skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incorrect. You very much need to know how to program to make an AI build an app for you. Language models are not capable of creating anything new without significant guidance and at least some understanding of the code, unless you're asking it to create projects that tutorials have been written about. AI in it's current form is also just "a tool you can work with".

Like with the calculator, why would you need to be able to calculate things on paper if you can just have a machine do it for you? Same goes for more advanced AI: what's the point of being able to do things without them?

Not to offend, but in my opinion that's nothing more than a romantic view of what humans "should be capable of". 10 years from now we can all laugh at the idea of people defending doing stuff without AI assistance.
> consultancies in IT are just brokers

This is also a lot of PE. College graduates want to live in a city and work for a “reputable” company. The founder of the Baton Rouge chemical plant, meanwhile, doesn’t recruit in New York and Los Angeles. So he hires Deloitte or gets taken over by Bain who hires some graduate and takes 40% of their pay in exchange for letting them commute from a city during the week and say they work in PE on Raya.
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Wat’s the sound of meeting something older than you thought possible.

Lisp listened. Modem sang. PalmPilot sweated. We talked, not debugged.
product placement is the very foundation of TV, it's just a little more subtle now. Originally shows were brought to you by XYZ and had an intermission to advertise their products. Radio did this as well.
Again, this assumes the main motivation is money. Ie if they could get a better paying job, they would. You can select for highly skilled people who also aren’t putting money as the top priority. The point I’m getting at is that pay can be a noisy proxy for skill and we should probably not assume they are tightly correlated in all domains.

One person once said the people at the NSA are much more like Marines than Silicon Valley types. They’re more interested in the mission than in getting rich. The fact that so many people look at a job as a money optimization problem says a lot about society.
Apache Arrow Dissociated IPC Protocol
The typical solution is to have the interpreter call a wrapper program or better yet use RBOC etc.. to remove the need for suid in the first place.

Sudo, ..., group membership, even using udev to emit devices with those permissions automatically etc.. all work.

It is horses for courses though with different costs and benefits, but the number of use cases that require suid is tiny.

If you give me more details I can make some suggestions.

Doing a strace on Nvidia's container toolkit in rootless mode is a wrapper example IIRC.

Note that the popularity of BusyBox and containers is an example where there is an easy to miss serious holes, as all processes have access to proc/pid/self, it is trivial to access entry points that have a large attack surfaces.

I found a copy of the decades old faq I remember the above vulnerability from that covers other situations.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html

I know all the above seem more complicated, but the reality is invoking an interpreter as suid is subject to Rice's theorm, you don't control the run time (semantic) behavior, so avoiding privalage escalation is impossible.

In an executable, to run suid still requires encoding run time behavior into syntactic behavior which is still a non-trivial task. Especially if you don't leverage privilege/capabilities dropping and or selinux/apparmor/etc.

While suid itself isn't dangerous, auditing the executable to make sure it doesn't introduce risks is hard, especially over time.

Note there are other protections that come into play that are difficult to track down, like the gnu linker explicitly nuking the LD_* env vars on suid, attempting to avoid return oriented programming attacks etc.

If you prefer the logic side consider "does halt" from the implicant form of Horn clauses.

(∃)(∃)(q_f,x,y)

The above is derivable from clauses if and only if the machine halts. Which is just HALT in prolog.

Having potential non-finite models is what generalizes to Rice, and extends to partial and even total functions in finite time.

The perfectly implemented code, or typical problem of perfectly modify code in the future, is hard with executables and simply intractable for interpreters.

So what you are asking for, a secure fix simply doesn't exist for suid interpreters. If we could, we would solve HALT.
Also, Netflix kicked off the streaming premium shows with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black.
I read the article - up to a point. The guy goes to such great lengths not to admit that a huge proportion of the physical parts in the phone are from China. E.g, he keeps saying "Western distributor" to avoid saying "China-made." (Think about it: why would any reader care about the distributor's nationality?!) He just rambles on and on, trying to baffle us with bullshit - eventually I stopped reading.

There is zero chance that a smartphone will ever be made out of 100% US-manufactured parts, or even close to it. And the evidence is right in this article, if this is the best effort to manufacture a "US phone."
Keep in mind that compilers can be backdoored to install malicious code. Bitwise/signature equivalency does not imply malware-free software.
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Barbara Tuchman wrote a book on the Zimmerman Telegram. Quite good.

https://www.amazon.com/Zimmermann-Telegram-Barbara-W-Tuchman...
Common Lisp supports gradual typing and will (from my experience) do a much better job of analyzing code and pointing out errors than your typical scripting language.
I think this article paints a pretty different picture, which does not imply a crisis.

https://archive.is/PI5YJ

As reported in WaPo, the executive position is not refusal, but inability to comply on the requested timeline. They said they can and will provide the information on Tuesday.

This seems to be a significantly different narrative than is inferred by piecing together the broken updates provided by NYmag.
It's funny reading your response because I think you skipped the second half of the comment! Your rebuttals to the rebuttals are pretty similar.
This one it seems:

https://www.maptiler.com/maps/#style=streets-v2&mode=2d&lang...

It looks like it uses OpenStreetMaps data.
Aye, Polish notation sure. But what he gave me wasn’t a lecture, it was a spell.

Syntax mattered less than rhythm. Parens weren’t fences, they were measures. The REPL didn’t care if I understood. It played anyway.
My problem with turning it of is that if you _do_ want to watch the preview it's very cumbersome. Clicking on it goes to the movie/episode. So to get to the preview you have to go to the list of Episodes, scroll down (and try not to get spoiled) to trailers then play it. So I have one profile with it on and one with it off, depending on if I'm browsing or not.
100%. This is an opportunity to lead, not walk away. Maybe he still fails, but it's a valuable learning experience either way and a much better story to tell assuming he wants to found another company. Conversely, walking away in frustration will be a red flag for many investors.
Absolutely not, but the current situation can't be understood without making the distinction.
NYT reports that the government has indicated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland that it will comply with the Supreme Court's order. Take from that what you will.

My understanding is that the government has not (yet?) told the District of Maryland that it will not comply with that court's orders, only that, in the government's estimation, that court hasn't given it enough time to comply. Again, take from that what you will — but in my view the government has already gotten extra time to comply on account of its petition for emergency review in SCOTUS and the Chief Justice's stay of the original order (effectively well past the original deadline).

So while a constitutional crisis is in the offing and may still come to a head, I don't think we're quite there yet.
From the interview:

> So it's about $650 to produce that entire phone. But what we're doing by selling it for greater originally, we're looking at a lot of differentiators for us. It wasn't just made in the USA. It's the fact that it's a secure supply chain, that you know, staff that's completely auditing every component, which means we're selling to a government security market with all those additional layers that we've added on top.

So I guess the answer is that they're selling to the "government security market" so they can charge whatever the hell they want.
We were working on this at CoreOS before Kubernetes came about – called fleet https://github.com/coreos/fleet. Distributed systemd units run across a cluster, typically running containers or golang binaries with a super minimal OS underneath. I always thought it was cool but it definitely had its challenges and Kubernetes is better in most ways, IMO.
> Teotihuacan rather famously was not a literate society

Isn't this going a bit too far? Sure they didn't have a modern writing system like Mayans, or even proto-writing systems like Inca's quipu but we do have hard evidence of Teotihuacan society communicating language with painted symbols (e.g. findings in La Ventilla). It's unclear to me how we can say they didn't leave writing to future generations (especially assuming probably there were a lot more stuff that was lost to time than we can see)

Also, this comment seems to slightly misunderstand what the GP said imho. Yes writing is a new invention, but e.g. paintings in Lascaux are about 17k years old. Which means even before Catalhoyuk level civilizations, humans were leaving symbols for later generations to look and decipher. This is the same "archival" process GP is talking about. Humans leave a message to future generations. It seems like our biology must prime us to do it, because we see it universally. Whether the messages we leave are writing, painting, music or whatever... humans still produce things for people that'll come after them. But animals are incapable of doing so, even if a Bonobo is roughly as intelligent as a human, it's not like it can transmit any kind of information to future generations, so every generation of Bonobos need to learn either from scratch or from their community. So, perhaps ironically, part of being human-smart is having human-precise hands that can paint/write. Without this ability, we end up like bonobos, elephants, dolphins etc perhaps smart but for all they know their parents were the Adam and Eve.
> You heard a lot about the LIBOR scandal

Is that one I’m remembering where my variable interest rate student loan was over 9% while the only job I could get right out of the Great Recession after college was part time at Walmart and the banks fine was less than the profit they made off of manipulating the rate?

They have so many of these scandals it’s a little hard to narrow it down
Is it possible for a country where 80% of the population is black to be a white ethnostate?
Except most LLMs are not deterministic, the same prompt will, in general, produce different outputs because the sentence completion ist statistical and randomly selected
The leadership is Jewish. You can argue America in the early 1900s during Jim Crow was not technically segregated and disenfranchised. Looking at facts without context is very misleading. The leadership themselves described their neighbors as animals. It is a nation based on dehumanization for the establishment of a religious ethnostate (hence the law of return aimed at Jews and not Muslim or Christian arabs for instance). Making any excuse on behalf of Israel is frankly mind-boggling. It is a tale of the slave feeding his master. Although many Americans stood for South African apartheid, so it comes as no surprise when fed propaganda, most of us will choose what to believe. Part of me wishes we exposed more of those Israeli farms etc, but it will come at a dear price if you do so (remember Congress is controlled by AIPAC, and they will throw the book at you if you do)
The argument "cutters" are making is that there is enough money but also too much waste. Case in point are consulting firms discussed here: they charge you 3x rate of their employees. You could have been paying 2x to get better employees and savings at the same time.
Ok don't follow those people then? Or mute their posts from your timeline? There are tools you can use to take responsibility for your own feed. My tool of choice is to just never scroll on the main feed on the rare times I do go to FB at all because the feed is 90% engagement slop from super safe pages I don't follow. Either way your personal preferences don't justify the mass suppression.
What was the bigger shake up that happened 50 years ago?

And what happens if your phone breaks or runs out of battery at the most inconvenient time? (Trump deports you, I guess, but what about everywhere else?)
The more hyperbolic the example, the easier it should be to demonstrate why the language of the Constitution precludes it. Yet you cannot, because that's not how language works, per my point. If I start pushing for this interpretation of the Constitution, the civic, intellectual, and honest reaction is not to say, "hmm, actually it is pretty ambiguous!" It's to say: "that obviously is not allowed and would be tantamount to a coup."

Everyone knows Presidential terms are meant to be limited to two. Everyone knows going for a third term would be an accounting trick. They know it, you know it, I know it.

Your selection of one example out of the 47 cases SCOTUS decided that year (+ countless cases they didn't grant cert to) is evidence of my point, not yours. How many of the other 46 cases can you name? How many of the other 81 cases between then and now?

I'll guess you could name fewer than 4 of them, ergo, as I said: "That's why it's notable in the few occasions where they conflict."
I'd like to see examples of actual posts that were taken down, rather than talk of the quantity, or who filed the reports.
> also i dont understand why ps3 is considered a failure, when did it fail?

> The PS3 failed developers

It failed as an ISA (or collection thereof), and in developer mindshare.
Well, technically the API is still available pretty much everywhere (be it directly or via a wrapper library) and most hardware still has support for drawing lines, so it is still easy in current days to do things like this too :-P.

I'm using it all the time when i want to draw lines in 3D.

(though as far as lines and OpenGL is concerned i remember reading ages ago that not even SGI's implementation had full support for everything OpenGL was supposedly able to do)
> absolutely have the consent of Congress. Congress can stop this at any time. They elect not to.

I don’t mean to be graphic, but being forced into silence (“you could have stopped me”) is absolutely not consent. The Trump administration is full of people who will need to go to jail if were to keep our republic.
Shooting a bow and riding a horse are difficult enough activities on their own. I can't imagine how hard it must be to be able to competently shoot a bow from a fast moving horse.
The oldest known cave paintings are 50,000+ years old. Those count as archived information :) It's pictographic information but it _is_ stored information :) About a hunt or a ceremony or a disaster or ...
What were some weird things you saw in the urban areas or suburban areas?
This is off-topic but I just wanted to say I appreciate your presence on HN. I see your name pop up often, and your comments are always insightful and clear. You consistently identify the root of complex topics (and disagreements/misapprehensions surrounding them) and are able to distill them in a non-argumentative way. Thanks for helping make this site a nicer place.
By that logic, weight-lifters should be able to use hydraulic presses.
It just isn’t a solid thesis at the beginning of the article, and in todays attention-span media consumption narrative, it… serves its purpose?
Not sure where you get your information. Many civil servants are motivated to do what is right for their country, civil service tends to draw mission-oriented people. People who are typically willing to go above and beyond to make things work.

Think about the teachers who buy classroom supplies out of their own meager paycheck because they want them for the lesson, and 'cost-cutting' means they don't have enough resources in the school.

Think of all the people at the CDC, or at NOAH, or similar.

In any large organization, and the Fed Government is > 2m employees, so it counts, you can easily find example of people who are driven and people who coast.

And actually, people are sacked in the fed if they don't make their numbers, or they are quietly sidelined.
Click downvote, or don't read them, or since this is FB put the little angry face emoji on it. Just don't have a state apparatus dedicated to whining to the mods to please delete this post!
Yeah, structural changes don't happen slowly and by the rules. What people don't like is what they think the new system is going to look like. But we don't know what that is going to be because Trump seems to be better at destroying than at building. It will depend on his successor(s) being good at building institutions. Or it may fail and the old system regenerates.
it depends on the business and industry. at some phases in a business’s life you need to get features out more than stability. some industries are more sensitive to bugs than others. it’s not a one size fits all approach.

to shift the culture from “fast” to “safe” is mostly a team-based effort because not all teams need to shift. and even within a team you may have experimental and mature products.

i’ve seen this shift happen successfully multiple times. it must come from leadership. C-level and down. even if it’s just for one team. or one product. you need the buy in all the way up. and then your people in the chain will adapt to changing expectations
There's YouTube tutorials and folks that will help out. It's the price you pay when you save money.
Liberties is a great journal. It covers a lot of intellectual ground and is unapologetically Liberal in all senses of the word. Every issue has political and historical commentary, art (literary, film, dance) criticism, and poetry. It’s like a denser Harper’s.
Dunno why you are getting downvoted. You're completely correct. It is literally the third line on the page, including the title! That sentence is, to quote TFA,

> It is important to understand why the PS3 failed.
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I don't know why it's redacted here; maybe he couldn't find a public source.

It is a mind bendingly tiny 16MB/s bandwidth to perform CPU reads from RSX memory.
I've started my work on this guide, which is based on my own experience, to help tech teams to avoid mistakes I did and saw (and sometimes prevented) in other teams as an independent consultant. There are English, Russian and French translations. Work still in progress, so any PRs are welcome.
What about oral histories? Why does it need to be written if it can be memorized and shared verbally?
Asthma is a “solved problem” medically, the rest is just rent-seeking.
> Apple silent as ...

Um, yes? Mr. Cook's old enough to know that there's far more downside than upside, for both Apple and himself, if they make public comments on the subject.
The author's categorization of Go mistakes into four areas - syntax, standard libraries, interfaces, and concurrency - is quite helpful. As someone who's wrestled with incorrect error handling and goroutine leaks, I appreciate the practical examples that highlight both common pitfalls and idiomatic solutions.
How can you just terminate a contract? What clause are they invoking to terminate it?
Is it fair to say that also in your experience, those crucial edge cases/misses accumulate over time, making it even harder to ship things?

I've found this a lot in data systems where folks glue stuff together as fast as possible to "ship", while missing the huge glaring issues with the foundation that they've built on top of wet, sliding mud.
I'm not saying there wasn't any cultural advancement prior to the invention of using written language to store information for use by others. Just that there wasn't any human behavior that distinguished it as unique among all other species on earth.
The opposition party has no power in the US, as designed explicitly.

If you wanted Democrats to have more power, you should have voted for them more.

If you DID vote for democrats, understand that the Constitution largely says they have no power. They can't do anything without swaying Republican politicians. By design.

Republicans are not willing to do anything to help them, because their party committing literal blatant crimes has never hurt their election chances, but since 2000, bipartisanship makes it very unlikely to get re-elected.

Unfortunately, lots of stupid people did not vote for democrats, and are now complaining that democrats aren't saving them.

Democrats cannot save anyone right now. By Design.
There are a fair number of them --- one of my favourites was Hunt's _The FlatBow_:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3977436-the-flat-bow

(having read a number of his other books)

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/paleoplanet69529/decurve-ref...
I think the second paragraph in the parent comment fits really well with mimetic theory and this René Girard quote: "Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires." This, however, doesn't mean that the current Netflix solution is the only one possible.
Managers make up their own narrative based on vibes.
Hey!
and when that is all done, the surviving gen X creative talent, can have another go
it's not like we were ever in any real rush in the first place
but ya!, bieng the sandwich generation, stuck between old parents and little kids has been strange, but we do have experience, growing cunning awareness, and are just going to adapt
some more
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