skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could get on board with something related. If corps are running their own van transportation around Silicon Valley and such, and so many of us really want WFH to take hold and be embraced industry-wide, we really do need to revisit the "company town" concepts that built mining and oil type industries a century ago, not to mention the small and tight-knit communities that sprang up around national labs such as those involved in the Manhattan Project, space programs, and nuclear weapons testing.

I don't know if these commercial interests in FL are thinking of employee housing right now. BUT, if a corp owns a subdivision and they can place all their employees there, then perhaps they can get away from urban sprawl and all the ugliness that goes with it. The corps can put up their own shops or subcontract with, like, Amazon or Target, and pharmacies and all the other essentials, and they can establish outposts that are more independent from typical civic matters, and insulate their employees from distractions.

In 1995 I worked across the street from Apple, and our office complex featured showers, pinball and video games, a full commercial kitchen, free snacks, and the message was basically "you're family, camp out here, spend the entire day, we'll support you in your downtime." Now magnify that by 10, remove it from Cupertino's smog, and you've got a company town.

It could also reduce the impulses to become a "digital nomad" or expatriate who leaves the US long-term, if employee needs are catered and they feel less burdened by everything else going on, and there's more elbow room and space for them to stretch their legs, grow a garden, do some target practice, ride horses, or encourage their children walk/bike to school unsupervised. Wouldn't that be preferable to some of our urban nightmares? Certainly data centers are already in the middle of nowhere, and nearly unstaffed, but definitely need humans hanging around, so there needs to be a contingent of workers who live conveniently close, like a nuclear power station.

Sure, it has drawbacks. "Company towns" and worker indebtedness to the corporation could get out of control for some. But those structures had merit and built up some really big and powerful industries which were able to provide jobs, benefits, and pensions for thousands of families, and became the backbone of the economy, and that's where I see the IT/SWE world at a crossroads today: facing unionization, consolidation, and industrialization.
Change my mind, but modern JS frameworks aren't just hype. They solve real problems for complex UIs. PHP's great for some stuff, but try building a snappy SPA with it.
> 3d printer released last year in May, that can print at a 20-nanometer resolution, the D4200S[1]

This is impressive indeed. I agree that if you expect that your adversary spends this much resources on you, nail polish wont' be sufficient.

> Secureboot is a standard, and you are free to use your own keys, and own implementation

Show me a FLOSS implementation of this standard and you will have a point. At the moment, I would have to trust a megacorporation obeying NSA, so I don't see it as a good defense against real adversaries. Your threat model may vary.
Ok, I encourage you to use this picture in your email signature at work or use it as your desktop wallpaper and see how far you get in 2024. And I think it is definitely a good thing it is like that now. How do you think women that worked where John Knoll was doing demos felt about the naked woman? Not sexualizing the workplace is better for everyone. Actually kind of dismayed to see HN be so "good ol' boy" on this one. It reminds me again how out of touch and male-dominated it is.

I love the photo, but it's a great photo for private use, not work use. I think you guys aren't paying attention to the HR videos you are supposed to be watching.

I do think John knew exactly what he was doing and that the killer app for Photoshop, computers, and the internet that would come after was sex.
Does not sound like they're issuing replacement devices.
I wouldn't even consider Repaint if i don't have access to the source code. I see it as a good starting point (like Figma), but i'll never rely on a WYSIWYG editor alone.

As presented only makes sense for competing with Wix for power users.
I think adding a note that there's an end would go a long way. I personally tried it once, killed something like 100 ants, thought "That's cute, but not interested in clicking on ants endlessly", and closed the game well before I lost.
I checked in at hue 174, the median, which is interesting to me as I know that my wife will test to a very different hue as we have occasional disagreements on whether something is 'blue' or 'green' :)
Well of course it's not only a matter of interactive usage (even because the busybox itself shell could do the conversion). The problem are script, or worse programs that invokes commands as subprocesses (programs that maybe you don't have have access to the source code!).

What you do? Replace every single occurrence of each command by prefixing it `busybox`? Not ideal at all...
Automating Component Checks with CI/CD for Hardware Engineers
Joining the Open Source Pledge
The east and southeast don't have many ultra-long-lived tree species, outside of cypresses [0].

I think most oaks top out ~100 years and pines ~200. Not as much slow-growth, live-forever stuff.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_distichum
> This vulnerability – that went unnoticed for 14 years and about 80 highest-level Common Criteria certification evaluations

This is yet another example of why you don’t f around with crypto and auth in general. Just use best practices and you might be OK.
Linux Network Performance Optimization: Tips for Optimizing Network Latency
PDF of the EUCLEAK writeup: https://ninjalab.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240903_eucl...

Yubico blogpost: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2024-...
Shouldn't that be "q3t"? Or do some English speakers really pronounce "that" with the vowel in "the"?
I would be concerned if senior stuff wouldn’t speak up and bring up possible technical issues. That’s like half of their value.
The way you get highly paid part-time work is by making a piece of open source software that's targeted at some niche vertical. Then you will get consulting/customization requests for that software and you can do that part-time.

Another option is to work for a consulting company that bills hourly. There are lots of those.
I'm not saying it's unique to PHP, but I remember being bemused by Daniel Kerr's hostile and abrasive response to OpenCart PRs and critiques with responses in the vein of "oh yeah? well I got rich off it, so who's the smart guy now!"
Intel stock tumbles as Dow status questioned
I'm not really married to this idea, but my first reaction is that to assume a random number would be an invalid assumption.

The scenario is framed as a zero sum game: one of us wins. The question is, "should you play?"

In order to answer, you need to be able to determine whether or not there is an optimal strategy that is generally successful.That should include both the assumption that Ballmer has chosen a number adversarial weighed against the random choice.
Landfills certainly require more power to operate than that gas scheme can provide later.

It all sounds and reads like a fairytale but none of this is sustainable.
I also find it funny (in a sad way) how Microsoft pushes telemetry so hard. Yet they have the buggiest most unusable software. All that data clearly isn't making their products better.
About pricing, it's strange that neither specify access to the generated source code?

Not sure what audience you have in mind.
Exploring resilience among hospital workers: a Bayesian approach
> This seems like a questionable design decision. Should a program be allowed to behave differently based on its name? From a 2020s standpoint, this seems highly undesirable, as it makes software less predictable and goes against modern design principles.

No it doesn't make software less predictable nor does it goes against modern design principles. argv has very handy use cases and can be used to provide better user experience.

Unless you have evidence to back up your claims, you're just turning a subjective opinion to an objective one without any merit.

Either way, it's software developer choice and irrelevant to the user as much as it is irrelevant to the user whether the developer prefers for(;;) over while(1).
> None of the weird arg[0] examples can happen on the shell (without escaping), only when using system calls.

$ help exec
[...]
Options:
-a name pass NAME as the zeroth argument to COMMAND

Even in shell, you can explicitly specify the argv[0] when running an executable.
Release of Bugzilla 5.2, 5.0.4.1, and 4.4.14
No, in the 80's it probably wouldn't be, but it would be scandalous in the 50's
Is it? Land is dirt cheap in the US. Surely it's cheaper to bury it locally than ship it half way across the world? Even for the plastic that's being shipped half way across the world, they're ostensibly done for recycling purposes (ie. they're buying the plastic waste), and the unrecycleable plastics end up being mismanaged.
> I wish more environmentalists would be excited about engineering solving environmental ills and relied less on knee-jerk reactions.

Are many ... not? Seems like a weird complaint, I haven't encountered an "environmentalist" (whatever that even is) that is against landfills in general or the engineering of it. I'd rather we didn't produce as much garbage as we are and I hate that our city makes me wrap my garbage in more garbage otherwise they won't pick it up. But I still find the engineering impressive.
add-sub-mul-div is being downvoted here (probably because of the last couple years of bad faith accusations of "grooming" against the lgbtq+ community poisoning the well)

but "alleged grooming incident[s]" is the thing that happened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1ae3038/writing...
Good God, I am not trying to hype AI. I believe he used AI to generate it. It looks exactly like what you would get if you asked that LLM a few times to iterate on this type of game.

So yes, I believe it was AI-assisted.

I think that the question doesn't need elaboration.

I would provide you with negative karma if I could. I am not able to downvote any of your comments at this time.

I'm not braindead, and I have never astroturfed in my life.
Don't worry man, I'm about to be 43...
As I said 8 hours ago when this was first posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41432574https://news.yc... ):

This is an opinion masquerading as fact, backed up by terrible reasoning.
Seriously, join us over in the Linux desktop scene. I use Manjaro XFCE on my dinky little laptop (8GB RAM, 256GB NVME, 4core i3) and it works flawlessly. MX Linux for a solid debian desktop. Lubuntu for a lightweight Ubuntu install. Install 'Tilda' for a drop-down Quake style terminal.

Explore different Linux distros in a VM.

There's a reason Recall can't be turned off. There's a reason they made logins be tied to online accounts.

Don't let Linux be a turn off, KDE and desktop environments are fun to play with and get 'just right.' You don't need to live in a terminal editing configs anymore, but ..you can. You can customize everything and that's why it's so amazing. It's _YOURS_ - better than Microsoft turning on some weird AI that recalls _EVERYTHING_ you've ever done on your computer.

Shay-Dee.
With current Starlink + solar, Canada has so much arable, accessible land that it beggars the imagination — the entirety of Western Europe fits well within the western 4 provinces, below the arctic circle.

This is livable, beautiful land. I’ve lived there for much of my life.

As for investors buying up all supply? Unless the free market has ceased to function, supply will increase until the marginal cost equals the market-clearing price.

There is essentially no supply available, and builders (I personally know several) are closing their businesses due to government malevolence, not the lack of buyers.
Thanks for pointing out this error.

You are correct that the post misused the terms major version and minor version.

I'll fix it, and note the error and your catch, because

- I don't want to spread misinformation; and

- the right thing to do is to acknowledge the contributions that others make.
npm i openai-react-native
>A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.

There are other sorts of puns than that but also, 'Trips Industries, Tips Industries' is a decent pun if you know anything about the trips industry. I agree that this is identifying rhymes, so essentially it's doing half the job and then you have to use context to understand if it's a valid pun or not.
I recently published a new package on npm that brings the OpenAI APIs to React Native Expo without polyfills.

Today the library supports chat streaming, normal chat completions and file upload with more endpoints coming soon. The goal of the library is to follow the OpenAI Node SDK wherever possible while taking advantage of React Native SSE and Expo FileSystem with streaming and file upload support where the OpenAI Node SDK does not work. Lmk what you think or what you would like to see!
I would say part of it too is nature (vs nurture). Those same cousins never developed that propensity into adulthood at all. And its likely that was due to how well they were parented overall.

Myself had a bit of a different household and those things I had to learn on my own. The lack of restrictions made me grow up a bit sooner. Neither really right or wrong. But some people dont have the best self control (even in adulthood). Ive brought that up with the WFH conversations here. Theres bias here because i would wager many are high performers and have great self control, but working with people I have noticed many adult colleagues arent that well self disciplined and putting them in the office setting does help.
Analysing 10 years of 'who is hiring' HN data
Really well done!!! Not sure whether this is the limitation of the hosting platform, but I can't find a link from your game to github.
Stealth Financial Institution | AI Product Engineer, Design Engineer/Senior Designers, Researcher | Krakow, Poland | Hybrid | Contract or full-time

We are a global financial powerhouse with a rich history of providing bespoke investment and advisory services.

We are looking for the first Product Engineer of our group, who will be specifically tasked to work closely with our business stakeholders to ideate, validate, design and build prototype for AI-powered products, in our newly created innovation lab. Strong cross-functional communication skills are a must as the successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary squad format with the goal to prototype and validate concepts, then present their finding to a group of senior leaders.

Our aim is to leverage both ML and LLMs to address problems that are currently unsolved in our industry, and we consequently look for forward-thinking and perseverant individuals who have extremely strong collaboration abilities. We focus on gathering evidence before making decisions, and this role will be critical in that context. Our stack is currently focused on Azure AI capabilities, so knowledge of this is a plus.

+ We are also looking for design specialists (preferably with strong skills in dataviz and animation), design engineers, and researchers who have a background working in innovation or strategy agencies.

If you're interested, email victoria dot pillari at leveluphcs dot com, and please include:

- Your resume or LinkedIn page, and your Github repository (if active).

- A relevant project you are particularly proud of.
Hey, I just created a new tool called Super Grep that does exactly what you described.

I implemented a format-agnostic search that can match patterns across various naming conventions like camelCase, snake_case, PascalCase, kebab-case. If needed, I'll integrate in space-separated words.

I've just published the tool to PyPI, so you can easily install it using pip (`pip install super-grep`), and then you just run it from the command line with `super-grep`. You can let me know if you think there's a smarter name for it.

Source: https://www.github.com/msmolkin/super-grep
I’m not trying to make arguments about work where the output isn’t measurable; Of course businesses are going to err on the side of caution and try to weed out employees with second jobs in that case. I am also very pro labor protections and want far more here in the US. My issue is with businesses that seem to see their employees as their property and over-scrutinize their lives outside of work, even in cases where the quality of that work can be clearly measured to be adequate.
LLMs are statistical next-word predictors, wrapped in a stochastic next-word generator.

The next-word predictions output by the model itself are based on the patterns and statistics of the training set. The next word that is actually generated is typically a random selection per a top-k or top-p sampling scheme.
The fight against climate change has a used car problem
https://archive.ph/uw2jB
Leaked pitch deck proves that your phone is listening to what you say
Sympathy and empathy are crucial in all aspects of healthcare, but referring to these psychiatric patients as "targeted individuals" seems unwise. It's patronizing and it runs the risk of encouraging further delusions.
This is very impressive!

The rendered pages have noticeable aliasing when zooming out in the playground. Is there a reason why the WebGL context isn't configured with anti-aliasing enabled?
> Scala is ... quite complex
Do you mean the Scala language is complex or the Scala libraries (not the Scala API) that people created (e.g. Cats, Akka ...) are complex? If you say that the Scala language is complex, could you give an example?

> Erlang's actor model ... is one of the greatest successes of language design to date
IMO, if you work within 1 VM, the thread model is closest to us as almost all languages have it. How many languages the actor model is implemented in? I know Erlang, Scala. What else?
From a practical perspective, what protection does the use of a fido2 PIN provide here? Is the EM side channel exposed without knowledge of the PIN?

In any case this is a tremendous attack, good job!
I really am curious about the Nash equilibrium solution. I assume that as a commenter has mentioned, for the guesser it involves returning random numbers near the binary search. But I’m curious if for the picker it involves a uniform or non uniform initial distribution?? I’m sure someone on HN knows/can explain?
Well /bin/sh is also busybox, so I think you'd need

#!/bin/busybox sh
exec /bin/busybox ls

?
Yeah, same. Not sure why - nothing is loading. Just a broken site theme, I guess. Switching to reader mode in your respective browser should instantly show the post content (or at least it did for me in Firefox).
Dice Chess
I just this weekend """upgraded""" from an S9+ to an S24+, losing the 3.5mm jack, but not without the exact sentiment of the author. I looked at every possible option to retain my jack, but ultimately found myself forced into either a new Samsung or Pixel due to their commitment to an actually reasonable-ish update lifetime promise of 7-ish years. (I'd really expect 10 at this point, but c'est la vie). I upgraded ONLY because I'm uncomfortable not having security updates/patches. Otherwise, frankly, I can't even tell the difference. Upon quick tests, I think I even prefer the camera on my S9+.

I absolutely, passionately hate Bluetooth. I hate not being able to share the jack in the car. I hate spotty connections. I hate needing a dongle. I hate the subtle loss of high end frequency content's quality. I hate the pain in the ass of pairing. 3.5mm had its share of problems, but this was a cartel making a cash grab and I am absolutely livid I have to play the game.

I've ran a poll in a lot of the tech group chat's I'm in multiple times. Over 40%, each time, is willing to pay $50 more to have the jack back. The manufactures know this, but know it pales in comparison to the profit of some new bluetooth headphones.

We don't need monoplolies to negatively impact tech, just a few big players to intentionally normalize boning their own customers. We need consumer protection laws that reflect that normal.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430757
The book Waves in an Impossible Sea really goes into some depth on this (for a layman -- which I am) and tries to drive home the point that there are two perspectives one might take. There's the perspective of the medium and the perspective of the field.

Using wind, as an example, we can measure the wind speed/direction at various points in a given space. We don't need to know what wind is to feel its effects. Instead, we might view it as a force wave that propagates through space and interacts with everyday objects. The measurements of this force that we take at various points in space across a given area form what we might call the Wind Field. We don't need to know the nature of the medium these wind waves propagate through in order to study wind and how it interacts with other objects. This is the field perspective.

Of course, we know that wind is really an effect of air molecules moving through space. That is, the medium for wind is the atmosphere. This gives us deeper insight into what wind is and how it works. This is the medium perspective.

According to the book, we don't know what the media for the elementary particles are or if there even are any. Our intuition based on waves that we see in everyday life tell us that there must be some medium through which the wave can propagate, but thus far we have found no such medium for waves such as light.

We just know there are measurable properties that we can measure across points in space and we have created mathematical objects (fields) to represent this. From there, we can construct theories and make predictions based on these models.
> It’s difficult to burn things hot enough to reduce potentially dangerous compounds

And that's before accounting for people illegally tossing things that contain heavy metals (such as batteries).
At some point this all kind of drifts apart from ontic science and starts to become a matter of narrative or interpretation, but I would generally agree with that.

Waves are mathematically-friendly possible configurations of the underlying system.

It's mathematically valid to choose the most convenient configurations for analysis because the systems are (pretty) linear, so we can just project any actual state into a sum of wave states, apply our mathematical model, and add it all back to get the new real state.

A lot of physical phenomena are composed of pretty predictable distributions of wave states, so projecting from a realistic state to a sum of wave states is usually straightforward enough.

For example, a moving particle looks like the sum of a bunch of waves all closely grouped around a particular wavelength.
That really depends on leverage. The Brazilian Supreme Court really has very little leverage over Twitter (or Musk directly).

Twitter has little to gain by complying with the judge's ban before challenging it in court, but they do have a lot to lose. It'd be a different story if Twitter was being challenged by the US Supreme Court, they have mhch more leverage to damage Twitter if they don't comply.
Yeah, I see no indication of that on their blog, and you can't flash the firmware.
He was being polite and understanding. They aren’t in a job interview setting, it’s not a correct frame to judge. But if it were, she would totally fail with that attitude of not thinking through the problem. That’s what his comment about stepping back meant.
Arc was written in Racket.
That’s the name of their self-organized movement (how they view and call themselves)