skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A claim that is widely made, yet has never been proven, yet also has been echoed forever.
As yet, none of it is legit
The problem with ntp isn't the client, it's the servers having to deal with forged UDP packets. Will ntpd ever become TCP-only? Sadly I'm not holding my breath. I stopped running a public stratum 3 server ~10 years ago.
TL;DR I do 3D modeling now, though I'm working for a major tech company again.

When I left my last SWE job (after 10 years in the industry), I had money saved and was coming off of very challenging changes in my personal life. So for the first year, I gave myself a lot time to rest, take care of health challenges I had been procrastinating on, and getting back into video games and anime for the first time since college. Through video games and VR chat I got into 3D modeling as a hobby, which I would continue to learn doing while also exploring some other things (volunteering for a political campaign, and interpersonal mental health coaching). Eventually I got excited to move to LA to take classes at Gnomon, which was quite expensive but also extremely enjoyable. I honestly never expected to actually work in this field since I did not dedicate myself fully to it, and it's a tough industry. But one of my classmates referred me to a job at a major tech company that wasn't that glamorous, but paid well and suited my very limited skill set. So here I am.

All in all, there was about 5 years between my last SWE job and my first 3D modeling job (with some coaching work in between but it was very low paying). Certainly that time gap could be shortened, as I was not fully dedicating myself to it, but it would have also been a much less enjoyable process and transition if there was pressure to support a family behind it.

If I'm going to give you any tips, is if you're trying to start a family I highly recommend finding a boring easy tech job that doesn't require your full capacity so that you 1) make enough money to not be stressed about it, and 2) have plenty of time to focus on non-work related things. There are tons of boring roles that are.. well, boring, but not stressful or soul draining. I'm kind of surprised you want to be a parent but you're also entertaining a sales role that would be pushing you to work more instead of less. My two cents.
For what it's worth, your viewpoint expressed here comes across as FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt)... which developers have learned over the years to be allergic to (especially since that's the attitude Microsoft used toward Linux for years before finally embracing it).

I respect that you know a lot more than I do, and I freely acknowledge I was repeating things I've read from the cosmo author without really understanding the details of how the PE/ELF/Mach-O/etc. formats work.

But my "sense" as an experienced developer is that there really is something here worth pursuing and using -- and that in the worst case, tools built using this will have to reassess their OS compatibility with each new major OS release -- which they kind of have to do already :). I trust the Cosmopolitan maintainers will keep Windows compatibility even if future changes are required. So developers will most likely only have to rebuild with the latest version of cosmocc if the PE loader changes. Maybe Windows developers haven't had to do that thanks to Microsoft's efforts, but it has been a thing on other platforms.

In other words, pragmatically, it would be no additional skin off my nose to have to occasionally rebuild to support future major Windows versions if I get such wide executable portability in return -- for something that would otherwise be supported only on macOS and Linux. Windows developers may feel differently.

But I think anyone who distributes something built in C and whose goal is extreme cross-platform portability/compatibility (and frankly, software longevity due to cosmo libc's future stability) ought to seriously consider APE instead of WebAssembly or creating multiple builds.
Yeah -- if I don't want to be known to another person I shouldn't have to be regardless of whether that person derives a benefit from knowing me. This is what it means to innately have a right like liberty or privacy. There is no grounds whatsoever for taking it away, and nobody has granted it to you on any grounds whether economic or moral.
Same time in role, in the process to become a criminal investigator. Spent my 20s on a laptop with nothing to show for it, atleast want to spend my 30s punishing bad actors.
I just switched to Wayland with KDE Plasma 6.1 from KDE 5.x on X11.

VR works now. Screensharing and everything you expect with other operating systems works perfectly as well.
New Terminator Release: v2.1.4
> I was considering sales engineering because I get along with both engineers and salespeople and I hear they actually make more money than either, if they're any good

Hi, former Sales Engineer/Manager here. SEs do not make more than their sales counterparts in salary/commission, and usually don’t make more in stock (although they often think they do.)

In my best years, I would make half what my sales peer made. In bad years, I could make more as a percentage, but only because sales people are usually more leveraged (50/50 base/commission vs 70-80% base for an SE.)
She invented the idea that they are making semiconductors there.

They make device screens: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-deve...
It seems like if this were a real danger then it should have already happened on the internet.

I'm aware of broad geo-based price differences, but it seems like you could also tailor the price based on browsing history (via cookie networks, etc). Has this happened?

The increasing cookie restrictions over time could get in the way of this, but I haven't heard of it ever being a problem in the first place.
>My advice is to just get a tech job where you can coast, work from home, and knock out a couple tickets a day.

Bingo. We in this field are getting accustomed to extreme compensation. But do you know how many SMBs would love to have a capable "tech person" for $60-80k per year? If you're remote you can probably work half days.

This is my plan, after I finish the grind.
I feel like I often hear these kinds of stories about Uber, but rarely about Lyft. Is Lyft actually better, or are they just more under the radar?
Would second this. I would advise OP to take a sabbatical and recuperate a bit. In the meantime think about what interests you and what is important to you. Deep inside there is a voice that will tell you, you just have to listen hard enough to hear it.
The purpose of the DMA is to increase competition, not directly benefit the consumer. If there is no Apple product, you don't have that product to support your application and your business.
Why the Fuzz About Fuzzing Compilers?
Almost nobody had a monitor that supported those modes.
Tangential: If you use Office on your Mac, it is impossible to use your own hard drive as the default save location, or remove OneDrive as an option.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/i-wan...

Very, very frustrating for non-technical family members who can't find files in Documents or some other local hard drive location.
> Switch to something user friendly like Linux.

The same applies; are just not accessible to non-technical people.
Anti-discrimination is the meat of this. We shouldn't allow opaque AI systems to be used as justification for discriminatory actions. Without anti-discrimination they will certainly be used in this way.
Are you saying that "the entire concept of currency is problematic", and therefore you want to get stuff for free, even though you know that those who provide this stuff do it in exchange of money?

Sounds like saying that in order to solve poverty, you steal everything... your reasoning makes absolutely no sense to me.
> it's not going to be without consequences because Apple will extract their pound of flesh somewhere, can't have profits go down.

You write this as if Apple is the authority figure here.

Profits can very easily go down.
Bliss Foster, fashion youtuber has a great video on Hermes

@11 minutes about why Hermes is peak of luxury even compared to other houses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F7Exfsto6Y

But entire video is a fun watch.
That's exactly the assumption the GP made.
Ford did not go out of their way to make LS swaps particularly difficult on the F150. Apple has gone to very great lengths to make something that is VERY simple (installing software in an OS) very difficult.
> So you can't just say "hey these things come from an ever-evolving oral tradition and this is just one more evolution". That doesn't accurately describe what is happening.

On the other hand, why should people stop doing what they've done for cenuries because some guy wrote something down at some point? Part of what keeps stories relevant is that parents adapt them to the current context. Stopping their evolution is the best way to kill their transmission. Whether the transmission is oral or written is kind of irrelevant.
This is not the same thing. "Dappled light" refers to the pattern on the lit objects, while this is referring to the visible beams of light themselves a la https://live.staticflickr.com/3342/3663701610_a5f8e10d7a.jpg

I've heard people call it "sun rays" or "sun beams" in English, but it's definitely not a well defined concept.
There's no justification here for turning the feature on for users who have already explicitly chosen not to use it, or for not presenting them with the choice.
> I did not say they were factually correct, merely that I'd lump RSS in with "things of the past" given how many sites and developers neglect it nowadays.

I mean, I assume that number must be greater than zero, and yet I seem to be having a hard time identifying any sites or blogging applications that do indeed neglect RSS. All of the sites I frequent support it. Do you have any meaningful examples of this alleged lack of widespread RSS support?

> The slow decline of RSS is not some new topic

Unfortunately not -- people have been pretending it's happening for years without any real evidence to sustain the claim. If I were more of a conspiracy theorist, I'd suspect that maybe it's something they're trying to make happen.
>One is using a tool to create a new artwork, one is using a tool for plagiarism.

Is it "new artwork", though? That's the big question. I would say both are tools for plagiarism.
> full-spec UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 with 64GB RAM)

Fun fact: The machine actually supports up to 96GB (2x CT48G56C46S5).
Psoriasis and computer neck?
I know the guy that sells a tumbler level for the xTool P2 to do full wraps. He does some online classes too. He found his customers by being active in the P2's Facebook groups from when the product first launched. I don't see any evidence it's generating more than pizza money for him. I think that's too niche to be anything more than that.
Biodiversity loss from 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill worse than predicted
I think you've got to ask whether this is the most effective way to save people's lives, if that's the actual goal of the legislation. Feels like many other things would be more effective, less expensive, and more welcomed by people. This is one that everyone seems to hate, it's going to cost a lot of money to implement, and it doesn't even promise to do very much to fix the problem, so I'd not have prioritized it so highly myself.
Oh, this. I knew of this.

I interpreted this as being in a better place due to entirely one's own background after their birth- i.e. upbringing, education, work, mindset, intelligence, etc.

Where the tantric gurus say that some people are ahead of other people from their birth - in a very clear and unambiguous way. In a very "the force is strong with this one" vibe.
Adults are free to make a wide array of legal, ethical, but nevertheless terrible decisions. An example is poor dietary choices.

All jobs are a conversion of time/skill/knowledge/strength/etc. into a fungible token, money. That fungible token is then used to meet other needs: food and shelter being top of the list. In many parts of the developing world, a person cannot eat if they don't work that day.

In the best case scenario, you come out ahead - where the resources you put in are returned n-fold. An I-Banker grinding out 80+ hour weeks is giving up time with friends and family and perhaps compromising health. Is that person exploited?

Anybody who has driven for a ride sharing company understands that their vehicle will take on excess wear-and-tear and they have to pay for gas. They presumably compare against other jobs and pick ride sharing driver freely.

I would say it is rather condescending to refer to adults making informed decisions in their own self-interest as vulnerable and exploited.
> "Save while you're earning decent cash" seems pretty actionable to me.

This is in fact pretty unactionable unless you are planning on boondocking during your career and retirement - at which point - why bother with post secondary education and a white collar job in the first place, just boondock from the getgo.
> People just feel today that everyone should get access to a marketplace with billion users for free

Exactly

> often forgetting what it took to build this market in the first place.

Don’t give a fuck
It's probably not been uploaded to their docs yet
The actual advice you're giving here is generally good, but for your specific outcomes there's a relevant XKCD [0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/1827/
Next October (2025) is the end of the road, because my desktop can't be upgraded to Win11 and they tell me that about once a month.
Lovely, these would be really nice in text adventures.
This is almost my exact experience too.
>I do think if we conducted retail sales using that model, it would be very damaging to most real people.

Is that really the case? Gas prices change daily and are closely correlated with crude oil prices.
> it's been running on many VMs without exploding memory for a while now

Most of the security bugs we hear about don't cause random crashes on otherwise healthy machines, because that tends to get them noticed and fixed. It's the ones that require complicated steps to trigger that are really scary. When I look at NTP, I see a service that:

- runs as root

- talks to the network

- doesn't usually authenticate its traffic

- uses a bespoke binary packet format

- almost all network security depends on (for checking cert expiration)

That looks to me like an excellent candidate for a memory-safe reimplementation.
Stallman is always right, if only you're willing to wait long enough.
Apple Wasn't Interested in AI Partnership with Meta Due to Privacy Concerns
This might be the only time I felt like this video was ever going to be related to anything

https://youtu.be/hJ9yBgTp9UQ?si=ouX6-9_L4hXoFWvE
What you say is true. And what you say completely misses the point.

The problem isn't that cloud sync/backup is (or isn't) useful. It's that Microsoft isn't respecting users' agency to adopt it or not. If the product is indeed useful on its merits, then there's no need to turn it on by default or continually nag users who say "no thanks." And it's not like Microsoft doesn't have a history of underhanded moves to capture users into its ecosystem; see what happens when you search for Chrome or Firefox in Edge https://www.theverge.com/23935029/microsoft-edge-forced-wind...
Google at least partially participated/volunteered in that, right?
Superconducting Supercomputers
> I have several dozen pairs of all three brands

I guess different colors? I've always wondered, what do people with 50+ pairs of shoes do? Surely most of them just gather dust.

> price correctly but astronomically

Based on materials or cost of labor, I doubt it's correct pricing. It's all artificial scarcity due to branding, I'm fairly sure.
On the contrary, I'm hosting a stratum 1 and 2 stratum 2s (at my previous company we offered 3 stratum 1s) on the ntp pool. It's useful, used, and still needed :-)
A wise man one day created a standard formula for fairy tales: They should involve the 3 evils in the world, your employer, your government and your god. Then the protagonist worships them and works hard only to be punished by all 3 for not working hard enough and not bowing deep enough. In each story the protagonist should embrace a logic fallacy that justifies the punishment.

The writers he hired struggled hard implementing the formula but ultimately couldn't write any part of it into any story.

The children worked a shit job, paid many fines and burned in hell for ever, until the end of times.
They're going back to dark tactics. Ads galore to nudge you into signing up for a Microsoft account, then an office 365 account. It's annoying and I'm going to switch to Linux.
Not independently for mouse or trackpad
The kids will soon need an episode where Lady Elaine is jailed for her interracial relationship with Music Man Stan.

Miss Elaina visits her mother in prison and learns the cruel and capricious nature of King Friday (featured frequently in the original series and sadly missing from the spinoff). Bob Trow plays the LEO and jailer.
> I'll flip the question around, why not start at ntpd?

Easy, because there are loads of critical infrastructure written in C++ that is commonly executed on pretty much every VM and exposed in such a way that vulnerabilities are disasterous.

For example, JEMalloc is used by nearly every app compiled in *nix.

Perhaps systemd which is just about everywhere running everything.

Maybe sshd, heaven knows it's been the root of many attacks.
This, this and this. And just like how kids who spend too much time in sanitized indoor environments are more likely to develop allergies and other autoimmune disorders, kids who are kept psychologically sheltered to too large a degree are more likely to develop anxiety disorders as adults.

When "getting everything perfect" is normal to you and not a refreshing exception, you feel like you're a screwup most of the time even when you haven't done anything wrong besides being too hard on yourself.
It's called cosmocc. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/download/3.5.1... the documentation is here: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/cosmoc... and here https://justine.lol/cosmo3/#install
Yeah, and it's especially naive when in addition to animals existing, the tech involved happens to be an area of enormous societal importance for health reasons (plenty of investment), the problem happens to be somewhat existential (climate change is getting tons of funding right now), and the science of biology is advancing at a frankly extraordinary rate.

Even GFI, the tech hype bros in that article that's being responded to, is showing a pretty big lack of vision. "This gradual progression is necessary; you can’t just throw a small amount of cells into a large bioreactor and hope they’ll start dividing. Cells are “fastidious,” Hughes told me, and have strict metabolic requirements for growth, including oxygen tension." <- pretty comfortable saying that under those constraings, 100% agree on the fractal of nos. But like, yeast and other things we grow in bioreactors aren't that picky. The hype bros want to try and convince people it's happening now so they're pitching some nonsense vision of mass manufacturing based on tech that obviously can't scale, and taking their vision of how things are going to work as ground truth is kinda silly. Almost by tautology, a successful bioreactor based approach is going to be one that uses bioengineering to create cells that don't need that sort of pickiness. It doesn't exist yet, sucks for the hype bros, but how sure are you that nobody will ever figure out how to engineer yeast to work as meat so you can use bioreactors from defunct breweries or something?

The first cow genome was only published 15 years ago - at least wait for biology and medicine to plateau and for the incentive of fixing climate change to go away before convincing yourself it's never gonna happen!
Yes, but the question is how they implemented it. Are there dark patterns, is it all-or-nothing, etc.?

Also, with iCloud being at the heart of Apple's ecosystem, a simple bug may very well cause accidental sharing of sensitive data. Even if that never happens, it does not make me sleep better.
Peter Beck talks Rocket Lab's past and future, competition with SpaceX
I think there is a huge problem when parents or other adults can't sit down with the kids and help them with their homework. whomever thought that was a good idea should be bared from all education decisions ever
You might be right that SWEs have the biggest egos compared to other engineering disciplines. When I've worked with mechanical and electrical engineers, that was the case.

But where I work now, the biggest egos are easily the people around the SWEs - especially architects and product owners. Is that not the case where you work?
I was in car sales for a decade and quickly became top 1% (more like 0.2% really) in the country at it. I only did that after first wasting 6 months being a bit slimy first.

You can't really succeed in sales when you're dealing with all the drama you created by being slimy in the first place.

Eventually I realized I had to be as good as possible, and as responsive as possible, so customers would work with me for sure and not accidentally land with a bad salesperson elsewhere.
OP asked for any kinds of stories.
Improving Meeting Culture at Work: Why Do We Invite People to Meetings?
Saying "my book is the canon because I've had it a long time" is a type of censorship itself. Having more than one version of a story is not the type of sanitization this article is talking about.
Kind of depends. Plenty of people COULD live like a monk and save a ton over 6 years. But that requires not having a family and likely not enjoying your life very much. I probably COULD live on significantly less than I make right now. Hell, I have in the past.

But I sure didnt enjoy it very much.

But if you lived on rice and beans in the cheapest place you could find while making a 6 figure salary... Saving a very significant sum every year would be possible.
I think it's funny people argue this when Google already does extract a massive pound of flesh from web purchases and uses Chrome to push "the web" where they control the market.

I have to pay the Apple tax to reach my customers where they are, iOS.

I have to pay the Google tax to reach my customers where they are, the web dominated by Doubleclick and Google search.

Do you care that a tech company is extracting huge sums from digital markets or do you just care how? Does it make a lick of difference that with ad spend it feels like you're buying something or when you put ads on your site you never see the money they took off the top?