skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be slightly snarky, Rob is arguing two points here:

* The WSJ allegations--that Huawei has allowed unauthorized use of its lawful intercept capabilities by Chinese intelligence--are anonymous and therefore unreliable.

* Rob personally knows (based on his own experience, omitting any details that would enable us to validate the story)that Huawei has allowed unauthorized use of its lawful intercept capabilities.

...er, what?

In a less contrarian framing, this could be rewritten as, "The WSJ article is accurate, and I'm even willing to put my name on the public record as having seen similar things."

It's fashionable these days to criticize anonymous sourcing--and, hey, I agree a reader should be cautious about such things--but this has to be the first time I've seen someone criticize an anonymously sourced article while explicitly validating its claims.
In 10 years they've gone from being a trivial little quirk that's shared by a tiny handful of people to digital asset tools with multibillion dollar market caps and growing (admittedly still limited) use by at least several hundred thousand frequent users and likely a few million or more dabblers. Blockchain technology has a ways to go before we see some sort of concrete, widespread development for it and the same goes for crypto tokens but to say either is looking like a bust is grossly, almost absurdly premature. To see this repeated ad nauseum almost as a dogmatic mantra in a hardcore technology-loving site is sort of sad. The analogy is a bit worn but valid I think: The internet also spent decades as a little-used niche system before it combined with the right market and additional technologies to start exploding in the early 90's.
knock the apple out of eves hands and tell her to never think of it again.
Thus the source code is essentially compressed code and, as we know, compression makes thing more random hence more noise-like.

This is wrong. k programs aren't really random at all. It's not even that complicated; it has less than thirty primitives. It's a notation for representing ideas, and it excels at that.

Dyalog APL is similarly terse, although less so, and the goal of it isn't to be terse. This criticism still gets thrown at it, and is representative of an unwillingness to accept something that mathematics has known for years: notation isn't golfing, it's a convenient way to express thought.
(A) Use panniers

(B) Use a trailer the kids can ride in

(C) Don’t use a bike for a 15mi commute. Better still, don’t do things 15mi away. That’s so damn far what the hell
How stock market circuit breakers work
It's sort of a "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't issue". SQLite lowers the barrier to start, but if your community grows even modestly then you'll be facing a very scary database migration (or at least scary for small admin teams).

I suspect a soft fork or subversion targeted towards small instances might be more sustainable, but that obviously requires more developers to build and maintain that.
Just think, this was a “successful” project. If you think this sounds like a boondoggle, look at the F-35, the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt class, or the Gerald E. Ford.

The disaster described in this essay is the proverbial good old days. DoD procurement has gotten worse since then.
My kid used to go to bed at 1 am (we are both night owls but this city is very ealry-riser-friendly), she is not 2 yet.

Took some serious effort to shift it back to something like 1030/11pm. So no, not necessarily a kid based on my experience.

And to clarify, we go to bed when she does.
Momentus buys six slots on SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare missions
Just to clarify the title:

Trading was halted for 15 minutes.
Exactly what you fear, you will be miserable. I can confirm.
Trade safe. Historic times. Wouldn't be surprised if all the volatility shorts blow up and the S&P goes down 20% in a session.
> Language can be learned

Sure, but that doesn't mean they're communicating in the same way. You've got to learn (or unlearn) cultural aspects, too.

Then throw in the timezone difference, and a clear level-of-effort difference aka "case of the fuck-its", and you get a workflow that is entirely different from the local office.

We got around the time difference by offshoring in Latin America, who are on the same timezones.
For those unaware, this is common practice -- it a control that is working as intended. The trading was halted for 15 minutes
I tried the worms in tthe south of france, not germany. Outside was too cold in the winter but inside was ok.
I think immutability plays a big role here as well. Clojure makes it natural to structure your code in a way where things can be reloaded individually without having to worry about global state. The REPL would be of much more limited use in a language where everything is coupled via shared mutable references.

This can also be seen with ClojureScript where hot loading works reliably out of the box, while all attempts at do hot loading in Js are flaky to the point of not being of much use.
My company has a lot of Clojure code but also supports users in R and Python, many of whom code notebook-first. One of the big differences that I have always observed is that Clojure (and other lisps possibly moreso) allow you to use the REPL alongside a living app and codebase. You can interactively develop small chunks of functionality and then integrate them into the whole.

Notebooks, however, impose this sort of top-down mental model that in my experience (supporting moving models to production, working with code form academia etc) very rarely leaves you a clear path to a maintainable codebase. Things like nbdev[0] might help a bit with deployment and refactoring, but it still feels like a completely different approach. Fundamentally a lot of people create notebooks as self-contained analysis that runs from top to bottom, first obtaining and preparing data, then trying to model the question at hand, and finally presenting results. The model is generally averse to ever scrolling back up. This doesn't feel at all like REPL-based development, where you're experimenting on one small part of a wider web of code, but the REPL history itself is much more transient and throwaway. There certainly can be a core loop in analysis where you're inspecting data, learning the patterns and distributions etc, but that generally yields insights, not code.

I assume that this isn't universally true, and many use R/Python REPLs to support more of a code-first approach, but I haven't observed that to be common.

0: https://github.com/fastai/nbdev
>lift generated by the larger engines moves the center of lift ahead of the center of gravity

Do you have a reliable source for the center of lift behind CoG shift? I've not seen that claim before.
When was the last time this happened?
Does saving face mean nothing to Boeing? Wont this kind of behavior decrease Boeing sales as the public continues to loose confidence in their planes?

At this point just do it. Do anything to at least appear like you're taking the matter seriously. Just let the regulators have their way for a while. Surely it's better to just take the short term hit.

I know the stock market doesn't generally reward short term sacrifices for long term gains, but does public image really mean this little anymore?
One factor that could be important here is that one CAD exchange standard doesn't currently do a very good job of modelling wiring harnesses. This problem first showed up on the A380 when different CATIA versions were being used at the two Airbus design centres.

A solution is being worked on by a joint Boeing and Airbus group but will be a while before it is published.
>> Correlation may be != causation. But absent other evidence, I would still be careful with accusations of any systemic issues with their work culture, or predictions about impending doom.

No lesser man than Geoff Hinton himself thinks there are systemic issues with machine learning publications, although he doesn't foresee impending doom:

WIRED: The recent boom of interest and investment in AI and machine learning means there’s more funding for research than ever. Does the rapid growth of the field also bring new challenges?

GH: One big challenge the community faces is that if you want to get a paper published in machine learning now it's got to have a table in it, with all these different data sets across the top, and all these different methods along the side, and your method has to look like the best one. If it doesn’t look like that, it’s hard to get published. I don't think that's encouraging people to think about radically new ideas.

Now if you send in a paper that has a radically new idea, there's no chance in hell it will get accepted, because it's going to get some junior reviewer who doesn't understand it. Or it’s going to get a senior reviewer who's trying to review too many papers and doesn't understand it first time round and assumes it must be nonsense. Anything that makes the brain hurt is not going to get accepted. And I think that's really bad.

What we should be going for, particularly in the basic science conferences, is radically new ideas. Because we know a radically new idea in the long run is going to be much more influential than a tiny improvement. That's I think the main downside of the fact that we've got this inversion now, where you've got a few senior guys and a gazillion young guys.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...
Caesar Cipher Technique
first time since the 2016 U.S. presidential election after they fell more than the daily limit of 5%
Generally speaking, airplane engines avoid gearboxes for reliability reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan
> All of this is in context of most infection being new, all of it.

No. The average time to die after infection is 28 days. Korea has been testing aggressively, and 28 days ago had fewer than 50 cases, despite finding cases earlier in their development. These other countries found cases who were already infected longer. That's why they have more deaths but also why they have more recoveries. You cannot gauge effectiveness of treatment until you've given the treated time to recover or die.

> This makes sense to me but can indeed only be verified once this whole horrible scenario plays out.

This can be verified today by the lower number of recoveries.
They're going the way of the French then.
Linux 5.6-Rc5 Released
It’s not assuming MITM or that the attacker can upload the signature to the site.

The attack is that the attacker can reuse the already uploaded signature in a way that allows them to get certificates issued under their account instead of the initial owner.

This blog is a little confusing about that since it does read like they are supposed to upload their own sig with the graphic used.

This post and linked IETF report is a little more clear: https://www.agwa.name/blog/2015/12
In reality BIW gets to double dip — they charge for R&D and also postpone the “D” part until after the ship is built, at which point the Navy will pay again to fix problems that should never have made it out of the yard.

Why do anything right the first time if you can get paid twice, thrice, or six times to fix your fuckups later?

P.S. if I buy a bespoke suit, I pay a fixed cost and it’s guaranteed correct — problems are paid for by the maker, not me.
Fear-free PostgreSQL migrations for Rails
Fish – A Friendly Interactive Shell
Most Mastodon instances currently running today don't support it.
It's a fair point that you have that ability and hope others will too. They might! I don't know that I would, but I might! I'm pretty stupid sometimes though.

My other comment on the nearby thread likely best-addresses why I think coming back "cold" is useful, based on an assumption that being a novice and being cold are similar, and maybe they're not.

With regard to picking up postscript specifically: I'm not intimately familiar with the language, but the bits I found in a quick search look a) less approachable than javascript to me, so fair point on that, but b) somewhat algol-like. At a glance I felt like I could pick up the flow-of-execution without a lot of work, though I could be wrong.

If it is kind of algol-like, I feel like that plays in favour of my argument a bit -- algol-like languages are so ubiquitous as to be hard to really not use the mental model for 5 years, so we're probably not really coming in "cold" to one.
K algorithms that fit on a licence plate
Well, I don't think we disagree. I know that friendships can start at work and I'm okay with that. I was mostly saying that it shouldn't be the norm because mixing work and personal life can lead to pretty nasty problems.

I too have a few pleasant acquaintances that are former co-workers, by the way.
election night 2016
This will be blamed on COVID-19, but the problems go much deeper. Last year the Fed lost control of the repo market. the event was widely discounted at the time as an end-of-tax-year fluke. It wasn't. Six month ago, the yield curve inverted. People who should have known better said "this time is different."

Speculators have been trained over the course of 10+ years to buy the dip. The Fed has your back.

What we're seeing is the beginning of the end of that resolve.

The last time this happened was during the GFC. It's not normal, and it's probably not a one-time event, either.
I'm running Pleroma in the same use case, it works fine for me I think.

If other people want to do that and switch from Twitter -> Fediverse, I wrote a bunch of scripts to switch from Twitter to Fediverse :

https://git.sr.ht/~pierrenn/twitter_escape

Sadly, this is a bit spammy method, but I had only a dozen or so complaints so far and my "Whole known network" is now seeded pretty well : https://s.pnn.sh/ (this is a small single user home instance on ARM, so it's slow)

And TBH I find the Pleroma UI better than Mastodon for the single user instance - plus clicking on the date to get replies in the Mastodon frontend always feels weird (but it's personal taste !)
Careful with this. A lot of communities don't like scraping of their public content. There was a guy who got booted from archive.org I think for trying to archive an instance that had a lot of under-18 folks' content.

I'd encourage you to build a federated app instead. :)
Steve Jobs’ Widow to Give Away Her $28B Wealth After Death
You are all complaining about the system in the US but don't realize it is INTENTIONAL. A pure capitalist society doesn't want Sick Poor People who cant work. You are a drain on the wealth generation engine. Old Sick Poor people are even worse. Check out the Stanford Study https://news.stanford.edu/2016/04/11/geography-income-play-r...
This is not at all a common practice.
This is official policy, but not "common practice."
According to CNBC: "These circuit breakers have never been triggered in their current form during regular trading hours."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/sp-500-futures-are-frozen-af...
So what are you shorting?
Kafka disaster recovery on Kubernetes using MirrorMaker2
I wonder what ever happened with "The Man Who Knew Too Little" (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-to...
When Does Hospital Capacity Get Overwhelmed in USA? Germany?
I'll add certain "tech companies" making no money doubling and tripling in a matter of months. The blow-off top was obvious, Covid19 was a mere catalyst.
For reference, someone might want to post a chart of the gains the markets have made in the past 5 years. I would hardly call this a crash.
Kobe Steel out of Japan was doing similar back in 2017. In one week their stock dropped 41%. Compared to immediately before the scandal, it's down 75% in that time.

I'm unsure if the drop is due to their scandal and poor management, something specific to Japan/Japanese steel, or if that's a larger issue in the steel market. Nippon also saw a ~55% drop on the same time period.
Use concent in react, share state easily and enjoy exact update。
Reschedule Interview
Is it ok to reschedule an interview for the second time?
Thanks for replying to feedback Seth. Stuff like this - following the Google Maps API massive pricing increase, the G Suite pricing increase - is what makes me wary about building stuff on GCP: I'm afraid that Google will increase prices for stuff I rely on. AWS has made users expect pricing for cloud services to only go down.
The daily limit is 20%, I believe?

7% = automatic 15 minute stop

13% = another 15 minute stop

20% = stop for rest of day
Technology is undermining democracy. Who will save it?
Perhaps it has its place -low-velocity lightweight vehicles? They are starting with a scooter, so perhaps they agree.
Think about Las Vegas.. Wonder why not many reported cases there?
Introducing friendly (& learn how to make a CLI application/HTTPS web server)
I personally think this would be a very difficult mindset to have in regards to an environment I spend so much of my time in. Just because you have a financial business relationship with your employer does not mean you can’t have friendships with other people that also have business relationships with your employer. It would be unhealthy to not have some type of friendship with people you spend so much time with.

The majority of my closest friends (and their closest friends) are people that started from work relationships and we have had no problem leaving those companies when the time came, and we have maintained our friendships. It’s not any different than any other friendship where people sometimes move or start new hobbies.

That said, if someone does choose to stay at a specific company because they have friends there... so what? Having a strong social circle and support network is, in many cases, a better reason to work at a company than a higher paycheck.
I'm sorry someone promised you the Fediverse as if it is "free speech heaven". It isn't. Which is fine by me.

To be honest, I think your view of what "free speech" is, is a ridiculous extreme. Go use FreeNet. If I don't seem compelling, I've put together an essay to address this in more detail [0]

[0] https://cjslep.com/c/blog/censorship-is-a-tool
Philly Data Jawn 2020
There's no good (or bad) choices for mapping abstract concepts like ranges, mapping, reducing, or combining to common (ASCII-) symbols.
Every choice is inherently arbitrary and carries no meaning whatsoever (besides maybe ergonomics). One could just as well argue that "/" is the ISO 8000-2:2009 2-9.6 recommended symbol for division. The same source also shows why symbols alone are inadequate for an explicit representation of abstract concepts: the Nabla symbol alone represents 5 different operations depending on context according to the ISO standard.
Out of curiosity i downloaded and downloaded the tutorial and it looks to be more of a hyperlinked multimedia(ish) application, similar to something you'd see made in Hypercard (which makes sense since it seems to be made in ToolBook which essentially was a Hypercard clone for Windows 3.1) and less of something like a PDF, something you'd see in an Amazon Kindle or something you'd see as an EPUB (which is what i think most people would associate with ebooks nowadays).

I made a quick capture under VBox with Windows 3.1 for others to see, (though i think it should also work under Wine and otya128's winevdm port to Windows 10):

http://runtimeterror.com/pages/badsector/nyan/gimme/webm/fuz...

EDIT: i started reading it now for real and i have to say it is a very interesting way to teach. In theory the hyperlinked approach would work fine in the web, but i cannot think of anything similar in practice. The closest i can think of was some interactive examples in a blog post i found some years ago about making a 2D game.
Are these de-Googlification changes going to be upstreamed into LineageOS?
You have some good points there, but I don't see why those issues wouldn't be possible to address with some well written legal clauses and perhaps a 3rd party insurance provider.
Dyslexic here! k is significantly easier to read than ALGOL-derivatives and most Lisp dialects.
Apparently in 1997, so it has been quite a while

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb#Instances_of_us...
Why do you have to short anything? The idea was to get more defensive months ago. Long term treasuries are up almost 50% y-o-y.

If you think it's easy to short things in a volatile market like this, then you've probably never tried to...
Tangentially, I believe the root cause of all software architecture debates is an argument over who pays what aspect of cost.

Language goals such as expressivity, readability, brevity, composability; and features such as static typing; and patterns such as monoliths and microservices, ship-fast-fix-later, agile and waterfall design, centralized vs distributed; and aphorisms such as DRY and YAGNI - can be evaluated in the framework of shifting cost between original programmer, future maintainer, service provider, service user, or library/module reuser (and one individual may assume all of those roles at different points in the software’s lifecycle!).
I just wrote a post about setting up matrix-client.el with Pantalaimon: https://gergely.polonkai.eu/2020/03/09/chatting-on-matrix-wi...
Security and Convenience for More Than Just Passwords
>Six month ago, the yield curve inverted. People who should have known better said "this time is different."

How does your story jive with the fact that the yield curves went back to normal? Either they are an indicator or they aren't.
the serious subs on Reddit seem to have no issues with this at all (r/math, r/programming, r/physics, r/compsci). I don't know why you think it would inevitably devolve into just noise.

and on the contrary the atmosphere of "nothing but business" around here is very often stifling.
The 737 MAX is statically stable. There are quite a lot of uninformed comments floating around that compare the plane to fighter jets like the F-16, but these are pure nonsense. An F-16 would tear itself to pieces in seconds if the flight control software malfunctioned.
Depends if you consider it pure raw material (I think it is) that you can use to convey something of your own or if you can relate to some point to it (and do the same, but to some further extent).

At a rather utilitarian level, one wouldn't consider a spoon exactly the same way whether it was:
1) carved out of wood by someone you can relate to (by history, reasons, knowledge); as a unique piece, or part of a series;
2) or built in a factory, by workers; and available in the same fashion in X instances;
3) or built in a factory by robots; and available as an exact copy in X instances;
4) or a pure unique artefact that got the practical shape of a spoon.

And that would be for a spoon only.

I am of the school of thought that one doesn't make art without the intent of communicating/transmiting (it/through it) with other people, however remote/intimate it can be. If only because one cannot live alone.

In this line, whatever pleasing something can be, if there's no transmission/communication/need/desire behind the creation of it, if there is no social reason behind it, it has no resonance, no affect to me that makes me actually relate to it (and to the person that thought of it, fell on it, carved it in their words, sounds, silences, colors, shapes, steps, etc.).

To me, whatever the artist intent was, when anything is done, it is done by someone - this someone cared, if only enough to make it, and that way attached something to their work.

That is something I can try to relate to (to the product itself, and to the intent perhaps).

When something is produced by a system, there still may be the intent of the person(s) that designed this system. But it may also be totally independant of the designers scope. That is interesting also, as pure rough material.

But it isn't remotely as profound, interesting, human as something that is done by someone real.
Are we ditching keypads for good in AR/VR?