skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Twitter/X, 'Elon mode' was simply a testing configuration. I don't see why it would be any different in Tesla.
Mozilla will start to roll out integrated Firefox Relay
They host their own jitsi instance.
That won't ameliorate the effect of CO2 in ocean acidification or human cognitive function. There's really no substitute for decreasing atmospheric CO2.
Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes. How often is just a matter of scale.

A 1 in 10,000 failure can be a daily annoyance for your users even with just 100 daily active users who each make 10 actions on your app. At “internet scale” a 1 in 10k error frustrates a user every few seconds.

If your tests are so flaky that you need SLOs … your poor users …
> More importantly, this is supported by case law, today.

The Supreme Court ruling was not on using religion as an excuse not to serve. Supreme Court ruling was an about the commission violating a rule on religious neutrality. It set no precedent for the substance of the original suit.

> I would bet a significant amount that if an electric company didn't want to serve a biker bar on religious grounds (particularly if there was active criminal activity), they probably would get away with it.

You would be wrong. Electricity is not “creating expression”, which is what the lower courts were ruling on.
Doesn't Hurricane still buy v4 transit from Telia? It's strange that everyone is uncritically calling them a Tier 1 here; I'm used to endless bickering over whether they're a Tier 1 or a Tier 2.
You will have a very hard time convincing folks that KF should not be censored because they aren't as bad as other sites. As someone who doesn't frequent these places, I will concede that you may be right, but the point has sailed over your head and into outer space.
That graph workload fundamentally cannot work well on normal chips.
This is irrelevant for SSH password authentication. The obfuscation is for the session _after_ authentication.
Hacking the ELF format for Firefox, 12 years later; doing better with less
I mean there's value in being able to grok it without having read "Linking and Loading" and we don't want an Asimov scenario (I can't remember if this is Foundation or the Last Question) where we just truck on assuming things work without understanding how they work. And there's a lot of arcane knowledge in executable formats buried in mailing lists and aging/dying engineers on how and why decisions about these formats were designed.

"How does loading work" has a simple answer: you map the executable into virtual memory and jump to the entry point. But the "why does XYZ format do this to achieve that" has a lot of nuance and design decisions - none of which are documented. Particularly things like RTLD, which is designed heavily around the design of glibc and ELF, while the designer of the next generation of AOT or JIT compiled languages for operating systems with capability based models for security might want to understand before they design the executable format and process model that may deviate from POSIX.

There's space for design and research there, and a platform that makes that easy has a lot of value. While I would encourage the designer of such a platform to read the literature and understand why certain things are done the way they are, it's valuable to question if those reasons are still valid and whether or not there's a better way.
I was onboard with this until

> CEOs and CFOs are increasingly frustrated by [...] software engineering is too nuanced to measure, when sales teams have individual measurements and quotas to hit, as do recruitment teams in the number of positions to fill. The executive reasoning goes: if other groups can measure individual performance, it’s absurd that engineering cannot."

It's absurd to think that those other can be! THAT is the flaw!

Those measurements and quotas of sales/marketing/recruitment/etc are hugely corrupting! They lead to selling features that don't exist and cannot exist. They lead to bad hires. This same incorrect thinking leads directly to Teaching-to-the-test. To bureaucratic grant proposal systems. And most likely tons more that I just don't know about. Measuring the wrong thing is pervasive.

That the article thinks other fields can be measured without corruption totally undermines the entire article. This is exactly why McKinsey are stupid enough to think programmers can be measured: because they are not programmers. Exactly like how politicians think they can measure teachers: they are not teachers.
> I doubt this is due to illegal things. There's kind of a limit to how much you can do illegally on a video feed.

... are... are you joking?!
He's the face of the question because of his active pragmatism for an answer -however grandiose or queer - is magnitudes more vocal and free-thinking relative to the passive and resigned attempts of his cohorts at the institutions.

It's sad to see his epic tainted with dismissal so shallowly here.

If, as a certain admired man once said, "“extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”", then surely extraordinary thought processes, ideas, and science may be needed.
I don't think either of those issues, namespaces and monkey patching, are things that make the language harder to learn. You require a file, the file's namespaces are available. How often do libraries modify your runtime with monkey patches in a way that you'd notice? I'm sure it's come up during my career, but not when I was a beginner. There was a period of time when metaprogramming was more popular in the ruby and rails community but that was some time ago. Still, it's a tool that's nice to have available.
This is completely irrelevant to password based SSH authentication. The timing obfuscation is for the session _after_ authentication.
Storage hot water is actually quite inefficient.

On-demand heating has the advantage that there is no thermal loss due to keeping a large amount of water (plus piping) hot 24 hrs a day.

Plus water is not wasted in waiting for hot water to arrive each time a tap is switched on.

Back in the days of Coal-fired power stations, people were encouraged to use storage hot water systems which were automatically switched on at night, so the the power stations could continue running because of the large base-load power demand.

However the modern Solar/wind generated power systems are the opposite, they much prefer loads which are only on during the daytime.
Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37309639
> with a standard set of imperial or metric tools, you're more likely to find your imperial tools working with with you

... when working with imperial, you mean? Or do you mean regardless if you target metric or imperial?
100%. You can absolutely still just use off-the-shelf Ruby-the-language to get things done, without involving Rails at all, but at this point I think it would be just as weird as using awk or perl for writing a command-line program.

I love tons of things about Ruby, like first-class/syntactic symbols and especially the pervasive and intuitive (in my opinion) use of blocks in the standard library.
correct - this is for the post-auth session and not the authentication phase
Yep. Especially fun when Homebrew doesn't provide binaries for your OS anymore and you have to compile the latest version of Rust from source just to get ripgrep.
This story is mixing up the situations of 1987 with OS/2 1.x and of 1995 with DOS+Windows 95. By the time of the latter, OS/2 1.x was long past. 32-bit OS/2 used v8086 to run multiple Virtual DOS Machines and had DPMI support in them provided by the VDPMI.SYS virtual device driver.
Many of us will survive this apocalypse. Most of us, even if our quality of life suffers. The fact is that you have much more leverage over the carbon economy than you have been exercising, and even if you're not going to work against global calamity, you can at least work to prepare your community to ride it out in relative safety.
Good luck detecting this in a reliable, objective manner. Have you ever listened to a conversation between two such people trying to detect caste/sectarian status? Much less a culture very foreign to most Californians, particularly attorneys, juries, and judges.

It will be an uphill battle simply to dislodge all the existing caste-based structures that have been erected throughout Big Tech.
What about Professor John Meersheimer?

How's the war going? Didn't the NYT and all the other main stream media say Ukraine was winning all along. "The counter offensive, the counter offensive". How's that counter offensive going?
That’s orthogonal. You can have a “healthy democracy” by killing FPTP, the two party system, and other things like that.

You can still have an intellectually unhealthy society subject to groupthink and stagnation if you make it illegal to say many things.
What do they propose instead? A new nuclear plant, coal plant? Decreasing power needs by taxing everyone out of the state?

I’m all for improving the environmental situation, but how?

They should use their donation money on layers that will force the hand of politicians to build newer better supply sources rather than just trying to shut down the current power sources.

What is their end game? Is it political or environmental? Is it just a pure emotional “this bad, turn off” type thought process? Is it a “oh this is in our budget and we don’t know what to do with it” situation?
> If you don't like it, don't read it. It's really that simple.

If there's a thread on the site about you, this isn't an option.
How useful would it be as a GPU?
As long as he sticks to extrasolar but otherwise normal matter, I don't have a beef. The Oort cloud (as I understand it) is about as close to the edge of Solar you can get before it stops being our local region. Quite why you'd go beyond there, when its a) huge b) essentially uncharted waters and c) perfectly capable of providing novel chemical/isotopic materials in cometary form...

His other news presence went to pretty woo-woo theories fast. Thats the basis of my comment. If he's stopped with the aliens and "Oumuamua had a light sail" nonsense then I'm good.
Even if it is a testing configuration, it has no place in code that is deployed to vehicles that drive on public roads, much less being enabled on cars that drive on public roads, without prior special approval - which is what’s under investigation. I am not a test subject.
Huh, so what’s EFF’s stance on spamming and phishing block lists? If ISPs are going to deplatform spammers and DDoSers where are they going to go?
My guess is to 1) stunt the growth potential of their competitors (google, microsoft) before they acquire some sort of generational lead that forces everyone onto their platforms and 2) reset a level playing field for a new generation of startups to someday acquire, that are built on THEIR way of doing things.
I'm sure that's fine. That's where I was.

Except the quality of results I was getting was quite poor. And, that was my reason for giving Kagi "a go".

I think your point about total privacy is legitimate, though.
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The worst one that succeeded.
No, you're drawing a false equivalence. Advocating for genocide of entire ethnic groups is not "an opinion I disagree with", in fact: the crucial point is that it is an opinion that if taken up would mean the end of freedom for other people. It's the old paradox of tolerance/freedom/etc. If you would like to preserve e.g. free speech and rule of law then you must resist, by force if necessary, people who would abolish that very same free speech under whose cover they propagate the idea of dismantling it.

Other than that it's fair game.
I started using Python because of Google Wave. Initially stayed with it because of Google App Engine. Before that I was only using C++ for over a decade. When I stopped using GAE I stayed with Python because I noticed that it is such a good tool to easily solve problems, be it managing the OS, building servers and clients, collecting and analyzing data.

I've always used Javascript and have been using a bit of Rust lately.

But I guess what made it "win" lately is IPython/Jupyter and Conda, which enables non-programmers to use Python as a language to express and solve their problems, like Mathematica or MATLAB did for mathematicians and engineers.

So I guess that Google added a bit to its popularity.
It's much worse than that: gaming sales with targets has the exact same effect as doing the same on programmers. It creates a sales org that is a problem to the entire org.

I have worked at a place where sales did not sell features that did not exist. The key to that was that they had no quotas/targets and weren't blindly evaluated based on KPIs. Sales and technical support were deeply integrated, let's call it SalesSupport (like DevOps, get it?).
Bitter-blockers as a taste masking strategy (2021)
But Pauling didn't successfully "stretch his domain expertise" to vitamin supplements anymore than Carson stretched his to Egyptology.

Not to mention Einstein's work as a comedian never really took off.
>These ban cycles and 'enforced ignorance' to the problem nets them more profit than it would otherwise; disenchanted players play less, reducing infrastructure costs -- and banned players buy another 2 dollar copy of the game -- but it kills user experience outside of single player entirely.

Game devs vehemently deny this but there are games out there with perverse incentives for the game devs regarding cheaters. Escape From Tarkov is another game that is losing many players to the cheater issue while the devs drag their feet addressing the problem, or any problem in that game really. Why would they? Once the devs have legitimate players' money, them playing the game is just costing them money by paying for servers. Banning enough cheaters just frequently enough to buy another copy is how they get recurring revenue. As much as I hate the subscription model taking over everything I think if it was used in games like Tarkov it would be a much better game because it would align incentives to keep players engaged. On the other hand that would probably come with a bunch of dark patterns.

I have a personal conspiracy that Tarkov kept making the early game for new players harder and more insufferable while making the game more easy after you have grinded long enough, (for people like streamers who basically are the advertising) was a decision to get people excited to buy the game watching streamers with their far better experience, then shortly quit by making their experience insufferable.
Google's DeepMind Unveils Invisible Watermark to Spot AI-Generated Images
As AI image generators increase in popularity, differentiating between authentic and AI-created images is becoming more complex. DeepMind, Google's AI unit, is addressing this by developing an imperceptible watermark known as SynthID for its AI-generated images to counter misinformation.

Why this matters:

- DeepMind's SynthID tags AI-generated images: Invisible to people but detectable by computers, this watermark hopes to aid in the verification of images.
- Technology, however, isn't completely foolproof: DeepMind itself acknowledges that intense image manipulation could compromise the watermark.
- Google's image generator, Imagen, will only apply to images created using this tool: Google aims to instantly identify AI-generated images with this effectively hidden watermark.

DeepMind's head of research, Pushmeet Kohli, shared the following details:

- The watermark changes on images are so subtle that humans wouldn't notice, yet DeepMind can still detect an AI-generated image.
- Despite any subsequent cropping or editing, the watermark remains identifiable by DeepMind's software. Colors, contrast, or size changes won't affect it.

Calls for a standard approach to AI-generated image identification continue:

- More coordination between businesses is crucial, according to Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI. Different methods adopted by various firms add degrees of complexity in tagging AI-content.
- Other tech giants, including Microsoft and Amazon, pledge to watermark some AI content, meeting similar demands for transparency over AI-generated works.

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66618852
It's called the paradox of tolerance. ISPs aren't the right layer to police this, but every other layer has failed or isn't designed to deal with a death threat generation machine that keeps a proud count of how many people they drove to suicide on their website.
What’s Behind $1T in Credit-Card Balances?
https://archive.is/4qGCS
The first time when I heard about it (in 2009), the talk was that Google was using it internally. And it was the first language to be supported in their AppEngine platform. And Django was solid. These were the things that helped Python, in my point of view.
For those in the US, or with US citizenship, the Library of Congress has a National Library Service for the Blind called BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download), which works either with a dedicated hardware player (functionally designed but with excellent usability) or Android / iOS apps. Both players and books are free.

NLS: <https://www.loc.gov/nls/>

BARD: <https://www.loc.gov/nls/braille-audio-reading-materials/bard...>

Player: <https://www.loc.gov/nls/enrollment-equipment/equipment-neede...>

The titles selection, as one might expect for the Library of Congress, is excellent. No, it's not everything in the Library, but it exceeds any other audiobook service I've found.

There's a pretty good catalogue interface. You can either order books on cartridges, or download them to a USB stick which is inserted in a port on the hardware player. For the apps, materials are downloaded directly to the device and selected for play via the interface.

For the completely blind, I'd recommend the hardware device as it's far easier to navigate than touchscreen smartphone / tablet interfaces.

Materials include not only books but many magazine publications.

Eligibility requires a statement from one of numerous specified medical professionals or caregivers, and is straightforward.

I believe OP is based out of France, which has its own books for the blind programme: <http://www.bnfa.fr/>

<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/31/digital-audi...>

Public and academic (e.g., community college) libraries also typically have access to audiobooks through various programmes, usually commercial services (Libby and Axis360), as well as CDs. Selections through these services are typically much more restricted than BARD.

Librivox has a large selection of public-domain and liberally-licenced (e.g., Creative Commons) works. Quality varies widely but is usually listenable and is occasionally quite good. (A friend from another online community mentioned a book he'd narrated and I was stunned to find it was absolutely professional-grade work. He has an excellent radio voice, and did some professional voice-over work.)

I would strongly recommend experimenting with, using, and deciding on specific accessibility tools whilst she still has some sight. There are assistance tools for MS Windows and MacOS, as well as some options on Linux systems, and of course mobile devices. Find out what works for her now, and find out what the capabilities and limitations of these tools are.

I'd also strongly suggest switching up from a smartphone to a tablet which might be both easier to read and offer better reading options as vision degrades. I'm strongly partial to e-ink devices, though these tend to have reduced contrast. This is less an issue with "frontlight" (or auxiliary external lighting), but something to consider.

Devices with hardware controls may also be preferred to touch. Consider items such as phones, large-character keyboards, and the like.
One of the issues was that consumer machines with OS/2 were sold with not enough memory to run anything but the OS…
Trying to regain some relevance in a world that has largely moved on from caring about it's core product and the added flop of the 'metaverse'. Without doing things like this they won't be able to compete with the large number of AI/ML startups in hiring space either.

It's a big PR bump, can you even remember the last time someone said something positive about that company? For me I think it would be easily more than 10 years ago.
> Cybersecurity IC here. We have all of that, and more.

Damn... as an IC are you forced into the machinations on a daily basis or can you actively avoid it by choosing to work remotely even if TC is lower than otherwise could be?

I'm pursuing an AI and ML degree and given where we were 6 months ago I have to be honest with myself and fully admit it feels way more smoke and mirrors driven by hype than anything I have ever experienced even in the early days in Bitcoin (which is saying a lot after ~13 years). And unlike in Bitcoin where we have a liaise fare attitude and selective contribution and forks are a thing to be encouraged, most corps do not see value in what made it what it is today, thus take a very dim light on just 'opting out' of things like office politics as means to get ahead and grind/hustle culture.
Excellent point. I recently started an endeavor that is way, way over my head, and immediately bought a domain even though I have no clue what I am doing yet, while trying to absorb all that I can.
Thank you for this post. I'm sorry you went through this.

I don't exactly understand what you mean by feminism (GC/radfem or the average suffrage feminism).
Pandas, Django, and Flask.
My kitchen is not big enough for that. I need to use that space
It also depends on the previous one for the PING/PONG messages used to simulate keystrokes and terminal echo: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/dce6d80d2...
First you hit Sy Hersh with the Vatican stuff, now the UFO people... Who's the Papal Security Agency cutout here?
> My impression is that in the ‘00s, Python and Ruby were both relatively new

Contrary to popular belief, Python is older than Java.

> math libraries, numpy and pandas make it appealing to academics

The most important factor: these libraries are free.
USB-C is required by law in the EU by the end of 2024. That is probably their reason to switch.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/24/tech/eu-law-charging-stan...
Ah, I think I see where we diverged. You were focused narrowly on the technology, I was focussed on the broader situation, where I don't see the equivalent of the franchise owner or the ice cream consumer in your dialysis example; if nothing else unlike the ice cream machines the dialysis units mostly function well for reasons related to how the two situations differ.

There is some tech parallel I agree in e.g. protecting consumables , but that’s an aside in this context , and largely symptomatic if the way health care is paid for in US that drives towards a razor:razor blade model.

Anyway that was a long walk for a short drink of water!
Your analogy is poor, what you described contravene US laws. Your misunderstanding was seemingly addressed in the article. Tier 1 providers, in some regions, operate as quazi-monopolies. A more apt analogy; you dislike renters that openly promote their religious affiliation, but you also own all of the rental properties in the western United States. This leaves them with nowhere to setup shop for running foul of your delicate sensibilities as they relate to religious matters.
Perhaps, but my point is that the constitutional right doesn’t extend beyond the government. Just like HN can moderate without fear, so can cloudflare. They choose to take a more hands off approach - good for them. But it’s a choice, and there are apparently limits to their forbearance.