skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can explain, a bit, as I recently did a bit of research in this area, particularly Section 202 (Section 202a, Section 202b, and Section 202c) of the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch, StGB) which addresses the unauthorized access to data. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer (but I do have one).

In Germany this is taken very seriously.

- 202a deals with secret interception of data which was not intended for the interceptor

- 202b makes it illegal to access data within a system without the necessary authorization. I think this also means (I'm sure someone out there can correct me if I'm wrong) that even if the accessor knows the password and has even been given it, but does not have the explicit granted permission nor authority to use it to access the system, it is a crime. I'm pretty sure (as a layman) that this is what this case is about. Perhaps this and a bit of 202a. 'Goodwill, whitehat' etc will not help here. Lucky he had no criminal priors and Germany is not generally a fan of throwing people in prison.

- 202c is mostly about stealing data, making it public, or using it for (a) or (b).
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Zoom in on that photo...

There are a few interesting things. The antenna seems to be made of a bunch of circular disks, each with a grid of transmitting elements on.

To me, that looks like a silicon wafer. That is the only reason I can think of to make that element circular.

If so, that many wafers makes this satellite fantastically expensive...
I actually have the issue where my ISP gives me a single /64 and it makes it difficult to split between multiple LANs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Eschew flamebait. Omit internet tropes.
Online auto dealer Vroom announces shutdown
“We announced January 22nd, 2024, that Vroom has halted all purchases and sales of used vehicles. We are discontinuing Vroom's e-commerce operations and winding down our used vehicle dealership business.”
Q Anon is a modern incarnation of the Soviet counter intelligence program ‘Operation Trust’ when combined with the deliberate Pied Piper strategy it should be understood that the craziness of these people is something that was intentionally done to them by cynical political operatives.
You can only measure the speed of those transverse ones in angular units though, so I don't think it helps.
Nobody has even proposed it, it's not even on the horizon, and you are already arguing about it. That is 'foward-leaning'!
I know. But on the other hand:

1) There are plenty of pro users they can’t serve without discrete GPUs, since they’ll never have the power or transistor budget in an integrated offering that would allow them to compete with AMD and Nvidia.

2) Why do a Mac Pro that doesn’t support discrete GPUs when the Mac Studio exists?

3) They’re doing hardware stuff in the M3 GPU that indicates a fairly serious GPU effort.

4) If they’re willing to put this much effort into a co-processor for a low-volume experimental product, putting similar effort into a co-processor (discrete GPU) for high volume sure-thing products (Pro laptops and desktops) seems at possible.
The current market for software developers is awful, which means the recruiters have power and don't need to care about disrespecting applicants - they've got a hundred more that are equally qualified. It really sucks. It's demoralizing.

You're not alone in this, at least - there's been quite a few highly qualified Hacker News members posting about the experience. Don't take it personally. But it still really sucks
I read that as they have negative cash flow and need to fix it ASAP.
> The one way speed of light can be measured.

Nope it can't. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k&t=0s for a good explanation.
The McDonald's ice cream machine always work in Japan.
You don't care where your developers live. If you do business with US then they want you to be a US corp. Who wants to do cross border business?
It's 2024. It's beyond time for the IRS to offer free tax filing online.

You've been able to file for free on paper since forever. But again, it's 2024. Paper is not a reasonable solution for either filers or the IRS in 2024. It's difficult to handle, error-prone, and all the software they use to validate paper forms could be repurposed to accept online forms.

And the online forms should be pre-filled with all the information the IRS already has about your income for the prior year.

It's not acceptable to have to pay companies like Intuit (and give them all your personal financial information) for software to file an individual tax return. I don't care if you're wealthy or poor, this should be free and provided by the IRS.

Contact your representatives. Demand that they get it done.
FWIW, severance is usually a lump sum, so it absolutely benefits the employees to wait until the new year because the severance will likely get taxed at a lower tax bracket.
Cheating in academia is the perfect crime. Cheaters conducting studies on cheating. If you don’t know a if system is consistent and you ask it to determine if it’s consistent. Brilliant!
Well no. Being wealthy doesn't make you an academic outlier, and education used to be extremely affordable for anybody so interested in pursuing such. Consequently, many of the greatest minds of the past came from very humble beginnings.

For instance Harvard's first black graduate graduated in 1870 [1] (meaning he would have passed a test near to exactly like the one shared), and he was a remarkable man. He was left supporting his family as a teenager after his father ran away for the Gold Rush, and was unable to attend public school due to his skin color. Yet, he persevered and lived one amazing life far above and beyond becoming Harvard's first black grad. But people like him are far and few between - and those were the sort of people applying.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Theodore_Greener
> You should be very concerned about pieces of metal falling off of planes and going where they shouldn't.

What kind of risk are we talking about? When did that last happen on a commercial airliner? How many people have been injured that I should be 'very concerned'?
I wonder if with some tweaking, this could be used to run PC/Windows VR software on Android VR Platforms (e.g. Quest).
As a PM you need a place to register your customer needs. If you don't have a dedicated tool, needs mostly end up as tickets in Jira. So best to register them elsewhere.

I've seen two approaches to this, ProductBoard and Jira Product Discovery. ProductBoard has a CRM approach where you make a note of every customer interaction (call, meeting, email, support ticket, etc), and later you can break down the customer interaction into needs and wishes. So initially all you have is a list of customer interactions.

Jira Product Discovery starts with an idea. So if you want to keep track of everything you hear from your customers, you're forced to immediately break this down into a long list of all wishes and needs.

Benefit of Jira Product Discovery is that it keeps this long list of ideas out of the developer backlog, but it's yet another long list. You can connect Jira Product Discovery Ideas later to Jira epics and stories, so delivery is easier to track.

ProductBoard is the better product discovery tool if you want to analyze product priorities based on customer conversations. It has tools to aggregate and analyze the items mentions in these conversations.
Should the Future Be Human?
> I somehow expected more density for a custom arrangement like this. One eviscerated mini per sled, ten sleds per rackmount chassis, six chassis per rack: sixty minis in 42-48U.

If Apple isn't willing to manufacture an off-the-shelf offering, what did you expect? That's... pretty dense...

As far as off-the-shelf desktop things turned in-house rack mount sled chassis builds go, 60 Minis in 48U (with _all_ the supporting bits – multiple network switches etc) is pretty damn good?

> I'm willing to believe that there are cooling and airflow advantages to the sleds

Nah the benefits are all management, maintenance, and isolation. Not to mention the sled chassis providing A/B power feed support, IPMI-esque management from the host chassis for each sled, etc etc. The benefits are massive and have nothing to do with cooling/airflow.

> although those two small fans at the back of the sled don't look too exciting.

I can assure you those 40mm fans _scream_.

> The biggest advantage seems to be ~~cable management~~ and the ease of sliding out a single mini at a time.

Bingo. Single sled failure and the ability to swap to a spare/repair the broken one outside of production by pressing your thumb on a trigger and pulling towards you. Huge win vs the off-the-shelf 'rack your factory Mini in this metal cage on rack rails' scenario.

Not to mention you now have the ability to assign jobs/builds intelligently at a sled/host chassis level. Isolation & proper distribution of jobs at that granularity (and cabinet, power phase feed consumption, A/B feeds, cabinet row(s), etc) is very valuable. This shit is really, really dope.
> Whatever is left over after expenses is fun to be had as soon as possible.

When income is 80% of the minimal bills, which dollars are the fun ones?

> But anyone who has actually dealt with poor people who live paycheck to paycheck knows they are not good at budgeting and planning.

You may not know that assertion is uneducated nonsense. The nonsensical part is the inference that better budgeting is all that stands between 80% of minimal bills and 105%.

Past that, an extended time in hunger-level poverty tends to lead to some hyper-focused money management. As in being intimately aware of each penny that hopefully will add up to this weeks bag of white rice.
Paying taxes should be free for everyone imo.
1. He was not hired by them, but by a third party. Otherwise it would have been breach of contract, not unauthorized access.

2. There's a big difference between the door of a room once you're inside the house, and the front door. No, it's not ok to just open front doors to take a look around.

3. The valuables in this case are information. "Taking a look" is all you can do.
I guess if you are rich enough you could rent an additional studio that you don't actually sleep in 99% of the time but technically is one of your residences, and give that address to the DMV.

When the DMV leaks your info to all your stalkers and crooks on the internet and they come after you they won't find you there.
We're talking about a hundred billion dollar entertainment industry. Video games have come a long, long way from the odd circumstances in 1983 which notably only affected the nascent industry in America, not Japan or Europe.
Do you find that adds value, rather than creating another silo that basically serves the same purpose?

What do you use and what are its top features?
Published guidance says they're meant to give out at least a /56. I don't know that making autoallocation work on smaller subnets would help with this problem - ISPs that currently give out the smallest possible subnet would probably just switch to whatever the new smallest possible subnet was.
Hello Hacker news, feel free to fight me on this, just understand that you're wrong and I'm right; the number one way to stop burnout on a project is: stop breaking backwards compatibility.

For reasons I cannot quantify or qualify, projects that go through rapid transformation and repeatedly break compatibility with themselves burn like comet, bright and intense, before everyone jumps ship to the next hot thing.

Projects where people stick around know that real world users depend on them and they cannot change simple things like I dunno... renaming the boot drive from /boot to /bootfs (yep, looking at you Raspbian, and yes, that was fucking stupid). Everyone reading this thread will be outlived by a COBOL program running on ZOs, but their ridiculous node contraption will be forgotten by next year (and it won't build next month anyway).

Causation/correlation/selection bias... I think the simplest thing wins, which probably already is done
In practice what would the actual code look like (pseudo-code is fine). How would I concatenate strings at runtime using `+`, once with one allocator and then again with another allocator?
If humans can process it, you can train a model to do the same.
I suppose. Where I’m at, and I think almost everywhere in the US, drivers are legally required to have car insurance. Assuming the chip repair places don’t require a premium level of insurance, it should be a non-issue, as the requirement is something everyone is already paying for.
You should have just periodically flushed old tickets. Everybody would have been happy, and none the wiser :)
I might be missing something but this article seems deceiving. When you're "sorting the results by most recent date of publication", of course more recent articles will rank higher regardless of where they're from.
Worth noting that with success also comes scrutiny. The "causation" here may just be the added scrutiny.
I'm guessing that the GP is talking about the fact that if there were two persons in a household using the Internet at the same time, with IPv4 they would connect from the same IP address (though of course with different port numbers), but with IPv6 they would likely connect from distinct IP addresses, and usually only sharing a /64 prefix.

You are correct that this isn't a big issue. SLAAC addresses are generally changed fairly frequently by the OS. As for stateful DHCPv6, well I turn it off for both this reason and the fact that Android doesn't support it.
As consumers, we're powerless. As citizens, we should be demanding our governments apply meaningful penalties when companies leak our data.
Well, that's of limited value if there are two founders, no other shareholders, and equal ownership. It's just deadlock, unfortunately.
Macy's rejects Arkhouse's $5.8B bid, citing financing concerns
> Oregon (kind of) dropped requirements for very basic reading, writing, and arithmetic to graduate high school because such skills were deemed racist.

It’s ironic that this stance is actually racist, since it implies certain races perform worse.
There probably is a way to ask my ISP for a larger block, but I think it would be nice to be able to subnet a /64 regardless.
Ah, The Atlassian Effect kicks in. Turning perfectly good products into steaming bags of horribleness.

Sorry, a little snarky. But I predicted Trello would suffer from joining Atlassian, and though this is not how I predicted that would happen (I predicted lots of utterly useless new features clogging up the UI until it's unusable), it is an indicator of The Atlassian Effect in action.
> Given Apple’s track record, expectations were skyscraper-high.

not sure why... my expectations have always been super low and I always avoided Apple products. People have even been killed because they used Apple maps...
Bing is pretty great now. You get Bing points (redeemable for ~$100 in swag per year) and free Chat GPT that usually answers your question before you decide which link to click on.
Without knowing the academic context the paper is a bit meaningless. Incoming students were obviously expected to have studied Greek and Latin, for example. And I doubt mathematical education was the same; the focus of teaching would have been different because calculators only sort-of existed which would radically change how much rote work was taught and practised.

Fully support the observation that university meant something different in those days though, the standards were much higher. Although I'm not sure if that would apply at Harvard since their class sizes probably haven't changed by all that much.
Still, there are peer reviewers and editors for these papers. They don’t go in without anyone checking them. So what goes wrong there?
this [1] is a Harvard entrance exam from 1869!

We don't routinely teach Classics in high school, so it's not surprising that those sections would be beyond most students today.

The sections on that exam dealing with Mathematics seem appropriate or possibly slightly on the easy side; I would expect an equivalent exam today to include at least a bit of calculus, but over the past 150 years there has been a shift in pedagogy towards calculus and away from geometry so it's probably just a sign of the times.
I love that game and all the source material, but I really dislike the d20 as a base. I've been working on a system that uses a fixed number of d6, since with just a few d6 you get something more normally distributed, and so you can actually model real life skills more accurately, and provide a better spread of outcomes for higher level players over " I have a 5% chance to fail, or a 90+% chance in something I'm not good at "

20 years of d&d will motivate some unofficial errata.
That's where you spin up a local LLaMA instance. The largest models that are still runnable on consumer grade hardware actually beat GPT-3.5 at this point. And there are numerous finetunes all over the "spiciness" spectrum.
Due to fractional reserve lending, unwinding such a large cohort of debt could really cause problems. The 2008, and the 89-90 contractions both had effects beyond the notes and real estate.
I have heard this apocryphal idea before: Modern people have to know more to get through a single day than someone from X time period would have learned in their entire lives.

It is, of course, not true.
Agreed. I don't think the snark helps.

Not my field, but my understanding of how these things work in big medical research factories: first few authors tend to be young researchers (maybe med students or even undergrads) trying to match residency or get into grad school. They do much of the work actually assembling the submission. The later names on the author list (who this article is taking to task) run labs or oversee research groups. Should they correct the record when it's pointed out? Yes. (But the snark and tenor of the post doesn't exactly convince someone they can admit an oversight in good faith.)

Should they be vigilant enough to check and notice these things? Of course. Some of the fakes are not subtle. Others, like the copy-paste of empty space in the lane to cover some undesirable result? Way harder to spot with the naked eye. I don't think there was great automated tech to detect image duplication in the 00's when these were published.

So your med student fudges data on a paper. The ethical answer is to expel them—"the world needs plenty of bartenders." But it appears big institutions these days are pretty invested in the sunk costs of prestige, dislike admitting error in admission or hiring, and prioritize go-along-get-along environments. It could be career limiting if students don't get any/enough pubs working in your lab. It'd a lot of hearings and paperwork to report him, plus I heard his uncle's a donor. If she got kicked out she'd lose her visa. And if I reported them, I'd be obliged to report everyone, and I'd be sunk in discipline hearings three times a year. So much easier to just... not look very hard.

It's bad science and bad ethics, but if you want better, reform the incentives. "Public" shaming by a niche newsletter... might be better than nothing, but doesn't qualify as an incentive.
I read an article about this recently, but can’t find it to officially cite it. However, the thrust was something like this:

Despite unemployment being low, the reality is that many of those “thousands of positions” are either geographically-distributed duplicates of the same position, eternally-open cattle calls, or open-but-basically-a-formality for either getting a visa or an internal move. This makes the number of actual openings quite opaque, yet much smaller than it appears.
Large mammals were not, in fact, hunted to extinction. Archaeologists have understood this since the '90s, although Wikipedia has still not caught up.

The North American megafauna, 30+ genera strong, were wiped out by the end-Pleistocene comet strike that caused continent-wide wildfires 12,800 years ago, as recorded in Antarctic and Greenland ice cores. This comet strike coincided with the beginning of the Younger Dryas cold spell, and is suspected of causing it. North America at the time boasted giant sloths, mastodons, mammoths, dire wolves, camels, horses, saber-tooth cats, and beavers, bison and bears much larger than what is left. Their fossils mostly appear right up to the continent-wide black mat of platinum-enriched soot, and not above it.

So those remaining of people who had been making Clovis spear points were obliged to shift to hunting the smaller game that remained, and made the smaller Folsom and other projectile point styles after. The continent-wide uniformity of Clovis points before the strike may have been a consequence of their status as trade goods, where deviation would reduce their value. After, the trade networks may have been disrupted, or maybe smaller points were easier to make, so were less valuable to trade. Most questions will probably never be answered.
This is actually a real thing in modern pipe organs since years (the programming part or electronic playback part, not sure about the live programming ;-) ).
Check out e.g.: https://www.rieger-orgelbau.com/en/leistungen/rieger-electro...
The piece reads very weirdly.

In the beginning the picture of copypasted images and doctored results is very clear.

But when it goes to the passage about genius, and it is so strange. Out of place, weird rant about chosen word…

Whatever bastard Sabatiny is, the author’s approach also leaves bad taste in mouth
> I used H&R block one year, and really didn't think they knew any more about tax filing than I did. They got confused at all the same line items I did.

I mean... H&R Block is in some ways the Firestone of accounting. Sometimes there's a diamond in the rough of their 'regular' workers [0] but you never know what you're gonna get unless you happen to wind up in the right circumstances where you can build trust with one of their people that happens to stick [1]

[0] - Had a friend who could get one of H&R Block's folks to do the whole deed for 'non complicated'[2] starting with a pile of receipts/medical bills/etc and 90$ for people they liked, and yes they'd do their proper professional duty in the process. Frankly given the time investment that's a steal.

[1] - In my case, it was a guy at a local shop who had his WRX parked outside every time that was some level of manager. Always happy to give proper treatment, never afraid to say 'take it to the dealer' (i.e. more qualified people) if it was out of their comfort zone. Compare and contrast to a different shop, where after some 'changes' managed to mess up an oil change, and the 'fix' for the bad oil change... [3]

[2] - I want to be clear that non-complicated is not the trivial 'oh sure okay' here, they may or may not have had a hand in pointing out said friend's parent was doing some... 'minor some student loan fraud'. But if you had additional properties or other weird situations... If I remember they had their own sort of menu and everything. Very smartly done.

[3] - I had to re-replace a <6 month old timing belt in the process, but frankly the engine needs a rebuild now, it lost 2-5MPG from that one incident.
I had $10k of gear confiscated. Took them eight months to find nothing, then I had to go pick it up. This was in Australia.

Police forces are grossly under educated about anything related to computers and the internet, and ironically the people that suffer at their hands are the actual knowledgeable ones.