skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My phones region is Lithuania, iCloud is Lithuania, VPN'd via Lithuania in Airplane mode via Wifi and I still can't get in.

Which kinda sucks because there are legit reasons where you could get caught by this.

Tangent: Unsure what my Homepod region is set to, but after updating my _iPad_ to iOS 18 and changing it's region to US so I get new Siri - the Homepod is not able to execute "Siri find my iPhone" command and bitches about mismatch regions... IIRC I had to change regions too so I get Heyless Siri.
Hand washing mania throughout the respiratory virus pandemic was comical tho.
Eh, in the context of the site and other snippets that seems pedantic.

Could it be run on untrusted user input? Sure. Does it actually pose a threat? It's improbable.
Interesting that you consider it socialist, because the World Economic Forum has often been considered as the embodiment of neoliberalism. Around 2000, when there were huge anti-globalization protests by left / green / anarchist activists around the world, WEF was one of the primary targets.
I'm no lawyer, but I am an Australian and know the hoops you need to jump through in order to fire a full time employee.

An employer who is prepared to put in writing that you will be fired for not working unpaid overtime (responding to email) is in for bad time.
Nice in theory, but I've generated a tremendous amount of value for some of the places I've worked at, and it's rare to see any of it flow back the other way. Secondly, this is a right. An employee can waive that right if they choose, but they have the power. They can't be punished for exercising it, which is the important part.
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I wouldn't mind hiring a NKean for my company. Just get them to defect to the US first! Lol
Everything in moderation, including totalizing thought and mediocrity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S26662...
They do it for themselves though, not for everyone. It’s a system called Tchap and is used by cops IIRC (https://element.io/case-studies/tchap).
> UUIDs can also be generated on the client side (in cases where you can trust the client).

I'm fairly certain the first rule of websec is you never trust the client. I definitely would not trust a user's browser to directly insert a value into a DB.

> What if you don't know how many nodes you have?

Shouldn't matter; you have a centralized system that hands out chunks of IDs on-demand (and has its own mechanism to ensure no repeats). This is similar to what Vitess [0] does.

[0]: https://vitess.io/docs/20.0/reference/features/vitess-sequen...
> «Air purification» interpreted as "destroying all life in the air you breathe"?

Is this sarcasm? Do you want ‘extra’ life inside your body, like tapeworms and other parasites?
France gets less than half their energy from nuclear. Don't confuse the grid with the society as a whole, with all ways energy is used.

And of course no one energizes all activities in their society with nuclear, not even France.

I will add that providing the world's approximately 20 TW of primary energy use via today's reactors would expend the estimated resource of uranium at current prices in less than 10 years. So anyone proposing a nuclear powered world is also assuming advances in either breeder reactors or uranium extraction. So the hypocrisy of ruling out renewables because they have not been proved in practice is palpable.
Self employment is 3 times higher in the UK than in the US actually:
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS/r...
Elon Musk's Hard Turn to Politics
Tricare is perhaps the closest thing we have to direct government healthcare, it handles healthcare for active duty military, it is part of the DoD and contracts out to providers directly (including therapists) and compared to other private insurers they are among the most difficult to work with. My partner is an independent psychotherapist and contracts with various healthcare providers and Tricare has by far the highest rate of spurious rejections, short paychecks, heavy audit requirements, etc and their resolution department is the hardest to work with.

So we already have evidence of how it goes when the government manages it directly and it’s worse than private industry.
Crypto arguably has a better UX than traditional banks' SWIFT when in comes to sending money abroad.

I often need to wait for many days for a SWIFT to get through. There are fees — sometimes way larger than crypto fees. Transactions are frequently blocked, and I end up spending a lot of time convincing my bank that the transfer is legitimate.

Plus, they tell you that if there's an error, like sending money to the wrong account, it can't be reversed — just like with crypto. So really, what's the point of all that extra hassle?
You forgot the part where individual workers are great at negotiating against a large entity.
If you do a global comparison the US is incredibly richer rather than these countries being incredibly poor.
How are you going to prevent commercialization like reddit ?
How are you going to prevent a path like digg ?
I used to be on both now they are wastelands, just advertisinng portals
I know commenting on website design is off-topic, but this is praise rather than the typical grousing.

Lovely font, isn't as cramped as you usually come to expect from older websites but also has great information density, pleasing palette (although the menu text colour could use some love imho), etc...

I'm a huge fan.
I mean is there a better source than this? It's extremely ranty and just speculation
Lots of people missing nuance or seeing this rule change say what they want it to say, rather than what it actually says.

Employers are still allowed to contact employees anytime.

Previously you could theoretically be terminated for not reading or replying to messages from your employer outside hours. Now there are restrictions on that. That’s all that’s changed.
I just noticed this gem:

> the same kind of thinking that resulted in Germany replacing its nuclear power plants with coal

Germany did not replace its nuclear power plants with coal.
> air treatment infrastructure

What do you mean, like a window?

I think we have a word for this approach - lazy
Simple response. Nope. They don’t. They are employees, and the body camera's falls under employee/employer contract law. They don’t have to be a cop. But if they want to be, they have to follow the rules of their employer.
Russian soldiers are typically citizens of Russia.
Distrobox exists nowadays, you can pretty much run anything in anything
That’s not how Part D works. There is no standard Medicare formulary, and the federal government isn’t buying medications directly: Seniors pick a Part D plan from a private provider—typically a large insurer with plenty of their own negotiation power.
In which case I don't want their activity associated with my ip.

Dissidenting safely is their problem, not mine.
Crypto people now are waiting for the next bull cycle/halving/bull run/pump and dump so they can sell all their coins and retire in a nice house in the Caribbeans.
I tried ollama with llama 3 and 3.1, code llama, phi3, zephyr, chatgpt 4, all of what tgpt (cli tool) offers, copilot and a couple others but I don't remember. I primarily use Golang, as well as C, Zig, bash and learning Rust.

copilot annoyed the shit out of me and I barely get any useful code from LLMs. I think the most help I get from LLMs is asking things like "what is this operator mean '~uint64'" or other non-common language constructs. I primarily will just pull up open-source code that is of verifiably high quality and learn from that.
Start with a theoretical employee who offers excellent usefulness and is paid accordingly. Dial down the legal protections and security and consider what happens. The weaker the security of the employee, the stronger the negotiating power of the employer in pay discussions. It's not more complicated than that.
Did you input a wrong URL? I guess you mean: https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-politics-trump-social-med...

Paywall (One sentence longer): https://archive.is/kE6aW
There is a non-zero percent chance that a cop in that situation will retaliate. With Guns.
A Documentarian Wonders: 'Do I Sound Gay?' (2015)
I dunno. One of the core skills of bullies in school is taking advantage of "due process".

Funny in American schools teachers and administrators are known to show allyship to bullies in that they take no action to stop them unless they go really too far and kill somebody. I took a summer course though that was taught by two German instructors who actually led the bullying directly. Maybe they have a more toxic culture than the US.

I know the EU has a "right for embezzlers to reoffend" law which must have been an example of people who use their social skills as a weapon against other people using their social skills to turn the law into a weapon against the rest of us. The "right to be forgotten" is itself a crime when embezzling is concerned because embezzlers have a very high recidivism rate, essentially 100% when behavioral addictions like gambling are involved. This is a crime which can destroy businesses, ruin lives, deny people a secure retirement, and cause unemployment. I can think of no reason why embezzlement treason should ever be forgot.
THe NK developer will think, wait, I'm making a fraction of what I'm actually earning, I will smuggle in a Starlink receiver and set up a bank account in China and work for myself. This is how Communist regimes end.
I also didn't say "windows specific tooling". A modern code editor or IDE already covers 80%, if not more, of what the article's tools cover. You don't need separate applications for the things that article explains as use-cases.

And by not using or advocating unix-specific command line utilities, you solve two problems: people don't need to learn commands they don't want to learn, and the tools that you do use tend to be cross-platform by default. Anyone on Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, etc can use those same tools. Telling a contributor "we recommend using VS Code with these extensions" in 2024 is pretty much the lowest barrier to entry you could ask for.

Whether your build tooling requires platform-specific tools is a completely different issue: this article and my comment on it isn't about that context. They're about commands that the article claims are essential to you, a person, in order to be a better developer. And to that statement my response is: you really don't. These can certainly be useful to know, but they're also completely optional.
> the real criminals continue doing their business everyday

Any source for that? Media loves to blame banks for everything, but when you go into the details it always seems pretty marginal (e.g. the HSBC Mexico stuff).
> a social media platform. It did so without robust security features like end-to-end encryption

Most social media platforms doesn't support e2ee.

Some chat apps do support e2ee but also requires a god damn phone number to login (yeah so does telegram), this makes "encryption" useless
because authorities just ask the teleco to hand out the login SMS code.
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I agree. If my government ever turns evil, then I'll open my wireless access point.
What about domain sockets?

It's clumsier, to be sure, but if performance is your goal, the socket should be faster.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function_(SQL)

They didn't add anything.
Dwarf Debugging Standard
No, the UV in cutting edge lithography is much shorter wavelength.
Telegram bots do (what is effectively) simple firewall/LAN exfiltration over https.

So you can host a bot server even if no ports are open.
Citation needed for all your assumptions after your correct statement: "Technically you do not have to present ID in Texas"

From your link:

Here is a list of the supporting forms of ID that can be presented if the voter does not possess one of the forms of acceptable photo ID and cannot reasonably obtain one:

copy or original of a government document that shows the voter’s name and an address, including the voter’s voter registration certificate;
copy of or original current utility bill;
copy of or original bank statement;
copy of or original government check;
copy of or original paycheck; or
copy of or original of (a) a certified domestic (from a U.S. state or territory) birth certificate or (b) a document confirming birth admissible in a court of law which establishes the voter’s identity (which may include a foreign birth document).

Find a state where you have to pay for ID and you require ID to vote if it's such a problem.
My personal experience is that Australia doesn't have a huge problem with this generally. But mileage may vary. If it were a huge problem then vested interests would lobby fiercely against the law, and it seemed to pass without much challenge or comment from the public here.

This law might seem like a big deal if you're working in a place without labour protection laws, and therefore you're used to constant abuse from management and live in permanent anxiety of some petty retaliation. But here it really ought to just be a formalisation of normality unless you're working with particularly poor managers.
I can think of maybe 20 countries where people would do this before DPRK, not least China, but quite a few in Europe to, Poland, India. why DPRK? like the level of Pakistan CS grads is probably better than most US ivy league grads, cant imagine DPRK has much of a CS education system.
> Qilin, also known as Agenda, likely originates from Russia

Interesting, how do they determine this organization originates from Russia when the name itself clearly comes from Chinese (pinyin)?
Try hooking Stripe up to any third party analytics dashboard. You won't get an accurate MRR.

It really sucks if you want to have Stripe metrics in front of your team.
>Fix issuance first, then we can talk about making it a requirement. What isn't acceptable is to deny even a single person their right to vote because they couldn't get a valid ID.

Here's a list of things that require government ID right now, off the top of my head:

* Getting a job
* Accepting free food from a food drive
* Getting a bank account or loan
* Buying alcohol or cigarettes
* Buying a gun
* Getting a tattoo
* Picking up a package
* Driving a car
* Buying a plane or train ticket
* Viewing an apartment or house to lease/buy
* Forwarding your mail or setting up a PO box
* Joining a gym
* Setting up your gas/electricity/cable/internet
* Getting a phone with service
* Entering a nightclub

I'm all about giving people their rights, but making ID a requirement needs to be done. If the feds want to push it, then they can insist on criteria for acceptable issuance of ID. But I don't agree with waiting to do this anywhere it is possible to do it sooner. No other country (that I know of) is stupid enough to allow voting without ID. Perhaps the irrationality of this policy is an indictment of our government's dysfunction.
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> Self-describing is point-less for serializations

you couldn't be more wrong. what happens when you lose the schema, or never had access to it in the first place? think from the point of view of reverse engineering
Are they any good at their jobs?

The article makes it sound like these guys are none too bright and not especially well trained. Are companies just that desperate?
How to do that on initial account creation:

- locally create a recovery key and use it to wrap any other essential keys

- Split that or wrap that with two or more keys.

- N - 1 goes to the cloud to be used as MFA tokens on recovery.

- For the other, derive keys from normalized responses to recovery questions, use Shamir's secret sharing to pick a number of required correct responses and encrypt the Nth key.

You can recover an account without knowing your original password or having your original device.
There would have been plenty of room had shuttle not been hauling around three useless launch engines. The Buran orbiter didn't have launch engines. Buran was launched essentially as cargo by the Energia heavylift rocket. That meant Russia had a huge lifting rocket that could launch separately from Buran. The shuttle stack couldn't ever work without the orbiter. The Russian program would have been much more dynamic and flexible had the economy not pulled out the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(rocket)
Then his family in NK will be executed or sent to prison
The one who did the interview and the ones who do the coding may not overlap, and as OP mentioned, they don't need to be particularly good. Even if they get fired after a few months, it's still a net win.
The article mentions this, but just to emphasize: there are two Technik museums close to Mannheim, Germany. Speyer has a bunch of vintage cars and the 747. Sinsheim has the Concorde.
Honestly I wish I knew. Having orgs and teams (since it is such a "local" problem in a corporation) that are willing to advertise to me that it's going to be a problem can even be a plus. It's very rare that these people learn better behavior once you get there. If anything it gets worse and turns into the hazing rituals you mention.

I'd say the market should decide, eventually, but this article actually proves the opposite, and it's at every level.
The same bootstrapping problem exists for everything. What makes roads? Construction equipment. How do you get that construction equipment to the job site, without a road already being there?

I actually met a person a few months ago who worked for a startup doing delivery/fulfillment of materials for construction projects. They pointed out that this requires special expertise beyond, say, Amazon, not only because these materials tend to have unusual and/or dangerous physical properties, but also because the delivery addresses tend to be... well, they tend not to have addresses yet! This is all solvable (apparently), but only with expertise beyond the usual for delivery companies in the modern age.
From the article:

> They are often required to leave family members behind as collateral to prevent them from defecting while outside their home country.
Thats great for sure, but I still think you should take the time to learn the basics. Also, go to the r/bash subreddit and search "chatGPT" and see just how many people end up there with:

"HELP! ChatGPT destroyed my system" most commonly people want a command that will move pictures or something and the LLM spits out something feasible, they turn it into a shortcut on their mac and click it, and it is literally just 'find -type f -exec mv {} ..' with relative paths and it moves all of their critical files into random places. It is quite literally something I've seen happen at least 5 times.

There is a lot of benefit in just learning a little bit and then having the flexibility to write anything you want.
Why isn't anyone referring to bootstrapping a rust compiler as "rusting rust"? :D
Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts
What is your web stack? Is it possible to put it on S3 with cloudfront in front?
Perhaps removing a pricing scheme so complicated that it literally can't be modelled usefully by the customer would be even better?
Title altered from original "Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts stuck in space: 'It's shameful'" because of length.
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I live near downtown, actually I think the car breakins have gotten less frequent or people have learned not to leave anything showing.

There was a time when you would see SoMa diamonds along the sidewalk all over the place (broken cubes of car glass). Haven't seen much lately.

But SF govt seems intent on killing the Golden Tax Goose. They want to build a ton of low income housing and drive all tech out. Not sure how they think they're going to pay for everything once everyone who works and pays taxes are gone
One Lone Nintendo Fan Has Been Keeping the 3DS Servers Alive for Months
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First, I highly doubt this story, because it’s just too perfect of a fodder for your puff piece marketing blog post.

Second, you did not find any confirmed North Koreans at all! Come on, now. How trustworthy are you with such a clickbait title?
I have paging app installed my on phone, and that's it. If it is really, truly urgent they will page me. I have never been paged. Nobody has ever complained.
Maybe. If it's just removal of the other info, then perhaps. If it's removal AND implying it's theirs? No, not too hostile at all, in that case.
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It doesn't need to be _perfectly_ auditable to be worthwhile — it just needs to be more auditable than the alternatives available today.
My use of the term "socialist" was lazy.

I think that the main issue is that it tries to come up with a metric that works across every country which is basically pointless because a lot of them are failed states where income information isn't reliable or meaningful.

So they come up with stuff like "how high is teenage pregnancy" and "what is the male female work balance" which they define as being proxies for social mobility I assume because if you have five kids at age 20 and you're forced to stay at home then you have none.

The problem is that it just introduces a billion ways to influence the actual rankings, they are value judgements.

If you look at well functioning countries only, then you can pretty much look at how many people in the bottom decile of parental household income end up in the top decile of household income.

You still have the issue though that this only tells you how the distribution actually ends up, not how it _could_ look in a specific country if everyone actually tried their hardest to climb the social/financial ladder.
Are the warlords in the room with us?
What an unempathetic read
for "worker applies to remote job and going through the incredibly uncomfortable but no less than the necessary desperate steps to try and keep it." Sure you have to reject them due to sanctions but in their absence, would you still? I'm sure there are spies and clearly this company uncovered an operation, but it's hard to judge because I would try it if it meant I could make US money.

Because damn this article is being really overt with the racism which is pretty surprising since it's attached to a company blog. The implication that no one in the entire country of NK could be qualified for anything but the bare minimum for a junior is pretty insulting. I worked in a research lab with Chinese spies— really nice smart folks. I really can't imagine NK being so different as to not have any qualified people.
Nope, any US-based server would find itself either turned into a honeypot or taken down in a flash.
Yes it is right up my hacking alley. I'm working too with two-way asymmetric conversions between languages/charsets as noted in this thread. It's interesting to have such a niche tech challenge associated with your ethnic group of languages. In Manitoba are any of those spoken?
It looks like FFmpeg does support reading from sockets natively[1], I didn't know that. That might be a better solution in this case, I'll have to look into some C code for writing my output to a socket to try that some time.

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#unix