skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know which part of that article you read, but the main takeaways were to have front line workers have a better quality of work. Have managers onsite more, increase pay for frontline workers to compensate for not being able to commute, and shift to four day weeks instead of five to reduce commute.

I agree that flexibility such as doctors appointments are important, and also that can be difficult if you’re one of two employees working a storefront, particularly if it’s busy. Heading out to an unplanned appointment (what I assume you mean by “nip out”) may be difficult, but accommodating planned and scheduled appointments could certainly be made easier - this is a time when the onsite manager should say “I will be in that day and I will cover for the time needed for your appointment”.
Literally one google search away: https://www.wired.com/story/us-hits-huawei-new-charges-trade...
Much as he was criticized, a fair bit of which was deserved, the one thing that you could say about Steve Ballmer is that he was still very, very passionate about making Microsoft succeed right up until he was ousted.

Being some kind of passionless drone that can't imagine anything greater in life than some kind of decadent "access to all the finest things in the world" is really not aligned with the hacker mindset. I think I speak for many here when I say that if I were fabulously wealthy, I'd just be hacking things on a much larger scale.
The keyword is new though
> Do you have anything similar to show how the US government personally helped Google?

Ah you want to know about THE CONSPIRACY. O well, since you've asked.

The story is this!

Apparently the US gov has some 50000+ different entities, county's, schools etc each with many little jars of earmarked monies for little this and that's, few hundred million here, a billion or 2 there, they are quite a lot of jars, A LOT, but the money isn't just sitting there collecting dust. Much of the money has been invested. Government in that way is not just in bed with big business. They are 2 heads on the same body. The USA in that way is more communist than the ccp and cccp combined.

I'm not sure how true the story is, I haven't the time to read all the documents. It does make for a quality campfire story.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191001201707/https://cafr1.com...
I agree tbh but it feels like the current environment doesn't reward risk taking and heads down work, especially with diffuse or longer term payoffs, and our AI efforts are still being retardedby safetiests/activists.

Rest & vest types are still doing fine, it's the passionate/care-a-lots that are increasingly burning out and disengaging or leaving.
Has there actually been any hard evidence to support this idea? I know there's a fair bit to support Hitler being basically a junkie by the end of the war, but pre-war I'm pretty sure he was just a meglomaniacal psychopath.
So on the one hand they exploit all legal ways to minimise their tax burdens, and on the other they call for more tax? What game is this?
> We have to stop before it’s too late

What -- exactly -- would this mean? Legislation to prevent AI? Prevent commercialized AI? Believe it or not, that actually sounds dystopian to me. A society that's so afraid of the technology it's created that it would hide from it? What do we think of human societies that acknowledge modern technology but decide to only rely on technology from ~100-200 years ago? Why was that technology acceptable? Should we halt the ongoing AI research? Destroy computation devices used to execute AI algorithms?

If the US decided to ban AI, could they expect a cooperative ban from other countries? If any one country decided not to cooperate, they would likely get a huge financial benefit.

Of course: AI will come with downsides -- significant ones. But I think it'll be a net improvement. Like most of human history, big technological advances were disruptive and some have caused significant harms.

> Writers? Severely cut down, maybe two main writers.

This also means that the existing talented writers can produce more entertainment than they would on their own. What if this means that the most talented writers can succeed more than they would have without new technology? Is that a benefit or a drawback? What if this means that mediocre writers can succeed more than they would have without new technology? Is that a benefit or a drawback?

> We just won’t need any employees.

"Employees" seems like a relatively recent concept in human history. Maybe we don't want to be or have employees anyways?
While it's beneficial to learn swimming as young as you possible can people should be encouraged to learn it later too if they are at least mildy interested in water. I learned to swim very young pretty much on my own and thought I was decent, but it was only after taking some technique classes later on that made swimming longer distances actually enjoyable to me.

Swimming as competitive sports never interested me at all, and unfortunately the training aspect of swimming is way too often hardlinked with it. And many other sports hobbies suffer from the same "this is a pipeline to create professional athletes from children" mentality.
They can probably just watch co2 spectral lines and count how many of us there are.
Funny I always used “kk” as a faster way to type “ok.”

I wonder how many times that’s been interpreted as me laughing by.
Source for this? Or you just pulled it from a Substack newsletter with 5 followers? What exactly does "gifting Cisco with its own IP" means? And please be generous with your conspiracy theory links.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2927.htm#e...
“But what about this entirely unrelated thing”?

Also, why do so many trolls assume that anyone who criticise a second or third world country is automatically American?

I will say this as a non-American: the US are great for a lot of things and terrible for a lot of others. They have a lot to answer for, and what you mention is barely scratching the surface, as for any country with a bit of history. I still don’t want China to have any control over what happens here and I am still never buying anything from Huawei. Same for Russia, for that matter.
> I'm an American in my 40s. I've never seen "glorification of scams" in any mainstream culture

Some very popular movies that come to mind (Some of these may not be intended to be glorifying scams, but to many unsophisticated viewers, they absolutely are):

- The Social Network

- The Wolf of Wall Street

- Uncut Gems

- The Godfather

- Scarface

- Ocean's Eleven (and Twelve and Thirteen)

- Emily the Criminal

- I Care a Lot

- Nine Queens

- Punch-Drunk Love

> I've also never seen any sort of "hyper-masculization" shown in a positive light in mainstream culture

More movies!

- The Godfather (again)

- Pulp Fiction

- Fight Club

- American History X

- Gangster Squad

- Django Unchained

- Expendables

- Every Fast and Furious movie

- (Nearly?) Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie

> it's common to see masculinity referred to as as "toxic" and equated with negative traits or externalities

I think this is (usually?) a misunderstanding. People refer to toxic masculinity, a set of problematic behaviors some men exhibit as part of attempting to appear "manly" that includes traits such as: homophobia, glorifying unhealthy habits (e.g., drinking like a man, don't cry like a woman, mental health issues depicted as "weakness", etc.) They're not referring to masculinity, itself, as being toxic.
How do they know they’re Chinese? If they’re doing something as dumb as using a Chinese IP or entering Chinese text, why not just ban China/Chinese characters
It depends on the maths teacher on how good or bad one can be at maths (I used to be bad at maths before HS because of a teacher, I was actually good at maths in HS also because of a teacher), even though I agree with you that we have an obsession with it, and especially about those Olympics that are of no use (I always like to point to people that no matter how many "gold" medals we got at those olympics we've never had a Fields medalist until now).

What's not told to students, or not instilled into their heads, is that, first, maths as taught in uni has no connection to how maths is taught in HS, and that's a good thing (there are a few exceptions that confirm the rule, meaning HS math teachers that "approach" the philosophy of how maths is taught at uni but, again, they're very few and far between), and second, the first two years of uni are some of the most important years in one's education when it comes to his/her future professional life. Later on during uni you're sort of specialising, but during those first two years you should construct the theoretical base for your future career in any field related to maths (which covers a lot of today's tech).

You mentioned teaching students stuff that is not relevant, and of course that many of my colleagues at uni (Comp Sci at Bucharest Politehnica) at the end of the '90s - the start of the 2000s had the same opinion, that's why the class that was teaching Object Orientated programming applied to Java was almost always full (or as full as a Politehnica class could have been back then), while the Matematici Speciale I + II class (I think the Americans call it Algebra I and II, not sure, never been there) was attended at some point only by 15-20 students out of a total of 100-120. It turns out that nowadays matrices and manipulation of matrices (which those classes covered quite in detail) is a lot, lot more important compared to writing some stupid videos games in Java applets (which I think was the subject of a class in like 2002-2003, something like that).

Also, because this is an American forum and we're talking about how maths is studied in Romania, I'll always remember our first year Calculus teacher at Politehnica (mr. Răbâncă, a legend in his own right if you search for his name on the early Romanian web) who was bad-mouthing the American Green Visa Lottery system in between talking about some infinite series or what have you. Apparently he had won one such visa sometime in the mid-'90s, had actually gone to the States only to find out that he was unemployable in his field of study there, or at least at the beginning, to quote him: "I got there and they asked me to mop the floors. Of course I came back". That was a big loss for the States, a big win for us.
your first two paragraphs, taken together seem like upside down logic to me, or totally illogical. cart before horse kind of thing.

and that "probably" ... :)
To your point: I was in HYD for a consulting gig a few years ago and it was ABSOLUTELY WILD seeing downed and probably hot power cables just lying there on the street waiting to fry some poor soul. They looked well-shielded but some of them were cut open!
Could also be single and depressed. Soon turning 30 and all he has is just a bunch of soon-to-be-kids. Poor fellow.
For comparison, I previously translated that cart parts scheduling example on the Flix homepage to Datomic-style Datalog syntax: https://gist.github.com/refset/21b3fc1dec9a6928943073809e133...
All the ox tongues hanging out of people's bags, remnants of drool and blood pooling on the floor...
A CPU, a planar object, does so by extending its fins in the three-dimensional direction, but not without limit. Similarly, even if the fourth dimension can be used, it cannot be used without limit. Also, just as there are no two-dimensional objects without thickness in three-dimensional space, there are no three-dimensional objects without thickness in four-dimensional space, and all three-dimensional objects are considered to have size in the fourth-dimensional direction in four-dimensional space. However, if there is such a simple fourth spatial dimension, it should be easily recognizable, so if there is a fourth spatial dimension, it should be closely attached to other known dimensions so that it cannot be found. Finding or creating a usable space out of a closely attached fourth spatial dimension would be a large cost.
Yeah, and parts of Vellinge Kommun as well. Apparently a lot of their day-to-day-systems are affected [0].

Also, a HR system called primula is affected. It is mostly used by universities from what I can gather.

[0] = https://www.dn.se/sverige/it-attacken-paverkar-myndigheter-o... (Swedish, one of the biggest newspaper in Sweden)
You're not the first to come up with that exploit-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash
Ctrl C plus ctrl V is copying. Why assume that no verification, testing or checking came after that though?
I once couldn't register for a website because my last name contained the word "user". Yes, it does. Given the choice between changing my name, lying about my name, or signing up with a competitor instead, I chose the dignified option.
I'm not aware of any toolchain limitations; making the kernel compile as C++ is doable with a few trivial patches, and the kernel already is heavily GCC-specific, which supports both C and C++ to the same level.
Walter Bright says he was able to implement modules in C with 10 lines of code. That probably works with C but it'd make C incompatible with C++. Most people think that's reason enough not to do it. I think breaking compatibility with C++ would be like cutting the ropes to a sinking ship to save your own.
My own take is if something is that valuable, it should be owned by everybody.
"slightly better" - nah, just as mediocre. Let me tell you, nobody stuck with C is going to bat an eyelid at this standard. They're going to continue using C89, or maybe C99 if they're lucky, for whatever reasons that justify it.

People who casually write C don't really care for C23 since it fixes all the wrong things. Nobody really wanted C+ (i.e. something slightly closer to C++ than before) which is basically all this standard achieves.
This looks good. I like the idea of the client and scripts structured in the same file. Like how it includes simple state management and options to use third-party scripts and also the nice signals state management. Will definitely try this out in a new hobby project.
would be good if you could add more deployment options in readme and also markdown support etc.
Bob's Buggy Upgrade – Lithium Ion
The most interesting math exam of my life was my qualifying exam for my PhD. It was an oral exam, and I prepared a syllabus and gave it to my three examiners ahead of time. At the actual exam, we all showed up and they took turns asking me their questions that they had prepared relating to my syllabus.

I was expected to solve the problems at the board. They didn't necessarily expect me to solve them immediately, but they wanted to hear me think out loud and communicate my ideas. There were around 5-10 questions total over the course of I think a few hours, ranging in complexity from trivia (i.e. memorized facts) to computations to proofs. Some of them I found solutions for and some of them I didn't, and they assigned me some to solve later as "homework" (though they did pass me without it being conditioned on the homework).

In hindsight, it was very similar to white-board coding interviews, but I didn't know anything about coding interviews at the time. I can't really think of any other place such a format would be appropriate as a math exam. When else would a paper math exam not be sufficient.
I do agree that both parties benefit, but you'll still agree that Trump is the impersonation of what is wrong
so in current design you travel the distance in the time dimension
They did not study memory in isolation. All the details are available at the link to the journal article. It doesn't seen fair to accuse them of p-hacking without first understanding what was studied.
"As a fun fact, the current mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan is a two-time Gold Medalist at the International Mathematics Olympiad."
> makes a lot of sense if you put the five seconds into understanding the modal model being used

You've answered your own question. People don't understand the modal model, especially if they're dropped into vi without warning because something launched $EDITOR.
Probably nothing; fossilized means it's mineralized, turned into stone. At best they can see what it looked like (they mentioned a scan). They can get (some?) DNA from things they get out of the permafrost though, like wooly mammoths.
I like that Rust tests my code as I write it.
From memory, without looking back through Wikipedia, the original contract award was killed. Then Boeing won the new bid.

Acquisition at that level is extremely cutthroat, so who knows what happened.

The broader perspective is that the current major aircraft contracts are:

- F-35 Lockheed-Martin
- B-21 Northrop Grumman
- KC-46 Boeing
- X-37 (Space) Boeing
- MQ-25 (Naval Refueling) Boeing

That seems like a pretty fair spreading of contracts among the remaining majors, especially if you had less faith in Boeing to produce combat equipment, but still wanted to maintain it as a company.
It's not malicious, but if you're expecting to be able to use the SVG in the context of an <img> element, or on a site with a strict (in line with security best practice) Content-Security-Policy, this is just a sharp edge that you can cut yourself on because the polyfill simply won't work in those contexts.

I know I'd be annoyed if I realised my image editor had "tried to be clever" and done this under the hood without telling me.
Pretty well-known finding. Probably because increased sociality leads to greater longevity, not because alcohol is directly healthy.
Dunno, anime seems pretty effective.
I agree that Trump is a particularly notable example of the issues with the country, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that not only him, but all of our ruling class is beyond redemption. It's increasingly frustrating how dysfunctional everyone is.

We really should be cracking down hard on companies like Boeing, prosecute their leadership, clawback money for failures and be assertive in expecting technology transfer to backup companies for national security stuff, similar to how AMD used to be a backup manufacturer for Intel chips.
There was an update on this just last week: https://github.com/ThePhD/future_cxx/issues/67#issuecomment-...
Worked on a system like this once. Nobody wanted to fix the actual backend problem so this limitation was a requirement. But I figured that advertising these little "quirks" in the login flow would give hackers ideas, so instead I just added a function to transform the "bad input" into an alternative set of characters that wouldn't have a negative effect on upstream. Since you couldn't view the saved password, nobody realized they were being transformed behind the scenes. Stupid yet effective.
Pity the heading/topic is not like that:

- The Case for Rust in the FreeBSD Base System

Most Linux folks are not aware of what 'base system' means - and that its related to FreeBSD.

About the Rust inclusion - I would include it - and would add these targets:

# make buildworld (without Rust)
# make rust (like Rush without 'buildworld')
# make buildworldrust ('buildworld' + Rust)

Regards.
Yeah … such courses should be illegal. Though they wouldn’t have to be made illegal if some people had some sense of shame or any moral compasses. Instead they prey on the uninformed and the gullible
The whole complex (immortalized as Lumon HQ in Severance) is landmarked so presumably it can’t be messed with too much. Even apart from the historical significance, it’s a masterpiece of mid-century design. Its architect, Eero Saarinen, also did the St. Louis Arch and, my personal favorite, the TWA terminal at JFK, which reopened as a hotel in 2019. If you’re ever stuck on a layover there, do check it out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Hotel
The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System does not send the password from the client to the server. This scheme is supposedly used by Blizzard when authenticating users in some of their online games.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2945

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18461/how-secur...
Hochschild’s interviewees were largely in Lake Charles as I understand.
software is complex, and you can't be sure until you run it in mission critical production.
I was never a "good" swimmer. I was fairly negative buoyancy as a teenish and barely got the one mile Boy Scout patch at one point. Never had any interest in competitive.

I agree with what I think your basic point is. Swim well enough and comfortable enough so you probably won't drown in a trivial water situation or even doing stuff like canoeing/kayaking and that goes a long way.

Maybe it's my background but you end up in a river or a lake sooner or later. Or you step off into something that's a bit deeper than you expected. It seems pretty stupid to not be prepared for something that seems basically normal life for a lot of people that doesn't actually require a huge amount of work.
How is RAII a problem on embedded platforms? It is basically about scoped cleanup, something you would otherwise have to do manually.
No I don't. The realization that Marxist and Anarchist philosophies are stupid leaves people wondering how they can actually help others instead of wanking over their ideology. Many people from the Occupy era have come to realize that their movement was a huge waste of time because it focused all of its energy in vague directions with meaningless slogans. I don't know Graeber's work well, but I get the impression that he feels the same.
Thanks, looks like it has now been fixed to point to the original source.
"It's not very shiny, but that profession makes all your cars, airplanes and alien planet multicopters."

If you have a good head for it, it's a pretty darn good career. You might not make $500k/year like you would at google, but the money is still decent and reliable.

Plus, working on spacecraft is cool as hell.
I had a Topo from Androbot. The prior owner didn't understand how to program it, so I got it at a discount. I kept the motor drivers, etc and replaced the brain with a CP/M machine that I could move programs on a floppy to it.

It was a struggle, but it was fun to work on. Or maybe not, we were giving a party and someone asked about the robot and asked if it had a name. My young son piped up "I know it's name, it's called "F*cking Robot".

The poster above me mentioned the Armatron. A few days ago I pulled one out of the "Closet of Doom". It still works! It went back into the closet with a disapproving spouse look.
The voice of the Star Trek onboard computers, Majel Barrett, was romantically involved with the executive producer, Gene Roddenberry, and she was also able to land roles as supporting characters throughout her lifetime.
To flip the question around: why is it OK to have industries (any industry, really) dominated by men?
against what timeframe are you betting a load of money on batteries displacing all fossil fuels
According to https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p23..., it's an "unadopted feature being explored."

There's more information about the proposal at https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/a-defer-feature-usi...
> This is just latching on to some large companies (Netflix, etc) who already stated they won't be building custom apps for it.

Incorrect. They could have allowed their iPad apps to run on Vision Pro, but they specifically chose not to.

Developers who offer software for the iPad automatically see their apps pop up on the Vision Pro App Store. That is, unless they opt out — as Netflix, Spotify and YouTube are planning to do.
It's not because of their temperature. One version of the SH3 (single issue, at 80 MHz) is speced at 260 mW. The SH4 used in the Dreamcast (dual issue at 200 MHz), seems to be 4W.

Hitachi apparently had a trademark on "Cool Engine" for the SuperH (https://www.cpushack.com/CIC/embed/announce/HitachiSH7709.ht...).
Sleep mask + very good earplugs + some melatonin made me a very sound sleeper in my forties, while I suffered from chronic insomnia since my teens.