skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that the orgs I've been in that expect Engineers + Product to own QA have had a healthier dev process than orgs that have a specific QA process (this is all for web platforms). I think it helps create that strong sense of ownership I'm hoping for.

This is probably not universal, though - what sides of the fence of org design do people fall into, here?
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can probably get some form of local version control from IT and have access to VS Code. I was trying to plan out how to best do it.

You mentioned not coming from a CS background, but a Git provider may be able to help you with this. Github and Gitlab[1,2] are quite popular and easy enough to get started with. Of course you don't have to push your code to a remote repository, a local .git repo will be fine (just back it up somewhere)[3].

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/intro/

[3] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials
Personally, I'd wouldn't count out electronic varifocal coming in Quest 3 (2022?) as it looks like the Half Dome 3 prototype was already TRL6 w/ the electronic varifocal, and Facebook has been making additional moves like acquiring Lemnis earlier this year, which already has a similar-approach full-stack commercial varifocal system. Varifocal would be a huge win for comfort/long-term usage (eg, if FB continues to push on the remote work/productivity/collaboration use cases).

While I'm less sure on foveated rendering (although I'm really impressed by DeepFovea https://research.fb.com/publications/deepfovea-neural-recons... I wonder what kind of rendering pipeline will be required), I think basic eye tracking will be coming w/ Quest 3 as well - it's not only needed for DeepFocus, but also their Codec Avatars.

The stuff that FB has been showing off the past few years is insanely impressive - I think their mixed reality approach beats the pants out of what MS has been doing. I'm really curious to see what Apple has been whittling away at in secret - I'm doubtful if it can compete, but who knows? Google seems a bit out to lunch on all this.
Please read the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/downl...

Assange was doing far more than giving a few tips and encouragement.
It could be an option when debugging like adding a trace to your function calls. And the amount of tracing (how much is stored) could be configured.

Depending on the loop syntax, presumably you'd want to know (in the case of a for loop) what variables are initialized, what the test condition is and its result, and what is altered. But, in the case of C for loops as an example, this wouldn't be easy to automate since the user can always do something like:

for(;;) {
if(condition) break;
// other logic
}

In the best case (which would be the most data-ful case and hardest to use) you'd log all changes that occur within the loop. What you really want would be smaller, like detecting the break and the condition leading to it and watch that.

More realistically, you probably want to document your loop invariants with assertions which could be optionally recorded in your trace output.
And the next beyond that is a sandbox that contains simulated data....
I'll take all the downvotes in the world on this one. Marxist's don't get a seat at the adults table. Same way neo nazis don't get a seat at the adults table.

Makes sense anyway. The communists have a higher death toll.
> scrypt, powers a popular cryptocurrency with a market cap over 3 Billion USD

For those who (like me) were wondering what cryptocurrency this was referring to: Litecoin has a ~$3B market cap and uses scrypt. Dogecoin also uses it but has a much smaller market cap, closer to $350M.

scrypt is an interesting choice for cryptocurrencies because it does not only need a significant amount of compute resources – which can be scaled using GPUs to perform huge amounts of work in parallel – but also requires large amounts of memory which is much more difficult to scale to the same level.
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> who’s entire value proposition is privacy

I wouldn't believe any corporation who says this. A profile of a self-identified private person's traffic is likely worth a lot more than what a niche audience will pay for privacy.

VPNs have a history of lying about their business models, about how private their service really is. International contract enforcement won't exactly leave you with a lot of leverage if (pragmatically, when) they lie to you.

And merely being international certainly won't stop a state level actor who is intent on gaining access to your traffic.
Absolutely, you can see it in the power structures developed in large non-profits / government agencies.
And merchandise up the fucking wazoo... that's probably where microsoft is getting a lot of minecraft money as well.
How do you monetize the site? It looks really useful, but I don't see any ads or payment options.
Where you see fringe, weird or edgy, someone might see a target demographic for something.
If Boeing was socialized, that'd be one thing.

Boeing paid $11.7 Billion dollars in stock buybacks in the two years preceding this fiasco. All the money they ever needed was already there.

Instead, they spent the money inflating executives portfolios. And now you want more money going to them? If they want to privatize the gains, they can privatize the losses. Your sympathy is very misplaced, IMHO.
I heard dropshipping still "works" if you know both the marketing and the dev work for it, but I'd say it is getting more rare.

Good to hear I was wrong :)
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/734248714/pilots-criticize-bo...

> [Chesley] Sullenberger says he recently experienced scenarios similar to those facing the pilots of the doomed Ethiopian and Lion Air jetliners in a simulator and says he understands the difficulties they had trying to maintain control of the planes. "Even knowing what was going to happen, I could see how crews could have run out of time and altitude before they could have solved the problems," he said.
Nikola direct listed their stock so they faced no scrutiny. It opened at $10 and then went up to almost $80 due in part to massive FOMO-inducing posts on Tikok and WallStBets.

If the founder doesn't have the self-awareness not to say non-sensical quotes like that knowing he will be fact-checked, it's a bit concerning.

I don't understand how GE invested and didn't find anything in Due Diligence. They really couldn't see the Robinhood effect? Is FOMO that fervent in the space thanks to Tesla? Reminds me a lot of the crazy multiples RX Bar, Dollar Shave, and Native Deodorant got as all the incumbents got freaked out about losing fractional market share to "digitally native" brands.
UK to 'reset' sat nav plans after scrapping work on £5bn Galileo rival
Lifetime is never the lifetime of a person. It's the lifetime of the account (limited by the lifetime of the company).

If a company gives me "free X for life", I can't expect X if they declare bankruptcy. If they get acquired, the acquiring company will probably be within their rights to cancel my free X, and this has been done time and again. You can try to die on the hill of "lifetime means my lifetime" but I don't know what you expect to gain.
Chat apps and social media apps are particularly bad at spilling piles of tracking data in general. If you are worried about getting tracked, stay away from social media. iMessage or straight SMS leave some trace, but it's far less than what you leave behind with services like Snapchat.
https://enforcementtracker.com/
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For a small cost of being forever locked into Apple's DRM laden ecosystem and where each device needs to carry Apples proprietary authentication chip to make sure you don't accidentally actually own the device.

This is exact opposite for what WebThings stood for.
One more reason to make sure your email account is not compromised in any way. I have many emails associated with my 'profile'. If one of those is compromised somebody could potentially request all of my data.

Requests for information should only be fulfilled with a notarized identification verification. The potential for security breaches here is massive.
It's hard to describe just how big a shit-show Brexit is turning out to be.
The older I get, the less I know. When I was in my 20s I thought I knew a whole lot about embedded software development. Now in my late 50s I seem to be painfully aware of how little I actually know. Maybe this is part of the risk-taking mindset of being young: they don't yet know what they don't know so they're not encumbered by that realization. If I had felt this way in my 20s I would have been paralyzed by doubt. Now, with experience I realize that most everyone is essentially driving in the fog. Sometimes you can only see a few yards ahead and you have to just become comfortable with the uncertainty while doing what you can to mitigate it. When I was younger I either didn't see the fog or thought I needed to pretend it wasn't there.
Look at when Blizzard tried starting new a new IP with Overwatch, I'm sure they did okay but Overwatch doesn't have the same legendary luster that Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo have (or had).
> Its to the point that the 50 million americans in horrid proverty are richer than the middle class in countries like spain, italy, greece.

Hilarious!
I think they're saying it doesn't stop brute force attacks because the botnet will just try with another IP.
Why should my work give you a voice?
The bugs don’t affect the programmer or the company, assuming there even is a company

And the programmers have easily translatable skills, so nice try at making a point but it doesn’t make sense when there is a real conversation to have

But you werent actually here to debate the differences in how that could affect programmers in that industry vs other industries

Your preconceptions are a random incoherent mixture of things that are oddly excusing bad actors or bad companies by ignoring them and conflating it with blaming a specialized skillset or sector

You could have kept all that in your head because this was clearly a copypasta rebuttal prepared for any conversation about crypto
Is that really the case? I'm thinking about minimum wage. If it wasn't there, would people get paid less, or more?
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> There are plenty of small companies chasing a dream other than total economic world domination.

That is until they are pressured to "grow" by their investors that they do have more often than not.

> Also, good luck running a business, any business of any size, without caring about money.

I've worked at a company that was alive and well without chasing profits. It did a bare minimum of monetization to cover its expenses and get a little extra, and that was it. Users were happy, we were happy too. Then the investors decided they've had enough of it, sold their shares to others and those forced the CEO to leave. It was then acquired by a big corporation. I quit in around two years after that when I realized there's no going back and it's only going to get worse over time. It took a lot of effort to make myself go to HR and tell them I'm resigning. I still miss the spirit that was there when I joined. And I'm not sure there are any more companies like this, especially in 2020.
I think that's overstating it. Fallout 4 was well received even if it was a little disappointing. So it really is just Fallout 76. They can recover from that, especially considering that Fallout 76 wasn't even a proper mainline sequel.
It does feel more like a tech demo than a complete game.

I thoroughly enjoyed it none-the-less.
Remember how US had European countries force the Bolivian president's plain to land in order to search it for Snowden? US and Europe ties can make European countries go low - very, very low.
I will add to your list: air filters, water, power generator, protection for your home
Some of the jokes were kinda cringy to me, but the reality is that dating hasn't changed too much on the whole, especially for first/second dates, just gotten cheaper due to restaurants/bars being off the menu.

On the bright side, the ability to vet people thru video calls reduces time wasted being stood up/ flaked on. Worst case, I am already at home with more free time on my hands. However, a big part of dating (at least for me) is the chemistry and body language, which is still best experienced in real life without masks. Its a pretty big commitment especially if either of us are living with other folks that we could possibly infect, so I take greater care before getting intimate with them.
IP tracking is pretty old-school, and unless you're perfectly scrupulous about your split profiles locally, there's probably a well known bridge between these profiles.

And if IP obfuscation is that important, you'll likely be using TOR, not a VPN (which have proven to be a nearly transparent shield).
Its too bad that a jury cannot be expected to determine Assange's innocence at trial.
Just curious, why do you want to move? I am always curious what drives someone to move, but especially so when it is to a different country.
> Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves from hundreds of companies that compile profiles based on online behavior

In other words, Google and Apple are using their platforms to eliminate advertising-profile competition.
Can't you block ips after x failed attempts? That would make it costly to scan 65536 ports.
In a directed attack that might not matter, but against attackers that scan millions of hosts it might give you some minor peace of mind, but if you bother to configure your sshd you probably aren't a target for those attackers anyway.
Can't you compile a Lua application into WASM and run it that way?
My daughter became an overwatch pro-am (she’s in college now). So I have a slightly different take. Overwatch was extremely successful new IP.
I think you mean GM.

Anyways, I'll preface this by saying: while a member of my former team handled acquisitions and divestitures, I've never participated in one.

Most due diligence processes I've heard or discussed never remotely focus on the functionality of the technology. Even the guy on our team doing the auditing couldn't tell us what the company/product did until it was publicly announced. The process focused on data and compliance like verifying revenue, profits, patents assigned, tax records, SOX audits, data access logs, are these transactions valid, are there weird or flagged wire transfers, do all engineers involved have a wavier signed writing over all IP, does everyone have a non-disclosure signed, etc.

I could see how "does this product actually work" getting overlooked in the process, because their supporting and underlying data is probably valid.

However, I'll again mention that I have never actually done an acquisition audit (just worked close to someone who did), so maybe someone else can chime in and tell me about some process I just don't know about.
tldw: Rats cannot vomit.
Now both Obsidian and Bethesda are under the same roof again. Interesting turn of events.
And again, there's a powerful way to communicate vision fielding the hard questions about the App Store - they are perfect opportunities to build a strong community, buying into a shared future.

Most people only see App Store fees as a tax -- in some cases it really looks like that, but in the bigger picture, it's a beautiful example of values codified in a business model.
Data art posters about music (streaming) data for Sony Music
That repository has rotted. Preliminary roadmap described in recent invited talk at AITP-2020 http://grid01.ciirc.cvut.cz/~mptp/zoomaitp/aitp_sep_15_1930....
I call this "rapid bozotyping" :D

I would read an entire research paper dedicated to this topic if it existed, heh.
How do we reign back in the markets? It doesn't seem like consumer choice is working out very well.

consumer choice is working as intended. They are fine playing "free" games supported by the 1%, and many nowadays won't pay >5-10 dollars for a game unless it's from a very established IP.

Even without the mobile market, The story isn't much different. You either throw yourself out there in a sea of indie games, or you find a publisher to pitch and give your IP rights to in exchange for stability. The latter is just harder to do nowadays
So... Are you saying that moving your ssh port to a different address doesn't actually increase your security at all? In my practice it gets rid of ~95% of probes from people trying to break into my system. Whether it just signals that I know what I'm doing, or demands resources that the attackers aren't willing to give, I don't know, but it definitely has a positive effect on the security of my system.
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Well, you got at least one new customer through this. Thanks for making it pretty easy to sign up & buy.
I had the unfortunate issue where a change at Zen disabled my IPv6 connectivity. I spent ages debugging, then emailed, and they had to reactivate it.
> Has Assange ever even been to the US?

That is pretty much irrelevant. You can easily break a law of a country without ever going there e.g. paying an assassin, selling weapons/drugs, stealing credit card information, breaking into a server to steal sensitive information, etc.
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Dependency fixing is nothing compared to dealing with all the people you typically find in a software shop, IT, managers, pseudo-developers like SRE, infosec, or devops. Those people are actively blocking app developers in order to extract a paycheck, and sometimes it feels like the app developer and product manager are the only people actually interested in making money.
CPU, memory, screen, sound, touchscreen input.

Want sensors, system info, literally anything else? Ask.
Do you guys see any ads online? I have ublock origin on my laptop and mobile browsers, modded youtube and instagram with no ads on android. I pretty much never see any ad.

I also add the Annoyances lists to uBlock and I have the "I don't care about cookies" extension to ignore cookie popups.
>Owning id Tech 6 is or should be a play against Epic, Unity, Crytek etc.

Does Microsoft even want to compete against their customers/partners in this space? After all, MS may not want to alienate them to the point they won't release their games for the Xbox.
I think it's possible to have the best of both worlds. Assign your dynamic prefixes to your wifi devices etc, and receive also a static allocation for any servers.
In the past 5 years all my projects have been based on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB and other serverless technologies which are only billed for actual usage and network traffic. So they don't cost much unless they actually get heavy load from users.
I think "most VPN users use it for anti-censorship" is an unfounded opinion. Going strictly by people I know and the marketing materials from. VPN providers, most commercial VPN users use it for piracy.
That sounds super interesting. Can you describe some of the interesting design patterns/clever implementations you saw? I feel like there is a lot of benefit in looking at weird languages as it opens your mind to new ways of solving problems.
But by the time they die, they've already compromised you. And even the strongest claims of privacy have been shown time and again to be outright lies.

> It doesn't get more anonymous than that.

Yes, it does. TOR. Those VPNs? They've got your source IP, which as people are enjoying pointing out is almost as good as an identity. Not much anonymity there.
Note that that sanctuary city cases was the exception. 3 other federal circuit courts ruled the other way, and so far the Supreme Court has refused to vote, so as it stands, the government can withhold funds from NY but not California or Oregon or Washington.
Every org I've worked for that has had a dedicated QA team has had, by far, the shittiest quality of code and the most amount of bugs in the system/outages/issues in production.

I am not sure _why_ this is but I think it has something to do with the "Not my problem" mentality where engineers say "QA will figure out if this works or not" instead of "I'm responsible for figuring out of this works".

It hasn't become a red flag for me _yet_ but it's definitely _a_ flag.
More? I've been waiting for my company to hire the first.
I don't think it's fair to include Microsoft in that list. They buy game studios so they can close them and shelve their IP after several attempts to turn beloved franchises into GAAS products. They're less of a game studio conglomerator and more of a recycling bin.
Haven’t used protobufs for years but as I remember it you can use an old schema to read a newer version object, discarding the new fields. I don’t think that would be possible without the TLV.
Uhh we still build things like pyramids all the time - Three Gorges Dam, Burj Khalifa, One World Trade Center - it's just we don't build pyramids themselves anymore.
SuperMemo2

You can find lots of different implementations on gitbub.

https://github.com/search?q=Supermemo2&type=

Just bear in mind that SM-2 is quite outdated. I've found a more recent version but I'm not sure how accurate it's.
https://github.com/slaypni/SM-15
>Bethesda Games are not going not be exclusive to Xbox

The biggest problem that Microsoft has with the Xbox is lack of AAA exclusives. If the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be released for Xbox and PS5 - what's the point of this exercise?
I think you meant the inverse. If you value optionality to work on government projects that require clearance wouldn’t one view already having said clearance as a perk?

If you don’t want to do that work you would not view it as a perk.
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The English pretend not to be obsessed with money. They consume themselves with proxies like social status.
How airtight is my current setup?

* Firefox with third party cookies blocked
* uBlock Origin with the usual blocklists
* PiHole
Public funding.

If it’s a collective good, “we” should all be willing to contribute towards it.
whether you're sympathetic to assange or not, the critical, core problem is the US government acting illegally, immorally, and dishonorably, and using our collective might to hide that and actively obstruct its discovery, rather than the opposite. this is shameful to say the least. and this trial is a crucial part of that misdirection campaign, to place our attention on anything other than that shamefulness.

to refute this charade of a trial is also to resist this misdirection.
> If we hold people accountable for their offspring then the poorest have orders of magnitude more heirs and thus should multiply their emissions.

So how far back should we consider heirs? Primordial soup is ultimately responsible for all emissions?

Surely it's more interesting to look at actual emission rates than to disavow personal choices based on how many children my grandparents had.

What these numbers show is that despite being prone to having more children, the poor account for much less emissions than the rich. That in some centuries there may be so many poor people as to offset this difference is a) speculation and b) doesn't answer the question of who is responsible for emissions and what segment of the population we can address now to best mitigate the problem.
Please reconsider therapy. If your wife won't engage in couple's therapy, then please consider therapy on your own. You sound depressed, and you are providing reasons to not bother taking action to be not depressed. I am worried by that.