skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many countries are bombing Syria, including Syria itself, Jordan, Russia, and the US, largely because of the ongoing civil war and related ISIS attacks, though Jordan is mostly targeting drug smugglers aligned with the Syrian government. Focusing on Israel is just incredibly ignorant.
It depends on who has the largest amount of influence on how noisy the on call is.

If engineers have blanket control to define what is important enough to get interrupted and to prioritize fixing frequent offenders, then sure, it's a perverse incentive.

If, on the other hand, engineering doesn't have very much control over the roadmap and/or isn't allowed to make their own judgment calls about what really matters for pages, then the arrangement that OP describes makes a ton of sense—it gets gets pages onto the budget as a separate line item, which is a good way to get the people who are really in charge on board with investing in permanent fixes.
"Clearly not North America"
A prior procedure going against you will not help your chances even if it was arbitration.
You have one counter example. How many 0.1 programmers are there using a debugger to blindly change values in the program in the hope it fixes the bug?

I've seen dozens.
Ah, I used to be that. Now I start gazillions and finish very few. I think it's related to the shift from primarily print books too primarily ebooks. And also how I've been getting into more social media after trying out Mastodon.
Looking at the history of science, technology actually seems pretty good at disrupting and replacing the controlling class. The Renaissance led to the general irrelevancy of the hereditary nobility across most of Europe; the industrial revolution led to the irrelevance of the landed plantation class in the U.S. and the landed gentry in Europe. This is not just a matter of the leaders of the technology revolution being accepted into the existing aristocracy; instead, there's often a series of wars and revolutions where the controlling class of the new technology replaces and then subverts the controlling class of the old order, usually bringing their particular culture and class markers with it.

What technology can't do is get rid of power structures entirely. There will still be a controlling class. It just will be made up with different people.
Not behaving in such a way that will cause people to avoid you in the future isn't about ethics. It's about reputation.
Citation needed, but of course you can’t provide those numbers. Did the republicans also have higher birth rates, and managed to grow a new batch in time to win the 2024 election?
I think you may be making assumption: that the feedback you are trying to give is clear, articulate, and constructive. When speaking to someone significantly more senior than you it’s entire possible that your feedback may not be.

And that is really the point of the post. Here is advice on how to make sure your point is clear, articulate, and constructive.

As someone becomes more senior 2 things happen:

1. They acquire more authority
2. They have more demands on their time.

In these situations, you need to work to make sure you are communicating what you intended to communicate. That requires effort.

I wouldn’t view this advice as “how to deal with fragile egos”, but instead would view it as “how to make sure you are not misunderstood when having critical conversations with high stakes”.

In that regard it is good advice.
> I don't see the failure in Twitter. It's a platform capable of influencing elections, that's definitely worth more than people think.

In a functioning democracy, every platform influences elections. Twitter isn't special in this regard.

> Advertisers want control

They want things that don't actively damage their brands. That's not the same thing.

> Why do you think You tube removed the downvote counter?

My guess is "seeing downvotes lead to less engagement". But as I've not seen the discussion, that's a guess.

> If crowds of people are allowed to freely light a brand on fire on Twitter, why would they pay to advertise there?

They could do that before he bought it.

> Meta paid like 22 Billion for WhatsApp which is hardly bringing in revenue.

The actual revenue is not published, but is claimed to be at least $1 billion/year based on the preceeding quarter:

"""Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp's vice president of product, told the Financial Times in late September 2024, that "paid messaging is a bit earlier in the journey, but it's also doing well, and we've passed a $1 billion run rate."""" - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04091...

That said, nobody's going around saying "gosh what a great investment decision by Zuckerberg, he nailed this one", if they're saying anything at all it's usually along the lines of "huh, is this a monopoly issue?"
Mail in ballots were discarded by liberal Personal Representatives!!1!i!!
It certainly should be the most difficult engineering on the planet, yes… but IME the standards for quality are so low that it’s a pretty easy gig. You’re expected to slap together stuff that barely works and fix things later. That’s now how any other engineering discipline works, or at least not nearly to the same degree. Also it’s hard to observe how hacky software is from the outside, so it’s easy to get away with a terrible mess of code that would nauseate anyone who looked at it. Most of the time management doesn’t even care.

Watching Practical Engineering on YouTube is a pretty illuminating experience for me as it as it shows the extreme care that goes into projects from the outset, how much planning is involved, how much we’ve learned from centuries of experience building things, and how even despite all of this, things can still fail spectacularly. And when it does, there are independent reports done by thorough investigators, who find the real root causes and carry the knowledge forward for future projects. It makes me sad that Software isn’t treated this way. Yes, we get things off the ground fast, but we don’t learn from our mistakes, we don’t conduct thorough investigations into failures, and often people just release things and move on to the next job.

Software may be a more complicated and “difficult” discipline but it sure isn’t treated like it.
Haha, apologies, you are correct.
Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet monopoly you've never heard of
Take random bytes from /dev/urandom, encrypt it. There is no way any compressor can reduce the size of that file. I'm pretty sure there is no way the second player can win this game. Actually, the encryption part isn't even necessary. There is no compressor that can reduce the size of a random stream of bytes.
The technical details of the reverse engineering are from last year (1) (or here (2) directly), this post is just regarding the announcement of a big fine, and some rambling.

[1] - https://reversing.works/posts/2023/12/mobile-reverse-enginee...

[2] - https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12133-mobile_reverse_engineering...
This is a bit disingenuous, don't you think? There's technically a spectrum from low-level to high-level code, but in practice it's not too difficult to set a limit on how far down the stack you're willing to go while building. Writing a new testing framework is qualitatively different from writing a new OS or filesystem, and you know it just as well as everyone else does.
Russia officially built only one SSJ in 2024 – RA-89192. But in fact it was originally built in 2022 and it is probably the last SSJ-100 ever produced.
Is there any more information about this solution?
That's not true, I definitely make the same money remotely that I would make anywhere else. Full remote companies don't care where you live and pay just as much as RTO places, often more.
I self-host Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/). I think it will do everything you want (and more). The web UI is fine, and the Android app is great. It's actively developed, has been around for over a decade (I have been using it since Google Reader shut down) and has been super stable.

I guess the only thing it doesn't have that a SaaS offering could do would be some sort of recommendation engine (which I have no interest in).
In the VHS and DVD days it was common for people to have large video collections that cost them thousands of dollars to obtain; as I said, I personally have probably spent a few thousand on music in my lifetime.

Artists - and even movie studios - do deserve to get paid. I have no qualms with paying them so long as the arrangement is reasonable. Paying for downloads that I actually own is reasonable; streaming is not.

As for everyone else... I could pirate my music too. But I don't because I can afford it, so I should pay for it.
Thank you for sharing! Do you have any state of the art project or article or pattern etc... I should start diving into?
Do rocket jumps and strafing count? :)

I’ll credit Quake for helping/exposing me to networking, filesystems, and shaders at a young age - one of the few games that truly encouraged (à la Quake Console) making modifications and setting booleans to configure settings. That was enough at the time to encourage me to teach myself JavaScript, PHP, and SQL - as I had some web projects in mind that I needed to execute on for the Quake clan I founded. This later became freelance, which later became a side gig through school. I was also grateful for the various sponsorships and earnings at the time so I could keep my equipment up to date and pay for storage.

Fast forward a bit, and I’ve mostly worked in SecEng at a number of great companies, most of them popular FinTech and FAANGs..I’m extremely fortunate and have been able to work at all my favorite companies. I’d like to think at minimum, Quake prepared me professionally be meticulous in my craft, study human pattern behaviors, and know when to take risk.

Lastly, I can (hopefully) better answer your question in a few years as I am just now working through switching careers completely to become a Motion Designer. There’s something extremely appealing to me to be able to work with 3D + Engineering, while still being able to solve problems AND feel creative at the same time.

..maybe this desire stems from Quake, maybe not. Either way, Quake has a permanent location in my heart.
> If we do this outside the BT host, we probably need changes to the operating systems at least to handle how we're going to hand-off the state of the bluetooth stack when the OS takes control.

During the CSR hid2hci era, the adapter would just remember the last N pairings, since a sufficiently smart adapter can technically just store the keys used by the host when it tries to pair, then "impersonate" the host during the HCI part.
Absolutely worse if RFK Jr.'s nomination makes it through Congress. I know career staff can take their time making changes the CDC head wants, but they can only be so slow in the face of pressure from the agency director and president.
Not op, but:

In this cohort study evaluating 538 159 deaths in individuals aged 25 years and older in Florida and Ohio between March 2020 and December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before. These differences were concentrated in counties with lower vaccination rates, and primarily noted in voters residing in Ohio.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
What low turnout? Both presidential candidates received more votes than anyone had ever received prior to that.
There is a problem insofar that software engineering somewhat exists, but it's more like CS for dummies. I think it's important that it actually teaches at a high intellectual level, just about something different. Let the students write an operating system, not some typical "manageable student task" bullshit. I've had an exchange semester in Oslo where they asked their students to do just that. First exercise: bootloader in assembly, second exercise: task switcher, third exercise: virtual memory, fourth exercise: filesystem - etc. It might have been one or two weeks per exercise, not sure. I actually failed most of the later exercises due to "other priorities", but I strongly felt that they were doing it right.
The exercises were of course simplified, but a bootloader is a bootloader, task switching is task switching, virtual memory is virtual memory... no flourishes and some fixed buffer sizes etc, but the basics were there.
> It may have some good reasons behind given war they wage on Lebanon

The day after Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, Lebanon (well, Hezbollah) stepped up their rocket attacks on Israel. Israel had to evacuate the entire north of the country, so that combined with the evacuated people from the Gaza area means something like 200,000 internally displaced Israelis right now. Hezbollah has killed dozens of citizen across the border, most prominently 12 children playing soccer a few months ago. They bombed two kindergartens in Israel this past week.
Putting the "with not of" part aside, in this particular case the child is positive for other respiratory viruses. Given that there wasn't much H5 present and the CDC release says as much, the other respiratory virus(es) found would be a more likely explanation for their illness than H5.

This doesn't say anything about the virulence or likelihood of serious illness in H5 generally, just here. We really don't know overall yet.
I'm torn. I think having a stated code of conduct is fine. I also think moderation is good. Works well here, as an example. But, it is done very directly here with no hiding behind process.

I get that things can be harder in other context. But will never agree with personal messages on behalf of a committee, I don't think.

And for the apologies, that is silly. Would be akin to someone getting a citation being responsible to say sorry. Ideally, you want people to feel the need to do that on their own. At young ages, it is understandable to try and teach the formalities of apologies. But, as a formal policy, it robs apologies of any real meaning.
I am harmed continiously by the invasion of my private life ,conducted in my own home, or work place, and this is while not useing any google products by choice.Time,economic limitations, and gaps in utilities, such as "The Nova Scotia Map Book", which was published and contained every named street in Nova Scotia, large heavy, but complete.It is no longer published, and the official tourist hanf out map of Nova Scotia, has a disclaimer, stating that any inacuracies, should be taken up with, google.
I refuse to be tracted and fed adds, but indpite of all efforts, I am bombarded with targeted adds every time I am forced to use an "on label" browser.
I find that it has become so invasive that I will now buy a phone that will be set up.to do those nesescary things, but
will have nothing personal on it, or be used for general browsing,ever.
So three phones, #1 with massive data and
calling package and very minimal other stuff #2 with some data, and calling, but lots of open source apps, and soon #3 which will have minimal data and phone but
hold the big tech apps that I wish to contain.Also looking at a test phone for eos, and other android based os's that ditch google completely, or sort of more
polished attempts to help choose my own feed.
Wastewater detection is showing H5 bird flu all over California: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/wwd-h5.html

That's suggestive there are far more than the 29 reported California cases - with cases generally remaining mild enough to earn no special attention over routine respiratory infections.
Before social media, you needed some web development skills to have a voice. Maybe that was a beneficial speed bump.
> What is "good speech" and what is "bad speech" for you? Let me guess, "good speech" is the opinions you agree with and "bad speech" is the opinions you disagree with?

What happens if this pseudocode is run, targeting your account?

while True:
requests.post(api_url, json={"username": "@Cumpiler69", "message": "hello"})

Answer: you can't see any other content because you're jammed with someone else's absolute freedom to speak to you.

Signal, noise.

Signal keeps you engaged, noise doesn't. What counts as which depends on the person, but you can't function in an environment that allows anything.

Thing is, the exact thing that makes social networks useful, that it's the edges not the nodes, means it is very easy to be jammed by actual humans and not just stupid scripts like the one above.

Ironically, very simple things like I've just shown you, are also how propaganda works: jam people's perception by overloading them with The Message. And any attempt to be "absolutist" about free speech, if he really was (which he isn't really despite what he says), is just a power vacuum into which those that seek power can project their propaganda.

There's no fancy good way out with this, for anyone, much as I'd like there to be. There's no "your side or my side" distinction here, nor would there be if the world were really so parochial as US politics.
The first half of the title is pretty well-covered, but it seems like at no point does the author even explain what they mean by the term "infrastructure of energy," right? I assume they're not talking about electrical substations
The odds of LLMs being used to produce content on HN is a number approaching 100%.

The odds of LLMs being trained / queried against data scraped from HN or HNSearch is even closer to 100%.

I know you don't like the "LLMs are allowed..." part, but they're here and they literally cannot be gotten rid of. However, this rule,

> As soon as possible, people should be made aware if they are interacting with, or their activity is being seen by, a LLM. Consider using line prefixes, channel topics, or channel entry messages.

Could be something that is strongly encouraged and helpful, and possibly the "good" LLM users would follow it.
Very cool that this would be on the front page after I picked up a Pentium-75 from my local recycler today, it's an SX969. I can hold this chip in my hand and look up to see Ken's die shots. So cool! The ceramic package these Pentiums came in are pretty unique as well - it kind of sounds like setting a piece of glass down when I set the CPU on my desk.
The original email thread was from 2001, and it gets posted to HN periodically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=patrickcraig.co.uk

For another compression challenge that is still ongoing, try "500000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge" (also known as "Hutter Prize"):

http://prize.hutter1.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502329 - Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge (2023-09-13, 215 comments)
> Not least because in academia, either you teach, or you do research. You can't do both.

This is not true in general. In NZ, most academic positions are 40% research, 40% teaching, and 20% admin. Lecturers, distinguished professors, and everyone in between. Big research grants can provide temporary buy-out of some teaching, but it's explicitly part of the role, and not often reduced completely for long. Maybe 10% of academic roles at my university don't include research.
Syria has been bombed far more by the US and Turkey than Israel, and a significant area is currently being occupied by Turkey. Israel is barely a player in this conflict and is just striking the occasional tactical or strategic target (like random factions attacking Israel, IRGC or Hezbollah leadership).

But the answer is that there's really not much bombing at this point. A bigger problem for Syria is the multi-faction conflict on the ground, of which Hezbollah was one of the biggest factions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war#Belligerents
I don't want to rebut anything you say, but I will add one observation.

> I think that's highly unusual in a social environment

Agreed, but in my experience of startups particularly, this becomes more commonplace with older founders. It can also form the basis of an high-performance enclave within otherwise ossified large companies/institutions; these tend to get dragged down by the mediocrity police after a few years, but in the meantime you can get some good stuff done.

Whether the music industry analogy is valid may be debatable, but I've had the privilege of seeing it first-hand, music was/is the family business, I grew up knocking around recording studios. So this mindset is engraved on my expectations of all talent-based professions, and I try to remember it whenever I fail to be humble.
As the partner of a critical care nurse during COVID-19, the perception gulf between "everyone" and "frontline medical workers" was mind-boggling vast.

The former didn't see people on ventilators and dying, but yet still had strong opinions about how serious it was or wasn't.

The latter went into work every day and saw the flood of critical patients, then finally went out after lockdown and heard about how it was an imaginary pandemic.

... I wonder why we had so many nurses leave the profession?
> Assad has killed about half a million Syrians already in the civil war.

How can that be true? Western academics protest when so many people are killed. The Gaza health ministry itself claims less that 1/10 of that number, and look at how many protests and riots are in the US right now. If Syria really had half a million dead you'd see the academics rioting about that.
I read „decompressor and compressed file”, not „fileS”. There is only one person correct here
I did not want to make it too technical, so "Abjad" falls under "alphabets in the wider sense" and "Abugida" under "mixed forms". My comment was based on the assumption that the article in question does not necessarily refer to an alphabet in the strict sense. To make this clear, I did not think it was necessary to go into too much detail.
> None of the sanctions levied against the USSR were lifted

It's a lie. Sanctions actually began to be lifted in 1989 (Jews were finally allowed to emigrate) when we received 80486 processors. In 1990, we got our first SS7 switches and equipment for the first two mobile networks. It was a big thing.

> North Korea is doing better
Too bad they are not allowed to tell this here, because internet access is available only to several hundreds people :)

> Iran is more modern, developed and free than any other middle eastern country. (That includes Israel.)
Nice joke :)
The last paragraph of the article seems out of place:

State transportation officials are also struggling with fake license plates. The company that operates automated enforcement cameras on a growing number of Colorado’s toll lanes has recorded dozens of false license plates with words like “T1RESLYR” on them.

What does this have to do with the fake signs? And what "word" is "T1RESLYR"? My best guess would be it's supposed to be read as "tire slayer", but I'm not sure why this is the chosen example. Is this an AI generated article, or just sloppy?
Interval tree clocks seem really cool, and I’d love to use them for something. But unfortunately I can’t think of a way to reliably have a system automatically subdivide an interval to bring new servers up without getting pathological behaviour sometimes. Or, if an identifier (interval) goes offline indefinitely, I can’t think of any good way to clear it.

In practice, vector clocks / version vectors built using uuid identifiers for machines seem easier to work with, and they’re very predictable. Slightly less efficient - but versions take up a tiny percentage of network traffic and disk space that I don’t think it matters.

I really want to use interval tree clocks for something. It’s such a cool algorithm. But I don’t know what I’d use them for - beyond maybe a set of manually provisioned servers syncing data or something.
Sorry, am I missing something? "Topology" here just seems to mean connectivity, and I can't even tell why they have a notion of 3x3 connectivity-matrix structure. A whole lot of this seems under-explained.
The parent said “normal people”; that’s the majority, by definition. That’s what “most people” is.