skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it seems more than possible that we could self-regulate to minimize the harms done

More on point, it is absolutely critical that we self-regulate, because if we fail to do so, eventually, nature WILL regulate us into oblivion. Our existence depends on an insanely complex web of life. As with any robust network, many nodes and connections can be damaged and the system will still work. But keep damaging nodes and connections, and eventually, the system cannot recover — it will break down and may die off completely. When that happens, no human technology will save our species.

And the self-regulation is happening. We may very well be on a path where improving technology gets us through to a far less destructive life mode. More education, security, and rights causes birth rates to decline. Sustainable energy production is now cheaper than digging up fossil fuels, transporting them across the globe and lighting them on fire. Lighting is 10X more efficient, etc. etc. etc.. Intentional efforts to save species and ecosystems often see them recover faster than expected.

The only question is whether we have the luck and political will to make this transition happen fast enough to get to a sustainable energy & materials economy before a critical collapse.
We set ever higher goals: The psychology of chasing our potential
ARM, Argonaut Software (SuperFX), DIP Research Ltd. (Atari Portfolio, Sharp PC3000 ASICs), INMOS (which I wouldnt call a success), Technophone PC105 first real pocket sized cellphone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI6Uf-Of4fs).

There was a ton of high integration semi innovation coming out of UK in eighties, on par with Japanese.
If you refer to my original post, my focus was to provide additional detail that was being requested. Note that I also compared US white women to all UK women.

It is a US based site which provides a breakdown on the US population, and compares it to other developed countries.

I pulled out some figures I thought were interesting - both for black and white populations it shows a significant difference to the country I live in (UK).

Even the group with the best outcomes in the US, still shows a roughly 2.5 times higher incidence of death. I am interested in why the outcomes are worse across all groups.
Frustrated Californians May Be Ready for a Tougher Approach to Crime
Just out of curiosity, what are some of those good reasons?

It's clear enough that they can use and consume markdown, but is the suggestion here that they've seen more markdown than xml?

I'd have guessed possibly naively that they fed in more straight html but I'd be interested to know why that's unlikely to be the case
I say this as a Canadian living in Ottawa, their salaries are not good.
I used to a bit, but now I have a family I just don't have the time for that.
All startups are probably way more risky. Law works against gambling. Entire market works against startups.
Yeah, I was thinking more about the risk of data leaks.
the actual talk (video in article) says more than 60% of VM vcpus are from linux VMs, it does not talk about instances though. But I would expect Linux to be a lot of very small and very large VMs :)
I'm a fan of HPDL-1414 display modules, which have an integrated character ROM covering the symbols and upper-case part of ASCII: https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/76528.pdf

It does have a few more segments, but all the glyphs it covers are distinguishable.
Not validating an update signature is a huge security compliance issue. When you get certified, and I assume CroudStrike had many certifications, you provide proof of your compliance to many scenarios. Proving your updates are signed and verified is absolutely one of those.
I came across potassium nitrate + water being used for making things cold - https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/36036-making-things-cold... . Wonder if that could be used too?
In terms of theory it's easy to believe that the dark matter is a non-interacting particle of some kind such as a WIMP, right-handed neutrino, or axion.

The trouble is picking out which one is correct with all of the alternatives.

Physics as we know it got started when Newton developed a theory of gravity that explained what happens on the Earth and in the heavens. This success was continued when people linked the results of nuclear experiments to nucleosynthesis in stars and the big bang.

Dark matter seems to be AWOL however at the scale of the solar system and smaller so that link is broken right now -- we'd like to be able to observe the dark sector with a big detector, a particle accelerator or an axion telescope but so far we can't.
Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids
or gravity waves
"Just be yourself". Such terrible, useless advice to give to someone who is struggling with dating.
I tried separating the sentences but an editor reverted my change.
The firm funded by fines for making unfounded threats with scary lawyer letters.
they do talk about actual usage in the talk, but only vcpu wise, not instance wise. For vcpus it's also more than 60% linux
Smart home defenses crumble when the NEO dog arrives.
What worked for you then?
It's most likely both a hardware issue and a microcode issue.

Making CPUs is kind-of like sorting eggs. When they're made, they all have slightly different characteristics and get placed into bins (IE, "binned") based on how they meet the specs.

To oversimplify, the cough "better" chips are sold at higher prices because they can run at higher clock speeds and/or handle higher voltages. If there's a spec of dust on the die, a feature gets turned off and the chip is sold for a lower price.

In this case, this is most likely an edge case that would not be a defect if shipping microcode already handled it. (Although it is appropriate to ask if it would result in effected chips going into a lower-price bin if they are effected.)
I'd like to see any reasonable math behind this idea.
Cute and scary. Reminds me of a time where i manually converted a remote Linux box to full disk encryption via SSH about 15 years ago. It worked, despite bugs in the debian start scripts. But it was, once again, very scary.
Replication in PostgreSQL (2015)
Nice!

I'm an emacs user, and when I use a readline-based REPL I use ctrl-M a lot. I thought it was inherited from the emacs keybindings, like many other shortcuts from GNU readline
It’s because oral minoxidil requires a ramp period and some people can become symptomatic. If you browse Reddit or other forum threads about it, look for a discussion on “sides”.

There are several papers in the dermatology literature suggesting low dose oral minoxidil for hair loss. I think dermatologists or hair surgeons who do this every day will know the literature. The average pcp likely won’t unless asked.
Sunlight-powered sustained flight of an ultralight (4 gram) drone
If you have hundreds or thousands of connection-handlers or scripts-attached-to-game-objects, then it can be useful to write code in those without dividing the code into basic blocks each time I/O might be performed or time might pass in the game.

I generally agree that manually migrating everything to "be async" in order to achieve this exposes at the very least a lack of belief that computers can be used to automate drudge work.
No need to take the piss, venson.
Why dis it turn out to be bad?
> But imagine the infrastructure that would be universally in place to allow us to scale it up as a society.

What kind of special infrastructure is needed? Doesn't your government already have a system in place for sending tax refunds to its people? That's ultimately all your $20/month is.
It's even possible to work at FAANG without working there
"Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" ... in 2010
Well you can use intermediate nodes, it doesn't have to be a direct payment channel between sender and receiver.

But to make that work, you have to be online in real time to receive funds. It's not like on-chain transactions that complete without needing your direct involvement. If you're not online, then somebody has to do that on your behalf and now you're back to having someone else custody your funds. Here's a good article explaining it:

https://github.com/moneybutton/yours-channels/blob/master/do...

(You also need someone online monitoring for fraud, even without intermediates, but at least that part can be outsourced without trusting someone with custody.)
ChatGPT for science: how to talk to your data
Is it ever not toxic? The rank mix of volatile organics has always made me nauseous. I'll take a flight-proven, properly outgassed car any time, thank you very much.
Mermaid doesn't scale beyond simple plots try
https://perfetto.dev/ which can ingest basic csvs
An AST can carry the original source representation on each node as metadata — best of both worlds.
I’ve also found Arq to be brilliant on MacOS. It’s especially nice on laptops, where you can e.g. set it to pause on battery and during working hours. Also, APFS snapshots is a nice thing given how many Mac apps use SQLite databases under the hood (Photos, Notes, Mail, etc.).

On Linux, the system I liked best was rsnapshot: I love its brutal simplicity (cron + rsync + hardlinks), and how easy it is to browse previous snapshots (each snapshot is a real folder with real files, so you can e.g. ripgrep through a date range). But when my backups grew larger I eventually moved to Borg to get better deduplication + encryption.
We do have that now, as of 2022! The new Justice Department policy now instructs prosecutors not to prosecute security researchers who acted in good faith for the public benefit and who avoided any harm to individuals or the public.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-...
Seems like a wildly different weather/climate than this house would have normally been in. I wonder whether that impacts the longevity of these constructions.
What does "[flagged] [bot thread]" mean? The submitter keepamovin seems to be a legitimate user with plenty of valid submissions (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=keepamovin) (and more reputation than I have!).
I left a company because of their planned move to the new version of SAP. Based upon how big of a change it would be when compared to R/3, that is one project I was way to old for.

I miss the old days of nice and simple systems.

Good luck to UK Tax, no easy solution except maybe raise taxes and get extorted by SAP for a few more years to continue using the existing system.

Also a big warning for UK people, SAP and Oracle Developers and Testers will have unfettered access to everyone's Tax Data. Yes, SAP and Oracle will say that is false, but they are really telling a "white lie".

I have been through a few of these upgrades, and everytime no "fuzzing" of prod data was done. Doing that is close to impossible in SAP, and to do that is a multi-year project on its own. Oracle I would expect the same is true.
A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout (2018) [video]
IDK... define "being nice." If it means having a default policy of yielding to others, that is in fact horrible business/career advice.

We don't need to treat every situation as an adversarial/machiavellian game, however "being nice," is in fact often bad advice.

Maybe be calm, collected, respectful, but strong and self-advocating (because generally no one else is going to advocate for you out of good will.)
US congressional panel calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on outage
Real GDP per capita has gone from 41k to 67k, so going back to 1994 could actually be done with a 3 day work week.

Most people wouldn't want to because they would have to cut 40% of their spending across the board.

there are a lot of people today that can already have the option to work less for less money but dont choose to do it.
Capitalist societies where the alternative to employment is destitution can force people into working at huge online gambling companies due to the need for employment and their responsibility (kids, aging parents, etc)

While I agree in an ideal world, individuals should all stand up against unethical employment options, I am also mature enough to know not to penalise someone who might be otherwise meritorious based on what could be situational.

We should take a stand against predatory companies that attack the vulnerable, but this should be done at a government level, not an individual employee level, because it’s a much more efficient utilisation of resources for a large organisation with teeth to be subdued by another large organisation with teeth.

I would hire someone who used to be in gambling (if they were a good fit culturally and technically of course) because that would take a skilled developer OUT of the gambling industry, implying that you shouldn’t hire someone who used to work in gambling is a sure way to make sure that predatory industry keeps enough developers to keep shirking the poor
> but I don't see any mention of the server itself.

I mean how else does any remote management solution work? This is no different than IPMI?
FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing
As others have said:

- The people you speak with have been at the company for a long time

- The fairness and quality of the interview process (especially w.r.t. the tech screen)

If multiple people you speak with have been with the company for more than 10 years, it's a great sign. And if the interview is really high quality and fair (such that it is an accurate representation of your skills), it's a really great sign for company quality in the intangibles.

The company I just joined is like this, and I can totally understand why people don't leave to try to continue up the total comp pyramid elsewhere.
I really like the patterns that it enables for situations with a lot of parallel IO. Easy example is any kind of scraper, where you're fetching large numbers of pages and then immediately processing those to generate more requests for the links and assets referenced within.
Whether they are or not, they're about to have their finest hour. I take it these hearings will be televised?
I would have never rated new car smell as pleasant, quite the contrary, that is the first time I hear this but old cars can't be any better I guess after years of plastic being exposed to high temp. I always assumed the plastic smell of cars to be toxic and always opened the doors for a few minute before driving when I am using a car that has been parked in the sun and would open the windows completely for a little while when driving before starting the aircon so that air is circulating.
When I was a consultant, I could not find a health insurance plan that was even vaguely the equal of my current job's health insurance. Not too expensive, but simply not offered.

That's not to say that job insurance is automatically good -- the job I had before being a consultant had worse health insurance that was a little worse than the plans I had as a consultant.
Yeah I was about to say the same, why make such a contrived example. A much simpler example is the case of iPhone alarms going off at the wrong time.

A different real-world example that I like to give is when I was working at a photo sharing site that had global reach. We had a debate about how to store, convert, and/or display datetimes and I opted for local date/time. Ideally want to store both the local time and place of the photo which allows calculating every other time format. Even without the place, it still makes sense to show night time photos with their local time, and new years celebration photos at midnight.
Sure, if you work at many hedge fund you'll make similar money, and likely more if you are good at the job and the fund has success.

One other nice thing is that instead of restricted stock you get actual money.

And generally the money will be locked up for less time than the 4 year vesting that these companies often follow.

And on top of that you can usually invest your money fee free in your own fund to help juice your returns.

The downside is that there is almost certainly going to be more stress on you and probably no where to hide if you want to just rest and vest.

Your team and company will likely be pretty small and everyone will be very aware of what everyone's contribution to the company's success.
If you live in NYC and want to own where your family can live on a single income, then it's important to be north of 300k.
And it's always the fresh accounts.
Spotify used to run a P2P network to serve music[1], which they seemed to have shut down in 2014[2].

[1] https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10....

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-pe...
It uses that implementation, so yes, it came out afterwards. Section 2 and 3 might help.
Whoops, looks like I missed the sarcasm.
Typically ~ contains user specific config files for applications, which are (usually) programmed to be distro agnostic. If you're installing the same applications across distros, I don't see why this wouldn't work without too much effort. After all, most distros are differentiated by just two things:

- their package management tooling

- their filesystem layout (eg where do libraries etc go)
I read your full statement, agreed with most of it, and cherry picked the part I disagreed with to comment on.

That is typical when someone disagrees with something.
Live Q&A with the minds behind MapsGL
MapsGL is a vector-based weather mapping platform that visually encodes weather data. It's a really amazing tool that was built by Nick Shipes and others at Vaisala Xweather. Besides being one of the only webgl based weather mapping platforms available, it's also really beautiful. Come learn and ask questions. Disclaimer: I work here!
There's been a bit of a "PS1 aesthetic" enthusiasm recently too.
I saw a 450k for a C++ dev in a HFT firm in Switzerland.
>“rounding error” isn’t typically used to describe double-digit percentage changes.

What? We're talking about a 5 percentage points variance, that is a single digit percentage point change. This is regarding a 29 percentage points average over a span of like 80 years concerning millions if not billions of people.

That is a rounding error, whether it's home ownership or unemployment or whatever you want those numbers to be.
I have heard/read of these people but people I know who work at hospitals doing MUMPS get paid very little. Same for COBOL programmers. There are some mythical people who make bank but most COBOL guys make way less than the typical JS guy.
I'm in the same boat. It's a hard adjustment because I used those side projects for learning new things, improving understanding of things I used at work and now that time has vaporized.
> With financial help from the giant retailers Target, Home Depot and Walmart, the coalition has gotten a ballot measure qualified for the November election that would impose harsher punishments for crimes that result in lighter charges or no prosecution today.

Yeah, cause that’s how direct democracy should work.

For those without California context, ballot measures are the means by which the monied seek to bypass the legislature by appealing to the worst instincts of voters directly. They’re a feature and a bug of Californian democracy.
- https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-he...
Prediction: The culture issues that are almost certainly the ultimate cause will not be addressed, and only tighter controls will be considered.

This despite major government failures like the Challenger accident, Vietnam, or the Mars lander being primarily due to culture issues.
> Microsoft agreed back in 2009 with the European Commission that it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.

Why Microsoft should have more access then others ? Becouse Crowdstrike / public internet straight to kernel updates combo ?

Whole thing is about locking _computers_ from buyers and that is a no go. We need more os'es and more freedom - just fact of MS existence (domination) is a proof that hardware-os monopoly owned by one company is not some natural law.

Now let's make IBM unlock their hardware-os monopoly to software vendors :)
Interviewed and was given a "huge" offer from them. 50-70% of the comp is non-liquid equity at the valuation of their choosing (ok, technically a 'third party' decides this, but I call partial shenanigans and it fluctuates wildly anyway such that a ton of their employees hired a few years ago at a ridiculous valuation are getting shafted - check blind)
But what would that "something else" be? Because the study ended before the 2022 decision.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Clearly an event that happened after the study couldn't have impacted the study.
> It allows the copyright holder to monopolize the copying and public performance of the work. That’s it.

Yes, we aren't disagreeing here.

> It’s not a copyright violation for me to take your copyrighted painting and draw on it with crayons or hang it on a wall labeled “World’s Worst Painters.

Exactly correct. I wasn't talking about purely private use. Copyright is about distribution of the results. If you do something with a work and never distribute the results, copyright doesn't enter into it (ignoring the complications of the absurd anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, anyway).
So how did you overcome your "zero expertise, IP, or competitive advantages" limitations, assuming they were accurate?
Personally, I've had some issues with Kopia.

I found their explanation here:

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544

Still not solved after many years :(

Now I use Borg + Restic and I am happy

+ GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

+ GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
Delta Airlines slow to recover from the CrowdStrike outage
I don't like colored function for obvious reasons, but fully colorless for async means you don't know when things are async or not.

There are a lot of things I dislike in JS, but I think the I/O async model is just right from an ergonomics point of view. The event loop is implicit, any async function returns a promise, you can deal with promises from inside sync code without much trouble.

It's just the right balance.
That's the weirdest question I've seen in HN. Do you have experience in both?
Yeah pricing and open source are two very important technical advantages of Linux. What do you mean by kitchen sink builtin? Is it somehow related to crowdstrike?
Genuinely curious, as the article is paywalled, but I wonder what necessitated the house having to come across the ocean? Could it not have been preserved or relocated somewhere within Japan?