skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes the people with arrest warrants much less welcome to visit other countries

Yeah, that's fair. I guess I'm just kind of unimpressed that that's the worst punishment something called the "International Criminal Court" can inflict on leaders that they've judged to be war criminals.
This is what serial ports are for.
The comments here are getting hung up on the 200 years claim. The point is not that the information will last literally 200 years; it’s that it will last long enough for you to transfer it to a more modern medium when the time comes.
Oracle Cloud's Resource Manager only supports Terraform versions up to 1.2.9 which is already quite old and of course open source. The license changes past the 1.6 versions don't affect the tool at all since it's using such an old version of TF.

Version support here: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ResourceManager/R...

Why Oracle Cloud isn't using Terraform version 1.5.7 which is still open source in Resource Manager is anyone's guess. Perhaps the tool isn't getting much attention recently?
A "corporate death penalty" needs to be enacted, where a company can be seized and dismantled for egregious crimes.
> Keeping distance to people under a virus pandemic is pretty much self explained.

Self explained but not scientifically backed. Unless you can prove otherwise to the NIH legal council who testified under oath?
Beautiful! I would like to see more cursive handwriting fonts. Here is my contribution from 2 years ago:

https://certik.github.io/slabikar-otf/
> The controversy claimed is entirely overblown. Longer timelines for migration have been discussed widely for quite a while.

Are you saying that: Effective, significant resistance to pre-Clovis theories wasn't a thing in the latter 20th cent ?
Long-term habitation of surfaces of bodies other than that of Earth is a stepping stone to being able to live in space long term in very large, permanently spaceborne crafts. It’s easier to develop these things on the moon, mars, etc because of immediate access to materials that’d need to be launched into orbit otherwise. In the long term, it may make sense to build shipyards on the moon, on Mars, or somewhere in the asteroid belt where large ships can be built and launched without having to fight Earth’s strong gravity well.

As for why to do that, I like to think of Earth as a very cozy cave that humanity’s caveman would serve itself well to venture beyond, if only to increase the number of possibilities for the species. In a universe where there are large human civilizations not just throughout the solar system but also scattered amongst other star systems, there are numerous paths that each branch will take that Earth’s branch in its lonesome may never have trodden.

It also just seems a bit cruel to be able to see the vastness of the universe and never be able to touch any of it in person. At the risk of being dramatic, only sending rovers and probes while we remain on earth feels a bit like being stuck in a gilded cage piloting around drones and RC cars to explore what lies beyond.
AI Personalization Fuels Groupthink and Uniformity
This doesn't make any sense, this vulnerability is in the context of browsers, not server side runtimes.
The number of "we can't do that, it murders kittens on live TV" types of discussions I've seen surprise me, both that something got as far as it did, and that it was shut down with a simple comment.
Sounds to me like you are attacking the source and not the content of the article. Are you saying that he lied under oath and that there was scientific reasoning behind the social distancing directive?
Did you mean: at some point there stops being news?
Turkey has had the same kind of semantics about getting things done but that recent earthquake did prove fatal though, except in one town where they didn't allow shoddy construction.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/erzin-turkey-earthquake-b...
My wife is a tall statuesque blonde. In her late 40’s, she still gets hit on by guys 30+.

Granted, she used to get hit on by guys 18+.
Things have gotten so complex that it's difficult to reason about security (even for experts). This is especially true when we're talking about JS code that is running on the client and accepting untrusted input from the global Internet.

Is the origin right? Are all the security headers correctly set? Is it even possible to keep up with all the stuff that is published, today, to sort of try and secure a web app? I don't think so.

My approach is... no JavaScript (script-src 'none'). Just don't do it.
> In the wake of them ceasing service, Twitch has been fined for 435 million Korean won – but not for the entire service being terminated. This is related only to them making it so users in South Korea can’t access VODs on the platform, something seen as a direct violation of South Korea’s telecom laws by Korea’s Telecommunications Commission (KCC).

> According to Yonhap, the KCC made the decision that Twitch terminating the ability for users in South Korea to access VODs wasn’t necessary to keep the service alive. When asked to justify their claims, Twitch declined due to contractual obligations related to keeping user and site data private.

> Additionally, Twitch would have to present evidence that their decision to gradually take features away from South Korean users & leave the country was necessary. This means that Twitch isn’t likely to return service to South Korea any time soon.

> There’s also a good chance Twitch will be forced to provide refunds for those who have been affected by the service being discontinued, with the KCC warning Twitch that they need to prepare “user protection measures” as they cease service in the country.

https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/south-korea-fines-twitch-over...
I grew up in the woods. I was a latchkey kid from age 5 so every afternoon I was in the woods with a dog, a horse, and a rifle. I would be covered in poison ivy each day and it never bothered me. Until I turned about 35 years old. Then I started to be affected by it every time I went out and did work on our land. Now I take precautions although I have eradicated most of the poison ivy on our lot.
The current year is 2024. There are phds out there who were born after 2000.
Maybe you haven‘t heard about threema?
Red Lobster, an American Seafood Institution, Files for Bankruptcy
He read something on Twitter and now he’s incensed.
I have never died and so I don't think ever I will.
That's a good question because the real heart of the matter is what is MINIMAL?

What prevents us from building and deploying software and running it forever without ever touching it?

- OS patches. Modern OSs are continually patched to address security vulnerabilities. Running on a serverless cloud environment eliminates you having to manage those patches.

- System patches - database systems, web servers, those kinds of things. Just like OSs, these types of systems are also continually patched. Again, a serverless cloud environment eliminates your having to manage those patches.

- Library patches - these are the libraries your system is utilizing, for example, your web framework. You can push a lot of that onto your serverless cloud environment, but not all of it. You need a "push-button" deployment that will grab library patches, build, test, and deploy.

- Stable libraries/frameworks - to minimize your maintenance you need libraries/frameworks that aren't changing every other Tuesday. For a while there the JavaScript space was really bad about the constant changes. Even it has settled down over the past few years. A good rule-of-thumb is to not use a library/framework that hasn't been around and in widespread use for at least 3-5 years. You're balancing modern tooling and frameworks against stability.

Where does that leave us?

- Serverless cloud environment
- Fully-automated build, test, and deployment - you can even schedule to run on the first of the month
- Using libraries/frameworks that are at least 3-5 years old and have widespread use
- Expect every 2-3 years there being enough version drift that you may need to make minor modifications to your implementation

If you do these things, then you can expect to run with MINIMAL maintenance for 10-20 years.

The biggest threat to you is going to be the cloud environment. If you consider OS and System patching to be MINIMAL activities, then you can run your own server. All depends on how you define MINIMAL. Personally, I would use AWS since their serverless platform has been stable for several years now and I can automate running my build/test/deploy script to once a month and not even have to worry about it until the test fails - which I would expect it to every 2-3 years. In other words, it should be 2-3 years before you have to do ANYTHING. That's what I call MINIMAL!
> The financial opportunity of building in this space is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends.

Yeah, I don't think these will be part of the solution. We're not going to get out of this by making more money. Trying to make more money is how we got here.

I recently read some opinions about carbon credits for example, and boy does it look like it's just a scam to take money from governments into private pockets, while at best doing greenwashing.
Strict validation could theoretically have helped here, as /FontMatrix is required by the PDF spec to be an array of six numbers. The exploit string was syntactically valid but semantically invalid.

Unfortunately, applications that produce broken PDFs are rife, and Postel's law sets the expectation that we should consume garbage and be happy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/us/red-lobster-bankruptcy...
I can't tell if OP commenter is complaining archaeologists dig too many holes or not enough.
It doesn't sound like they needed to implement a new DB system for this.

This is using existing features of Docstore which is Uber's own DynamoDB (sharded MySQL) which they seem to be using for almost everything.
This is probably one of the best representations I've seen of historic climate cycles leading into what we're seeing in the last century or so:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
This reminds me of that bell curve meme. Yeah, if you are a hotshot / rockstar / high performer / whatever, yes you're going to job hop if you end up in mediocre environments. But you'll end up job hopping from the exact same companies if you're just not a good developer and you can't keep up in even mediocre companies. There's also a few reasons you might appear to be job hopping that have nothing to do with your skills.

Using length of previous employments as a metric in ascertaining someone's skills isn't worth it. There's too many variables and the possible reasons are too varied. Maybe they're absolutely amazing and all those companies aren't. Maybe they're really bad and they can't keep up. Maybe they had family issues and they were demanding jobs. Maybe they had health issues and they care more about money now than they did before. Maybe they exited on a side project and they don't care about money nearly as much as they did before.
'Empathetic' AI has more to do with psychopathy than emotional intelligence
this is a proper post
If you can upload a PDF and have it served on the root domain, eg, gmail.com, then you can do session hijacking and other XSS. It’s actually pretty bad. XSS used to be thought of as “not that bad”, but today it is considered pretty bad.
No paleontologists involved here. The article also isn't about forcing people to admit they're wrong, because preclovis is already widely accepted. It's about the tension in meeting the extremely high standard of evidence for that claim against the reality of the site's fragility and destruction.
Yes. Sky voice was perfect. It was neither robot-y nor flirty. I preferred it always.
It's also worth noting that the term "brutalism" is derived from the french word "brut", meaning "raw", "unrefined", "crude" -- e.g. champagne brut.
One thing that is missing from this article is using an image as input to modify how the image looks.

I always found random abstract generative art to feel a little meaningless. Once I added images as input and started modifying image pixels, such as color and positioning, my generative art become a lot more interesting.
Thank you so much for your reply and thoughts.
> What is the point of a president? What is the point of a prime-minister?

To play charades, when they are real we call them dictators /s?
StackOverflow Simulator: AI comes full circle
On my 4K monitor, I use 4-5 vertical splits and 2-3 horizontal splits. The 80 column rule makes each of these splits readable, and allows me to see the full context of a chunk of kernel code or firmware at once. It has nothing to do with "modern" hardware or "modern" IDEs. It has everything to do with fitting the most amount of relevant information that I can on the screen at once, in context, and properly formatted for reading.

The 80 column rule may seem arbitrary, but it really helps analysis. I avoid open source code that ignores it, and I'll ding code that violates it during code review.

If I had code marching off the screen, or rudely wrapped around so it violated spacing, I'd have to reduce the number of splits I used to see it, and that directly impacts my ability to see code in context. Modern IDEs don't reduce the need to see things in context. It's not a matter of organizing things in drop-down menus, smart tabs, font changes, or magic "refactor" commands. Verifying function contracts in most extant software -- which lacks modern tooling like model checking -- requires verifying these things by hand until these contracts can be codified by static assertions. This, in turn, requires examining function calls often 5-6 calls deep to ensure that the de facto specifications being built up don't miss assumptions made in code deep in the bowels of under-documented libraries. I'd be terribly upset if I had to try to do this in code that not only missed modern tooling but that was written by a developer who mistakenly believed that "80 columns is for geezers." I freely admit that, at 43, I probably count as a "geezer" to many young developers. But, that doesn't change the utility of this rule. Violations of contracts in software account for a large percentage of errors in software AND security vulnerabilities. Most of these violations are subtle and easy to miss unless you can see the call stack in context. No developer can keep hundreds of details from code that they did not write in their head with perfect clarity. It's incredibly nice to have uniform style and uniform maximum line lengths. By convention, 80 columns has shown itself to be the most stable of these limits.

Even FAANG companies like Google follow this rule.
I imagine the people at Arup who fell for the scam were confident in their systems protecting them too.
Leadership in the know should be banned for life, but the corporation would likely have to continue (split or not), otherwise you're giving the entire machine a reason to oppose accountability and correction.
It is annoying any time you have to change tools, but in this instance, I'd say most like you need to start by throwing away all your scripts. You may find you need less of them. As far as easystroke goes, oof yea
That's what I meant by "some obvious exceptions" :-)
I manage a team and hire people so I have an incentive to look for people who don’t job hop and have conversations with peers on candidates around this.

I find that I can’t bring myself to care too much to evaluate people on if they are “job hoppers”. Every place I’ve worked at that wants to avoid it based on what I am told by my leaders and HR, also doesn’t give raises even keeping up with inflation unless you manage to get promoted. And they usually have a million reasons to not promote someone come yearly reviews.

This industry incentivize job hopping and you’re better off treating employees as a stream and figuring out how to manage project estimates and knowledge transfer around that.

Obviously doesn’t apply if your company really puts in effort to maintain employees long term, but you’re in an exceptional case if that is true
Why are you so quick to discount meditation?
Are you also saying that thoughts are formed using gradient descent? I don't think gradient descent is an accurate way to describe either process in nature. Also, we don't know that we "see" everything that is happening, we don't even understand the brain yet.
"Yang has little time for claims that the virus was a product of a 'lab leak' from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), devoting just one paragraph to the theory. Instead, he focuses on the bureaucratic obfuscation and missteps that allowed the outbreak to spiral out of control."
This literally happened with tetraethyl lead:

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

> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.
You underestimate the European Market. All safe systems are from Europe
This is how I think of brutalism, and it makes it very hard to talk about with others. I think the word conjures dystopian images for a lot of people, which is really unfortunate. Maybe it should be abandoned in favor of a more positive-sounding term.

There's a truth though in this idea of honesty about materials that transcends a particular architectural fad, and I think brutalism ought to be an element that any design considers: can a structure be inherently beautiful without additional adornment?

I wish for more examples I could point to as brutalism that aren't just exposed concrete. The only one that springs to mind is this[0] redesign of some post-war brutalist (of the exposed concrete variety) playground equipment. It isn't a big step forward, but it's something. I also think that things allowing like good cable management to be seen is a form of brutalism. Actually, given this post's theme of "eco-brutalism", I think something like the earthship[1] might be a better example of brutalism.

[0]: https://www.assemblestudio.co.uk/projects/the-brutalist-play...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
I don’t know about others, but personally I would love to travel quickly through space without a dust mote piercing the aft of my craft and subsequently my skull, thereby obliterating my brain.
I'm pretty sure that this bridge would be built either by the Chinese or it won't be built at all.
A large project, and a poor ant config %) Also, small RAM.

Incremental changes were pretty fast though. (Then IDEA came.)
Yep, I very occasionally see natural '10x' types who can jump into any codebase or business.... and more often see '10x' types who learn the environment more slowly but then speedrun using their other skills once they are situated. Latter bet is safer, a lot of the bigger fun is year 2, 3.

For job hoppers, I often see folks who don't realize they are leaving behind landmines for their colleagues. They haven't had as much of a chance to learn from their mistakes. They learn from inheriting, but often not at a 'senior' level of decision making.

So we hire fewer and slower, and work to maintain a team that values doing well at their craft and building ambitious things that take time.
Its usually people thinking they've got some kinda alt/edgy take "well actually...", or trying to remind the internet other countries exist.
The cost doesn't suddenly drop to zero once development is done. Typically a system of this complexity and scale requires constant maintenance. You'll need someone to be on-call (pager duty) to respond to alarms, you'll need to fix bugs, improve efficiency, apply security patches, tune alarms and metrics, etc.

In my experience you probably need a small team (6-8 people) to maintain something like this. Maybe you can consolidate some things (e.g. if your system has low on-call pressure, you may be able to merge rotations with other teams, etc.) but it doesn't go down to zero.
Okay. Respect your point of view. I am curious, what applications do you think SSMs enable that a Transformer cannot? I have always seen it as a drop-in replacement (like for like) but maybe there is more to it.

Personally, I think going linear instead of quadratic for a core operation that a system needs to do is by definition an optimization.
The simple fact that it is announced by a company selling refresh rate testing hardware shows the improvements in term of ergonomy/real world usage have plateaued past a certain refresh rate. The only remaining practical use case for increases is a metaphorical penis size contest.
> We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them.

Why?

They take it for granted that there is obviously something wrong here. Are users actually concerned about this? I think most people would not care. Is this just manufactured for the exposure? Is this just another example of OpenAI's condescending moral superiority complex?
> Apparently the production of greenhouse gasses has gone up in past years regardless of the negotiations aimed at reducing them.

It appears likely that CO2 emissions will fall slightly in 2024, and start dropping dramatically in 2025. https://climateanalytics.org/comment/will-2024-be-the-year-e...

In the past 6 degrees of warming was predicted. We're now down to a prediction of 4 degrees of warming; stopping at 2.5 degrees is both possible and practical.
The other thing you have to remember is that back in that era, the various military agencies all had a vested interest in rocket technology. Either for suborbital attack profiles or for orbital reasons like recon satellites (which at one point were assumed to be manned, but that didn't prove required).

NASA wound up giving Congress a way to partially unify some of this. Saturn V obviously isn't an ICBM, but if we have the people and technology to make a man-rated rocket to get to the moon it's pretty safe to assume we can build ICBMs to any specification. The military wasn't thrilled with this early on because it meant rockets that were seen as weapons needed to be designed with huge safety margins.

In the end a sort of uneasy truce arose from this and lead to the Space Shuttle. This was intended to create a civilian program with indefinite access to low earth orbit, servicing military and intelligence needs when required. Once it became apparent this was impossible, Congress gave the DoD the go ahead to resume spending on their own ride to space. This in turn lead to the absolute debacle that was the Titan IV. This lead to the EELV program which gave us Atlas V. By this point the US's capabilities had declined so much the best we could do was strap a US made fuel tank to a bunch of Russian made rockets.
$10k/week in crypto lets you easily 'hack' a random corporate account
Microsoft is working on a way to modernize rock engravings by etching binary data in glass: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

Despite the claimed 10,000 year lifespan, I doubt this will satisfy the kind of hackernews who prefixes four-digit years with an '0' like 02024. We just don't know whether we will have or be able to make the machinery to read it back millennia from now. It will make a nice archival solution for businesses and governments who want a data preservation solution over a time horizon of decades to centuries, though.
It entirely depends on the trajectory of the hopping. For example, a year at local company, then two years at a fortune 500, then hopping to FAANG or FAANG-adjancent company could be a positive sign.

Seniority of the candidate is another thing to consider. Job hopping every 1.5 to 2 years in the first 5 or so years of one's career is normal and often expected among US software engineers. However, having a bunch of short stints later in one's career, in my experience, has translated to weaker hires.