skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's saying that specifically because there are a lot of people who say things to the effect of "if only we taxed the billionaires more, then the rest of us wouldn't have any financial problems".
- Security Now
- Lex Fridman
- Tucker Carlson
- Joe Rogan
- Diary of a CEO
- Jordan P Peterson
- Dave Ramsey (but once a month or so)

I've been listening to Security Now since forever and am a happy owner of SpinRite, and I have picked up everything else the past few months, more to 'monitor' what's going on in the US (I also watch Colbert, Kimmel, Meyers, Daily Show)(so I can get 'both sides' of the political spectrum).
E.g. "Low Latency DOCSIS"[0] and related, WiFi[1], support it and with the former it's about non-exclusive scarce uplink capacity where cross-customer capacity sharing may rely on post-hoc analysis of flow behavior to check for abuse, switching to forced fairness if caught by such heuristics. For downstream it's even more natural to have shared capacity with enough congestion to matter, but often only the WiFi side would have a large discretionary range for bandwidth scheduling/allocation to matter much.

Apple already opportunistically uses L4S with TCP-Prague and there are real-world deployments/experiments [2] with end-to-end L4S.

Fixed-

[0]: https://github.com/cablelabs/lld
[1] relevant excerpt from [0]:
Applications that send large volumes of traffic that need low latency, but that are responsive to congestion in the network. These applications can benefit from using a technology known as "Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S)". Support for this technology is including in the LLD feature set, but is beyond the scope of what we have in this repository. Information on L4S can be found in this IETF draft architecture.

[2]https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/no-lag-gaming-vodaf...
CHC was phishing of a customer service rep who had VPN access.
Clouds/PaaSs are just at the beginning at their evolvement. Writing apps is still far too complicated.

So, I do not belief that clouds are at the end of their innovation.
> Nowadays I often see the designers making conscious decisions like:

There are design standards for them… now(?). There may not have been in the past, or they were not as good given the lack of experience.

See also perhaps "International comparison of roundabout design guidelines":

* https://trl.co.uk/uploads/trl/documents/PPR206_secure.PDF
Nah, it will just clock down. Server CPUs are designed to support all cores at 100% utilization indefinitely.

Of course you can get different numbers if you invent a nonstandard definition of utilization.
Completely off topic response and escalation.

God is pretty chill with lying, since the bible has over 5000 contradictions. https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/biblical-contrad...
Consider earthquakes. Preparation and infrastructure are what matter. If you don't do the prep, you'll have a hundred thousand dead from a 6.0. But if you do the prep, you'll have relatively trivial damage from a 7.0.

Texas power, thanks to their 'we don't need no regulamazations' attitude, has shown itself to be woefully underreported repeatedly in the last few years.
Kowloon Walled City will forever hold the record, I think. Density of 1.9M per square km. (Before it was demolished of course)
Yet conservatives give more to charity than progressives [1].

The ideological difference there is that, in general, conservatives and libertarians prefer to minimize confiscation by force, and believe that society is best served by voluntary charities vs authoritarian taxation.

I.e. "I know how to spend my money better than the government, and I know how to help my community better than someone located thousands of miles away that don't know my neighbors or their problems".

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00490...
This sounds like a company that does not learn from errors, looks for "junior engineer" scapegoats instead of looking for the systemic processes that facilitated this, and not a great place to stay tbh. This was a chance for the company to reflect on some of their processes, and take measures that will avoid similar issues (and the steps to take are pretty obvious). And the description of what happened afterwords show a probably toxic environment.

It should never be like this, and especially in this case I blame OP 0%. This is something that could happen to anybody in such circumstances. I have not deleted a full database, but have had to restore stuff a few times, I have made mistakes myself and have rushed to fix problems caused by others' mistakes and each single time the whole point and discussions was about improving our processes so that this does not happen again.
What exactly is a planet? Scientists propose improved definition
So nice, that I was just reading about the disruptor, since I had an idea of using ring buffers with atomic operations to back Rust channels with lower latency for intra-thread communication without locks, and now I see this. Gonna take a read!
Maybe these bounties are intentionally set to be roughly comparable to annual salaries. A very high bounty might encourage developers to plant backdoors instead, a la cobra effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
In Germany, there is a saying:

„Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht. Das haben wir noch nie anders gemacht. Da könnte ja jeder kommen.“

In English, this roughly means:

"We have always done it this way. We have never done it differently. Anyone could come along and say that."

That explains a lot.
Can anyone speak to why those systems were considered more reliable? Are world agencies relying on this technology because of the inherent risk of rebuilding systems, or because of some attractive property of floppy disks?
> backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago.

Uhh, there's the problem, not that someone accidentally deleted something lol
> I'll like roundabouts as soon as someone comes up with a good way to fix the resource starvation problem (i.e., if there's a constant stream of traffic from your left, you'll never get a turn to go).

Add traffic signals:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Signalised_roundabo...

* http://www.jctconsultancy.co.uk/Consultancy/roundabouts.php

* https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e81b669e90e0...

If one direction dominates, you can stop it and then let the others have a turn.
Your suggestion would not work on mac or ios
No it definitely is silly. Mebi is even worse.
Linking to a source doesn’t seem off topic to me
It happened back when it was all part of Serenity OS: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Man, this would be fun to work on. Anyone know if they have any contracts open for bidding?
This is the method that I’ve found works best for me - each project has a repo, and when I’m working on a specific “thing” I open an issue.

There’s usually a lot more issue comments than commits as I just add a comment to the issue while I “work it out”.

New problem? New issue.

New insight on that problem? Comment.

And so on…
Heat capacity doesn't mean much unless the walls are several feet thick.

The frost line where I live is around 5 feet deep into the ground- meaning that footings for any building have to be that deep to avoid shifting as the ground freezes and thaws.

Summer months thick stone walls can be nice if you are able to keep humidity out, but if you don't and your walls actually stay cool you're dealing with a lot of mold and mildew since water will be condensating 24/7.
> We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome.

Let's set aside for a moment that it isn't even clear that "equitable outcome" at the level of a society is desirable, lets just consider the fact that every attempt to use force (i.e. government regulations, taxes, penalties, laws, etc.) to move significantly in that direction has resulted in catastrophe with the societies devolving into systems of corruption, authoritarianism, and scarcity. Have you discovered some new mechanism to avoid that outcome?

How many times do we need to experiment with communism, socialism, or other utopian philosophies before we realize they don't lead to a better society?
> That’s a big claim, but it’s presented without evidence. Do you have any examples?

I am not OP but yes, I sent some information to her via their different contact mediums and she never got back, she is not responsive and could have at least said: "I am not interested".
Did you watch OPs demo reel? How many of those videos do you think would be an appropriate background at a church?
How to build U.S. high-speed rail: Lessons from Asia, Europe
I feel I am going to be downvoted for this, but...

I think the technical specialty that will be most at threat from automation by AI would be the exact job that he authored has -- solutions engineers that build commodity cloud infra on AWS, Azure, G cloud, etc.

Look at progressions and range of abstraction between standard sys admin IT work to serverless deployments, especially with IaaC tools.

You can describe your architecture to chatGPT and it can spit out a CloudFormation YAML. It will be rudimentary and poor, but I could see a Gen AI tool offered by cloud providers where al you do is describe your app and then deployed infra on your behalf, and optimize form there.

Not trying to talk down on folks who do this type of work, but sharing my opinion on where I think the author is ultimately coming from.
> Then there was AWS re:Inforce – the annual security conference – which was themed “Security in the era of generative AI”.

This tagline is representative of every part of the hype around GenAI. It makes it sound like security has fundamentally changed and we all need to re-learn what we know. Everything to do with GenAI is treated like this: we need new security plans, we need AI Engineers as a new job title, we need to completely reevaluate our corporate strategies.

Security in the world of generative AI is not substantially different than infosec has been for a while now: User prompts are untrusted input. Model outputs are untrusted input. Treat untrusted input appropriately, and you'll be fine.

The same goes for "AI engineers", who are in the business of wiring up APIs to each other like any other backend engineer. We take data from one black box and transfer it to another black box. Sometimes a black box takes a very long time to respond. It's what we've always done with many different kinds of black boxes, and the engineering challenges are mostly solved problems. The only thing that's really new is that the API of these new black boxes is a prompt instead of a deterministic interface.

Don't get me wrong, there will be things that will be different in the post-LLM world. But my goodness do the current crop of companies overestimate how large that difference will be.
Just as a different perspective, Fi may not have great speeds (they're not bad, just not great), but they do have other excellent freatures: great US-based customer support (surprisingly) with live humans, good plans, great international features (like included SMS and data abroad, cheap calls), good tethering, etc.

I've been very happy with Fi, way more so than the nightmare that was AT&T wireless.
WebGPU is interesting outside the browser: both dawn and wgpu-rs can be used as cross playform native gpu layer. That does not depend on firefox having webgpu support
There is an "argument" that people online put forward, perhaps to try to preserve the status quo. It goes something like this: Every browser must implement every "web standard".^1

Meanwhile the incumbent browser vendors profiting from online ads are on the committees that decide what will be the standards.

Have also seen Mozilla supporters on HN claim Firefox must "compete" with Chrome and that this means matching nearly all of its features.^2

For a recent example, see

https://web.archive.org/web/20240713084435/https://www.jwz.o...

(An HN commenter suggested sending Referer: news.ycombinator.com to www.jwz.org may have adverse consequences hence the use of IA)

The tunnel-vision ignorance and stupidity of this comment is over the top, IMHO. Have seen similar comments on HN.

1. I am submitting this comment with a text-only browser that is maintained by a single person and implements only a small fraction of web standards. It does not support ads. There are no "cookie pop-ups". Clearly, such browsers have value. In many cases I find I can access more information more easily and more rapidly than people using larger browsers like Firefox who are constantly battling against the influence of advertising and "web development" just to read some text.

2. The definition of "compete" as used by these folks does not account for the possibility that some www users (cf. web developers) may want less features, not more.
> TCP/IP streams are bidirectional, but there is a limited way of sending "out of band" data, though it is not used as much.

It's not real "out of band" data: that's something wholly invented by the Unix socket API. TCP itself just has an "urgent pointer", which addresses some byte further in the data stream that the receiver doesn't have yet, with the intent that higher-level protocols could use it as a signal to flush any data up to that pointer to observe whatever the urgent message is. There's nothing in the protocol itself to actually send a message separately from the rest of the stream.
http://archive.today/KSoMH
"Legitimate" in the limited sense that you can invoice them for cybersecurity consulting, they'll pay you in fiat, and you can report this income to the tax office.
Who else thought this would be about the Vice era gutter oil meme?
> Your first leadership principle is customer obsession: “Leaders start with the customer and work backwards”.

> I’m your customer, and I’m begging you: please let me be a cloud engineer again.

Only AWS knows how many H100 GPUs they have, how busy they are. How many people are paying for them, how many people want them and can't get them, and how many people just don't care at all.

It's possible that the focus on GenAI for Re:Invent 2023 wasn't based on any hard data like that, and is really just up to the whims of Adam Selipsky since Jassy moved over, but maybe someone who better knows their planning process can comment.
is this a dead drop?
> Perhaps the new opportunities are all in AI because we've pushed conventional stuff as far as it could go, and we were just rearranging deck chairs.

There's a ton of low hanging fruit in all the cloud vendor products. Look outside AWS at tailscale, vercel, and fly.io for some obvious examples.
Tysm for answering - NYT Connections is fire

I've never played most of those games but they sound fire
I feel like 60% of the points in this article relative to the problems with meetings in general that remote meetings make worse are entirely solved with judicious use of the "raise hand" feature that Teams has, and while I've never used any other software for meetings, I would be utterly gobsmacked if Zoom and the others didn't have a similar feature.

The rest of this is a lot of complaints about meetings in general that are kind of, maybe made worse with someone's bad A/V setup, but I'm always trying to avoid meetings for all of those reasons anyway.

Maybe some of people's problems with meetings have less to do with the meetings and more to do with the apparently extremely adversarial relationships they have with coworkers. I don't find many of these issues in my workplace at all, and I think unavoidably a big reason for that is we have a very solid company culture that encourages mutual respect and pro-solution attitudes. I think that's a better answer by far than anything to do with your meetings.
I'm in my 30s, and my first computer as a kid had a 5.25" FDD. Fondest media-memory of that era was CD-ROMs coming in caddies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_%28hardware%29#/media/Fi...
I agree. As a Nest user, I am astonished at how low the bounty is.
There was a pretty bad flooding event portrayed in the documentary movie San Andreas.

https://youtu.be/jvIGFhqbe0c?si=ZCaVjWjw-oi84HgD&t=1m39s
I figure its the same reason behind similar issues all across different industries right now, as well as why there's so few jobs in general:

a race to the bottom in terms of miniscule budgets, overtaxing employees with job creep, a flippant attitude towards preventative measures for saving/making money you can report to shareholders today, etc. Too many people I know, myself included, have realized post-pandemic jobs make you do the work of 3 people while you get "sorry, we just don't have the time or money to pay you properly" if you protest. I wouldn't be surprised if the team for this massive institution is like, 5 guys in a room who work 15 hours a day, subsist off of energy drinks, catered sandwiches, hustlemaxxing youtubers and ketamine

I wonder what the tipping point is going to be? Will there ever be one, or will people just keep getting squeezed until they burn out and die, only to be replaced?
How far do we take this? As an engineer should I be on the hook for the AWS bill?
> And that's not on me: it's because Google literally didn't talk about a single other thing.

Most tech companies don't have a whole lot to show right now, so AI sucks up all the oxygen in the room. This becomes a feedback loop with the stock market, too.

> There's this weird vapid MBA brain drain in charge everywhere.

Yep. And Apple's playing along as well. Their latest WWDC presentation has the most weird tone I've ever seen in their presentations ever: "we added some AI features and they're pretty cool I guess...also it's super private! Here's all the ways it's kept private."

So much hedging going on. So little excitement. Because they're just playing to someone else's tune, and they're not good at doing that.
> So the question is should nobody have it or should more successful (or lucky or privileged) people have more

It seems as obvious as can be that it's the latter that's correct. Would anyone seriously entertain the idea of, e.g., burning all of Picasso's original works, since there aren't enough for everyone to have one?
> ad conversions can easily be measured without cookies by serving unique URLs with each ad, so what's even the point of this technology?

I believe the goal is to infer the impact of impressions which do not require a click or user interaction.

Privacy-preserving attribution works as follows:

Websites that show you ads can ask Firefox to remember these ads. When this happens, Firefox stores an “impression” which contains a little bit of information about the ad, including a destination website.

If you visit the destination website and do something that the website considers to be important enough to count (a “conversion”), that website can ask Firefox to generate a report. The destination website specifies what ads it is interested in.

...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
wings3d is amazing. I loved repeatedly using the interesting vertex transformations to sculpt really crazy looking stuff.
While that was indeed billed as the theme of reInforce, there were plenty of sessions and workshops that did not involve GenAI at all. There was a great chalk talk about the underpinnings of how the AWS IAM service works across services and regions, for example.
On a worse day, you're selling to Israel and getting a 6 year old girl's jaw blown off
Ghidra is doing a lot better than commercial software it seems, only IDA seems to be keeping up with it?

Your point about "TCP/IP" and other historical software was that "it was a long time ago". I'm trying to point out that modern projects available today show that the Government is still an entity that can create good software that absolutely does crush other commercial works and/or serves niches that society needs that commerical failed to serve.

GREET is the example of societal software that must be created and is part of the solution to future climate change... in its small way. There needs to be programs that track emissions and analyzes supply chains and different products. I don't think any commercial (or open source) program could have done similar to GREET, its something that only a well-regarded lab (Argonne National Labs) can release and immediately gain recognition as a well-regarded program that makes decent estimates.

There was a time when people (ex: TCP/IP days) thought that government software was too powerful and that it'd wreck the free market just by participating. The reason the Government (IMO anyway) held back on software design is to protect the free market, but its always been an entity that could deliver if we just had the will to ask the government to make something.

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The issues you're bringing up seem to all be about how commercial needs fail to line up to societal needs. But its never really been the commercial world's goal to make society better... its instead the commercial world's goal to make money for itself (which when well regulated, can often lead to societal improvement).

For any program that directly needs to improve society (ex: reverse engineering / software security... and/or supply chain analysis for climate change planning), its 100% should be a government project and owned by the government.

> There is plenty of good open source for developers.

Open Source has a major funding problem.

If people are willing to improve society voluntarily, that's good. But we can't rely upon that for every bit of computer infrastructure we have. To get true benefits as a society, we need to actually pay people.
I think the word "easily" is carrying a lot weight here -- for a company the size of Disney, keeping all internal communication records in secure offline storage sounds pretty hard from both a technical and operational standpoint. Certainly doable, but I doubt it'd ever happen unless it were required by law
How in tarnation would they do that? To inject traffic into the network, the attacker would have to compromise the access network. The RADIUS attack is not going to accomplish that.
Selling exploits isn’t subject to criminal sanctions

There are no issues reporting the income on tax filings
So approximately 1/7th the size of the Houston metro area.
Yea - I agree with you on tedious gameplay - games that actually have unique progressions throughout almost the entire game are my favorite

Tysm for answering :D
PG & E is "heavily regulated" and yet Newsome allowed them to not upgrade power lines which eventually caused massive wild fires
US missile silos have same
Now the best chess AI are only held back by humans.

What does this mean ?
Meanwhile in California...
Erik Wernquist – Digital Artist – Showreel
Businesses don't always act like perfectly rational actors, bubbles are a thing.
Tysm for answering :DD - def share the same opinion when it comes to RPG games
If we’d taxed Elon 90% the day he first became a billionaire, where would that money be today?

Tesla wouldn’t be worth $400B or whatever. He would not have kept voting control. They have to give him $50B just to keep the stock propped up.

So you tax every billionaire $900M and all that stock ends up in some hedge fund that says “your battery factory will cost $5B!? NOPE!” “You want to build a rocket that lands itself? You’re NUTS!” “You want to operate an online retailer that never shows a profit?”

That world leads to whatever progress GM, Sears and Boeing choose to give to us.
Setting up a retro multi-node BBS on OS/2 Warp
This is just in general true of generative ai. In many ways it commoditizes skilled labor. They do not care about people in the posters situation. It is meant to lower the bar and make the labor cheaper.
This kind of roundabout is awful for pedestrians and drivers: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.5737159,-5.9326045,127m/da...

Surprise! I'm going to walk in front of you.
the people who recently leaked a bunch of governmental memos about the republican party a day ago were all furries who were dissatisfied with their far-right hatred of trans people.

Maybe, some highly educated people are just fed up and calling their senators doesn't seem to get anything done?