skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have. There's a newspaper columnist in my home town who influenced me a lot as a writer. As a young person he showed me, by his column, that what's defined as "correct" is often less interesting than doing something unique for the sake of Making a Point. I wrote him to thank him and we had a nice conversation, and he encouraged me further to keep at my writing. I have, and I've since found my niche.

On the other hand, there was a manager I had at my first "big" job (that wasn't a small computer repair shop) who I butted heads with pretty badly, also as a young person. He ended up firing me, but not before teaching me tons and telling me things that stick with me til this day- things I now teach! Maybe I should. It's been over 20 years since he fired me, I think the statute of limitations has run out :p
Isn't the entire point of a community to have rules on how to behave inside or else we are kicked out?

There are stories we tell the chilodren where some people form a new community without rules because they hate rules and then one guy is a jerk and eventually they have to re-invent the rules one by one.
Says the person making strong assumptions? Following the law, and not acting like a dick, are choices that are made independent of wealth, period.
Presumably the betas and pre-release versions are dead-ends. You can't patch a pre-release copy of XP to Service Pack 3
> The idea is useful yes.

Well that's the crux of my question, how can it be useful wen its completely undefined.
Just a short list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs

* By some accounts Toyota's electronic throttle control system (ETCS) had bugs that could cause sudden unintended acceleration

* The Boeing 787 Dreamliner experienced an integer overflow bug which could shut down all electrical generators if the aircraft was on for more than 248 days

* In early 2019, the transportation-rental firm Lime discovered a firmware bug with its electric scooters that can cause them to brake unexpectedly very hard, which may hurl and injure riders.[6

* A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient deaths in the 1980s when it administered excessive quantities of beta radiation

Now we have to sit and wait for the autonomous vehicles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...
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Cool, will check it out. I also often use: http://musicforprogramming.net/ which is a free, curated playlist and Soma FM's Deep Space One playlist - http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/deepspaceone (it streams ambient electronic 24/7)
I come from a very rough rural town in Kansas, I've personally known dozens of people who worked super hard their whole lives and still died in poverty and despair.

I'm not sure what the correlation is between hard work and success, but it's much weaker than at least ten other factors.
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You eat apples with salt?!

Then again, this is an actual thing in India, albeit with _black_ salt, which is more tangy than bitter and salty.
> Doctors? It seems true...

Not at all. Having jumped from the medical field to software, I can tell you that medicine is its own uniquely hellish world full of nasty tensions nobody talks about in honest terms and wicked problems that don't really have solutions...

But I do think that in a way the problems of the two industries can be similar: they both fail miserably at properly separating the work and responsibilities into different professions that make sense. Like, in medicine, taking MDs alone, you should have at least these separate professions inside each speciality:

- Patient Relations people - from PatR-agent to PatR-manager
- Diagnosticians - *partially* replaceable by AI in the future
- Patient Treatment Managers
- Patient Team Manager
- Clinical Research Project Operator
- Clinical Research Project Manager
- Clinical Research Project Architect
- ...

You should have different schools/universities/majors preparing different kinds of people for these separate kinds of jobs!!! And after this, actual partition into medical specialties might actually be more flexible, some MDs actually have multiple specialties and that can work, but cumulating all the functions above into what one person leads to extreme overload, it's like the software equivalent of having a full-stack-web-plus-security-plus-embeded-software-engineer that also has to take on project manager responsibilities! Overload + partitioning across the wrong dimension ("organ-system-based"-specialities that makes no sense in modern medicine since we know all diseases manifest across all body systems) + the separate socio-economical hellscape.

Software industry has the excuse of being really really young, medicine on the other hand had decades (or centuries...) to figure things out, but it got it all wrong because optimizing for profit and personal-ego-development trumped everything...

Anyway, you're not right, you're more than right :) Things are so good in software that we forget how totally f'ed up the rest of the world is...
Seconded. Just make sure you increase them for new customers but not existing ones. You can even try A/B testing price levels and the likes!
Database systems do not operate on large strings and sort by keys rather than whole rows.
And they tend to use hash maps as input invoking truly flat distributions.
They also require sort stability.

Burstsort and radix sort are best for cases where you actually sort based on whole or almost whole structure comparison - as in memcmp.

Burstsort is also equivalent to walking a trie index in a database. So yes, you see it quite a lot.
> When the AoE sensor is damaged, the chance of a MAX problem is 100%.

I believe you mean the AoA sensor.

> It's grounded world-wide, so you're the only one.

Yes I'm sure the reason it's grounded world wide is because, after a worldwide census, we determined that all but one person living on earth had qualms about flying on it.

If you want to disagree with me that's fine but don't make stupid arguments.
I've definitely considered it, and I use some custom plans for users who exceed the limits of the Pro Plus plan, but I think current prices are alright.

Also, keep in mind that these prices apply on yearly plans, and most paid users use monthly pricing, where prices range from $2 to $8.
Appeal to emotion. That's entirely a different kind of policing and cannot be prevented by a single, organised, intervention.
> Ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles and emission-free vehicles should all alleviate the issues we currently face with traffic, parking and accidents.

No they won’t. This is just willful self-delusion on the part of transit haters.

Most of your concerns are either just plain petty (like, just wear headphones if you don’t like hearing other people) or lacking in perspective (cars kill way more people than whatever safety concerns on a transit system you want to gussy up).
I’m past 15 years. I don’t want to do management and other careers don’t pay nearly as well.

I am working on retirement though, because working in corporate America sucks. I don’t think getting a different, much less well remunerated office job will help that. And spending my days fretting over the very fine details of web pages has really lost its interest, if it ever had any. It doesn’t matter if the web page helps earthquake victims or plays a video or shows a stock portfolio. It is all boring and tedious.
> How does non-disclosure benefit them?

And how does dumping the vulnerability without a fix help Netgear owners? They're all flapping in the wind right now.

IMHO, the best scenario is coordinated disclosure. Full disclosure may be necessary to force a vendor to do something, but let us not pretend it is a good thing.
Interesting. The man page just says "sort an array".
https://linux.die.net/man/3/qsort
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Other cars in the same class had it as standard - for example the Fiesta ST or the Polo GTI, I just didn't like the cabin or the ride quality on the Fiesta compared to the MINI. And the Polo felt totally bland.

The Fiesta and Polo are so heavy now they need independant rear suspension like the MINI has.
Drugs in really different, many people have the opinion that you can do whatever you want with your body but nobody thinks that is fine that someone else can do whatever he wants with your body. So the later case with violent crimes are rare in civilized counties compared to speeding or drugs.

I understand that banning things just trigger the peole that want to legalize drugs but the topic is not about drugs or about guns.
Probably the best software I had ever used.

As a debugger you could automate everything and catch any error in existence. It made myself hundreds of times more productive.

I maintained a Windows partition just for using it. I used Linux and mac but I usually debuged my programs on SoftIce under Windows. I had to port all my programs to use it. It was that good.

I learned how to use it from a cracking group. It took a long time to be proficient at it, but even to this day lldb or gdb or anything in Windows can't come close of what SoftIce could do.
I don't understand the distinction? Why is it important?
Afghanistan to Gitmo is quite a long way.
> This is a remote opportunity open to US-based candidates only.
At least a few times, I've contacted someone from long ago just to thank them, and recently have been assembling a mental list of some more people. As soon as you start thinking about it, the list is so big that you'll never be able to contact all of them.

One of the first times, I decided timing matters. I had occasion to remember how much I admired a particular manager who'd helped my career a lot, and I emailed him just to say something like I realized and appreciated it, and that I try to emulate that. One of the things he said in his response was to offer connections for job-hunting. Fortunately, I wasn't looking at the time, and I realized that the message seems more genuine if there's no question of whether your motivation might be to network, rather than purely to thank the person.

One of the reasons I was thinking about this recently, is that I suspect I was helped out with something recently, by someone who knows me, but I don't know exactly who, and I pretty quickly came up with about a dozen likely candidates. A lot of the help that we get and give is done quietly, and often no one will know, but we can at least thank people for what we do know.
> For example, the CEO notes that the company’s internal principles ban certain uses of the technology, “such as to support mass surveillance or violate human rights.” It’s because of concerns like this that Google doesn’t sell facial recognition technology.

Extremely rich from a corporation that sponsors CAPE Productions and Cogniac. Google doesn't sell this technology directly, but lets its Gradient Ventures VC firm do it instead.
If SoftICE, then not without its awesome addon IceExt - https://sourceforge.net/projects/iceext/

It had a kernel-mode mp3 player so that you could shred software protections while listening to your favorite music (among other cool features of course)
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon. As an engineering student I found the insights and examples in this book by an aeronautical engineer helped me greatly in really understanding structures. Much better than the dry academical treatises and obscure equations of the university course I undertook. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in understanding structures.
The "Badge" is essentially resembling a pirate flag (white skull with crossed bones on black background).

Hamburg, of which St. Pauli is a nation-wide well-known area often in the media because it's red light district and its most known police station, is also traditionally a hot spot of militant antifa scene.

In 2017 the antifa turned that city into a burning hell looking like civil war area.

If that would not be enough, there is a building squatted since 1989 by far left scene.

So, it is not that counter-intuitive to associate fans of Germany's most violent soccer club with the far left scene of that city...
Not bad actually. But if you mix grapes and little tomatoes that look like grapes it can be fun not knowing what you'll taste on each bite.
The idea is mathematically useful.

If you're asking about it's practical use, it has none.
This article suggests that while errors increase with the age of the practitioner, mortality does not. The difference is more likely to result from differences in training. There is also a lot of variation between individuals, with some older doctors far outperforming their younger counterparts.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/should-doctors-age-ma...
What do you mean by “black box” model? How do you know when a model “explains” something or not? How do you know if you are missing a key feature or degree of freedom in a model? Suppose you have two models, A and B, where A gives much poorer predictions than B. Is it possible for A to “explain” things better when it is not capable of producing adequate predictions? Since nature itself is not boiled down to logical elements like math proofs, what about the inherent ambiguity of language or mental models when assessing explainability? Did we really explain anything, or just decompose a problem into units of thought that artificially feel compelling for human minds at this moment of history? What would distinguish a “real explanation” from a convenient fiction, if not purely predictive capability?
Technical debt for me means I will have a job fixing it at my current company for many years to come (If I want it).

There will almost always be technical debt to some degree when it comes to software. Nothing is perfect and we always dont have the time to create the perfect fix..and instead need to just create something that works.
No one (that I've seen in this thread) disagrees that coordinated disclosure is the best path. If the vendor doesn't want to coordinate, then dumping the vulnerability is the best course available.
> And how does dumping the vulnerability without a fix help Netgear owners?

It lets us know to buy another brand immediately and never buy Netgear again.

> IMHO, the best scenario is coordinated disclosure

The original post said that Netgear doesn't do coordinated disclosure, and subsequent posts were arguing whether non-disclosure or full disclosure were better. Nobody was disagreeing with what you said.
>It would be interesting to think more about this and how we might be able to maximize the benefits and minimise the downsides.

As if we can control them? Those in power (deep state etc) and the big corporations control them. We have no say into the matter, we'll just get what they decide.

(I'm not saying we can't do anything about it - I'm saying to do anything about it we should address the larger issue of popular will and politics).
Indeed. So what was the expiry situation on this CA-signed certificate in the original article?
Author is a crackpot, judging by his posts on that forum
I had no idea they did Control despite ads for it everywhere.
Just read this - which gives a fair insight into the actual club origins and directions: https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/st-pauli-hambu...

Though do note that the word "cult" is used often and would not be a stretch to see how an outsider to that culture would run-think in the wrong direction. But like the flag, which probably don't help the ignorant upon their perceptions.
Thanks for the heads up. I didn't realize I had left the old config in place.
Reminds me of Hans Rosling's talks, for example https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve....
Politics of Qat is almost impossible to find. Any suggestions on how to get a copy? On the Amazon website of my region it only shows one edition available for around $1000
No worries. Besides, pointless arguments over minute details is a key component of any scener's life. :)
Abandonware is definitely in a grey area when it comes to copyright.

In our experience, most companies (at least the ones that are still around) don't mind the distribution of outdated and unsupport products provided no profit is being gained from said distribution.

Microsoft, and likely other software companies, are at least vaguely aware of our existence. We received a DMCA notice from them approximately five years ago, regarding the RTM versions of Windows XP and Office 2000. Since those were removed we haven't had an issue.

Given you aren't going to see people using Whistler in production use, they didn't seem to bother with requesting any pre-release software be removed.

The short version is, I consider it both safe and ethical to use any software on WinWorld for experimental, personal and educational purposes. I only advise caution if you're considering use in a place of business; proper licensing is of course important in that situation.

- Duff (Founder, WW)
Violence against 'undesirables', what could go wrong? /s

While I find the classification of hate/terror groups asinie even here (juggalos? Really?) this is clearly a group that ocassionally makes threats. Be lucky this ia just a guide for now. People in the USA have lost their kids because their favorite musical group was associated with asshats.
Correct :-)
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>it's probably the greatest example of circular bell tower.

Yeah, but in Italy those are a dime a dozen.
This is 90% of science these days, just keep tweaking numbers in the model until it fits with what you want to see. The why and the how is not really something we have the capability or tooling to tackle.

I got bored with physics really quickly when I realized this is what everyone does.
That was one example that highlights how banning alone is not a solution. Not advocating in any way about drugs - just an easy example of the ban effect not solving the problem.
Yes !! Tomate à la croque au sel as we call'em !! First time I ate a tomato like that in the US, my american friends made so much fun of me "yo, no way brooo ! he's eating a tomato like an apple, da'fu !! Weird frenchman !!".

I still eat my tomatoes like that every so often, it's so good ! Although I think I end up eating quite a bit of salt when I do that which isn't so good...
Another paid ad masquarading as news. Shame on you NYT.
And maybe "preventing programming from interfering with frameworks", when the (immaturity|bureaucracy|brittleness) is too high
Price elasticity experiments are the lowest hanging fruits for optimizing revenue!

We found doing it per country had a huge impact on rest-of-world LTVs.
Not to mention that all the bad guys had to do to get the private key was unpack the firmware image, so they've probably noticed long ago.
Doesn't quite count as free, but when Megabus was getting started a ±decade ago, they used to have $1 tickets available if you booked them far enough in advance. I have some nice college memories of getting from Pittsburgh to NYC to Boston (about 600 miles/950km each way) and back for ±$5 total.

Not sure if they still have similar deals, but I imagine there is some sort of new transportation startup offering cheap/subsidized bus/car rides.
I find this constant to be the most intuitive way to define uncomputable numbers, which itself is the most intuitive way to define uncountable sets.
These comments are reminding me why I like analog cars.

I do wish I had adaptive cruise control, though.
Perhaps, but in most cases, people vastly overestimate how common that "sometimes" is, how desperately the "needed" is, and how great their own "forbearance" is. They bring this argument up as part of denying their own contribution to a conflict. It's so easy to deceive oneself about this that a better strategy is not to go there. Self-honesty about what one is actually feeling will mostly eliminate it anyhow.
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Unlike in other cases, with protein structure, we really only care about the structure, most of the time no one cares how the chain folded to get there. ML based methods seem perfect for that.
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Yeah and that's what, 0.1% of all software devs globally that can potentially do physical harm? Most of us just hurl data between places and worst damage is financial. You can't even compare the scales.

If you're a construction engineer, any serious flaw in any building you design can kill, sometimes hundreds.

How many engineers of those few cases you mention went into jail and were forbidden to work in software industry forever?
I have zero sympathy for end users who aren’t willing to hold the vendors accountable.

And besides, there’s nothing stopping the millions of end users from offering their own bribes in order to get shit fixed. $10 from each would go very far.
>>> Am I the only one to lament these black-box approaches?

Far from it. Prediction looks like a tool in the arsenal for better understanding. One still has to correlate the structure with the complex interactions in vivo. Even using AI in classification mode, where we can segment a large atlas of tumor cells and identify a dozen or so classes of cell anomalies may lead to faster breakthroughs in immunotherapy.

What I am trying to wrap my head around is the synthesis problem. Say AlphaFold generates a promising candidate. One that does not exist naturally. You still need the DNA or mRNA transcription sequence to synthesize the protein, right? Won't some candidates simply be too complex and unstable to reliably produce using existing mammalian or baculovirus platforms?
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Giant third world country (one of BRICS) citizen here. Only rich people believe that.
Unless I misunderstood (likely, I'm not smart), you still need to calculate the closeness field for a given protein. And that will be 1000s of points each calculated separately. Only once you have that do you give it to ML to find the thermodynamicly favourable value.
>This is a core concept anyone with that kind of power over your work hours should understand deeply already.

If the individual(s) with power over ones work have spent time writing code then they will most likely have an understanding. If they haven't then it often takes analogies of this nature to help them begin to understand what technical debt is and how it has an impact on the future of the product.
I'm glad you've found it useful, hearing stories like this always brings a smile to my face. It's exactly why I created WinWorld so many years ago.

- Duff (Founder, WW)
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
Any red blooded amedican would specify 45acp, and mention if the weight is the bullet (projectile), or the entire round (bullet, case and propellant). I have never heard anyone use a bullet to compare weight however, its very strange.
The old chestnut is that the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay in the black trying to bet against it.

Keeping money in S&P500 index funds is giving 5-10% returns over the past three and a half years. Bank accounts and money-market funds don't even give you 1% over that period.