skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "Zuckerberg even offering Xi to name his child"

Seems like this idiotic move did not win him any favours. Maybe for once they made the right call.
Ask HN: How do I learn functional DevOps as a cofounder?
I am in the very early stages of developing a venture with a colleague in my PhD cohort (in computer science). He works in CS theory and lacks a lot of actual functional tech skills (he only took one programming internship during his undergrad), whereas I am only slightly better off (my research is in machine learning; I have approx. two years of full time experience at FAANG companies and regularly write Python code for my research).

Essentially, we are planning to try to package a recent development in our research as a B2C (web)app. Neither of us have any experience in this type of development; I currently do most of the coding on the research end of the code, whereas he has been handling more of the nontechnical aspects. We are planning on hiring a developer to build the webapp but personally I would have qualms with not having strong knowledge of both the webapp stack as well as the deployment, so I am currently on planning on learning some basic devops so I can oversee deployments and infrastructure as we slowly scale.

I have a few questions that I would really appreciate anyone's insight into:

(a) Would it be a mistake to outsource the development of our webapp for a long period of time (say, ~6 months) without anyone on our team acting in a CTO role? I will be continuing to develop the backend core of our product in Python, but I know nothing about web development and have no desire to learn.

(b) Can anyone recommend good resources for someone looking to handle the devops of their product? Is this too ambitious of a task for someone with no experience in such things? I know my way around Git pretty well, but have never properly worked with CI tools, AWS/GCP/Netlify/etc, or anything of that nature.
Good points, I agree with all of them. A private organisation which hosts a universal employee verification system requires utmost trust and accountability. Making organisations accept its authority on it as a private organisation would itself be a huge problem to solve.

>In my corner of the world, employers are legally obliged to hand out a signed form to leaving employees that confirms their erstwhile employment.

It is common in my region as well. But the issue as the person who posted the problem says, is the 3rd party independent verification companies which verify past experience of a candidate on behalf the future company; they have no idea about how a email system works and require email from a company which has long gone.
>I just wish I had a good sense of what algorithms/data structures to use where. That would certainly help me a lot! But I'm just not sure I "have what it takes", if you know what I mean, to develop that skill.

I wouldn't worry about it. I had a guy I mentored who couldn't code his way out of a paper bag in spite of having had a programming job for 5+ years at that point. I taught him how to program and while he did improve significantly, he realized he wasn't going to make it as a programmer. Now he works in infosec where he's largely administering software with occasional scripting type stuff. He gets to do the scripting/programming bits he likes and makes a ton of money. He's actually my boss now. There's a lot of this kind of work that I think is really rewarding. I hope you find a good fit for you.
Tesla Model Y Off Road / Over landing Build testing – 4 inch lift
My parents still live in the house I grew up in. It's about 30 miles from the nearest big city, a top-10 U.S. city.

- They had dial-up until the early 2000s.

- Then they had that terrible asymmetric satellite service where the upstream service was also dial-up. That lasted a couple of years.

- Then they got some kind of two-way sat service. Still terrible latency, but tolerable for the time.

- Finally, sometime in the early 2010s cable television service made its way to their neighborhood. Television, not internet.

- About 2015 they were finally able to get cable internet, which they have today. It's an amazing 5mb/sec up/down.

When I go there I just tether to my phone because its faster. They never got DSL. I bet they'll never get fiber. Starlink could be a serious improvement to them even at 2x the price they pay now.
But the employer wanted a full-stack developer, everything else is just details!

I’ve seen worse code than this. How about a hard coded backdoor check that looked like: || pw == “debug0”
>But it's hard to move out of the equilibrium.

I don't think it's so much an equilibrium so much as a battle, denoted by "friction," but I'm sure it would come down to each saying the other one defected first. I think we can figure out where the disloyalty started, calculated from the first principles of capitalism.
Obviously crazy advice that the current generation of Javascript programmers was wise to disregard. /s
These media platforms are unaccountable, they sway electrions, enabled breaches of electoral law in UK referendum, spread popularity of Nazism, etc.

On the other hand i am not aware of any major damage caused by 10K or so troops stationed here or there.
Does China even pretend to be?

What comes to your mind when you think of China - Adam Smith or Karl Marx?
They work brilliantly in places with low humidity by high temps - i.e. Arizona, California and my personal experience - towards the middle of Australia.
It sounds like you're restating the parent's point.
You can similarly track certain flights to certain places.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/a-corporate-jet-revealed-buf...
I've seen something like this before that allowed login with any password as long as you gave a valid user name:

> if (hash(password == hashedPassword)) { login(username); }

"Don't write your own hash function" is common advice, but I would go much further and say don't write anything to do with passwords, logins, roles or sessions etc. if you can because one small mistake is all it takes to create a huge security hole.
The plus side may be that social media is split up country by country and communicates via federation. Then ad revenue from zero sum competitive spending can remain in country instead of 15% of small business income and taxi dispatch fees flowing out of the countries to a couple winner take all, first mover advantage, megacorps located in America.
> American companies have much greater penetration into the Chinese market than vice versa. It's blindingly obvious if you've been in both countries.

It's utterly bizarre to see people completely unaware of this clear fact. US companies are absolutely everywhere in China and make bucketload of cash in the country.
To be immediately replaced by a local imitation founded by a politically-connected mogul. But at least it'll be local.
Dragon has come back before (without crew) so this isn't a total unknown.
For reference, here are the two maps superimposed on one another at the same scale (again, only the green markers are real markers on the California map).

[1] https://ibb.co/x5tLwHf
SQLite is the backend where data goes to be sorted and analyzed and searched in a reasonable amount of time. I tried keeping everything in flat files and generating results with grep but for millions of records it was clear flat files and grep would be far too slow.
Is it actually confirmed that A11 is vulnerable? The only information I read is that checkm8 is available up until A11 and checkm8 is a prerequisite to trigger this new exploit. However, every demo/tease/screenshot I’ve seen is with an A10. If A11 is vulnerable, wouldn’t the hackers show off the attack running on it?
Computer generated images of children in sexual situations are illegal in a lot of countries, and any country a company like this started to operate in would start to legislate once people make noise.
If he had simply lost the ability to recognize the glyphs for 2-9, he would have still seen their shapes, and he could have learned them again, just as he learned new glyphs for them.

What seems to be happening here is a sort of crosstalk or feedback. His brain is still recognizing the glyphs, but those neurons are sending unwanted signals elsewhere in his visual cortex which scramble the perceived image.

My interpretation of this case is that the image we perceive consciously is a combination of the raw visual data and various recognition modules, so that we don't just perceive "a curved line crossing back on itself in the lower right of the image" plus "the abstract notion of the number 8", but we see the number 8 localized where the line forming it is. Same with any other symbols, objects, faces etc.

Because of this, the neurons that represent the conscious perception of a certain section of the visual field must receive both "low-level" information (the curves forming the digit, their color, the color of the background), but also "mid-level" recognition output ("the digit 8"). So if the neuron(s) recognizing the 8 act up and send scrambled signals, they can scramble the whole conscious perception of the corresponding area of the visual field. The fact that it also disrupts his conscious perception of faces overlying the digit confirms this.
Fish oil is a good one. It's supposed to prevent Alzheimer's if you take one gram a day, and it may improve your eyesight and heart at that dose.

You can take five a day. You can take 10. People with heavy brain damage (many minutes without oxygen) take 15 a day for six months to learn to walk and talk again, and they get recover.
I moved from Sunnyvale to Los Altos Hills and lost access to broadband. Comcast even told me they offered service at the address, then reneged when I moved in and asked to set it up.

More options would be great, and underserved areas aren't as far out as people often think they are. You can be five miles from Google's headquarters and unable to get decent internet.
Then it is high time we get off our high horse.
How does one even obtain SS7 access w/o a AUP forbidding this kind of abuse? Or are the Telco owners making more money not caring @ that connection level?
In 2005, our customer care center was taken offline by a severe hurricane. Software developers, product people, and marketing staffed a temporary call center until the center could re-open. It was eye-opening for me to take customer calls and try to solve them with just the care tools. You can learn an incredible amount by letting/making engineers and product leads talk to customers.
Neopixel LED Face Mask
That feels like a pretty easy "shephard" feature that GitHub and/or GitLab could implement.
A lot of electronic musicians perform at clubs and parties
There’s something to be said for the throat you wish to choke (metaphorically) residing in the jurisdiction. Very unhelpful when the tech oligarch you take issue with lives in a far away land outside of your reach.

More broadly, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” (from The Who's song Won't Get Fooled Again if you’re unfamiliar)
Maybe that’s the point... Maybe they have some information indicating that false reports originate largely from actual criminals. So this article will bring more out of the woodwork. Perhaps they let their guard down and submit without hiding their identity, to look more legit, and this is how they bait them.

It’d be a great honey pot.
He also has factories in the US.
I have read parts of TAOCP vol 2 and the TeXBook. His attention to detail inspires me. I have found that whenever I pay close attention and immerse myself in details of a paper, shutting off my computer, it is very relaxing.
Dopamine Detox [video]
One way to go would be to allow prohibition only of whatever is harmful and move the debate explicitely to what is harmful and how to decide that. As to the who decides what is harmful, I think one good option would be for it to be decided democratically by only those involved. The key there is consent. Who's involved though? That's the hard part I think.
Happy to chat if you want to email me!

Tips:

If you are looking for something more structured then I recommend you go to a bigger company that has a pipeline of inbound customers and has a very active marketing machine in place.

If you’re looking for something more risky, find a series A company that has a growing demand. It can be messier but you’ll learn how a company begins to develop a sales strategy and department.
The scariest thing IMO is that this strategy seems to work for the seller. (Besides John Deere oweners and the HN crowd) How many consumers are protesting this kind of nonsense? I would bet most are dazzled by the prospect of some "futuristic" product feature.

To me, this stuff actually devalues the product. It has the potential to be useful but the way it is being used is to deny the buyer full ownership and reserve additional rights for the seller.
I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying it would be better if there were no child abuse, so any report would be false? I’m not sure how that is productive in the context of this post, given that there is child abuse.
It must be so terrible, maybe they'd have to wipe your tears with your billions of dollars.
Elon’s Twitter is very much marketing. He not only has over 30M followers, but also each of his statements and companies get disproportional media coverage. Marketing isn’t only buying ads.
Which means that they emit much less per person. Or should countries be compared with no refrerence to their population, in which case Saudi Arabia is doing great?

Additionally, USA has had decades of relative prosperity to clean up its emissions, but did nothing.

Meanwhile China has more electric busses than the rest of the world combined, more hifgh-speed raio than the rest of the world combined, lead the world in investment in renewables and nuclear and are on track to meet their Paris accord commitment, unlike US.
Wilford Brimley has died
This is an impressively detailed strawman. I would agree with your point, though not your format, if we were only looking at the name "weboob", but you seem to be willfully ignoring the rest of the discussion.
lol. “Don’t gamble! Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.” —Will Rogers
"Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen."

25 years ago. Wow.
And the incredible power owning the world's largest microphone buys.
Past emissions allowed countries to build wealth, and if wealthy countriss are failing to clean uo their act, why do you wxpect poorer countries like India or Vietbam to make a sacrafice?
Will BPG will replace GIFs?
Can't wait until crossing a border requires showing them that your firewall rules block all the federated servers they disapprove of.
Viewing child pornography is not a symptom of mental illness
Not having centralized admins that are actively opposed to your politics or your sense of humour like Reddit would still greatly help. Or not having an admin at all just voting and community level mods.

Twitter used to be always about who you choose to follow is what you see, or what tags you click on, it was opt-in and it was great. The popular feed wasn't your feed by default (via other peoples friends of friends which you have zero control over nor blue checkmarks being heavily promoted - which are usually the most tribalistic and FUDy).
That sounds like it's not open source. Also, license proliferation is a bad thing and you really shouldn't encourage it.
Hi! I'm the host of js1024. Thank you for your advice, I'll try to fix these errors
However, he also writes about how, say, being a golf buddy of an insider has been argued to somehow be a "position of trust" that can be betrayed by using inside information. It sounds like there is a nebulous area that you don't want to get caught up in, if you are the sort to pal around with executives and such. Winning after years in court, on appeal, could easily be a pyrrhic victory.

There's a reason he says don't take anything as legal advice.
Underappreciated comment and upvoted.
Problem solving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_solving

Critical thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

Computational Thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking

> 1. Problem formulation (abstraction);

> 2. Solution expression (automation);

> 3. Solution execution and evaluation (analyses).

Interviewers may be more interested in demonstrating problem solving methods and f thinking aloud than an actual solution in an anxiety-producing scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_(website) ;

> Brilliant offers guided problem-solving based courses in math, science, and engineering, based on National Science Foundation research supporting active learning.[14]

Coding Interview University: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

Programmer Competency Matrix: https://github.com/hltbra/programmer-competency-checklist

Inference > See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference

- Deductive reasoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning

- Inductive reasoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning

> This is the [open] textbook for the Foundations of Data Science class at UC Berkeley: "Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science" http://inferentialthinking.com/
A Beginner’s Guide to Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
That was a super interesting video, thanks!
I call bs on the code being real, because of triple equal operator. Doubt this developer would know such thing.
I saw that too, and that prompted me to post Bogleheads' home page on HN!
They originally designed Dragon 2 for propulsive landing, but NASA didn't approve it, and then development focus shifted to Starship. I don't think anyone (outside of SpaceX) knows whether the feature still exists for emergency use; perhaps they never finished the software.
Why is this submission[0] flagged, yet this is not? Because of the word "black"?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950661
Js1k closed 1 year ago.
>... why they’re not hashing passwords inside of their database?

Sending passwords plaintext over the wire isn't good either, even with TLS. You don't want your server to have any knowledge of the plaintext password. For that reason, it's a good idea to salt and hash passwords client-side as well.

An even better idea is to not roll your own authentication if you can help it.
If you can read Portuguese, you can get more information here: https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-ago-01/facebook-bloqueia-aces...

Follow the links to older articles, and several of them have at their end the original court decision. The latest one (found at https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-jul-31/moraes-aumenta-multa-f...) is https://www.conjur.com.br/dl/decisao-alexandre-moraes.pdf and the previous one seems to have been (found at https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-jul-31/facebook-informa-nao-c...) https://www.conjur.com.br/dl/decisao-alexandre-moraes-twitte...

Finally, the original decision seems to have been (found at https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-jul-24/decisao-alexandre-twit...) https://www.conjur.com.br/dl/inq-4781.pdf (a cleaner copy of this last one can also be found at the Brazilian Supreme Court website: http://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/cms/noticiaNoticiaStf/anexo/ma...).
There is enough demand that people not only pay lots of money but risk jail time to view these images.

Repugnant or not, it’s a lot less repugnant than the underground crime circles that exploit and traffic real live human children. The demand is there regardless of how they get it, so it’s worth at least discussing if synthetic images would result in a reduction of real live children being involved in pornography and/or being trafficked.
Oh ya, that would be. Though the OP and this whole thread is about forcing a sale of the company's ownership, not whose data center it's running on. So again, the equivalent would have been for China to force Amazon to sell it's China equities, not share part of it's China assets to a Chinese company.
> And Gardasil is used in a much more limited population than the Covid vaccine will be.

(It wouldn't be HN without a splash of pedantry; apologies in advance.)

I'm curious what you mean by this. Women constitute slightly more than half of the population, no? There are probably billions of women at this point who have had Gardisil administered.
For that short a period, it seems like the mass of the condenser would be relevant and disturb any extrapolation to efficiency from a run time which is not largely steady-state.
For Data Science brain teasers, solving math problems that require clever use of the fundamentals. That means calculus, linear algebra, and basic stats.

A ninja is not defined by his sword. Reading books gives you new weapons, but you must learn to use them proficiently. Solving problems is therefore critical.

Some good sources of problems:

Sanjoy Mahajan (2010) "Street Fighting Mathematics"

Xingfeng Zhou (2008) "A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews"

Timothy Crack (2019) "Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews"
Is Office Space a comedy or a documentary?
Please read the thread to see the less innocuous content.
So much of the strife we're seeing in the world right now stems from information now, maybe for the first time ever, being truly free. All the gatekeepers of information are no longer relevant.

This means that the truly delusional can spread their conspiracy theories and get people to believe them. But it also means that people caught within exploitative power structures can spread their stories - see MeToo as an example.

The strife stems from the very old, very firm order collapsing under this assault of free information. It's a little scary, to be honest, but I also believe it has the potential to be create a more just world.

Facebook's role, in my view, should be to ensure that this information remains truly free. The old order still tries to influence the spread of this free information (bot farms, paid influencers, etc.). If you can stop this, I think you're doing a good job.
Isn't the requirement to disclose source with a system so that you can make changes (bug fixes and such) without being locked into a vendor? Current source offers that. Other than that licenses typically stipulate that there are no warranties and no support. I see source history more as a support tool (to understand design decisions) than as the "absolute" ability to fix a bug. (This is not and answer to the question, I realize.)
The infamous Liberty Medical commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQaMaBxwRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy8_nYH-qM
In my experience, drugs are approved in the US first and foremost because it is the most lucrative market.
I keep telling this to a friend of mine with a net worth in the single digit million $.

He pays (I think) 1.5%/year for a personal financial advisor, he says he's happy with it, but when I ask him what's the "alpha" [0] compared to, say, the S&P 500, he doesn't know. Ten years of huge growth in the stock market surely doesn't provide an incentive for him to investigate.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(finance)
5 years old!

Using HEVC or properly configured settings for H264 would be smaller.
I opened a new bank account specifically to pay Scaleway even though they announced during lockdown that ARM servers are discontinued.
Isn’t this what happens to Western companies and products in China?
Why not? They look like idiots doing it, people nearly always counter protest. It's always nice to see proof that the master race they ain't.
If you have no other deductions, you need to max SALT at $10k and owe about $450k on a 3% mortgage before itemizing is worth it
Unlikely. The rally was in June, but they've been talking about banning it since February.