skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they need legally valid information, they can subpoena the registrar. My phone number and home IP address also don't have a name, address, and email address attached; if someone wants to find who's behind a number, you need to have a reason which a judge will check (or perhaps a public prosecutor depending on if the operator is buddies with the police and it's a criminal offence). Would be kind of crazy if every website you visit gets your full details and can start sending advertisements or harass you for posting something they didn't like. Same for a domain name

And that's besides the point that the registrar doesn't check this information. If you wanted to lie, they're not stopping you from getting false info into whois (or any alternative)

If it needs to be authentic, then DNS does have signatures nowadays, or a delegation as iirc you mentioned already. I just don't know why it should be more authentic than the unverified information that's currently in whois
At that point we've digressed from a conversation about forensics, root access, and switching the OS to one about the evils of widespread remote attestation.

I agree that centralized and ubiquitous remote attestation is evil. So disable it. Don't use services that require it. Don't use anything that requires DRM either, since that's one of the primary driving forces.

> Even with all the various hacks enabled.

Those were never going to work long term. Hardware based remote attestation can't realistically be bypassed by the end user.
Speaking of gRPC, it's unfortunate that they went all-in on HTTP/2. Should have made it work over HTTP/1.1. I know others made it work, but it wasn't first-party. Maybe it could've been more popular than JSON-over-HTTP by now.
> there exists no fine that can tame it

This seems like an argument against either democracy or capitalism. Either we can never vote in lawmakers that would fine these companies into oblivion or there is no fine large enough that they would be compelled to change their ways.

Which one is it?
In my experience, the worst of them are lodged in there tighter than trichinella larvae.
The managers are just following the (fairly absurd imo), amazon internal processes for the most part. If the processes don't change, there are just going to be a bunch of overloaded managers. The current processes, culture, and 'principles'/dogmas are inefficient, contradictory and toxic af.
What you described is absolutely what happens when you run Linux containers on Windows hosts using Docker.

What I linked is absolutely a Docker image that contains Windows, intended to run Windows containers on Windows hosts using Docker.

Windows containers are Microsoft's attempt to clone Linux containers. They can run in one of two modes: A shared-kernel mode, which requires that the kernel of the container and the host OS be the same version (with some kind of Windows filesystem namespacing), or a separate-kernel mode, which essentially uses the Docker image distribution ecosystem as a way to distribute system images to run as VM's on Hyper-V. Windows containers are super-clunky and I believe they aren't supported on the latest versions of Windows. Honestly very few people should use them. But they do exist.
That's a made up figure from the journalist. They estimated that managers each earn between 200-350K and came to that number.
Big tech deserves to burn for their evolution in naming alone.
VSCodium uses NetCoreDbg. There are community snippets to make the same work for Cursor, NeoVim, etc.

So far, there was little demand to write another debugger integration (because, really, the debugger core is implemented in the runtime itself - what vsdbg, NetCoreDbg and Rider all primarily do is consume the runtime API).
I imagine one thread of the logic is like dang, AI is only producing mediocre work this year. What can we replace where mediocrity is acceptable... How about a role whose primary function is interhuman language.. where we can fallback on the humans involved (engineers, c levels) naturally catching and correcting mistakes?
That’s technically correct but the act does mention “insulting language” and “intent”. These are subjective outside of a court. Here is the text of the act:

1. Racial Hatred (Part III, Sections 18–23)
• Section 18: It is an offense to use threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behavior, or to display, publish, or distribute written material, if it is intended to stir up racial hatred or if racial hatred is likely to be stirred up.
• Section 19-21: Cover publishing, broadcasting, and public performance of material that stirs up racial hatred.
• Section 23: Covers possession of inflammatory material with intent to distribute it.

2. Religious and Sexual Orientation Hatred (Part IIIA, Sections 29B–29F)
• Section 29B: It is an offense to use threatening words or behavior (but not merely abusive or insulting ones) to stir up religious hatred or hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
• Intent is required for conviction (i.e., it must be proven that the person intended to incite hatred).

When this law is left for the CPS and the courts to rule on then that’s fine. When it’s left for private businesses to adjudicate it, it’s outsourcing state censorship.
Let's say Israel does something that is or might be genocidal. How do people talk about it without being antisemetic.?

> It is intended

What evidence do you have of the GP's intent? Or of all the other people who say the same?
Obviously it doesn't make that much difference for a fun project with a large 1000mAh battery, but <44 μA for deep sleep isn't very good.

https://archive.is/2YBHS with an nrf52840 you can get <1uA. It doesn't do wifi but long range BLE can go over 2km range.
AI :)
1. Bogus claim. I'm pretty sure Swiss drivers run red light way less than Lebanese, for example.
Maybe as an individual you cannot, but I don't see why a group of people (cops) couldn't.
What state is this in? This approach could be disastrous for you in some.

>My thought is that if we can’t work it out face to face no document will save the relationship and it’s best for everyone to move on.

I’m assuming you haven’t yet run into a situation when you decide it’s time everyone moves on but the tenant disagrees?
Hardware mute until they switch the speaker output pins to input mode and use the speaker itself as a microphone.
I certainly don't hate vibe coding as much as this person, but having tried it a few times, the thing that really worries me is "the slippery slope" he describes at the end and that's true with AI assistance in general. I think learning new programming languages probably expands your mind in ways that is somewhat immeasurable, and using AI to work with unknown languages takes away from that, and in general, I wonder what happens if you go from troubleshooting problems like 5 times a week, to once every 3 weeks because most problems fix themselves. And I do wonder if that will have a broader impact on the quality of your thinking as an engineer.
Einstein was not satisfied afaik. Plus by this you're proving we haven't moved on since, which isn't very satisfying either.
Docker is good for deployment, but devcontainer is nice for development. Devcontainer uses Docker under the hood. Both are also critically important for security isolation unless one is explicitly using jails.
Facebook got a Interim award. The former employee was not present at the emergency arbitration hearing.

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Arbitration-...

Seems like she, personally, has been spared the need to go out and promote the book, the only thing Facebook seems to have gotten out of the arbitration. In return they provided far more promotion than her appearing on podcasts would have done.

IANAL, and would really like to read some legal commentary of what Facebook thought they were going to achieve. As far as I can tell they have a pretty hollow victory. Even if they were somehow able to stop her from receiving royalties, it seems like Macmillan could pay her sideway with a contract and advance on her next book, her story of Facebook trying to silence her. Once again, IANAL, desperately want to read multi page thoughts from one on the Facebook strategy.

Yes, I bought the book and am enjoying it immensely. It has a nice fun irreverent sense of humor.
for storage of large volumes of data, mdisc is impractical. for storage of a few very important folders, sure.

note that only the cd-r flavor of mdisc is rated for long lifetime.
Since they pay first and last they can not pay rent for 30
Days. Once that happens I can give them 30 days notice and finally call the sheriff.

This is called at will tenancy in my Commonwealth.

Here is what our relationship is based on.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/the-attorney-generals-guide-to-land...
I had forgotten about that email address! And I'm not sure I set it correctly on email servers after I was a teenager and did things per the instructions, as I didn't see it being used for anything and it's just another potential way to funnel spam to your email host. Maybe someone does use it then? Do you know of any type of system or situation where this is used?
there wasn't much pressure from regulation to have low pollution emissions in car during the early 1990, beside the car i'm speaking about, a golf 2, has such a small diesel engine that it makes sense it would pollute very little compared to the much heavier and much more powerful passat (at least compared to the whooping 50 horse power the golf had !).

i can still remember avoiding road too steep lol.

Beside, when i am saying that keeping the older car is better for environment, i am not theorizing but speaking about things that have been studied.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13190

> Specifically, researchers find keeping older fuel efficient cars on the road longer reduces CO2 emissions significantly more than speeding up the global transition to green technology.
Interesting, I'll have to try it out at some point.
> CCPA only applies in Europe

CCPA applies in california, not europe. It's in the name: "California Consumer Privacy Act". Did you mix that up with GDPR?

> forcing users into sharing information with the site to be allowed to access the site

One of the CCPA rights are "Not be discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights". Denying access would almost certainly be classified as discrimination.
Or Phi-4. Which seems to outperform it and be a smaller model from 4 months ago.
Where's their monopoly I see tons of different drive and tape manufacturers. Are they all paying some royalty to IBM for tech?
Don't forget principals. Most of them do nothing the whole day and are compensated to create BS projects that go nowhere.
For what it's worth, German pigs are just as bad when it comes to surveillance of (at least) Twitter during protests. I myself earned a nasty letter after a live-reporting from a Nazi rally a few years ago.
Amazon (the online retailer nowadays mostly hawking Chinese alphabet-salad-named brands) and/or AWS the cloud service behemoth?

I continue to find it so bizarre that they are the same company.
But why would these not be places already served by terrestrial wireless internet service providers? It seems like it would be much easier and generally more attractive to serve locations like this using, for example, 5 GHz.

Normally, the lack of (near) line-of-sight is one of the biggest limiting to those sorts of deployments, but that would also have to be solved for any place being served with FSO.
I don't want one unless they can make the screen completely perfect where it folds. Which they won't be able to.
Yeah because the good ones already left the shitshow to get a job somewhere better. Because they can.
Congratulations to all the developers!
I would have also thought this an insult, until joining a company where nobody was classifying the tickets.
Martha Argerich has a similar anecdote when it came to learning a very difficult piano piece. Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is notoriously difficult, even for accomplished pianists. She learned it (along with another tough one) in 5 days because her teacher told her to learn it. She claims that she was helped by the fact that she was unaware that it was supposed to be difficult.
Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
the article is about quasi-infinite aka "archival" storage. not decades.
a point to point terrestrial bridge large piece of equipment that costs $5,000+, needs a professional to install it, and works on either free space optics or V-band or E-band radio is not in any way a competitor to starlink. It's more a place to take a 1 to 10 Gbps ethernet connection as a link between two towers or roofs that can 'see' each other as an alternative to where laying fiber may be cost prohibitive or would take too long to build (or both).

Assuming this thing doesn't utterly fail in rain at a moderate distance, this would be something you use to feed a POP which then redistributes service to end users by some totally other technology (5/6 GHz band PTMP radio system, GPON, XGSPON, G.fast on copper, docsis3/docsis3.1, etc)
> If we remove the tech from the story

If we remove the tech from the dropping of the atomic bombs, what's the big deal?

You can't remove the tech; it is intrinsic to the issue.
How many H1b or are they getting rid of just Americans?
Sounds like that estimate is doing all of the heavy lifting and cannot, by definition, ever be verified.
#shareholder-value
Trulia shows 2 real estate listings? One is 40 acres of land?

https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/Pawnee_City,NE/40.0437,40.18...
Uh yea, I want that to happen. Correct. Why would I want things happening without the model knowing and having context?

Have you seen Star Trek? We should have computer by now. An agent which knows when to tell us things we need to know, not just respond to requests.
Huh???? do the tiny amount of paperwork and get the double, he won't learn until he feels the pain, you are not helping anyone with this choice
Damn guess we have to blow up the stars

…you know, for defense
When the HDDVD-Bluray wars were going on China had their own implementations of optical storage, and it has been evolving ever since. Much of it is undocumented in languages other than Chinese.

Companies in China use these alternative optical discs, some of which store up to 1TB of data.

The only reference I can find to it on English Wikipedia is the CBHD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Blue_High-definition_Dis...
Can you imagine if someone just turned off the sky?
They probably just "promoted" people under them and then immediately fired these people for "poor performance". It is an old scheme they have.
So you are of the belief that Microsoft has not had any effect on GitHub over the last 7 years? Interesting.
Let's be clear: Beyond Trust is not a company that wrote a database-backed web app and made the all-too-common mistake of writing insecure code that tickled a bug in the database that allowed privilege escalation. Beyond Trust's is a company whose entire contribution is adding a security layer to prevent privilege escalation, and their solution here was to bypass Postgres's standard functionality and use this weird `psql` hack instead.

They had one job, and they failed at it. This amateur-level mistake should sink the entire company.
Spacial dynamics don't need abstract thinking because they're concrete. For example: throwing a ball, or catching a ball.

Understanding the physics or logic behind complex moving pieces does require abstract thinking, but that's not what your brain does to perform physical feats.

We saw them, practiced dealing with them, then became proficient, or not.
It's a VPN... can't do that as a webpage as it requires native API access.
The best are always the first to leave
China Establishes Quantum-Secure Communication Links with South Africa
"North Korea reducing number of approved hair styles by one."

Is that really the hill to fight over, or even care about? If you have that thing in your house, you already lost the war.
> What value do you provide then?

The main value add was capital to build the dwellings in the first place. If that capital didn’t exist, then the dwellings wouldn’t exist either.

The fact that the ROI of that capital is extending to multiple generations may be unpalatable, but it may not be unreasonable (lots of variables).

A secondary value in this case would be hiring a good property management company. Some of those companies really suck, and some are really good. As a tenant, you want one of the good ones. A silent owner who is willing to give a healthy rev-share to the management company is the type of owner you want.
That's the broad trend, but I think the spike that they're noting is specifically downstream of DeepSeek, as it peaks in late December of last year.

There's an initial peak in 2023 (haven't looked it up, but I'd bet that was when 'OpenAI has no moat' was on the front page for a while), and then it settles down a ways above the previous average. Since December it's been 1.5-2x more frequent than where it settled after that first peak.
This is weird blogspam based on a Business Insider article from October of last year, which was based on a quote from Amazon's CEO in September of last year: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-could-cut-managers-sa...

TL;DR:

> CEO Andy Jassy said last month that he wanted to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of the first quarter of 2025.

It appears the rest is speculation and hypothesizing from analysts, which is why they're quoting Morgan Stanley as a source.
Well, it's basically an implementation of a memory allocator.

But how did you determine what you could re-use? That's the hard problem, one that's equivalent to calling free() at the right time.
I've heard enough "C is superior to C++" arguments from game developers who then go and use header structs for inheritance, or X macros, enums, and switch statements for virtual functions, to know that more complexity isn't an issue as long as people feel clever and validated.
How do you communicate with the public and attract to a protest people you don't already know?
I'm going to make the observation that politics in a company is caused by management. The more "politics" you have at a company, the more you pay in a "political tax". Effort which should benefit the company is delayed or made harder as employees have to bob and weave to get through the politics.

I do believe if you want real culture change in a company, the best way to do it is to show managers the door, because that's how you got there in the first place.

Edited to add:

I'm not saying get rid of management. I'm saying get rid of bad management. And if your bad management is a malignant tumor, well, it's too late to fix it manager by manager -- because they've internalized how to game the system for themselves.
It's interesting. I wouldn't dare to go beyond a 1500 baud signaling rate, but, then, audio tape is amenable to QAM, and that could multiply the transmission to 16 bits per token or more depending on the quality of the tape and recorder.

I would be careful with that, however. If you are archiving your data, it's because you like it and, if you like your data, you want it to be readable a long time from now. I'd suggest vinyl records rather than tapes, as they are very robust, and can be read without physical contact.
Thanks! I hadn't seen anyone do it this way before with a very large, partitioned dataset, but it works shockingly well as long as you're not trying to `SELECT *` the entire table. Props to the DuckDB folks.

Eventually I plan to add some thin R and Python wrapper packages around the DuckDB calls just to make it easier for researchers.
Hey, I just want to commend you for amending your perspective (even if a little). There's a lot of intellectual hoop jumping in this thread with respect to Microsoft.
I've heard that the managers there aren't nearly as big a problem as the incentive structures that are imposed on managers. The competitiveness within the ranks compromises the office culture. This was explained to me as the origin of the plague of PIPs.
Does something like this exist for Europe?
I've left later on, when they started to impose 2FA and decided to scan all my code to train their AI.
Los Angeles launches effort to encourage starter homes on city-owned vacant lots
Haha a friend was just recommending I apply for a job there. I told her hell no. It's one of the worst in big tech. Probably second worst after twitter.

The next one she came up with was Microsoft lol. I work with them a lot and I hate it.

I work for an enterprise now but a pretty decent European one. I don't think I could work for a US big tech company.
is the talk recorded/live somewhere? anyone from berkeley?
I remember, back when cannabis was illegal in most states, a common argument was that white and black people reported using cannabis at the same rate when surveyed. However, many, many more black people ended up in prison for it.

Here is a survey of US youths that supports this premise: https://monitoringthefuture.org/data/panel/demographic-subgr...
https://qntm.org/unicodings
It is a very common word used in Nigerian style English which was a very common place they were outsourcing RLHF tasks to. A sibling comment has a link but it is also easy to google.
Who created the policies and procedures?
https://www.chronotrains.com/en
No, they did not. Managerial positions are not a promotion in Amazon, they're just a lateral move, and the process takes around 6 months...

They did exactly what I said they did, moving some managers to IC in the very worst case but mostly shuffling teams around.
With the rise of AI, my disdain for managers has gone up. I don't think it's because AI has made managers redundant. It's because AI is making me redundant and I'm realizing they've kind of _always_ been redundant.
I am curious how do you just hire 14,000 managers at the cost of $3.5B yearly more than you needed?

Maybe they should fire the guy responsible for THAT.
I love it, it would be awesome if the controls could slowly and randomly adjust themselves so over time the images transition.
Their upper managers don't want "best", they want loyal, they want yes men that will make perfect henchmen, that's what best is for them so they get exactly what they're looking for. People who rock the boat aren't gonna cut it.
What Will the Betelgeuse Supernova Be Like – and Will It Hurt Us?
The naive assumption is that shared_ptr is always better than manual tracking. It's not. Tracking and cleaning up resources individually is a burden at scale.
Deming agreed with you: Quality control is a management problem. But there's management and there's management. If we're talking about 14000 people, they're not the top managers of the business, and getting rid of them won't change the culture.

They're workers, and Deming also said: Don't blame the workers.
Just a few weeks ago I was contacted by Amazon recruiter and refused for exactly this reason. I expect more layoffs as they figure out they don't need this many engineers after all. They will turn into money pumping google search analog.
https://archive.ph/eUY8T
Whatever keyboard is in front of you or most readily available...

Logitech K120 is ok as a dirt cheap option (you can get several, and not care if you spill a drink on them).

The standard US layout is of course ubiquitous, anything else is kind of annoying to program on, e.g. even UK keyboards have ", @, |, etc in the wrong place.
Only solved by the ever efficient clear outputs, restart, then run all the code all over again…
Very cool animations, but they don't strike me as "psychedelic". A bit too smooth and unstructured.
Videos? I can't load the article text right now :)
Unfortunately, that's not true.

C is not 100% compatible with C++.

There's a whole heap of incompatibilities that you can hit, that will prevent a lot of non-trivial C programs from compiling under C++. Things like character literals being a char in C++ and an int in C. Or C allowing designated initialisers for arrays, but C++ not.