skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So inevitably a lot of these big wealthy companies end up hiring people who use the generous resources of their new employer for personal political activism knowing the company can't easily fire them now due to the desire of the company to not rock the boat and cause public backlash for firing someone public facing who might also be a minority or some other protected category.

Exactly. This has been my experience. The political axe grinders get hired. They bring their personal politics to work. Slowly they hire people who agree with them. Then they're all bringing their politics to work. Finally, the entire company changes and becomes dysfunctional.

This is what Coinbase and Kraken FX stopped in their company saying it was destroying them.
> Kaelyn, whose daughter is now 17, said she worried that a childhood spent sporting bikinis online for adult men had scarred her.

> “She’s written herself off and decided that the only way she’s going to have a future is to make a mint on OnlyFans,” she said,

Wonder if mom gets a percentage from that also.

This is a massive story. It’s hard to conclude that meta isn’t acting deliberately.

> Meta, Instagram’s parent company, found that 500,000 child Instagram accounts had “inappropriate” interactions every day

> the company said it removed two accounts after The Times pointed them out.
U.S. workers are employed but unhappy and many need multiple jobs
I'm exceedingly well-aware of how prevalent UB is and how "rarely" it actually turns into an issue in practice. The problem is that you have no way of knowing when or if a particular instance of UB will be dangerous. Even if you somehow know the impact today, that can change without warning in the future.

There's a wealth of studies on this subject, like this one [0] documenting cases where undefined behavior leads to miscompilations or examples like [1] where undefined behavior leads to security vulnerabilities. There's a quote from that second link that's deeply applicable here:

> This blog post provides an exploit technique demonstrating that treating these bugs as universally innocuous often leads to faulty evaluations of their relevance to security.

[0] http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2517349.2522728

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/01/exploiting-nu...
Perhaps. The other root posts under this submission are indeed of very bad quality, worthy of the flag even. I’m only a bit puzzled why this was worthy of a vouch. It is not as bad as the others, but it is still ultimately flamebate-y comment about geopolitics with little substance. The only thing nice I can say about it is that it hints (by accident) at an interesting aspect of the United Nations, which we can talk about.
I think the Japanese mission was much more complicated than that. It was supposed to fall on its side; but as I understand it, it fell on the wrong side.

Whatever they build also has to fit in the launch cowling. Surveyor was tiny.
During McCarthyism people weren't executed or sent to prison for communism. They lost their jobs and were shamed. The exact same thing that has gone on during wokeism.
Not always. [fs.race.behavior] makes it undefined behavior to use the C++ filesystem library in a way that introduces a race on the filesystem, including with _other processes_:

https://eel.is/c++draft/fs.race.behavior

I'm not sure how it is possible for a program to avoid this.
Wow. I love the concept so much
I'm pretty sure the US can already do both, and that neither of those would be easier with a US backed cryptocoin.

Literal American cash dollars (which tend to work everywhere, even anti-American regimes) under the table would be more secure. But then assets in other countries are probably just paid through shell companies in those countries with local currency or something.
This was a major plot point in Licorice Pizza!
Many enough UBs are just a mismatch between the specification and programmer intents. Strict aliasing is a good example: why should aliasing be only allowed through `union` and otherwise UB? Only because it's easier to analyze and optimize. The specification could have instead defined any pair of explicitly aliasing types should be considered aliased, but then the possible optimization will be severely limited (for example, aliasing in one translation unit can inhibit an optimization in other units).
Broken pin left Blackstone with broken heart
Making youtube video with thoughtful animation etc. however good is not tech product building, it is content creation.

Instead of creating content for YouTube, becoming YouTube platform itself is product building.

One could sense how far they are from product culture was by looking at their senior Product, Engg, Design staff, when they could have hired anyone from the market.
6 month treasuries through XHLF... 3bps management fee, yielding above 5% can be traded in any brokerage account: https://bondbloxxetf.com/bondbloxx-bloomberg-six-month-targe...
> Today, Tarr lives on a sailboat—another Kiwi staple, alongside sheep and distance. Connectivity is worse on the boat than on the farm, and even less reliable. But that’s by design rather than by misfortune. Tarr started living on the boat after burning out at a previous job and discovering that the peripatetic lifestyle suited him. Unreliable and sporadic internet connectivity became an interesting engineering challenge. What if isolation and disconnection could actually be desirable conditions for a computer network?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-...

Mr Tarr still lives on a boat!

https://www.youtube.com/@dominictarrsailing
While I don't know what that means, if it's about some political thing, I probably don't care either. There are real issues with public access to land in the UK and the rest of the world that are being forced by demographic change, and addressing them clearly will mitigate a lot of the risks associated with them.
Correct, it has to be at the end to be funny.

Halibut is already a terrible name for a social network but if it wasn't it may indeed be a little bit bumular

(although in my accent at least you don't really end in a butt, it's more a "bit", maybe you could get away with it)
AFCI's feel like NEC's attempt to create tons of service calls under the guise of "safety". And eventually seems like they will be required for new builds everywhere as areas adopt the newer codes that require them slathered everywhere.

Of course its "for safety" but of course these breakers are famous for false tripping and causing expensive service calls.

anecdote:
In my case, small server rack, on circuit a with an AFCI - since "bedroom". No problem.

Until washing machine on circuit b (no AFCI) runs, then trips circuit a's AFCI. Repeatedly, every time(debug on the breaker a returns ArcFault detection reason too). So... either a) don't wash your clothes b) don't have tech or c) quietly violate the code.

Indeed electrician quietly suggested(after a bunch of triage) I swap out the breaker with a normal one. But of course he wasn't allowed to do that... lol

Been here a decade - nary an issue since - so clearly the usual case of nuisance tripping and nothing more.

I suspect the switching power supplies were close to annoying the ACFI, and a beefy motor on an adjacent circuit was enough to push it over the line. Incidentally, swapped UPSes, power supplies(quality Seasonic), etc and nothing improved.
I was about to say the same thing. If users are elderly and not self sufficient remove their ability to run executables not in a trust list.
But you are also not trying to convince people to try yet another social media concept named “butternut”.
Or better yet, a gömböc.
In… what way? Are you suggesting the balloon is the SM-3? Or that we should fire SM-3’s at these balloons?

Or just that these are two military events, so they’re similar?
This is a very good point and prescient. Apple, Visa/MC/Amex/Discover, Google Play Store, and even internet backbones are extreme monopolies and now that corporate America has been seeded with social justice crusaders they are abusing their power. Most recently the people who own the pipes of the internet as a utility have been waging war on websites like kiwifarms and straight up banning it off of the clearnet for being "transphobic." This is dark stuff.
Breaking a bunch of windows will provide just as much value to the window repair workers.
Cosmopolitan is a fan of you :-) great work on gemma.cpp. I'm really impressed with it so far.
i think for such case Tauri should allow to embed engine like chromium blink for cases like windows 7 or xp.
My pup is similarly discerning and stubborn in deciding whether or when to obey certain commands, but I appreciate it most of the time. In many cases it’s part of how she communicates her emotional state, and it helps me understand her better.
Paul Le Roux also fits. He had the crypto knowledge and the coins haven't moved because he is in federal custody. He was also quite good at opsec.
So there’s literally no example, anywhere on this wide planet, of a company that would be more successful with its team working together in an office?
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Thank you for making my point. There’s nothing in my post about forcing you to do anything. In fact, in my role as VP Eng., I’m one of the strong proponents for continuing fully remote work at my company.
It’s run incompetently just at the moment. You have a golden opportunity right now with the enshittification problem. How many people put Reddit after the KW in search? If it’s opened up maybe it’ll get better management.
I’ve managed dashboards before and the type of content that does well there is not the type of content that does well on hacker news, at least not in the native format.

The stuff that works well as a dashboard is graph or gauge form where at a glance or by it’s change you notice an anomaly. Think green-yellow-red classified stuff. It might direct you where to go.

You might be able to consume the front page data and graph the number of comments to indicate a story’s activity.

Or you could go deeper and track for swings in karma score of posts or users
While permitting and long delays are a problem, I think the biggest argument is over who pays for the new lines, whether they are separate lines or reconductored lines. The utilities want the solar and wind farm owners to pay, the farm owners want the utilities or state or federal government to pay. Still haven't heard of any big national or state efforts to double the capacity of their existing electric infrastructure, no matter which way it's done. So if they leave it up to the utilities and the utilities push the costs to businesses, then businesses will be less interested. Also, more than lines are needed, transformers in particular currently take years to build and doubling the line capacity does not double the transformer capacity.
It does sound like reconductoring isn't being considered as often as it should though, particularly as a way around permitting problems, so it would be good if that changed. I've wondered if adding sensors to power lines so they can be run at higher capacity is actually a good thing. It means running more of the grid at the very edge of its capabilities, which seems certain to cause more failures. The power engineers would know better than I what the risks are there. You have to wonder why power line sags are causing wildfires in the West when the utilities there could just add some relatively inexpensive sensors to prevent them. It sounds like the utility companies have no incentive to change anything for any reason so change will have to either be mandated or incentivized (or both).
High tension lines could also be replaced with DC interconnects or someday with superconducting lines, so there may be other possibilities also. Large capacity storage could play a role also; a line could be run at full capacity off-peak to charge/build up the storage, and then the stored energy used to supply more capacity than the lines can carry at peak. Distributed generation should be part of the solution also. Solar and wind don't have be built as large centralized farms. You don't need a bigger grid if the power is generated close to where it is used.
Thank you. I'd like the option to work from work or home and I don't want to schedule it.
Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; ... his great discovery was the use of letters ... This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit.

Thamus replied: ... In this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing...

_The Phaedrus_, Plato, circa 370 BC

This conversation has been going on for a very long time. :-)
I wouldn't be surprised if it's true, but I'm also not sure if I trust what his manager told him. Could he have been lying to cover a decision made for other reasons?

Seems like something someone should sue about, then get evidence through discovery and/or depositions.
The difference is that you need cash and bank accounts and phones to run a modern economy. They're useful for many many things, and you can't do without, and we our best to police and minimise scams.

Crypto, on the other hand, is specifically designed to evade regulation (permissionless setting), is useful for very little else, and you can do easily without it.
Thank you for making mine. I was replying to "in their dismissal of people who enjoy in-person work."

Note that I did not dismiss your liking of offices. Nor does anyone else who prefers WFH. We are all indifferent to it. Like it all you want.
I’m more impressed with repurposing some parts like the cameras, good work!

So the commands were sent through RC channel, what was the bandwidth? Maybe I missed it but I didn’t hear it in the video.

Project looks great but the application is kind of limited as it relies on the external components (cameras), really hard to do in the wild, even in urban environments.
You're fixated on bringing your own definition of "elite" into this conversation. Sometimes, a populist argument about who the elites are is plausible. Sometimes it isn't. But it's besides the point. There argument against populism isn't that there isn't some real "elite". It's that there's no singular "populace" aligned perfectly in opposition to that elite. Half the population is, say, 80% aligned with the "elite"; the other, 15%.
I agree the SUA1500 is probably the best UPS APC made certainly my favorite but this happened. Surprised at all the doubt. I know because I smelled this liquid, it was odorless and about 5 minutes later I was pretty violently ill. Could it have all been a series of coincidence? I would bet a million dollars against it but technically sure. So it went in the trash and I was fine. This was a while ago and the unit came with batteries so that really isn't here nor there. In hindsight I should've made a big deal about it. I wrote a few angry emails and such but I was mostly relieved that I didn't die at that point and could care less about well quite a few hundred dollars at the time if I recall. This was a while back now somewhere around I want to say 2010ish. I had health insurance and no damages to show, lawyers are expensive. When you're actually in this kind of a situation very few people care to listen. There's nobody to call and very little to be gained from a fight anyway. I wasn't going to hand over the evidence to the company that made the product in exchange for another gd UPS. I had better things to do
These are the words of the UN General Assembly, not mine. However I do believe they refer mostly to the Palestinian People (not country) and the prospect of a Palestinian state. Furthermore, they refer to occupied territories and not the occupied country of Palestine, so I don’t see your confusion.

I’m assuming, off course, that you recognize the existence of the Palestinian people and their possibility that there may be a Palestinian state. Otherwise I’m not sure I should be responding to this.
What makes you think Russia or China make living 'anonymously over the internet' easier than other places?

About energy: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price... says that China and Russia both have lower absolute household electricity prices than eg the US. But they are higher when compared to average incomes.
But was it sensing low blood sugar itself or the behavioral changes of low blood sugar?
Yeah it is a great alternative/addition to cast iron, and can be similarly seasoned.
Google apologizes for AI image generator that 'overcompensate' for diversity
We had a Westie that we trained to do this. We’d make him “wait” then we’d his toy, and say “ok go find it” . He’d go all over looking for it and enjoyed the game. I highly recommend a community training camp if there is one in your area.
I did, thank you!

Our official code is hosted by American Legal Publishing [1], but it's so bad that I decided to download a copy and try hosting my own.

After I was elected to our village council I started to notice the similarities between legal code and computer code – large amounts of plain text, formatting, and change management.

I ended up using Markdown with some special CSS styling, and the site is generated by Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. BBEdit and regex was a huge help to whip it into shape.

You are welcome to use anything I've done [2]. I would love to see more people doing the same.

[1] https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chagrinfalls/latest/ov...

[2] https://github.com/briandrum/codes.forchagrin.com
But licensing will be bigger. And big money will be pushing it as an edge / moat—one of the few they have.
I don't know his story, but I had a little chuckle at the juxtaposition of "quite good at opsec" with "in federal custody"
Can you elaborate about not needing much cash to weather a downturn?
Well, it's not every day you end up seeing your old work neighbourhood on HN.

There's this place that you'll notice if you're walking around in the area called the Business Design Centre. You'll see a couple of expensive cars parked outside, and a throng of people going in and out.

It's got an interesting little history as part of London's financial scene that most people won't have heard of, despite being the office of one of the most famous traders in the City.

Back in the day, I think the 80s, the area was pretty derelict. This old agricultural hall was sitting there long past its time. A guy by the name of Morris bought it up to develop it into a convention centre. There's a bust of him if you go up to the top floor. The fancy cars are owned by his sons who took over. All sorts of famous events have gone on there, such as Britain's got talent, along with less famous things like industrial fairs. As part of the business plan, they decided to have office units to rent along the side of the main hall. Pretty much like we wework.

Also in the 80s, a successful floor trader called Dave Kyte set up a clearing and brokerage firm there. Now the thing about DK is he is very keen to invest in other financial firms, so over the years, the BDC ended up having dozens of tenants associated with Kyte, since this allowed him to keep an eye on everyone and they could share his IT and office staff. They've since sold to RJO, so you won't find the name there now, but there are still remnants of the businesses he seeded.

This gave the BDC an interesting vibe. You had all these mini trading floors set in the mezzanine around the exhibition hall, with varying exhibits in the middle, or just a massive empty space on days between exhibits. People visiting would often peek over the blur on the glass and be fascinated by the banks of screens. Some of them would wander in and comment on how many screens there were.

This would be interspersed with a variety of office types, each with their own oddity. One office seems to just have a stone obelisk in the middle, with no staff ever to be seen. Then there was the unit that was a permanent exhibit for a window manufacturer. There was a telesales boiler room. The office of an MMO game for kids. Just every imaginable thing.

Great area for it though, good food market for lunch and restaurants as well.
All three good candidates for Satoshi are beyond said cryptanalysis: Sassaman and Finney are dead, Paul Le Roux is in a federal prison and it is not known to the public where, even without Bitcoins, quite a few people want him dead so the feds are not going to make it easy to get access to him.
I will say, I did enjoy reading abriosi's assumption, though. As I get older I get more aware of the things I just "took for granted" that everyone knows (because nearly everyone in my generation does know it) are really just generation-specific.

Like when I learned most kids can't read cursive anymore. Or that, for a long time, my use of "emoji noses", :-), really dated me (and I still think it looks better with a nose than without!) So I admit I had a similar chuckle with the idea that putting two spaces after a period was a unique characteristic! Even well into the PC era, 2 spaces was the norm before proportional fonts became widespread. And I still had a heck of a time moving to a single space because it just looked so weird to me.
This is a useful feature but can only provide a degree of protection.

To a certain extent, your approach of considering any mistakenly pushed commit as public is laudable, but it still seems unreasonable to me to not provide an analogue to gc
Satoshi Nakamoto means "Central Intelligence" but the people here are probably VERY FAMILIAR with CIA trends.
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I hope I didn't imply that UB was the only source of bugs. It obviously isn't. It's just the only source of bugs that has the side effect of undefining the semantics of all your other code.

Just for fun let's take your example and say signed overflow returns integer pi. That now means the compiler has to implement your (hypothetical) next line checking if the result is 31415 rather than omitting it under the assumption that it's unreachable because it would imply UB. All of that code suddenly has defined behavior, even if it's silly.
The pride you seem to take in America's capacity to threaten the world with its military hegemony and support genocide unopposed is a weird look. I don't know why you want that look, but I'll let you have it.
Poor Satoshi. Vision:

> purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required [...]

Reality: The world's biggest financial institutions hold BTC as an intermediary for clients through trusted third party custodians for speculative purposes (rarely payments).
At this rate, someone should launch a small rover up there that just tips everyone’s landers upright
Recent docudrama/biopic about Roger Sharpe:

https://letterboxd.com/film/pinball-the-man-who-saved-the-ga...

More about Sharpe:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/meet-the-sh...
You all know Satoshi Nakamoto translates exactly to Central Intelligence... Sell all your things and invest in bitcoin. its annonymous, tho (social security number required to buy a piece of bitcoin)...
You can be good and yet the heavy hand of the law still gets you. They got Escobar and "El Chapo" Guzmán too. And his operation was smaller than either of those fine gentlemen's.