skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The system does know who I am: the command is coming from me. An attacker doesn't need to elevate privileges to compromise me: he can steal whatever he needs without becoming root. He can replace sudo and steal my password too.

The whole concept of my personal user account needing to elevate to root to make "system" changes is a relict of long-gone days of BBSes, shell accounts, and time sharing. These days, we should minimize friction between the user (almost always singular) and operation of his system. Apps, not users, should be sandboxed.

I think this is another one of those paradigm shifts accomplished only after a lot of people retire.
In German it happens even more quickly.
We had a place sort of like this in my hometown. They were only open for lunch on weekdays and you could show up and get a takeout box of whatever they chose to cook that day for a fixed price.
Is there any actual content? The entire page is ads except a small bit of text saying that Amazon workers are expected to strike.
Non-paywalled version on one of the authors' site:

https://www.liyiwei.org/papers/noise-sig12/
Of course. There's all kinds of propaganda (and depending on where you stand, some propaganda is good and other propaganda is bad), and not one person is immune. But for the sake of this discussion, there are some extra factors to consider:

* Those promoting copyright expansion or the status quo have significant amounts of money; those criticizing it mostly do not (counting groups with real principles, anyway)

* It is suspicious for people who have no personal interest in extended copyright to excessively favor it.
> This year’s “Make Amazon Pay Day” is the fifth year demonstrations have been held over the holiday weekend.

It seems this happens quite often.
I occasionally check on Star Citizen "development" just to look at the drama, and some of the stuff they're selling is straight-up obscene. There are ship packs that cost literally tens of thousands of USD (IIRC the most expensive one (legatus pack) is ~50k USD), and you have to have already bought thousands of dollars worth before you're allowed to buy it.

Chris Roberts might be a huge con artist, but there's no doubt he's mastered the art of milking gullible whales for all of their cash.

Also, I always laugh when I see people talking about buying copies of Star Citizen for their kids so they can play together when the kid grows up. Seems pretty unlikely that the game will be out by then, given they've spent 10+ years with no meaningful progress.
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What a great piece of journalism:

> (WFXR) – Amazon worker strike expected.
Brain rot isn't pc already? I may be in some trouble..
I completely disagree. The previous comment's idea is better: just charge fees. The government shouldn't be worried about exactly how profitable something is, because you can argue that too many ways (see Hollywood accounting). It's too easy for large corporations to invent "creative accounting" tricks, and just basing things on revenue penalizes any company that invests larger amounts of money in ventures that have lower profit margins (e.g. doing high-quality movie production with physical models, on-location shooting, etc. instead of just using some crappy AI to generate everything).

With exponentially increasing fees, the copyright holder can decide for themselves if it's economically worthwhile to pay the renewal fees or release it into the public domain. If the cost to extend copyright another 5 years after 50+ years is $1B, for instance, very few copyright holders will bother with that unless it's a highly profitable property.
Bring back 4GLs like Clipper / dBase etc
Remote identity only works well when paired with cloud storage; otherwise, you have a recipe for confusion. It works for game consoles because the scope of what needs to be stored in the cloud per-user is reasonably limited. It is problematic for PCs because the remote identity service is free but the free tiers of OneDrive, iCloud, etc. are too limited to actually hold all of the user's data, and it's hard to clearly delineate what is or isn't synced when taking a mixed approach. Even smartphones have these problems, usually around text messages and full-resolution photos.

It's much better for users to stick with a solution that's simple enough for non-technical users to have a chance of forming an accurate mental model and and have correct expectations about the availability and safety of their data. But that approach doesn't make it as easy to bundle and upsell subscription services, so that's not the usage model commercial operating systems try to promote.
A portemanteau?
Manually updating k8s clusters is a huge tradeoff. I can’t imagine doing that to save a couple bucks unless I was desperate
An AI buddy engages you in natural conversation, asking thoughtful questions about your day and emotions. It helps guide your reflection process and makes journaling feel like chatting with a friend. Chats are then automatically summarized into a journal entry
I agree that multi-user should go away for modern server workloads, however, users are used as a blast door. Mainly because Linux's security model is lacking. systemd for example commonly runs services under separate users to make it more difficult for a compromised application to elevate privileges. Android does something similar AFAIK.

Users should have never became a security boundary to isolate applications, but they unfortunately have, and there's not really an alternative.
We use sheets all the time at work for all sorts of processes, essentially an internal tool. But it doesn't really even need code, the human is the code. I had to strongly suggest to some of our TPMs and actually a principal in the last year that no they didn't need a tool, they just needed a spreadsheet. But this is so low code that people likely don't even think of it as a low code solution, it's just a spreadsheet.

That said other than managing and sorting lists of work to do, I break the limits on sheets and excel all the time so for anything with customer scale data I can't use it.
Not only is this a different name, but that was an attempt to essentially expropriate Markdown. This is nothing even close to that.
Slightly better source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/amazon-strike-black-friday-c...
For shared local usage or "pet" (as opposed to cattle) servers I'd agree, and in fact this is close to what Linux was designed for, since I'd consider the multiplexing lab server to also be a semi-trusted environment.

I'm referring more to how Linux is used in vast pools of "cattle" servers in Cloud, locally by eg one main user (who doesn't need multi-user but probably still needs some notion of "admin" and per-program permissions), or in a corporate setting (where the actual identity system is managed remotely). This is probably >99% of Linux environments.
Why complicate things and allow for even more creative accounting? Elevating flat fees give you a term that is inversely proportional to revenue. With flat exponential fees, term is logarithmic in revenue.
There is a video that plays.

Website appears to be for a Local TV Station. They are notorious for just showing videos.
I like all these. For the side projects I'd add open source projects. Start with the libraries and tools you use in your day job since it's easier to find things that need fixing/improving in them as compared to something you've never used. Go to their GitHub, browser their issues, pull down the code and mess with a local copy in your work.
I don't get the opposition to submodule. imho it's fine, there are limited options with it, so limited chance it may go wrong.

some suggested package manager, which imho is another layer of dependency, e.g. in Python, it always takes me some extra seconds to figure out which package manager I'm supposed to use, and it's constantly evolving.

end of day it's up to which one you are most familiar with.
Not sure why you're downvoted. This is one of the most objectively true things said here. CGI was pretty crappy for at least the first few decades of its existence. Even aspects of the animation in Toy Story really show that film's age. I remember realizing that in the early 2000's. Most people either forgot or didn't even experience the early days of CGI and would consider much of it to be nightmare fuel today.

AI is pretty clearly advancing orders of magnitude faster than CGI has. Just because it sucks now doesn't mean it's going to suck in another 5 years.
Hooks are awful. They’re a faux-functional interface, accessing implicit local state, with so much magic going on behind the scenes that it’s obscene. At least in class component days it was obvious which components were stateful. Now you’ve got to remember which magic hook incantation is causing your “functional” component to improperly cache state and why. I cannot for the life of me see it as an improvement in any way other than “it looks nicer,” which aligns with the top-level parent’s point.

Anyway I think react in general is kind of terrible. I’ve worked at three places whereFE teams made a react codebase that wound up being so scary and difficult to work in that essentially no one would touch it, until it eventually got rewritten. Two of those just rewrote it in react again, hoping that whatever faddish state library would save them from themselves. At the third, they rewrote it in svelte, which went much better. At least for me as someone who only writes FE code when I have to, svelte is much more comprehensible and sensible.
Years later: how to successfully focus textboxes in iOS Safari
The author also said to internalise it, but the simple fact is that in a proof-y math test you can't just say "well it should converge if everything is well behaved", the edge cases matter and definitions set the boundaries.
Tomorrow monday, the system will post 3 automatic post about jobs. Take a alook there and you may post in the correct one.

You can peek the last months editions https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I've thought of something similar, maybe call it "techbro poverty"

It's sort of like chesterton's fence + branding + fashion + stupid optimization giving us dystopian product design that any normal engineer understands is stupid.

There are lots of examples of this:

- remote controls with terrible play pause skip buttons, but big oversized dedicated buttons for some product they want you to use.

- cars with no dashboard, no dedicated buttons, no turn signal stalks and everything on the touchscreen

- laptops with no ports and terrible flat, unsculpted keyboards.

- phones with no dedicated buttons, or buttons you can only dedicate to payment systems

I'm sure there are tons more of these.
Same here. I’ve basically made my career as a rails developer and it’s never taken me very long to figure out the many applications I’ve worked with. Some of them are quite complicated.

Some of the older stuff built around rails overdid the meta-programming. Makes unraveling things a little more difficult, but you generally know where to look.

And every time I see a nontrivial state machine using a state machine gem, I know I’m in for a world of hurt. But I know exactly what mistakes I will be fixing. :)
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the linked page is not a text article, its actually an AUTOPLAYING VIDEO for a small news station. There is not actual text content
Please try :)
Awesome to see, I’ve been writing a lot of rust lately and it’s just a pure joy
It seems like they provided a decent bug report.

Lots of vendors dismiss support issues without strong data. But if you go to the length of decoding the request, outlining the steps to reproduce etc you can have a much faster experience. Especially with network vendors where 99%+ of their support workload is dealing with client or reseller misconfiguration.

Its maybe a bit trumped up, it smells a bit like MSP marketing but its also at least a little bit warranted?

Actually I was in a similar place with Palo 24 months or so ago, and despite handing them everything they could possibly expect they handed us a workaround (Just bounce your vpn sessions manually when they fail) instead of issuing a patch. However there was a strong argument there that our customer was a bit too dedicated to their wacky vpn architecture and should be doing things differently. Really the kudos here is getting the vendor to perform which I feel is a huge skill these days.
Global Value of Music Copyright soars to $45.5B, now worth more than cinema
Sure but how long did it take to compile
This was a polite way of me telling you that I don't think that's normal, and that quoting the bathtub max capacity is fairly meaningless.
The problem with "just charge fees" is that it wastes an excellent opportunity to make the copyright system more useful for individual authors and artists, and instead strengthens the status quo with even more incentives to consolidate copyright powers under mega-corporations. Long before the fees got high enough to incentivize a corporation to abandon a work's copyright to the public domain, they would force authors to sell out to a corporation in return for a share of future earnings, rather than accept an immediate loss of all royalties.
A work-specific email address and PGP key.
How does this compare to Toyota's planetary gear CVT (used in all of their hybrids)?
That isn't laundering. In fact I think its really bad for banks to be the judge whether customers are doing illegal work eg https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/business/banks-accounts-c.... They shouldn't have that power, it should be up to the courts.
Something to view ALL pull requests that i need to review, across repos?
You can play this "style" of game in Project Reality, albeit against US Marines in Fallujah.
It is a very fun map and led to other less COD like games such as Hell Let Loose and Squad etc.
I mean is it so far from possibility?
Any thoughts/feelings about Talos vs Bottlerocket?
Append-only is a very convenient corner case for skiplists to optimize. I call it "skiplogs" because it looks really different from the general case. An average node can be 3 bytes, for example.
It's a claim of selective enforcement. Which is rather different from actual "you need to eat your vegetables because there are starving children in Africa" whataboutism.
Yes, that is definitely a limited understanding.
"This incident will be reported"

Surely they were thinking at the time that the user was a student.
Access was so good. I've been trying to find something half as good for years since it died.
actually that is false. ;)

A family photo needs simple horizontal framing.

A social media photo needs to be shot from above to capture full lips and exaggerated chest.

A CEO PR photo needs to be shot from slightly below as the subject stares out into the "future" ("vision" while disclaiming that forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties)
Guard conditions, assertions, constraints and tests are dynamic limits on code and are critical to maintain quality despite code rot and drift from changes.

Static constraints like types can also be also good, where types are good.

I applaud anyone who advocates to focus on the unhappy path over the happy path.

On a side note 25 years ago was the end of the dot.com and the height of the y2k scam and I have never seen developers more burnt out than then; but that’s because I was just starting my career then. I don’t know about previous eras like the 89 crash and recession.

I am not sure why the OP has rose coloured glasses of the past. But it’s always good to treat history with a little more interest.
On the topic of brain rot, content creators with longer form videos often include a video playing in the background which has no relevancy to the narrated content.

The video itself isn’t necessarily brain rot content but rather a side effect of a majority of people’s short attention spans.

In some cases, the content can include relevant video content but split viewed with something irrelevant (ie, random subway surfers gameplay). It’s quite annoying and distracting for me.
Can't forget video games, video game streamers, variety podcasters, pornography, sports tv and sports commentary, edutainment, documentaries, cartoons, comics, fanfic, romance novels, action movies, Vince Flynn books, political masterbation such as Last Week Tonight and Sean Hannity, news farms like NYT and WSJ, or smoking weed.

You chose a cross-section of content that that is universally derided by the average HN user; if you're not willing to use the front facing camera you're just taking potshots at your outgroup.
It should absolutely be "brainrot"!
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When you say, "we" who do you mean? Are the magazines particularly rare?
The extent to which an individual or group has "rights" is defined by its ability to remove value. This can come in the form of physical violence, economic boycott, legal attacks, social ostracism, etc.

Women, minorities, the poor, children, etc have fewer "rights" on average, sometimes explicitly so in some cultures. This is not because of the value they add, which is enormous, but because of the value they can choose to withhold, which is comparatively limited.
> far beyond their expertise

if COVID19 taught us anything is that 'experts' have no clue what they are talking about
Could you give some examples of what the use cases are where Rails makes it hard to stray from the beaten path?
Sometimes they are. I've got emails delivered to M$. They are the worst of the lot, though.
One thing you might be overlooking is that there are often substitutes for the pirated products.

For example back when Photoshop was several hundred dollars a lot of people who could not afford that pirated it to do home and hobbyist photo editing. If Photoshop had not been able to be pirated those people would not have bought it, so that piracy did indeed not reduce Adobe's income.

However there were also programs such as Pixelmator that were more than an order of magnitude cheaper than Photoshop and could do everything those people were using Photoshop for. If Photoshop could not be pirated some of those people would have bought those other programs.
Space is arguably the absence of a character. It is only a character for creating encoding standards in computing systems (*or actually since the typewriters).
IC Light – Shade Generation Model
Tesla has been slow to make its chargers accessible to other EVs
Some amazing works of literature in that list.
The slop is cheap to produce and some people watch it. Slop is good business!
My coworker used to add `assert False`s into the view so that, when the stacktrace info page comes up (Django still has these, right?), you would have access to all the locals. It's been a while since I've used Django for a project, and I am still on-the-fence about such usage lol. But it worked.
For those who were wondering what VRM stands for it's Virtual Resource Manager. I found a quick introduction to it[0]. It says it was programmed in PL.8.

[0] https://ardent-tool.com/615x/The_Virtual_Resource_Manager.pd...
Presumably you could set up "just charge fees" to have a grace period of 3-5 years to register your copyright (and pay any back fees) if you happen to want to enforce the copyright after that time.

It's also possible that you could set up a smaller fee for a news article, etc.

There are lots of implementation details that make "just charge fees" work.
No details on which workers are striking or what for here, if that's what others are looking for (it's what I'm looking for).
> I wonder if a GDPR nation has made a ruling on the extent of data erasure?

My understanding (based on a couple random conversations, take it with a grain of salt) is that at least some entities are taking the sheer difficulty of true compliance with the letter of the law to imply that softer deletion methods have to be reasonably acceptable, and their stance is basically "if you disagree, well, take us to court and we'll figure it out."
maybe there's a quick way to do this but i would like a way to find a git commit, and trace it to the people that approved a PR that got it into the default branch.

it'd make my life easier to know who let the bug into prod
I thought you only used hyphens in German in exceptional circumstances like proper names in compounds? Karl-Marx-Allee etc.
I've never operated a kubernetes cluster except for a toy dev cluster for reproducing support issues.

One day it broke because of something to do with certificates (not that it was easy to determine the underlying problem). There was plenty of information online about which incantations were necessary to get it working again, but instead I nuked it from orbit and rebuilt the cluster. From then on I did this every few weeks.

A real kubernetes operator would have tooling in place to automatically upgrade certs and who knows what else. I imagine a company would have to pay such an operator.
Or, you could use Elixir/Phoenix, which has Flame. *hint hint*
It's definitely "brainrot" scrolling through the thumbnails on [1] I see "brain rot" exactly 0 times.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brainrot
The committee had nothing to do with this. It was his sponsoring organization.
True, and I admit I didn't think that was a literal requirement, more so just the availability of "some" mGig or 10G ports. What would the use case be for 24px2.5G switches, you think? They seem rare.

The "home network with a NAS" is typically served with a small 4-8p 10G, while the 2.5/5G switches (particularly high density ones) are more of a bridge for orgs that have a lot of AP density and to get more out of that physical cable plant as they upgrade to WiFi 6e/7 devices on those existing wires. Gaming motherboards ship with up to 2.5/5, but again, how many switchports are needed for the SOHO market, especially when users can chain a few smaller switches together?

The price point for mostly/full mGig switches is almost an order of magnitude over what the prosumer/SOHO space prices at. UI offers a 48p but with only 16x2.5 ports at $1300. Cisco Meraki has 48p models with full mGig but that's $7-10k based on Google, and now you're out of prosumer/SOHO and squarely in enterprise platforms.

Ultimately, I do think such switches will pop up, but it'll be a little in the future as those enterprise dollars drive the cost of chipsets and transceivers down. Just not there yet to have that density at SOHO prices.
> personally hope that the Linux kernel never adopts any RAII, as I already have to waste way too much time for other slow software to load.

The only irrelevant example given is that of a poorly written app (Visual Studio) when discussing GPU driver. So is the GPU driver written with RAII slow? Is there a faster non-RAII version?
I think there are multiple mechanisms by which genes "activate" and "deactivate", but one of them is methylation, which can to some extent be passed to offspring: this is studied as part of "epigenetics".
I'm more disappointed by someone who thinks that Rust macros are better than Zig comptime.

Rust macros are, IMO, one of the weakest parts of the language. Sure, you can do anything. To do so, you have to atomize down to lexical atoms, rearrange everything, and feed a new set of lexical atoms back into the stream. And to do so, you have to pull in a bunch of crates related to syntax analysis that should really be a fundamental part of the compiler and are welded to the specific Rust version. Bleargh!

Zig comptime has been a real breath of fresh air. It's great that it runs at compile time, and, if I need to debug it, I can generally force it to be runtime code. You write the same code you were going to write anyway without creating weird meta-languages that have a magic expansion phase that is impossible to debug.
There seems to be some people who really hate Generative AI and will call it out and complain wherever they see it.

eg somebody uses it to illustrate an article there will always be somebody who complains.

So anything that enough people see will generate at least one complaint.