skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clan dynamics aren't only a Middle Eastern thing.

They happen in every culture or society where family ties matter.

For example, Guangdong's rise in electronics assembly thanks to Cantonese business families in Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore investing in Taiwan and then co-investing in Guangdong.

> it appears Middle Eastern governments have been in power a long time

Most are stable. Aside from Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen they are humming along.

> people should be conflict adverse

People are conflict adverse.

The issue is a states like Yemen, Syria, and Iraq just straight up imploded and collapsed, so people reverted to family relations.

If you ever wondered what the world would look like after the apocalypse, it doesn't look like Fallout or The Last of Us - it looks like Yemen, Syria, Nepal, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Lebanon, etc
One of the first things I built as a developer at the first startup I worked for (circa 1998 or 1999, I was originally hired as a graphic and web designer) was a system I wrote in Allaire ColdFusion that used Macromedia Flash Generator to render and save custom graphic page headers and navigation buttons for e-commerce websites by combining data stored in an Access database with Flash templates for look and feel.
> Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, Inc

This case involves a company reverse-engineering another company's software in order to make a clone product.

Do you think a case about reverse-engineering for the purpose of interoperability might have a different outcome?
How loud is it with the mod you made to the fan?
I do wonder, say one has 16 gb of vram and 64gb of ram. IIRC mixtral takes ~ 40gb total, if you were using it for creative writing or whatever could you load certain layers into gpu memory and certain layers into system ram? I wonder what the overall speed of this would be?
And XHR is still better than fetch. It supports progress events and SSE. I'm not really sure why fetch exists if it doesn't add new/better functionality. It's handling or lack of handling 302s is crap too. You can set it to "manual" handling but then can't manually handle it.
Are you saying that even with the device, when it fires, you still feel disoriented?
1) I somehow doubt this is true.
2) If it was, it would not be possible to enforce. People are adding and removing stuff on their home network all the time. What if your roommate's machine gets compromised?
3) Wouldn't it be simpler for them to send out a VPN appliance and treat the home network as untrusted?
Great tool now do the same fit child care
Wild. Although I've heard Apple have a hardware shutoff for the microphone when the lid closes so perhaps DRM on the sensor is less insane from a security perspective than it might first appear.
You’re suggesting I should get my friends to switch carriers??

Why should it be up to the carrier? I guess that’s why it’s so broken.
Is this an honest question or one of those HN social status signalling things where we all feign unfamiliarity with what software development looks like outside of the YC bubble? Not snark, seeking clarification.
Making it sounds like DNS problem is clickbaity. It is a coredns/kube-dns problem.

And yes k8s world, dns fails more often than you think.
I'm not surprised, the W11 upgrade nag screens are riddled with dark patterns.
We're Not Living a "Predicted" Life: Student Perspectives on Dropout Algorithm
Tech Recruiter – Advice
Hi All, I wanted to see if anyone in this network could give some guidance. I'm a technical recruiter and used to post and hire through HackerNews. This community always is filled with smart and eager engineers. I recently decided to open my own recruiting llc, so it's just me and I'm trying to build a client list to obtain roles to work on and hopefully do this full time. My question is: How would you suggest I stand out in a tough recruiting market? I do LinkedIn outreaches, have connected with my network, am hustling as much as possible, and am loving "reverse recruiting" where I'm helping people that are looking for work. But, it is difficult to have the conversation with someone at a company who could say "yes" to have me work on a role. Any help/guidance is appreciated. Thanks all.
Related thunderf00t videos: https://youtu.be/ZHjrFKfyZrw and https://youtu.be/RNFesa01llk

Those are for Elon's; Virgin also has a hyperloop which he's covered too: https://youtu.be/VrbstnzbhZA and https://youtu.be/EeWcQf9QCmg
> Many of the hobbyist sites running on sites like vbulletin or invision are gone; we use subreddits for those now. And people don't even bother with those, more and more people just post meme gifs in the comments of reels, sitting there scrolling through with their thumbs rather than contributing something new and unique.

Gen Z's rampant tech illiterate is likely a cause not a consequence of this. Most of the independent forums were probably run by teens and college students. They aged out of it, shut their forums down and weren't replaced by a new generation. Then Reddit filled the void to become a profitable corporation that will probably exit via IPO in the near future.

Another cause of this is the collapse of the middle class due to wage growth failing to keep up with inflation. If you can't even afford housing, health care, transportation and food then you're going to be obsessed with "side hustles" to try and make some extra money rather than actually living. Running a forum or writing a freeware game because you actually believe in it is a luxury that people can no longer afford in this "booming" (if you're a millionaire or work a McJob) economy.
I will allow it. But it’s good to know the consequences and take them into consideration.
Just a small clarification here. The author isn’t just a fan of Rust. Steve was a member of the Rust Core Team for years and was co-author of the book “The Rust Programming Language,” which is the main recommended introductory text for the language.
TL;DR: Had no database so I made a PHP page with a hardcoded array of 100,000 coupon codes.

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Made a PHP landing page for a customer where they could redeem a coupon code they were sent via snail mail. About 100,000 codes were sent out via USPS.

Threw together the basic code you might expect, simple PHP page + MySQL database. Worked locally because customer was dragging their feet with getting me login creds to their webhost.

Finally, with the cards in the mail, they get me the login creds at 5PMish. I login and there's no database. Cards are going to be arriving in homes as early as 8AM the next day. How TF am I going to make this work... without a database?

Solution... I just hardcoded all 100,000 codes into a giant MySQL array. Or maybe it was a hash/dict or something. I forget.

Anyway, it performed FINE. The first time you used the page it took about 30 seconds to load. But after that, I guess `mod_php` cached it or something, and it was fine. Lookups returned in 100ms or so. Not spectacular but more than performant enough for what we needed.

Got paid. Or, well, my employer did.
And mindustry does it really well in Java. The game doesn't use much cpu, even on large maps and runs on windows, mac (including apple silicon). Graphics looks good too
> We didn't get involved because of the holocaust

Nobody claimed we did!
It’s funny how saying a game is addictive makes many people want to try it, but people like you and me take it as a warning. For me it’s because I succumb to addictions more easily than most.
Aren't China consistently critical of violent aggression? I don't see how their being critical of Israeli violence is supporting terrorism elsewhere. China are one of the main players in trying to encourage peace talks between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

I feel like you're maybe trying to make a different point but avoiding saying it?
CVE-2023-42465: Sudo Affected by Stack/Register Flaw
My favorite change management approach (is totally not made up, I promise) consists of three main pillars.

It's also a well known fact that tripods and pyramids and triangles are mystically powerful, so my methodology is totally legit, obviously.

- Pillar 1: Every opinion counts, but only if you can do the work

This boils down to removing managers who are not individual contributors from the decision making process (and potentially from the teams). I hear that Facebook are trying this out after their endless money started drying out. My advice is to not allow engineering managers who are not individual contributors in the first place.

- Pillar 2: Working without distractors, aka let us work without poker cards (aka estimations) and micromanagement check-ins (also known as standups)

This boils down to removing positions not related to building software from the process of building software. Such actions can be mind blowing to some, because it's a well known fact that we, engineers, can't make any decisions for ourselves what to build and what is its priority, and we obviously need some non-engineer who knows better to tell us what to do. But I urge you to entertain the thought and make a mental leap to a world where software engineers are capable adults who can build a great product, prioritize their work, and ship with confidence without a person with a BA degree called Josh who is "overseeing" their work.

- Scrum Master (that can be a full time job, apparently). Just don't use SCRUM as a whole, and if you have to, try to only incorporate some stuff from it if the engineers see as useful (like retros, or some form of daily sync). Anything else that stipulates also a role/position or some weird ritual with candles or cards, just throw it out of the window and thank me later.

- Product Owner/Manager. In corpo world, MITM is not a type of attack, but an actual job description, a well respected middle man who gets paid for repeating things (poorly) from one group to another and gets to, for unknown reasons, decide what is important and what's not. Just don't do this to yourselves and allow your developers to talk to "outside" people.

- Agile Coach (yes, that exists as a full time job as well) from the process of software development. Motivate the developers by spending the savings from not hiring these roles into the engineering team's next salary increase.

- Pillar 3: It's done when it's done

The more management types are sniffing around trying to pressure you into release or how to build whatever feature, the more they are slowing the process of a good, reliable software with well thought of features. So they just have to be patient or hire a new development team. It's done when it's done, deal with it.

Conclusion

I call this approach to change management: "Great Tactics For Owning Management", in short GTFOManagement, and I fully intend to write a book about it and then not release it.
I guess I have a slightly more charitable take on this, in the sense that the Internet has an amazingly low barrier to entry for putting your content online and reaching an audience, and I think overall that's actually a great thing.

So I don't begrudge people trying to build an audience by publishing online about things they know or love, but one of the downsides is that the Internet's "content is free" tradition - that comes from hobbyists working out of passion - has led to a whole industry of "how do we make money off people without taking money from them" and that's ads and tracking.

And then the game becomes "how many people can I draw in to my site by any means necessary" instead of "how can I create engaging content".
That's pretty clearly not true, since the Sourcefire and Duo acquisitions.
This is super cool, nice work! I've just used apple notes for this in the past when on my mac, but this is way nicer.
Out-of-this-world solar system discoveries made in 2023
People argue about what motivated the 9/11 highjackers. Some will say, bin laden hated America, forget what he says about dual containment, he actually just hates us and is using that as a justification. Others will say, look, hes pointing out exactly what hes mad about, he says it right there.

The former calls the latter naïve, the latter calls the former bellicose, they could well be both wrong. Maybe bin laden did just hate us, and maybe that doesnt matter, because his little empire was built on a different message that he could convince people it was worth dying for.

In Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert Pape shows that all suicide bombings from 1980 to 2005 were the result of a people being occupied. I am not convinced that anyone actually wants conflict, not once theyve seen it and are subject to it at least, unless there is a direct incentive. You might think these people wont stop until they are dead or accomplish their most hardline public talking points, but I find it far more likely that theyd rather be home with their kids than out in the field guarding an unguardable missile launcher.
This is an extremely cogent take on the state of things. Oct 7th was effectively a shattering of the old world view of a US superpower, MSM lead narrative, DNC/GOP duopoly of thought and politics... There are still many people that hold that world view, but there are now many who don't and won't ever again.
Well yes it's from literally biblical times. The social norms were rather different.
Fwiw those numbers look sensible for Norway - but note that median household income after tax is about double (590k nok):

https://www.ssb.no/statbank/sq/10090867

Not sure how that compares to the us numbers.
Just curious, any reason you're using TMarkor instead of Markor? (https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.m...)

Only asking since this was also the editor I ended up settling on in Android, but it seems like TMarkor is just a repackaging of Markor without any references to its forked(?) source.

My requirement was that the editor had to be open source so that I could audit the repo and compile the APK from source, as well as potentially fork it for personal modifications if needed.
Using animal genetics to study other phenomena is one of my favorite techniques!

We’ve got a lower bar for when humans started wearing clothing, for example, because about 120,000 (+/- 50,000) years ago body lice genetically diverged from head lice to the point that they could no longer mate.
> If you want a ready-to-use solution: Fiio makes great MP3 players, and also nice USB- and Bluetooth-DACs.

Or get everything from Sony which supports LDAC 990k on both the audio sending and receiving sides of Bluetooth. I love my Walkman!

I also have non-LDAC "neckphones" to carry around: the Beyerdynamic "BLUE BYRD" gen2 are far more practical than Sony or Apple earbuds for one simple reason: you can't lose one since in the neckphone format, the earbuds hang around your neck with a cable (which also provides convenient buttons)

Originally, I got the Beyerdynamic for my Chinese eink device (which don't support LDAC anyway) but it's so practical I use it's now paired with my Walkman and computer too!

Neckphones are not easy to find in the lineup of popular brands, but I've heard great things about the latest Huawei Freelace Pro: it's the same neckphone design, but with magnets on the back of the earbuds and ANC.

I'm getting the Freelace Pro "soon" (3 days from now lol) to see if it's more comfortable than my Beyerdynamics
This is old and not the one I read, but what I could find through search:

> Engineers needed manufacturing process information to verify that designs were free from systematic yield limiters, but foundries were reluctant to distribute process information that could reveal best practices and trade secrets. Encryption enabled the protection of selected design rules, process data and other information while still giving customers the details they needed.

> In this discussion, you must understand that the required protection is much more than just an obfuscation of rule definitions so they are no longer human readable. The process also includes the encryption of related files and control over all the outputs from the tool environment that provide information about any checks.

https://www.techdesignforums.com/practice/technique/protecti...

The design rules themselves could yield info to competitors about what processes are being used in the upcoming gen.
Going full ISIS out of the blue one day started it. It's stupid nonetheless.
I use Apple Notes for this. It doesn’t do the calculations, or the syntax highlight. But, it mostly just revives whatever I paste into it, and allows me to copy it to wherever when needed.
Including images(screenshots), text with links etc.

The side benefit from using Apple Notes is that it is constantly and reliably syncing to my phone. So, I can always refer to stuff on the go.
From Nand to Tetris (2017)
Not really, because most people aren't buying it for the hardware, they are buying it because it's a Chromebook. Maybe their kids need it for school, so the price is that high because it's a guaranteed supported and has the correct version of ChromeOS the school requires. As long as it can run whatever webapps the school needs, it doesn't matter what the underlying hardware is.

So basically, the incentives are lined up differently. I can take a real laptop and install whatever I want on it, but the same is not true for a Chromebook. That is by design because they also don't need to be powerful to run webapps for kids at school.
I mean, I don’t think the ol’ Nazis will be moving from one to another; both are increasingly friendly homes for them. People who would prefer not to deal with Nazis might of course consider moving.
You don't have to teach them any of those things, you just have to live them. They're smart, they'll figure it out.
I've gone down this path.. I have a Skylake Dell Inspiron, it has TPM 2.0 but of course the CPU is not supported.

The problem I've found is that the OS in general just isn't very responsive, everything is sluggish as hell in ways that it simply isn't with Window 10, but only when it comes to things like opening explorer, logging in and out, opening programs.. etc.. but programs themselves all seem to run just as well as they did under 10. shrugs, I think I just need to replace this thing finally.
But without DMARC will they verify alignment of bounce address (Rfc5321.MailFrom)/signing domain with the header from (Rfc5322.From)?
> We don't have the road capacity for everyone to drive that way. So we make tradeoffs. Part of that tradeoff means anticipating what other drivers will do and adjusting accordingly. Naturally, this will trade some safety for other things we value.

You keep making the same argument over and over even though I've repeatedly explained that it does not match our understanding of how traffic jams form. Traffic jams are caused by braking, especially hard braking. Tailgating increases the need to brake hard if the person in front of you brakes or someone needs to merge. Following closely does not increase throughout, it is simply bad driving with no upside.

> I'm pretty good at anticipating aggressive drivers, and I fear them must less than the super-tentative driver that tends to put other people at risk.

Wow, if you read the behavior I descrived as "agressive driving" then we have completely different standards. I was describing reckless driving that blatantly violates the rules of the road.

Stop using excuses for your bad behavior and you might even be able to become a better driver.
>I have a Skylake Dell Inspiron, it has TPM 2.0 but of course the CPU is not supported.

As a Skylake owner too, there's a good and well documented reason for that. Apparently, Skylake is full of so many silicon bugs[1](or just google "Skylake bugs") that Microsoft has had its work cut out patching Windows with workarounds based on Intel's erratas.

Maintaining support and testing for older and buggy silicon moving forward, keeps adding to the development cost of Windows, so it's only natural Microsoft would just say "fuck it" and drop further support for that CPU family at one point to save money and support headaches. Apple was also quick to drop Skylake.

Yeah, it sucks as a Skylake owner, but Intel holds a large part of the blame as well for pushing out junk without QA. Honesty there should be class action lawsuist for this.

FWIW, I have Win11 installed on Skylake and it seems to work just fine, so I assume Microsoft has it blacklisted as unsupported just so that if you ruin your accounting business due to some errors from the silicon bugs showing their heads, you can't hold them accountable as it's on you for working around their restrictions and running Windows 11 on an explicitly unsupported CPU.

> I think I just need to replace this thing finally.

Install Linux you mean.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-intel-engineer-apple-turned...
NewPipe is overwhelmingly my most used app. It's simply amazing.
Discovering Monero
Towards Automated Support for the Co-Evolution of Meta-Models and Grammars
No reason to be sorry. Things turned out quite well. I rarely share sad stories but this one provides a perspective that may be valuable for the conversation.

Re rare immigration status: my family entered the US in 1990 as “indefinitely paroled.” A single stamp in the passport was all we had to show for it. Supposedly only a few hundred people came in similar circumstances. Eventually this status got normalized through some legislation and now I am a US citizen. I can share more in private if you are curious.

So I don’t think the system failed me. There is no way that a guidance counselor would have know this, if lawyers were perplexed. Looking at it from another perspective and a wider view, the system worked well because it gave my family a chance to emigrate to the US.

There are many ways to look at the past. Road not taken and all. It’s good to take a moment how our decisions today might play out.
"Masters chased black and native women"

Typical Economist.
Class D is entirely the wrong topology for mid/high range frequency reproduction. I know you can make it work, but there are other topologies that are essentially guaranteed to provide a higher quality experience and the efficiency sacrifice isn't a huge deal when you are working in this frequency range.

For LFE playback (I.e. subwoofers), absolutely. Use it aggressively. I prefer class G/H topology for my LFE though. I run class AB for my mids & highs.
Wow, that's incredible to hear, what a major turnaround! As someone who has close people suffering from alcoholism, I can understand how tough it can be to encourage change.

It is cool that you're planning on telling the story in churches despite not being religious yourself. I think that's a great place to reach people and I really hope that your message gets across to lots of people in need.

You've definitely made a good impact this year, huge respect.
People actually want to install Windows 11 when better alternatives like Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Fedora/PopOS!/etc. exist?
> Maybe freedom and sovereignty haters might disagree but Yemen has the right to control what goes through their own waters.

The Houthis aren't the recognized sovereign government of Yemen, though.

International law doesn't grant them those rights over the strait, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_passage
I'm a ventoy kinda guy- https://ventoy.net/en/index.html
I "interviewed" that engineer recently, especially about GPT-4 and how it compares to LaMDa:

https://twitter.com/OmarKamali/status/1726431417163206900

(take the answers with a grain of salt, some people I know at Google had very different assessments of LaMDA)
> right to control what goes through their own waters

You're wrong about this. Their freedom and sovereignty to punch ends where the other person's face starts.