skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key is, how bad is it if a defect gets through? And what kinds of measures (unit tests, functional tests by QA, etc.) will best prevent it? If you're making software that is fairly low-stakes, maybe it's not necessary to have any tests. If you can quickly see if there's a problem, and easily roll back, maybe tests are not necessary. If it's hard (or impossible) to really test the things that are most likely to break, maybe tests are just a placebo in that case and you shouldn't bother.

But the OP's description of his job doesn't seem to fall into any of those cases. Quite the opposite, I'd guess.
In many ways, control of behavior, information, thoughts, and emotions is what all human organizations do

I'm pretty cynical, and I recognize how pervasive and successful these manipulation techniques are (so pervasive that it seems silly to talk about them as if they're particular to cults at all), but it seems wrong to say "all human organizations" seek to control. Unless you consider things like the following examples of control: disseminating information, saving lives or healing people, having fun, etc.

I think it would be much more accurate to say there's the potential for manipulation to seep into any human organization. But a weekend softball league isn't manipulating anyone.

Give humanity a little credit.
Because border police have authority
opera is now just the chrome engine. I don't think there's any alternative to chrome but firefox now-a-days, as even microsoft gave in and started using chrome's blink engine.
I understand the sentiment, but "Please turn on studies and wait for an undefined amount of hours to get the fix" is also causing quite a bit of headache, so especially without a good (publicly given) reason to not tell people to download the studies XPI directly and fix it immediately you might want to overthink the impression that leaves on users.
Or use Veracrypt with AES25 and a 30+ character password. Good luck NSA trying to break that.
Like, leave a private key at home and encrypt your drive with the public key before crossing the border? Yeah, at that point you are powerless to do anything until you are at home.
Aren’t wealthy people more responsible for consumption of the beef that is being grown on clear cut forest land?
Not much can beat a sky burial. Tibetians sometimes still do it. If you search around, you can find a photo sequence documenting it. The only notable modernization is plastic aprons for the workers. They strip and slash the body, then step back and let vultures eat. After the vultures have left only large bones, the workers smash up the bones with a bit of oatmeal in a bowl. The vultures like that too, ultimately leaving nothing uneaten.
I answered a question about what is so bad about sex tourism and also responded to accusations that being against child rape amounts to puritanism.

If you want to narrowly define Puritanism as against child rape, okay, I will proudly accept that label.

Beyond that, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. I'm not here to discuss politics. I have very little to do with politics. If you think explaining the term sex tourism is some sort of political agenda, agreeing with a particular policy, etc, you are reading in a whole boat load of stuff that isn't there.

I'm a private citizen, not a politician. I'm engaging in discussion on a forum. That's the extent of that.
This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

Good unit tests mock out all external dependencies. But, that sometimes means there's little or nothing left to test. Some methods are essentially glorified database calls.

I've worked in places where "write tests" is so heavily cargo culted that those kinds of tests get written. The cost is whatever time it takes to write the test, plus the amount of time it takes to execute the test, every time it's run. You also have to maintain that "test" code, and all these things have costs, which could be avoided by simply thinking about whether to write the test in the first place.
4 feet 4 soles right.
> Looks like your comment is being downvoted due to lack of clarity in my note. My apologies!

I have more than enough karma to take a hit once in a while. No need to apologize :)

> it seems in the USA they are not only typically unknown but seen as pretentious

I live in the US, so I'm finding it surprising that you think these are not the norm. Perhaps I'm self-selecting the people I'm around, or don't pay attention to the people who do these things…
It is a non-goal of mine to solve this problem only for lawyer citizens of my country.
So common it has a name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding
I applaud any attempt to make open source work worthwhile to those who might not be able to continue spending the time on it without such a stipend/reward/incentive (whatever you want to call it). However, i have to admit that once capital is introduced into an altruistic equation, it has a way of murking things up. Successful initiatives will ultimately be those that allow people so inclined to continue doing open source work, rather than incentivizing potentially needless open source activity from opportunists.

Personally, I would like to see an honor or certificated system "giving pledge" that rewards impactful open source projects...especially those that are not initiated/backed by a corporation. Think of it as a sort of B-Corp (O-Corp anybody?) where a tiny sliver of value (equity/revenue/profit/annual fixed amount) is allocated to the open source libraries on which that business is built. How the money is used is another debate entirely, so is the handling of commercialized open source projects.

A very good candidate for something like this would be d3.js.
> As an engineer, it is in my DNA to build things. However, it’s too easy to get stuck in the mindset that you have to build everything. This mentality often leads one stuck with a plethora of incomplete products that grew too complex to finish before losing interest.

This. I can relate so much. I feel my instinct is always to roll-my-own because I can and, perhaps more importantly, because I'm not familiar with relevant no-code services.

What other such tools/services are out there that can help "to go from idea to proof-of-concept in only a few hours."?
Scroll to the bottom of the SuperMemo homepage (https://www.supermemo.com/en) and look at the list of articles. Some of them are rather informal, others are more academic, although I'm unsure if they were peer reviewed and published or not.
I've been in this kind of place once, but it wasn't web dev. I was writing calibration and test software for fiber optic switches. In that particular case, you really can't mock out the real world behavior of a specialized piece of hardware that doesn't exist anywhere else.

Granted, there were theoretically some bits that could have been tested using automation, but those weren't the bits that ever caused any trouble.
I suppose if you're involved in blockchain, selling shovels isn't a bad idea.
Broadly speaking, I agree with you, but, FYI, diplomatic status is not just for "diplomats." US government lawyers travel on diplomatic passports for official business (eg depositions in other countries). And all lawyers are "officers of the court" and can be, for example, forced to take random cases pro bono if some judge goes a little kooky and demands it. So it's not as far-fetched as it might sound to give all lawyers diplomatic passports for travel.
I am thinking @sandworm is talking about the old round iron cannonballs (akin to those fired from pirate ships etc) rather than the more modern explosive projectiles that are shown in your video post.

That also reminds me of another story I read that was penned by a cavalry officer in the 1800's. He said that the only time you could see a cannonball in flight on the battlefield was when it was pretty much heading straight for you.

He recalls an incident once when he met a fellow horseback officer in the middle of a battlefield during a lull in combat, and while talking, the other officer's horse rested its head against his leg. While chatting, he noticed a black blur approaching in the sky out of the corner of his vision and reactively flinched back, and a cannon ball brushed his collar and smashed into the horse's head that was leaning against his leg, instantly killing the poor creature.
A couple of related essays on the topic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131016213539/http://davidjarvi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20131016213547/http://davidjarvi...
> I don't see why "poor urban blacks" buying $200 sneakers is a "desperate wealth-singalling purchase".

Far too often sending the right kind of signal is a required prerequisite[1] to e.g. being granted access to a job that might eventually become a better-than-minimum-wage career. Often wealth isn't the intended signal; it's a presentation of having accepted and converted to a group's culture or beliefs.

[1] https://tressiemc.com/uncategorized/the-logic-of-stupid-poor...
A land value tax could just get passed straight along to the tenants though, right?
that's what the stable/experimental channels are for - a user who don't want to be tested on (such as a business user) can easily be sure that they are getting a stable release and their settings won't update under them.

Experimental/beta channels can have these changes pushed to it, since that's implied by the name, and those people who like living on the edge of new features do so knowingly.

Let the users control their destiny, let the users decide when. That's the hallmark of a trustworthy company.
Y'know, this is a story that I would always tell my friends in a lighthearted way cause its just a pretty absurd story... boy does this add some punch to it now
If you look inside the refrigerators of 100 wealthy people and 100 poor people, in which group would you expect see more packaging with the following phrases:

"Organic",

"Sustainably Raised",

"Cage Free",

"Dolphin Safe"?
Am realizing that not so long ago, saying that entering a democratic nation was riskyer if, just a few seconds before customs, you had entered in a command line:

head -c 1000000000 /dev/urandom | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a > risky.1Giga.file

would have been considered tin-foil-hatty, and now we're just getting use to it
I have no idea about the economics in this area, but it kind of baffles me that they add these propietary, closed source and buggy "accelerators" instead of improving the cores a bit. A bit more L1 cache would go a long way for networking.

Many switched from MIPS to ARM in the past 10? years, but the cores remain mostly just as anaemic as they were.
No, GPUs are quite different than CPUs with more cores. They're optimized for Singl-Instruction-Multiple-Data algorithms, in which the same operation is done at the same time to many different inputs (think image or video processing). They do very poorly in cases with complex branching logic.
Beluga whale saves an iPhone from the sea in Norway
I feel like "BlurHash" is a misleading name, since it's not a hash of the image data that gets created, it's just highly compressed to just some data about the colours used. Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
"Cyberattack" is too broad a terms to form a reasoned opinion about this. If the attack was an attempt to take over armed drones, or disable the Iron dome, or something of that sort, then it really should be thought of as an attempt at a kinetic attack. If it was a more "traditional" cyber attack then this would be a disproportionate escalation that sets the stage for cyber conflicts to escalate to real wars with real bombs.

Of course, in this particular case, it is hard to call Isreal's attack much of an escalation, as they are already lobbing bombs at each other. I would much more concerned if Isreal bombed, say, Iran for a cyber attack, as that would represent a very real kinetic escalation.
It’s worth remembering that engineers don’t get paid to write tests, they get paid to produce software that supports some business need. In most circumstances, some amount of automated testing makes it faster to reliably meet those business needs.

If you’re building a lot of small, one-off tools for internal use, it may well be the case that some limited manual QA or UAT is sufficient to ensure that your work is good enough.

If you’re working on larger, more complex projects that are frequently updated, the shorter feedback loop that some amount of automated tests provide will probably save time and money by catching problems earlier, avoiding regressions, and reducing the need for repetitive, time-intensive manual testing.

But in any case, your testing needs will always be highly specific to the actual nature and needs of the project.
Hubble Legacy Field
A soul is just the unique arrangements of neurons in a brain and body constructed by evolutionary impacts and those learned from the environment.

It's there and it's real.

In that regard, the more different you "think and react" the most unique your soul is. This is largely based on observation. Since we can't observe, typically, differences in behavior among chickens, we think they have no soul.

Own chickens and observe them for a little while and you'll see otherwise if you allow yourself.
On Linux, one could use dm-crypt in plain mode with keys on number of flash drives. Good thing about keys, they look like unformatted disks, so you can send flash drives via mail in advanced. Whenever you open a laptop like this without a key inserted, it look like it has no bootloader, no OS. There is no metadata, no nothing.

Get ready to have your devices seized though =).
> Is it better for society to get a better return from housing compared to other investments?

IDK, but when Japan was "taking over the world" in the 70's and 80's they didn't have tax laws that subsidized housing mortgages the way the US has. Japan's incentives were centered around manufacturing companies and exports. Did it work out well for Japan? One can make the case. OTOH, Japan's debt to GDP is like 200% now. And manufacturing in China has overshadowed that in Japan.

In the US we've added fifty million people and built a bunch of housing. Landlords did ok. But our trade deficit continues to rise.

What's better?
There have been some studies that show that if you remove housing, then the r>>g effect goes away (at least over recent decades; I don't think these studies went back to 1870). We could fix a lot of the rent-seeking problem with saner housing/land use policy.
Caring about something is not a binary, all-or-nothing affair. I care about some things a lot, others a fair amount, and yet others quite little.

And for most of the examples given in the OP, I still find myself landing in the middle, between two supposed modes.

So I guess I'm not entirely convinced.
As much as they may like to, I've yet to have armed agents of CNN et al demand to search my electronics.
That's an interesting example of information being stored in parts of our body besides our brain which is a theory gaining more popularity. I wouldn't be surprised if further study confirmed this.

A soul usually implies a religious / supernatural energy that survives our death. It's an inherently non-testable theory.

I think the question if "do humans have souls?" is just an example of how the question "do elephants have souls?" can have no testable answer, just personal opinion based on your belief system.
In reversal, Trump says Mueller ‘should not testify’ before Congress
Hellz yeah! I invested a bunch of my time learning Android development and I made, like, thirty two hundred dollars.
Always write recursive code. It tests itself!
Would you ever listen to somebody giving a 2 hour monologue? To blindly give somebody that much power over your attention span? I rather not. Get to the point or stop wasting my time. It's why I hardly read books. Just give me the section with the information I need.
We haven't even been able to define the meaning of what a soul is, measure it, find it, or anything. On top of that, we don't speak elephant, and our tools to assess whether they have souls don't exist (since we can't even define them, as per above). So... Who knows?

They sure show a lot of empathy and emotions.
I don't think that people need do as I say at all.

I think that the externalities of private ICE cars should be priced in.

It is absurd that I can drive an ICE car about in London for an hour for less than the cost of a pint.
> I would argue that cells don't have souls, and by extension, humans don't have souls.

It must be an emergent property. Cells don't have nationality either, but through some complex interactions people have nationality.
Let's be clear about something:
Their CODE doesn't cause the disaster. The continued performance of known bad practices cause the disaster.
> It's much easier for a policeman to demand the password to decrypt data when he has you in custody at customs than when it is searched by the mailman.

is that really true? I would expect that they can just perform hardware tampering when you're not present when searching in mailed items, but given that customs might use racial profiling to target you at airport, you may be better off mailing the computer securely, such as using tamper-proof or tamper-evident stickers/bags.
How to Make a Keyboard: The Matrix (2013)
Alert (AA19-122A) New Exploits for Unsecure SAP Systems
They are looking for what is called "objectionable material". I don't know about Canada but in Australia it would be importing porn, any CP-like looking things (say porn with young Asian females that look like children and they have no means to check their age) and so on. I don't know full definition but basically they can add and remove stuff to this "objectionably material" list. Possessing data listed there is a crime. Recently, in New Zealand the shooter video go onto that list.
I didn't know about C++ (and not familiar with dotNet). I suppose it's not in the C++ standard, but apparently some compilers do it, perhaps as a side-effect of optimisation. So it may work in some cases, when using certain compilers, and not others.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-com...
I have to link this one instead. It's the same as yours, excepting that thou proceeds to the Holy Hand Grenade scene. https://youtu.be/QM9Bynjh2Lk
It's tricky to figure out how to consider it a positive or a negative. It sounds like you're much less likely to get dengue with the vaccine, but if you do get it, you're much more likely to die from it.

Suppose you had the no vaccine case with 100000 infections, 10 deaths, while the vaccine case is 1000 infections, 15 deaths. It's complicated to say how to assess whether this is worth it (and that evaluation will be affected by things like loss aversion).
I have. Worked with a person who is one of the most talented developers I’ve ever worked with. His code was very much to the former “puzzle” approach you mention (versus my pragmatic approach). He used all the JS features and his code was very clever. Sadly, no one else on the team could make heads or tails of it and he ended up being a bottleneck since he was the only one who could work on stuff he wrote. We ended up ripping it all out and rewriting it. The pragmatic approach that I championed ended up being what the team based their style guide on and the developer I mentioned came around to that point of view after seeing its benefits. It is simply easier to collaborate when you work on a cross functional team of varying competencies to make your intent clear even at the expense of conciseness.
I sense that awareness of U.S. corruption has been increasing.

One watchdog group has been tracking it's position, as mentioned in this WSJ article: https://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2019/01/29/u-s-seen-...

And then there's that now-infamous Princeton study, which has been cited many times: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Would it...help to confuse it if we run away more?
Forgot to mention that the species can't be safely cut. Prolonged exposure to sap in humans produces dermatitis first, and then chills, fever, pain chest and myocarditis

Neither can be used as fuel in bonfires or fireplaces (wood releases toxic fumes when burnt)
That's precision, not true positive rate.
In that regard, the mid-20th century is an anomaly in human history.

Which is not to say we shouldn't aspire to such a relatively even income/wealth distribution. However, the political will for progressive taxation - which facilitated that level of equality - has been on the wane since the 70's. Possibly related to the extreme American economic dominance in the Post-WWII era, which we shouldn't expect to ever see again.
my linux system already had the studies hotfix 24 hours ago
Reproducible Builds in April 2019
Probably many, but don't forget that there are many firefox users that never install a single addon.
Security goes beyond technical means. Sometimes it also involves keeping an eye out for flower delivery vans.
Most neuromorphic chips are general purpose in that you can tune the parameters of the neuron model. You can run a variety of learning algorithms by tuning these parameters. The only thing that is fixed is the model of a neuron itself.

To have hardware that allowed any neuron model would boil down to having an array of MAC units, or even more generally, a DSP. At that point you’ve lost sight of your original goal with a neuromorphic chip — to build an energy-efficient, scalable neural emulator.

With respect to the academic research aspect — graduate labs can get their hands on neuromorphic hardware. GPUs weren’t made ubiquitous to process scientific algorithms. It was the researchers who had the ingenuity to use GPUs for general purpose compute. Access to a powerful GPU then was as straightforward as access to a neuromorphic chip is now. The issue is when you try to scale the problem you are solving. In this vein, a GPU cluster of that size is not currently available to academics. That’s why you see a bias towards deep learning research in industry. In other words, it doesn’t make sense to compare a server of neuromorphic chips (which is what is required to simulate realistic neural behavior) to a single GPU. Compare it to servers of GPUs like Google’s or FB’s. You’ll see that academics have poor resources in both cases and the research keeps moving on.
Get a BedJet, its safer. I'm astonished no one else has mentioned this solution to you. I bought one for my parents, back in 2015, they love it.

https://bedjet.com/pages/bedjet-vs-electric-blankets
Encryption is a better solution, always. It’s easier to forget a passphrase and render the key useless, especially if you’re using a SSD where the controller has no obligation to actually overwrite a cell that you’re trying to shred.
It is very common. But the money is good, isn't it? :) If it isn't then you are missing out on the only real benefit of working in the finance industry.
This is one problem asking for a sass solution. What services exist to help this situation?
In the 1950s, cars were made of steel and essentially designed to survive impacts by sacrificing the passengers. These days, they're identical fiberglass mice which fold up into a protective cocoon around their passengers on impact. You know how people drove cars in the 1950s? Steering wheels and some number of pedals. You know how people drive cars now? By calling an Uber, the drivers of which use steering wheels and some number of pedals.

So... why hasn't the fundamental UX of the automobile evolved in the past half-century?