skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and I think the author was unfortunately using coreOS because it's uncommon for cloud providers to have coreOS images nowadays, and therefore a good opportunity for him to slip in a referral code for VULTR.

Is coreOS even maintained any more? I wouldn't expect it to be very secure if the most recent VM images were built in ~2020.

Would love another writeup just using Ubuntu or some other bog-standard Linux distro.
But to the accounts department, it is cheaper and rightly so?
Regarding your other comment: why wouldn't a high-altitude detonation, even outside the atmosphere cause an EMP? I feel like the gamma photons emitted in space will eventually hit the atmosphere and with that cause electrons to spiral along field lines. Isn't the question just one of intensity?

Or is it largely dependent on multi-photon interactions to impart enough impulse on the electrons?
Or they ran a diff and there's only 6000 new ones since the last hack.
Most of it is just one large file products-2-final-final-copy.txt that outlines how to make everything they sell.
This depends a lot on how different you imagine this universe could be.

For example, in this different universe, if I have an apple and you give me another apple, how many apples do I have? If I have 2, just like in our own universe, then you're probably right. But what if I have 3 apples? What if I still have 1 apple?

We can certainly create number systems that don't behave like the integers, or addition operations where 1 + 1 = something other than 2. We haven't explored many of those too much because they're not very interesting, but they still have structure and may have similar concepts to what we call prime numbers etc. The integers and regular addition happen to be much more useful for understanding our world than all of these other systems.

In a vastly different universe, the opposite may happen: if they studied this weird operation where 1+1=2, they would reach the same conclusions as we do. But they never study it, because it doesn't match their universe at all.
Dlang Fibers
I wonder how differently this comment would have read if you had fed it through ChatGPT first.
> Standardised aptitude and personality tests

Really?! I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
I’m in process of working through multiple older devices. My challenges so far have been forgotten passwords, not knowing picture/ video format specific to the device, locating the images/videos on the devices. I am in process of moving all images/videos to one location. Once done I will need similar offsite backup. Not there yet but I appreciate the insight into this final aspect of picture/video storage
The more direct their search the less opporunity to data mine, upsell you, or otherwise abuse your experience.
That last line is so true - sounds like a coping mechanism. Reminded me of this Substack post:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/notes-about-notes

Edit: coping
Since we're on HN I should also add that the most delay producing part of the plane was, by far, the software.

Also, both of my points are important. The very long expected lifespan may be even more important.
> I default to trusting, but quickly withdraw that trust if it is violated. Its much harder to earn back the trust you had for free at the beginning.

That's the point, trust, real trust is earned. It needs to be earned back. It needs to be earned to begin with. Your default isn't actually Trust. It's a self-serving experiment of "What happens if I allow my self to be venerable?" That's not the same as actual Trust. It's only a convenient proxy. But it's a mistake - and it happens all the time - to confuse it as being Trust.
because inin files have no or very limited support for nesting

there are also some issues with keys being all string by default making some things like linting harder and allowing more less standard ways to get something done, e.g. in json true is true in init files all of true, 1, yes, y and others might be true depending on the application (but then yaml no problem is worse)

also there is no clear single standard for init files

through this is where toml comes from it took the general layout ideas behind init files but give it a strict standard and strict string vs. bool vs. float types and a bit more nesting capabilities and fixes some string distance escape issues, etc
Do you think the "software engineering" people are giving engineering a bad name?

"Christian scientists" are Christians who attach themselves to the word science because science has such a powerful reputation. In their case I'm not worried about their trickery because everyone recognizes this. Everyone knows that Christian scientists are not scientists.

With software engineering it's not as clear. It's possible to create software applying engineering principles, but that's not what 99%+ of what is called "software engineering" is. And because most people don't recognize this, I think eventually this might run off "engineering".
No GPS in the 50s either.
> There’s nothing interesting or personal, and it could describe almost any software engineer.

Do you not want a software engineer?

I’m applying for a job that I have to have to survive, not my life’s ultimate passion.

If you don’t want me to use automation to aid my workflow (which in this case is to apply to hundreds of jobs knowing that my chances at each individual one are slim) then you’ll get what you’re asking for: employees who are stupid enough to waste their time on menial, low-value tasks like cover letters for job applications that have a 99%+ reject rate.

For hiring managers lamenting the fact that our resumes don’t stand out, maybe you should be scolded for your jobs not standing out. What do special about working for canonical? Let me guess, you write software that transforms inputs to outputs on a deadline. My bad for my cover letter on that subject being “boring.”

It’s not the applicant’s job to be worried about the difficulty of your screening process. If you don’t want to sift through flowery cover letters, stop asking for them. Also, it’s your job to sift through applications, not our job to tailor our applications for your individual preferences. You’re just one fish in the sea.
They are selling this thing to do the US Department of Energy, right? Presumably for a gigantic pile of cash.
There are some countries that incinerate most waste and some that incinerate just about nothing. Some of the latter export to some of the former, but most don't.
If you're going to be leaving another job to work at a company, you want to find out if it's a cultural fit _before_ that happens, not during a probationary fit.
Suicide has a planned and an impulsive component. Both need to be present for an attempt to happen.

It doesn't sound like you know much about suicide research? Preferring to substitute your own guesses on a well researched topic.
Really interested if you can go into more detail about multi-stage ranking, compact posting lists and stuff.
I bought a fake Nokia back in the day (18 years ago). The thing which gave away it was fake was the atrocious battery life (2ish run time hours), and otherwise clunky software. I can assure you faking a hologram was absolutely not problem.
The author contradicts their own advice to avoid flowery prose, “show don’t tell”, and to use “nothing but words” — they frequently use italics and punctuation for added emphasis.

The criticisms seem pedantic, given that many job postings might fail the writing bar suggested by the post. How would applicants know that the writing style in a posting is unacceptable in their submission?

Re:business jargon — the example of “actionable insights” that was derided as meaningless merely lacks specificity. It provides more information about a candidate’s prior role. Are they building dashboards with summary stats, or expected to propose strategy based on research? Not knowing business jargon doesn't prove that the jargon itself has no meaning.

What do people think of the language in the job below, evaluated using the criteria in the post?

https://canonical.com/careers/4348076
Do you really want an employee who is dumb enough to do a repetitive, menial, low-value task manually for dozens or hundreds of iterations?

Do you want to disqualify great programmers who are bad at writing prose?
0% too, I am on Sonoma RC.
> Can animal feed/ethanol supply chains be shifted quickly enough towards human consumption? Is that food even consumable by humans (e.g. hay is not)?

In the case of beef, yes. ~64% of cow feed is corn and soybean meal.
The correct answer is

Since when have you thought that I didn't love you?

Read The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense for why.
There are some things that are much more valuable than raw speed but that's an aspect something every collector I've gone through was somewhat lacking.

I think vector could be a very decent middle ground in the performance / safety space.

Last time I went through the code I concluded that it was a bit lacking but that's definitely something that can be (and probable is being) improved.

Side note : their documentation is really nice!
I'll probably just stick with my 5.
I believe they had to cover the tarmac with some kind of protective mats in order to do this.
The court houses are public to provide transparency to the public locking that away for 5 years does not provide transparency. I can't use that information when voting if the information is sealed until years after the next election.
Can't reply directly to bart because the thread is too deep, but really, they do send it another e-mail. Don't ask me what it's supposed to achieve. Purportedly, if you sent the attachment to the wrong person, then you can remove the recipient when sending the mail containing the password if you happen to realize the mistake. Well, the thing is, (1) they usually send the password e-mail right after the attachment mail, which means it is highly likely they won't check the recipient list, and (2) they don't bother to use AES256 (because other Windows Explorer won't be able to open them), so even without the password it's trivial to crack.
Sure, you could implement your own sleep functionality that way and it would be independent of the async runtime but the async runtimes already provide that out of the box in a way that doesn't require spawning a new thread so that is typically what gets used.
Why 2023 writing to /bin was always a bad idea in 1994 when I first used Unix and would have been so even earlier.
>tons of money

People want to eat.
It's not supposed to leak. It just that the sealant to bridge the gaps wasn't perfect, so it'd get some leaks through the sealant.
The best software comes from a small team of top level devs who are also top level subject matter experts on the software’s domain. This doesn’t happen very often.
I mean in terms of functionality, this doesn't give me anything extra to what using docker would do on macos (granted it's via a linux based VM). From an end user perspective there's no real difference, but I don't have to entirely disable SIP just to use it.

Something like namespaces or proper jails on darwin would be super cool, but not at the expense of other security measures and chroot-ish outcome imho. Maybe this works for some, but not me :)
There are huge variations between different urban centers in the US. I live in a major center in the US South, I got an oncologist appointment in 2 weeks, a CT scan in 2 days and surgery also scheduled in 2 weeks.
He forgot the part where the most important section of the “written interview” is about your high school years, because Mark Shuttleworth blindly and erroneously believes it’s a good predictor of what kind of person you are and how you will do at Canonical. Never mind that as has been said many times, this is about hiring the current “you” and not high-school “you” which may well have happened 30 years ago.
Updating your custom registry with new upstream dep versions after testing in CI with the all services you care about is fine. But the OP seems to just blindly pull the newest wordpress images from upstream or am I missing something? How is this meant to work reliably?

I guess given wordpress's security record taking breaking your site from time to time is preferable to your site being broken into from time to time.
> What's the licensing situation on this?

1. This project didn't take explicit permission from Apple to redistribute binaries

2. There are multiple jurisdictions where you don't need to explicitly have such permission, it is implied by law

3. Usage of this software implies you already have macOS system. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks to be covered by section 3 of macOS EULA.

4. There are existing precedents of redistribution of macOS binaries for multiple years aready:

- https://github.com/cirruslabs/macos-image-templates/pkgs/con...

- https://hub.docker.com/r/sickcodes/docker-osx

- https://app.vagrantup.com/jhcook/boxes/macos-sierra

And so on.
If there was a bluetooth profile that was duplex and had acceptable audio playback I would consider paying for a good pair, again. But mSBC, being the best available, is mono only and sounds like a 90s phone call.
I think it's a bit of a Podman quirk. From what I understand, podman used (and is probably still able) to generate systemd .service files. These files do have Requires and After commands, to state which other services they expect. However, Podman has since moved to using the .container file for systemd "units", which was meant to represent an transient, disposable instance but in practice reproduces a lot of what .service specifies. Probably because people didn't want to do the work twice, they tacked on an [Install] section to .container to make it behave like a service, which currently accepts only the keywords Alias, RequiredBy and WantedBy (I've not seen any documentation on how these differ) according to https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...
> I once had an interviewer say "it seems like you don't have much on your Github profile".

This sounds like a softball question to invite you to talk about your projects phrased in a slightly ignorant way, possibly on purpose. If you had quality projects on your GitHub this should be an extremely easy statement to answer with "I disagree because x and I'm particularly proud of y and its popularity with n users and feel that it demonstrates skills z". It's a perfectly fine way get a chance to state the value you demonstrate on your GitHub. I'd have no problem with getting this.
From time to time, I volunteer with friends and local grads to find positions out of simple annoyance with the ecosystem. I suspect the reason things look generic is staffing-agents (and data mining scammers) will often post/farm-lead a genetic description of nonexistent positions, than spam the inbox of HR people when a request for applicants is posted. There are many reasons this happens, few are related directly to building a team.

For example, the non-vite job posting some unions, faculties, and work-visa-sponsors must post on public lists by law. These are often so overly specific one could name the single applicant out of 200k CVs. The posters sometimes just want to document time/details with a few applicants to prove on paper they had no option other than hire a specific worker they wanted in the first place.

There are great companies out there that need help building interesting projects. You probably don’t want to work someplace where the process is deceptive, punitive and or humiliating... even with low-stakes conversations about project staffing.

Production programmers/engineers are busy people, and often don’t give a toss about making things aesthetically pleasing for laypersons. For example, they would ignore an article written by chatGPT criticizing chatGPT with 62% certainty.

Good luck, =)
yes so you need to replace the physics engine

this still leaves quite a lot of parts you do not need to replace
imo the readability of the proposed solution is not the best, especially for more complex things...
it isn't clear to me if he is proposing that to be "under the hood" (like react's createElement), but if not i don't think it's a better solution (even though i understand the problem of using "custom syntax" but it's pretty normal when you are building "on top" of APIs.
Ubiquity is the materialised love-child of two other monsters,
omnipotence and omniscience.

Whereas we recognise the pathological parents for what they are,
we still think ubiquity is adorable.
Why many business owners would love it if you stopped using your credit card
Haven't played "Amid Evil", but "Dusk" was really good (played on Switch along with Quake). I still enjoyed Boltgun more, but to each their own.
It was the end of Digg, when Digg tried to comply with Sony's request to take down some leaked Sony key. All Digg users were commenting/posting the keys everywhere. Many migrated to Reddit thereafter. About 17 years ago, I think.
Modern IBCM also correct their trajectories this way: they don't need too much accuracy (because of the large blast radius of nuclear warheads) and they are hypersonic during re-entry which limits the possibilities, so they use inertial guidance, but to improve accuracy they correct the trajectory at the peak of the ballistic trajectory using the stars.
Much like sibling, our 6 meeting rooms are booked so far in advance I’d never have a chance. For people who have no choice to be in meetings all day, we’d also much rather not be in the middle of the floor, but ever since I joined the workforce I haven’t even had a cubicle let alone an office, so the business world demands that I sit at my desk next to people who’d much prefer to concentrate feeling bad about it all day.
i don't think that's the case for .container files, according to https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...
Ditto: An Elastic and Adaptive Memory-Disaggregated Caching System
Do many of them not have responsibilities that take away from their productivity? There is the one rare older folk that has the perfect circumstances, but I'm talking macro scale here.
There is much of a Chevaline, an upgrade to Polaris, in the Museum of Berkshire Aviation [1] which is near Reading, about 50 miles west of London. They also have some of the navigation systems, such as gyroscopes you can get a good look at.

I find the level of engineering fascinating, it's not often you get to see such detail close up.

I took a few photos[2] when visited about 10 years ago. Being a small museum it's quitehiggledy-piggledy but they also have a range of unusual exhibits such as a model of the Miles M.52 and a real Fairey Jet Gyrodyne.

[1] https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/exhibits/cheval...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecargill/albums/7217772030...
Imaging the elusive skyrmion: Neutron tomography reveals shapes and dynamics
None of my colleagues are dumb, and I don't think the implication is appropriate.
Perhaps it's acceptable in moderation, like "ain't". It's needed for a rhyme in a well-known song by Billy Joel, for what it's worth. On the other hand, there is a different song by Billy Joel in which "anyway" is used for a rhyme.

No, I'm not a Billy Joel expert or fanatic. I just happened to notice, all right?
on this subject does anyone have any texts that detail the formalities and intricacies of legalese?

I have often found the writings of legal professionals especially compelling when I've encountered them informally in the wild (newspapers, articles etc) and would like to replicate it myself.
A series about making a programming language (2021)
Generate and translate captions for Instagram videos
The DJI Mini Pro 3 works without Wifi and using the expensive controller, without a phone app, so the opportunities to upload captured data to China are very limited.
It must not always be the case. I'm sure they have a power team at Apple who ensure a Mac can sit on the desktop without any CPU wake-ups.
It's so sad that the author has to spend multiple paragraphs convincing us of a problem that's clearly there.
I imagine handling cash probably has hidden costs that are comparable to the swipe fees, though.
They're not cloud based as far as I would define it. I have one and fly mostly on areas where there is no internet signal. The drone beams back video to your phone and unless you're syncing the cache videos with their cloud nothing its stored other than flight meta data. You can avoid even that by using a totally offline controller/phone.
Huh? Plenty of NATO members use their own or other members’ gear. Why would that be a condition (even a non-written one) now?
The original pre-rename title of this HN post is more relevant (I understand HN’s guidelines on title-jacking, but still this is relevant): “EU’s Euro 7 will also consider tyre and brake particle emissions”.
Lots of companies have standardized and well documented interview processes.

canonical’s is indeed a disaster, it’s onerous for applicants (hey that simplified outline doesn’t say it but you can expect between five and fourteen interviews - seriously I know applicants who had fourteen interviews).

Another thing it doesn’t mention is the fact that there’s really no dedicated hiring and interviewing team at Canonical - all engineering teams “pitch in” (read: are forced to) with resume and written interview reviews, as well as in-person interviews.

This wastes a tremendous amount of expensive engineering time, and a lot of this is due to poorly screened resumes. It was very frequent for me to interview a candidate and wonder how they made it to that stage when it was clear from looking at the resume during interview prep that they were totally unsuited for the role.

Source: former Canonical who like everyone else, was forced to “participate” in the hiring process.
Of course companies would pay for data if they had the choice. And small companies often do in case of a ransom attack. But if you're as big as Sony, there's really no upside to paying them. Like the other commenter said, if they did pay, the attackers would without a doubt still sell the data to others. Why wouldn't they? It's not like they have any morale.

And to make things worse, this would just signal to other hacker groups that hacking Sony is very profitable, since they apparently are happy to pay. So they would just increase the target on their back. No upside.
Why this graph is dodgy: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/oxfam-serves-up-a-lot-of-dodgy...
Good point! I will investigate that, even it's not relevant to my chai app I think it's interesting and worthwhile to know if the convert command will do that!

edit: ChatGPT thinks you might be right! It also says: If you specifically need to maintain the vector properties of the EPS file when converting to PDF, you might want to use a tool designed to work with vector formats, such as epstopdf, which is a utility that comes with most TeX distributions.
One might imagine but so far it has failed to happen in all of human history. The powerful never give up their power.
I don't get Airbnb's business. By now, it's a mature company.

But if you compare it's business with Booking, you'll see that Booking is much cheaper not only as a guest, but also as an investor, having wider revenues + net income as well.

It's long gone the times since Airbnb was cheaper than a hotel, I remember back in the days, it would be roughly 50% cheaper. Nowadays, it's about the same price as a hotel.

For some occasions, like when you want to rent a home for 4 or more, it might make sense, but I fail to see how it's going to stay competitive in the long run.

Maybe now they are targeting a different customer than me, that likes to travel on a budget. As a consumer, I like the booking has competition and hotel prices have come down since the Airbnb explosive growth.

Booking also sell flights (on priceline) and is a much wider business, not to forget, that lots of hosts sell on both platforms.

To me, Airbnb looks like a doomed business. Sure, right now it's margins are okay, they've got a good brand, but that's pretty much all they've got.

I don't get why don't they explore other markets, or the "air" part in the name.