skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In most countries, tracking down the address of a potential victim could be a laborious process.

This report seems to leave out two important details:

1) how dependent are the bombers on using this public information? Is it essential now, or do they get the information from other means?

2) if it were shut down, how laborious are the alternatives? Data brokers already sell address data, and private investigators can follow someone home. It just doesn't seem expensive enough to dissuade a criminal organization from carrying out a bombing.
I get what you're saying, but I would disagree that the focus should be on Excel and its UI/UX. As annoying as Excel is when you're working with _specific_ data that suffers from Excel's attempts to be helpful, I'd wager for most use cases Excel is doing exactly what most users expect it to, or the change is benign at best for most use cases.

That isn't to diminish when Excel's help has disastrous consequences, but rather to say it shouldn't be unexpected. If your data requires precision, there are better tools than Excel for working with your data and there should be steps taken by more experienced members of the team to ensure the team doesn't get bit by Excel's features. Excel's behaviors are well known and I'd have to imagine at least one member of any research team has been bitten by Excel's assistance features before during research. I would be surprised if any serious educational institution that teaches about ethics and common pitfalls in research *didn't* caution about how Excel might corrupt research [0].

0 - Okay, maybe not _that_ surprised, but I would be disappointed and think less of the institution/instructor.
Also interesting that he publishes his new projects on github.
Whilst we all want SF wages, those wages are because housing and cost of living in SF are exceptionally high compared to say Bali.

So you want to earn 200,000 USD. Whilst living in a part of the world where that effectively places you in the top 1% of earners.

You're only looking at this from that angle. What about the person who's living in SF, and scrapes by paycheck to paycheck. Whilst you live in a much cheaper area to live in, and you have a very different financial situation. Your both paid the same wage.. because "fairness".

You might say, "JUST MOVE". But do you think that's a fair thing to tell someone?

Sure people move to places like SF, but people do that for more than money, they do it for a variety of reasons. And one of them is that there's a lot of demand in that area for your talents. So if you wanted to change jobs, grow your career, etc.. you can. But that area has a higher cost of living.

You sacrifice some of those things when you move to the small country town, there's no tech hub. No meetups, nothing.

So do you think it's still fair to say to that person "Hey I know you're living hard... But at least you can spend that little money you have left on public transport getting to a meetup!". Whilst the person living in the middle of nowhere can afford first class.
The 293 [1] was already linked in the article so ... no? :)

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293
I could be wrong, but I think Vertx would be a better choice?
https://vertx.io/

It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
Does anyone have the text of the court filings? I assume Mr. Tomlinson's legal actions were highly defective in some way, given that the court sanctioned him,

- "A judge also ordered Mr Tomlinson to pay the anonymous blogger behind the website $23,700 in legal fees."

In the US, you don't pay the opposing party's legal bills when you lose, unless you did something egregious.

[late edit]: I believe the relevant filing on the SFTC page is "ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER JOHN DOE 1'S PETITION TO QUASH SUBPOENA TO CLOUDFLARE, INC. ISSUED FOR CASE PENDING IN FOREIGN JURISDICTION PURSUANT TO CCP SEC.2029.600 AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS". (I'm not able to link to it).

To my understanding: it looks like the operator of the website didn't do anything actionable (as far the plaintiff could demonstrate), and it was (the court says) invalid for the plaintiff to try to unmask them. They could have tried to unmask individual users of the website, and it reads to me like the court might have agreed to compel the operator to do that. But it was sanctionable to go after the operator, on (to my reading) a speculative theory that they might have been involved with the posted content. As the court says, you can't do that: you need evidence specific to the person you are trying to deanonymize.
That's my interpretation as well.

It doesn't put him in a much better light, though. It's like he's so incompetent that he didn't even realise that there was something that needed covering up.
It seems like over the past several years the words "risk" and "harm" have been redefined to mean almost anything. Am I crazy? If not, what's driving this?
is AWS Outpost not an option?
They're comparing incredibly hand-optimized MLX inference on the Mac to off-the-shelf stuff on the 4090. So I'd believe it just because the 4090's being given an artificial disadvantage, and the Mac is being given meticulous hand-optimization by the foremost experts on the very platform it runs on.

In other words, the Mac is being given a huge optimization advantage compared to the 4090. And it's roughly competitive.

Even that is no mean feat.

Source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/13/apple-silicon-m3-...
No. You are designated class of year X on the day you join (in year X-4). If you end up graduating sooner or later then X it will be adjusted.
Byuu (author of bnes emulator), would disagree about harassment Kiwi farms.

But he is dead (by his own hand), so...
I noticed that we weren't validating backups at a company I used to work at so I did a /really/ simple hack where I checked that the backups were within a certain number of bytes in size of the previous dump.

Literally a couple of weeks later after putting this live (I think it was a Nagios check) it alerted that the backups had gone down from many 10s of GB to a few k in size. I can't remember what had gone wrong now, it was years ago, but we /did/ catch the issue.

Obviously this isn't a comprehensive check, I later wrote a tool that pulled backups down, restored them, and did some sanity checks on the data, but the quick hack worked as an interim.
This part of the article resonated with me, as I used to work as a tech lead for a very similar startup to Gitlab. We were always pushed to "ship MVP's" and "move fast and break things" by product and design, which always resulted in a half-broken features getting pushed to production and left there once the sprint was over. This also led to a constant inexorable growth of tech debt, that made me feel like we'd never be able to get things remotely stable in our corner of the product. I've since come to the conclusion that it's much better to build small, flexible, feature-complete systems that can be used for multiple iterations of ideas.
Dear SFC: adding "Here's why" to the headline is a pointless affectation...
I recently visited some teams in India, they indicated quite a few coworkers moved back to India to be closer to family and friends. Not everyone is dreaming about moving to the US. And yes, I agree that I couldn’t see myself living in India, with all the pollution and overpopulation…
You walk to the station in person and say "please no armed officers in my house" I guess.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves in the punning department, wait your turn just like everybody else and remember to feed emacs and pip.
Similar with Tagalog -- "tulong".
Stinge Watching Is the Opposite of Binge Watching
// Do you think you integrate your Tetris skills into your everyday life

My brother in law and I both noticed we are much better at packing the car than our wives.

Specifically we both constantly rotate what we are loading in to take up all available space whereas our wives just put whatever is at hand next and lose a lot of space between items and thus not using the trunk efficiently.

We both attribute this to us playing lots of Tetris. I am gonna get my kids started on it as soon as they are ready.

I also attribute having played lots of Sokoban to ability to move furniture strategically.

I am sure being intrinsically spacial is required but these games definitely helped develop the skills.
20 years....

Factorio feels like it's the only thing that's really come close since!
I use barrier and it is a lot better than synergy.
Interesting, I didn't know that. There seems to be a built in assumption that you will graduate, which I find a bit odd. But then again, I'm Dutch and we have a proverb here that roughly translates to 'don't celebrate until you've crossed the bridge' so this may be a cultural heritage thing.
What's particularly nasty about a wolf spider?
AND if you get fired you go to destroy the next company... They always have work.
Unless your company provide automatic backup management with straightforward recovery for your employees (which I've never seen, including at customers), your most cautious employees will backup their device in order not to lose their work, and then there's always data “somewhere out there”.

Again, the way you deal with employees having company's IP remaining on their computer is to set up a call and ask them to remove it. Good faith employees will do it, bad faith ones would have copied it on their drive before handing out the computer in the first place.
I get the idea of “not counting your chickens before they are hatched”

Consider “class of 2025” as shorthand for “cohort targeting 2025 graduation” if you are struggling to accept it :)
I'm a little ignorant of the upcoming regs, but are they aiming to basically say "if a customer wants to leave a service, then the provider must provide them with all their data for free"?

I've not thought about the unintended consequences of this, but it feels like a reasonable regulation to have.
> Remember that all of those local markets sell iPhones at a higher cost in USD than the Bay Area.

You're literally arguing that every area has different economics. But also failing to also understand that every area has different economics.

iPhones don't keep you warm at night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_colleges_in_the_Unit...

In the United States, community colleges are primarily two-year public institutions of tertiary education. Community colleges offer undergraduate education in the form of an associate degree. [In addition community colleges also offer remedial education, GEDs, high school diplomas, technical diplomas and academic certificates, and in rare cases, a limited number of 4-year bachelor's degrees.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_degree

An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of academic qualification above a high school diploma and below a bachelor's degree.
Your gratitude is someone else’s abuse. I doubt you meant to cause harm but unsolicited celebrations hurt people. Please stop acting without consent. It’s never ok. You’re hurting people. Stop.
> Especially since some of their customers seem to be of the no fixed abode type.

I would think homeless people would be less likely to get bedbugs, not more. They aren't lice -- they can't live on people.
True, humans reach a maximum size and stop. But they won't get bigger if you feed them more. If they eat too much, they will deform, but they won't just enlarge proportionally.
I read that interview. They also think it is ridiculous to respond with SWAT to those local line calls. But companies should be liable for those as well. Let's have accountability. Let's make them liable for all calls that they don't fully understand the origin of.

If swatters had to buy burner phones instead of using a free trial on a VOIP service, first of all the price and effort would put this out of range for the typical teenage griefer. Furthermore then the phone call itself would be traceable to a cell tower so people who did a number of these could be tracked down and prosecuted. I think a carrier tracing back to a physical device could fulfill what I am asking for.

Edit: also, similar to how I feel about the payphones comment; let's simply not send a SWAT team out when the caller is nowhere near the area of the reported crime.
And, which one has a historic asymmetric power balance.

We discriminate pay on job role, on job level, on performance. We discriminate on length (tank crew), eyesight (pilots). That is not Discrimination however, because it lacks a historic asymmetric power balance.
Practical WPA2 Security Assessment of Wireless Routers
Yeah I wonder if there could be like an endorsement type thing. Mozilla certifies a product or service and promotes it, the owners of that product/service give them money, etc.

They'd have to walk a careful line though: people hate any kind of advertising in Firefox (Mozilla VPN had a big ad that everyone hated and got pulled; the Mr Robot debacle). That kind of limits your options.

Fair point about Thunderbird haha; I'm so annoyed that they did that.
Detroit, Tunnels. My first thought was this might be what the movie 'Barbarian' was based on.
I've been down the path of picking the defeated tech myself, I would give this simple tip:

If the project is likely to hit production and be supported for the many years to come, architect the code base to separate concerns. Most logic isn't part of the bindings to any framework.

That way potential migration isn't off the table. And it gives a certain peace of mind.

This small pet project isn't a demonstration of that, but building a web application that serves data can quite simply abstract things like routing and parsing, keeping all the core business logic independent.

Just don't have any Actix, bevy, dioxus imports except where they belong.

Add abstraction layers where needed, it's sometimes inevitable given how frameworks can spread their tantacles.

Wasm isn't going anyway, so on that front given first class wasm support by Rust itself, no worry to have.
You have a link for a model you’d recommend?
Filetab
The people who write their documentation aren't very good. "Support" seems to mean something like tested + enterprise grade support. It works on a fair number of officially unsupported cards. Eventually it'll work well on everything even though the support matrix is unlikely to ever get bigger.

Although, as mentioned, works under a cycloptic vision where the card is only doing compute tasks. I'd be interested to know if even supported cards can multitask GPU and pure compute tasks without crashing because it looks like it might be a design issue. Hard to tell with driver corruption. Maybe the testing catches that on supported cards; who knows.
One major restriction has to be a covenant that you can only ever buy one of these if you meet the means-test they were initially sold under. That limits the market and the mortgages available therefore caps the price.

That or generational (eg 35y) leaseholds. In the UK apartments are almost always leasehold anyway, but a long-but-not-too-long lease would mean it always returns to the state without being resold or sublet indefinitely.

I agree, defining "means" in a means-tested transaction can be tricky but also, it's just data. If you can't or won't show enough history (even homelessness leaves a trail), it's not hard to find someone else who meets the criteria with a better history.
More so, than in EU yes, but here there are also lots of weapons in private homes. They still don't kick in doors, because of anonymous calls.

And if I could make a bet, I doubt that they treat the houses of rich people the same way. Because they have the means to sue, to fight back.
While I agree with what you said in general, Snowflake is a poor example. Data warehouses like Snowflake really can use the Tbps+ aggregated bandwidth between S3 and EC2 in the same region. There is no way for this to work over the Internet.
In Praise of Cash (2017)
You know what? At least TurboTax works.

The other piece of garbage of software they force us to use, QuickBooks is literally the worst software ever written. Every single page is an ad for another service they offer. And no the core product cannot the bare minimum before throwing random errors.
If nothing else, that posts mention of https://www.keycloakify.dev/ is very handy - looks like a great alternative to the standard approach!
Mainly their size - I’m aware they aren’t really dangerous. But their bite can still hurt. Same as a tarantula
The video above is clearly one of the most informative he made recently. I do think he is a really good storyteller and choose interesting subjects, and i know it is hard to impossible to be exhaustive, but his videos are information poor compared to their length. Which is a choice i think, to have a more compelling storytelling, and it's great when the video is on a subject i know nothing about.

But each time he talk about something i already know about, i'm a bit disappointed. And it's worse when he talks about subjects he know little about.
Video Games Are Mourning the Old, Weird, Clunky Internet
Two women reading books started an introvert revolution (2020)
I think the assumption is that 'transportation' between stars will be solved by sufficiently advanced aliens/us.

BUT, that this will be one of those very difficult tasks, so it will take many thousands or millions of years.

And so goes towards 'we are early'. So, if we are grabby, and all the other grabby aliens, are all still getting over this transportation hump.
I had this discussion before and thought long about using Caddy, but then decided for nginx, directly on the host, basically following this reasoning [1].

My main motivation is that there is just more information available for nginx due to its wider use. And when you need to customize Caddy due to different requirements by services, you end up with the same or worse complexity compared to an nginx .conf. Nginx is just very robust and the configuration is not so hard to get used to.

[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/why-i-prefer-running-nginx-on...
Both Hubspot and Salesforce have WhatsApp and SMS integrations, chatbot, etc.

Like anything else you need to understand the market and have some confidence, backed by data, that you can attract customers. I wouldn’t build anything unless I had confidence I could sell it.
I've occasionally thought it would be fun (not necessarily productive!) to do something like the experiments folks have done with Genetic Algorithms, having simulated robots learn to walk, etc. in a simulated physics environment. The interesting bit would be to do it with real legs, sensors, servos, etc., to try to build up a "naive physics" library that can deal with balance, etc., by learning from physical experience rather than starting with equations of motion.

That may be the most number of times I've typed "etc." in a paragraph.
Those semi-managerial roles are the biggest problem with that model, in my opinion. Sure, it works as long as everything is peachy. But as soon as there are any real conflicts of interest, it will show who is the real manager. And it's not the product owner or scrum master.

With authority comes responsibility for your actions. Without responsibility, no authority. The product manager is a manager in name only, and product owner even less so.

That doesn't mean you can't have several direct reports. The classic matrix organization for example. But it means semi-managers without real responsibility have no real mandate for doing a good job at the slightest hint of trouble.
But money is portable, and Local market means a different thing than it did pre-pandemic.

The argument that local cost of living is the only factor falls apart when people are moving from high CoL markets to low CoL markets with their advantaged savings. Especially within a nation, or times of large movement (again, pandemic - where folks with higher CoL wages were better positioned to acquire prime real estate in lower CoL markets).
Chernobyl wolves have evolved resistance to cancer
I use dell display manager with dell monitors and one of the switches in the article.
Just gonna leave it here - whats so special about Norm MacDonald
I had an interview recently where I was given a 1000 line, deeply stacked conditional and asked to traverse it. Like, what are they selecting for? I hope that’s not demonstrative of their source code.
> huge benefits to the employee in terms of separation of work time and personal time

While I agree that separate work and personal computers might help in this regard, in my opinion it only helps a little.

I believe that behavior related to separating work time and personal time is influenced primarily by one's own habits, abilities and, in the end, decisions.
Waco is politically contentious with hot takes mostly falling along partisan lines. Everybody likes to believe they know the truth about what happened, that this truth is evident to everybody else, and that anybody who claims to subscribe to a different narrative knows they're wrong about it but sticks with their version anyway for tribal political reasons.

I don't know what the law enforcement on the ground at Waco during those days truly believed, but I believe it is plausible they thought themselves in a violent confrontation with a cult that would rather die than surrender, and given that framing it is at least plausible they believed it would end in a Johnstown style murder-suicide pact if another ending wasn't forced quickly.

Maybe it wasn't really that sort of cult but they believed it was and acted on that belief. Maybe they were pretty sure the kids would be all unharmed but decided to go in anyway because they were bored or angry or psychopathic or something, and all their talk about saving the kids was just cynical excuse making. I don't know the truth for certain and I don't think you do either, but I believe it is at least plausible that law enforcement at Waco had good intentions and nevertheless failed to deliver a good outcome. If you're not willing to even consider the implications of that possibility, then I'm afraid you're lost to the politics of it.
Yes, I got it. Thanks for the clarification.
This is great, but currently very limited; partial support for Windows. Seems inclined more towards Apple.

https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse
I like the general idea of Svelte, but last time I tried it, it required a lot of bloat (tens of files) for just a simple “hello world” project, which put me off.
Waco was very plausibly perceived as a Johnstown scenario, in which the children would be subjected to a murder-suicide pact if another ending wasn't forced.
Though there are likely other Tetris competitions, this one is about Tetris on the NES.
Unfortunately it does not cover form 5471 which is required if you own an interest in a non US company (even if the company is dormant), or form 8858 which many more internationally self employed people now need to fill out as of a few years ago, as most people self employed abroad are now seen by the IRS as a “foreign branch” of a U.S. person.
Because since the 80's 'greed is good'. And even those people who believe that look at Inuit and think 'wow, these guys are truly shit'.
What I learned from the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
I recently read the book "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts" by Neal Ford, Mark, Richards, Pramod Sadalage & Zhamak Dehghani, and this is my review of the book.
Telling the cops they are wrong? Best of luck to you.
> Now, if your complaint is rather that you can call whatever method and pass in your bogus data

This entire comment thread is a discussion about how to prevent that from being a possibility. The person I responded to threw their hat in with a Typescript solution that doesn’t achieve the goal being discussed. I was simply pointing this out.