skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it and I agree, but my assumption has always been that we're all trying to write the most efficient code anyway right? (Maybe with a few exceptions, like intentionally slowing down auth to prevent brute forcing passwords). But this article is saying that if I don't, I'm not just a bad programmer, I'm a bad _person_ too. Hm.
You believe these things about yourself, but it's not like you have much evidence, so maybe consider the alternatives.

One function of advertising is demand generation. It makes people believe they need things they don't. The broad message of most ads is "spend more money to be successful/popular/happy". Is it really impossible to think that if people stopped getting told that all day long they'd focus less on spending/consumption and more on other things?
Yes!

I highly recommend Roger Crowley's Empire of the Sea to anyone who wants to read about Malta in the 1500s when it was a key in the battle for the Mediterranean between the Ottomans and various European forces in various alliances (or not)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418555-empires-of-the-s...
Slightly unrelated, but I did a project this past semester in Grad School looking at the economics of a solar sail de-orbiting mechanism to attach to satellites. Seeing the successful demonstration here just gives me the slightest sense of pride and vindication toward the people in the class who said there's no practical use for something like that.

That being said, the project itself was a disaster and I'm glad to have escaped the class with a decent grade despite it.
so what actually happens in britain is you buy a plastic bag and reuse it to avoid the 5p/10p cost. It's quite smart imo. Same thing is happening with reusable coffee cups which i think is brilliant

So yeah paper/cotton bags being used in mass are a not a huge thing here. Plus people reuse them easily hundreds of times.
Similar article discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20581301
Oooooooo I'm jealous
I've been at this a while and I think you touch on a few great points here (and generally agree with all of it) Security pros as counter culture cats has been a thing from the beginning. It still exists of course, but I do believe it's getting better and even as a generally conservative old white incumbent male in the field I give most of the props to efforts to improve diversity and inclusivity in the ranks. With this I feel we'll start to attract (or at least not scare away) people that are comfortable operating at layers of abstraction themselves, able to communicate with the deep domain experts AND product management, project managers, leadership, etc. This might help to chip away at the professional impedance mismatch you're noting towards the middle.

That said I do think there's another part of this problem...security vendors have been selling garbage visualization products for at least 20 years now and over-promising greatly what they can do. Anybody that's been burned is going to be incredibly skeptical of something new...especially if it is billed as a way to visualize 'security' and not a laser-focused sub-domain with ample options for extending the visualization for corner cases not included in the tin.
The fact that these constructs exist and only make money when people make mistakes should tell you that enough people make mistakes to make it profitable. This makes it not riskless at all. It makes it predatory.
A significant part of my life is cable management. Velcro brand cable ties are the way to go. Zip ties are banned from my networks.

They don’t cut into the cables, you can add cables later, they’re very strong. You can chain them together as your bundle size increases. I keep a spare roll in my briefcase.
Ooooo I'm jealous
I gave up ordering online because where I live they deliver the goods in disposable shopping bags. They even use more bags than I would because they separate the products by type. But I'm glad to see that in other places they seem to be smarter about it.
Baltimore has the gender-neutral pronoun "yo": https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/25/178788893... https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article-abstract...
It definitely jumped the shark and is now fetishized by white millennials.
18,000 years ago Manhattan was under 2000 feet of ice. An ice-covered Canada has been the usual state of nature for the last couple million years.

The current warm period is highly unusual and probably unstable, although AGW may prolong it. Things change.
They check all kinds of things, not just credit. Criminal record, job history, salary history, education, etc. How much of that should a prospective employer be "allowed" to check before deciding to hire you? Or a renter check before letting you live in their house? In both cases, they are taking on real risk. How else can they reduce that risk, without doing checks?
And that is relevant how...?
> The cost of running insecurely should exceed the cost of making it secure.

This was suggested by Bruce Schneier, as well, in one of his books, citing the example of rising difficulty of credit card fraud now that the credit card companies are held wholly liable for it.
>Is PReP really effective enough to ensure that there are no survivors?

No, the first bug chaser to successfully contract HIV while on it was quite proud of his achievement. Clearly the virus can survive.
The popular British past time of painting buses on old wooden crates...
Any written medium is a bad forum for discussion because it completely lacks the wide emotional bandwidth. If the topic is in any way subtle, risky, controversial, etc. you will get more conflict, misunderstanding, etc. in writing than in person, and fallout will be much harder to get away from. That has been the experience of me and many managers I worked with in IT over the years. I would be shocked if you could get anywhere near the results of in-person conversations with written comms. That should only be possible if you are incredibly aligned with everyone in your org (how likely is that?) or you aren't really discussing anything openly (feigned discussions).
> Straight men/women can easily have it and one fuckup and you can be infected

The probability is low though, and apparently there are side effects. We also don't preemptively dish out antibiotics for similar reasons: they won't do you any good unless under very specific circumstances and you will likely experience side-effects. Do no harm.
This strikes me as a strawman: no one serious is seriously arguing, so far as I know, that it is a magic fix. At this point, though, the U.S. government (an extension of voters) is not remotely serious about the climate emergency. Neither, it seems, is China or India. Negative emissions is something that can be done by companies and that needs to be part of the solution, even though it's obviously not a total solution.
There's so much negativity in this thread. I think that a big part of Perl's decline is exactly because of people's attitudes. I don't actually write any Perl now, but to me it's a beautiful language, I always enjoy working in it. You can abuse it in the wrong way like every other language. If I was to suggest using it in the day job there would be uproar probably. But just because I like Perl doesn't mean I want to write everything in it, use the best tool for the job and sometimes the best tool is Perl.
This is why I'm glad I shared this article, because it's the one thing on HN I'm qualified to give an opinion on - making harnesses is my job! The wire insulation is an extruded polymer, not a heat shrink, so we can't use the same material as nice as that would be.

We had an issue with Airbus a few months ago where their own approved heat-shrink actually failed the flammability new testing (it smokes profusely...) We can now only use it in 50mm increments for protecting wire bundles from potential high abrasion sections (around connecters, through holes, grommets etc.) The weight aspect has never been discussed. It's so insubstantial that it's not even accounted for on our units. Occasionally we'll use shielded round-it for high voltage cables to prevent arcing, or sensitive data cables to prevent noise, but below that round-it is still wire and lacing cord. It's simply the most practical assembly method. The same applies to freighter ship looms too; lacing is not just relevant the aerospace industry!
>if your email is an attempt to persuade someone, don't bother. Go talk to them.

This really depends on the person being persuaded and the type of topic.

For me (and I know many that agree), it's better to put a complex topic into an email than to walk up to people. Organize your thoughts, use bullet points, prioritize the most important things, add web links or other evidence to support your ideas.

The problem is that when you just walk up to my desk or call me on the phone to talk about something complex, you're now forcing me to become your secretary and transcribe your notes. I'm now "writing out your email" that I would prefer you write yourself. That's not being respectful of my time. I can read at ~250 wpm; you can only talk at ~100 wpm.

Yes, if it's something lightweight like you're trying to convince me to go to the Chinese restaurant instead of Italian for lunch, go ahead and talk to me instead of write up an email. Otherwise, please consider if the recipient of your complex topic wants to be your "secretary".

I would be very curious of a survey that asked if people preferred to be convinced by coworkers talking to them instead of writing emails/reports with organized and coherent data. Would it be a minority or majority of respondents?
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I'm not really disagreeing with you. Like I said if we had more warning labels and less corporate branding I'd be perfectly fine with that. I'm yet to be convinced that Coca-Cola is as bad as cigarettes and needs to be totally banned/heavily taxed though.

You know the one of the things the worse off in society enjoy doing? - drinking a soda. They need to know the health risks, yes, but taking that away/adding a sin tax makes their quality of life measurably worse even if their health would be slightly better off in the long run. You're either taking away some of the little enjoyment they have or more of their money and I don't think that's fair.
I had the name wrong. The language is C+@ [1]. I dug up an article about it in Dr. Dobbs Journal, the October 1993 issue. This does not seem to be the article I am remembering, since it does not go into the instruction interleaving technique anywhere near as much as I remember, but they do mention it and say it was called "beading":

The binaries produced by the C+@ compiler are independent of the underlying machine architecture. Without recompiling, applications can be moved from SPARC to 68000 to Intel x86, and so on. C+@ is not interpretive--the binaries are encoded using a sophisticated 'beading' technique developed at Bell Labs. Because of the streamlined language design, the C+@ compiler produces these portable binaries with extraordinary speed, without the need for preprocessing or front ends.

This is from the article's introduction:

The C+@ programming language, an object-oriented language derived from AT&T Bell Lab's Calico programming language, was developed to provide programmers with a true object-based language and development environment. C+@ (pronounced "cat") has the syntax of C and the power of Smalltalk. Unlike C++, C+@ includes a mature class library with more than 350 classes used throughout the system. The C+@ compiler itself is written in C+@, and all of the source for the class libraries is included with development systems. The Calico project was started at AT&T Bell Labs in the early '80s, after the introduction of Smalltalk and at the same time as C++. Calico was originally used for rapid prototyping of telecommunication services; hence, its heavy emphasis on keeping the language syntax simple and showcasing the power of the graphical development environment.

[1] https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/C%2b%40
Well let's look at some of the policies typically attached to a WAF (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/access...)

Maybe instead of waf:* for the action, it was just * ?

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"waf:*"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:waf::444455556666:webacl/112233d7c-86b2-458b-af83-51c51example"
]
}
]
}
Yeah I hear the use of (and have used) "jank" in this way
Blizzard in particular had the "spawn" option, which was more like a demo that you got directly from a friend who had the game. It also allowed you to play multiplayer with just the original CD Key owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_installation
What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

How ancient is that system?
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He doesn't HAVE to use it.

But it is absolutely his RIGHT to complain about an unexpected nag message.

You don't have to agree with him. But don't ask him to shut up if you don't.
And the motion of electrons is totally predictable?

And what exactly are the 'outside forces' when it comes to the closed system which we refer to as 'nature'?
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A lot of folks live in areas where muggings and gang-related murders are common. Extra protection at an affordable price is something they might appreciate.
What is yoga guru?
Selected by other gurus.
Have spiritual authority.
Can take on anyone’s karma.
Has spiritual gifts to share.
Know exactly of the gift.
Always compassionate.
Embraced by love.
Knowing the limits.
Yes, it's bad. In my experience it's because relatively low percentage of people in a typical org have enough trust to one another that they won't misinterpret the wrong way.
I like and follow most of this, but the most important topic is missing: use meaningful subjects!
I don't want any "Re: Re: Re: Fw: Re: issue..." emails in my inbox. Especially if I later want to find some specific email.
For all purpose, the patch is disclosure.
"curl some rando's plist" still gives me the willies, honestly. And i know it's just XML!
Sure, but the entire article is about how experience is widely being affected by poor performance.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make outside of pedantics.
There are several floating around right now.

Ally Bank, wealthfront etc.

The key is to make sure they're FDIC insured.
I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine EEs coming up with "smoke test" independently. I've never heard it actually used in the mechanical sense (although I think I was aware of the term) but I've heard many people talk about magic smoke and electrical smoke tests. And the usage isn't quite congruent - an electrical smoke test (as I understand the term, anyway) is very specifically the act of applying full voltage to a freshly assembled and untested piece of equipment and being ready to shut off the power if anything starts to smoke (or less dramatically, seeing if any circuit breakers trip.)
> "Data can be resynchronized" - yeah, that means you send it again. Not exactly once.

"Send it again" doesn't mean "processed again". Isn't exactly-once built on at-least-once just binding the result to a future? Then any subsequent accesses or attempts to update will simply return the bound result, which was processed exactly once.
This one has been making rounds in movies and TV shows like Dexter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral_artery

More potential attackers are aware of it now. Whether that's a risk that's going to play out for real is anyone's guess.
I haven't financed furniture but my impression is that if your credit is decent that the cost of financing it is basically the same as paying cash.

Furniture is high margin, low volume so furniture retailers have an incentive to spread out cash-flow and get consumers to buy more expensive furniture than they would if paying all at once.

That said, I suspect if your rand the numbers you'd find that the overwhelming majority of furniture (by units sold) is bought cash from Walmart, Ikea and the like by people paying cash.
Mountains within large mountain ranges are not as good as a (relatively) isolated peak like Mauna Kea. An isolated peak can have something resembling laminar flow of the air over the summit, resulting in good "seeing", whilst a peak within a large range has a more turbulent air flow above it.
This. As an anti-spam measure (that worked flawlessly so far), instead of putting an email address on my website, I have my website send an email to people with the "From" address set to my address. The subject is something like "To reach me, just reply to this email!"

A bunch of people used it, but not a single one managed to change the subject line to describe what their email is actually about. Not one.
In theory that sounds great.

But, good/great devs only want to work with good/great devs. You get a bad fit in there that manages to stick around, and your good/great devs start to leave. Then you end up with either only lesser devs or a bunch of devs that hate each other.
Very good points, thanks. I know that legumes fall into their own group so if a locust bean is a legume then naturally it must be more closely related to soybean vines than an apple - but I just never thought of it that way. A rather new perspective.

Personally I wouldn't class a cycad as a tree, nor a date palm, and I wouldn't call a lepidodendron one either, but after a bit of reflection I've no good reason to take that view, so thanks for all this!
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What drugs can you take to be able to cheat your way though a polygraph? Since polygraphs are based on producing anxiety I guess anxiolytics would work.

Would something like Phenibut suffice I wonder?
It’s upstate New York: pretty much “water water everywhere, let’s all have a drink”.

Especially this year.
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>On the other end, of course, I have a friend who had to get treatment in Italy and was required to bring her own needles. This was in-patient surgery. Also, the nurse tried to re-use them and called her a "wasteful American" when she told her to get a clean one.

Oww, come on, that is simply not true, in the last - say - 100 years in Italy (post WW1 emergencies).

So, either your friend is very, very old, or she is making it up for the benefit of folklore.

Until the '60's or maybe early '70's syringes and needles were not "use once and throwaway" but of course they were washed after every use and sterilized before a new use.
I will pay good money for System Shock 2 on the browser!
Generally human activity is considered to be outside the closed system.
It’s pretty hard to launch a thirty meter mirror into orbit.
Okay I see. (7,000 would actually take about 40 years for me, but I live next to the grocery store and rarely buy fresh food more than a day or two before eating it.) How does the energy needed to produce a grocery bag that will last a lifetime compare to a pair of blue jeans that will be worn out and out of style in five years?

Avoiding plastic bags seems like premature optimization.
> I think it's pretty funny that you use "colonizer" like it has a negative connotation.

Is your point that you don't think it has a negative connotation, or that nobody thinks it does? Although 'colonialist' evokes a more visceral negative reaction from me, 'colonizer' is pretty close.
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Wow, if the kindle edition looks anything like the preview, I understand the 1-star reviews - it's not just bad, it's a travesty. The pages aren't even in order, and some of the diagrams are missing.
The whole thing is a vague, fluffy argument against the value of conservation. It tries to argue that nature isn't static and that we therefore shouldn't worry about screwing it up. What's left out is the fact that nature's time scale of change is so slow compared to our own time scales, that it may as well be static from our perspective. We change things exponentially faster than natural systems have time to adapt to.
They often rent it at Aarons or Rent A Center
There's no legal or culinary definition for any of these. You can call it sorbet, granita, water ice, or probably one of many other local names and it'll have similar ingredients, but maybe a different ratio or texture. You can't even get Italians to agree on what a granita should be.
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That price drop never came to Australia.

When I was a kid, triple-A games were around $80.

Now triple A-games start from $80, with special editions costing more.

Every now and then I see a sale on a game I'd been meaning to buy, but when I go to purchase, I see the base game for $40, and the 'full game' $70 (down from $100-$120).
This is an oft passed around urban legend, but it's not true. You can try for yourself by opening up a free CreditKarma account and seeing what happens if you zero out all your balances.
Missed opportunity IMO, I would pay good money to get access to that kind of data, especially as it acquired more users.
I don't mean for this to be blunt, but since we're talking about work, if I want to persuade you of something, it's your job to listen to me, because my persuasion will be aimed at accomplishing company goals! So we are both on the clock here, not just you.

I can also assure you I speak faster than I type, and so it's not just your end that counts.

I'm also pretty sure I can say much fewer words with proper tone of voice to convey as much as 5x long email correctly, and a single word of your response and a look at your face as I speak will tell me more of what I should understand of your reaction than even the most elaborate written response...

Persuasion and discussion isn't about me laying out my point clearly in a tidy format though, right? It's about mind-sharing, interaction, sensitivity, etc.

Maybe we come from very different types of organizations? I have never, ever (!) in my 15+ year career been in a position where too many unprepared people forced me in any way to listen to their stupid / ill-prepared ideas....

[Edit] I'm also confused, how does someone coming up to talk to you forces you to write anything down?? (seriously I don't get that part :) )
>> Do you not think things which are balanced should remain so unless acted upon by an outside force?

The net effect is what is important. A complex, interconnected and ever-changing system like nature cannot be evaluated so easily. You can evaluate the 'state' at a particular 'point in time', but there is no way to know if the equilibrium has been disturbed.
> I keep what feels like most of ARM946E-S in my brain

ARM64 architecture reference manual is 5242 pages and doesn't even include things like GPU, CPU (554 pages for A57), interrupt controller (240 pages for the main GIC version 2 doc), dma controller (100 pages) and tons more you need to do low-level stuff.
Thank you for explaining it better than I could
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that has less to do with japan and more to do with the fact that niche music doesn’t attract laypeople. you can find the same kinds of shows all over the united states for example
yes there are side effects.

But the plan for prep also specifically includes you going into the doctor every 3 months to not only test for those side effects but also for a full STD panel. (Source: my husband and me are both on prep)

Just saying that "at risk" people should be trying to prevent this ignores a large portion of the population to try to stop its spread.

Thankfully a vaccine is in testing now, but if this was a vaccine most people would probably not question taking it.
So why is a pill to protect against something like HIV so much different?
Maybe try not having Borat as a throwaway before using the words ‘virtue signaling’
> The impact of warming is not comparable to the impact of pollution (be it air, water or land pollution).

But impact of the air pollution is the warming!