skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those lists would be far more informative if they had some years associated with them. Many of the cancelled projects were prop-planes cancelled in the 1940's and 50's.
> The author sounds like a very common type of software developer who takes security issues in their code like a personal attack.

She herself is a cyber security expert, so congratulations on attacking the messenger I guess?
I am one such person. I have no issue reading obscure or difficult content (legal documents ala Companies Act 2006 to historical documents written in non-native languages). However, for me, his particular style forces me to read many things twice or thrice to determine whether or not I've understood him correctly.

Despite that, I still get a lot from his writing.
Maybe I'm looking at a different paper than you? Among other places, on page 16 I see:

> A comparison between the Israeli queue and a regular queue

> It turns out that the Israeli queue is very efficient. To demonstrate this we calculate...

I downloaded it from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228675335_Polling_w...
I certainly did not mean “out of touch with what people will do”.

People click on links they shouldn’t all the time. People accept user-hostile decisions and software all the time. Etc.
The Man Who Would Buy Apple;But Sun's Chief, Scott McNealy, Probably Won't Be Caught Overpaying.

"...Sun proposed ... Apple at $23 a share ... well below the recent price ... traded around $30..."
Bought an initial list of 2m stores for a few hundred dollars from a website called "Built With". Think they are used for building sales outreach lists. Then narrowed down the focus to stores to US only and between $100k - $1m in revenue to keep the initial data set manageable (and the CPU / Storage costs reasonable).
They came up with V2 Mini satellites that can fit on Falcon 9. The original V2 can only be launched on Starship. They can launch a lot more V1.5, 48-56, than V2 Mini, 22, on Falcon 9.
No, engineers and software developers tend to be overly optimistic about the ability and speed to do things, and it’s integral to the task of building cool shit. It’s simply not lying. It may look that way to those on the outside, and you can say it’s irresponsible not to recalibrate, but even the adjusted estimates are optimistically recalibrated. The estimating well is poisoned by vision. Lying is something very different.
Cool, I agree with the author in concept, but there are so many goddamn engineers that ship incorrect/buggy/insecure software that if it wasn't its own function, nobody would even pretend to care. In my experience, most Project/Product/Program Managers sure as shit aren't going to prioritize it.

Not every org is FAANG. Unfortunately in many (most) organizations, in house developers get caught quite frequently eating the metaphorical security crayons.
If you pay inside (cash it card), you know the cost and guess the volume.

If you pay outside (card), you control both cost and volume. But it pre auths $100 or something.
Fed Signals Rate Cuts in 2024
https://youtu.be/KXXGS3MGCro?t=118

It's a sort of replayable cutscene that happens a couple times in the game where you can wander through it. The noteworthy bit is it's rendered out of voxels that look very similar to the demos but at a much lower resolution and if you push the frustrum into any objects, you get the same kind of effect where the surface breaks into blocks.
When frame pointers are omitted, there are fewer places in memory that can be overwritten to hijack control flow of a program.

Someone could easily prepare an demo of a frame pointer buffer overflow exploit to explain?
https://archive.is/Vrcg6
> It takes at least a decade for a technology to mature to the point where there's a polished point and click gui for doing it

That makes a lot of sense, and it would generalize: things that have existed for longer have received more attention and more polish than fresh new things

I'd expect running a binary to be more mature than running a script, and the script to be more mature than a GUI, and complex assemblies with many moving parts (ex: a web browser in a GUI) to be the most fragile

That's another way to see there's an extremely good case for using cosmopolitan: have fewer requirements, and concentrate on the core layers of the OS, the ones that've been improved and refined through the years
In Bangladesh they required government passing and enforcing new laws to end lead contamination of turmeric powder which had been ongoing for years and poisoned the entire population. Government responsibility is not government overreach. If the government merely warned the population and left it to the free market, the sellers would continue to sell contaminated turmeric while claiming it is free of contaminants. If left purely to the free market, eventually consumers would put an end to lead contamination, by creating a new government that enforces laws against lead contamination.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231204184119/https://www.econo...
Americans that want exceptions to freedom of speech must have no idea what countries that have them use them for.
I've been waiting for what feels like a couple of years, and it still doesn't look like I can buy Frameworks in NZ. Real pity.
Great project. If you continue to crawl the data, be sure to save it so you can detect price changes a la camelcamelcamel.
> If you mandate that it has to be ordered to fit from the production facility, then yeah it's probably safer.

A mandate isn't really necessary. Everyone involved has every incentive to cut stone in a shop rather than in the field.

The problem is people don't wear PPE. Guess what? Everyone already has a mandate to wear PPE.

Sometimes you can't fix stupid.
That's probably referring to the fact that running 'yes' is going to spend virtually all of its time on syscall and context switch overhead, and minimal real work or IO. So conclusions from such a test may not generalize to any kind of realistic workload.
Is there a reason all these language models rarely have any indication of the amount of GPU ram required to run them?
World ID, Worldcoin, New World Order
So it does both, right? As I said, it depends on the kind of games you like or follow.
It's too bad this didn't catch on. I would be entertained to message a colleague, "Hey, could you take a look at this pile of Grap?"
some relevant context is that bram and his brother ross developed an early decentralized version control system named 'codeville', more or less contemporary with git and mercurial; they put a lot of work into figuring out how merging should handle different hairy scenarios

bram was deeply disappointed that the systems that got widely adopted, like git, did a terrible job with these hairy scenarios, since he knew that it was possible to do much better
I have to repeat the question: do you genuinely believe this data is going to be inevitably deleted, or maybe do you think that the threat will work and the guy will get his stuff downloaded somehow?
Ask HN: Share your wisdom on customer acquisition
I am a technical founder with no marketing and sales experience. I have enjoyed coding and technical management aspect. We recently bootstrapped a company. Both of us deeply technical but I have taken sales role.

I have been doing cold emailing and have gained a few prospects. Most people either don’t respond or are not interested.

1/ what are ways to rapidly acquire customers?

2/ product is new technology enhanced with AI but there are companies with old way of doing things. It is hard to explain benefits of new tech.

3/ sometimes we see how customers could benefit from our product based on their website but they don’t respond.

4/ we do not have domain knowledge such as healthcare or insurance etc.

There are thousands of you who created successful companies. Were you in similar situation? What worked for you? Please suggest.
So she was getting more money than her equivalent coworkers?

Doesn't seem very equal, does it?
interview vs real work is different. FAANG engineers are not flipping a binary tree either, yet this is a common question they ask.

as for Burp Suite - why would a company keep engineer full-time only for him to run burp suite for 30 minutes once a month? Sounds like poor investment on a company's side.
Took me a second to get your comment, good one.
Fed Pivots to Rate Cuts as Inflation Heads Toward 2% Goal
https://archive.is/11ESI
It's an entry-level position, definitely not equal to lead security engineer. This person won't be responsible for backups redundancy.

Back on topic, as of early 14.12 UTC (the news were from 12.12), nalog.ru seems to be working just fine. Paid some property taxes to test. Keep up the good work, Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. Better luck next time.
If you have a keyboard that runs QMK firmware[0] with the VIA[1] feature enabled[2], then there is a convenient testing app available from the same place you customize your keys [3].

[0] https://qmk.fm/
[1] https://www.caniusevia.com/
[2] https://www.caniusevia.com/docs/configuring_qmk
[3] https://www.usevia.app/
Replacing large amounts of free energy from the sun isn't getting cheaper anytime soon.
> A door opening on the highway is an emergency scenario, too.

It is absolutely not, that's a silly claim. Go and push open your door on the highway, nothing much will happen. Wind will push it back, it'll mostly close and you can keep driving that way all day if you like.

Sure it's not the normal way to drive, but there's nothing dramatic about it, let alone "emergency".
Font Sizes from 4px to 99.9px
A ruler of sorts? Gives you a sense of how big a CSS pixel is. On desktop, you can auto-scroll and see some nice periodic graphics. Doesn't work too well on mobile. (It seems like the font sizes safari can display is discrete)

Inspired by that webpage that didn't close their h2 tags so the font size kept comically increasing
I love your approach; you found a problem and developed a solution for it. And then you got the courage to share with the larger technical community. Good on you.

There's obviously some rough edges (multiple duplicate products, issues with product links linking to empty pages, and no results for broad terms), but don't let that stop you. I'm certain they can all be fixed.

Keep going! At the least, you'll come out of this with an excellent project in your portfolio.
As per the point of the author though... tell me that platform/infra/devops/SRE is any different in this regard?

The stuff I have to do to keep people from eating infrastructure crayons...
> I think people who write C nowadays tend to be working in the drivers and OS development spaces.

I think it's also students; I think some people are still taught C as their first programming language. If you go on r/C_programming on Reddit, a lot of it is filled by very basic questions from what seem like beginners; I suspect they're students trying to do their homework.
Really happy to hear this. I'll do my best to keep this around :)
If I write you a $500 check and you accept it for $500 cash (or $500 of goods), you are extending me credit. You don't actually know that my account has the $500 until you cash the check. Someone has to pay that $500, even if I only have $100 in my account. And if I read the article right, the bank is legally required to take the loss.
Did Ye code this himself? It's...something
the yes command, writing to /dev/null, is making IO calls, which interfere with predictable scheduling.

If you look at the source code for yes, https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c

it builds a buffer of output and then writes that in a for loop

while (full_write (STDOUT_FILENO, buf, bufused) == bufused)
continue;

Inside the kernel, /dev/null is handled by doing nothing. So basically when this runs, the majority of the CPU time it consumes is just context switches from process to kernel and back. It consumes 100% of a core on an idle machine, but what you really want for your basic scheduling test is to have a pure CPU hog with no kernel transitions (I've seen variations- increment a register, do some light flops that don't hit memory, or even just a nop loop (which is basically "increment register, branch if less than"). If you get the expected performance on the cpu hog, then you can proceed to the yes hog.
Compare the cost of living in Berlin to even rust belt US cities and it's really not favorable to the US. If you want to include "healthcare premiums" in the calculation as a tax then the US pays more taxes per capita than most of the EU member states like France or Germany.

Not sure how you are measuring "inequality", but even in a backwater like Hungary you don't have adults rationing insulin made for pets.
Google is a data scraper. OpenAI is a data scraper. Pretty much every major company uses data obtained from a data scraper.
Why? They're cataloguing public data. Do you think the same of search engines - which are equally scraping the web?

If it's not useful to you, nobody is forcing you to use this product.
Great call! I am doing back-ups on Mongo and this is a good use-case for tracking changes. Also trying to figure out how to detect is a product is sold out or not being sold anymore.
Update: Code for the web viewer is here,

https://github.com/smerf-3d/smerf-3d.github.io/blob/main/vie...
Two of the stories I've looked at so far ("Elon Plans New University in Austin" and "Google, Apple Lose Grip on App Stores" under 12 13 23 3PM) are blatantly plagiarised from the linked sources. And for the first the "source" link is an archive.is copy to bypass Bloomberg's paywall. If there's many more like that, I expect this site to not last long.

Always nice to see a bit of William Blake though.
Great video by CuriousMarc, about how the Apollo memory works. (Core Rope Memory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0
mainly two:

1. Outsource companies are NOT known to be staffed with cyber pros, you won't be able to get a meaningful return on your money. Good security pros will NEVER work for body shop like Infosys who only focus on minimizing staff costs.

2. Trust issues. Much easier to hire inhouse person whom you know and who shows up in the office (and you can sue him US court in case of malice), than some offshore Dunder Mifflin Corp which can disappear and show up under different name
there are some insects that have active countermeasures:

John said, “Listen, you can hear the jammer.” The what? “The jammer,” he said, “Watch the moths.” It turns out the moths, through evolution, had developed their own electronic countermeasures to jam the bat radar.

https://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%e2%80%99d-...
Not really an app, but I really missed playing the 1997 multiplayer-only game QuakeWorld Team Fortress, so I forked it and made FortressOne. It worked! We play most days, and wonderful community has grown around it.

https://www.fortressone.org
I too was not a TV person for years but the spouse is. Shrug
I hear people are already running PSVR 2 on PCs, that headset is pretty great! OLED, blocks all exterior lights, great stuff.

About comfort, a Quest 2/3 + an aftermarket head strap replacement is pretty good.

If you don't mind the price, the Quest Pro is unbeatable in comfort and ease of putting it on.

HTC VIVE XR Elite has per eye adjustable diopters btw
I've been burned too many times by Google's need to constantly kill its own products.
I strongly caution anyone from tying their business to a Google product until the product has existed for more than a decade.
Google's strategic ADHD does not instill confidence when combined with the knowledge that these AI-models are very expensive to run.
As I read you, when you switch server, you still see your favorite people's own independent writings (the kind of thing HN posts link to). And perhaps their own local responses? And you give up the discussion threads or groups that are between the members of this or that server and moderated by the corresponding server people? These discussions are just among one server's members? Isn't that a rather small group?
Gen Z are scaling back on eating out because they have 'menu anxiety'
> Do you need position data to go along with the photos or just the photos?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yes, but it can typically be derived from images. Structure-from-motion methods are typically used to derive lens and position information for each photo in the training set. These are then used by Zip-NeRF (our teacher) and SMERF (our model) to train a model.
I think the role of cavalry charges for breaking infantry is commonly overrated; from what I have read, the usual time to deploy cavalry was after opposing infantry has wavered or has broken: at worst delaying them from regrouping, and at best converting the temporary advantage into a decisive victory.

(that said, who in a feudal society would even want armed peasantry? kind of goes against the grain of the society...)
Not really, Elon is quite proud of community notes in general. His claim that a particular note was gamed means nothing.
cute little language; this must have been pretty slick for those with a shell to a unix box wanting to put together a graph in 1984, considering there was rather little if any typesetting like that on PCs of the day

one fun thing of note is the bell labs penchant for lines of positional-feeling lowercase keyword spam in their DSLs (`ticks bot out from 10 to 70 by 10 ""`, `ticks right out at rep 1, 3, 10, 30, 100`); this is something that carries on through stuff like plumbfile syntax (http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/6/plumb), or even, many years down the line out the labs, iptables/pf rules
"Software that runs at scale" is a very different story than "Software that is shipped with a distro", unfortunately.

Very few distro packages can even define what a normal workload looks like.
> Change is possible

The simplest and best way to ensure change is to fund a competitor who has a different approach. Not wanting to mindlessly throw money at the same people forever isn't giving up.
You've been posting the same self promotion links over and over for some time now

Please review HN's posting guidelines and FAQ, in particular

1. Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

2. Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok.

Also, HN is know to be largely anti-crypto. This project definitely contributes to that perspective.

More generally, the blockchain ecosystem is very much an OSS community, where's the code?
Thanks for reminding me to bookmark that project! I'd forgotten about it.
After reading the instructions, I appreciate ready made, store-bought Cola even more
> This person won't be responsible for backups redundancy.

yes, because he is security engineer in datacenter. I couldn't find openings specifically for storage systems.

Sorry, ignored rest of your rants.
1000%. The Oculus Rift released in 2012 had an approximate 90' FOV. Meanwhile a freaking decade later and the latest greatest Quest 3 has only managed to improve that by a mediocre 20 extra degrees.

It makes it feel like every game is also secret submarine periscope simulator.

For reference, static FOV in humans (assuming looking straight ahead and not shifting eyes from side to side) is roughly 200 degrees.
Microsoft Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2023
> I really like those, that's the kind of convenience that makes you sign up for robot overlords

These can be super annoying. My partner has a car which just spontaneously unlocks whenever the key approaches. Which is ridiculous since often I'm just walking to the mailbox or out to a different car and have zero desire to unlock that particular car.

It just assumes, without understanding what I'm actually doing. Which is the fundamental UX problem with all these misfeatures.
Antizon
That's the one reason I'm credited as an early contributor to Django-REST-Framework: suggesting to the author early on that he split DB model from API model
I'm in very rural NW New Mexico on Starlink for the last 18 mo or so. I run a q 15 minute Fast.com speed test via HomeAssistant. Speeds are almost always between 60 and 80 mbps.

Previously was on the only local competitor without data caps, 6 mbps via DSL. All others are either cell or satellite based and would destroy my wallet at my usually usage (<=1TB/mo).

Starlink has been a godsend.
I love everything omg.lol offers. I've been a customer for more than a year now. And recently bought another two more years.

After reading the comments. I think most of you have no idea what this service is.

For example: If you want to know where the customers are you have a map for that:

https://home.omg.lol/map (is optionally appear on the map)

This is my:

- Twitter: https://benjamim.status.lol/ (what I write here it's cross-post to mastodon)

- Flickr: https://benjamim.some.pics/

- Blog: https://benjamim.weblog.lol/

This is just a glimpse from a super "happy client".

And if you have any questions, I'm sure you just need to ask Prami (https://social.lol/@prami) and he'll answer them.

Benjamim (https://benjamim.omg.lol)
Ask HN: Switching from Management to IC Roles
I have been into engineering management for quite sometime now. Each organization I have worked with have different expectations. Some of them have expectation of people management. Some of them have the designation as "Engineering Manager" but it turns out to be Delivery management. Some change the definition based on "current priority". Through all this, even though I could add value to various critical engineering decisions, but I have move miles away for day to day coding / code review activities.

should I transition to IC role and if yes, what are some suggestions to do so?
Careless? Oh yeah. A bit of filtering would improve the public's perception of him. But when you've gotten to where you are because of who you've always been *and* it's worked out well, very well, there's simply no incentive to change. At some point it's simply unreasonable for anyone to expect it to happen.
No. Because there is no intention for it, as someone has to pay for it. And who has money to spare? Not the poor. The rich ones, maybe. But they think often economical, otherwise they would not be rich. Or the ones, who can take money from others and redistribute it. Or churches, for example. Have built fantastic buildings.
"Menu anxiety"? Seriously?

How about they're stuck on the short end of the economy and have no money for eating out?

When McD's now costs as much as a sit-down restaurant used to, who rightly expects younger generations to be able to afford to eat out?
Starship is the only way that Starlink could meet its targets for capacity. The performance of Starlink depends on the number of subscribers and satellites. They have been growing subscribers faster than satellites which is why the performance in the report has been dropping. The only solution is to launch more satellites.

SpaceX started launching V2 satellites on Falcon 9, but they can only fit 22 on each rocket instead of the 50 or so with previous version. Even with their increased launch rate, there is no way they can launch the tens of thousands of satellites they have planned.
Didn't coal miners also use to get silicosis?
Click the times, each one links to a list of stories. Presumably the idea is the home page is going to be a list of dates and times.
Does disabling transparent huge pages help any here ?
Hiring is not based on merit anyway. Plenty of talented and skillful workers who may lack in the social and communication skills department, don't have a maxed out and blinged up LinkedIn profile with a bazillion connections or have a resume that was automatically filtered into the rejection stream.

I agree with you otherwise, just wanted to point it out though.
Never liked Dropbox from the get-go for some reason, and things like this keep proving my intuition right
Guess it’s time I start calling myself a high end designer / full stack dev