skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are saying it was "botnet controllers" all the op said was "ddos tool on 4chan" - LOIC wasn't a "ddos" tool. it was a DoS tool. sub7 wasn't a ddos tool. BO wasn't a ddos tool. butttrumpet wasn't a ddos tool.

A "botnet controller" requires a botnet. The OP made malware. A program, when run, that would delete your files without permission.

merely having the thought of doing something illegal isn't illegal and afaik the catholics have the only guidelines on how to deal with illegal thoughts, and "delete all the files on their hard disk or otherwise corrupt their system" wasn't in the canon that i saw.
> iffy

You can just call it what it is and say Nazi salute.
I find you hard to take seriously
I played it with 3.5 and it was great. This isn't something o1 just picked up on.
Fair enough. So, the bottom line is that that type of journalism is much harder than just reporting what you can see through a camera lens or reported on state media.

I am always impressed by those embedded journalists. I mean, talk about guts.
Forget connecting world’s grids first the governments should connect national grids. Like in Germany and Norway north and south grids are disconnected contributing to fluctuating prices.
>I'm kind of surprised that they would park it next to other planes like that

The extreme zoom of the camera makes everything look close together. In reality it's probably quite far from most other planes.

>Especially with what appears to be no ground troops surrounding the plane.

Why would you have them stand outside to guard the plane when the airport is already fenced off, and has surveillance/security? Even if they do need people guarding it, it doesn't make sense to stand outside. Waiting inside or in a nearby SUV would be much more comfortable for the guards.
No, it's not a Russia specific problem, but Russia's issues are exacerbated because it doesn't have the same English literacy level of Western Europe and there is also not a robust Russian language media presence outside of Russia to serve as a counterbalance.

Contrast with Mandarin, where there are robust media systems in both the PRC and Taiwan. There is an alternative media source for those with the will to seek it out, and even if only a few people seek it out, that information diffuses.

This is why Russia doesn’t feel the need to censor the internet as aggressively as China or North Korea - language acts as a natural information barrier.
If you know the flight and the date and time you can easily pinpoint exactly where the plane was and where it was heading. Not incredibly challenging at that point to narrow in on roughly where the photos were taken from.
> But posting to YouTube shouldn't be someone's job.

Why not? Should they instead be kissing someone else's ass to get an unpaid internship at some lawyer firm? Aiming to get a stable job at one of the Big 4 accounting firms? Helping big fat cats get even fatter by working on VC? Toiling at some farm? Taking care of our kids at salaries that barely affords them to live close to where they teach?

No one is being forced to do YouTube videos, and if that's what they are preferring to do, maybe it is better than the alternatives?
Just because you don't understand the vetting doesn't mean it is not effective. Did you reach out to the CA Secretary of State's office regarding your concerns? If you communicated respectfully, I'm sure they would happily provide some reading materials.
It's not explicit in the directive, but it is right there in the working docs so it's pretty clearly a principle:

> the Working Party considers that first party analytics cookies are not likely to create a privacy risk when they are strictly limited to first party aggregated statistical purposes and when they are used by websites that already provide clear information about these cookies in their privacy policy as well as adequate privacy safeguards.
The amazing thing is that this should be a slam dunk. Wind, solar and batteries are getting radically cheaper. In the first half of 2024, something like 75% of Europe's electricity was low-carbon (50% renewables, 25% nuclear.) China's at something like 44% low-carbon for the first part of 2024. The tech is getting so much cheaper and it isn't even really about "low carbon" anymore so much as it is about "cheap abundant electricity."

Batteries are down to $66/kWh in China, for actual costed-out BESS projects. https://www.ess-news.com/2024/12/09/powerchina-receives-bids...

The nations that win this race will dominate the future. From a geopolitical perspective you either run this race to a future with abundant energy, or you become a second-tier power.
share more? like why do these animals in cages matter relative to other animals killed in cages one is directly responsible for
I’d love to see
Something like this ported to the esp32, maybe on the ttgo vga32 board or something. A basic GUI and shell type OS with SDcard, vga, sound, kb/mouse, wifi, Bluetooth. A modern Commodore-ish 64 experience, with WiFi printing (text only?), a lynx type browser, email, IRC, gopher, etc.
Certainly most of the ones with green names for whom a reply to me criticizing a big tech company or disavowing them in aggregate is among their first ten must be
Illuminating, and not in the way Hoffman thinks. The examples of AI improving your life are a joke, this is simply not a consumer product/tool.

Corporations and the military are the customers for AI, about ready for us all to stop pretending otherwise.
6k mortgage for a modest house in any decent area in US, 3k per kid private school, 3k other monthly expenses, 2k food: that’s already 17k/mo with just 2 kids. Plus vacations, plus setting aside at least a few thousand a month for retirement.

I can do jobs like this one but I can’t consider any job offers for less than 500k (total comp).

Are houses and private schools cheaper in London?
The FizzBuzz story did go down a rabbit hole, but this sort of TS type extravagance in small doses can help with maintainability. E.g., I wanted to enforce that the keys in a config object couldn’t have consecutive uppercase letters, because they would be automatically translated to camel case when looked up as environment variables (so awsAPIKey would become AWS_A_P_I_KEY, ugh). No need for a lint rule or whatever, you can do that with TS types in a few lines!
Every team thinks they are team humanity.
Ask HN: app.example.com vs. example.com/app for a browser based product?
I’m wondering if there are any particular pros or cons I may not be considering regarding deploying a browser based product on a subdomain versus a normal authenticated route.
Not even. Instagram photos are roughly 50kb-200kb for jpg’s.
If you take this idea of communication restrictions to the limit, you could imagine the guessers identifying N sets of cards by a single word each as they discuss their guess. The clue giver listens, then uses the clue that identifies the correct set of N cards.

You really just need an algorithm to generate unique sets of 8 or 9 from the whole board, and identifies those sets by a word.
I was going to say what I’m about to say as a reply to the parent, but then I saw your comment mentioning Japan.

The rooms in Clayton Bay Hotel in Hiroshima absolutely has a nice proper work desk and a work chair. So if anybody here is ever in Hiroshima Japan, you now know where to stay :)

Not sure if this applies to all room types though.

Disclaimer: I’m not related to that hotel in any way other than having stayed there one night some years ago.
Huh. The folks I know who work in circus are extremely creative, driven people, who often scrape by for years between gigs that pay decently. They're definitely not really in it for the money, though they do need to eat, and definitely aren't just taking orders. The ring leader is just another role...

And as for the bear, it doesn't get paid at all...
BS.

"Some are promoting the date January 29th as a day of protest."

Who? Is promoting Lunar (aka Chinese) New Year as a day of protest, I wonder?

This looks very much like Chinese propaganda to me.
As far as oligarchs go, you can do a lot worse than Michael Bloomberg I guess
No? A majority of couples today first meet via online dating.
The problem is that adjusting the base selects for two kinds of people:

1. People who have come across that trick before.

2. People who have a lightbulb moment in the 45 minutes of the interview.

Now, given that someone has passed the test, what is the probability that it is because of 1 or 2? The VAST majority who pass the test will fall into category 1.

The test manages to have both low sensitivity and low specificity. Well done!

Most likely, the interviewers are completely unaware that the solution is only obvious to their uncurious minds because someone else told them the answer. They don’t appear to have an understanding of where quantum-leap ideas come from, or how to foster them.
> it's really not about blue cities or red states

Once he starts the raids in the red states, maybe that will be true. Right now he’s just attacking the blue states.
This is dumb; I love it.
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so one needs to pay for a cloudflare account for this to work?
I don't think you'd really like to see any code like that in production. The point of an interview is to demonstrate your talents as they relate to the job. While fiddling with types is fun, it is not really relevant and is the exact opposite of what you should be doing in a real codebase. The person in this interview chose to do something silly to show off. They could have demonstrated their actual TS knowledge but instead they chose to write something totally unreadable after the interviewer asked them not to once, then made a specific rule which is basically telling them to drop the silly type stuff and just write normal code. If you really wanted the job, would you behave like that in the interview?
Written records of events didn’t start everywhere as soon as the first group invented writing.

More relevant when considering the criteria of well documented evidence, a hypothetical ship on an ocean voyage in 1500 is likely to just disappear. Let alone a random West African goat herder in 2200BCE.
We also shifted largely into a service based economy, shutdown a lot of mines and mills (for better or for worse) which were primarily more north based.

More than 2/3rds of my graduating physics class went straight into banking, as there was no relevant industry to pick them up... and as someone with several postdoctoral degrees, yet no house or meaningful assets... who could blame them for going into banking in this large miserable sprawl of a city utterly devoted to it?
> my day job, wherein we run scores of Spring Boot apps written in Java 8 that have pages of vulnerabilities from tens of dozens of dependencies, which are not easy to update because updating one library necessitates updating many other libraries, and oh my goodness, the transitive dependencies.

At my job we have a fairly strict static analysis policy and starting in April it is going to get even more strict.

Have you looked at https://docs.openrewrite.org/ to automatically upgrade your dependencies?

I just migrated from Java 8, Spring Boot2 and Swagger to Java 17, Spring Boot 3.3 and OpenApi 3. It was pretty painless.

Now, I still have update some dependencies and transient dependencies but the biggest hurdles were taken care of by the migrations.
Having lived in / visited a few dozen cities in Europe, I actually think trams are generally preferable to subways. In places with both, I tend to use the trams almost exclusively.

A hop on, hop off tram system is much quicker and efficient than going into a subway station, then back up, etc. At least if you aren’t going entirely across town.
From the regular images, probably not a lot. But if you see a plane crossing in front of the moon or the sun, you could determine a ground track of the shadow of the plane. If you get that with two different planes, you probably have a pretty accurate position (a few hundred meters). Combined with the image of the setup, showing a balcony, someone could probably find the exact location.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Yeah I thought this was some Pacemaker design stuff.
> Sanctuary cities are dangerous not just to themselves, which to me would be fine... if that's what you want to do, go for it. But it affects the entire country and every one around them.

Actually: sanctuary cities aren’t dangerous, to themselves or to others.
>If you know the flight and the date and time you can easily pinpoint exactly where the plane was and where it was heading.

You'd still need reference data from the photo to triangulate where it was taken from. A blurry 600x600 photo is going to have plenty of uncertainty.

>Not incredibly challenging at that point to narrow in on roughly where the photos were taken from.

Most people probably don't care as long as it doesn't pinpoint a specific address.
"anti-woke" has become a destructive mind virus of its own.
I wonder if they factored in the time to walk to and from the surface and platform here. Also intersection signal patterns on the surface.
”The response should be a JSON object mapping Emoji (as Strings) to their count (as Numbers)”

This means ordering semantics are lost.
Informative and Unfortunate: How Linustechtips reveals the rot in influencer [video]
continuation of title: culture
Well we already know it roughly, it's Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
I helped my company save $25,000 a year, which is small compared to the potential savings your script could achieve. Despite that, all I received was a simple thank you—which, as you mentioned, is typical corporate thinking. Remember, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Don’t give up on your script! Wishing you the best of luck with your endeavor.
Optimizing rails is zero sum (it's ruby after all). Do yourself a favor and use pod affinity to schedule rails right next to database while your coworker rewrites it in Elixir/Zig stack.
> It's super strange to me that so few people understand this basic fact of statistics

You are misunderstanding attractiveness. We could get to a situation where 100% of men are unattractive to women, actually, some places are very close. Men find much more than 50% of women attractive while women think a much smaller % of men are an eligible partner. There is no median involved in sexual attraction.
Some of these clues wouldn't be very good for a human playing. "007" for example isn't a very good clue for "laser", not only because something happening to be in one of several films about a character doesn't rise to the typical level of salience, but also because other words on-board like "shark" and "astronaut" even moreso meet the criterion of featuring prominently in James Bond movies, and "astronaut" appears to be a game-ending choice.
How do you handle CI/CD-style automatic deployments with no downtime on dedicated servers? I'm looking for The Perfect (tm) solution myself.
> It's each internet connection that gets a /64,

i get a /48, which i can delegate the prefix to 255 subnets of size /64, so each machine on my LAN gets a /64
this is Prefix Delegation, part of DHCP v6 aka DHCP-PD

edit: this is still "new" in that half the consumer routers only partially support it. but afaik it was in the spec for ipv6 that each node should be a /64, so realistically my LAN having each node with /64 is per spec, and machines that are NAT behind a single /64 at the gateway are out of spec and part of the reason that no one uses ipv6, IMO...
hardcoding tokens seems like script kiddie behaviour to be honest
My guess: Total federated users interacting with the instance, vs total users registered on that instance
Just because something is legal it doesn't make it moral and just because something is illegal it doesn't make it immoral
You clearly did not read the article...
AI isn't going to build your startup
Yes, and? It's much easier to remove namespaces later using `using namespaces` if it really becomes a maintenance hazard than to go through and add them all back. This is library code that was intended to be included with unknown customer code, part of the goal is to avoid namespace collisions. (The `basis::` prefixes should go, though, the entire file is inside `basis`)
Didnt he promise to release the Epstein stuff as well?
I quote:

"Years ago when DDoS tools were being distributed on 4chan I fixed a bug in one of them and redistributed it there"

"if they actually used it as part of a DDoS"

You are incorrect, they said it was a DDoS tool. You are incorrect about "merely having the thought", it required executing an attack. FAFO. Again, this is part of the personal evolution of tons of security professionals who longer do juvenile stupid shit. Or at least learned how to do so in a hardened sandbox vm.
Is that why Martha's vineyard welcomed that busload of illegal immigrants with open arms?
Having the connection for longer than needed only puts more pressure on databases on which connections are a scarce resource (basically only postgres, and even then it's easily fixed with pgbouncer). When using a database with a better connection model, holding a connection too long will actually decrease total load on the database because each connection is idle for a larger percentage of the time.
Yes, if you value your knowledge you should keep pushing for higher the market has enough elasticity as earnings show
The US is running itself into the ground, sadly these initiatives will not stop it.
He started on public access television, it was unpaid, he made the whole show for free.
Huh, I do not. I guess most of the people I know in this space I knew prior to 2015 and the field was not as widely popular back then.
UK Digital driving licence coming this year
Running NATS on a FreeBSD Jail – Simone Vellei Blog
I think high-speed rail between SF and LA is a great idea, and it’s difficult to understand how much of its cost is avoidable excess when the only solution proposed by critics is to shut down the project entirely.
Awesome! How long did it take to run locally on your Mac? Any details you can share about the stack used for processing (other than YOLO for detection)?
>prohibiting discrimination

>requiring affirmative action

Which is it? It can’t be both. (It’s the latter, duh.)
I fear it will only accelerate as all the other hype+money trains continue to peter out.
I was skeptical given the title that the article could defend it's claim, but the article was strong and made great points. The only thing I would add (which I concur probably doesn't belong in the article itself):

Most databases make it trivial to see how long your queries are taking. Use that to help you identify the performance bottlenecks! If a request/response cycle takes 200 ms from the entrypoint of your rails server, and the database query reported (from the db) took 1 ms, that's a whole lot different than if the db query took 150 ms.

On scaling in general, in my experience inefficient queries are the vast majority of performance problems for most apps. It's usually fairly easy to identify these as different endpoint will perform very differently so you can get an idea of the baseline and identify aberrations. If that's happening then check your queries. If the whole app (baseline) is slow, TFA has phenonmenal guidance.
I had a set of interviews at a relatively large tech company and I was pretty pleased with the process.

1 tech interview which was progressively implementing a banking system. Final question involved threading

1 tech interview which involved building a banking system but it was more systems and database design.

1 business logic interview which was breaking down how credit card numbers worked and then asking me to do a code review

1 was just a personal fit interview.

It took a lot of time but it all felt realistic and useful in the context of hiring someone.
Pending definitions of intolerance.
I was really curious reading this. Many years ago I read this blog post (from 2007!) by Jeff Atwood[1] that mentioned FizzBuzz, and I guess I had mentally filed away that Jeff Atwood invented FizzBuzz! But that is not true.

Jeff's blog mentions Imran. Jeff's blog is still up, but Imran's isn't! However it is up on the internet archive, and Imran's post is also from 2007[2].

My sense is that Imran wrote a blog in January 2007 mentioning FizzBuzz and that Jeff's post in February 2007 is what made FizzBuzz the meme that it is today. This is probably very obvious to some readers of HN, but Jeff's blog (Coding Horror) has been around for a very long time and was one of the 'big' tech blogs back in that era of blogging (Jeff went on to, among other things, cofound Stack Overflow with Joel Spolsky a year after writing about FizzBuzz).

Thanks for asking this - if someone asked me yesterday "who invented FizzBuzz?" I would have pretty confidently said "Jeff Atwood!" and I would have been totally wrong.

For completenesses sake, the other really influential interview question blog I remember from this era is Steve Yegge's "five essential phone screen questions," which is even earlier (2005!)[3]

I think interviewing discourse on message boards is tricky; folks have strong opinions, and if someone says "this is an essential question" and the question is hard for you, it's hard not to take that personally. In a past life I thought a lot about interviewing (here is a resource on interviewing I helped create for Jane Street back when I worked there[4]). I have never asked a FizzBuzz-style question, but I do think that "explicitly telling the candidate what you want and give them lots of help to get there" is really important.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080405225407/http://imranontec...

[3] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DGdPkBBxg
are you still looking for work?
I would have led with your skepticism.

This story reads like concept art poking at our empathy to send us through an emotional journey.

I know my reading journey took me through the sadnesses of so many of the interviews in my life and the dysfunction that gets pushed in our industry. I have wondered whether this is part of psychological positioning and pre-negotiation or simply emotional, psychological, or/and organizational ineptitude.
Does anyone have the contact information of this person? Are they still looking for work?
After witnessing year after year of both old school Republicans and Democrats being tone deaf and incompetent, I’ve come to the view that MAGA is just filling the vacuum created by the collapse of an entire generation of the American political power structure. MAGA and/or the alt-right just happened to be a movement that was in the right time and had enough momentum to step in. Had things gone differently it could have been a hard left movement.

This happens in countries from time to time. In China there’s a whole history of dynastic collapse and renewal going back thousands of years.

It tends to be a shitshow for a while until a new political reality takes hold. It will not be unipolar. MAGA only got at best half the vote, and half the country didn’t even vote, so really they’re at best a quarter to a third of the population. Huge open niches are out there for a competently run non-tone-deaf centrist (aka actually conservative) party and stuff on the left. Maybe actual libertarianism too, but not using that name since that’s been taken by wackos for a long time.

I worry in the short to medium term for marginalized groups in America, important work happening in America like Starship (especially as Elon spirals), and anyone living in a state like Taiwan, Ukraine, South Korea, etc. that depends in part on US support to maintain its integrity. Other large states will probably be doing some land grabbing. The US might too depending on how things play out. It will be a period of instability.
How did you build it, if you don't know how to code?