skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any thoughts on this is simply a 'pause' because of the unknown.

Corporations hate hiring when going into the unknown time period.

For better or worse, managers don't understand AI, and it is pretty hyped.

There could be hiring freezes just in anticipation of 'some change is coming so we should pause hiring just in case'.
I might be old but a listserv has always been valuable.

If good enough for Linux then something to consider.
> Its too bad the the top 100/200 hadn't changed in years.

I checked it every couple years or so when I remembered some part of some top quote and wanted to get the full thing. I always saw the top quotes never changed, so I just assumed the entire site wasn’t really updated.
The Stanford prison experiment in action
From the summary this was certainly a surprise:

>> A more recent study shows that toxoplasma infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity. Fear of failure would be less important in infected individuals, who are more willing than others to start their own business. These elements shed interesting light on behaviours and their possible relationship with toxoplasmosis, which is generally considered benign in adults.

I think while the part about it being generally benign is corrent, I was always told it can be particularly harmful for pregnant women and their babies. That's why I was on cat litter duty for 3 years anyway.
I bet they didn't.
Python Online Compiler with Interactive Challenges
And it seems to be layoffs in hardware which, frankly, Google is not great with. Yes, Pixel has improved vs previous years. But Pixel is mostly US, Apple owns the US market and Pixel is not making any inroads (at best it is eating other Android devices). Google has no real runaway hardware hits. It's had a few promising launches but then they manage to take them in bad directions (Google WiFi going from a simple focused thing to becoming this giant Google Home mess that's a pain in the ass to use, Chromecast devices losing functionality, etc, etc). Google support documentation has been 100% useless every time I've had an issue (to be fair: so is Apple's).

Amazon's hardware (Alexa) is the market leader I think and even it was hit with layoffs last year wasn't it? Even specifically Alexa which Google's Assistant hardware line tries to compete with.

It's probably extremely rational to step back and conclude that Google sucks at hardware. I do like Google WiFi (it frustrates me but it is fairly set-it-and-forget-it for my parents/non technical friends) and Pixel (because I hate iOS).
Correct. The Wilson Doctrine has never been popular among established powers, for obvious reasons. Every country has some wannabe breakaway group, from Texas to Catalunya, from Scotland to South Tyrol, from Corsica to Bavaria, from Kosovo to Kurdistan etc etc. Some claims are somewhat-justified but many (most?) are not.
Non-sysadmin here. For static HTML, why is server patching/OS needed if things are locked down?
I remember first being pointed to the site for having said: Wanting a man who doesn't smell is like wanting a woman who doesn't talk.

Its importance was immediately obvious.
Nice try, I'm not telling you !
Microsoft is too big to fail the perfect place for a shit ceo like Satya to just hold the finger in the wind and go with the flow.
I cast a level 99 resurrect spell on the server
> They would know someone was landing [...]

A good friend of mine worked for decades in ATC, I asked him earlier today what he'd have said, he thought "Taxi to C5 and hold" would have avoided confusion. In his view "Number 1" isn't helpful.
Agreed. So much in life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you look at your employer as an exploitative user of your life, then that is what you will get out of it. You will continually feel raw about things that happen, imputing mal intent where there is none. If you imagine upper management as sinister mustache-twirling villains, you are going to despise everything they say and do, regardless of its merit.

There are for sure exceptions, but I think most people would be very surprised at how little control the decision makers at the top actually have. They have a duty to make the best decisions for the company, and most of the time that is not ambiguous. The real difference I believe comes in how they handle it. Companies that provide generous severance, for example, are deserving of gratitude.

No doubt, it can really hurt when you have busted your ass and put your blood and sweat into a company, and they discard you. Many people tend to identify themselves with their employment, which I think lent very well to the idea of it being a family, but it won't be helpful to swing the pendulum all the way to the other side. Many people get a lot of fulfillment from their identity with the company, and there is nothing wrong with that. It's very natural, in fact. Humans are group-based animals that look for group associations and identify with them. Yes, it is great for people to use families and friends for that, but the reality is not everyone has that option.

A much healthier approach in my opinion is to find a good balance. Understand how the system works. When you see the sausage being made, and try to empathize and put yourself in the decision makers position, it can help take the sting off and give you a more realistic outlook on life.

The worst thing you can do for your mental health and life satisfaction, is embrace bitterness. You don't need buy into a delusion that things are great, that you are loved for you, or that the company is a big family, but you also don't need to buy into a delusion that the company and upper management are just evil heartless people figuring out how best to use and abuse you before tossing you out the door when they are finished with you. As with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Try to find that truth.
Thanks for the insights. What is your typical Emacs workflow for using and comparing the models?
Startling Signs of Gravity's Laws Breaking Down Detected in Twin Stars
That was how I learned to program, back in the 90s when I was a teenager.

But it was never what I meant to do. I was quite sure I was going to be a game developer. Knowing absolutely nothing about designing a game, managing a project, et cetera, I just starting writing games at the beginning, with a splash screen or animation, and then started writing the start GUI for the game.

For a 13 year old pushing the boundary of what you could do with QBasic and mode 13h graphics, I never quite got past designing the GUI, but I made a heck of a lot of them.
I have a pilot's license. Many people do they are fairly common.
No, but I write a fair amount of 'switch( expression ) { case 1: ...'-type code in other languages. Even if sub-optimal short-term, it's often much easier to understand and maintain long-term.
> any successor to Putin will still have the worlds largest nuclear weapons stockpile

Possibly. Given how much of the rest of the Russian forces turned out to be paper tigers, I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of the missiles' flight computers are missing something flight critical and 80% of the warheads have unenriched (or even outright depleted) uranium instead of weapons grade uranium or plutonium, with the real stuff having been lost (or never made in the fist place) due to corruption, and the SLBMs… well, thinking of replaying history, the Kursk comes to mind.

And while I don't think much of the promises of western anti-ICBM defences, they're probably still at least a bit better than the Russian delivery mechanisms.

Certainly possible that we'll see a repeat of Germany WWI -> WWII when the Russians collapse, I think that fear was why the west tried to be supportive of Russia when the USSR collapsed.

> "this assumes USD hegemony is a distant memory. does bitcoin have the largest weapons cache and standing military in the history of humanity?" is just bunk.

Sure. "Largest weapons cache" is too vague anyway — anyone can tell that the number of longbows don't matter too much any more, but sometimes we get people surprised that battleships also don't matter any more.

(Also: I thought the largest standing army was China, anyway?)
bash.im, the Russian version, was replaced with a "NO WAR" message for a while, and now it's gone.
Layoffs don't work long-term, especially for healthy companies looking to cut costs (Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about...)
There was a man executed in Texas based on evidence that was completely bogus.
Africa as a whole is going to be more and more important to world in the years ahead. It's a continent of 1.2 billion whose constituent countries have been aligned to the US and US/western aid.

Now it's becoming a stage for some of the Cold War-ish struggles between Russia/China and the US. Hopefully it remains mostly an economic stage where it's a battle of who pours more money into the continent's economies for friendship.
But all this is circular logic. You can’t say something is valuable because it’s digital. Why is it wealth in the first place is the question. Wealth is something that represents concrete value.
Positioning of nozzles in the video suggests they're experimenting with a BLC system, not just nozzles placed in the extremities like in the Harrier jets.
all of that only takes a literal minute to get past.
> All cheap graphics cards are Nvidia

If you watched any serious review last year you'll notice the AMD GPUs were consistently better value than their Nvidia counterparts. Though the 7000 generation was still very disappointing regardless.
Similar article with some additional background.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/01/afc485d5a59b-japa...
As far as I can tell no one is validating against government databases except for things like sanctions lists. For Americans they might use something like TLO in the best case. The identity verification companies like Onfido get a picture of both sides of an ID and then try to match the face of the person on the ID with the person in the selfie video. Presumably while doing some checks to see if it appears to be a fake. That's it.

In the case of synthetic identity fraud, they establish a history with the credit bureaus by applying for cards and getting denied (eventually they are approved for some low level starter credit card) or getting added as an authorized user to someone with a good credit history (people on eBay sell this).
They avoid using the "shi" or "shichi" forms because "shi" also means "death".
How do you determine programatically if the runway is clear? Or more accurately if it won't be clear when you get there? That's a substantially harder problem than you're letting on.
TBF it makes little sense to change the language standard of an existing project because then you end up with large areas in the old standard and some areas in the new standard. And bringing the entire code base to the new standard is just pointless busywork and might actually introduce new bugs.

As long as Linux doesn't prevent user space code to be written in more recent C standards (which it obviously does) it's fine.

Apart from that, there's also the Visual Studio compiler team to blame because they didn't manage to catch up with C99 until around 2015 (and even then only an incomplete implementation), and only in 2019 decided to 'officially' support the latest C standards again.

In general it makes a lot more sense today to start new C projects in more recent standard versions then it was 5..10 years ago.
I don’t think Google is necessarily overrated instead I think they have some issues being both an advertising company and something else.

I look at them from an EU enterprise perspective. Back 10-15 when the big move into the cloud started Google was ahead of their competition. They had online office, and they still have some excellent services that are sort of unmatched by both Amazon and AWS in terms of managed backends like Firebase, but today they make up almost no enterprise sales. This is largely because they never managed to transition into a world where they could sell their products to enterprise. One part is their data and privacy policies which are an obvious issue the other part is support. One of the most important things Microsoft sells to Enterprise is support, and I don’t mean the stuff you and I get as private persons, I mean how their headquarters will call your CTO with updates when something goes down, how you have direct channels to get things changed like when teams was turned on by default instead of something your IT department controlled, or how you can even visit their Azure server centres and look at “your” server if you’re a big enough customer. This is why AWS sort of “lost” in the EU, because when they first entered the market they had the automated support similar to what Google has now, where you can talk to a useless chatbot and never get anywhere even if you’re paying them millions of dollars. Unlike Google, Amazon quickly adjusted and suddenly they had better support and EU compliance than Microsoft (who still can’t guarantee that only EU citizens ever work on the maintenance of their data centres where your data is stored).

The one place Google was a little different was in Education. They actually seemed to know how to sell that, but even here their advertising roots are now losing them deals. Because now there is a focus on how everything in Google education is shared with Google, and while that data might be valuable to Google it’s losing them all their sales in education, which also means they lose the data…

Unless Google somehow changes course, and becomes both an advertising company, and, a tech company, they are just never going to be relevant outside of advertising again. At least for Enterprise, but even as a private customer, you’re probably thinking twice about their products considering how many of them they shut down.

I think it’s a shame considering a lot of their products are very good and affordable, but is what it is.
This is great, actually thinking of building something similar for a game I'm working on, but other way around really. OS in game instead of game in OS. :)
A similar thing happened to me almost 45 years ago now, and my fingernail went black and fell off (it grew back, I barely 5 years old at the time). To this day, I find black nails on women disgusting.

On the contrary, I (mistakenly) slammed a door from my (now 12-year old) Alfa Romeo to the hand of a relative who was holding on the B-pillar, and it barely touched her hand at all.
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The problem is that salaries above 100K are important to live securely in many places in the US.
I appreciate your view but I took OP's comment differently.
"Your job is not safe" in my view means you should treat work as if you are a mercenary. Treat every role as short term, go in do the job, get paid and always be looking for the next better thing, no emotional ties. Be prepared to cut them before they cut you.

I feel like it would actually drive salaries up as people move to higher paying roles and companies scramble to keep people that they would have otherwise expected to remain for years.

For context, I once worked at company A for 2 years then got a new job offer for 20% more than I currently made. I accepted the offer and then told my VP that I got a new job and the offer was 35% more. He matched the 35% so I stayed for another year and then got a new job for 25% more than that. A little after that, Company A started doing layoffs. If I had been loyal I would have likely been laid off, instead I left with a much higher salary because I was loyal only to the money.

Companies used to be loyal but no longer are, your job is not safe.

Perhaps we actually are on the same page in principal as I agree with all of your other suggestions "diversifying your options, building an emergency fund, have a fulfilling life outside work" just a different take on the original comment.
One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.
Fun side effect: the awkward pause in the sequence also makes me pay more attention to the countdown.
sorry, i meant bicycles.
we see it as asterisks ... you see it as hunter2 and not **** 'cos it's your password
China likely now top car exporter, overtaking Japan
> Gaining root to any network you don't own or have authorization to operate is clearly crossing the line

Q: As an attacker - whatever colour your hat - how are you supposed to know if any particular action may gain you root unless/until you try it?
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38918279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38910029
Wait, so which is better? Stateful or stateless? How do you decide?

Very new to these APIs and their usages.
Yes, for the reason mentioned but also because it has a longer lifespan than Wikipedia and Twitter to date.
You can wear a seat belt and still die in a crash.

Nothing in life is a guarantee. It’s pure pedantry to hear someone say “I would rather pay than be the product” and to choose to interpret that as “I believe that paying always guarantees that the company will never also use indirect monetization”.

Preferring business with direct monetization models is risk mitigation, not a naive (and incorrect) belief in a magic bullet solution to a complex problem.
The situation today is evidence for the situation in 5 years, and yes they discovered a magic formula: the integration of hardware and software.
Way-too-sensational headline, but the article is pretty sober after that.
But it makes it not an invention of benreesman
> Serfs being bound to the land

This is literally RTO /s
You may not be communicating as clearly as you hoped. Have you considered how many tri-state areas there are? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area
Don't remove it, add a "--yes-I-really-want-to-use-DSA" option. We sometimes have to connect to older systems that use insecure keys, and no those systems cannot be fixed (old network hardware, doing V2V conversions from old RHEL, etc)
I genuinely think that this partisan lack of compassion is detrimental to the cause. I'm 'on your side' (well, you would consider me so I suppose. Of course, the reality has nuance) - But I would just prefer that you didn't speak, if it is just blinkered, antagonistic, lacking nuance and weakening the signal-noise ratio.

And I'm sad that you wish death or suffering upon anybody.
Local setup, “text generation webui”, TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-GGUF (Q4_K_M) on HF. You can run it on a decent intel cpu, takes around 32.5GB of ram including os (8gb for me). GPU with tensorcores can speed up few layers if you have one, but isn’t required. I get around 2.5-3 t/s with 8700 and 4070ti, that’s enough for chats that require some thinking.

Edit: I was using 2k window, a larger one would probably eat more ram. But even with 2k it didn’t feel like it loses context or something.
> we could probably get to (pulling numbers out of thin air) 95% renewable generation or something that way.

No, and it's the problem with pulling numbers out of thin air.

I wrote on that topic a few years ago with a simulation being done on real data from RTE (French electricity transport network) if you're interested[1] you can even play with the LibreOffice spreadsheet[2] by yourself if you like. (Caveat: everything is in French).

And keep in mind that France is actually favored compared to many other countries when it comes to wind stability because it has three wind regions with different dynamics (even though they aren't entirely independent either).

[1]: https://bourrasque.info/articles/20180116-moulins-%C3%A0-ven...

[2]: https://bourrasque.info/images/20180116-moulins-%C3%A0-vent/...
Didn't matter much for Git.
A webserver like Apache and NGINX are way more complex than they look. It's sometimes possible to exploit bugs with benign/simple requests, even if you don't run advanced stacks on them. See [0] for example.

If you're not running strict firewall rules to limit your SSH access and if you expose other services outside, they also need constant patching against newer attacks.

Lastly, security standards evolve. Your SSH and SSL layers need to be kept up to date to patch holes and add newer algorithms while deprecating others, further reducing the attack surface [1].

[0]: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50383

[1]: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/20...
Interesting use of "Fire" rather than "let go". Fire will always get more eyeballs though. But these people did nothing wrong.
Enraging on a tool that offers user login from a webpage. You should be able to add DNS records to your gateway and not have to deal with public CAs to access it by name with TLS.
Africa may account for half of mankind by 2100. It is the only continent which still has very robust TFRs.

As of now, the population growth is already creating some very powerful migration pressures. Most of them stay on the African continent, but even the few per cent that reach Europe are enough to turn European politics full tilt to the far right. It doesn't help that Sahel, the most fertile part of Africa, is also one of the most arid - and Islamic at the same time, so a clash of values with secular liberal European societies is all but guaranteed.

The new Cold War will have a significant migration dimension.
You really think this is the best interview process we can do?
Because no software is perfect, which means every lock has weaknesses that sooner or later get found out. Chances are that, say, a Linux 2.x server that was considered "very secure" in 2005 would now be pwned in a few hours.
This mistake was a consequence of the complicated tax system. It involved a complex maneuver (the backdoor Roth) that TurboTax supports but has a bad UX for. Presumably a less complicated tax system would eliminate these kinds of complex maneuvers
Looks great! I know there are a bunch of games that use this kind of setting (fake OS) as the main mechanic. Her Story comes to mind [1].

1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/Her_Story/
Because both the Linux kernel and whatever SSL and web server stack you use regularly have their remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
How did this cause problems for you?
Successfully including no less than 23 CVEs in a wrench must have required a lot of hard work for the software team at Bosch :-)
Exactly, as someone who was non-teaching research faculty (not at Stanford), I can say there are lots of people in research institutions who don't teach. That's a different issue than the real issue of growth of the number of administrative staff. It isn't useful to lump all "non-teaching employees" as a group.
Not to mention they tend to avoid using CDNs, which alongside lack of free accessible CAPTCHA software, remain to be issues no one in FOSS circles seems to be concerned about.
"In economics, market power refers to the ability of a firm to influence the price at which it sells a product or service by manipulating either the supply or demand of the product or service to increase economic profit.[1] In other words, market power occurs if a firm does not face a perfectly elastic demand curve and can set its price (P) above marginal cost (MC) without losing revenue."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power
* What if I have devices that only support DSA?

Removing DSA from OpenSSH will not remove endpoints that require DSA
from the world and users may still need to connect to them. Although
new releases of OpenSSH will no longer support DSA, past releases and
alternate SSH implementations will continue to do so.

We recommend that users with an ongoing need to connect to DSA-only
endpoints maintain a legacy release of an OpenSSH client for this
purpose, similar to what was recommended when support for the SSHv1
protocol was removed.

For example, Debian maintains a "openssh-client-ssh1" package built
from OpenSSH 7.5 for the purpose of connecting to SSHv1 endpoints.
This package or something similar is likely to be sufficient for
DSA-only endpoints too.