skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth." - I suspect this might be a more likely outcome (courtesy of Wells). A single strain or a novel virus is far more likely to have a predator on earth than be a predator to something we need to survive.

That said, it would be prudent to take anything that may be living to the ISS first.
Not my comment. :) My argument is more general and doesn't make any hard assumptions about similarities to bacteria, viruses, or even DNA-based life.
Ransomware Attack Has Struck Universal Health Services
That's a Lot of YAML
GP hasn’t progressed much because the problem is super hard. In general, how do you search program spaces in a way that gives you smooth gradients to search, or even operators that have nice properties? Turns out semantic GP (a relatively new direction) can give you nice properties but it has other flaws.

Furthermore, how do you know if your program is “correct”? a programmer may use test cases and GP the same, but a programmer doesn’t just write code to pass test cases.

DL code writing methods are fine if you just want to generate a bit of code for some that pretty much already exists, but GP is supposed to find completely new solutions to hard problems... so you run into this issue of “what does it mean to solve this problem.”

I also think it hasn’t received the funding or talent it needs to progress. Probably something will come out of the field that suddenly sparks interest and it will take off again.
I disagree. The power differential is not the underlying issue.

Power is certainly a part of it but the underlying issue comes down to oversight + accountability. Both in specific written rules and in general societal norms that influence how those rules are used.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-lander/
;-)
Don't forget the extra USB ports and SD card slot. Some Chromebooks and the older RPis have only two USB ports.

If you run NetBSD, you will not have to disable anything for the device to stay on when the lid is closed.
Well, at present, we are seeing a global shift to technocratic governance such as has been foreshadowed in China. I think its pretty organised and competent.

Assange is about being a waste of time and energy to people, to get them involved in thinking about politics, petitioning the government for change from within, that sort of crap. As well as putting us on notice that we are being spied on all the time by our governments.
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
> When people say sales is hard, it's more that they never had a market in the first place.

I wish more people understood this. Ask a heroin dealer if sales is hard. If you have true product/market fit and you can reach an audience that actually needs what you have sales isn't hard. Scaling and support is hard.
Most bangs are user submitted. Feel free to make one yourself:

https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
Management can't be in the union. So cripple the union by promoting the most effective members into management?

Alternatively, if you want to fire someone and the union blocks it, promote them instead, then fire them later.
I run https://duckduckgoog.com (written https://twitter.com/mcrittenden) for those of you who want a default search engine of google but with the magic of !bangs
Grumpy Old Coders, the Podcast – Ep3
We are happy to share the 3rd episode of the 'Grumpy old Coders' podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-498377588/grumpy-old-coders-ep-3-quick-reactions. Thomas and David are talking about reactive programming. So you will learn the different types of reactiveness to simplify code and boost performance. Topics that are covered are AngularJS, RxJs, RxJava, stream processing with Redis, and a very cool IOT project. Further details about previous episodes can be found here: https://grumpy-old-coders.org .
Have you read this post?

https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

It describes some of the various difficulties in building the next Google Search, much better than I could.
How did the SEC figure this out? Do they monitor the accounts of all financial employees' relatives?
It's too bad Apple had to scrap the plans to switch to ZFS back in the late oughts. We could have been here like 10 years ago!
This is how it is done on Windows, which is a far more successful game platform than Linux. Obviously you need to dynamically link to OS interfaces, but you either statically link or ship with your dependencies.

On Linux, relying on system provided dependencies, especially C++ ones, is guaranteed to break over time and over different distributions. So you would have to maintain your Linux version either way, shipping with your dependencies is just less insane.
Big companies don't care. Enough people still through themselves in the grinder, regardless. They have infinite talent lining up.
How is this different from or better than the Linux file utility?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command)

Shibboleth is the name of a common single sign-on service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_Single_Sign-on_arch...
Well, you can't get a job with skill.

You see a lot of women in e.g. university math departments, where jobs still aren't really skill-based, but are a lot closer to being that.

In tech, where jobs are based on how similar you are to a rich California tech bro? It's no surprise we see the patterns we do.
Wish I didn't love my current job to death. No way I am ever going to willfully move away from here I think.

Pretty much a luxury problem though.
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".

There are trade-offs. The possibility may exist.
It was restored to the original owner, I'm not sure when.
Epic Games Unlikely to Win Injunction in Ongoing Fortnite Battle with Apple
Wayback Machine Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200928213413/http://www.rought...
What a brilliant article! This approach deserves be more widely known I think, thanks for the link.
>Anything from another planet wouldn’t have developed in a way that lets it get past our immune system not because or complexity, but because of lacking the shared evolutionary history.

Based on?
Rabbits didn't co-evolve with australia's deadly fauna, and yet...
Youtube turns a profit?

Does it? Why won't anyone answer?
> It's a nice thought, but proves to be difficult to implement long term ...

It's actually the only long term approach -- literally. It's not ignoring reality, rather, it's choosing not to lose hope that we can create a better future.

Because, as we've seen, the world is what we make it, for better, and for worse.
The nm process numbers refer to the necessary dimensions of a theoretical planar transistor to achieve the same density as this process. Planar transistors haven't been used for at least a decade. To make matters worse there is no standardized planar transistor design so ultimately you cannot derive any meaning from these numbers other than as a fancy version number that tells you which process is newer. As many others have commented: It's much better to just look at overall transistor density.

FinFET and GAA (gate all around) are 3d transistor designs. Therefore you get impossible and purely theoretical planar numbers.
I don't really understand your thinking.

Why do you think dethroning the largest companies does "nothing" for new entrants? What do you think would help new entrants?

And why do you think dethroning companies won't have benefits? If nobody has a throne, then you improve competition. This increases the benefits of capitalism, while diminishing the bad effects of a company taking over the market. How could this "guarantee the worst aspects"??
I'd be very surprised if something from a completely separate evolutionary line was (1) interested and (2) capable of attacking Earth organisms.

I'd even be surprised, though less so, if they can even survive here.

Of course we have zero empirical observations of such life, so predictions are guesswork.

That said, if something managed to survive and multiply on Earth, I can imagine it could be a a huge nuisance without attacking our bodies directly.
I think you're reading too much into OP's use of "insignificant." I don't think OP is advocating nihilism.
There's no world in which it makes sense to save a few digits on pi and then risk running out of fuel while making your mid-course correction because your initial burn was too far off. The mid-course correction is because you can only be so precise when you're firing rocket engines, not because you're foolishly using imprecise constants for no good reason at all.

So I'll reiterate, I want to see a source that NASA uses only 3.14 as the value for pi in making their trajectory calculations. And I want to point out the absurdity of even so much as having this debate in the very comment thread for an article on nasa.gov where NASA itself is saying that they use 3.141592653589793 for pi. We already have as good as a source as we're going to find, and there's a lot more sig figs in it than 3!
Maybe I'm still misinterpreting it, but to me it seems like he was talking about activities after work, not instead of work. So if you want to, say, regularly dine at the finest restaurants, buy expensive toys, and live in a big mansion, then sure you need to know how to play the game, but if you're an average Joe, and just want to go to a bar to hang out with friends, or watch a movie, and maybe have a hobby like restoring vintage cars in your garage, then you probably don't need to make that much money.
>it's rarely used and people continue to report spam and abuse.

> because many of you rely on community captions, YouTube will be covering the cost of a 6 month subscription of Amara.org for all creators who have used the Community Contribution feature for at least 3 videos in the last 60 days.

What in the world is their motivation here?? This is the kind of thing a company wouldn’t do if they were worried, at all, about competition.
Meal prep (not meal kit) services are a nice way to outsource cooking as well.
You have to be careful about your assumptions. Being willing to put in the work could be a bad sign. If you already have a bunch of job offers, you aren't going to spend weeks studying to get one more job offer, unless the place might offer dramatically better benefits.

And, it may be some people don't need to be any extra studying work. There are people who do programming competitions for fun, and there was prior discussion of Google saying those people did worse on the job: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324209
Software is indeed downright hostile sometimes... it's gotten better with autosave... but your IDE, MS Word, or Photoshop crashing would sometimes cost you half a day of work if not more. It was infuriating and even discouraging sometimes until you learned the subconscious behavior of pressing ctrl-s all the time.
Moonlander is listed. Newest board from the same company
Costco's value proposition is that they make (on average) no net income from sales of their products, and that you will find no other competitor who can sell the same quality products at a cheaper price (because costco's already selling them as cheap as possible). In exchange, they ask you to pay a membership fee, which is their net income.

If they were to give away their reputation to other sellers by letting them sell their QC'd products, they would be lowering the value of their memberships.
Yes definitely. The internals of APFS offer lots of things like these that would be very benefitial for backups.
So using APFS on the backup volume should increase backup speeds big time.
Skimming the patent, this looks to be a docking connector, not just specifically a headphone jack.

I believe you're looking for this patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Issue affecting access to multiple Microsoft 365 services
> the auto-generator thought people were saying slurs, but they weren't

I'm sympathetic towards YouTube on this particular issue. I clearly remember that there was an early time when a lot of slurs were filtered from YouTube's auto-generator output to prevent such incidents, and then there were some furious complaints about how YouTube censors words in the caption. For example, see [0], and note how the comments are overwhelmingly negative, "Is YouTube becoming a kindergarten now?", "Haven't you got the latest dictionary of Newspeak?", "The age of snowflakes", yet no one realized the serious technical problem of incorrectly identifying words as slur.

And now many word filters on auto-generator output have been lifted as the system became more reliable, then we get some furious complaints about how YouTube incorrectly identifies words as slurs.

I think there has been a similar accusation that claims Google removes negative keywords for certain politicians from its search recommendations. But a quick test could confirm that it was true even for convicted criminals. Same reason - incorrectly recommending negative keywords about living persons would be a serious incident.

[0] Youtube are Censoring the word BULLSHIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvkEPL7mVA
It’s community driven, AKA unpaid volunteers. How is this hurting the YouTube bottom line?
A soft cap on company size is at worst orthogonal to innovation, not "the opposite".
How to Get Random Submission?
hello. i'm new here. trying to get a random post with python. is there like a url to redirect me to a random post?
Parts of Microsoft Office 365 are down
I don't think you have understood the pushouts paper. Look at figure 4 again.
It'd sure be nice if Time Machine learned to create reliable backups over the network one of these decades.
Viewing the graphics for this article on mobile was an adventure in digital distortion.
Yeah, that's why it's tricky.
The New York Times Front Page Monday Sept 28, 2020
Detailed Rigid Body Simulation with Extended Position Based Dynamics
How would you check that? I remember there was a (rumored) suicide at my school while I was there, and it was hushed up really well so that even a lot of students wouldn't have heard about it.

Far as I know, there isn't a searchable database of 'suicides per school'.
If I read the article correctly, Time Machine's switching to something similar to overlay FS, but nested? I really hope they get it right: backup is where my tolerance for bugs is really low.

APFS already supports volume snapshots but not (I think) snapshot send / receive, à la zfs & btrfs. I thought that would be the logical next step. If Apple do add this or similar feature, would Time Machine have to switch its backing store yet again?

I've been generally happy with Time Machine's stability, but this is getting me a little worried. I guess now's a good time to looking into Arq (or similar) to replace my janky secondary backup scripts...
Excellent idea, but I worry that name is a trademark issue if you ever want to monetize.
Sure. The delivery was at Lucile Packard and my wife had preeclampsia, so they had to induce. Labor was 24 hours and delivery was 4 hours, and our daughter came out not breathing. She had the umbilical cord wrapped twice tightly around her neck and had also inhaled a lot of meconium. They immediately took her to the NICU and performed various procedures to get the meconium out. She wasn’t able to breath on her own for a over a week, but eventually she recovered and we were able to take her home. Delivery was $112k and the remainder was the NICU.
Well, no. My experience is that the technical interview is a noisy fizz-buzz. Good developers need to know algorithms and data structures, and be able to write code. If they can't even do that, they're definitely NOT a 10x'er.

If they can, the next part is fit. You need to get over both bars to be hired.

All of this is incredibly noisy, so part of what happens is you have to set the bar high, since 37% of the people you interview will perform one std. div. above where they actually are, and 5% will perform 2 std. div. above where they actually are. Setting a high bar means you lose a lot of good people due to random error. But the costs of one bad hire are EXTREME compared to missing a few good hires. So it makes sense to do that.

People take rejections personally, but in most interview processes, it's pretty random. You have a bar. You hire people who interview 1-2 std. div. above that bar. You might be perfectly qualified, and I won't hire you if you had a bad day (or even an average day). The risk is too high. If you're 1 std. div. above, I'm moderately confident you're qualified. If you're 2 std. div. above, I'm very confident. And having hired people, that's how it plays out: I mostly hire people who interviewed well, and their performance on a typical day is typically lower than at the interview (not always, but usually).

Hiring is about finding and bringing in good people as efficiently as possible. I'd rather interview 20 people, hire two I'm confident are good (miss six qualified people among those 20 who had bad days), than I would bring in 10 people and hire two of them.

And bad people still slip in. You just can't do that much in an 8 hour interview.

For startups, I go for personal recs and github repos. Does that mean I miss people who aren't in my network, and who don't do open source? Of course. But that's okay. I still find enough really good people that way. (And yes, my network IS diverse, thank you very much).

But big companies need standardized processes, or things get rife with discrimination, nepotism, and all sorts of other nastiness. That easy to avoid small-scale, but with 1000 employees, it takes one bad apple to land on front page NY Times.
Power corrupts, but more importantly, power reveals.

You can only get a real measure of a man, or woman, when they have power over you.
Not trying to jump on you, I recognize you're carrying on with your life and that's more than many can say, but is it really proper to be, "paranoid", opposed to taking reasonable precautions and moving forward based on a fair assessment of cost and benefit? This article and many comments paint police or medical personnel not self-isolating as if its a problem for which they should be ashamed. My wife is one of those working directly with Covid patients. Of course wearing a soaking wet mask in a closed room is skeptically effective. Sure when she suits up with real PPE it's effective, but that takes a lot of time she doesn't have, not to mention creates a ton of garbage. So if a patient isn't a known case, they don't bother. And the fact our whole family has the antibodies aside, of course she doesn't self-isolate when one of her patients is Covid positive. That would be absurd. Nobody else would be able to do her job. We need doctors, police officers, teachers, etc to carry on. We need to stop trying to shame them. These exceptions, like those pertaining to, "safe" lead levels in drinking water, are born of practicality. I wish people would try to think about Covid more pragmatically instead of dignifying paranoia as if it doesn't present a cost. Fact is - "Flatten the curve" means the same number of people will inevitably get Covid. Look, I know shaming each other is REALLY appealing but... We should probably start trying to weigh that universally recognized epidemiological fact against the perceived benefit of requiring public servants to self isolate, depriving children of an education, plunging millions into economic depression, or whatever.
One of the creators (Devi Parikh, a prof and RS at Facebook) tweeted about it and has answered a few questions about that: https://twitter.com/deviparikh/status/1310610025212071939

Seems well aware that equity offers usually vest over 4 years e.g.: https://twitter.com/deviparikh/status/1310654018654367744
The mid-course correction is not because you used an imprecise value of pi. If that's all it were about, you'd just use a precise pi from the beginning and then not even need the mid-course correction. Missions have failed because the rocket engines failed to start up for the mid-course correction. Unnecessarily risking that because for some reason you insist on using far fewer digits of pi than your computer is capable of would be insanity.
I had learned about this here on HN and its just mind blowing that they discovered it down to the version range. Amazing that it took some months but they did it.
2 EPRs built for $3.25B each: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Nice, thanks. The description added to (4) in the Install clears up what that's for nicely (along with the primary changes, very clear).
The User Wizard Scenario
With OpenZFS, we still could (and I believe, can, just unofficially).
Could you elaborate a bit on where the bulk of the technical effort is being applied at Netflix these days, aside from recommendations and improved scaling? From the point of view of the user, the product has seemed fairly static for the past several years. But obviously there must be a lot going on behind the scenes.

I assume the broad buckets of continuous effort are "get the right content to the right users", "add more content" (which may involve some engineering support via e.g. analytics), and "scale it up to effectively reach more users". It seems like Netflix has fully shifted from a chaotic "zero-to-one" innovation state to a more mature "continuously aggregate marginal gains on top of a solid foundation". Is that a fair characterization?

The only conceivable "problem" with the above from the engineer's POV is that (1) individual contributions might feel less exciting and (2) it becomes progressively harder to find ways to move the needle. Though I would assume this is a problem at virtually any mature technology company. On the bright side, a marginal gain applied at a massive scale probably feels pretty rewarding.
Based on what I've seen, one probably has to switch companies.
The complaint [1] includes quotes from the brokerage and from Amazon. Possibly either Amazon or the brokerage flagged this.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2020/comp-pr2020-2...
The slide deck with notes: excellent! Thank you, very much!
That's pocket change compared to some of the other things going on out there the SEC does not even investigate.
AWS ECS on Fargate is pretty nice and fast. At a high level, you basically just build a small Docker image for your Node app, push it, and then restart your ECS service / or update it to use the new tag if different.
This is really odd to me. In most contexts I’ve experienced, the professor’s research and the student’s are more or less one and the same. Yes, you might have an extra project, but how could someone get stuck for an extra five years?
Just wanted to clarify that the implication arrow pointed both ways if it pointed one way, so I guess and that?
If you invested in the FTSE you would have made rates near US investments, because of the dividends given out. The 1960s and 70s was similar in the US where the market went sideways for decades, but if you had invested you would have profited just fine, because of the dividends given out at that time too.

imo Europe is being smarter about this. The US is potentially setting itself up for a large crash in the coming decades, where Europe is setting itself up for a much smaller crash, due to being dividend heavy instead of growth heavy. Ofc, I don't really know if it will work out this way. No one does, but we can speculate.
Is this dangerous if the link is able to inject Bash commands as the value of JS_ARG? If so, that's RCE and that's bad.

Is it possible to do this using the HTML5 clipboard functions instead?
Got this update from our IT dept, too. Happens across all regions, including TX and GER:

> All Office365 Authentication services are offline.
I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. A 12 year old could go through the same thing. Hope you feel better though