skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This statement doesn't mean anything useful.
That might be true if that wasn't a well known phrase that carries decades of examples behind it.

> It also describes every social safety net.
Social safety nets are not spending millions of billions of dollars on disasters, especially disasters we've been predicting since the dawn of industry. Social safety nets have upper bounds. Being able to handle these disasters is a benefit of society, yes. Social safety nets help people get on their feet, not prevent entire towns from being wiped out. It's disingenuous to imply America's social safety net (which it doesn't have) has anything to do with this.

When individuals create liability this large, they are jailed. When corporations do it, we pretend we never could have expected this outcome.
A new Chrome 0-day is sending the Internet into a new chapter of Groundhog Day
Active Directory, plus needing to have Office no matter what. AD makes things really smooth (at least compared to the alternatives).
Symbolic links and deltas are a thing. None of this is hard from a technology standpoint.

Exchange just isn't the best designed or most modern software.
You are correct. I'd like to add, though--this is a soft cap. It's $250,000 per bank, per ownership category. You are insured up to $250,000 for each of the ownership categories at a single bank.

These are the ownership categories:
-Single accounts (owned by one person).
-Joint accounts (owned by more than one person).
-Certain retirement accounts, including IRAs.
-Revocable trust accounts.
-Irrevocable trust accounts.
-Corporation, partnership and unincorporated association accounts.
-Employee benefit plan accounts.
-Government accounts.

If you were to open a single account at Wells Fargo with 250k in it, you can also open a joint account with 250k and have it insured. Then, you can go to Bank of America and do that same thing.

Also, I'm not sure if America has ever enforced the cap, but it's safer to keep it under 250k per ownership category.
2 weeks and $500. Everyday is around $35. Based on my experience, it is quite a reasonable number.
That’s exactly my question as well. If you turned around and immediately tried to sell the bar, what kind of loss is likely? The dealer is not going to trust a random lump of gold is legit, so they have to have some testing/risk to hedge.
When Storms Collide: Could Philippe, Rina Produce the Fujiwhara Effect?
From a security angle, every vendor you use will have a security incident at some point in time given enough time. The real question is how the incident is handled. My issue with the “Microsoft had a security incident obviously you should Migrate away” mentality is that this could be any one of your vendors and if your philosophy/strategy is to ditch your vendors whenever a security incident happens you’re not going to get very far. Anything else like ditching Microsoft but not vendor X or using this to justify no more MS is inconsistent logic.

Edit:

Adding a quote from the OP’s linked blog on the subject:

> There is this well cited argument that cloud companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and you-name-it are able to protect your personal data much better than you are able to. They have military grade security restrictions, better backup methods, and are able to do this much cheaper.

> While this argument being absolutely true, people seem to forget that giving away your data to any third party is the root of many problems in the first place. It is not relevant to whom you are giving your data to.

>Let me explain…

So OP is arguing that this is why you can’t trust anybody not just MS. That’s a stance too, and perhaps for an incredibly security sensitive product the correct one, but definitely an impractical one for probably 98% of software products.
Valid point. If a manager wants to motivate an employee they have to get to know them, truly care about them. Can't be faked.

A mandatory first month work from the main office, bi annual everyone retreat in one location or twists on these ideas might work for remote only setups.

Total surveillance only works for drones and monkeys hitting typewriters. Totally fine for a cash cow monopoly.
> Like "Record Separator": if it's that useful to have a record separator character, why aren't we using this one instead of e.g. commas for comma separated values?

I've done ETLs to/from systems that do use these control characters. It's a joy compared to CSV. I have nothing to escape and no complex parsing logic. Embedded CR/LF-- no problem. Fields containing commas-- no problem.

We should be using these control codes for their purpose but nobody knows about them anymore.
Probably the latter, but the situations aren't comparable. COVID is much less deadly than it was three years ago. Vaccinated people test positive but have little to no symptoms. The latest variant appears less deadly even to the unvaccinated. And we now have treatments.

Masking and distancing is still a good idea -- not because COVID is deadlier than flu, but because we should have been doing it for flu all along. It's an easy way to prevent a disease that causes a lot of harm. People shouldn't have to wait for apocalypses to to take easy measures that make the world better.
No. They want iOS to be open source, because they want to be able to modify a few bits of source code and use their modified OS for their personal use, and then keep pulling updates from upstream forever after that. Like a small fork.
Everytime someone mentions Cloudflare, i think about this article [0].

[0] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20230609-turboboost.html
Contractors are not employees. This is about employees.

The key difference between the two is precisely that employers are not presumed to watch and control how a contractor works.
Also dollars. Don’t forget about the dollars.
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling
I would wager the free games have been a net positive to their bottom line in terms of customer acquisition. Most games are not big ticket items, and the ones that are are usually out of a push to sell new DLC or a new sequel. I’m guessing it’s not that expensive.

I buy everything off of EGS if I can because of it, even though the EGS is trash
How people continue to trust buying anything from Google is just beyond me. I am glad that they are doing something for schools, but this is just ridiculous.

Shutting down a free service that you didn't have to buy into, fine whatever. It still sucks but at least you didn't invest in a platform.

But if you are going to make a physical device you cannot treat it like you treat everything else.
The first rule in enterprise sales is that the first human reaction will always be “No.”

The former CEO of Routeware before he sold it to Vista Equity Partners said that he required his sales team to secure three clear “No’s” for each buyer within an organization before fully disqualifying a lead.

So if you’re selling to a “software architect” and the CTO has to provide the final sign off.

- three no’s from the architect

- three no’s from the CTO

It’s funny how easily we give up on potentially successful concepts by not getting to a “No” faster or even at all.

It’s completely foreign to software engineers.
> Humans skip attribution in their conversations all the time

ChatGPT is not a human. If a news site was to publish some information on their website without attribution, this would be a problem. ChatGPT is more analogous to a news site then some person you have a conversation with.
I thought this said Joan Baez and was very intrigued.
Plenty of people who don't steal get sued for IP theft because it's an easy shakedown.
…wow. How'd you sneak in without me noticing?

I'm far from a Paul Davis, but if there's anything you'd like, let me know. Worst that can happen is I'll go 'I have no idea how to code that' :)
> due to long years of underfunding and neglect

I'm not sure how much more funding it could possibly get? Even before the pandemic, the T was only pulling in roughly a third of its operating expenses in revenue[0], meaning the other two thirds was paid for by other sources. Notably, operating income wasn't even enough to pay wages and benefits for MBTA employees.

The majority of those "other sources" was transfers from the state sales tax[1], meaning people living in Worcester, Springfield, Pittsfield, and Chatham were contributing to a system they don't use. Since the pandemic, public transit systems all across the country took a huge hit in ridership, and received federal funding as well, so now you have people living in California, Kansas, and Mississippi all chipping in, too.

Now I understand that taxation provides for the common welfare, and everyone subsidizes everybody else at some point, but with Greater Boston having the fifth-highest per capita income of all metros[2], I find it a little strange that the T requires such a great subsidy.

[0]: https://www.mbta.com/financials/audited-financials

[1]: https://www.mbta.com/financials/mbta-budget

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/610026/us-metropolitan-a...
I felt the same until I got a 14 Pro. I’m not sure if you’ve held one, but man these things are heavy, and I don’t even have a Max. Very noticeable compared to a 14 non-Pro.
That's explicitly the opposite of the intent of patents.
It's often corporate policy or just something HR requires even though the hiring manager doesn't care about the degree at all. It's far more common when you're an expense than when you're a revenue source.
The hottest my iPhone 13 Mini gets is charging with the Camera app on, too. I don't know if this phenomenon is unique to the newer phone.
In theory, the castle walls should protect everyone equally, but it assumes the king will invest in operations and maintenance, perpetually.

What we see, instead, is what happens to poorly democratized and incentivized systems.
People are going to hate it just because it’s an ad that they don’t want to see while scrolling their feeds. You could have the greatest product on earth and simply because it’s an advertisement it will receive negative feedback, and snarky replies.

Advertising on social media platforms is horrendous - no one wants to see an ad, ever, for any product or service. You’re already at a disadvantage by being the source of the end user’s ire, so winning them over is extra hard.
Wouldn't term limits atleast slightly mitigate this issue? Harder to be buddy buddy with the person in power of they keep changing every other term or two. But you are right about the influence of lobbyists. It's very messed up when an unknown unelected person can write parts of a law as is and get away with it
Thanks, yet another reason not to spend time collecting facts.
What do you mean by "All of the artists are already on pretzel"? Do you mean all Bandcamp artists?
If i am not mistaken those gold ETFs are backed by derivatives. Please do share a differing definition for "paper".

I also didnt disagree with derivative overhang being normal. Not sure why you thought it necessary to repeat.
If it is the case that it is going to be extremely risky to run of MS supplied infrastructure (including Windows) we should see insurance premiums sky-rocket for companies and organisations using those platforms. Eventually, it will become cheaper to migrate off the MS platforms.

This is mixed with an ever increasing legislative push and higher fines for leaking PII.
When I hold my phone while sitting or standing, there's no issue at all. But when I am lying down in bed, it becomes super annoying to hold the phone. Doesn't matter whether I am on my back or my sides.
The device cost $6k and $600/yr from the article. Not free but I doubt many people are affected.
You can do that too! That will disable every JIT though. In practice you might only want to disable just one.

To add some colour to my answer. When writing a library, it's typical to a put a JIT statement on everything in the public API. This means you get the benefits of JIT compilation even when you're just hacking around in the REPL, and mitigates the new-user-footgun in which they forget to use JIT themselves.

Meanwhile, good practice is always to JIT your whole computation.

Combined, this mean that it's fairly common to go jit (at the top level) -> grad (of your operation) -> jit (of some library call).

When debugging your code, the JIT'd library call is _probably_ not the culprit. So you only want to disable the top-level JIT when stepping through, and still take advantage of JIT compilation where you can. Overall one obtains a composition of the form grad(jit(...)).

TL;DR: even if use case doesn't come up super frequently, it's more user-friendly to support grad(jit(...)) than it is to just crash.
Hour bookings and locations are dine, as in you saying at which location you clocked in and out. Referencing badging to enter and exit a location to cross-reference clocking in and out data is, usually, a complete no-go. Unless, of course, a specific employee is suspected of cheating.

But then I assume it depends on the BR as well, but each and every BR I encountered so far was strictly oppossed to this kind of data cross referencing. Unless, of course, entering and exiting a location is used for clocking in/out, because then there is no data to cross reference.
There’s a huge difference between good and bad metro lines. Just like how there’s a difference between good and bad bus systems.

Frequent and reliable metro with good coverage will beat bus system because of predictability. Also, capacity wise it’s much more effective, faster and etc. Unfortunately, most of North America’s systems are not of this type.
I'd be fine with a literal random selection with the people being able to trigger "no-confidence" at set intervals.

Can't be much worse and statistically it should have basically the same outcome.
I can say definitively that many of the easier puzzles are just obvious forks. Don't ask how I know, though :P.
He should be protected under the ADA, and if he gets fired, that's going to be a pretty chunk of change.
I think this really works. While at Datadog, at one point I would write deep dives on monitoring applications like HAProxy, OpenStack and others. I would start with what to look for, how to monitor those things with off-the-shelf tooling, and finally how to do it with Datadog. The response from the community was overall very positive, regardless of whether or not they ended up converting to users (though many did).
Ask HN: What Is “Fractal Programming”?
I'm courting a potential new client as a freelance programmer. They want to know if I have experience with "fractal programming". It's not math fractals, it's a different concept that has to do with back-end architecture and it has ties to US election data. I looked it up and it seems like complete nonsense.
> who will decide who is a "worthy load bearer"?

If you decide to contribute, you do. You contribute directly to people you think are worthy load bearers.

> once people are funded who will manage their workloads?

They do. They're already doing that anyway. If you decide to fund someone through this program, you're saying that you think whatever they are already doing is worth supporting.

> What are these individual "Internet Load Bearers" that keep the entire Internet afloat without making a dime from it?

The very start of the article explains this.
I didn’t know that. You learn something new every day.

Still, it’s been a great method for getting people to take interest in my website.
NYC mayor to sign bill approving e-bike trade-in program
She is his cousin.
People who work at Amazon are not high school students.
doffs cap And a good day to you as well.
Do you propose to not oppose evil with force?
Version history and lifecycle policies for Postgres tables
I like how S3 object versioning and expiry works. I wanted something like that for Postgres tables, so I tried out a couple of extensions and wrote about what I found.
See also "Phasing Out GPS Reliance in U.S. Military Operations: An Imperative in the Face of Emerging Threats":

> Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the American GPS, Europe's GALILEO, China's BEIDOU, and Russia's GLONASS, play an essential role in modern warfare. Despite their different technical specifications—like frequencies and orbits—these systems are designed to be compatible, allowing for greater positional accuracy. However, their signals are susceptible to various forms of interference, such as jamming and spoofing. While there are security measures like anti-spoofing in place, these are not foolproof.

* https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/09/26/phasing...
There are some limits on free speech though. From the top of my head:

a) Speech that spreads outright lies about someone, damaging their reputation for the sake of that damage, etc (libel & related). Knowingly spread lies, prepare to be held accountable.

b) Outright calls to incite violence, call for one group of citizens to go out & attack another group, and so on. There is (and should be) no room for that in a civilized society.

(maybe more. IANAL)

The article is not about above exceptions.
Off-topic, but I was surprised to see that this was a Mastodon server created specifically for the people of Graz, Austria, a city I lived in for a semester in college and have very fond memories of. I like the idea of providing self-hosted services for their local region, and I wish them well. I'd consider joining myself if I wasn't so ashamed of my poor German skills...
I wonder if this is a problem with the branching structure of these sorts of discussion boards? Every comment is in some sense the start of a new conversation… it sometimes feels like there’s a tendency to want to grow a thread to meet that “whole conversation” measure. Maybe the issue is that little details don’t make it, so context gets pulled from the main thread?

It would be interesting is the site had the ability to make linear threads coming out of a comment, or start whole new branches. Then each branch could have an assorted “random asides” spot or something.
> They were not the target of the hate, so it did not make them personally uncomfortable

This is the cover of Australia's largest [1] newspaper: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/169mucb/how_we_stop_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Australian - It has Australia's largest share of market penetration (84% of WA) of any newspaper in the country.
The rules for rank in committees is per party and it’s only Democrats that have indefinite positions of seniority. Republicans have caps on number of terms as chair, etc.

The only people losing power with her early retirement would have been her handlers. She hasn’t made a decision on her own in a long time. And when she did pretend to do so, the handlers would “help her remember the right choice”.
if you follow all the links you'll find out that the keys stolen gave the hackers (probably the Chinese state) access to all managed MS applications for all customers; and enabled faking having an organizational account for arbitrary MS customers.

This essentially makes all key western companies and public orgs, hosted on azure, probable targets. It's highly unlikely that they only stole state dept. emails, when they had access to banks, finical orgs, etc.

Indeed, their very ability to steal emails from the US state dept! makes it likely a breach at other less protected vital biz/orgs occured.

The whole of the azure cloud, and esp. the whole of managed MS apps at major institutions was compromised for at least a year. This is apocalyptic.
I learned a lot, but I wish I could have gutted it out for longer in order to learn more about emacs and gcc internals. (I knew "we" were doing some maintenance on gcc because I remember asking questions about a comment that said "this is a win" and asking rms if we were working on gnu chess and him telling me that it was a compiler optimization. [Yeah, that's how amazingly skilled I was at the time.])

I ended up doing 4 sessions totaling about 10 hours and when I told him I was quitting, I was apologetic that I felt like I'd wasted his time quitting so soon after starting. His response I can remember to this day and it was something like "Don't worry about it; most people quit after the first session. You helped me out and we'll make sure you get your check."
Isn't it wild how seemingly overnight we've become comfortable speaking to AI as if it were human? Writing things like "Actually, one more thing." to ChatGPT for example, are strictly unnecessary, but I write like this also even though it's more verbose than a simple "Yes" or even just rudely submitting the next thing I need help with. Fascinating.
What’s the annoying issue? Seems more like a weird usage model.
The SoC was an Nvidia Jetson TX1 (a quad-core Cortex-A57 CPU attached to a beefy Maxwell GPU), and it had a built-in camera, microphone, and speakers for video calls.

Jamboard was a pricey item, but $5,000 was just the tip of the iceberg. There was a $600 "annual management and support fee," plus subscriptions to Google Workspace for every user, plus an optional $1,350 for the rolling stand. A one-year total with a single Workspace user is around $7,000.

Looks like most go for around/under $1,500US on the secondary market. The NVIDIA hardware looks interesting although EOL: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-tx1
Well, there is the little detail of France being part of the EU with the same anti-trust rules. No idea why people think companies can just easily exit a market so, that hurts the top line and no one likes that. Also, nVidia has quite a market when it comes to automotive for example, pretty sure they don't want to loose that.
Next up: not rejecting candidates because they have five years of experience with PuShuLib 4.12 while the company has moved on to 4.13 and can't imagine hiring someone who might need a couple of days to come up to speed on the changes in the point release of that or other libraries.
Right. And that leaves out that the company's already paid taxes on them.
I read the article and I wouldn't describe it like this. it has a lot of commentary from the author, and a lot of pushing of their own ideals about what the open source community is supposed to be
That’s super ideal as opposed to what I’ve got on Reddit, which is extremely graphic porn comments on an Ad for a product designed for parents for their children. The comments were basically phantasies of girls in different circumstances. I’ve reported the comment to Reddit and they came back and said “yeah, we’re not going to be removing that as it doesn’t violate our community guidelines”. I closed the account then and there. Apart from that, I would get about 5 or 6 real users per hundred clicks from them, where the clicks costed something like 20-30 cents. Money out the window.
> You didn't address the hypothesis I exposed in my first comment and that I will restate: any regime calling themselves "communism" were set up by huge assholes using the noble name to call their totalitarian views.

Ok lets break it apart.

> any regime calling themselves "communism" were set up by huge assholes ( ... )

Agreed.

> ( ... ) using the noble name to call their totalitarian views.

Wrong. Research into the inner circle writing of Stalin show that he and the top people in the party believed themselves to be communists and doing the right thing for the ultimate goal of making the world communist. He wasn't just "using the noble name" (lol?). He behaved like a communist even when no one was looking as per the decisions he made even after attaining absolute power. I'd suggest you read Steven Kotkin's book "Stalin". Of course, if you dispute the expert take I'd have to ask for your credentials.

EDIT: bit frustrating to talk to someone whose starting point is "it's unknown if X" when X has been known for a long time. It's like, do your homework before coming in here. I'm out, good luck.
I expect mobile phone sales to continue to decrease due to market saturation and new phones not being sufficiently differentiable to old phones, so phone longevity increases too.