skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not rare at all. In every corporate environment I've worked in, my choices were PowerShell or 3 months of red tape, meetings, and security audits.

I get that in a dev shop that's not the case, but most businesses employ 0 devs. So people end up being forced into shell scripting because it's the only approved option.
hash based partitioning makes repartitioning very expensive. most distributed DB now use key-range based partitioning. Iirc, Dynamo which introduced this concept has also made the switch
But composting implies something good is coming to replace it.
It sounds like your issue is actually with current sentencing guidelines, not mandatory labor then.
Stuff like that is automatically shoved into your feed.
Forced prison labor is very clearly not chattel slavery. And chattel slavery is what 99.9% of people mean when they talk about slavery in the US.

And I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but it seems to me that "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" qualifies "involuntary servitude", not "slavery". And in any case, lawyers like to err on the side of ruling out any possible misinterpretation, no matter how ridiculous.

If one was with a child, and the child saw a chain gang working, and the child asked "Are they slaves?", no sane person would say "yes" and leave it at that. You're being either daft or disingenuous, or both.
I have no problem with small sample sizes. They form the core of qualitative research. They also don't attempt to speak for broad populations as the details are lost with large sample sizes. I'd prefer if the soft sciences had more qualitative research and left most of the quantitative research to sciences that have a hard control.
> We should expect to be able to install whatever software we want on hardware we own

Were I Apple's lobbyist, I would be thrilled for this to be the counterargument. Because while noble, it's practically unworkable, generally unpopular and a flytrap for technologists who might otherwise be swayed to a moderate position.
> people who visited an emergency room for cannabis use

?
Researcher has discovered the means to process data using DNA
ApexCharts
the good news is that

1. in most of the world energy usage is steady or decreasing

2. renewable energy production is accelerating

3. while renewable energy hasn't killed fossil fuel use, it has shifted it dramatically. coal is basically dead in most of the world because it has been priced out by renewables.
> It's not like the history of working for game companies is unknown, major studios have always done this. Imagining it won't happen to you is wishful thinking.

I understand this rationally and yet at every job I've worked at I've still felt pretty secure until the moment I've been laid off (which for the record has happened to me 4 times in the last 8 years).

If you're a hard worker and you're providing a lot of value you learn the risk is never that anyone would want to lay you off individually, but that some higher up who has very little care or understanding for who is providing value will decide that you're no longer needed.

It's something that I've only really came to terms with over the last few years – that no amount of effort will save you from layoffs. The only thing that will save you is luck. When I was in my twenties I honestly thought that if I just provide enough value my job would always be safe.

I guess I'm just saying that I understand it from an emotional perspective. Rationally I understand you can go from feeling like the most valuable person in your department to unemployed in 24 hours. But emotionally the fact that this can happen still messes with me.
you may as well claim everyone in the US believes their lives are less important than the presidents.

In truth, the president very rarely has any major effect on the lives of Americans, therefore they don't really care one way or the other.

Or to put it another way, that food needed to be harvested regardless of who was king, as long as said king didn't interfere with the food harvesting, people might have opinions but ultimately didn't care.
I need this for GPUs.
I'm not saying there won't be future generations. This is what I was replying to:

> the cost we need to confront climate change is likely larger than the cost in this generation if we let it rip.

I'm saying the cost to confront it will be less than the cost to "let it rip" before some current generations die off from old age.
For a $3,500 piece of tech, I'm okay with this. Makes theft far less likely/lucrative.
It's not OKRs. It's management as a whole. Whatever they do it turns into bullshit, because they are all bunch of bullshiters. Waterfall, Agile, Sprint, Performance Reviews, doesn't matter what. They all turn into Bullshit because they are applied by bunch of bullshiters that usually have no clue what they are doing, but they would like to keep their job.

Generally people on all levels are incompetent most of the time, but in management your incompetence just have a bigger blast radius, while the consequences of it are vague and much easier to blame on something else.
> The idea that you can perform poorly if you are paid less is not really true.

Can confirm from my experience. The greater the salary, the better the working conditions. Companies that paid as little as possible also tried to squeeze out as much work as possible.
Ping me if you have any questions. Long time fan of your blog.
You don't want punishment to be cheap, it leads to very bad incentives. Expensive punishment means that it's in everyone's self interest to actually make sure that they're punishing the right guy. If effective rehabilitation turns out to be costly, that's not a bad thing either.
Interested to see if this makes agents more useful
It’s interesting how on HN whenever a topic related to cannabis comes up so many people jump in to say they have anxiety, and that weed makes it worse, and that it must be the same for everyone. Does HN have a higher than normal percentage of highly anxious people? Or is it just the threads attract the kind of people who are likely to be anxious and jumpy around the topic? It’s a really interesting phenomenon. In real life, people may like it or not, may still use it or not, but the discussion seems way more casual and nowhere near as singularly anxiety fixated as when the topic comes up here.

I’m not judging, I’ve been treated for anxiety myself. Just quite curious about how different the conversations are.
> Electron just makes web apps slightly more convenient.

Yes. Until the next Cornflicker, Sircam, Code red, Blaster.
I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, so I'll explain further.

Currently, if you want to be part of a social network, your options are to opt-in to Zuckerberg's moderation or Musk's moderation.

It would be great if these were _actually_ opt-in (as in, you can be part of a social network without opting in to their moderation polices) and if you can use anyone's "moderation list."

I think ultimately this would allow for freer expression than exists on current social networks.
I guess that's really my point here.

They difference in setup time is negligible so I'm not sure why people keep bringing it up as a reason to choose sqlite over PostgreSQL.

For instance, "deployable inside a customer application" is an actual requirement that would make me loath to pick PostgreSQL.

"Needs to be accessible, with redundancy, across multiple AWS zones" would make me very reluctant to pick sqlite.

Neither of these decisions involve how easy it is to set up.

It's like choosing between a sportbike and dump truck and focusing on how easy the sportbike is to haul around in the back of a pickup truck.
This is true. My region (Oregon's Willamette Valley) consisted of oak savanna and grassland prairies which were maintained by controlled fires set by the native tribes. Since European settlement, this ecosystem is 99.5% gone, having been lost to thick woodlands consisting mostly of Douglas fir and maple.

Visiting the region, you'd think that dense evergreen forests are the "natural" state of the ecosystem, but this is largely an artifact of 150+ years of fire suppression.
Firefox Translations of it says it was known vulnerability:

> The malware found installed a ‘backdoor’ by using a known vulnerability in FortiGate devices. The publication of the MIVD therefore does not describe any new vulnerability in all FortiGate devices.

I could believe factory backdoors in Fortinet products, including bugdoors, but it's even easier to believe commonplace unintended software defects.

Edit: This comment was a response to the HN title "China spied on Dutch Cyber Intelligence through FortiGate backdoors (defensie.nl)". I thought people will tend to interpret "FortiGate backdoor" as meaning an intentional backdoor by the vendor/factory, when that's not what the article seemed to suggest.
Happy AdGuard user here. It's running directly on my EdgerouterX so no need for an extra device to maintain. I really love the high level service blocking as well, blocking the whole of Facebook is just ticking a checkbox!
> Laywers hoard their contracts and it was very difficult in our journey to find lawyers who would be willing to write contracts we would turn into templates because they are essentially putting themselves and their professional community out of income streams in the future.

I notice same things in other professions, especially where it requires a huge upfront investment in education.

For example (at least where I live), there was a time about 20 years ago where architects also didn't want to produce designs that would be then sold to multiple people for cheap. The thinking was that this reduces market for architecture output. But of course it is easy to see that most people do not really need a unique design.

So the problem solved itself because the market does not really care and the moment somebody is able to compile a small library of usable designs and a usable business model, as an architect, you can either cooperate to salvage what you can or lose.

I believe the same comes for lawyers. Lawyers will live through some harsh time while their easiest and most lucrative work gets automated and the market for their services is going to shrink and whatever work is left for them will be of the more complex kind that the automation can't handle.
Yes, to me this combination is pretty unethical. Similarly, I don't mind piracy, but I find it distasteful to pay for pirated content.
Apple can allow users to download apps from a website their trust, no Apple bandwidth or low paid workers will be used.

But what about security? Apple developers should handle that, they are well paid to implemnt sandboxing and other safety stuff.
Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks
This is more interesting than the one that came out around the time of the initial Wordle craze. That was only an unscaled shape which was really hard even if you were pretty good at geography. (Most countries don't have a very distinctive shape.)
This is true; fortunately, no one on the internet ever screws up punctuation.
ymmv but this was the case for me
Maybe a copout answer, but setting up a local LLM on my development machine has been invaluable. I use Deepseek Coder 6.7B [0] and Oobabooga's UI [1]. It helps me solve simple problems and find bugs, while still leaving the larger architecture decisions to me.

[0] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instr...

[1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
Well, join Mastodon! Find a community (server) that fits your liking and get your username! You can talk with anybody on other servers, but the one you choose is your homebase!

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

At least you're not succumbing to a commercial interest who will inevitably enshittify for eventual profit extraction.
500k -> 1.1M foreign students since end of covid. Truely absurd. I hope this is 5th dimension chess to con Indians on false hope of PR to inject a few years of expensive international tuition to pay for covid response. Doesn't make sense to let them work and possibly send remittances back home (as if cost of living is not high enough) because that's what you get when you start brain draining more than those who can afford to buy citizenship.
See my response above. When people talk about slavery in the US, they mean chattel slavery. Forced prison labor is clearly not chattel slavery. To pretend otherwise is to be either silly or disingenuous, or both.
Oh I ignored them because the 23mpix dwarf everything else.
Having tried to advocate for better societal support for those people who "can't afford those price increases", I've honestly lost a lot of sympathy. I've had people explicitly tell me they want to see welfare benefits for people poorer than them cut so that they face less competition (and therefore less inflation and lower prices) for purchasing food. As if starving the poor to make your grocery bill better is a justifiable option. "why should you be entitled to food and shelter just because you were born as a human and not some ape? if you are useless and die, it's not my problem"

If you have no empathy for anyone poorer than you, sorry, why should I be caring about your misfortune again?
Since AI can do three of those better now, I see a lot of pizza in our
future.
I don't really know how you can square this supposed "tremendous success" of renewables when statistics like this are out there:

https://statista.com/statistics/282716/oil-consumption-in-th...

Oil consumption is still increasing year over year. People like you have been saying the same things about renewables for a long, long time. I suppose it'll come any day now!
If you've ever seen someone chanting "From the river to the sea", that's a euphemism for "kill all the Jews"
Confessions of ... titles have to apply to something that contains confessions: disclosures of one's deeds or attitudes that not everyone might agree with, or that are hypocritical, or against the prevailing social order (whether just or not), and the like, which one keeps hidden.

E.g. if someone known to be an outspoken liberal revealed that they voted for a far right candidate, that would qualify as a confession.
Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens, now this --

I can imagine them being useful for auto mechanics, surgeons, fighter pilots -- while doing their jobs -- but it will be a tool for those jobs, not a regular part of everyday life, and these people will look forward to taking them off at the end of the day.

If I'm wrong, and the Apple Cult is able to rebrand glassholes so they're socially acceptable (like they got so many lemmings to wear AirPods), then I may just have to leave human civilization. How intolerable will life be? You walk down the street and there's a social credit score hovering next to you? Your saccades are tracked at a jillion hertz and sold to marketers? No thanks!
A new book about building PHP libraries. You can get from here https://ahmadraafat.gumroad.com/l/php-library-development-10... a couple of chapters to see if it is for you before buying!

Thanks
Bloomberg für Bildungseinrichtungen: Anfängerhandbuch [pdf]
This is a huge problem right now, FYI:

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1753804822573109393
I'm really not trying to sound condescending here, but your maths is WAY off.
Where did you get 384.6 TW from? Your actual source says

The power output or luminosity of the Sun is 3.8 x 10^26 W

For reference that's 3.8 x 10^14 TW - so your little AI friend is a cool 12 orders of magnitude off here.

Bottom line: do NOT rely on figures provided by generative models. The chance of them being completely wrong seems to be alarmingly high.
Unsure if anyone here uses Technitium DNS(Opensource and free).
It works on minimal hardware. I am running it on an Orange Pi 3 LTS.

https://technitium.com/dns/
At least in the US that's true only for a C-corp. S-corps are pass-through entities. So it works like this very simplified example:

Business gross earnings: $200,000

Owner salary: $60,000

All other expenses including employer-side payroll tax: $20,000

Year-end result:

Owner receives a W2 reporting $60,000 in wages, which is taxed for Social Security, Medicare, and a special "self-employment tax". These wages are also eligible for deductions for retirement plan contributions (but not section 125 cafeteria plan deductions).
Owner receives a K1 reporting $200k - $60k - $20k = $120,000 profit, which is taxed at the owner's individual income tax rate.

The business itself will not pay corporate tax on its profits like a C-corp would.
I’ve been using futureme for over a decade.

Best use I’ve found is for when I have a huge decision to make. I’ll email myself at some time after the decision must be made; right when I might be having regrets. I explain to my future self how hard it is to decide right now and why the correct choice isn’t clear. Usually with some encouragement of “I hope you know we made the best choice we could”

Of course, I also send some occasionally on birthdays or when I’ve just give through something dramatic — a reminder to future me to remember.
'ARK ETF Trust, which runs the popular ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), has wiped out $14.3 billion in investors' wealth over the past 10 years, says a new analysis from Morningstar. That ranks it as the No. 1 wealth destroying fund family in that time. ARK has vaporized twice the value of No. 2, KraneShares, Morningstar says.'

Wealth destruction depends on fund performance since inception but also crucially on the timing of inflows and outflows, which is determined by investors rather than fund managers.
Yes but it's always framed as a failure of either procedure or the people they manage that failed them. Management itself can never fail it can only be failed
If a browser blocks the website owner's ads and put their own ads instead, then they are leeching on the work of other people and also profitting from it.

There is a saying "You can't fool an honest man", and it holds true for this situation as well. If the browser would just block legitimate ads and put their own ads and take all the money themselves, then hackers would riot. But since they say they are sharing the profits with users, many people will turn a blind eye to such unethical behaviour. Because people are base.
It’s weird to see my home town on hacker news, kinda nice considering its historically rich but not technically relevant
You’re not wrong, there is a lot of unnecessary vendor lockin. But as someone who has worked on IoT, security is much trickier than you might like. Security for a non wireless device can be completely relegated to physical access to the device. Thus making security the problem of owner of the device in a way that we have accepted security since forever. But as soon as there is a way to access a device from afar… well suddenly there are attack vectors that most people can’t even begin to imagine. And mitigating these attack vectors starts to seem like an unnecessary burden for non technical folk. I even had to deal with issues of a CEO and product owner not being able to wrap their heads around a few attack vectors forcing user experience compromises that they really didn’t like. It is really hard to solve the problem of you being the only person able to turn on and off your light from afar from an arbitrary device (one not paired at the factory). At the end of the day you need some way to pair a device. That’s sort of easy, bluetooth pairing is kind of a solved problem. But now let’s say you want to transfer authorization to turn a light on and off. Well, now you need to pair the device with this new person. As a house guest, they’re not going to take the time to do this for every device you own. So companies rely on other means that often rely on some combination of authenticate authorize in their ecosystem.
History by Numbers (2022)
oddly the docker host was not configuring ipv6 DNS server so i updated to call google dns directly

SERVER: 2001:4860:4860::8888#53(2001:4860:4860::8888) (UDP)
> RAM is meant to be used,

Some of us have to run other programs besides Teams. /s
Outside of this study, if you're a constant smoker and you suffer from morning nausea, please see cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

I suffered from intense bouts of nausea often lasting days (and my last time a whole week), I learned of CHS and stopped my use immediately, finally stopped the pain

The pain and nausea was so bad, it was honestly the worst i've ever felt
> More prescribed burning, more metal roofs, better zoning—these are all steps that could make a significant difference at a local level.

We basically are, except for the zoning thing. Keeping people from living near forests is hard politically.
Seems like that in literally every other case, Satoshi Nakamoto designed for both.
Politics doesn't defer to the scientific method
> Apart from the itunes store, the only other thing that the iPhone had was google maps, buttery buttery smooth maps.

And a _usable browser_, don't forget. No other smartphone at the time had a browser that you could use for more than a few minutes without getting a powerful urge to throw the thing out the window.
> Freedom is at least as important as the climate.

This is a value judgment, not an absolute statement, and should be addressed as such.

Should you have the absolute freedom to pollute as much as you want if it harms your neighbors? What if a solution exists that is better for you and the environment, should you have the freedom to not take it if you don't care about the harms to those around you? Do you view having to have emissions controls installed on your car as an unjustifiable infringement on your freedom?
If there was a one-click button in my browser to send $1 to an article author or publisher, I'd be spending a fortune. As it is I'm blocking ads and avoiding lock-in subscriptions like the plague.
> but explicitly tells users not to do that

They set the vbmeta header flags field to 0x3, which effectively turns off all of AVB (Android Verified Boot). I'm guessing they do this because they want to allow the system partition to be writable (eg. for folks who flash additional things on top of LineageOS).

With unmodified LineageOS, if you configured the bootloader to use LineageOS' public key and relocked it, there would be no security benefit. To enable AVB's signature checks, the flags field needs to be set to 0, which requires re-signing LineageOS with your own key.
yes, but have humans?
PlanetScale deprecates its serverless DBaaS offering
I'd read a baker's or nurse's job eulogy. It's a way to see into their world at its absolute nadir. (Also, a journalist interviewed this person, wrote it as an article, and a bunch of people upvoted it here. So clearly there's a market.)
Yeah I get to eat out on date night with my partner maybe twice a year if we are lucky. We get takeout maybe once a month. More likely once a quarter. This is a huge amount of money for entertainment.
Ivanti's bug-plagued network appliances attacked using fresh exploit
jQuery 4.0.0 Beta
I’ve been writing command lines for parts of our app to help split up the monolith. Global state and dependencies thwart reasoning and thus debugging and performance optimization. Splitting out 500, 1000, 5,000, 10,000 or sometimes 50k lines of code to work separately can clarify a lot of things.

If done right it can also encourage Functional Core, Imperative Shell, because a sensible Unix-philosophy command line needs lots of actions without side effects and a few with. You can write a little command that generates and dumps out the system state just before a (bad) decision is made, and do so against production systems with virtual impunity. And that means you can hand these tools to someone who you need to become part of a bus number, even if they are otherwise hesitant to do so.
The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon