skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you're a safety inspector for a manned spacecraft launch, and know that launching today will result in everyone onboard dying. However, through bureaucratic incompetence, you do not have the ability to get this information to someone who can cancel or delay the launch. There is no backup for the position you hold, and if you fail to appear on the day of the launch the launch will be cancelled.

Is showing up to work that day doing your job?

It's not a perfect analogy, but in my opinion it fits.
The US uses some metric units for some liquids (e.g. a 2 liter of soda).

For me a big stumbling block is cooking; I like using volume units for cooking, but metric recipes tend to use weight.
Tsp is teaspoon; tb/tbl/tbsp is tablespoon
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I don't know .. often different people or different skill levels will solve hard games differently.

I love Hollow Knight to bits.

It is one of these "hard but fair" games.
My first playthrough 1 year or 2 ago has seen me die a lot of times.
And it was indeed because I needed to learn how each boss (there are so many of them .. maybe 30 or 40 ?? ) moves and react accordingly. I quickly started to see it as a dance or a dialogue with the boss though. You have a limited but versatile skill set at your disposal, so for each boss, I had to think about how to adequately counter a move.

The end result is a beautiful dance of action and counter reactions.

I had a second play through a couple of months ago. Since then, the devs have made the game change A LOT. Some bosses had their entire move set rewritten. New areas were added, etc.

So I was not playing on memory.

I had still acquired a wealth of knowledge on how to control that little bug, even with its limited initial toolset.

So I beat most of the game without dying just by reacting quickly to whatever it threw at me, it was an awesome experience.
Internet is fine as a network, it is resilient to damage. What is sufficient to make it secure is to restrict the network features of the facility server software to one command, SHOW_STATUS. Control of operation over network should be impossible.
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"Mailing facility" doesn't have to mean "warehouse", it can also be "we want to use more fancy words so we'll call the (large) mail room a mailing facility".
It's quite typical to replace batteries. And this machine solved that problem really well. Or it made it trivial to run on A/C, without battery.

Furthermore, having easy access to components means the effective lifetime of hardware is much longer. You can repair things when it is no longer economical to do so at an Apple Store.

I wish some laws were passed forcing manufacturers to display a repairability score, similar to the one that already exists for energy usage.
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there is a youtube channel trying to rebuild the apollo launch computer.

Very nerdy. The memory is rings of magnets. It is pretty fun though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU
Keep in mind most "smart home" technology is marketed at consumers who have no idea what SSL/TLS is (nore do many care sadly even though they should), and are meant to be as cheap as possible.

While I have no clue what the security or reliability looks like in industrial applications, I would hope they evaluate their solutions with reliability in mind.
He probably isn't intellectually curious enough to have ever played SimCity. My theory is that he thought the "9-9-9" Tax Plan would appeal to the base, because it sounds like you're saying "no" to taxes in German.

Yes, Doreen's not a common name, so seeing your name in the thread reminded me of other Doreen's work, and inspired me to post about it.

Did you know that Wolfram Alpha can try to guess your age by your name (it doesn't actually guess since it's not artificially intelligent yet, but it does tell you the most common year for any name):

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=doreen

It "thinks" I'm 64 years old!

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=don
> Which would be fine, but then management or the PM expects me to loop back around when a spike is complete. I'd rather just continue engineering a solution when I'm done investigating, which is the natural progression of things.

This has nothing to do with agile. Feature X may sound great if it takes 2 weeks, but if it takes 6 months I may not consider it worthwhile right now. Engineering is not just about building something, but dealing with constraints like time and cost.
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Power imbalances suck; is there truly no way to be rid of them?

Power imbalances can be mitigated structurally and through community norms based on humanistic principles. If an organization has some sort of "Rule of law" then this can damp down the application of arbitrary power by informal chains of command.

Power corrupts. This is why people need structure and limits. When people just start doing as they feel, the power to make their whims real becomes a corrupting power.
> she would have been made to feel safe

Personally, I find it interesting that the focus here is on her feeling safe, and not actually being safe - because she already was.
Allen Institute for AI's NLP models are now available as a service
On Linux (KDE panel), adding a second Digital Clock widget set to UTC and in a different font on top of another one set to U.S. East (which shows date as opposed to zone): https://i.imgur.com/H6H8wOD.png

Unfortunately, can't do different font sizes. : T
I am well aware of what can be done having once worked in film/TV production. But the quality of the fake is irrelevant. Falwell involved an absolutely perfect fake. It was a text interview. There was nothing in the interview, beyond the nature of the content, that suggested it wasn't real. They even used his real face in the portrait. Surely more than a few people fell for the gag. The parallels to a modern deepfake porn parody are clear.

https://frontpageconfidential.com/larry-flynt-supreme-court-...
You'd get a generic chemical trace detection machine primarily to detect mail bombs, which sounds pretty reasonable when you're any sort of highly visible company.

Once you're known enough, you will draw the ire of some unstable person wanting to do bad things to you, no matter what you do.
> engineering hub

> fully remote

Is it just me or does this make no sense? Does Stripe Inc. not know what the word hub means?
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>1. Marketing management asks Engineering management how long it takes to do feature X so they know when to launch the online ad campaign.

Why can't Marketing just wait until the feature has been built to launch their campaign?
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Scientists conclude cigar-shaped interstellar object not an alien spaceship
In the US, I suggest we'd blame the whaling industry and its lobby.
I'm suspicious about the farmers markets. I'm not saying they all do this, but what is there to prevent someone from going to costco, buying 6 racks of strawberries, then going to a farmers market and selling them at a steep markup? If there's money to be made, people will absolutely do it. And cognitive bias will definitely lead people to claim that "those farmers market strawberries are so much better than the ones from the store..."
It is totally possible but first accept it could take 1-2 years just to complete your application.

I am currently making this transition and have met other former software developers along the way. It would have taken a few years to complete prereqs while working, so I quit and became a full time student for six months. Summer semesters are great for this purpose.

Buy the MSAR and understand the nuances of your target schools. For instance I saved one semester by taking an online class.

Alternative to the DIY approach, you can go through a one year accelerator (postbac) program to satisfy all the requirements in exchange for 50k usd.

You preferably need dozens of shadowing hours and a few hundred volunteer hours (both medical and non medical). Start that now. Many hospitals have volunteer roles, choose one that you are interested in with the most patient contact. Meet and network with doctors for shadowing opportunities.

While taking classes and volunteering, identify people who could write you letters of recommendation. You’ll need three.

Start studying for the MCAT early. Even really smart people tend to spend 300+ hours preparing.

Also be aware of osteopathic medical schools. These are much more geared toward career changers, even those in their 30s and 40s, and are generally less competitive.

Good luck!
> A very talented artist creates a realistic watercolor of the President in a compromising situation with Kim Jong-un and posts to Instagram.

Probably legal. It is satire meant to be political commentary. Not distributed with the intent to "coerce, harass, or intimidate"

As for the other ones idk, probably illegal. The last one almost certainly is, and honestly it probably should be.
Yeah, they should have been glocked before they could breed...?
IIRC, it was a higher definition, lower frame-rate format instead of NTSC. These displays favor the character displays over the update speed.

I'd really love to know how the digital part of the images were generated.
My motivation was to try to accommodate the way I've seen people think and work. So the type system lets you describe anything using literal expressions, and if you match everything up, it should Just Work, or at least have intelligent complaints. (I hope.) So a discriminated union is just a tag stuck in front of something else.

> Even to the point of perhaps demoting scalars from first class status actually, point being that where there is a value there should be a name

In theory, an integer is just an uncountable enumerated type. I haven't done that to treat it as opaque / atomic, but you could imagine it essentially being 1~~, 2~~, 3~~, etc.

But that might come back if I want to have sane semantics of floats, as in not treating NaN as a magic value that doesn't equal itself.

> I wanted to treat bindings as first class, and having them combine with row polymorphism into a construct subsuming tuples, argument lists, and environments into a kind of unified thing, with a similar result in mind.

This might be helpful just as something to think about, but there is already an example of One Structure to Rule Them All: relations from the relational algebra. (You want to consider the mathematical definition; SQL tables break stuff because of legacy.)

A relation can naturally represent any container, but also any function if you allow them to be infinite. So if you have a relation that states all values of y = cos(x), you can join it with an existing expression to apply the `cos` function. (Or `acos` if the system is clever enough.) And that, obviously would get translated into actual function calls.

> So (n1: v1) might be a value v1 bound to n1. ...

I had to read that a couple of times, but I think I get it. I think being able to combine structures makes a lot of sense, and it's one of those ideas that's not implemented in most languages (as the OP mentions) so we people tend to engineer around the lack of it, so it'd be interesting what idioms develop with it.

> As for namespace I was thinking to borrow the plan9 approach

Thanks, I'll have to look into that!
Only with the benefit of hindsight. She did not know if she was safe then.
> Their 120 deaths and 3400 serious injuries per year, on a population of 17M,

Is that a lot? How does it compare to the rest of the world, and especially, other countries with good bike infra? Wouldn't deaths & injuries/unit distance be a better measure, since the Dutch ride so much more than Americans? I think more context is needed on that number.

On a per-mile basis, is biking with children more dangerous than driving them in a car? After all the leading cause of childhood mortality in the US is car accidents.[1] So we could easily conclude that riding in a car is a highly unsafe activity for children.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/safechild/child_injury_data.html
Yes, not only on a roadmap but in high priority and under active development (not in the public eye yet)
Why would you assume that? I (as the 'designer' of a couple of distributed event-sourced systems), will create a message (as an event) that ricochets around to update several SQL and non-SQL systems that are normalized or denormalized views, or what not. When a 'delete' command (event) gets sent around, that gets accepted by subscribers/listeners, and they 'mark' their respective 'column' equivalents as 'deleted', but in an append-only log, the idea that a disk block gets updated is kind of nonsensical.

The logic goes: 1) something happened. 2) we regret it - please hide it from (most) quesry responses.

I know if I was dealing with an RDBMS, it's probably easy enough to delete it, but in an eventually consistent, heterogenous, append-only world, an actual delete-delete is kind of a hassle to even contemplate.
So a deepfake of a clean-cut star, say Taylor Swift, in an over-the-top hardcore porn clip would not reasonably be considered real and so could be a legitimate parody.

So it could be argued. But color me skeptical as to whether such an argument would convince any judge. For one, sex tapes of so called clean cut stars have emerged before. For another, most reasonable people would agree that there is a significant difference in how we perceive the realness of text and photorealistic images. People understand that text is inherently a medium in which reality is filtered through the interpretation of the writer. In other words, we’re comfortable with the idea that text is an unreliable medium. Photorealistic images are different in that regard. If people can’t tell that a video is fake by looking, it’s reasonable to expect that they will assume it’s real.

Who's Nailin Palin?

That’s ridiculous. Nobody who knew Sarah Pailin would mistake an actress for her.
"respect" isn't generally something that is, or should be, enforced by laws.
Because I'd rather spend 15 minutes on my phone waiting for a bus + 30 minutes on my phone on the bus than 30 minutes driving a car through traffic.
Google does... or at least they have a central mail-handling warehouse that "screens" all incoming mail (X-Ray at least, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are other checks they don't advertise). The threat model for high-profile companies is pretty wide-ranging -- everything from the shooting at YouTube HQ to disgruntled or confused people showing up at a random building lobby and causing trouble.
I'm curious what benchmarks you've seen that actually show a 3x compute improvement? Most of the benchmarks I've seen show a ~30% improvement in CPU compute, while I/O has improved tremendously, as well as the memory.

But again I've only seen ~30% improvement in CPU workloads, a far cry from "3x the performance" that I keep seeing.
Probably big consumer companies it's more common than big B2B companies. Seems like someone somewhere in the world would have a beef with say, Coca-Cola, just from the sheer scale.
Hm. I guess I just don't see China allowing that kind of relationship with an independent HK. HK is also so incredibly close to China geographically, economically, and even culturally that it's hard to wrap my mind around the concept of HK independence.

HK as an Asia/SEA hub is a reasonable point, but Singapore already serves that role and is much less reliant on China.
You go to the mechanic and tell them your car won't start - nothing happens when you turn the key. You ask them how long it's going to take to fix and how much it will cost.

They don't assume it's the starter and tell you it will be $400 for parts and labor. They tell you it will be $150 diagnostic fee and the diagnostic will take two hours. Then they call you and tell you the cost to fix and time it will take.

For whatever reason, software engineers don't have the luxury of doing a diagnostic. We are made to guess up front and assume it's the starter, when we really have no idea what rat's nest is under the hood until we look.
Most industrial application also done know or care what ssl/TLS is (however this is starting to change). I have had industrial control systems reboot by just doing an nmap scan.
The old definitions are still essentially correct, so for teaching nothing really changes except the word "approximately" being inserted somewhere.
Read only monitoring is fine. “Write” ability must be heavily permissioned, audited, and governed. Failing that, no physical “write” access.
It looks fine to me? What's wrong with it? Many people are worried about falling out of the upper bed in sleeper cars. There's often a rail there. The "half cradle" offers the same protection against falling, while making it easier to get in from the foot end. It provides protection against light, noise and drafts.

The foot end is a bit narrower than the overall bed, which is also a smart use of space and, again, makes getting into the bed easier.

This is also the first sleeper cabin I've seen where the window seems to be parallel beside the bed as opposed to orthogonal at one end.
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Why? I thought we had freedom of speech in the US. If I want to draw a picture of you doing something nasty and post it to my own website why should the state stop me?
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Based on the full URL of the tweet (https://twitter.com//status/1145793001022808065) I'd say somebody managed to reserve a twitter handle which normalizes to ''. Maybe a whitespace of non-latin script or character that get stripped in one system, but not another.
All .org and .info domains will be priced the same. Not more valuable ones can be at a higher cost.
'Forget about bouncers', but how isn't this just a bouncer like ZNC, Irccloud etc?
At ConsenSys we all called it the "shadow hierarchy". Like any cesspit choked with internal contradictions; it implodes.
Companies will continue to pay for support for Windows 7 for at least another 5 years, so I don't see why Microsoft wouldn't push things like 0-day fixes to all existing computers when they fix exploits for paying businesses.
Of course they do.

Their 3 advantages are:

1) motors

2) batteries

3) continuing vertical integration (Elon points this out)

So this is 2+3.
> A kid

I think we can probably agree kids would be wise to avoid doing the specific things you mentioned.

But importantly, when a kid breaks a law there is typically a separate system for juveniles...
In retro we would have asked 'what happened and could we have avoided this?'. Then we would have broken up the now expanded unfinished work, and asked the PM if they want to continue knowing it is 10x more work than expected. If yes, cool we pull in the tickets next sprint and keep going. If no, we wrap up anything in progress and maybe come back to it later.

Shit happens. The end of a sprint is there to highlight issues like this so the business side can re-evaluate if continuing is still a good idea.

I don't want anyone on my team working nights and weekends to finish a sprint task (system going kaput is the only time I would reach out for help). Anyone letting their team work normal sprint tasks on nights/weekends is not going to keep their team very long. They will either quit or burn out and stop working.
How often are you boiling and freezing water when deciding what clothes to wear?

Ok so when measuring water freezing, you have a nice 0. But how do you measure hot weather? 30C? 35C? Meaningless numbers, correct?

I am talking about daily weather. Celsius is no more intuitive than Fahrenheit when discussing it.

Even with cooking, when you are around a certain system, you're just used to it.

I bake a cake at 350F, I fry things at 350-400F. 175C is no more practical than 350F. I need to cook meat to at least 140F-160F to kill the bacteria.

The equivalents in Celsius are no easier to remember from a practical standpoint.

Even body temperature, from my understanding, almost everyone uses 98.5F, correct? (At least in India, where everything was KG and KM, people still used to measure body temperature in F).
That's not equivalent though, with IRC scripting you can do whatever you want. With Slack or Discord you do whatever Slack or Discord allows you to do. You also don't have to worry about features becoming unavailable or gimped in the future.
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