jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of things changed since the era of 'engineering judgement'.

In the 50s and 60s when 'engineering judgement' was common, it was a signal to a skilled machinist that "You have more experience with the material, so use your best guess because I don't know what the right answer is".

Things have changed a lot!

1. Material quality is much higher. Which is to say that batch-to-batch variance is vastly reduced. This means that it's worth investing the effort in detailed understanding of the material because that material is more predictable. Which led to ...

2. We understand a _LOT_ more about material science. Our knowledge of materials is vastly higher, so things that used to be 'best guess' are now 'do this because it will reliably work'. e.g. Spallation and galling used to be poorly understood issues that were worked around based on personal experience and guesswork. Now we understand them very well, and any competent manufacturer will clearly explain exactly how to (eg) install their bearing in a way that prevents such issues.

3. Expertise shifted. The 'machinist' is no longer a 20-year experienced highly trained person, but a CNC operator, who probably won't be within eye-sight of the running machine. So the practice of 'increase the RPM until it chatters slightly then back off' doesn't cut it any more. The answer needs to be known up-front to go into the G-code, not 'feel'. This has led to the obvious cycle where more responsibility moved to the engineering end, which increased the demand for exact knowledge, which reduced the requirements on machinists, which led to lower skill, which further moved responsibility to engineering.

So I totally get pining for the era of 'engineering judgement', but it died for a reason and it's not really likely to come back!
If that's you're favorite astroturfing conspiracy, what's your favorite astroturfing reality? Was it Microsoft astroturfing blogs in 2014?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2365060/microsoft-caught-ast...

Or perhaps it was astroturfing of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America?

https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2016/02/new-patient-...

Or perhaps the energy industry?

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/energy-utility...

But certainly its an unhinged conspiracy that government and the military would push their own narratives via astroturfing. Everyone knows they have far too much respect for how they spend our taxpayer dollars and they have far too much integrity to be so devious. Certainly all of the stalwart defenders of the F-35 that pop up on every internet forum and message board to sing the praises of that boondoggle must be sincere.
You are probably being downvoted by the proclaimed nationalists of my country, but what you say is quite true - modern India came into existence on 15th August 1947, when we got our independence from the British. After the Mughal empire's 200-300 year rule weakened in India, it disintegrated into many kingdoms that kept fighting each other (as has always happened in our history). This is why the imperialist-capitalist East India Company could easily conquer these kingdoms. (They weren't alone - the french and the portuguese too vied with them, but British ended up with the major pie in hand).

Today, we can certainly draw upon the culture and history of all these various kingdoms and take pride in our multicultural society and the rich history it provides. But to go beyond that is just egoistical, and like you rightly said, will leave you stuck in the past rather than giving important to your present state and the future you desire.
Unfortunately it seems like I was one of "small percentage of Firefox users" this feature is being tested on.

Contrary to what the article claims, there was no way to disable this feature from the menu: it wasn't possible to uncheck the 'Sponsored Top Sites' button.

I had search for 'sponsor' settings in 'about:config' to disable it. Sadly, I don't think most users will be able to figure this out.

I'm seriously reconsidering moving away from Firefox, or at the very least no longer recommending it to non-technical users
Keep in mind that modern updates of the F-16 sell for about $100 million each. They are comparable in cost to the F-35.
It's more than just a jobs program too. It's a reelection plan for senators/house members.

Look at what states and districts get these big DoD contracts and then look at what committees the congressmen/women are sitting on.

They approve plans that benefit them then direct the funds right into their districts so they can campaign on it.

I mean it's not the worst form of corruption but it's pretty shitty when you realize how our infrastructure and defense is designed around congressional districts instead of what is best for our country.
"Leaning in" to dictators for money and scale. Par for the course here. Or that it's far more important to foreign intelligence services that Turkish users are engaged on FB, than it is to stick to their "values".
https://archive.vn/5GYkJ
Anecdotally I know a single ex-AWS engineer, and this person heavily dislikes their position at AWS.
Sterilizing immunity is the term you're looking for, and as far as I know the vaccines are still being studied to determine if it happens. It's very difficult to determine right now because you need to very carefully control a studied person AND all of their contacts and people they interact with--you test all of those people daily and then can tell if people in the vaccine or placebo group have close contacts coming down with sickness more or less often (hinting at the presence or not of sterilizing immunity). The big trials for EUA of the major vaccines declined to do this kind of study because it takes longer and costs a LOT more to do that much testing across 60k people + all their contacts.

It will also be more challenging going forward to do these kinds of studies because of the ethics. It will be hard to ethically justify keeping an arm of a trial unvaccinated as a placebo in the face of a very serious and very deadly virus which we have known good vaccines. There are some interesting things like crossover trials that apparently more of the current in research vaccines are trying.
> 80% of employees could be more productive remote, 18% could have serious issues with productivity

My experience has been almost the inverse of this. I wouldn't quite say 80% of people are less productive at home but I'd think at least above half? For various reasons mentioned elsewhere here (disruptive home environment, can't communicate effectively with co-workers remotely, etc). Many people just become very unproductive if they're not physically in the presence of other people being visibly productive.

I'd like to see some formal studies into this to get the true split.
For a different perspective, learning Kubernetes and using it widely gives you a universal set of tools for managing all sorts of applications at all scales. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26502900
But in practice it is will happen less frequently, and will be a longer commute for most. Not least because many people live in the suburbs, but work in places where places to eat are nearby.

On the plus, many more lunches with spouse and children.
The OCR issue was the first thing I thought about. Machine learning is probabilistic, not deterministic, so in the case of S being converted to 5 (or 6 to 8, etc.), which definitely impacts numerical data in the case of the OCR stuff, we can expect similar voice mis-classifications. Perhaps "You're fine" might get misclassified as "you're fired".
This is mainly a PR piece, Anandtech offers far more complete coverage https://www.anandtech.com/show/16594/intel-3rd-gen-xeon-scal...
I've been waiting for an audio codec that could actually silently change the words I've said.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/xerox-scanners-alter-numbers-i...
I should try it.
if your plan to make big money is to take advantage of people's addictive personalities so they give you more money than is good for them, then you're scum lol
Or just use chrome browser on ubuntu distro?
Hang out on IRC? Volunteer at someone's startup? What do you have to offer in return?
I wonder, is it easy to use bcrypt with a variable work factor per-password?

I'm thinking you could take your entropy analysis of the user's password and set it so that "weaker" passwords use a higher work factor. This analysis could be easily done before hashing every time the password is input, so an attacker wouldn't be able to single out weak passwords from the hash file.

Theoretically, you should be able to tailor the numbers so that cracking a weak password isn't any faster than cracking a strong one, right? Plus it will encourage your users to use a stronger password in the first place, since it'd make login slightly faster.

Any obvious problems with this plan?
I wouldn't call it"chauffeured" when it's her brother driving and her sister-in-law in the front seat.
That is what I have always hated about any company that has the word "Solutions" in their name or tagline - or even list out what they do as solutions rather than products.

Solutions implies that you're solving a problem - yet I very rarely encounter any solutions oriented anything that can clearly and succinctly state the problem to which they are the solution.
Yes, indeed. I miscounted the first time.
Congratulations to both Data Marketplace and Infochimps. You guys are rockin this space.
I'm in France for Christmas, so I won't be able to join. Have a great party !
Salting was introduced long before rainbow tables were invented.
Guava -> The JDK Std library, unless you need more performant collections provided by it.

Guice -> If you need to support the jakarta.* namespace the only real answer is Weld or another CDI compliant implementation. Otherwise guice is probably still fine.

GSON -> Jackson as always.
This is pretty much my own history, too. (I think I took three years to pay them off, too!) And yet, many--I'd say most--people out there don't want to be computer programmers or work in other technical fields. They still need degrees to be employable at all in most fields, and with the state of student debt, it's pretty reckless to just roll out claims like the ones you've made.
> Would internal use have even been legal if the decision had gone Oracle's way?

OpenJDK is GPL, so I suppose yes. I also understand that the cause for Oracle-Google lawsuit predates the GPL JDK (Google does not like GPL on Android userland after all), so its an entirely different problem.

Of course, IANAL.
For context, only four people won Nobel twice (Frederick Sanger, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen and Marie Curie), and from that list, her is the only name I recognise.
> IP addresses on their own aren't a problem

I'm the only person using my IP address, ergo it's personally identifiable. Seems pretty clear cut to me?
Are we classing the FBI as a "nation state threat actor" now?
Open to him.
> Impressive refresh rate!

YES, but sadly you can see afterimages, or image burn on the screen, I hope they have some self erase/calibration procedure buildin.
This is also what I heard as of a year or two ago, but I think its becoming a progressively more outdated piece of advice as the world of Python 3 libraries catches up with 2. But certainly, Python 2.7 is still being written widely, and will remain so for awhile.
linkbait title. from the article:

[The researcher's] theory is that people who sleep for more than eight hours sometimes have an underlying health problem that is not yet showing in other symptoms.

So, it's not the long sleep that is causing the increased mortality risk, it's the hidden illness.

TLDR there is a correlation between sleeping longer and decreased health. Not worth three minutes of your time.
yes it sounds like he wants to buy a server that comes installed in a rack and send that whole thing to co-location so they just unbox and plug in wires for him...
Worrying so much about everything that might be bad for you, is probably bad for you.
Nah, no irony :D Just a lack of English knowledge. The truth is often very boring :D
We changed the url from https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleBanking/comments/ksize0/simpl... to what seems to be the best article about the subject.
I can’t really think of one example really where that actually ended up in favor of the founders. Even Kalanick’s Series D raise at Uber back in 2014 seemed a bit weird, and in retrospective given what happened since...

I imagine for it to be actually net beneficial there would still need to be at least 5x or 10x growth potential and assuming it’s already a unicorn that somehow can’t finance otherwise on favorable terms... would imply a quite unique situation.
Pied piper did have a whole subplot about compression in the context of reducing VR video game bandwidth latency. You might be more spot on than you think :)
you know which platform has little to no asshole-ness? LinkedIn. There's more on the line, their career. I envision the next social media wave encompassing this a bit. Closer tie to the person in order to have a more humanistic conversation for fear of backlash.
I see this as criticism of Shopify making this decision for their stated reasons, not as advocating for forcing companies to do business with parties they don’t want to.
You convince them in the same way you'd convince them of anything they're unsure of or against.

Give them a reason that they care enough about and make it painless enough and they may follow. Listen to their concerns and try to find ways to address them or to find workable compromises. Remember that you are placing an additional imposition on them. Asking them to switch services for you is asking them a favour. Each person (or social group) has their own motivations, perspective and other attributes which means that the tactic to win over each person (/group) should be different.

I'd caution against a hardline stance, I've lost friends (acquaintances?) who went down that path to what I'd consider a paranoid extent (going sms or email or "obscure" services only). It just became too hard to keep them in the loop when organising eg group events, so they started to get excluded. Their behavior just didn't make sense considering their (presumably low) threat profile, and they'd made the barriers to contact too high in comparison to the social value they brought.

In my case, these people were socially inept (selfish?) and felt that how we communicated was solely their choice, which is kind of true in a way, but the other person has the choice of whether they continue to try to engage.

I'm not saying that you need to entirely embrace these services as a necessary evil, but it's not a binary choice either. You can be easier to reach on the services that you want to use, and only rarely catch up on whatsapp from a sandbox machine. You can encourage people and help set them up on the services that you want to use. You can advocate for privacy awareness within the groups you're in. You can refuse to share more secret things like passwords on the less privacy-aware networks. All of these things will contribute to avoiding less privacy-oriented services.

It's a transition, and a social process.
I don’t think you understand how difficult it would be to get classified information on your unclassified laptop and there isn’t a chance in hell you could do it by accident
I believe Trezor is fully open source, while Ledger is not. Both obviously have a good track record though, and have been around for a while. Personally I feel safer with the Trezor, I think the biggest risk to these things is that the key generating algo or hardware is flawed and the key is guessable, which seems less likely for an open source device with many eyes on it.
No fees. I can go to any ATM and I will get reimbursed for the fee.

I was once behind on a payment to the State of California but due to moving multiple times in a short period of time they were unable to get the notice to me. I had no idea that I owed them such a big chunk of cash (taxes). Chase took the money out of my account on their behalf and charged me an additional fee. Smaller banks don't do it - but the big banks make a ton of profit fom things like this. Suffice to say I closed my account with Chase more or less immediately afterwards. I felt violated, frankly.

For a while I was making close to 2% return which is pretty impressive for a regular free checking account. Once interest rates went to hell that stopped, though.

Citi, Chase, Wells, BoA, USBank, they are all the worst.
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage had their robot Blendo removed from competition twice because it was too dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendo
Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
Heavy vehicles put exponentially more wear. Especially if the road was not built for having that weight on it. Let's say you build a drive way for a car. You could park a 2 ton car every day for decades with no damage. Yet a massive truck parked once may fuck it up due to it's sheer weight.
It starts like this: [..]Land-based food production is in crisis, driven by climate change and population increases. We have to grow 70% more food by 2050 in order to accommodate two billion more people on our planet.[..]

Sorry, I remain unimpressed. I can’t take anything after that seriously.
Well DSP theory can make many engineering students eye's glaze over. Video compression theory could be explained to a fairly bright middle schooler.
Yeah I seen that the governor was going after the mayor about Austin. Wonder what the solution is though? Actually try to help homeless or just tell them to move elsewhere? I know Key West, FL and Nashville, TN has a busing program to send homeless people to Colorado.

I know even here there's a huge heroin problem. Seen recently that the county sheriff and city police joined together kicking out a bunch of homeless in the woods, and then everytime you go to the supermarket people with signs. Sad, but I know there's been cases of people faking homeless to panhandle so don't know who's real or not. It seems like we have so many resources, and one of the richest nations yet we still have homelessness.

I know in some cities it's illegal to even sit on the sidewalk, what if someone is older or disabled needing to take a break and no benches to sit? Then some cities it's illegal to sleep in your car even if legally parked, but I know there's been challences over that. Some area even put spikes to prevent people from sitting down too. Just seems like instead of dealing with it, they rather want them to move along.
I'd call myself an ignorant as far as philosophy goes, but I found „Philosophical investigations” much more readable and influential on me than the „Tractatus”.
Sure it is, because you keep focusing on the few buggy implementations, instead of those that actually work.

There are plenty of leaking object graphs with circular references implementations in native CPUs, and yet people do use them, starting with C++ standard library collection types or Objective-C ARC.

So your point on refuting whatever I present instead of appreciating the work of the implementations that actually work is kind of moving goalposts.

Because apparently people bother with native CPU implementations, even with those bugs, so why should WebAssembly be any different?!?

You don't want to bother, fine go watch tv, play football, whatever is your fancy.

Me, I will be supporting anyone that with the WebAssembly we get to play with, decides to implement their favourite language.

https://docs.assemblyscript.org/details/runtime#collecting-g...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hosting-...

https://fsbolero.io/

https://swiftwasm.org/

https://tinygo.org/lang-support/

Like they say back home "Those that don't have dogs hunt with cats".
How does one eyeroll in text? Asking for a friend...
Man, that logo hit me right in the nostalgia. Nice that they haven't modernised it actually.

Also, that homepage is incredibly lightweight by today's standards: 125KB with uBlock Origin enabled and still "only" 390KB with it disabled. Granted I'm looking at it on a fibre connection, but for me it loads almost instantly.

I imagine, if you're still using the Netscape dial-up internet access service over a 56Kb modem, it's going to be a rather different experience: probably 20 - 30 seconds to load with an adblocker switched on, and maybe up to a couple of minutes without one. I used to get stroppy with pages >50KB back when I still used a modem because of the time they took to load.

Still, a very beautiful and nostalgic homepage. Props to Verizon for not screwing it up.
ben gurion is widely acknowledged as being one of the most secure airports in the world. And they get by without all these stupid rules about shoes and liquids etc.
Exactly! Quite a nice refreshment and storytelling between startups, politics and tech.
I took the habit of treating the DOB like a password when asked by an entity that has no business knowing it. I give a random date and keep track of it in my password manager.
I also like text, but if you're genuinely asking, yes! Video evidently works great for a lot of people.
You can't seek it as well as text, so instead rely on your memory more to remember things that are still unclear or don't make sense yet, and see when they are explained later.

It's okay to have different learning styles I think, it's not too surprising to me that some prefer different medium
BBC homepage down in France, with redirect to following:

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Why did this submission get flagged?
> I noticed that wikiFeet has pretty strict rules about whose feet and what kinds of photos you can post. The person has to have an IMDb page to be fair game. Do you pay attention to those rules when you want to post someone like me, who isn’t as well-known?

> Yeah. For example, a musician from England who performed barefoot, like I’ll find a picture I think is sexy, and I’ll put her name in IMDb. And she didn’t have a page, so I couldn’t post hers. But you did.

I feel the same way, but this seems to me to be a rule to make sure that only pictures of people who have considerable public exposure to begin with are okay to be posted, which seems sensible to me.
But we are a republic not a democracy for a reason. We don't want a minority who has time to show up to make decisions.
Yeah I thought the same thing. It's not terribly far from major cities and it's been there for 30 years, somebody must have tried.
Talk to your customers and ask them who they read.
"True science does not immediately believe or disbelieve. It investigates dispassionately."

You may not like the label they chose for themselves, but that's exactly what the skeptical movement advocates! (skeptoid included)
The comments on that flickr photo don't seem to contradict/disprove the points made by the Camera Bits post. It sounds like he still had to go through Photos and manually attach tag data like geolocation information.
Sorry, missed your question. About 75%.