skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the thing about making security research legal is that the law can outline what is legal and illegal security research, instead of leaving it in a grey area of a policy statement that may change at any time without notice, or from a political agenda.

A well executed law change will make it very clear where the line is to get into illegal territory and would likely include industry feedback in the drafting. The downside is it could also go the other way, policy changes are executed by politicians who likely have a fairly poor grasp of the tech and industry, and could leave the policy in a worse shape until tested by the court system.

If the law were to say outline steps the hacker must do, barriers that can't cross, it may actually make it harder for a hacker to say I was just doing research.
By the time you figure out which env you need to be using with python, you’ll forget why you needed it.
How to share a NumPy array between processes
And yet evidentially, they aren't so very fragile. Clearly there's something about coops that make them viable businesses, even if that goes against our intuition for what viable businesses ought to look like.

I think part of it is that workers typically have very good insights into the immediate needs of a business. You bring up technical debt as an example of the dangers that businesses face, but technical debt is famously a problem that is noticed initially by the workers, and only later by the business as a whole (as velocity falls and new features start becoming painfully slow to implement). The companies that handle technical debt the best are typically the ones where developers are given the freedom and flexibility to make decisions regarding paying off that debt.

Similarly, you might expect that when the small problems in a restaurant show up, it's the workers who will notice them first. And the point of a coop is that those workers then have both the motivation (it's their business) and the power (it's their business) to fix those problems immediately, rather than being forced into handling less relevant tasks by a management that doesn't have full visibility of the problem.

Fwiw, I'm a fan of the idea of worker coops, but I don't think it's the only setup that works, nor necessarily the best setup in ever case. But worker democracy as a whole - the idea that workers in a company must have a right to contribute to the decisions of that company - seems both moral, and also practically very useful. If you want a good overview on this topic, I recommend the YouTuber Unlearning Economics, who has a whole video on worker democracy and what different forms of it look like (and what the costs and benefits of those forms are):

https://youtu.be/yZHYiz60R5Q?si=t4Q9qQLc9K7wsIx_
What are they claiming that this is better than? I keep seeing a whole bunch of comparatives but no explanation of what the baseline is.

(Personally I'd've hated spending two weeks before doing anything productive)
This article is about Australia. Is it better or worse in the US?
I’m not knowledgeable but follow the conversation on the topic. To me advanced US tech is the Occam’s razor explanation.

If there is new advanced tech, it would likely be US in origin just given the amount of money the US has spent over the last 70 years for defense. It certainly makes sense that we would compartmentalize advanced tech knowledge and it makes sense that we might test it on ourselves to gauge/control reaction to the tech rather than risk it falling into another government’s hands.

And yes, of course our government would lie about it. Why wouldn’t they?
Link to paper

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.10379.pdf
This commenter also fails to recognize that there is a tremendous amount of political activity aimed at changing gun laws, and that represents real and earnest efforts on the parts of tens of thousands of people (or orders of magnitude more, depending on where we set the bar for having "done something").

It's true that our system of government and industry is set up to preserve itself and resist sweeping change. It is further true some incredibly wealthy and influential individuals within the system are aligned with those goals, making change all the more difficult and unlikely (this applies to climate change as it does to gun laws, car culture, throw-away consumerism, etc). It is a mistake to equate trying and failing to change massive and powerful institutions with doing nothing.

I get it, from a cynical and pessimistic perspective, doing nothing vs trying hard but failing to do something all looks the same in the end (when society is roasting canned spam on it's own embers, as we might imagine). But fatalism becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, and mostly appeals because it has the "benefit" of requiring no action of the individual. Just a lifetime of depression, apathy, and/or moral bankruptcy.

Even if the fatalist is wrong, it means people made things work out for them in the end and they didn't even have to lift a finger. What a deal! It certainly has its appeal to those parts of our brain that we share with lizards and other creatures that look to avoid personal risk and conserve energy at almost any cost.
The ones firing their most senior FTEs first are certainly the poorly run ones.
China's goal of unifying with Taiwan also existed the last few times they had economic troubles. Did they went to war with Taiwan do deflect economic trouble back then?
> I'm a back-end developer

> Back-end feels so much straightforward.

Well duh! Practice and experience will do that.
What if the format chosen 40+ years ago wasn't arcane, and arguably you could avoid the legitimate mess of parsing poorly structured data for 40+ years?
After seeing this, I always either leave plenty of room in front of Teslas or try to pass them when possible, and don't let them be just slightly in front of me in the lane beside:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347778
I work for a company with founders that have a similar philosophy, I'm paid reasonably and really like my job, but one thing that bugs me is that I don't see a path towards making more money in the long run. My equity will likely be forever worthless, or a small windfall in the longshot event of an exit. I wonder if there's a path as an early employee that gets me further ahead than a nice job with decent work life balance.
I sometimes wish I could have a stab at projects like this "hackathon style" and see how much value can be delivered when you don't need to worry about lining the pockets of contractors and consultancies.
Kool-aid was mostly leaders ending regurgitating leadership principles and gaming it (without internalizing the greatness of it)
ChatGPT usage remains low, suggests Pew Research
The usage and fear surrounding ChatGPT, a language model developed by AI, aren't as prevalent as you might think, according to a recent poll from Pew Research. Only 18% of Americans have reportedly used ChatGPT. The demographic that uses it the most? Men aged 18-29 that are educated in college, but even that's just a 30-40% usage rate.

Why does this matter?

- ChatGPT has still managed to gain a remarkable level of popularity, despite low usage. This suggests that even though not many people are using it, they are aware of it and its potential capabilities. More people reported using ChatGPT for entertainment or to educate themselves rather than for work.
- People anticipate AI to have a greater impact on jobs such as software engineers, graphic designers, and journalists. But the expectation is that AI as a whole, not just ChatGPT, will be the driving force behind this.
- Concern about AI is increasing, not decreasing. 47% of respondents said AI makes them more worried than excited, comparing to 31% last year. This concern seems to rise with the level of AI knowledge one possesses.

Industries unshaken by AI:

- As per the survey, employed individuals who are aware of ChatGPT don't see it drastically affecting their jobs. The sectors like hospitality, entertainment, construction, and manufacturing feel the least threatened.

Stay updated about AI and its influence on different verticals!

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(source: techcrunch.com/2023/08/28/survey-finds-relatively-few-americans-actually-use-or-fear-chatgpt)
It's not a cease and desist letter. It's an extortion attempt to put pressure the alleged hackers to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

It's kind of a tricky gray area where similar demands might be legal, but I do think in this case it should be illegal.
I, too, tried to load it up today and realized it looks no longer. A search for if it existed anymore brought me here. I would have thought it's retirement would have been larger news or maybe I'm just out of the loop.
I hope these people get hard prison time. At least they wouldn't have to pay for food, shelter, and clothing. Three hots and a cot, baby!
Colonial independence wars often have multiple factions where some are advocating a nationalist approach that mostly preserves the existing institutions, and others want to radically redesign government at the same time.

If the latter groups get the upper hand, it’s called a revolution. And the Americans certainly fit the bill because they set out to write a federal constitution and bill of rights that bore no resemblance to the English system.
This mimics my experience with copilot (although not other coding tools like syntax highlighting.) Copilot can be extremely noisy and disruptive. It works best for me then I have it set up to only prompt on demand.
That would never happen, because if you don't produce something for other people you don't have the resources to pay someone to produce things for you. But supposing it did...

> We just need to find a country willing to take all the factories and all the blame

A country that does this for economic benefit isn't to blame for it's own sovereign decision to do this???

Do we absolve the US as the largest energy producer because they sell to customers elsewhere? Norway? Russia? Why is it that China uniquely gets absolved of it's emissions? It has 1.3 billion people, surely the vast majority of their emissions are for it's own domestic economy?
The open source saxophone project (2017)
That's the point, to get the market to react. At first the carbon tax is low, but increases steadily so market will have time to react. Just announcing it will get things going
This is how.

The installed size of OpenJDK 17 JRE on my machine is 186MB, according to the package manager.

I suspect that the WASM VM embedded in the program demonstrated in the blog post is 1.5 to 2 orders of magnitude smaller.
Clearly many women turnout to the B&S balls - I'm unable to comment on who you want to sleep with. A very large number of those drunken idiots wandering about stand in line to take over > million per annumn rural businesses so they're typically looking to have fun and ultimately marry partners that can jointly manage such enterprises. Burning Swan is way more artsy fartsy - probably not your thing either (given what appears to be your primary motivation)?
Trying to convince huge numbers of people to become much poorer is a task that would likely require a similar number of dead individuals.
Thos is interesting to me, as I haven't used PayPal for at least a decade.

What would the scenario be where you would use PayPal rather than just purchasing something?

I remember in the 2000's we had to use PayPal because of eBay but since that hasn't been a thing for a long time I not sure why anyone would use it. I can only assume that the US has a slightly different rule with regards to their banking that means that some people can't use their card to make a payment?

Or do you have merchants that only accept payments via PayPal?
Dune very much commented on the contemporarybproblems of its day. A big theme was around the scramble for Africa which, while over, was still affecting the continent in various ways as decolonisation continued.

I agree that the extent of the commentary varies, and Dune is light handed in terms of political hot topics, but it was certainly there.
Sounds pretty cool. Which hardware platforms does it target (even if they are virtual)? Is there a way to run it?
I don’t know which one implementations support invalidation but it’s not happening for the nodejs impl.

Push implementations do not have this problem at the client end.
From the Drug Controller General of India in 2007 (the sources seem to be off by a year, or maybe it's just bureaucracy delays) [1]:

> AGENDA ITEM NO.1

> CREATION OF A NEW SCHEDULE-H(1) AND CORRESPONDING CHANGES IN THE RULES UNDER THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS RULES FOR SPECIAL PRODUCTS WHICH ARE REOUIRED TO BE SOLD UNDER SPECIFIED CONDITIONS i.e. DICLOFENAC AND SPECIFYING CONDITIONS FOR SALE OF SUCH PRODUCTS.

> DCG(I) explained that at present the sale of drugs is regulated under Schedule-H (prescription drugs), and under Schedule-X {psychotropic or habit forming drugs). A need is, however, being felt that a separate Schedule is required to monitor, control and evaluate sales of certain specific drugs where it is not desirable to allow indiscriminate and unregulated access. Such drugs- would be regulated through a new Schedule i.e. Schedule-H(l). The specific sale conditions for the drug will be notified by the Ministry of Healthand FW through notification.

> The committee after deliberations agreed to the creation of a new Schedule-H 1 under the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules which would be strictly monitored by the State drug inspectors with a specific reference to Diclofenac preparations in respect of their veterinary use. The DCC also agreed to the prohibition of Diclofenac preparations for veterinary use. It further recommended that Diclofenac formulations meant for human use will print on their labels “Not for Veterinary Use”

[1] https://cdsco.gov.in/opencms/resources/UploadCDSCOWeb/2018/U...
If I had to guess, they wouldn't be able to do that either haha. There's lots of folks in these companies who don't have too much skill apart from knowing how to play that company's system - which is a skill for sure, just not like the one you describe.

A friend called me the other day asking about someone I knew who had solid pedigree in this sense and I had to share that I never knew him to be good at anything but people change, could've matured and skilled up, but I don't remember that being his nature.

Well, my buddy had already scheduled the first interview and so we decided to see how it would go. Sure enough, it was exactly the disaster predicted. The poor engineer he sent to talk to this guy hahaha.
The comparison is to companies which just kind of throw juniors into the role like someone mid career and they’re expected to figure everything out themselves. This is sadly the norm.
Western vultures are much less vulnerable to death by Diclofenac, although it's still not good for them. It's a peculiar feature of Asian vultures. Doubly so in India because cows die in the field there in much higher numbers than in countries where cows are harvested for food.
I think he has a point, but I also think that's not the end of it.

If my experiments are correct, it's possible to turn a tree of ownership, which is linear, into a directed acyclic graph (DAG), which I hope is non-linear.

Here's how:

1. Use structured concurrency for your ownership model, which creates a tree of threads.

2. Extend the "tree" of threads to include each function on the stack as a node.

3. When you need to "create" an edge between two nodes in your tree, which means sharing data in some way that might violate ownership semantics, have one thread ("A") ask the other ("B") to provide a weak, non-owned reference, while it gives a "token" in return. B may implement this however it likes, but it could give a reference to a new child thread that it will then wait on.

4. When A gets the reference, it runs a function to do the work it needs to do with that reference.

5. When B gets the token, which it owns, it executes as far as it can before trying to "destroy" the token.

6. The token will "wait" on A to finish using the reference that B gave to A. This will mean waiting until the function that A executed with the reference returns. How this is implemented doesn't matter (semaphore?), but basically, the token forces B to wait until A is done with the data.

This creates a DAG like this:

O
|
O
|
O
/ \
A B
| |
A B
| |
A B'
|\ |
A'\ |
| \|
A' B''

where the data is created in B', but A gets it from B'', which has to wait until A' is done executing.

The question then becomes: is it always possible to do what A needs to do by calling a function?

The answer is yes because any function by itself is Turing-complete.

You do need to structure the code to do this, by doing something I call "pushing computation down the stack," but it is possible.

Of course, if a DAG is linear, then this idea of mine won't work. People less ignorant than me will have to say whether a DAG is linear or not.
Over here we have a 6 month probation, during which you can fire people American-style by just saying "GTFO" with no reason required. (You can give one, but it's an art to tell the correct one, the wrong reasons will get you in trouble)

Yes, there are some people who shape up for 6 months and then start slacking, but they're definitely not the norm. You should be able to evaluate a person in that time and see if their personality fits the team and whether they are a net positive for the productivity.
10 kB/s is 25 GB/month. That's a lot of telemetry going one way, and a lot of automatic content recognition signature updates going the other.
I think that’s what op was pointing out.
Interesting argument. This relies on the circular backreference to § 64.2007(b) from § 64.2005(a)(2), and wouldn't seem to apply for the § 64.2005(a)(1) case. Google's messaging uses "opt in", which seems to be at odds with an intent to rely on an opt-out characterization.

I'd also welcome review from a lawyer with experience here.
First Draft of a Report on the Edvac
The tree planting business is harmful too. In one case they just cleared an area in africa of natural brush, planted millions of monoculture trees in rows. The people lost their farmland. Run by people in suits of course
you could have a worker-owned business where one person is appointed "benevolent dictator for now" when things need moving fast. "worker-owned" doesn't mean "every decision has to be collective"
It is the definition of an internship. They’ve de-risked this hire. Now they can do things like offer a more competitive offer or otherwise close the candidate with high confidence
That's true of conventional businesses too, though. It's not like banks hand out loans to anyone who walks in off the street with grandma's best bolognese recipe.
Is Elon Musk a Threat to Australia?
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’
https://archive.is/qLrRy
To their point, all of this is not trivial. You could just compile as x86 and be done with in in 5 minutes, assuming the performance hit is acceptable.
Yes it did. Some Parsis are doing cremations now for this reason.
I find it hilarious (and sad) that people are surprised organizations like this can work. “You mean the peasants are capable of ruling themselves?” Turns out, yes.
Intermittent fasting applied to IDE can be rather refreshing. It's similar to drinking a strong shot of espresso after daily drinking over-sweetened latte.
But that's exactly the criticism: that C++ used the word const for something different from its theoretical meaning, something that could have been better expressed with the word immutable.
Ha, I thought I was the only person in the world who disliked syntax highlighting. I only use :syntax on when I can't find a parse error!

My only real exposure to an IDE like development experience is the Google Apps Script editor and I really dislike it. Auto completion, auto indenting, it's all such a pain.

I use ChatGPT-4 all the time for coding, but I just copy and paste between 2 interfaces. I might just be an old man yelling at a cloud but having things pop up and code jump around on the screen while I'm typing just annoys the shit out of me.

Also since I code in a relatively basic vim environment I'm able to work from any SSH terminal without having to worry about setting things up in a particular way which seems like a bonus to me (except in cases where vim comes with all sorts of auto-junk enabled in which case I find myself looking for how to disable everything which I guess is the same as setting things up in a particular way ... )
Better than just giving a junior task and some guard rails to “figure it out”, I’m sure. Even just the first bit about structured (rather than ad box) intro to internal tools and processes would have been huge when I started me first job.

At my last role, and I’m sure others at large companies, up to a week of time was wasted doing training modules on the intranet, no real work.
No, not the ones that are under discussion.
It's not cynical, and these people are often well meaning. It's common because the folks in question don't fully internalize that to the customers, there is only the product/service, and it does X valuable thing. There is no business. I use Snowflake, AWS, coke zero, etc. I don't care or think about their "business".
It's kind of wild that the cops showed up ready to kill people for sitting down. Did disgruntled attendees exaggerate the danger when they called in (i.e. SWATing)?
OpenBSD: Keystroke timing obfuscation added to SSH(1)
The Matilda Effect
I've always wondered why companies don't take a kind of staircase approach to compensation with younger engineers. E.g., if the salary is $1000/week with a 4 week staircase, then week 1 would be $250, week 2 would be $500, week 3 would be $750, and weeks 4 and onward would be at the usual salary.

If the primary cost of younger engineers comes from helping them get on board with how things are done at a given shop, this seems like it offsets the initial learning curve quite well. You could argue that the learning curve takes a lot longer, but surely there's an 80/20 rule at play here where the most important 80% can be learned in the first 20% of one's tenure at a company.
Home workers would be driving to their friends places, their relatives places, grocery stores, restaurants, etc.

Are you saying the majority of a person’s trips are work commutes, if they are not working from home? Because that seems heavily lifestyle based - that’s certainly not the case for me - and I would hope not the case for most as that sounds unhealthy.
Hardly alone. I use no color except for comments and errors.

Rob Pike has no color - he thinks it is juvenile.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

I just don’t see the utility in having a bunch of colors.
Agreed. 'Deserving' a salary is internalised BS from corporations. The job market is: you sell your labour, companies buy it. Everything else exists to muddy the waters. Attempting to import moral judgements into the world of business is foolish.

The reality is that GP's C grade student friend has just done a better job of selling their labour than GP. GP could go do the same if they wished.
then everyone will have a problem
> How many regular voters bother to read the raw, uneditorialized finances that the government provides

Where can I get this data? Does the US provide CSVs or JSON or something?
But that doesn’t solve the problem at all because people will still die, only later
Why would a corporation want to deploy end-to-end encryption? (2022)