skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is so much fraud the police can't keep up. Customers are told to contact 'Action Fraud', which is staffed by people on minimum wage and undercover filming shows them basically laughing at victims as they type up another pointless report that goes into the bin.

If you're the police and you have the option of spending resources on burglary or muggings (which cost an absolute fortune in police time, generally low value, but in the public's eye very important) or payment fraud, the police will put time into "in person" crime every time.
South Africa reinstates alcohol ban to free hospital beds for Covid-19 patients
Glad someone gets it
It's a catchy and (now) descriptive way to name a scandal. I agree that you're being a little pedantic.
Hey I loaded the game and ran into a wall. After than I am can't get unstuck from the wall. Below are the error log from the console.

main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39 DataFetcherRequest: Received error l XMLHttpRequest ProgressEvent
(anonymous) @ main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39
gznoclip1.b-cdn.net/HalfLife2/hl2_misc_000.vpk:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CACHE_OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED
main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39 DataFetcherRequest: Received error l XMLHttpRequest ProgressEvent
> Ok, but the AVX instructions that do trigger the cooldown may be the ones you wish to use, and the statement is still valid. I never mentioned AMD.

Again, it's not that AVX instructions inherently must be clocked down for. It is an implementation detail of Intel's processor. AMD already has different boost behavior for AVX2 and will probably have different boost behavior for AVX-512 when they implement that.

> It just depends on what you want to call a boundary

What you were saying is that they are units attached over some "fabric", which isn't the case.

> The shared memory fabric allows fast offload the the extremely specialized processing units.

They aren't "multiple processors that share memory", it is an execution unit within the Streaming Multiprocessor. It is no different from an AVX instruction, they are driven by registers, not by a fabric and not by memory.

At risk of reigniting the old Bulldozer "what is a core really anyway", AVX and tensor cores don't really represent an independent core, they are an execution unit within a larger core. They can't operate independently without the other execution resources provided by the core.
yeah but if the generated SQL doesn't look how you want it, now you gotta optimize it using the ORM's language and not SQL. Tweak the ORM, see the generated SQL, tweak again... etc.

If you're looking at the generated SQL I would rather just use the SQL directly in my code. There's probably features in ORMs where you can write raw SQL and tell it how to map the result to an object but I haven't used an ORM in a while.
Could just be some glue inside broke off.
These Wonderfully Weird People Worship a Flying Spaghetti Monster
That's the whole point though: you don't need "to monitor a tank of fluorine compound so that it can be used to etch silicon wafers" if you're computing with clockwork or fluidics. (I'm not knocking silicon, just pointing out that there are alternatives.)

Also, humans are the only species that can run a marathon, swim a lake, and climb a tree. We are generalists.
It's possible. I remember reading about forums on the dark net a while ago where some hackers were advertising their services where you pay them bitcoin and they plant child porn on any target's computer. Then presumably you report them to the FBI or whatever and they are arrested. You know the rest.

If hackers can encrypt your entire hard drive holding it ransom without you knowing, this attack seems even easier.
I'm born in the 90s and reading that tweet made me want to puke
They're playing a long game, and yes, that may well be their goal.
The article mentions starting two robots from the same point heading in opposite directions to make that 2km instead of 1km.

But yeah, you'd have to splice it. I wonder if it would be possible to have the fibers that need splicing take a short detour down a pole to near ground level and have someone do the splice there.
I tried GitUp, but I found Fork (https://fork.dev/home) to be user friendly (IMHO, YMMV)
Still, I'm surprised they pretty much all have such miserable quality.

I used to have one overlooking the river in my mother's house. I spent a lot of time tuning it so it looked really great, both day and night (at night using really long exposure times). I used high quality webcams at first and then the 5MP raspberry cam (later modded with a better lens).

But even the "1080p" security cams that cost $200 or more have horrible quality compared to those. They're good for security purposes yes, but I wouldn't use them to advertise the views from a hotel.

I really wish there were some really HQ webcams around the world, think 4K or even 8K (so you could zoom in even on a 4K screen), with good night performance, it would be so great to really get a feel for a city. These cams are just so poor.
This isn't a very good argument against parallel construction, because you are able to contest all of the evidence being used in court against you.

I don't think arguing against the legitimacy of the investigative means used to acquire evidence is ever an admissible argument by which to contest that evidence before a jury. If those investigative means were a poisonous tree, that's an argument you make to the judge to preclude admission of that evidence in the first place, before either side gets to contest any evidence.

I think lawyering over whether parallel construction is lying or not is tactically silly. You'll be on much firmer ground arguing that parallel constructions completely undercuts the point of the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine, which is to disincentivize illegal means of investigation.
While we’re issuing commands , don’t tell me how to think when you completely lack a of sense of humor.

By the way, the local news media never mentioned the store was looted. I had to find out the hard way. All they talked about was peaceful protesters.
I agree that Khan Academy is great for math. For a full middle school (and high school) accredited curriculum, you might check out Apex Learning Virtual School https://www.apexlearningvs.com. They offer live teaching and tutoring support, self-paced learning and a flexible schedule.
Walt Disney’s empty promise
Could be at least one valid reason: They put high number of years to make people feel inadequacy about their experience level to make it easier to low ball them. Of course it doesn't work in this case now that EVERYONE is memeing it, but it might have been the original intention.
Plastic Injection Molding
Looks like the traffic here has alerted them ;) It's gone now.
Maybe, or maybe they're one of those that use protests as a scapegoat for everything from the Apple store being closed to new instances of coronavirus. You just can't tell, so it's not worth engaging.
That’s what I understand too. (I worked on the Quartz Core team for a couple years at BAML.)
I am currently working with the marketing team at this real estate fintech startup called Tellus.
Widespread mask wearing could prevent second waves of COVID-19, study says
> and unlikely to work on anyone who keeps an eye on their running processes

Rootkits are a thing. It would be perfectly reasonable for a criminal to intentionally use one to hide a process doing illicit things on their own computer from prying eyes.
Fighting Covid with Far-UVC Light
I currently have mine delivered for a service. Started experiencing the popping sound. There is something off with these.

Would not change them out though. I’ve also have new Comply Foam ear foam on their way.
Researchers Say This Router Is Open to Outside Attack by Hackers
See "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." also by Larry Wall.
I'm no fan of hers, but this seems like sensationalized click bait.

Why is it important or noteworthy that she employed ex-military as personal security? Many (rich) people do and many private security firms actively recruit ex-military. US citizens can and do serve in the British military and even for the SAS.

Is there any suggestion that that she was knowingly employing people who were not entitled to work in the USA? That might be relevant to her case.

I don't see the reality that she had private security to be relevant in any way.
“If you’re otherwise a productive employee”.
Great way to cull out the liars.

Either that or sheer stupidity. With a big company, you can never tell for sure.
A few years ago I wrote an experimental Logical Decoding plugin that translates database transactions to DNS UPDATE messages. I was super impressed by how nice it was coding to PostgreSQL's plugin APIs in C. I'm currently not sure if a C plugin is the best approach for this particular task: it might be better to use one of the more popular Logical Decoding to JSON plugins and munge the JSON into DNS UPDATEs in something more high-level than C.
I think it's just confused word use. The author seems to treat 'would' as a "past tense operator". In programming terms, the author appears to be under the impression that past_tense("action") -> "would action". The correct function is past_tense("action") -> "actioned". (Or whatever weird conjugation "action" has.)

The tense this article's passages (mostly) use is "future-in-the-past" tense, where the verb 'will' becomes 'would'. It is used when one transports the reader to a specific moment in time, looking omnisciently into the future. For example, these sentences (in present/present/future, respectively):

"It is 1845. John Johnson wakes up. His wife will bake a cake in celebration."

become (in past/past/future-in-the-past, respectively):

"It was 1845. John Johnson woke up. His wife would bake a cake in celebration."

If we transport the sentences you quoted from past->present and future-in-the-past->future, they become: "Chaplin asks what happened. Ken will say his father has been assassinated. He will travel with [...]". The second sentence becomes: "Chaplin doesn't understand Japanese, but he knows he is in danger. He will immediately put his acting skills into play." These are grammatically correct, but I believe there are a few cases where the author gets it wrong. In general, there are so many tense changes (and changes in the 'specific moment' as described earlier) that it is probably unreasonable to consider the whole document grammatically correct even if one could break the document into isolated pieces of correctness.
Small Things (2018)
Aren't the AirPods pretty tightly packed and full of glue? You'd think there'd be very little tolerance for something to rattle about in there (not that I know what it sounds like).
Sooner or later, MSFT will 'do an Apple'.

Like Apple did before them, they will take an open-source kernel loving produced by thousands of willing programmers (BSD for Apple, Linux for Microsoft) and put their own proprietary GUI (Aqua for Apple, Windows for Microsoft) on top of that.
A big issue with aerial fiber is that the fiber experiences fairly large changes based on the environment. In areas where there is a lot of lightning, lightning strikes will cause outages. These outages are not caused by physical damage to the cable plant but rather due to very fast changes in the polarization of signals on the fiber (the huge electric field of lightning temporarily causes refractive index changes in the fiber). These index changes manifest as fast polarization rotations >1Mrad/s. This rate of change is often fast enough to make it difficult for current DSP to track. While it can be possible to track the rate of polarization change, it often comes with a trade off in nominal performance.

See:
https://pegconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Polariz...
"Programming Perl" is absolutely chock full of great quotes. I think one of the things that attracted many programmers to Perl was how genuinely witty Larry Wall was in his writings/talks. Add to that his background in linguistics and he comes across as a pretty hip/zany/brilliant character.

I think lots of Perl programmers probably thought of themselves as "being in on" his creation and therefore being a bit like him, themselves. That was certainly one of the upshots for me back in the late 90s early 2000s.
Fortunately I've done more than five minutes of research on this topic which is why I can see through the propaganda. Your organ claims have been debunked multiple times before (here is one from the WaPo that you will like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-the-fac...) but here are two articles (https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harve...)
debunking your others (and come from the West with links to all salient points they make!):

Relevant quotes from the WaPo:

> And lawyers who have defended Falun Gong practitioners also reject allegations that those prisoners’ organs are being harvested.

> “I have never heard of organs being taken from live prisoners,” said Liang Xiaojun, who said he had defended 300 to 400 Falun Gong practitioners in civil cases and knew of only three or four deaths in prison.

>Jose Nuñez, head of the transplantation program at the World Health Organization, which collects information on transplants worldwide, says that in 2015 the number of foreigners going to China for transplants was “really very low,” compared with the traffic to India, Pakistan or the United States, or in comparison with transplant-visitor numbers in China’s past.

> Chapman and Millis say it is “not plausible” that China could be doing many times more transplants than, for instance, the United States, where about 24,000 transplants take place every year, without that information leaking out as it did when China used condemned prisoners’ organs.

I'd highly suggest taking a more critical approach to your media consumption over believing Western propaganda. The West would have you believe the Chinese are infants and cannot see the corruption of their own government. If Americans can see it in their own why can't other people?
You can't just say that and then not follow up. It's literally against HN rules, read the ToS.
Ah yeah, forgot to mention this was in the U.S.

Hope they offer you it too!
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: AZ-900 Course by Lawrence Manickam
Seduced by China's honeytrap spies: Blackmail, money and sex
I really hope I'm skilled enough to write something like this from scratch one day.
I can't imagine the difficulty in training these animals to ignore the sounds.
US hardens stance against China’s claims in South China Sea
You assume I can use HTTP/2. I've pleaded with my upstream service owners to no avail. Since they control network traffic, I have no choice.
I had this problem with both left and right AirPods. I got a replacement, and a confirmation that it is a known issue. I currently live in Czechia, and there’re no official Apple stores here, but this hasn’t been a problem. I just had to wait a couple of days for the replacement.

Interestingly enough, I had a very similar issue with my Sony WH-1000XM3. They would click and pop whenever I moved my head, touched them, or simply when a door or window would open or close and produce a small change in air pressure. They would click several times in a row, every time with less intensity, before stopping. Extremely annoying. Just like with the Airpods, it would only happen with ANC on.
After a failed attempt to repair them in warranty, I just insisted on getting a new pair or my money back.

I am fairly confident that in both cases it was a hardware failure.
Just “deciding not to do tasks” is one option that works (or, as I like to say “never put off till tomorrow anything that you can get out of altogether”...)

A much more powerful tool as a senior dev is to push back on pointless or stupid requirements. “No we will not build a video transcoder so you can upload 8K video files you your WordPress site that gets 85+% of its traffic on phone screens. Learn to resize video before you upload it, or buy that as a service from Brightcove et al.” (Yes, that is a real example of a requirement I pushed back on, because neither the customer nor the account manager understood the problem. One of my devs tried to push back and got talked over, before I put my foot down and said “No, not happening. Happy to explain I detail why if you’d like.”)
Left rattling here.
Most of the VB.Net adopters came from VB6, only to find out that VB.Net had very little in common with VB other than syntax. If you had to learn a whole new framework and ecosystem anyway, there were more popular options available for VB refugees out there like C# or Python.
Great find - Larry Wall writes:

> Three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Great Perl programmers embrace those virtues. So do Open Source developers.

> But here I’m going to talk about some other virtues: diligence, patience, and humility.

> If you think these sound like the opposite, you’re right. If you think a single community can’t embrace opposing values, then you should spend more time with Perl. After all, there’s more than one way to do it.
Nobody in this thread is arguing that you shouldn't use obscurity. We're arguing that you shouldn't use obscurity ON THE KEY.

MEMORIZE the key. Obscure the ciphertext.

You cannot hide a key effectively using steganography. It's not strong enough. The probability of intercept is way higher than the probability of successfully brute-forcing the key or the memorized passphrase used to generate the key when using a strong key-stretching algorithm (not chains-of-hashes).

But there's also no reason to hide the key, because key-stretching allows you to memorize a passphrase instead.

> What are my chances of being caught if I (for example) encode the private key into several emails using a scheme only I know? Zero.

A cryptographer would actually work out a number here. It's a small number, but it isn't zero. Given the insane degree of protection that strong cryptography can provide, it's quite possible that that low number is still orders of magnitude higher than it would be if you just memorized the damn passphrase.

> 100% guaranteed to work for me.

That's not how cryptography works. It's provably correct, or it's broken.
On the other hand, people with that kind of evil inside of them don't go around letting everyone know. They keep it secret and hide it well. Most of the time. So it's not entirely surprising that when that happens to someone you never would have expected it.
This also depends on whether asset price inflation trickles into the real economy. Historical examples where asset prices were multiple orders of magnitude beyond the earning capability of workers include feudalism.

From a pure economics standpoint it's feasible to have a society where only some people can afford an asset, and everyone else pays a comparatively small fee to rent the asset roughly equivalent to their entire disposable income. This is a pretty terrible system overall where assets are allocated to those with money and ROI is bounded by the amount that can be. extracted from a servitude class.

The point of this example is that we should not constrain our economic concerns to simple hyper-inflation, as that can mislead us into thinking that as long as we aren't observing consumer price inflation we can print money indefinitely.
Cool, what's the URL for your discussion community?
At the end of the day if you can be very diligent, even when its so boring and tedious, you are a valuable programmer. Maybe not the best, but it will take you very far.
Early career my boss spent all day running reports. Like 7 hours a day. All hand edited excel files. Dozens of them.

She went on vacation and I had to learn how to make them.

She cane back to find everything automated.

Like heck was I going to spend all day every day building reports. Soo boring.

10x engineers are a thing. But you have to be pushy to keep it up.

Way to many people setup pipelines that require “effort”. Efficiency suffers. They always get more done in a short period. But so much less in the long run.
> I mean, what more effective way to ruin someones life by framing without having to involve yourself physically by planting drugs etc. It doesn't even have to be a specific target that is framed, but a target.

There’s a subplot where this happens in the comic 100 Bullets.
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, probably
Are AirPods any worse for the environment than any other electronic device? You could argue that they are unnecessary but they don't seem to be any different than older bluetooth earbuds or any other device that is plastic with a rechargeable battery.
Hi there, thank you for your comment on this. I think having an onboarding orientation will definitely help ease the interns into the company. Now that companies are encouraging employees and interns to work from home, it's crucial to structure a online lesson plan similar to a online class at school, just for the sake of keeping things in the same "class" format for the interns.
Having never worked in a large enough company to have an hr department, this confuses me.

My assumption is, a team needs personel and so the team manager makes a request to hr with a list of requirements for said recruit. Or at least that's how it seems like it should be.

Along the way, should not someone who put together that list of requirements have some idea of what they were asking for?

I've only worked at small enough business we had one general manager in charge of hiring. If one of the sections of our work needed employees, job postings would be created with those specific positions in mind, with the specific requirements of that position figured out by usually the most experienced person in that position and passed along to the manager.

Again, this may just be my ignorance, but, if it wasn't the hr person that wrote the requirements, wouldn't it have been someone that should have known better?
Even in the US there are exceptions, like the state secrets privilege:

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/state-secrets-privilege
Are you suggesting to hire Walter to work on Rust compiler/language itself?
You probably have a dynamic IP address so someone else downloaded it on the address you are using now. I have a static IP and its showing all kinds of linux ISOs and other random crap that either I or someone else on the network downloaded.
This is the correct sort of laziness.
For one of my own projects I’ve just created markdown files in a GIT repo. Super simple but I guess sorta like your own private wiki.
I don't understand what's wrong with port scanning or broadcasting to your own infrastructure that you pay for?
Next time try Magic Wormhole.
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China has never been a democracy.
Recruiters have different levels of experience: same as software engineers. Some are just starting their career, some have more experience. Most recruiters didn't go to school for recruiting; they usually landed the job based mostly on their inter personal skills. Most lack any context around technology. In that light, making a judgement call about a team based solely on the recruited seems suboptimal. If they make mistakes, most would be happy if you point it out to them.

Everyone is trying to help each other; don't let go of potentially great opportunities due to these misconceptions.
I will always have a soft spot for Perl. I got my first real big kid job writing Perl and it was a wonderful experience. The Swiss Army Chainsaw. I came close on a few occasions but I never did cut off (my own) limbs.