skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this analysis is that Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg did make efforts within Xerox to commercialize Smalltalk and related technologies. When Xerox fumbled, they went elsewhere: Alan Kay to Atari and then Apple, and Adele Goldberg founded PARCPlace. A similar story is the founding of Adobe by ex-Xerox PARC people; PostScript is the result of frustrations with Xerox’s strategy for Interpress. It wasn’t that the researchers were indifferent to or even hostile to commercialization; it’s that Xerox’s management fumbled repeatedly when it came to commercializing PARC’s research.

Unfortunately the lesson industry learned from Xerox PARC is that research needs to be more tightly controlled by the company instead of the company’s direction being influenced by the research coming out of the lab, and thus industrial research labs, at least in computing, have undergone a transformation where it’s about near-term progress in areas that are closely tied to business strategy. I’ve worked in industrial research settings for much of the past decade and have seen the last vestiges of more free research die out. I can’t think of a company that was run to the ground by its research division, and even if such examples exist, this is an indictment on management for allowing research expenditures to sink the company, not research.

Of course not all companies can afford the types of labs that Xerox and AT&T had when those labs were in their golden ages. However, I believe that the shift toward research driven toward short- and medium-term business needs, as well as academia’s focus on fundraising and publications, has effectively snuffed out unfettered research, where the only people in a position to pursue research that way are grad students with appropriate advisors and funding situations, tenured professors who are willing to take risks, and those working outside the system such as independent researchers. Where’s the next big thing going to come from if businesses are worried about the next quarter’s results and if academia has effectively abandoned freedom of inquiry in a quest for more money and prestige?
Fair points, no doubt.
Very true. It's interesting how Reddit has maintained a relatively high trust within most people though. It's also worth noting that while this is happening, there aren't many other places that most people go to where the site is mainly text-based and there is a higher level of trust that I know of. Personally, I'd trust Reddit over a random blog from a Google search, but that isn't a high bar.

All of that being said, I think this will be a much bigger problem with misinformation generally on all of the internet as AI gets better, especially considering the election later this year.
Expanding legal immigration is a political impossibility at the moment. We'll have a lot of near slave-wage bodies for the worst jobs around though.
Something similar is still needed here, imho
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In my opinion, wait times for voters of more than 30 minutes should be grounds
for civil suit or impeachment of the election officials responsible. Other variables of interest would include voter dwell time - the time it takes for one voter to cast their ballot - and the likelihood of machine malfunction, whether from inadequate preparation or maintenance, or from active sabotage by voters. Worst case is a polling place with minimal staff, fragile and antiquated machines, and a high proportion of impatient, frustrated, or angry voters. The procedure for repair of machines (never use the word "fixed" during an election) is to mark the machine as out of order, call the elections office, and begin a long wait. For non-Americans, note that US general elections typically involve 2 or 3 dozen contests, so marking paper ballots
just for one party or another is not an effective option in the US.
Based on the lack of replies, the answer appears to be $0.
I might have overstated how common it was, after a bit of Googling.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/09...

https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
That just means the bad actors will all have clearance while putting in a bunch of hurdles for amateur contributors. The only answer is the hard one, constant improvement in methods to detect and mitigate bugs.
Ah, you're right. It's been a while since I've seen the show.
The extra tragic thing is that if Google had committed up front to refund users in the event of shutdown - AKA the thing they actually did - they might have mitigated the fears that kept people off the platform in the first place.
historically they've had an options program that you could optionally participate in, with your salary.

the rumblings i've heard seems to imply they'll be rolling out an RSU system in the future as they continue to destroy the unique corporate culture they had.
This is pretty interesting. I'm not sure if many commenters have abstracted this approach the way I would have, but it is sure is a handy trick to couple virtual memory related system calls (brk, mmap) to stack dumps and aggregation thereof, and it would not have been so easy to do in, say, 2009.
Yeah, but why...?
Do not know why but this article reminded me of "Black Books"
Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
This is very cool.

That said, it reminded me of a funny collider meme I saw recently:

https://tinyurl.com/2k8u4dk6
Have people still not caught on to the con with this?

Teaching the history of genocides is different than teaching them in a context of "people of European descent are uniquely evil and deserve to be punished for the historical crimes of people with the same skin color." When someone tries to teach the latter, other people sensibly object to it. But because it's politics, the team objecting to it will try to paint it as a central example of what's being taught, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building.

Then that team will have their own crackpots, some of whom are racists too. The original team then finds an instance of someone on the objecting team saying something indefensible and tries to paint that as a central example of what the other team's objections are, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building.

They're both just lying to you about their opponents while downplaying the wrongness of their own extremists, because it's politics.
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> What's hard is that a fair solution to Prop 13 is difficult.

I don't think its that hard.

> You can't just shut it off suddenly or even gradually over a decade because people will lose their homes en masse

Eliminate the 2% per annum assessment increase limit entirely for properties transferred after the date of the change. In

Phase it out gradually for other properties but, for owner-occupied primary residences (covered or not) apply the original 2% limit formula as a limit on nondeferrable property tax, allowing deferment of the excess with the state acquiring, in lieu of payment, an interest in the property in proportion to the ratio of the deferred amount to the assessed value (the full tax should decrease as the state acquires interest, but the limit on the non-deferrable amount should not), which the owner can repurchase on the same bases any time before or at transfer.

You could even add an additional limit so that the nondeferrable amount increases at the lowest of 2% or the rate of inflation or (and this is the new bit the owners average annual rate of increase in taxable income over the preceding three year period.)

Seniors don't get forced out of their homes (and not just during a transitional period), and taxes are assessed at full value, and commercial, industrial, and vacation real estate stops getting taxpayer subsidies “justified” by stories about fixed-income senior homowners being forced out of their home.

Some things in policy are hard, but lots of time “its too hard” is really “I don't want to do it, but can't argue against it directly.”
Project Wayfield – The JDK Wayland Desktop on Linux [video]
To be clear, Federal law is very explicit that you have the right to discuss and disclose your salary.
He won’t see for 8 minutes, he will never hear because the sound doesn’t travel through vacuum. Even if it did, it would take nearly 14 years:

> The speed of sound is 767 miles per hour, and that the distance to the Sun is 92,960,000 miles away. Divide 121,199.478 by 24 to get the number in days to the Sun. The answer is 5,049.98 Days to the Sun.
Out of curiosity I looked at the list of followers of the account who committed the backdoor.

Randomly picked https://github.com/Neustradamus and looked at all their contributions.

Interestingly enough, they got Microsoft to upgrade ([0],[1]) `vcpkg` to liblzma 5.6.0 3 weeks ago.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37197

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/37199
There's also the currently-developed FOSS option https://capyloon.org/
Behavioral programming is just creating a specific type of rules engine which is very close to a state machine.

This example is also really complex in reality because it inherently requries muxing of temporal events, which is really difficult for most average industry programmers.

With event driven systems what I've seen is that your average programmer is comfortable and likes 1:1 maps but cannot handle any kind of reduce functionality esp over a temporal range.

Typically adoption of something like this would be easier if the event represented a change in the state of the whole board rather than a change in the state of a cell.

TBH this is somewhat reinventing Observables for React.
The devs that I've known who've dropped out of the market have lived on their savings and investments.
Keep in mind that having a "false identity" does not make you a malicious actor. I have a serious project I work on under another pseudonym, but it has to do more with the fact that I do not want my real name to be associated with that project AND having a serious case of impostor syndrome. :/

That, and I used to contribute to various games (forks of ioquake3) when I was a teen and I wanted to keep my real name private.
My comment was simply a reaction to the sweeping claim that "preservatives are basically poisons". So to be pedantic you sort of said vitamin C?

jijijijij's claim that it can be harmful in combination with other preservatives is interesting, but I think I'll trust Derek Lowe on the danger of sodium benzoate + ascorbic acid: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sodium-benzoate-no...

(These usernames confuse me, and is quite frankly a bit suspicious)
Yubikeys starting to look kinda yummy.
- There is not that much "complex" stuff going around for all the people that will be looking for a job in the field.

- what you call "garbage" might be someone else's "good enough for my needs". If I can go to Japan and a " garbage translator" still is enough for me to help navigate the city or poorly talk to a shopkeeper, then it's mission accomplished and I don't need to worry about a local guide.

- lots of "complex stuff" are dependent on context, and can be made less complex if we relax one single design constraint. E.g, centralized social media networks have a strong requirement for not losing user data. Distributed systems solve this by (a) duplicating data between every node and (b) letting it be deleted by users and node operators who do not want to have the data stored for long term.

It seems to me that you believe that what most software engineers is some dark magic that only a select few can master. It really isn't. The whole "software is eating the world" essay never mentioned what was going to happen after it ran of out of things to eat, now it is kind of obvious that it will gladly get into cannibalism.
he was good people
The Gorongosa project in Mozambique has revitalized Gorongosa National Park while involving local communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorongosa_National_Park
The energy drinks I consume have "0 sugar", although I know they're still so bad (with 200mg caffeine per can). I imagine them to be as addictive as smoking, but I don't know for sure. Can a smoker confirm?
The book (now a major motion picture) Solaris, one of many excellent Stanislaw Lem books, explores this idea.
Honda has an interesting solution in their latest gen hybrids, where the electric motors power the wheels at lower speeds, the combustion engine runs at its optimum RPMs as a generator while the electric motors are working, and at higher speeds a clutch activates that changes the coupling so that the combustion engine directly drives the wheels.
If anyone here happens to know Lasse, it might be good to check up on him and see how he's doing.
> I think we should seriously consider something like a ts clearance as mandatory for work on core technologies.

Was xz/lzma a core technology when it was created? Is my tiny "constant time equality" Rust crate a core technology? Even though it's used by the BLAKE3 crate? By the way, is the BLAKE3 crate a core technology? Will it ever become a core technology?

With free software in general, things do not start a "core technology"; they become a "core technology" over time due to usage. At which point would a maintainer have to get a TS clearance? Would the equivalent of a TS clearance from my Latin America country be acceptable? And how would I obtain it? Is it even available to people outside the military and government (legit question, I never looked)?
Boneworks-inspired name?
New York City's official AI chatbot is hallucinating incorrect legal advice
And refuting the point with which you started off – "nobody watches it"
I have so many bad memories from this engine. I finally brought them to court to win. But all this to say Mazda has been out of the game so long living on dreams with this engine.
fwiw his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@securityengineering1350.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5UOqZn43gY It has longevity-issues due to an internal roller bearing on the main shaft.
Bite Model of Authoritarian Control
Agree, it's becoming more chalanging to live for a bookstore
Except that's not the case at all with Rust.
I added "Fancy-ANSI" as ASCII art to the preview site: https://kubetail-org.github.io/fancy-ansi/
Sure, the same person who's gonna be looking is the same person who'd click "show diff"
Hmmm... checking against external sources is an interesting idea -- but using Google as a source of ground truth is a little bit tricky, given how often these days Google itself is spitting up confabulated AI-generated crud (or other low-quality stuff).
Consolidating products makes sense to an engineer, but in general companies seek to create many redundant brands to confuse the market. For example Faceboot+Instagram, or how entire store aisles are filled as a simulation of more choices than just P&G and J&J.
This can be a GOTCHA in docs site UX. A lot of docs sites use admonitions (e.g. [1]) to call special attention to a particular piece of info and, ironically, the admonition might make readers less likely to see the info.

[1] https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/admonitions
Most build systems are turing-complete. Rust, at least, drastically reduces the need for custom build scripts (most of my projects have empty build.rs files or lack one entirely), and build.rs being in the same language as the rest of the codebase aids transparency immensely.
It's hard enough to get code to work correctly; getting it to be also doing something else is even harder.

The way they went around it, however, was brilliant. Completely reduce the variables to directly target whatever it is you're attacking. Reminds me of stuxnet somewhat.
I imagine we haven't figured out how to observe it yet. Same as anything else we couldn't observe before we did.

Ruling out "it's magic", we can presume that everything in the universe is linked logically somehow, the link between the two entangled particles must exist and we just haven't been able to observe it yet.
Stable, luckily. Thank you for the information.
Wasn't Netflix a family-friendly place? How common was part-time employment? Did the culture of fear prevail?
Prop 65 has entered the chat...
Ok, that doesn't bode well for the op.

Note, I haven't used C in 15 years, have never looked at memcached code and in fact the last time I used memcached was before redis even existed.

It took me ~26 mins which included reading the article, googling the memcached repo, downloading all dependencies, compiling a first build, grepping for references to incr and adding mult with support for negative arguments, refactoring the guts of incr into two functions to support the changes, compiling, fixing a few compiler bugs then testing, given a few more minutes I'd probably be able to get it PR ready with a full test suite.
CISA Advisory:
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-...

Note that it say "Fedora 41" in the CISA page link to Red Hat, but Red Hat changed the blog title to "Fedora 40" and left the HTML page title as "Fedora 41".
It's imposible, learning from the past requires an open and honest examination of historical events
I mean, he was a professional athlete, so that’s kind of the point he was making. As you progress in fitness, it sucks less which means your body has adapted and you can go faster/ harder/ longer.
Of course Jay Leno has one; not sure if he’s featured it on his youtube channel (I don’t recall seeing it). Awesome
Who knows, likely not many aside from some folks training in GCP on TPUs but any large funded corporation has a path laid out by Google. And Apple with its M-series. You can build hardware and dedicated ML chips and if you can do that the software ecosystem knows how to handle it.
CUDA isn't the moat, it's the chips.
NVIDIAs moat is still the chips. Building huge systems and ecosystems is a game for only the most capitalized entities but all of them can do so.
The software part is already a solved problem, at the cost of a new compiler.
Teams start to battle to have low performers on their team in a climate like that, though, as an insurance from being let go. It's absurd.
How does posting an exploit POC differ here?
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> No one is being “required by law” to add vulnerabilities

This is absolutely not the case in many parts of the world.
It is very difficult if not impossible to catch fraudulent mail in votes. The rules surrounding mail-in and absentee ballots seem like they're actually designed to make fraud easier (ie ballot harvesting).
PostgreSQL supports more SQL features and data types out of the box. Also, it looks like MySQL development has stalled after purchasing by Oracle. PostgreSQL has exciting new features in every release, I forgot when anything significant happened in the MySQL world. It's frozen for like a decade now. There're some new releases, but you won't find anything exciting in the change log.
Except it is. The system package maintainers release a new build of the package in question and then you install it. There's not really anything else to do here. There's nothing special about Rust in this context, it would be exactly the same scenario on, for example, Musl libc based distros with any C application.
The content is not the product just like how the chum a fisherman tosses is not the product. The product is the customer base and they make money selling access to it for advertising.
some of it has to be with regulations where data retention is required by the law ( Fintech/Telco). Other than that it's to learn more about client and use the data to reach more clients.

In a perfect world, we should have the right to revoke our data access anytime we want, specially when there is a material change in management ( Exit/Acquired/CoFounder left) etc.
How do you deal with bot posts to push products on either platform skewing the reviews?
Yep. It's not the clueless HR but systematic. I have yet to read anything specific about why this happens and the benefits of it.
People don't know how to use git hashes, and it's not been "done". Whereas downloading tarballs and verifying hashes of the tarball has been "good enough" because the real thing it's been detecting is communication faults, not supply chain attacks.

People also like version numbers like 2.5.1 but that's not a hash, and you can only indirectly make it a hash.
:) When I made the joke I was thinking about energy levels and theoretical physicists'/string theorists insistence that we're just a bit more energy away from evidence of the grand unified theory
Aaahktually, the radiation given off the reactor would be too “hard” and useless in soft-tissue imaging.

Maybe neutrino imaging?
There is a corollary to this: Do you really need cloud infrastructure?

Cattle not pets right?

Well, no. Have you seen amazons AWS margins? Its 30%.

After amazon buys hardware, pays people to run it, it still makes 30%. Not having hardware is someone else's profit.

That isnt cattle, its contract poultry farming.

Learn capacity planing. Learn to write cachable, scalable apps. Track your hardware spend per customer. Learn about assets vs liablity (hang out with the accountants, they are nerds too). Do some engineering dont just be a feature factory. And if you are going to build features, make fuckin sure that you build tracking into them and hold the product teams feet to the fire when the numbers dont add up (see: friends with accountants, and tracking money).
Thanks for trying it out!

As for the performance issues, we're looking into several things that could speed things up
- Fine-tuning a small LLM for the results on the intermediate page and deploying on a provider with higher throughput and time to first token
- Admittedly, there there are quite a few SQL query / index optimizations we need to make on the backend, along with making parts of our pipeline async
- The frontend itself is also not very performant right now, but we're working on it.

We cache previous calls to the API, so that's why the demo queries or queries others have tried before you are faster. I'll ship a change that makes the results more consistent but not fully consistent later today.

As for the ingredients, citing sources is definitely a next step. In the meantime, I recommend looking up the ingredients that catch your eye on a place like EWG Skin Deep if it's a huge concern for you (I used to do this to make sure my ingredients weren't comedogenic for acne).

Great point about the distributor list UI, we'll think about a better way to show it!
> All in one planetary gearset.

In the first version. In later versions they added a second separate gear set. Then even later they merged the two gear sets back into one but with two separate planetary arrangements.

I'm not a particular fan of EVs in general, but I do very much like the Prius and the careful engineering that went into this drive train. This video[0] does a great job of explaining the overall system in the context of an operating vehicle.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYNAroYEk0
And Alpine Linux is largely a mistake.
New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks
They were plenty friendly to families, but I was ready to go full time at home. We didn't really have anyone working part time, and at the time there was no remote work either.
There is in fact a high country shuttle operating in the Tuolomne Meadows area. It makes four stops per day at Tioga Pass:

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tmbus.htm
They are the funniest creatures on earth. Manipulative, hilariously small, arrogant and lazy.

Yet apex predators, god must have a sense of humour.

They went as far as manipulating prophet in islam so he placed them as ritually pure and a sign of faith for people who like them.

Christians killed them so bubonic plague came and ravaged europe. Coincidence, I think not.
List of pull request requesting the updating to liblzma 5.6.0 [0]

I wonder what amount of scrutiny all the accounts that proposed the upgrade should be put under.

[0] https://github.com/search?q=liblzma+5.6.0&type=pullrequests