skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of apology for a problematic change misses how allowing small changes eventually normalizes the change[1], allowing another similarly "small" step to be taken in the future. Today it's "just the sign-in page"; tomorrow it will expand to cover something else because "it's already something you're used to using on the sign-in page".

It's rare for major changes to arrive all at once. Small steps are taken, with each eventually becoming the new normal that allows another small step to be taken[2]. This isn't always intentional - each small step can seem rational at the time, in isolation.

[any replies complaining about "slippery slopes" will be ignored; the normalization of deviance does not mean change necessarily will follow, just that normalizing incremental changes allows people to support changes without noticing the larger picture]

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
I'm not sure you understand how many entities are trying to get into your computer to track you/steal data/mine bitcoin/etc. These are active attacks against your computer every day if you are a regular user clicking viral shit on Facebook, random ads for things, etc.

Look at how many 3rd party JS libraries get loaded from remote sites for metrics, frameworks, tracking, ads, etc for something like a newspaper site. There are probably 15 servers involved, most of which run by companies with limited security expertise (if any) so frequently they end up compromised to inject garbage into visitors' browsers.

There is absolutely no lack of availability of guns or people attempting to use them on you in this analogy. The bullet proof vests are good, but that doesn't mean there isn't someone attempting to shoot you in the chest every time you go out.

Look at spectre/meltdown. Arbitrary code execution is not safe. Not in a browser sandbox, not in a kernel namespace, not in a hypervisor. You're protected from common thugs most of the time, but your bullet proof vest will fail if someone with a powerful gun takes aim.

There is a reason the CIA doesn't use the same AWS servers as the public and it's the same reason you can't view Facebook from inside a secure military network. Sandboxes are just a protection mechanism from well-understood attacks, they don't provide anything near the level of real isolation that Internet companies would love you to believe.
Or are developers more likely to pay for software, and pay more overall?
Konami probably isn't deleting P.T. for Halloween
NASDAQ and Microsoft Tied Up to Offer Blockchain Software
Would this be a good fit for Smalltalk, as it is image based? It seems it can remove a level of complexity, if you can treat your image, and so all your objects, as constantly persisted?
Invest in soylent green.
Same in Switzerland. The good default pencil was the red one by Caran d'Ache. The yellow ones (with an eraser on top) where super cheap and would always break or get dull very fast.
I didn't learn any of this in school. Any MOOCs for cloud architecture?
This is an excellent write up of exactly what I meant.

I should have said arrogance really, young developers often remind me of the conversation between yoda and kenobi on the arrogance of anakin in the clone wars.
We're optimized for the survival of our genes, not ourselves. Sometimes that means sacrificing ourselves, or not having children, etc.
Really? They banned Firefox and Opera?
Free version: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41558-018-0321-8
> This proposal implements clock offsets, but does it support continuous time scaling?

No. The main reason why is because it's very difficult to do with the current time-keeping machinery within the kernel. Some people also want the ability to freeze the current time, which is also similarly difficult -- and in some cases harder because then what should CLOCK_MONATONIC give you? There's also the fact that there's currently no interface to set the "clock speed" do any of these things.

Making time go backwards I think would simply be impossible, due to how many things in the kernel that interact with time probably make the (reasonable) assumption that time goes forwards. Also CLOCK_MONATONIC would do the exact opposite in such circumstances.
Release Notes: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/blob/master/RELEAS...
I am Vegetarian. It is all about the local food tradition and balancing. We must follow local food tradition to survive and healthy. I am belong to India where there are people have different food habits region and religon wise. Best of vegeterian food habits are followed by Jain fellows (https://www.jainworld.com/education/level1/lesson07.htm)
Why does Photoshop use only 2 cores at maximum?
There is a time namespace proposal[1], but currently the answer to this question is no. The reason is that timekeeping is incredibly complicated within the kernel (for instance -- when userspace gets the current time, it's read from a vDSO page that the kernel injects into every process and thus is updated by the kernel asynchronously). Adding different clock speeds is already non-trivial, let alone switching out different time backends.

The current time namespace proposal just allows you to set the current time separately from the host, which is actually quite a difficult thing to do already (it takes 20 patches)...

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1810022310360.1...
Let's say you see foot prints outside your house. And they look like deer footprints, and so you say they are. Somebody then shows that a small moose could have left similar tracks. You don't need to state what definitively left those tracks to say that it's premature to declare them deer footprints.

In the signal world this is even more true, because with signals this faint everything is going to come down to probabilistic analysis. And so the real question is not binary (gravitational waves or not gravitational waves), but rather the chance that what was detected was caused by gravitational waves. And so anything that could confound those probabilities is as good as a refutation, even without any explanation for what did cause the observed phenomena.

I have no opinion on the issue one way or the other, but I do have to say that the large numbers of appeals to authority and ad hominem from the LIGO researchers do not inspire confidence. People tend to resort to these sorts of responses for the lack of a rational refutation. I found a much more informative article on the issue here [1], surprisingly from Forbes. There too, the responses from the LIGO team feel off. For instance they were criticizing the Danish team for using the tutorials LIGO provided on their site alongside the data! I mean...??? Did LIGO ever publish the exact method used to obtain their results?

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/16/was-...
I've always thought Miller columns were underused.
Linux and glibc have been working on 2038 problems for at least the past decade.
This doesn't change what gettimeofday(2) gives you (and actually you can't even use ptrace easily to fake the time of day because gettimeofday(2) isn't a real syscall -- it's actually implemented as a read from the vDSO page the kernel maps into every process).
Amazon operates in countries other than the US.
A month isn't long enough. He barely got to the start of the withdrawal pangs.
Just like the evil TSA imaging systems, best thing to do is refuse to participate.
Historically many female authors published under male pen names. The Bronte sisters for example.
There's a solution here that's being used in email. The user has to provide a proof of work.
Fake..
There was a time, brief I'm sure, when making something available on the internet basically meant paying for a high speed connection to be installed wherever you were operating, rather than a big cooled building filled with servers.

The rental model isn't an inherent part of web hosting, it's just much easier and much of the internet is geared toward things working that way.

I'm quite sure that it would be impossible to do that in some situations and for some use cases now, and in some areas it would not work out well, but in other areas it's trivially easy to find "business class" fiber service with at least 1-Gbit up and down, which is faster than the pipes a lot of hosting providers offer.

There's a much stronger case to be made against ISPs tampering with or denying service to those sorts of customers, who are directly paying for a physical connection to wherever they're located.
I think nowadays kung fu/shaolin have gained more widespread social awareness, as well as (lord help me) Dragonball Z, so saying "The 18 palms Dragon form", or "18 fists of the Golden Dragon" won't get the same kind of cringe factor compared to maybe 20-30 years ago.

Now ninjas, on the other hand... how can japanese audiences watch anything to do with ninjas in hollywood, and not throw up straightaway?
I disabled "Hover actions" under general settings and the slowness is fixed for me.
> What state are you in?

California.

> After CA income tax, etc etc effective tax rate is easily 40%+.

The marginal rate is that high yes. Pretty easy breakdown at 200k:

CA Disability: 0.00% (phased out at $114k)
Social Security: 0.00% (phased out at $128k)
Medicare/Medicaid: 2.35%
California Tax: 9.30%
Federal Tax: 32.00%

So that's around 40 percent of every _extra_ dollar, emphasis on "extra". The average rate rate is far lower, around 18% federal, 9% cali.

> My experience is more similar to the parent post; bonuses which are part of your total comp get taxed slightly higher than base pay.

Your experience with bonuses is misleading. They're taxed as normal income, but the withholding formulas for paychecks are calculated independently per paycheck, as if you earned that much every paycheck. So if you have one biweekly paycheck with a 15 percent of salary bonus, that's taxed as if you made 5x as much. End result: you are withheld as though in the top tax bracket for the bonus paycheck, and your refund will be larger than expected.

tl;dr: don't look at your pay stubs, look at the actual tax returns you file instead for effective tax rates.
You could call Einstein one of those labels and it wouldn't be much odder than calling him German. He was actually born in The Kingdom of Würtemburg, at the beginning of the "German Empire" (a federation of kingdoms whose borders were very different from today's Germany). And even then, what we now call "Germany" is something that only came into existence in the 1990s. A lot of people try to project nation-states backwards through history, but they're a relatively recent notion, and their current configuration even more so.

Specifically, he lived in the German speaking part of two of those countries, and it doesn't make sense to refer to German-speaking regions of the late 1800s and early 1900s by 21st century labels.
If by ‘cred stuffing’ you mean brute forcing accounts, that’s what short lockouts and 2 factor authentication are for. JavaScript is just a layer of obfuscation and doesn’t fundamentally help.
It downloads files and starts a windows service:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/007560cc35e78ba74d6fa9732e...
Life is too short to live with regret

-Old man w/ a beard
Worst man-made crisis: Country that could soon disappear
Fossil energy is just too cheap. If pollution, climate change and other negative effects were really priced in, Bitcoin miners would stop mining or switch to green energy, for example geothermal in Iceland. After all we know there are big mining farms there already.
How do you know AI lie detectors don't work?
PyCharm’s features are truly god-tier.

Hands down the best code completion and awareness of any plugin on any language I’ve seen, ever. It would, without fail, speedily and correctly pull up the actual methods attached to a Pandas DataFrame, along with their documentation. Worked equally well with any class I wrote, or any library I imported.

Semantic highlighting is awesome, and I miss it in every language I don’t have it in.
Legitimately worth every dollar I spent on the licence.
Not really, imho.
Many people today seems to not talk anymore, they just fight for whatever agenda they have. My impression is many do it because they fear it will not end well. In the "best" case they just wasted their time on some meaningless talk, in worst case, someone tricks them into abandoning their important agenda, while in the other worst case they must admit they were wrong the whole time.

In my country there was a political movement some years ago which did this for a longer time, bringing those arguments for not talking with the press or other people. Since then I observed similar reactions with other crowds too. I think today, people have become so talkative about anything, that we see now a movement back into the opposite direction. At the end, not talking is simpler, faster. A downvote takes a second, talking it out can go on for minutes, hours, days and days..
Before the movies I had a hard time convincing people to get past the first 150 pages. And then you have the whole thing about the LOTR taking a different turn when Tolkien made it a larger story and not just a hobbit adventure.

I like LOTR because I like backstories and the whole book is about hearing what's happening behind the mountains. I could never get into Game of Thrones and my girlfriend never made it through LOTR. To each its own.
And absent from (or at least heavily obfuscated on) the mobiles and tablets young students use as their primary computing devices.
Why do you think these won't work? I would think they have a dataset that they're validating them on if they're calling it "AI".

I think it's unlikely that they'll be perfect, but they may very well be good enough to filter people for further, more intensive screening.
State Managed Authentication in Angular with NGRX
Except games consoles. And tablets. And phones. And quite a lot of online services..
I consider wu xia as fantasy with martial arts, as much as western stories have any resemblance to what really happened in the "wild" west. I think Jin Yong's draw, as with most fiction writers, is placing the fantasy within a context of current social issues, thus allowing readers strong identification.
In my antenna design course in graduate school, our Professor had insider information about the specifications the Starlink people were targeting for their mobile ground stations. He gave designing a similar antenna system as one of the final projects for the course. The exact numbers aren't important (nor are they really a tight secret; if you are well-versed in antenna design I imagine you could spend 10 minutes and come up with a list of specifications that are pretty close to what we were given in the course). We found that the mobile base station would be neither complex to construct, nor expensive (Conservatively <$100. We were focused on the antenna (with the right manufacturing deals we estimated ~$15-20 for total antenna fabrication costs) and we didn't investigate the radio or amplifier too thoroughly so we just budgeted $80 for those pieces and called it good).

The fundamental requirements were things like: at least X dB main lobe gain, electrically steerable to any point within a the cone 60 degrees off of azimuth, total physical size less than .5 m^2, operates at Y.YY GHz with resonant bandwidth of Z.ZZ GHz, etc... The design my team went with was an array of microstrip antennas with a network of phase shifters to electrically steer the signal via beamforming. It's actually quite amazing what you can do if you just get the right shape of metal to vibrate at the frequencies you pump into it. Antenna design is a wonderful confluence of mathematics, design and black magic.
You can whitelist a directory on WD's settings.
I'm not up to speed with the latest and greatest of what java-script can do, but isn't the source code fundamentally user-visible?

We always used to laugh at people who did website security with javascript, the whole idea was that security processing had to be done server-side.
It's like a programming community, but with martial arts exponents. And instead of hackfests, they beat each other up.

Do I win a prize? :-P
It's a big exaggeration to say Clojure stack traces aren't useful. They have some extra noise but they do the job of pointing out the call chain and the exception value. Tooling (CIDER at least) can automatically hide the frames about the Java runtime and highlight the Clojure info & line numbers.
Based on your recounting of events I see four companies and you having "problems" at three of them. Working for a big tech company and the getting your side-job acquihired also raises some concerns.

You write that you got a "top management position" - at how many years out of university? I am guessing less than 10 based on your summary. That also rings some alarm bells.

Granted there always will be people who are difficult to get along with. A situation that unfortunately goes with the territory in any corporate environment. There are many articles that suggest that many people in management positions are sociopaths.

In any confrontation there are two parties involved. You might need professional help, i.e. a therapist or career coach, to identify how you may be able to alter your behaviours to attain better outcomes for yourself and, ideally, for others.
UK Gov Puts £50m into AI Fellowships, Seeks 25% Boost to Productivity
Raj Fowler Explains Unlocking the DevOps Psychology
Again, this is wrong depending on how the client is implemented, if updates are signed, if we are talking about a protocol, etc.
False Alarms and Alert Fatigue: The Cost of Bad Design on the Healthcare System
>Sales Mistake #1 - Building Before you Start Selling

What if the customer wants to see a demo ? Is it better to inform them from the very start that this is a conversation about the product that is non existent ? Isn't it better to have a MVP in place.

Almost all the sales guides/people tell this. But this is also something I can't get my head around.
Because there is no plausible existing technology by which it would.

And it's a similar promise to a lot of other over-promising AI technologies that don't work, like "fake news detectors".
AMD Ryzen 2400G, Linux, Firefox thus no hardware decoding, Youtube 4K@30 - 0 drops. CPU price is almost twice short of 7200U which certainly can't deliver.
>Since when is somebody shouting about their random product the only way I can learn things? Active discovery is still a thing.

Sure. Let's say you want to learn about a new product through "active discovery." What do you do that doesn't involve other people telling you that it's good?

>Make something, make details available. If people need it, they will find it and buy it.

Discord became so popular because it's good, right? Not at all because they advertised and sponsored the hell out of things, right?

>No, I want better products that I actually need, not more, or just newer.

And with no advertising nobody is going to bother improving their products, because nobody new will be able to compete.

>We're reading different things if that was your takeaway.

It says quite directly that research has found associations. That's a correlation and not causation.

>You seem to hold your own mind in pretty low disregard, needing to be spoon fed to discover. You can be more than an idle consumer.

I've tried making things and found out the hard way how difficult it is for whatever I made to be found.
It's not criminal per se. It's all in the law - they just aren't perks available to the typical employee. The cash jobs are but they're in a business where they can get this; a typical engineer can't ask to be paid in cash from a large corporate client even if they are freelance. In Australia it isn't that hard - people often can't get tradies here and as a tradie you are spoilt with calls for work. I personally know some pretty rude tradies that constantly get work anyway despite doing bad work. Getting a tradie to travel more than 5km to do work around my house depending on the trade is hard; they have enough work within a 5 K radius not to bother. They can charge what they like and typically do. Especially for the top end of town.
In Australia and New Zealand they're red and black[1].

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/AMbEQzT.jpg
The answer is that it depends. We could be talking about protected js with SRI, signed updates with an electron client, a browser plugin or native hashing, a protocol similar to SSH that hashes the client pw, etc.
I don't know jin Yong (what would I read from him first as european? Any recommendations?)

But I tend to dislike the overarching glorification of Tolkien. Surely an impressive writer and world-builder but surely not the only one and not necessarily the best.
> not quite on the same creative level as Tolkien.

I haven't read either of these author's works, but I have to disagree with this assessment if that's all you are basing it on.

In my opinion, it's much harder to create a story within the confines of real history, as you are limited to real constraints.

Thus the world-building needs to be much more intricate and problems can't be solved by a some "deus ex machina" plot device.

In fact, using history as a backdrop would put Yong in a similar category as Shakespeare, and surely you wouldn't say Shakespeare is "less creative" than Tolkien.
In Australia and New Zealand, Staedtler are hexagonal but red and black.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/AMbEQzT.jpg
There is a wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia#Jianghu

But yeah, try translating that in a few words.
Basically: everything work/life balance related. Working from home, working part time (4 days instead of 5 is a game changer, totally worth the 20% pay cut), flexible hours and rarely having to work overtime are the most valuable to me.

I don't mind working my ass off during office hours, but spending time with my family is worth more to me than any job could give me. I turned down offers that would pay a magnitute of what I'm making right now, just because I'd lose the 1 day off and the expected overtime workload.
Can a robot learn a language the way a child does?
It is absolutely not an urban legend. I experienced it myself with my Z5500 speakers! It was a bit soft but on max volume you could clearly make out what was being said
A Gentle Explanation of Dimensionality Reduction with T-SNE
Are hollywood-ninjas worst than anime-ninjas?
Social+Capital's Annual Letter 2018 [pdf]
10 years of Bitcoin: Is Satoshi's vision still alive?
Sales people can sell things they don't have on hand, and doing the selling first can help verify that the proposed product is in fact, a good fit for the market (or that the market even exists).
Not quite, what we call now Germany came in existence in 1871. Since then Germany lost a lot of territory. Einstein was born in 1879.
Kids' apps may have a lot more ads than you think
right but thinking for instance. would it make sense to leave to facebook just for the comp bump at l4 even if you really like your job at google? just because being a new hire would give you more comp?
Actually Vikings invaded much of western Europe as well as Ukraine earlier starting in 800AD in response to Carolus Magnus proselytism, and it is contested that they were "murdering and pillaging".
Most probably this vision was propagated by their enemies in the Christian world.

We do not know for the "mass famines", but this time was the Medieval Warm Period (800–1300). It is thought that between c. 950 and c. 1100 was the Northern Hemisphere's warmest period since the Roman Warm Period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age
Consumer PCs these days make it hard. There are so many (really terrible) tools on these Computers. Ex. last month I asked a friend (a very not computer guy), if he could give me some pictures from an event last summer. I gave him an USB drive. Next day he came and asked for help to copy the files. We saw the pictures in his Photo App. Of course it was NOT possible to copy the files from this App. I had no idea where they where on his PC. Even for me it was finally difficult just to copy some files on his new Win 10 PC.