skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm similar so here are some thoughts - I found myself in a situation where I had limited internet access. I still had access to all the files related to me "to do" project list. I instantly felt more motivated to work on them. Knowing that my connection to the internet was gone and there was nothing I could do about it for the time being caused that constant nagging in the back of your mind "whats the next funny meme" or what ever to disappear. I didn't feel compelled to mindlessly browse because I couldn't. I would suggest finding a way to severe this connection (pun intended) and it will set your mind at ease. It solves the FOMO feeling when you KNOW you can't do something.
/ramble.
It's just slightly disappointing that the CAs and browsers have agreed to operate under a policy that requires the CAs to revoke mis-issued subordinate CAs within 7 days (CA/B Forum BR 4.9.1.2), but that's not actually feasible in practice - at least not at this scale. Certificate issuance would need to be automated enough that it would be feasible to actually replace all certificates issued by the affected CAs within a 7-day period.

Let's Encrypt represents the state of the art in terms of certificate automation, but last time they had an (impending) mass-revocation event, it turned out that even the ACME protocol / client implementations didn't really have any concept of an automated "this certificate is about to be revoked, please re-issue" process. As a result of that event, certbot at least got support for triggering renewal after revocation: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/1028#issuecomment-... -> https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/7829
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Is that true for computer vision based robots? Or do they use lidar or something?
Thanks for the response! A lot of interesting points I hadn't considered!

For the product consistency, I assume you are talking about non-fully-automated factories? With full automation "adherence to best practices" hopefully shouldn't be as hard to ensure, I hope.

For tariffs, if we assume that a big part of the specific industries playes are distributed internationally, the size of the industry in general should be the much more significant factor, as you are not lobbying individually anyway, right? If you can even go as far as fluidly shift production between countries you should be to negotiate better lobbying deals, which I understand is how the automotive industry operates to some degree?
That is not true at all. While LG is the only OLED TV panel manufacture on the market, they have been making progress every year in their WOLED panel. And many more technical innovations in the pipeline. And older panel drop in price as they improve yield, that is why you start seeing affordable OLED. They differ in colour accuracy, refresh rate, QA, max brightness etc. To say they are the same panel every year give very little credit to LG's WOLED engineering.
Sorry for deleting. I was working on detecting suicidal posts in social media. It is really depressing work.
This message is expressed very well here [1]. Tl;dr internships are helpful to students for a variety of reasons, like making applicants more valuable to employers, making programming less of an abstract concept, and exposing them to interesting subfields of computer science.

[1] https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/why-do-i-need-an-i...
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13M gig workers getting unemployment benefits, 41% of the total
All of a sudden, we need herd immunity against a flu virus? Have we ever had herd immunity against a coronavirus?
Nope, the first hurdle is usually some bs resume filter which removes a lot of competent candidates from consideration
Read the article, not just the headline, my corporatist friend.
Kidnapping is a real, albeit unlikely threat in many of the places I end up in. That's why I have lawyers and insurance. There is no scenario in which I want my grandparents or parents involved in a kidnapping situation in any capacity.
We’re trying a petition-based approach to get people back to the office ASAP
Haven't these been around forever? I went on a tour of a university tokomak in the 80's and they had some giant flywheel for short-burst electrical energy.
I’ve been working from home for six years and I consider that the biggest upside actually. I don’t have to waste time pretending to work just because it’s “work hours”. A lot of times good enough really is good enough and my reward for getting my work done early is I get to reclaim my time. It typically balances out with the times I’m still working past 5 or 6pm for things that really do matter.

The most common complaint about WFH is actually the opposite, that the work day is never really done because you don’t have to shut down your computer and drive home like you would in an office. WFH has allowed me to reclaim hours that would have been spent poorly (just doing work for the sake of filling time) and lets me choose how that time should be used.

If I got my work done and everyone agrees the work is done, there is no reason to keep working. We only do it in the office because our manager and coworkers are watching us.
Richard Polt is also the author of the typewriter revolution. A good book!
That isn't actually what happened, but I don't doubt that's how you've remembered it.

Comodo at this point controlled the CA roots that had belonged to Symantec. Trustico, a Symantec reseller (same sort of relationship to Symantec that your local Ford dealer has to the Ford motor company) asked Comodo to mass revoke thousands of certificates it had sold to third party subscribers as reseller for Symantec.

It's not clear what Trustico hoped to achieve by that, maybe they believed they could get back the cost of the certificates? We don't know the details of the (confidential) contract between Trustico and Symantec or to what extent the contract terms survived transfer to Comodo. Maybe Trustico just wanted to push its customers into new deals, because it was not a Comodo reseller and risked being frozen out.

Anyway, Jeremy Rowley, a Comodo VP asked for a reason to revoke these certificates, and by return he got thousands of private keys. Private Key compromise is a valid reason for revoking certificates, so Rowley confirmed the certificates matched these private keys and Comodo began revoking them.

Trustico are the people who had thousands of private keys. A CA is strictly prohibited from having your private keys (and as we saw, if they are shown them they should revoke your certificates) but of course whether a CA enforces this rule on its resellers (via contract terms) is a matter between the CA and reseller. The whole point of private keys is that they're private. So, in one sense Trustico's customers got what they deserved - do not give your private keys to some reseller or trust them to pick keys for you.

Nothing went wrong at Comodo here. And if you as a subscriber followed good practices you weren't affected either even if you'd bought certificates through Trustico. Only customers who'd gone with Trustico and done something inherently unsafe got burned.
The Ivies tend to have pretty generous aid since they have massive endowments
That will work for some people but not everyone. At my current job I can't monetize work I do outside the company without approval. That means I can't go through you application process unless I quit first. Even if I was allowed to do this I don't think I'd want to. The time commitment of an extra project on top of my normal workload is not something I want.
I interview a lot of people and found much to complain about in this essay. This is the main thing:

> The key is to decide in advance on a list of questions, specifically designed to test job-specific skills, then ask them to all the candidates. In a structured interview, everyone gets the same questions with the same wording, and the interviewer doesn’t improvise.

This is good advice, if and only if you're interviewing an undifferentiated group of applicants, as in the cited examples (college entrance and army recruits). If you're hiring a QA III and you have three different applicants, it's terrible advice. You need to ask about the candidate's specific experience, and ask follow-ups.

More generally, I don't think the stated goal of an interview according to this essay (peering in to the candidate's soul to suss out traits like "responsibility" or "sociability") is possible or reasonable. My goal is more modest - I just want to figure out whether you were good at your last job or not. If you say you're responsible, I can't prove you right or wrong in a one hour conversation. But if you say you're a whiz at Selenium UI automation, and you're lying, I will figure it out pretty easily.
Not psychic pain. Expressions of psychic pain.

And yes, they do correlate very strongly. How often do you hear expressions of psychic pain actually coming from America's vast poor white population why are dying daily from opioid overdoses? I never do. I hear complaints from university students who want safe space rooms with puppies to help them deal with the harmful opinions they just heard.
I feel like it would help a lot to require cashiers or gift cards give warnings, something like, "gift cards should be bought for people you know and not as payment."

Apple does this at its stores. I bought a gift card there just before the pandemic, and the clerk read me disclaimer text about scammers and gift cards, and then I had to sign the statement on his iPhone before I could pay.
You've seen what your washing machine does when you get a blanket off-balance in it.

Imagine if one of the motors on the flywheel stopped responding to inputs.

Windmills had governors which were horizontal wheels with two or more pendulums attached to the outer edge. The angular velocity is trying to lift the pendulum and gravity is pushing it back down, so velocity increases much slower than momentum.

The only problem you need to worry about there is seized bearings or foreign bodies unbalancing the load.

There are other devices that replace gravity with springs. You might be able to do the same with permanent magnets. But I believe each of these relies on the device being able to put up with larger strains than the pendulum.
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Bullshit has real jobs hanging off it. You can be a hedge fund day trading, and have real cleaners cleaning real toilets.
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> Whether your job has purpose or not isn't for the employee to decide. Thats for the employer to decide.

Says who? The point is, we are free to define what a BS job is anyway we want. This book simply postulates that the job is BS if a person performing the job thinks it is. You are free to come up with alternative definitions.

- A job is BS if a congress committee designates it as such.

- A job is BS if NYTimes editorial board says it is.

- A Job is BS if employer files for bankruptcy.

For me, the definition adopted by the book is at least not worse than the alternatives. Once we defined it we can talk about how many BS jobs there are etc. Or, to rephrase, how many people think they have a BS job.

> It's your job to decide whether you want to trade your time for their money.

And yes, I can trade my time for their money and still have freedom to call their job BS.
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> Guess what: most of us can make some pretty intelligent guesses about things just based on looking at them.

Surely not based on looking at the blurry, low-quality camera images that are the usual focus for mass facial recognition. Train a system for that and it will just focus on the most visible traits, that we all know about. And those same traits have problematic correlations with social disadvantage and marginalization, that will impact any assessment you might want to make.
None.

Eleven startups. Net value of options: zero.

Plenty of exits, but thanks to preferences overhangs, zero value for employee stock options. Yes, got decent salary, but not FAANG level.

VCs may be able to write off 1/3 of their investments, I can't. Stop conning employees into accepting lower salaries in return for stock options.
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> It is not the patent offices job to test the validity of patents.

Actually, it is (at least in the US). USPTO can deny patents on the basis on nonpatentability, and its general refusal to do so post-State St. decision is often cited as one of the problems of the modern patent system.

Broadly speaking, however, if the argument is that software patents are invalid in Europe because they'll be found so by the courts, it should be noted that SCOTUS is actually pretty likely to rule software unpatentable were it to hear a software patent case. A little background is in order:

In Parker v Flook (1978), SCOTUS said that mathematical algorithms (i.e., basically software) is unpatentable. In Diamond v Diehr (1981), they said that part of the patent being software doesn't make the entire thing invalid. The big decision is State St (1998), which is a CAFC decision holding that anything was patentable so long as it produced a "useful, concrete, tangible" result and basically broke the patent office. When SCOTUS decided Bilski v Kappos (2008), they emphatically (and unanimously!) called out State St as wrong, but declined to endorse any guidelines as to what the limits of patentability should be. Later Mayo (2012) and Alice (2014) decisions again unanimously and unambiguously laid out what wasn't patentable: natural processes, and "do it on a computer" steps.

A few years ago, we had a patent attorney at work tell us (paraphrasing somewhat) that Alice made it really hard to figure out how to write a software patent that wouldn't be invalidated. Their continued existence (and pretense to their enforceability) is less because it's secure and more because no one wants to spend the money to litigate it to the highest level (see also the Google v Oracle case, which is exactly the sort of thing a software patent case history would entail).
Here's Cornell's email to students if anyone was curious:

https://www.scribd.com/document/468208772/Cornell-Mail-Plans...
Hospitals are filling up because hospitals are opening and allowing work / surgeries to be scheduled and done again.
Here you go!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/6/twitter-goog...
Look up AA 444.
Show HN: 70% of startup ideas suck. Yours doesn't have to. Alpha testers wanted
A lot of people from India and China move to the US. How did the US interfere in India?

Shouldn’t socialist countries be more robust to interference from capitalist countries if they are inherently better?

Otherwise, they seem weak geopolitically and won’t survive long.
This article fits nicely with the recent post discussing how Linus spends the majority of his time writing emails. For projects with n+1 contributors, inter-contributor communication is just as important as what code is being written. Emails, commit messages, code comments, docs, are all just different ways to communicate.

I always think of the Underhanded C Contest[^1] as my favorite example of readable code that doesn't act as expected after a quick read.

[1] http://underhanded-c.org/
> I'm super impressed that they elected to automate those things based on cost merit.

Seven years production run (or more), that should explain a lot. Even if hardware revisions changed significantly in that time (I wouldn't know) that's still a completely different calculation than something that changes annually, or even twice a year, as Sony's own Xperia phones used to.
The beginning of the increase in positive cases happened 4 weeks ago. We should have already seen leading indicators of deaths.
Nothing like telling an addict that they just need to stop being addicted. Simple answer, problem solved, right?
Only for simple cases. When it becames complex enough the same problems show.

Example: CSS.
Yes, hard gold plating is pretty durable. Take a look at the plating on PCIe card and DIMM contacts. Or just about any high quality connector.

Switches have an advantage over these connectors in that they touch rather than slide. So wear and tear is much less of a problem.
Oh right. I read it as "how else could you explain it simply". I always thought the pigeon hole principal was a needless metaphor.
I am thinking about place where I can do things little bit more right way and relax a little (in case of consultant job, take a rest from time to time for couple more weeks or months), instead of always in a rush, because customer X is asking for feature Y, they need it yesterday.
> products are an ecosystem and if the product gets worse or updates get slower then the whole ecosystem suffers.

I can't resist pointing out the irony in your concern over the health of the software ecosystem, when it is the health of the our ecosystem that we depend on for life that's being discussed : ).

Which is not necessarily a critique of your comment, but, in a way you could argue that you just successfully argued against yourself ; ).
> How? The number of nuclear weapons was growing rapidly until the 80s.

It's hard to assess their impact, but that doesn't mean it was insignificant. Could we have been in a worse position? Definitely. Someone might have "pushed the button" by now were it not for decades of work from organizations (some of whom consisted of scientists) lobbying against nuclear weapons and their proliferation.

> Seeing the effects of bombs informed the public, not a committee

The nuclear tests demonstrated that the weapons work. There are other effects such as "nuclear winter" that have not been (and hopefully never will be) demonstrated. Sadly, because of Chernobyl, we do have examples of what happens to contaminated areas. Understanding and communicating the effects beyond "blast radius" is best done by scientists and health experts.
Yeah, so, you wrote that poorly. What you said was "this is why people who are truly interested in learning from others on Twitter open up their DMs". What you mean to say was "this is why opening up ones DMs is helpful to those truly interested in learning from others". Those are not at all the same statements.
Ja to me the "rule-of-thumb" is still:
"Code Is The How, Comments Are The Why"
Do you have this same criticism of the people that peruse this site? Or those watching Netflix? But reading books is ok - see how arbitrary that is?

We don't all share the same values, and it's pretty arrogant of you to suggest that yours are universal.
its already used in drinking water and for packing meat

but most of all is curing 100% of the covid patients that use it

the only problem: is not patentable so not real profit can be made
Exactly what I've said. Top 10 schools have tons of untapped brand equity they can unleash for 30% of on prem education. Get a premier remote education for $20k/yr or get state school with risk of Covid for $27k+....
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Great toy for HollyWood!
I see ads for this in the newspaper sometimes. I've checked them out when they're on a .gov domain and gotten some of my money from an old savings account I forgot about.

But some states use a plain-old .com, and the sites aren't well done, so they look sketchy, even when they're legit. Worse, they sometimes have URLs like comeclaimyourmissingmoneythatyouforgotaboutandwereholdingforyou.com

If you're curious about missing money, go to the web site of the Secretary of State in every state where you've lived or gone to school. There's usually a link.
I once saw an article by this author, read all the rest and then forgot where I found it. I spent days devouring the net. Thank you for posting this!
> what is the purpose of having a M.2 bay

To plug an NRF52840

https://makerdiary.com/collections/frontpage/products/nrf528...
This is an extremely one sided article, and it seems to be missing a lot of critical information. That said, does anyone still trust the media?
I agree, in that this seems like the wrong tech to back at this time.

However, I do wonder if these pipelines could be transitioned to something like HVDC; rip out the pipe and use the right of way for an entirely different, safer purpose that will have tremendous value in the future.

Building new transmission is unbelievably difficult in this age, and I think most of the opportunities for doing so will require repurposing existing, defunct infrastructure.
Every discussion of highly-automated factories brings to mind this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSj6kvv7_Sg

Early lights out production. The problem became obvious a little later, for NeXT, which was that these things only make sense at very high scale for products that change infrequently.
Thank you for taking time to answer this!

I never knew that distributed physics simulations could be a career field.
I always thought that such problems would be handled by scaling up vertically or just throwing a super computer at it.

If you don't mind, can you please elaborate a bit about the type of work that you do and scope of problems that you solve every day?

Thanks again!.
I first noticed the yellow button from the youtube app burnt in (after about three years). Then it was a smear of green in the middle probably from all the yellow highlighting of objects in the witcher(Xbox game). Also some lines from subtitles are starting to show, and lately I’ve been able to read Netflix written in the lower right corner.

It seems there are some ui-patterns involved that could perhaps, at least for the webos apps, be avoided through interface standards.
You need to get your team talking
Younger people aren't locked down and are more likely to be social ATM. Since they are more likely to carry without showing symptoms, test positivity going up makes some sense, it is plausible at least.
It looks like it would've entered the market in 2006?
We'll need 2 factor auth for phone calls at that point
Isn't some part of the value just the "badge appeal" of a Harvard degree? If you are Harvard 2024 won't that open just as many generously compensated doors as usual, even if there was a year less networking?

Might the networking value even increase because now there is a shared bond (had to deal with 2020) connecting the less-connected and the more-connected?
You're right, but I'm not aware of any egregious salaries or bonuses. Both the president and all the chairmen are all professors, which generally means they are paid by their University, not Fraunhofer. The same applies to many directors of the individual institutes. The salaries for employees are based on "Tarifvertrag öffentlicher Dienst" ("labor agreement for public service",). Unless there's straight up fraud somewhere, there shouldn't be too much lining of pockets.
Nuclear energy is in fact better than renewables (for us and the environment)
Fun fact / challenge: nobody reading this comment is in a room without a product made by Koch industries.
Not to mention people on work visas who cannot legally do that either.
I'm one of the those people that have the luxury of making choices misaligned with their economic incentives. What you've mentioned is great, actionable advice.

I also agree that personal responsibility is a cop out, but at least for myself I can switch jobs to an organization that seems to be making the world a better place, beyond the kool aid.

I'll look into what political action I could take. I really appreciate the level headed advice.
Yep, I recently stopped using Doordash for this reason exactly.

My driver picked up my meal (from about 10 blocks away), then proceeded to drive downtown to pick up another meal, then to the other side of town to deliver it, then finally back to me.

My food arrived almost 2 hours after I ordered it, cold, soggy, and leaking in the bag.
Regarding the Em Dash (2018)
This is good for entry level candidates but how does someone who has finished this type of apprenticeship find their second job?
I feel like very obvious lies on financial aid applications should be grounds for the school to rescind their admission.
Hedge fund.