skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>moderators, call centers, etc

They're also not requiring their lowest-level employees to come into the office either, since they're obviously unwilling to pay a Bay-Area living wage for work like that.
Apologies for being slightly off topic, but Roblox is an absolutely gross company that is well overdue for some regulatory scrutiny. The mechanisms they allow to be put into place in nearly every game to extract money from children and get them addicted to the platform make dark patterns look positively friendly.
Her name sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel, for one.
> I literally can't think of a more dangerous kind of research that we could be doing as a species than messing around and making viruses more dangerous.

You have a very limited imagination. ;-) I assure you that extensive research into biological (not involving viruses), chemical, and nuclear weapons... and really a wide variety of weapons research is easily more dangerous. There's plenty of opportunity in other areas like materials science, genetics, etc., as well.

> If we really have to do it, then we can do it in the middle of a desert with quarantine procedures instead of near/in population centers.

Now you'll want to have an ultra-secure means of transporting highly dangerous biological samples, not to mention research teams & observers, at very high speeds to the middle of a desert. Are you sure you've improved the risk profile?
Yes, spontaneous things can happen when in person. Many of those spontaneous things are time sucks and not productive.

Remote work has so many things going for it, it does not make sense to me to use a different model.

Commute time is eliminated, as are commuting costs. That is time better spent.

Remote communications have a built in forcing-function making us gather our thoughts before we type them in or call someone. This isn't a barrier to most. Is for some, typically the people who do a fair bit of idle chat or don't tryto solve things themselves for at least 20m before asking others.

Remote communications can be recorded. Serves as both a knowledge repository that can be gone back to, and as an audit trail for legal purposes.

Remote communications allow tools to be built into the conversation. In person we have a whiteboard, and someone has to take a photo of the whiteboard when done.

Remote communications allow collaboration with wide area geographies where in-person travel would be too costly to do frequently (e.g., England and U.S.).

Remote communications can be async, allowing staff who keep different schedules to easily collaborate.

This could be as simple as another layoff, but I think it's more management that are used to the usual way of doing things. In my experience with remote vs non-remote I have seen a clear bias of older management to be less likely to embrace remote comms. I've also seen plenty of outliers on both ends, so that hypothesis might not hold water. I am curious what the age range of Roblox management is, compared to remote-first companies like Github.
Build is not FLOSS: http://eduke32.com/buildlic.txt

Edit: non-commercial-only, distribution only allowed via the Internet, etc.
make it a '*(volatile char*)0 = 0' to force the store.
What exactly is a "light cone of value"? Is it money or something else?
A high percentage of 2012 Leaf's and Model S's are still on the road, many with 200,000+ miles.
Possible. I pasted the output, but tried to get some paragraph spacing in the output, possible I accidentally deleted a character.
In terms of law enforcement: I disagree. It's like 97% national still.

In terms of civil disputes between citizens from different member countries - well, we don't have any phone/internet/post police.
> Is there a way for us to give this topic the attention and thoughtful discussion it deserves?

Probably not. While I agree that it's an important topic, it's potential to be flamebait for everyone involved kinda outweighs the value of discussing it. HN's audience is best left to arguing over the density of sand on their favorite brand of plastic.
Of course, *_r is a better option, but the existing API is used so pervasively that it needs to be made thread-safe to actually avoid thread-unsafe code in, e.g, libraries.
After watching some of the recent "bug infestations" on TV, I think that is important to remind that

1) there are more than 100000 species of bugs. Just because you find a bug in your room does not mean that is a bed bug or that you will need to set the house on fire. Some bugs explore houses at fall in a search for good places to hibernate. They are just wild animals, not unlike finding a sparrow at home. If is a green insect, just open the window, invite the nezara to go out, and save yourself the trouble of sleeping in a cocktail of toxics.

2) Some bugs are social or form groups to hibernate. Just because you find 20 bugs in your window or under a bark does not mean that the bugocalypse has started. Repeat the previous procedure.

3) This was a hot year. Expect more hibernating visitors.

4) Some of the bugocalypse cases depicted on TV show common species of plant bugs that don't eat humans.
I would be very concerned with someone pwning my phone with a $5 wireless device, but that's not what's happening here. This is a DoS attack. It could never be perfectly mitigated, as long as any mitigation depends on the (arguably) fundamentally impossible task of verifying an external device is a "real" Apple device. It's possible to design security protocols that allow me to verify my device is a real Apple device, but likely not to verify a packet was sent by someone else's "real" Apple device. So I'm less concerned about the latter.

Also note that I specified I'm more concerned with verification of trusted hardware on my own device. Because the repercussions of malicious hardware implanted in my own device cannot be mitigated purely in software. Whereas verifying the integrity of an external device inherently depends solely on software, since there is no hardware interaction. I'm still concerned about it, in the sense that I'd like my OS to take best efforts to only "trust" external devices insofar as it can verify they're trustable, but I also accept that those devices are outside of my control and so any protocol for trusting them will have holes in it. My main requirement is that I should be able to opt out of the system if possible (by e.g. disabling bluetooth).
From TFA:

> Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.

Is it possible that you missed some items somehow? Would cross checking them against the article be a good idea?
They did the thing, observed and documented the side effect, and chose to continue doing the thing. They did this in Myanmar and they are still doing this to teenagers.
Like most people not in China, I never deal with individual people, just the country. I see nothing inappropriate about my generalization, please go into more detail so I can figure out what you are talking about.
While I dont disagree that what is happening is important or newsworthy and I did not nor will I flag this, this topic is none the less not something I feel is appropriate on hacker news.

There are plenty of other venues to talk about world politics and events but this is the best place to talk about tech.
For the logged out profile page, it appears that the posts are ordered in approximately descending order based on the number of likes.

I've noticed this for the past month or two.
One theory I read is that Floyd and Chauvin were part of the same counterfeiting ring operating out of that club, and Chauvin murdered Floyd in order to keep him quiet. (Recall that Floyd was originally arrested for suspected use of a counterfeit $20 bill.) I think maybe part of the idea was that nightclubs are interesting to counterfeiters because they deal with so much cash.

(Racism still plays a big part in the Floyd story even if this is true -- Chauvin presumably thought he could get away with it, and his fellow officers mostly didn't try to stop him.)
That's waaaay too long of a timeframe to predict anything in geopolitics, especially in a turbulent area. I wouldn't trust anyone claiming to know what this region will look like in a year, let alone 30+.
They might be good performance wise, but if you watch the Jeff Geerling video he mentions in the post, it will show you how much trouble he has with it. Custom distros with broken repos, non mainlined outdated kernels.
Oh that's good, I like that one! But a counterpoint for fun: weather is a system. I wonder if we can find a rule that seems sane but would classify an inert gas as alive? Imagine defining life and someone rebuts with "Argon."
"Interest of $1,500 or less" is eligible according to the announcement.

Dividends and capital gains are not mentioned, and presumably not eligible.
I switched to Affinity Photo and Designer a while back, and have been happy. I wish Designer had image trace, but it's not a deal killer. I used Illustrator way, way back when such a luxury was unheard of, so it's not particularly painful.

Highly recommend both.
Are you perhaps thinking of https://geminiprotocol.net?
>By what metric would I be a "bad machine". And who put you in charge of deciding what "bad machines" are?

My metric is machines that punch me in the face are bad, and I put myself in charge of deciding it. If enough people agree with me, we can make rules and hire cops to stop the machines behavior we don't like.

>I mean, you don't see people putting defective water heaters in prison, right? Why not? Because they have no free will, and are thus deemed incapable of committing crimes..

I'm not proposing putting it in jail, just repair or replacement. On the other hand, people don't ignore their water heater starting fires because "it was designed that way" or "it is a product of its environment and mistreatment".

I saying it is irrelevant if the water heater has choice or not. It is simply a problem that needs to be delt with either way. Blame isnt mutually exclusive. The water heater could have a defective design, poor maintenance, and as a result be defective itself.

I don't have to believe it has choice or there is a tiny man inside it to go about fixing it and stopping it from burning down my house
They do, but if you put it in a public post box(like say @ the post office), the only way they know where to send it is to the return address.
Or it doesn't move unless it's nearly certain of its case.
I used to use Twitter to find interesting things to read, but de-viralizing links (and now the headlines don't even appear) has neutered Twitter for that purpose, and IME made it much dumber. Substack Notes is better for finding things to read but still small.
isn't that just the internet (and in many ways our societies) in a nutshell?

All the people today saying the internet and content wouldnt survive without advertising and payments and some of us remember that actually the internet and content came first, then the corporations and profit seekers arrived. everyone was originally just excited to get their stuff out there and talk to other people who were passionate and knowledgeable about their stuff as well. then the corps, advertisers, seos came.

sharers -> profit seekers

remember when uber was supposed to be about being able to car share on your way to and from work and cut down on car use?

sharers -> profit seekers

remember when airbnb was about being able to share your home with someone else while you were away at someone else's so you wouldn't have to pay for hotels?

sharers -> profit seekers

remember when hackers were people who set up share drives in university halls with free music and movies, fighting for open access to books and software and info and publications? now we have saas, Steve jobs bios and hacker news is run by a startup venture capitalist firm...

i wonder what the next thing they can destroy will be...

i guess if the pattern repeats look for anything anywhere people are sharing or doing something of value amongst each other for free. they will climb on board try to expand the audience and swamp out the signal of the original community and change the narrative to entrepreneurship and making money from this was always the point, then they will lock it down with network effects and strap on parasitic payments or revenue streams, then they will optimise until they destroy the original with universal enshitification.

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I know it is cool to hate on Mitchell Baker here. Lack of qualifications is not a valid criticism. She has a law degree from Berkley. Passed the California bar exam in '87. Was a high ranking lawyer in Netscape as their first legal hire. Designed the Mozilla Public License. Created the Mozilla Foundation. She has been in executive roles for 20-30 years.
I sense locking SSO behind your enterprise plan isn't going to make you very popular on HN.
Randomness is just the thrill of gambling. I understand why it's fun but it's not really a game if winning can be a matter of luck.
I believe only a very small number of frogs brood their young. So does that suggest this behaviour tends more to innate than acquired? Is there any evidence of oservational learning or of knowledge passing in frogs?
http://web.archive.org/web/20231017170928/https://www.nytime...
Logitech's Carbon Labels
There is meaning in that the artist chose a sunset as the subject of the piece, and they decide the composition and colouring, etc. It's all done with intent. And in pieces with more than 1 element, the various objects -do- have symbolism or were chosen with some theme in mind.

We're talking about art, not phone wallpaper screens.
> kills billions

That would either save the planet, or go a long way in that direction.
If it's just a formality, why not do it before you start the job then?
I've thought about doing that before just to say that I've done it, but it always seemed a bit intimidating. I also have completely illegible handwriting now, so filling anything in by hand is effectively a non-starter.
There are plenty of perfectly ordinary reasons to do this, e.g. you have an untrusted binary and you want to analyze it to determine if it's malicious, or hook its encryption function so you can decrypt the traffic and see what it's sending out of your machine. Program debuggers do this in general. Some enterprise BS does this so it can scan TLS traffic. It has long been common to do this sort of thing specifically to games and generally to precompiled binaries without published source code, to mod them in ways that aren't related to cheating. It can make sense for interpreted languages to sandbox the interpreted code into its own process, which the interpreter process might then be writing to.

It's not at all unusual.
Deception and Psychological Warfare in Israel-Hamas Conflict
It's time to ask similar questions about many other areas. If ChatGPT can write it by extrapolating from a smallish input, then by definition everything it added is superfluous.

Grant applications are a relatively publicly visible example of this, but there will be dozens of others. Reports of all kinds, especially ones required by contract that no one wants to write, and no one wants to read.
bruh, that loads WAY too fast. you gotta slow that role, have a splash, prompt for signing up for newsletter, display some ads, prompt to disable ad blocker, etc etc.
Fine-tuned Llama 2 7B to analyze 10-K financial reports and write funny tweets
Had no idea this existed and I'm grateful I came across this today. Clicked around a bit to see which Aphex Twin tracks were chosen — Xtal is there! Funny how typing "deadmau5" in the searchbar just returns "Who?". Reading the Info Panel for 8th Note Prog explains why that might be the case.

Loved reading through the Info Panels and the FAQs but the UI is a bit clunky to work with. Is there an official dataset? Would love to try my hand at building a different UI around it.
They're all shit. Get a Lenovo mini PC off eBay and stick Debian on it. I replaced my shitty Pi with a Lenovo M600.

If you want a dependable computer, stay away from pseudo-embedded hardware.
What Makes WebAssembly Special?
> Is there a way for us to give this topic the attention and thoughtful discussion it deserves?

Nope, sorry. Some victims of war are more equal than others.
> Only a Sith speaks in absolutes...

I love that, and am saving it for my quote book. Attribution will I give, of course.
This is fantastic, thank you. And this is only going to get better over the next couple of years. Totally incredible.
The terrifying part is the evidence that on-site is better is a couple of anecdotes from the CEO. These people are sociopaths. “I had a couple of good meetings, so all people who stay remote are fired.”
It's because you don't want to leave a pile of shit for the next person to clean up. If you're maintaining code, and a function seems to be returning the wrong value for the ticket/bug you're investigating, do you comment out the whole function and just return $right_answer, or do you investigate what's going on so that the function is returning the wrong answer for a given set of args.

By that same extension, a custom hacked up theme is the "return 4; /*" of site maintenance.

By using a plugin, the person that follows you doesn't have to be a webdev who could float a css div blindfolded.
Oh, it is absolutely wild, which I don't think is a very good characteristic for a legal system, especially one where the rule is that 'ignorance of the law is not a defense'.
Wiby is a great resource. My roll took me back to 'nam: https://jackrvn70.neocities.org/

I happen to run a directory of 'escapist/artistic' websites, if a second instance of self-promotion is permissible: https://wmw.thran.uk
> To answer the headline, nothing happened to it. Writing about stuff for writings sake and just to get it out of your head into some form is still very much a thing.

What happened was directing people to websites put up for free with all the information they need doesn't make Google any money, as compared to a bloated POS on SquareSpace that downloads 80 MB of JavaScript to checks notes... render fucking text alongside a few dozen AdSense slots, or, perhaps more commonly, a Facebook group that has six hundred people asking the same questions in a format that doesn't allow going back to actually find the goddamn answers, which also shows ads.

The wide, weird internet still exists, but none of our corporate overlords make shit on it so it gets zero attention in the mainstream.
Unfortunately these types of requests come after you have presumably accepted the offer and declined alternative offers...
I am all for reducing rent seeking, including in this case literally. However, my point is that the hippies became squares in the same way the hackers became squares. It's not clear that housing costs are causal; they might just be incidental.
Interesting. Turning bluetooth off via settings doesn't mitigate it? What about disabling AirDrop and Find My?
Depends on if the culture supports messaging the right person when it comes to mind or just when it's convenient.

Slack/Teams/email/etc can be spontaneous as well. Just a matter if the culture appreciates and encourages the behavior.

If the CEO is leaving off-sites w/ brand new, strategically significant, ideas that no one was comfortable even hinting at via Slack/Teams/email - yep, seems like a very in-person, face-to-face culture. Seems very brittle in this day and age.
>>except when someone is currently employed and is leaving a job to take one at our company.

And in that case you do the check before they start with you, yes?
Don't worry about it, they will investigate themselves and find nothing wrong.
blogging died when google killed google reader.

yes, some other readers tried, but nothing was as fast and as nice to use as google reader.
HN discussion about the manifesto: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899993
> This is a DoS attack. It could never be perfectly mitigated

Bullshit.

Flooding the waves with radio interference (something that Bluetooth is particularly resistant to) would at most "deny service" of another device trying to connect to my iPhone through Bluetooth. It should NOT deny service of the _entire_ iPhone, which is what is discussed here. This is 100% preventable crap.

> the (arguably) fundamentally impossible task of verifying an external device is a "real" Apple device

Bullshit... and egregious considering you apparently think it is doable for replacement parts, but "fundamentally impossible" for networking devices. SSL is about 30 years old by now.

> I'm still concerned about it, in the sense that I'd like my OS to take best efforts to only "trust" external devices insofar as it can verify they're trustable, but I also accept that those devices are outside of my control and so any protocol for trusting them will have holes in it.

Also bullshit. All these holes are because of the proprietary extensions Apple puts on top of Bluetooth, which are exploited to no end. Notice my original post is about Apple not being able to identify when it is a (real vs fake) Apple device that is trying to initiate a connection. The protocol is 100% controlled by Apple.

Normal Bluetooth protocols and devices (which do not identify as Apple devices and are therefore subject to the standard Bluetooth pairing UI) are almost never the problem.
It's often easier to prove this (or, even more often, tax evasion) than prove the alleged criminal activity. Either way, bad guy goes to jail, so the government is happy.
It's too late to edit, but I swear I know the difference between ad and add.

On a side note, I thought a naive shuffle with a well-seeded cryptographic-quality pseudorandom number generator was the most likely finding from his poker bot history archive. I thought the linear congruential generator and seeding with the current time were long shots. I was just hoping that the skewed distribution gave a measurable edge over bots and players that were playing under the assumption of a uniform distribution of cards.

Had I thought there was a reasonable probability of a popular poker site using a LCRNG seeded with the current time, I would have been much more persistent in my requests for the history data.
How don't grasp why megi would close their github account plus prevent pull. Seems like not only a very unsympathetic move (to be very euphemistic) but quite against the spirit of open source. Did they write the entirety of the Linux kernel? If not, then whatever their contribution might be pales in comparison to what they're building upon. To treat their own work in such a egoistical manner seems out of touch.
If you really want to micromanage property types you could always adjust the land value tax based on actual usage.
T-Mobile to Automatically Move Some Users to More Expensive Plans
Remix is using latent space interpolation under the hood to generate three variations of a given riff with (light, medium and heavy) modifications