet Archive (both the data set and the organization).
I don't want to imagine something like gson or sun.tools.tree without inheritance. That would be a disaster.

Composition? AssignShiftLeftExpression has-a AssignOpExpression which has-a BinaryAssignExpression which has-a BinaryExpression which has-a UnaryExpression which has-a Expression which has-a Node?

return this.assignOpExpression.binaryAssignExpression.binaryExpression.unaryExpression.expression.node.op;

or

return this.op
There is an old Human Giant sketch about a sci-fi show, the producer of which has got a lot of flack for noticing successful shows on other networks and copying them. For example, he pitched a Heroes knock-off called Superpower People. I assume that is a sarcastic nod towards the accusation that DS9 was the powerful Star Trek franchise’s deliberate attempt to steal B5’s thunder.

(Sad that Human Giant isn’t on YouTube like so many other classic sketch comedies of yore. Apparently there are rights issues.)
America is nothing more than a self-help society
They kind of gloss over the whole "he only has one day to notice a flower blooming" which implies he is doing hand pollination.

But I thought Mexico was one of the few places in the world that had natural vanilla pollinators?
Rarely. I routinely worked through the night, usually drinking dehydrating light caffeine drinks like tea. I wouldn't get the tired signal until sometime the next day or day after. And a few times I was so dehydrated I had mini-migraines. It was just a groove and I went with it, for hours, hundreds/thousands of times.
In a post-truth world, facts don't actually matter. Reality is determined by power and influence.
The sanitation aspect of this is the real issue. Propriety has never been a priority for taxi passengers.
I assume it's basically impossible to go from broke to billionaire in a single generation.

But I also imagine you wouldn't have to go back that many generations to find some impoverished ancestors of billionaires.

Effort over generations can add up. Of course it also takes luck. Arguably having the right genes to make the effort succeed is itself mostly luck.
This is very different. I am not being a pessimist at all. Just being brutally realistic.

People are talking about "saving the planet" (in quotes because I think it is a ridiculous statement) in 20, 50 or 100 years.

If humanity ceased to exist on this planet. If we all evaporated tomorrow, it would take 100K years for a 100ppm drop in CO2 levels.

How the hell is installing solar panels or driving electric cars going to make that happen a THOUSAND times faster.

It's like claiming we can safely stop a semi truck in 0.5 feet (roughly the width of your hand) from 65 miles per hour (normal braking distance from that speed is about 500 feet) without killing everything in it, in close proximity, causing massive destruction and using unimaginable amounts of power and energy.

In other words, nice sci-fi fantasy, and that's all it is. Can't be done.

I know of one paper that set out to prove renewables could solve the problem. The researchers were stunned to learn they were wrong. I commend them for printing their conclusion. To paraphrase, they said something like this: Even if we deploy the most optimal forms of renewable energy world wide, forms that have yet to be invented, the best of solar, wind and more, not only is atmospheric CO2 concentration not going to decrease, it will continue to grow.

If you look at a chart of the annual contributions of CO2 by country it is easy to see how this works. I posted a link in a prior comment. You could erase the entire US and China from this planet and atmospheric CO2 concentration will not drop any faster than 100ppm in 100K years. That's reality.
I would love to ask Gregory R. Travis what he did with it...

The 6600 certainly had population count; I used it. Note that it was about
the SLOWEST instruction in the whole instruction set. I'll have to dig out
the COMPASS manuals when I get home and find out just HOW slow.

Parity was never added to the 6000 line, that came with the 7000 line.

Why did I use it? Well, I could tell you but I'd have to kill you
The main parties in Germany refuse to engage with AFD's concerns about the massive influx of fake refugees.
As an Australian I'd like to say thank you to NZ Universities.

It's really true. We see a lot of New Zealanders applying for jobs in Australia and they are often good candidates.
PSA: please read the article before commenting.

It does a good job defining what is the "nothing to hide" argument in a way that avoids the usual strawmen. The conclusion is also more nuanced and in my opinion way more interesting than what is commonly seen in HN comments.
Same, there have been a few positions I've applied to with a 100% match for the needed qualifications and even "nice to have"s, with basically a 0% response rate. At a point where I'm happy if they even bother to shoot a "we've had some many great candidates, no thanks!" email.

Compare to a ~year ago when I was easily making in the low single digit (1/N) millions.

Damn interest rates, I tell myself.

Luckily I saved enough in bigtech to give me a few solid years of runway for working on things myself. Wouldn't want to have a family right now, that's for sure.

Lately it's been seeming my best career option is to enlist in the armed forces. They seem to be the only ones with an actual "skills shortage" around.
Wolfram Alpha in the command line

https://developer.run/37
Yup, I’m right in that band.
Yeah the growth story hasn’t come back so most places aren’t aggressively hiring to meet future demand right now. We’re sort of in a consolidation phase right now. Use this time to improve your skills so when we begin to shift back into growth you’ll be ahead of the curve.
From a Greek song:

A part I am of your machine

And my son the spare

He’ll do good work in your employment

He is made of the best materials
This is the tyranny of documentation. We really have little insight into the plebian life. Most direct information comes from funerary inscriptions and graffiti.
Definitely still worth it if you’ve never been before.

People who have gone 5+ years will bitch and whine and tell you how much it’s changed but also they’ve seen everything at the con before. Your 20th trip to Disneyland isn’t going to be as magical as the first.
'Principal' in a lot of NZ companies just replaced the term 'Team Lead' and generally just means the most 'senior' person in the team. Sometimes it's used as a way to justify a raise.

The scale of difference and difference of scale between New Zealand and the USA cannot be overstated. There really are not enough people in New Zealand to make the level of differentiation between a Senior, a Principal and a Staff engineer meaningful in the vast, vast majority of our industry.

The titles are basically pointless and just word salad. They're also used very differently company to company, although I don't think that's unique to this geography.
Objectively it is bad to defame and distract from a public servant rescuing kids from a cave.

(Objectively.)
One does not have to look far from our current field to find similar rituals.

More than one capital-A style agile consultants have told me that they don't really believe their scripture but the job pays well.

I can believe that. I work with Kubernetes-shaped objects, and the rituals we go through can not in any way be technically motivated. But there are conferences held and new software written so who cares, really. Nobody really needs this stuff and we all know it.
In the US the market has dried up considerably in terms of open reqs. Probably won’t pick back up until interest rates ease.
It quickly decays to around 150-180k; the refreshers and bonus are lousy <L63 at MSFT.
If the Germans elected the Nazis maybe we should take pause and think why rather than try to ban it. Maybe the lesson should be "dont ignore the concerns of the people" rather than "banning parties is good".
I think this is also an interesting approach, I like it.
Things like this: https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265...
> Do you have some examples? The areas I'm aware of that practice subsistence farming, don't have a long history of leaving the means of production alone in private hands for very long.

This is not correct. Under, for example, the Roman Empire, privately held land was routinely leased to free men, either for a share of the produce (métayage) or for a fixed fee. This practice lasted hundreds of years. The end of subsistence farming has everything to do with technology and nothing at all to do with capitalism.

In the eigth century in France, around 50% of the land was under a sharecropping-like system, too. This page, and the page in French wiki it links in the intro, give a good rundown of capitalist-like subsistence farming in antiquity and the middle ages : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metayage