skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not even to mention that all the major social media platforms have similar invasions of privacy

Really? Other social media platforms are exfiltrating US data to China after claiming it doesn’t happen under oath?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

> There has been zero evidence of the CCP influencing what American citizens see on tiktok, it's pure speculation based on Bytedance being a Chinese company

What sort of evidence could exist when it is a black box? Bytedance / TikTok are not transparent about any of it, and given that they are willing to lie under oath, why should anything they say be trusted at all? All we have is what people have studied in terms of the prevalence of certain messages and hashtags, and it is very clear from various evaluations of this, that TikTok is very skewed. And it seems to be skewed in the very ways that would create political chaos.

> Unless your point is literally "The united states should be the only one spewing blatant propaganda to its citizens," what you're saying lacks any real substance and is just parroting talking heads on stations like fox and cnn.

I wonder why TikTok’s parent company said they prefer to shut it down rather than sell it. It only makes it more clear that it is mainly a tool of the CCP. I am not sure what “blatant propaganda” you’re referring to, but creating any kind of equivalence between the US and the CCP is ridiculous.
English has become entrenched as the de facto second official language of Iceland. It's a very depressing trend for the conservation of Icelandic, and the ongoing promotion of English will only continue to exacerbate its decline.
Google Docs has switched entirely to Canvas for several years at this point: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...
This is part of doing business for the cloud provider.

The cost of running compute to deal with unauthorized requests for an arbitrary extant S3 bucket, is the same as the cost of running compute to deal with unauthorized requests for nonexistent S3 buckets.

If I generated a billion requests to an S3 bucket that did not exist, Amazon would have to decline that traffic in the same way. Since the recipient did not exist, there would be no one to bill.

I as the attacker should not be able to add on a sticky note saying "btw you can charge X user for this malicious traffic" and have Amazon actually honor that.

EDIT: Here's an analogy. Say a business in a city has a front lawn that they must pay to maintain. Sometimes people walk on the grass as a shortcut to the business. Some subset of those people also enter the business as a customer. Would it be fair for the business to charge those people more to account for the extra landscaping bill they cause?

But the answer doesn't matter, because that's not what happened. What happened here is more like, someone left a note on the front door of the business saying "My name is X, and I walked on your grass last night", and so that day the business charges more to any customer whose credit card says their name is X.
The vast bulk of content is lost forever and given how much is created I’m not even sure that’s a bad thing. And if literally everything were magically siphoned up I’m also not sure that’s a good thing.
No, I did not make that assumption.
His answer to the investigator's question should have been what the operating handbook says and not an opinion he held.

Even he was offering an opinion as addendum (that may have been edited out of context in reporting), it shouldn't be this one.
Ah, I see. I was assuming that the achievement of consistent state must somehow be achieved in the child.

If the parent can achieve consistent state (e.g. doing the equivalent of pressing "pause"), why not do the following instead:

While paused, memcpy the current memory to a buffer, then simultaneously {resume game, spawn thread to write the buffer to disk}. In C++ the memcpy might be even more convenient with the copy constructor.

This will introduce a short delay for the copy, at the speed of RAM bandwidth.

But that copy will need to be done anyway, straight away, as the parent poster says:

> that [copy] overhead will likely be spent in the first frame

With fork() it just happens in the kernel instead of in userspace, thus likely slower (1000s of individual sequential page faults, instead of a single contiguous allocation).

So if the fork() approach can somehow do it faster, I'd be curious via what mechanics.
You'd be a lot closer to the truth if Apple didn't spend the last 10 years of their corporate existence resisting message standardization like it was a plague. There were alternatives, even solutions Apple found acceptable, but they refused to adopt them.
Anybody knows how to continue reading after this?
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Here is a brutal fact for the college class of 2024: There aren’t enough college-level jobs out there for all of you. Some of you will snag them. Others will have to settle for jobs that don’t require a college education. And history shows that many of those who start out in a job that doesn’t require a college education are still toiling in that kind of job a decade later.

One mystery is why college grads’ lifetime earnings are so much higher than those of people with just a high school degree or less, if indeed so many college grads don’t do college-graduate-level work. I’ll get to that in a minute. I’ll also finish on a slightly hopeful note.

I invite college seniors to tell me about your job searches and how you feel about what you learned or wish you had learned in college by filling out the form below. Parents and employers are also welcome to write in. (And forward it to others who you think would be interested in contributing by using the gift link in the article’s share tools.) I hope to feature some of your responses in a future newsletter.

Fifty-two percent of college grads are underemployed a year after graduation, meaning they are working in jobs that don’t require the degrees they earned, according to a February report by the Burning Glass Institute, which analyzes the job market, and the Strada Institute for the Future of Work.

Five years out from school, about 88 percent of those who are underemployed are “severely” underemployed, the report said. These are the top five jobs they’re doing: information and record clerk, supervisor of sales, retail sales worker, sales representative in services, and secretary and administrative assistant.

“Even a decade after graduation, 45 percent of graduates are underemployed,” the report said.

The best way to avoid underemployment is to pick a major that employers want and to complete an internship, Burning Glass found. If you didn’t do those things and you’re a few weeks from commencement without a job lined up … um, potentially not good...
> Secondly, do not underestimate the demand for software. For as long as I've been alive, the demand for software has radically outstripped supply. GitHub claims there are now more than 100 million developers in the world.

And yet jobs are more difficult to come by than any time in recent history (regardless of skill or experience; excepting perhaps "muh AI" related roles), a seemingly universally expressed sentiment around these parts.
> And by that analogy, the previous BIOS version was released in 1981, and modern networking is hamstrung by its design which assumed "4 billion addresses ought to be enough for anybody" and that it needed to be manageable by an 8-bit OS with 64KB of RAM.

I'm not sure if it makes the analogy better or worse, but this is what happened; BIOS was born in ~1981 (I think), had severe shortcomings that were partially mitigated over time but you can only mitigate so much, UEFI is a better replacement, BIOS->UEFI was a somewhat rocky migration, that migration was made worse by extra stuff getting bundled in (secure boot), and this led to a significant chunk of the population deliberately avoiding it at least for a while. The only real difference is that UEFI has long since become standard, while IPv6 is still fighting for adoption.
I'm happy most of the comment section is discussing Liu Cixin's works instead of this article, but having made the mistake of reading said article I have a bit of a rant.

This journalist seems so intent on making everything political (from the beginning to the end of the article) that it reads like they have no interest in anything he's actually written. The author of this article never describes a single genuine question about his works that it honestly makes me a bit sick.
So many quotes are taken so wildly out of context that they contain a few words placed awkwardly in the author's wall of text and opinion instead of representing genuine conversation.

One of my favorite parts:
"Liu’s posture slackened slightly as we ate. The drinks had warmed him, and the heat of Sichuanese peppercorns seemed to stir him from his usual reticence. I decided to inch the conversation toward politics, a topic he prefers to avoid."
The author reads as genuinely manipulative, and it was clear Cixin already stated he wasn't interested in discussing politics in the authors previous attempts... Maybe have some decency and respect?
I don’t think visiting it would be very interesting. It’s a giant dust cloud that would probably be unnoticeable from any close perspective.
I don't know about the US, but the fully loaded cost of a Munich software developer is well above €100k. Take-home pay is one thing, fully loaded cost is quite another.

EDIT: I should be explicit about my conclusion. Munich is cheaper than some places, but that doesn't make it the kind of place you choose if you're looking to move to if your want avoid experience developers.
The relevant sentence from the link: I would very much like to reach the point where we are able to provide access to some digital surrogate of the game while keeping the original disc in storage in the same way that we provide access to digital surrogates of our film and video collection fiberoptically to terminals in the Moving Image reading room.
The province of Ontario (in Canada) did so in 2017:

* https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal

The current (live) grid mix can be found at:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply
Even Javascript has a similar syntax, though `yield` / `await` only works for certain "monads" (promises seem close enough)
I don't see any attack on ethnic identity. Supporting Russian imperialism doesn't have anything to do with ethnicity. If anything, such support only hurts the Russian nation. I'm talking not only about the current loss of life. For at least the next twenty years, the Russians will have much harder time doing business with EU/USA.

Such attitude has downgraded Russia in the world's eyes into an "armed gas station". I. e. can buy from them when they'll behave more or less, but don't expect to do any serious partnership.
Some people edit chemistry articles replacing the reactions by stuff that doesn't make any sense or can't possibly work. Some people changes the descriptions of CS algorithms removing pre-conditions, random steps, or adding a wrong intermediate state. And, maybe the worst, somebody vandalizes all the math articles changing the explanations into abstract nonsense that nobody that doesn't already know their meaning can ever understand.
Only want to chime in here for folks to not feel bad about also getting help beyond physical fitness and diet.

I've been a health junky my whole life, very in shape, and I eat well.

Of course that helps my mental health a lot.

However, I still get depressed. I suffer from chronic sleep apnea (it's related to my anatomy, so I can't exercise out of it, it's around 79 AHI). I take zoloft for anxiety and it has helped me to calm down and enjoy my life more.

And finally, I recently got diagnosed with ADHD. I'm fairly high functioning without meds, but with meds I can finally do all the things I've wanted to. My todo list, those things I used to forget or put off, I just do them now.

So yes, take care of yourself, but don't feel bad if it doesn't solve everything. Some of us need extra help, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. I understand you weren't shaming folks, but I really want to share this in case folks think they're broken for needing medication.

And sometimes you need the help from medication to kick-start being more healthy physically, don't be ashamed! We are all different.
I agree, everyone should be walking across burning coals barefoot every day to get to work, let alone volunteer their time to an open source project.
The thing no one mentions about developed countries past emissions is that it also led to much of the world's scientific discovery and innovation that percolated down into the developing countries too. You can't really separate modern knowledge everywhere from past emissions somewhere.
Hopefully in the far future the IA will be distributed over many individual user nodes, but that doesn't seem feasible right now. What we need right now are 2-4 high powered individuals or companies building local mirrors. Hopefully the IA would cooperate in setting these up. These mirror organizations should be distributed around the globe in different jurisdictions, and they need to take the negative lessons from IA into account: for example, they should probably be structured such that the legally precarious data-serving arm is a different entity from the organization that owns the server space.

We absolutely need this kind of resilience, and we need it now. Otherwise this time will retroactively be dubbed the digital dark ages because so very little information actually survived and made it out.

Someone in this thread was estimating about USD 2M investment in hardware, then 1M facilities and a small team of people for initial setup, plus connectivity costs and maintenance - let's say 4M initially and about 1M ongoing costs yearly. A single wealthy individual could fund one of these sites. You don't even have to be "rich" to fund this, being well off would be enough.

If you fit this description and you're feeling altruistic or are looking for a lasting legacy that will benefit humanity far into the future, use a portion of your capital to make this happen.
Yeah, this is largely my position, with an added dose of understanding (2020 was a weird year; many mistakes were made by many people). But Hachette & Co. are the ones acting with intent to harm now so I think they deserve the ire now.
Doesn’t look like 250km? https://maps.app.goo.gl/n6hN9KGHQw4UW1PW9?g_st=ic
seems on brand
The typical US developer will take home well above €100k (although Google developers generally take home considerably more than that). Rule of thumb is that the fully-loaded cost is, at minimum, 2x take home, so we're well into €200-300k territory.
I couldn't get used to it either, so I've rebound it so that IJKL is up/left/down/right (like WASD) and H is for insert mode. Yes, it means that vim mode in other programs isn't as immediately intuitive, and ones that don't allow for much rebinding aren't very nice to use, but for me that doesn't matter as much as having something that feels good in the software that I spend almost all of my time in.
Who is behind this fork?
WeWork agrees restructuring deal that shuts out Adam Neumann's comeback bid
Here's also the report the NYTimes article is referring to: https://www.burningglassinstitute.org/research/underemployme...
It was garbage lawyers doing that. Straight up a cooley law graduate (worst law school in america - the same one Micheal Cohen attended)

The good lawyers are using LLMs without being detected because they didn't submit it verbatim without verification.
He wrote "A Dog's Life" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-s...), a feature in the Post's magazine, in November 2021. (A heartbreaking story, if you're a dog person.)
https://archive.is/czZ2u

I can't say I envy the children these days.
Except the IA did not establish the NEL as an act of civil disobedience or call for changes to the unjust existing copyright laws when they did it. They instead told themselves and their patrons that there was a "national emergency" exception to copyright law, when no such exception existed. Should one have existed? Of course. But it did not at the time. The IA continued to assert that the NEL was legal within existing copyright law, not that it was a principled act of civil disobedience against an unjust law. They were trying to Jedi mind trick a "national emergency" exception to existing copyright law into existence.

If you want to challenge an unjust law in a democracy, you can work within the system to change it, or you can engage in civil disobedience, publicly accept the consequences, and put your freedom on the line as a way to bring popular attention to the unjust law. That is the mechanism of civil disobedience against unjust laws. The whole point is that you must risk something in order to go around the system and challenge an unjust law. Everyone in America has at least one law they consider to be unjust, including some laws that I'm sure you believe are very just and would be very upset if others started to violate them in the name of justice.

Birmingham banned Martin Luther King, Jr. from participating in public protests and a Circuit court judge signed off on it. When MLK said he would protest anyway, the whole point of the civil disobedience was that MLK would be arrested for it. He was right that the public was outraged at the enforcement of this unjust legal order and called for change. What the IA did was like if MLK put on a mask to go protest, and when the police tried to arrest him, he said that he wasn't MLK.
I wrote a blog post to explain it at https://dotat.at/@/2019-04-04-a-curious-perl-quine.html

And also a superficially-related but actually rather different Python quine:

File "quine.py", line 1
File "quine.py", line 1
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
There's plenty of videos with people chanting "river to the sea" which is the slogan of the Hamas that calls for the destruction of Israel.

First off, that isn't what the slogan generally means as used by protestors. Or even most Palestinians, for that matter.

Second, there are of course essentially equivalent variants that have been used by Jabotinsky, Likud, and of course Bibi and his crew among others over the years (e.g. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"), as I'm sure you are perfectly aware. Which, aside from being more specific than the protesters' chant, are arguably even more obnoxious than the Hamas variant, given that the current hypernationalist regime in Israel seems intent on making, and -- unless it is stopped -- has the capability to make this deeply disturbing vision a reality (while the various Palestinian armed groups, in regard to the more extreme versions of their slogan, do not).

In short: this is a well-read crowd, and your selectively filtered presentation of current events and well-known regional history simply won't work here.
You gave it a fair shot, go ahead and come join us at the bay where the grass is green, the videos full HD and nobody wants your money (just your soul).
> Unauthorized requests are a weird thing. They still do cost money for a web service to handle and if you (the customer) have screwed things up that's kinda on you.

Who pays when the unauthorized requests contains truly random data, i.e. they point at an org and bucket that do not exist? Amazon does. Part of their cost of doing business is building the infrastructure that routes authorized requests correctly, and if a request is for invalid data, it's dropped. That should be par the course.

Large numbers of unauthorized requests can be effectively considered a DDOS on the service itself. That the attacker can add a note onto their attack that says "btw bill X customer for all this" and have that honored is ridiculous.
In “faster than memcpy” series we have also Blosch for modern CPUs

https://www.blosc.org/pages/blosc-in-depth/

I have never been able to use Blosch myself. But it sounds really interesting, outperforming RAM. Not sure what are the applications - columnar data processing, Parquet files, etc?
We inherited a couple of ponds when we bought our place 4 years back. One has fish in.

To our surprise, every winter the pond freezes over and the fish are fine come spring. In fact they’re thriving and we don’t touch the pond at all - it doesn’t even have a pump.

The other pond could definitely do with cleaning out, but again it’s teaming with wildlife. There’s not a huge window between when the newts leave for the summer and when it freezes in winter. By the time it thaws and we think to do something about it the newts are back again.
> Really? Other social media platforms are exfiltrating US data to China after claiming it doesn’t happen under oath?

This wasn't what your parent comment claimed - you claimed that the CCP was propagandizing people through the Tiktok platform. The "exfiltrating us data to china" is still a disputed claim as far as I'm aware, and even if true still doesn't support your original extraordinary claim.

> What sort of evidence could exist when it is a black box? Bytedance / TikTok are not transparent about any of it, and given that they are willing to lie under oath, why should anything they say be trusted at all? All we have is what people have studied in terms of the prevalence of certain messages and hashtags, and it is very clear from various evaluations of this, that TikTok is very skewed. And it seems to be skewed in the very ways that would create political chaos.

I guess then you can speculate and make wild claim you want about it then - why stop there?

> I wonder why TikTok’s parent company said they prefer to shut it down rather than sell it. It only makes it more clear that it is mainly a tool of the CCP. I am not sure what “blatant propaganda” you’re referring to, but creating any kind of equivalence between the US and the CCP is ridiculous.

Nothing you've said makes anything "clear," and again, is pure speculation and regurgitating of actual propaganda on this topic. Now that I understand you're completely unserious, I can move on with my day. Have a good one
It is hard to find direct comparisons as the tech is truly novel, but I have heard people say we don’t need to learn math because your calculator can do “university level math”. I don’t know how close that argument is to yours, but there is some overlap.

Your calculator can indeed do fancy math, but you will not be able to do anything with it because you do not understand it.

This is like fancying yourself an engineer because you constructed an IKEA cupboard or an automotive expert because you watched Youtube.

Anything an amateur can come up with is blown to pieces by an actual expert in a fraction of the time and will be of considerable higher quality. The market will go through a period of adjustment as indeed the easy jobs will be automated, but that makes the hard jobs even harder, not easier.

Once you automate the easy stuff, the hard stuff remains.

Basically:

Expert + AI > Amateur + AI
I had my own computer in my room when I was 9 or 10 or so.

Internet access was mostly restricted as it made the single phone line busy and for a long time the ISP plan my father had was limited with only a few hours allowance.

There were absolutely no filters and my parents didn't watch what I was doing. They just hammered in my mind that nobody in the Internet should be trusted, and absolutely no real names, no photos and no addresses. Stranger danger.

By the time I had access to a broadband always-on connection, this was already set in my mind. Only years later that people thought that putting their real names and pictures on the book of faces would be cool.