skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Articles Of Interest (a 99 Percent Invisible spinoff podcast) had an episode where they smell ambergris and describe it.

Avery Trufelman (the host) described it as 'like looking at a landscape through a pinhole'

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfume-articles-of-i...

Edit: There's an even better description from Barbara Herman - "Some people say there’s tobacco notes. There’s obviously a very, animalic kind of fecal quality to it, but also slightly metallic and coumarin or hay-like, slightly sweet. It’s more of a feeling than it is a smell for me. It’s just like being enveloped in warmth."
There are a bunch of permutations, sure.

What you are calling "malicious code" could --and likely is-- quality control code.

The fact that fakes fail isn't the responsibility of the legitimate manufacturer.

I don't know how many hypothetical examples I have to concoct to drive the point home.

OK, here's another one. Fake Tesla. The real Tesla writes code that bricks the entire fake car. This is 100% pro-consumer. The fake Tesla could literally kill people.

What you guys are arguing for is that Tesla should ensure that fakes are able to function. And, at the extremes, that Tesla is responsible for their proper function and safety.

Think about that for a moment.
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> The short answer is yes. But it takes the right kind of UV in the right dosage, a complex operation that is best administered by trained professionals.
A bird is a mechanical device to achieve heavier than air flight.
Where are the 20 line functions, the modularity, the refactored nested if's?
a) Nice to see some Penn people here :)

b) I was wondering if you could give some documentation for what's in this repo. I'm looking around right now and I think I've found the main yaml config file (I'm guessing its the one in research/configs/default.yaml), but I'm unsure what else is included in the boilerplate (outside of the libraries you've mentioned) and how to use it.
> No process nor code is trusted in my company.

Then you cannot use any modern computer in your company. Much less hypercomplex systems like Node, v8 and JITs in general.

> compared to the multi-million risks

What "risks"? What standards are you following? Insurance?

> WASM execution can be optimized a lot as it goes past MVP.

Citation needed. There is no magic.

> I don't know how to import a ES6 module using C ABI.

So that is why you want WASM?
hey, I joke that I'm the only person on the planet with 10+ years of Docker experience.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers...
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/atc10/tech/full_papers/...
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Good recruiters are respectful of my time. Am I looking for the "best", or am I satisficing?
No government in power now has shown any desire to allow inflation, and in the absence of inflation central bank spending only benefits the wealthy basically by tautology. Even proponents would admit it must without taxing the wealthy.

Proponents of mmt imagine a "new deal 2.0" what they will get is even worse inequality, followed by social upheaval.

Virtually all of the balance sheet expansion the us fed has engaged in since qe has only enriched bondholders.

Mmt is nothing but an excuse for easy policies. It's like a slim fast shake treatment for heart disease and I can't wait for it to go away.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

They seem to be spiking again, and the slope appears to be a lot steeper than last time.
Yes, that is "optional typing." Read the article I referenced.
The two .ino files in the repository are Arduino programs for testing the sensors. So it does contain 700-800 lines of code.
virtual method tables and operator overloading are orthogonal problems. Sure in many languages operator overloading is done using virtual methods, but it doesn't have to be. Operator overloading can dispatch based on static types rather than dynamic types.

That said, I do wish that there was a standardized way to expose vtables across foreign language boundaries. Although, I understand that differences in how vtables work across different languages, or even different implementations of the same language (cough cough c++ cough cough) would make creating a useful standard difficult.
Different use cases and monetization profiles.

Youtube requires a lot of server space compared to tiktok (<10 min means no ad money, so people make videos at least 10 min long!), and Zoom requires almost no space, while it can sell corporate subscriptions.

The only reason youtube still enjoys some success now is because it wasn't made in house, and the acquisition wasn't too badly managed. Grandcentral (parts of which still live as google voice) was a different story.

But it only shows how the last success google made "in-house" was a long, long time ago. The alphabet rebranding changed nothing. Since youtube, Google has turned into another yahoo for startup: a place they go to shrivel and die.
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In my experience, the right was very opposed to NAFTA (while the left was pushing it), in favor of free trade but not at the expense of jobs and manufacturing ability in the USA, and thought all these deals with China were going to enrich a possibly future adversary.

I remember it the same way, and I was a journalist at the time and wrote many stories about GOP politicians afraid sounding warning bells about American jobs going to Mexico. Which they did. And then they went from Mexico to China.

I also remember that conservative companies like Walmart were so against NAFTA that they actively promoted Made In America goods in store and in advertising. My how times have changed.
I recommend reading the book "Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It" by Matthew Seidenberg.

It starts off with the history of writing, which I actually have to go back and re-read because it's such a crazy evolution. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I can't imagine getting thrown back into the stone age and having to figure out a way to communicate ideas.

It also talks about the fascinating ways that the brain uses different modalities to converge on meaning - really made me thought a lot about machine learning algorithms. It refers to a lot of well-designed studies with results that provide valuable insights into the inner workings of the brain.

It also talks a lot about dyslexia and how it is a rather broadly defined disorder. I'm pretty sure I could be considered dyslexic based simply on how poor of a reader I am. This also, however, could explain why I did better with math and science where you are doing yourself a great disservice to trying to skim the texts. I read that shit at the pace of a snail, but hey, maybe that allowed me to process the concepts better.
Thanks, but I don't think so.

I do recall reading it, however.
For those who cannot or would not give up caffeine, consider that the reason you wake up prematurely is because you're going through withdrawals. When I started having my last cup in the late afternoon I started waking up too early less often.
Northerly latitudes is relative. Here at over 61 deg N it does hardly get dark these days. So sky watching is still on hold for a couple of months.
Not an excuse, but when you compare the relative simplicity of these sensors compared to their retail price 2$+, I can see why they would be cloned
Well done. They have the absolute right to create drivers that only work with their products in order to assure quality, performance and function.

Fault is at the feet of the clone makers and those who used clone chips, not the legitimate manufacturer.

I am actually astounded by some of these responses. However, I do understand that they likely come from a lack of experience delivering hardware products at scale, and so I can't fault people for getting it wrong. Hence my favorite quote:

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" --Mark Twain
I think I've experienced this a few times, even though I'm not dyslexic. This happened when I haven't slept for long time and reading something at 4 am gave me that "thoughts out of focus" feeling, when the words are right in front of me, I know I can read them, but experiencing a funny difficulty assembling the letters together. This also happened a couple times on the half-asleep state when I've almost woken up, but still seeing the dream and for a few seconds I had this strange "out of focus" state when focusing attention on words or speech is difficult.
I feel like this might be a good thing.

For example, someone recently brought up that the solution model in the article is unfair, but misunderstood it. I quoted the part of the article where the author put in his definition, and the Wikipedia article on how this problem is fixed. It's a quick conversation that solves a common misconception, but someone has to raise their hand and bring up the misconception.

One problem is that a lot of people do read the article, but misunderstand it. The better and more information dense it is, the more people don't get it, even after reading it. So simply asking people to read it first might not solve the problem. HN is a good place to "raise your hand" on difficult reading material.
The US alone has sanctions on Cuba, nearly the entire world (except Putin and Iran and China) has sanctions on Assad. It's a bit different, you see?

Nobody believes the lies regarding the WMD massacres, we know Assad did these (and so much more). It required rebels with no advanced weapons, much less chemical weapons, to attack themselves over and over, while never ever attacking Assad. The Douma massacre in particular wasn't bleach, it was a different chemical agent[0]. The nature of Assad's attacks is well documented[1].

There's nothing 'pacifist' about shilling for mass murder. It's like those 'pacifists' Orwell attacked during WW2 because they were equating the Allies with the Nazis, that is, being 'objectively pro-fascist'.

That's a very cynical position, despite your alleged criticism of Saudi. I bet that as soon as Saudi ignores US and buys weapons from Russia we'll hear a different tune from your likes.

[0]
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/01/15/the-opcw-dou...

[1]
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04/21/the-open-source-h...
It's weird to mount a mild defense of LinkedIn, which I don't really like much, but I think you're making a slight category error by tacitly lumping it in with other social networks. LinkedIn's value proposition has always been "getting jobs is mostly about professional contacts and we're going to help you build professional contacts," and it makes the bulk of its revenue by selling its recruiting tools and, to a lesser degree, its premium services for job hunters. The most recent figures I've found suggest it makes less than 20% of its revenue from ads. I actually susect LinkedIn would not continue to exist if it provided no "social capital" whatsoever, because their business model really isn't "get ads in front of eyeballs." It's "get job prospects in front of eyeballs."

Having said all that, I wouldn't want to use it as an identity provider. :)
Sure you can write a lengthy article to describe how to configure all the apps and servers manually. But with Kubernetes, you only need to throw some YAMLs in there and call it a day.

I don't think "using Kubernetes for running VPN and adblocking servers" is overkill. With k3s, you can deploy a Kubernetes cluster on a raspberry pi in one command. Anything that can run on raspberry pi in one command just can't be overkill in my opinion.
Nobody's complaining that FTDI didn't make their drivers compatible with counterfeit hardware. They're complaining that FTDI deliberately took actions in their driver code to damage any supposedly counterfeit devices that were plugged into a system.

To use your example, imagine if Apple released an update to iOS that would scan any jailbroken iPhones on the same network, and if it detected one, would use a backdoor to send it malware that wipes the device's bootloader.
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It's interesting how different countries treat "names" in different ways. In the UK, for instance, changing your name is super easy. You tell the government your name is now Foo Bar, and you're done. They'll update their pointers and issue new documents.

In Belgium, changing your name is virtually impossible. The king (ostensibly) has to grant permission; you need to provide a "valid reason". This never made sense to me.
i literally posted the need for a similar app yesterday on reddit data science channel
https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/ho8y6z/best_to...
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Here's another choice:

Go ask the manufacturer of the fake chip to support it with their own driver.

Really. As a hardware manufacturer, if you use a fake version of my product and demand that my software work with it you will hear the loud sound of the phone being hung up forcefully.

The legitimate manufacturer can do anything it wants with the software and their hardware. If someone wants support for fakes they can provide it themselves.

We are talking about encouraging or tolerating theft of intellectual property here. Having been the victim of this I am quite sensitive to the idea.
and what did he specialize in, pray tell?
What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source? [video]
They are 10-minute recordings anyway, so you won't see anything new... That being said; there is a workaround until it gets implemented: Right click the video and select "Inspect". You will see the link to the Vimeo hosted video file.
> I'm not entirely sure why American conservatives in particular moved so strongly against it in the last two decades.

There are a couple of factions that makes up modern American conservationism. I think it was mainly big business/ideological libertarians that were strongly for free trade, but I think they were far from the majority, numbers-wise
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I switched to Manjaro after becoming a father. It's based on Arch Linux. The installation is as fast and guided as an Ubuntu installation. But you get Pacman and AUR. Manjaro is still a rolling release, but they have a bit of delay. They let test ArchLinux users first. So over all it's the most stable, easy to use and uptodate Distribution I ever had.
All cats have nine tails...

No cat has eight tails, and every cat has one more tall than no cat. Ergo...
I think our brains just picks all the letters in a word, mixes them up together into something like "e:a:l:p = 1:1:1:2", adds context and does a lookup into a dictionary of such "letters mix" -> meaning pairs. If this is correct, dyslexia is when the brain can't quickly estimate the "amount" of each letter in a word, and the incorrect proportions result into an incorrect lookup.
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This kind of thing is what I see all the time and it's just exhausting at this point. One is always apparently blind as quick as they present a view of things not always being so bad without a legal document to direct behaviour. It's the assumption that people are barbarians by default and need to be herded like cattle rather than the possibility of them having some decency at all that I find the most saddening. You can have a welcoming and inclusive community without such a document and having one doesn't make you much more inclusive as it's people rather than the document that provide what you're asking for.

Trust until broken and gratitude for upholding good values is the path to a better community along with giving a chance to do better. Quick punishment only leaves a sour taste for everyone.

Also, a good rule is to wait 5-10 minutes or more and see if what you've written aligns with what and how you want to say it or at least expanding on your point a bit further to avoid being misinterpreted.
One bad example after another. Why is this so hard for folks to grasp.

The proper example would be fake iPhones made in Switzerland sold in the US as through they were real iPhones. If that's the case, then, YES, Apple would be right to brick them with an update. Absolutely.

I ask again: In what alternate reality would Apple be required to allow fake iPhones, look the other way and just let them be?
Lack of sleep is one hell of a hallucinogen!

I've found I mostly just momentarily see things that are not there, like at all. It doesn't even surprise me much anymore, not that being used to sleep deprivation is a good thing :)
I’ve always found it amazing Intel didn’t make their own OS eventually software companies will try to to eat you.
Reading this "proof" gave me a headache, and at first I thought it's because I'm not familiar enough with formal inductive logic to precisely follow the conversion from statements of reasoning to shorthand notation.

Then I realized the aim is to trick you by playing a bit fast and loose with that convention, and hoping you don't notice. e.g. I stumbled at Step 4, and if you click on the details for it the authour admits k is ill-defined. That comes back to bite you when you hit the fallacious step.

I'm fascinated how some very old works by ancient physicists and mathematicians are written using plain (if verbose) language and diagrams, and you didn't need to learn a bunch of shorthand conventions specific to the field in order to participate. Does anyone know any good books on Quantum Mechanics that don't require you to learn Dirac notation first?
Its time to exclude china from international business. CCP is worse than kingship. What i don't understand is why is there people furiously defending china in almost all of the HN posts.
"Thinking too fast" applies more to things that the person is unfamiliar with. If someone made me read an article on spiders, I would need to take a long time to read it, but an arachnologist may already be familiar with it.

But if there was a topic on say, the Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion messing with emotional recognition algorithms (which I wrote a thesis on), a good portion of that article would be literature review on the flaws of existing solutions and why the theory helps. Most people are unfamiliar and may misunderstand the article. I could fully speed read such a topic in less than a minute and see if it brings anything new, and then answer the comments with things that even the author may have left out.
Then you change from MySQL to postgres and you have to tell everybody to start another container. Then you have 5 projects, are they all using the same password?

Here we're talking about record/replay mocks, which are based on a real database. So, of course somebody will have to run that container with MySQL so that the tests will be run in record mode (e.g. when developing the tests). But, then if your teammates don't develop those tests, they don't technically need a real database. You still want them to run your tests because those tests might depend on some course your teammates touch (e.g. some common library code)
Thats not what you said originally was it?

just over 10% of job openings have something to do with testing or QA. Of course QA is similar to software engineering, the whole point is to automate testing.

> [AR/VR, Oculus, portal and workplace..][..is] some small percentage of the company

yeah, go look at the headcount.

> none of it near me.

Now we are talking.

> rely entirely on developer testing

again, that wasn't the distinction I was making. It doesn't matter who's testing, so long as it gets done properly. Considering PE is a blended role. Its not a hard push to think that testing might be part of the role of a modern developer. Mind you, so is writing documentation, but thats not a priority either.
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That’s pretty big...
That appears to be a doc about Racket, which it implies does have run-time checks, from the third sentence here:

>In particular, Typed Racket’s run-time system remains largely untyped. As a result, even the completely typed configurations of our benchmarks usually import constants, functions, and classes from an untyped module in the run-time system. When these values cross this boundary at run-time, the contract system performs checks, and that imposes additional costs.

But I haven't read the whole thing. It doesn't appear to be very related - it seems to be about gradual typing in a language that does run-time checks (with ways to disable them for performance purposes).

Typed python has no additional checks than untyped. So it's still untyped. You wouldn't claim my "// int" comments add optional typing to JavaScript, would you?

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edit: here, take it from the source instead: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html Note the title is "support for type hints" and this prominent note is right at the top:

>Note: The Python runtime does not enforce function and variable type annotations. They can be used by third party tools such as type checkers, IDEs, linters, etc.
Checkpoint VPN. It does not run on Linux so I need to run a Windows VM just for this piece of cr4p software. And it's slow.

Besides that: Jira. (A distant second to Checkpoint though)
Years ago I was watching a public firework + music and was a bit disappointed in how out of sync everything looked.

I figured there must be an economically feasible way to trigger the explosions remotely and in sync for such public displays. So essentially shooting the firework the traditional way but igniting the payload on demand.
Is someone working on this?
Sure, and fake Tesla just happens to be bricked while it's driving in the fast lane of a motorway, or is accidentally bricked because a bug triggered the kill switch. Think about that for a moment.
So perhaps a closer simulation might be to do some eye tracking, and as one reads to ch age the whole word ?
And as with most moderation, how explicit can "I" be when advocating for genocide before getting booted? Do I have to just not spout slurs, or do I have to hide it even better?

I think moderators would do nicely to consider that not all negativity manifests as "niceness". If I were to say "trans women are just gay men trying to score straight men" (a real opinion of some) there's nothing contained just within that statement that makes it "un-nice", but the thought expressed is exceedingly vile. If someone else then replies "You're a horrible bigot" that would very much be a break with "niceness" or civility - is that allowed?

Moderation is harder than it looks, and I've seen forums descent into racist hellholes because moderators only cared about civility and niceness. This has slowly become my number one concern with new forums and places of discussion.
When you have cancer everybody plus one seem to feel the need to utter advices in the imperative mood. Source: My wife has cancer and I have seen it.

Cancer patients need compassion and listening instead.