skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's something to be discussed, but OP was quite disparaging with his comparison to somebody cleaning a chalkboard. Providing the interns participate in the investigation, as they did in this case, they should be included in any award given to the team that wrote the piece.
you mean like this map (http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/projects/2017-08_mediacloud/G...) created by a harvard study?

You are right of course, it is important to know the bias of sources which is why so many fact checking sites popped up after 2016. Before then I would always go wikipedia for unbiased information. Sadly we live in a time where the majority of news papers has a clear and sometimes publicly stated political leaning and bias. Often this can be traced through ownership since many are now owned by the same entity.

If the emails and documents was leaked today then hopefully fact checking sites would be all over it and pulling it apart regardless who originally published them. I do recall a few people were looking at checksum and correlate statements to previously public information, but nothing news worthy came out of that.
To a first approximation, most servers with distinct codebases are HTTP app servers ("request handlers").

And not just simple programs and short scripts; very complex programs, as long as they keep state in a transactional store, and a request has approximately the same lifetime as the transaction.
I started feeling that way a couple of years ago, and currently have three online newspaper subscriptions, two national and one local. I mostly end up getting to those stories from Twitter links (or from facebook for stories in the local paper), rather than the front page of the paper, but real journalism is absolutely vital to a functioning democracy (and ours is in a dangerous place right now), so I want to contribute to that.

As an aside: WaPo is cheap-as-free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription (several months free, and then the price goes up to something like the price of a cup of coffee every month), and they've broken a number of really important stories just in the past couple of years. I can't think of many reasons for folks who already have Prime to not have a WaPo subscription. It's good, neutral and well-sourced, journalism at a great price, so it's one of my national paper subscriptions.
If I were better credentialed, I would definitely be looking to get into semiconductors right now. It's an exciting time in terms of manufacturing processes, and I think some of the most interesting and meaningful optimization problems ever formulated come from semiconductor design and manufacturing, not to mention the growing popularity of specialized hardware.

I would tell a younger version of myself to focus your education on some aspect of the semiconductors industry.
Yes but centrifugal forces on the simle “rotating fluid” equivalent are too strong and require a costly casing when compared to an equivalent solid flywheel. What they do is they use the rotating part as a pump to push the fluid up a vertical pressurized storage and the pressure there plus the potential energy of the fluid store the energy in a more manageable matter than having it all in the fluid speed
That's sympathy. You're thinking of sympathy. Not empathy.
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Sounds like regenerative braking... not that hard to maintain if installed properly, either - the only sewage exposed part should be the blades?
> Maybe that's why hackers tend to not be very xenophobic, they have something to focus on other than dividing up the morning's pie.

But certainly tribal when it comes to technology choices.
A Dying 700-Year-Old Banyan Tree Was Brought Back to Life with an IV
Used to smuggle drugs seems by far the most likely. Mummies would have the benefit of being ostensibly fragile, valuable, and repellent to most. That’s a trifecta drug smugglers would hope for, in terms of evading deep inspections.
What do these projects hope to gain from pushing bad tech or broken ideas? Why do so many founders WANT to bust a Theranos-esque move? Its nuts
A little reversal from the manager's perspective...

Isn't it the team's productivity the manager's responsibility. And if one player is not playing the game so to speak (holding / blocking a flow of information for an hour even if it is non-urgent) then shouldnt they follow up? Maybe not after one time... But, it seems the right thing to do from the manager's perspective?
A Tale of Two Industries: The RSA Conference in 2018
I’ve not found that to be the case. In fact on at least 2 occasions in my career adding scrum practices to a product team essentially destroyed them.

I’ve seen instances of all of the items the article claims being problems in practice. That was across a wide variety of teams & skill levels.

I’ve also seen no evidence in the literature or research that backs up your assertions.

I’ll concede some teams have benefited from scrum practices, but in the face of my anecdotal experience & the lack of data forgive me for being skeptical of a practice that seems largely around to keep process consultants in business.

I’m certainly not receptive to a defense that someone who criticizes it just works at the wrong place or hasn’t seen “real” scrum.
How Overshooting Killed a Gaming Studio
> He is in the absolutely perfect position to say otherwise

Let's explore that claim:

Mike Pompeo had three general options, regardless of the truth:

1) State that he has no such evidence. In this case he'd draw the ire of the dems, probably the ire of various dem/republican pundits, and certainly the ire of members of the intelligence community who had already stated a clear link exists.

2) Say nothing. This is a decent short term tactic but would open him up to being vulnerable in future hearings since he has no stated position.

3) Claim that evidence exists. This puts him safely in the company of republican/dem pundits, rest of intelligence community, etc.

We don't know the truth because we don't have the evidence. But I don't think we can say with certainty that Mike Pompeo was in the "perfect position" to reveal the truth. It's equally likely he was in the perfect position to go along with a narrative that was both popular and unsupported by factual evidence.
I can answer that one! It sucks! Not that difficult to imagine!

We only have ADSL, satellite and dial-up connections available where I am.

Speed-wise, it's never at or above 2mbps.
Well, empathy is a word with a definition, not a directive as to what is helpful to do.

Empathy is the ability to replay another person's state in your mind so that you can understand it. It's not directly connected to what you do with that information, though. You can just as much use empathy to manipulate someone since it lets you model mental states well.

In your particular example, if what you say is true, having empathy would mean understanding that the person probably wouldn't care for you to tell them that you understand. :P
TFA obviously doesn't have enough information to evaluate this, but it seems unlikely that a fertility-destroying mutation would sweep the globe. This version of whatever gene they're modifying would be out-competed by literally every other allele. If anything, one doubts it would sustain long enough to affect the whole of New Zealand. They'd have to constantly replenish the stocks of CRISPR rats, much like many fisheries do.
I do genuinely wonder if all the folks on the "let's make fun of curl | sh" train also steadfastly refuse to run ./configure on tarballs from SourceForge, and instead spend the time to audit every custom M4 macro in the project along with every Makefile.am (lest either of them shell out to something untoward) and run autoreconf themselves.
I'm pleasantly surprised by these rules
Yes, like LGBT rights, slavery is bad, scientific method is good. These are things most of us in the West take for granted as objectively true, but there is surely a cultural component to everything. What can ya do?

In traditional Chinese medicine (my uncle and dad believe in it despite both having PhDs) they believe in acupuncture and chi.

Two months ago my ankle was bothering me. I thought “it’s because I just walked like ten miles.” My dad was like nah, it’s energy flow or something. Then I let him put huge amounts of pressure on my upper arm area (because apparently that’s connected to my ankle). After five minutes of pain, he proudly sat back and said, “better?” I wanted to say “no you idiot. I sprained my ankle badly ten years ago and just walked excessively. You know this.” But I didn’t because I don’t get to see him much and didn’t want to hurt his feelings. Believe it or not, it didn’t help at all, and my arm was bruised for two weeks. The guy has two PhDs. Two. Published papers and stuff.

Just goes to show how... compartmentalized? Inconsistent? our minds can be. /end rant

I’ve been trying to find a more “untainted” and universal set of truths, and that just leads to reflecting on human nature and behavior. Then again, there is a heavy dose of western skepticism and whatever in my methods.

Culture runs deep.
The cost of hiring security engineers and testing for security bugs is constant with regard to number of users. Whether you have 1000 users or 1 billion users, your service has the same security if you spend the same amount on testing an engineers.

But the cost of human intervention in recovery increases linearly with the number of users.

I agree with your ideas for automation. But human intervention has problems.

One solution for human intervention is to charge a non-refundable fee for recovery. This has the advantage of discouraging attackers from trying to recover. The problem is I think this would cause bad PR for the companies. Now instead of blog posts saying "Google locked me out of my account" there would be blog posts saying "Google is charging me $20 to access my own account" or "Google is holding my account hostage for cash".
Texas

Texas enacted its own biometric data law shortly after the passage of the BIPA. Similar to the BIPA in many regards, the Texas law required informed consent by individuals before organizations could begin collecting biometric identifiers. However, the consent did not need to be written. The Texas biometric law also imposed limitations on the sale of biometric information and set forth security and retention requirements. Only the Texas Attorney General can enforce the state's biometric law as the law does not provide for a private cause of action.

READ: the law does not provide for a private cause of action. This is how Texas politicians keep the stream of corporate money flowing their way, just eliminate private claims, but keep the potential threat of Texas Govt. enforcement, and if/when the Texas OAG get's the nod to drop his hammer, facebook and all the others come a running to the legislature / politicians spending a huge chunk of change to avert being sued. When enough money passes hands, both sides smile, shake hands, and quietly the case is dropped. It's sorta the same thing going on in class action suits for defects. Both the plantiff representing the class - - and the defendant corporation that caused the harm - - agree to cover all the plantiff law firm legal millions in expenses, but just throw a bone (like a rebate coupon) to the class. A judge has to certify the deal, and often they are compelled to agree because they have a willing plantiff and a willing defendant, they need to get this case off their docket.
Reasonable sized black holes evaporate extremely slowly. A black hole the mass of the moon would take 10^45 years to evaporate, so none would have evaporated yet in the lifetime of this universe which is about 1.4*10^10 years old. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation. Only black holes around 10^11 kilos or less will have evaporated by now. Couldn't think of any objects around that size to compare to, but there are some here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)
He also left out a bunch of other networks that one wouldn't really need to scan: 100.64.0.0/10 [0] and 198.18.0.0/15 [1] (and a bunch of /24s [2,3,4] too but, relatively speaking, those are pretty insignificant), although one might find some "interesting" (CGN) stuff in 100.64.0.0/10 if their ISP was making use of it.

There are also large portions of the 13 /8s (218 million IPs!) assigned to the US Department of Defense [5] that you wouldn't need to scan since there are no routes to them at all: the 11.0.0.0/8, 22.0.0.0/8, 26.0.0.0/8, 28.0.0.0/8, 29.0.0.0/8, 30.0.0.0/8, and 33.0.0.0/8 networks are, for all intents and purposes, "missing" from the public Internet.

Additionally, there are only four /24s in 21.0.0.0/8 that are reachable from the public Internet. Out of the 16,777,216 IP addresses that make up 7.0.0.0/8, only 255 are reachable (7.7.7.0/24) [6].

There's pretty much no point in scanning -- "mapping" -- this address place (unless you are looking specifically for US government/military stuff).

ETA: In the interest of time, you probably wanna skip over 44.0.0.0/8 [7] also.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6598

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2544

[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737

[3]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3068

[4]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7534

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

[6] Interestingly, the ASN (27651) that is advertising 7.7.7.0/24 into BGP appears to be registered to a company in Chile -- and they're also advertising 4.4.4.0/24. I would not be surprised to find out that neither of these advertisements are legitimate.

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
I don't know, water, shit, toilet paper .. not something I would like a turbine in.
Some doctors have high mortality records because they specialize in treating deadly diseases. And you'd rather be treated by a doctor who has only ever treated non-fatal ones? Well, that'll work if you never have anything worse than a common cold.
"Was this person insane in the first place? No, I lived 4 years of my life with this guy and he was one of the smartest, most intelligent people I've ever met."

Intelligent people can have mental issues. They can be really good at hiding them too -- both from other people and sometimes even from themselves.

I've read over and over again of people living together for decades, and one day they find out that the other person is a serial killer or an abuser or some other sort of criminal, and they had no idea, even after living their whole lives with them. People are really good at deceiving each other, and often the people closest to them are just in denial, and either overlook or make excuses for behavior and signs that sometime look worrisome in retrospect or when seen by people who aren't so involved.

Psychedelics, especially at large doses, are certainly not without risks. Some people just aren't ready to face what they might reveal. Many people also don't treat them with much respect, viewing them merely as party drugs or sometimes even destructively. There are ways to use them constructively, and ways of maximizing the chances of having a productive experience and of integrating what one learned during that experience back in to one's ordinary life.

For specific recommendations on maximizing the positive potential of psychedelics I'd recommend reading "The Secret Chief Revealed" and "The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide":

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...

https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
‘Overwhelmed’ Postal Carrier Hoarded 17,000 Pieces of Mail, Officials Say
I blame the manager at the company. Whoever was in charge of that development group, and every personnel manager above him. Everyone thinks because it's not a skill you can test for, that anyone can manage. It's not true.

It should be viewed as a profession (emphasis on being a professional in the segment) no different from any other. Teaching is often treated the same way. Requiring intensive study, and expertise in many aspects including psychology. Simply because anyone can stand in front of a classroom, everyone thinks they can be educators. There's authors of programming books where someone who knows nothing about the profession of education, is trying to educate and it shows.

The manager should have had the awareness (and care), to sit down the author and explain to him you can't go 0 to 100 in a new organization on day one. You have to build credibility, slowly. Over time you'll make a bigger impact, after you've gained the respect of your peers. Instead, they just allowed this to continue and grow.

Coming in as a new guy to a pond trying to make the biggest splash is going to gain you resentment, in most places at least. That's just a psychological reality, whether it makes logical sense to the author or not.

I think he understands all of this now. I don't blame him, or his coworkers that he addressed. I think he still has a lesson to learn, that the manager of these folks failed miserably, as most do. That's who should be fired along with their superiors.

Management is almost always at fault, and very rarely gets the blame they've afforded themselves.
It was a series of articles and she was key to the story. It was a team award, so all authors who got a byline were included.

The OP compared her work to someone “wiping down Einstein’s blackboard”. The dismissal of that comment was entirely warranted.
That was infinity0's point -- there's no reason to scan them.
In fact on at least 2 occasions in my career adding scrum practices to a product team essentially destroyed them.

Why was Scrum added to these teams if they were already working? It's a tool to deal with problems. It's not something to use if another process is already working.

I’ve seen instances of all of the items the article claims being problems in practice.

I have found essentially the exact opposite of all the problems that are claimed to exist, and I've equally seen no research to confirm that they somehow destroy teams.

my anecdotal experience & the lack of data forgive me for being skeptical of a practice that seems largely around to keep process consultants in business

My experience directly contradicts that. Every Scrum-ish team I've worked with has had a pretty steady pace of development and produced good software. Some other processes have worked too; the worst I've seen are fake-agile-actually-waterfall processes.

I’m certainly not receptive to a defense that someone who criticizes it just works at the wrong place or hasn’t seen “real” scrum.

There's no such thing as 'real Scrum' so I won't use that defence. A good process is one that works for the team and company. Scrum is not a universal solution; for extremely high-performing teams it's probably overkill; for bureaucratic teams it will crush everything. It's just another good tool to use where appropriate.
How do you estimate the difficulty in a way that does not involve wrong incentives on the part of the surgeon or whoever is doing the estimation when money is involved?
The part about nonsense words is great (one of my pet peeves) but how do you accomplish that in practice? Everything has to have a name. For example, when you're developing Windows 8 what would you call Metro Mode? "Alternate touch optimized desktop UI" is a bit of a mouthful.
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> There is a weird idea that empathy is something that makes you good.

It's a pretty heavy prerequisite. A lot of bad things can be traced to people not understanding other people, or refusing to understand them (dehumanization). It's sufficiently fundamental and a common problem that I'm not sure how big the cohort of emphatic-but-manipulative people is. It certainly exists, but there are other issues mixed in there, such as moral detachment (i.e., people who decided they're not interested in being good).

I believe pretty much all of your typical -isms (sexism, racism, homophobia) are rooted in lack of empathy towards groups that one is physically unable to be part of. Most people don't have active empathy ability (i.e., modeling people not like them), they just empathize with their own experience only. That's why your otherwise normal people can end up with very problematic beliefs.

Empathy also requires you to understand the world in a more complete way, which also tends to break down quite a range of rationalizations, and rationalizations can lead to a lot of evil, as well.

So while you're technically right that empathy is merely a tool, it's a very major tool, and I've found people with relationship problems who are telling me they have no empathy, don't know how to do it, don't want to do it, are pretty much a dead end.

If I had a button that could suddenly make lots of people more empathetic, I would absolutely press it and be convinced that it'd make the world a much, much better place.
I don’t buy it.

Any serious software engineer knows about the CAP theorem.
Some of these I really like, and some of them are well-intentioned but seem disconnected from reality.

- Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done

This sounds like a great idea, however it can lead to things like the CEO pinging engineers to fix problems he doesn't fully understand. I've seen this happen often, and it's really annoying how often we have to tell the CEO he can't do this (extremely important people have already quit because of it).

I love the idea about walking out of meetings though, and just minimizing them as much as possible.
The radius of the biggest black hole that would have evaporated by now is about a femtometer, or the size of a proton.
A million times this! As they say: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". This quote is usually attributed to Bertrand Russell, but he didn't say it (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/), he has written a good essay titled "In Praise of Idleness", though, https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/. However, I think there he was talking about idleness as the opposite of work forced on you.

Nowadays it's clear that the enemy is not this type of work ("morality of the Slave State", as Russel puts it), which, since explicit, can always be fought against, but "fun-work" that you are tricked into doing: browsing the internet/HN/FB/Instagram/Spotify/etc. continuously to get your daily kicks. Even in the restroom! My son's room is packed with all kinds of cool mind-expanding toys, he's usually flustered about which one to play with.
> Nowadays, I'm usually making Doctors aware of advancements in their field... Scary stuff.

Are you taking about your cases? Because keeping on top of the narrow score that's currently relevant to you is a different level of time investment than keeping on top of everything happening in the field, after already learning a large part of it, and keeping in mind current treating guidelines which lag behind research.
“What civilization is is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.” - Terence McKenna