skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undergrad pen-test homework assignment that someone paid actual money for. Most people got C- or worse, one guy got maybe a B-.

The "reports" are absolutely hilarious. Even better, the blog post "analysis" is worse than the pen-test reports.
Basing your opinion of a CEO solely on stock prices, which can easily be inflated via things like buybacks, is perhaps a bit narrow minded.

A company is more than its stock price.
> hard separation between work and home

A lot of people prefer that, but solving that doesn’t require “an office” (i.e. a place far away from at least some people, causing at least some long commutes), but rather just that your job give you a stipend for renting a hot-desk at a work-sharing space that’s near to you. (Basically equivalent to them paying to have an extra room built into your house that you only go into to work, but for urbanites where that’s impractical.)

> camaraderie of a team

I don’t know about you, but my work Slack has about a similar level of camaraderie to any Discord group-chat I share with my friends.

> we often play a game before going back to work

Online games exist!

(Though arranging this is kind of finicky; it requires that everyone already have a particular online-game client installed and signed up. There’s no “pick up and play” kind of group gaming available here.

IMHO there’s a niche to be filled in collaboration software for one that seamlessly supports sharing entertainment — playing games together, watching TV/movies together, etc. — embedded within the workspace view itself.)

> grabbing lunch with co-workers

I mean, you could just keep talking to your coworkers while eating lunch, if you like. Make a #breakroom or #lunch channel.

You could even make it a video call, if you want to induce the same physical pain in people with social anxiety at the idea that people are watching their eating habits. :P

Certainly, none of these things are low-friction at first, or particularly low-friction even in the steady-state today. But they’re things where the friction could be greatly lowered. If tons of people are going to stay remote, that’s going to provide a good market for companies to create new products for.

(I’m betting on VR groupware, myself. Some spiritual descendant to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project, for an age where that actually is something most people might want. Literal “virtual offices”, with an unlimited number of unboundedly-large virtual spaces in which to position whatever shared or private app-window views you like. Especially if consideration is made for it to also gracefully degrade into a less-immersive analogous view — e.g. a 2D infinite-zoom layout of all the open app-windows — for people accessing it on screens.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purism_(company)

One of the rare companies respecting the freedom and privacy of users. One of the largest innovators in the field of mobile phones.
>We are like fungus to them.

Maybe the fungi think that about us? They've been around longer than we have and take up more of the planet.
It seem to be restored. I am guessing it’s flagged as it is controversial.
This is not true because it is a multi-agent problem. There is not just one professor, but there is a competitive pool of professors working in different areas. In some highly productive (or otherwise "hot") areas, some profs place every student in faculty positions. In some areas, this number is almost zero. So it is a competitive field.

The problem of pyramid-scheme, etc. occurs when people don't realize this and enter academia with an expectation of entering the tenure track. I find biomedical academia to be the principal culprit in this academic Ponzi scheme. They require high skilled labor, which they procure in the form of underpaid grad students and permanent post docs. Only a small minority of biomedical faculty care about their students entering the tenure track.

The other set of fields that are bad for post-PhD careers is liberal arts. Mainly because colleges started lots of liberal arts departments to boost enrollment and inflate grades. So the demand is artificial.

On the other extreme is b-school and econ PhDs who almost all enter academia.

Other hard sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.) fall in the middle: it is a struggle, but people end up landing well after PhD. Physics folks get finance, developer, etc. jobs. Chemistry folks are usually absorbed into pharma/chem companies.

Math and engineering academia works pretty well too: almost all engineering PhDs get good R&D/developer jobs that are reasonably high status and pay well. I don't know any super-star PhD in engineering who didn't get a reasonable academic position.

The defense industry is another big employer of math, engineering, and sciences PhDs.
Not necessarily, it's a scale, and ranking is affected before the flagged status shows up.
This is basically happening all over the world in tourist spots. For example, there's a town called Dingle in Ireland which is super beautiful and beloved by (mostly American) tourists.

Anyone who doesn't already own a house there and works in any of the businesses is unable to rent, and they normally commute from one of the larger towns, 40-60 mins away (over pretty bad roads, up and down mountains). It's gotten so bad that businesses are considering putting on buses for their staff.

And if you want to hear a 45 minute rant, mention AirBnB to anyone who lives in Santa Cruz and doesn't own property :)
This is correct only if you run "Hello World" apps on a single server. PHP scales horizontally so any real-world application can easily scale to 10, 100 or 1000 servers. If there is no other scaling challenges (like databases) then it can scale forever thanks to its beneficial process model.
That sounds like an awful lot of work to not send NTP requests over WiFi. Then again, I'm sure someone will inevitably find a way to make these things spray ice cream everywhere over WiFi if they do. Or worse, mess with the internal temperature or cleaning settings to make them not safe to consume.

It's actually probably best they never touch the public wifi. I don't know why no one has mentioned ethernet yet, though. These machines are static, they just sit there. There's already tons of wiring going everywhere, so I would assume that it should be relatively easy to get a cable drop to the ice cream machine. Then you don't have to worry about any of this wifi security. You could do port level security, but that's probably overkill for an edge network.

I have actually been wondering lately why there isn't more of a market for some of these things that it seems like you could hack together. There has to be something I'm missing. You'll never be a unicorn, because most of these kinds of sensors have a limited scale, but it seems like a good return on investment for a small team.
I downloaded the video (720p) and I have to tweak slightly the command to make it work on MacOS Catalina (FFmpeg installed via brew)

ffmpeg -ss 66 -i crab.mp4 -t 30 -crf 27 -preset veryfast \
-vf "drawtext=fontfile=~/Library/Fonts/SF-Compact-Display-Bold.otf:text='YOUR TEXT HERE':fontcolor=white:fontsize=68:shadowx=5:shadowy=5:box=1:boxcolor=black@0.0:boxborderw=5:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)/2:enable='between(t,9,30)'" \
-c:v libx264 -filter:a "volume=0.2" output.mp4

Thank you very much, crazy how powerful but hard is FFmpeg.
I absolutely loved trains as well. I couldn’t understand why grown-ups kept moaning about having to take one to work every day; it sounded like heaven!
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I miss having a copy and paste that worked so well.
I hate this parable.

There is no art teacher that did this. I wish we could find real examples instead of this fake one.
The CCPA in California is similar in thrust.
that's not chromium based, Safari is the only engine that's allowed on iOS so all the browsers are just skins that add features on top of it
mmm not really. data visualization is a multi disciplinary thing.

what you can do pretty easily is use and modify examples that seem to fit your needs.

but synthesizing from scratch isn't something very attainable and has a much steeper learning curve.
Why does it presume the cat is right pawed?
I disagree. Tim Cook has been pretty solid. He's no Steve Jobs, but he's done a fine job. Although he hasn't produced any new cash cows so far, he's been a decent steward of the ones they already had and he's taken the company into new markets with the Apple Watch. It's not the most inspiring product, but it is the premium wearable and clear leader. Then there are the AirPods, which fit in nicely in wearable category. And I love what Apple is doing with their own silicon.

Sure, there are no home runs here, but he's effectively executing a coherent strategy and hasn't really had any big mistakes. I wouldn't put him as high up as Nadella and I certainly wouldn't put him as low as Ballmer. It's tough to be the guy who follows the founder and Cook has handled it well. I don't know who is out there who looks like a better candidate or a suitable replacement for Cook.
Of those 1,276 employees, over 500 are sales or marketing people [0]. That's why you see emphasis on stuff like brand consistency and marketing. It's a surprisingly large portion of their business.

0: https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/org-chart/
I apologize for bringing up politics, but I truly believe it's a useful analogy: These takes remind me of the people who voted for Jill Stein in 2016. Like, cool, I can agree it would be great if there was a viable third option—but there's not, and there won't be until we change how we count votes, and your choice of protest is effectively taking what power you do have and throwing it away.

If you want to call that an abusive relationship, I can understand where you're coming from—but it is the state of the world. You either work within the system you've been given, or you get crushed. There are more effective ways to advocate for change—you could focus on primary elections, or you could become more involved on Bugzilla.

And just like in politics, I think if you actually do a tad of research into the web standards space, you'll see there are a ton of differences between what Mozilla and Google advocate for. I don't agree with all of Mozilla's positions, but I certainly agree with them more often than Google's.

Edit: Yikes, I really didn't intend to completely derail the discussion! I'm sorry! :(
And it’s getting flagged again.
For future reference, Use they to cover all of the bases. "It" is degrading for folx who don't fit society's binary.
My point is that there are plenty of electrical engineers, computer engineers etc... who never take the FE or PE exam.
Ostrich Protocol
The latest trunk version of WordPress already works with PHP 8!
There's a standard industry term for crypto turnover, "circle jerk". Of people who convert one crypto into another.
Dragon's Egg is a hard sci-fi that documents an encounter with an alien race that lives on the surface of a neutron star!

In all-to-typical hard sci-fi fashion, you don't really care about any of the characters, but the concepts are truly mind-bending (what looks like a circle to creatures on the surface is an oval to an outside observer due to the extreme magnetic environment; extreme gravity leads to ultra-fast metabolism; etc).
Cson: CoffeeScript Object Notation
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I agree with all of that, except for the part about a CS degree. When I was in the military, a General was talking to us about the officers that they had doing pentesting, and they said that the people with CS and other tech degrees were usually outperformed by the people with degrees in things like political science. From their experience, the people with technical degrees would often get hung up on a problem if it didn't have a provably right/wrong answer, while the people with degrees in "soft" subjects were able to think through a problem and provide a "best" answer.
So the fate of the world rests in the hands of Floridians...
Odd, not sure why that's failing for you. You can bypass the wget command by downloading that file in Safari, then doing

mount -t ios . /mnt
# Pick "Downloads" from "On My iPad" in the GUI

Then you can run

tar xvzf /mnt/apk-tools-static-2.10.5-r1.apk

When you cd to the root.

Though, I suspect apk itself will fail if you can't resolve domain names.

Edit: As gorkish points out, make sure iSH has network permissions first and try again with the original command.
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Hey, I’m working at a fresh new Startup and would love to hear your opinion on a few things.
I know… “What’s in it for me?” Well, potentially a £50 Amazon Gift Card
A few YES/NO questions and your opinions. Easy.

Just click on the link below and it will take you to the Typeform survey.
Big thanks to those willing to help.
“I Am a 21-Year-Old Sex Addict Who Slept with 5000 Women and You Can Too ”
Nearly half the company (500+ of 1,276) is sales and marketing people, so it kinda does make sense.
Why is that the right amount? Does proof of work have no value at all?
Wouldn't the correct answer always be "no more than necessary / technically feasible"?
Also memes, but I think you can ask the same question about our legacy financial system
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It is a parable. Not real.
Any good tutorials?
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
By identity, I mean things one cannot change, like ones skin colour, or race, or sexual orientation. I don't consider being Christian to be an identity; I consider it to be simply an indication of not being a good student, i.e. that they completely failed to understand the education they received in the 20th or 21st-century classrooms that they were lucky to have occupied. Christianity, and any religion, amounts to encouraging people to not understand the world. That is a stupid intellectual choice, not an immutable identity.

> Jordan Peterson crank

What makes you think that I think poorly of Jordan Peterson? This is a website where software engineers -- i.e. rational, logical people -- discuss things. You are completely failing to see beyond the confines of your bubble of modern progressive dogma if you think you can just assume that people think poorly of someone like Peterson. I guess you can say stuff like that around your friends and no-one would ever question it. He appears to be someone doing his best to speak out strongly against various highly problematic aspects of modern culture, in particular the way that anti-intellectual attitudes -- the practice of writing literal nonsense and publishing it in so-called academic journals! -- have become de rigeur in many areas of the humanities (and yes, I have experience of that). Why on Earth would I have a problem with him?

I think what I'm trying to say, is that you are massively underestimating how profoundly fractured the left is. Yes of course Trump is terrible. But there is a very large body of educated people on the left who cannot accept that the left be replaced with the anti-intellectualism and intolerance of the identity politics movement. You don't seem to agree that these people exist and that they might have any sort of valid point at all.
Jack Welch, but your point still stands.
Interesting that your alternative to the socially acceptable work status, is a socially acceptable non-work status that still implies you're doing something.

It's that underlying implication that you must always be striving for something, even meditation is in service to being a better self, vacations aren't fun, they're recharging the batteries / destressing, all of the implied 'be working toward something or you're worthless' assumptions that just frustrate me even more.
The last iteration of the phone was loved and was genuinely an interesting product, but by then it was way, way too late. The disastrous limitations and compromises in the earlier iterations doomed the series.
or with VLC.
Louise Glück and the Return from Oblivion
Why do you say you can't do expressions like that on the command line? I do it all of the time. You have to escape the parentheses, but other than that it is totally doable.
That standard is not applied to many things. There are many cases where it makes sense to use a technology that uses more energy than technically feasible because it offers other benefits. For example, using java instead of assembly.
This is a good read though I don't agree 100% with everything. I also ignore ingress via nodeport and external provisioning and only use istio where there are service dependencies and it makes sense. This approach then becomes cumbersome requiring (as you note) additional middleware and code.
The Theory of Reconstruction Attacks (Differential Privacy)
No, I did read it, but I also responded emotionally as my research was attacked. That is, I consider Higgs a significant discovery.
can you elaborate just a bit more? in your original post you made it seem like the church, police, and local government had some kind of stable cooperative dynamic on an institutional level. but then you say it fell apart in the aftermath of a single election without much explanation. are the new mayor and police chief taking things in a radically different direction, or was it just a temporary alignment between the leaders as individuals?
ultimate Tic Tac Toe with monte carlo algorithms using webwork
github: https://github.com/JustinHorn/ultimate-tic-tac-toe-react

got motivated to post this. Code is not so great
You remember correctly. "538 thought Clinton had a lock on it" is a meme, but it doesn't seem grounded in anything.
Yeah, I didn't understand what the author was trying to get at. Every point made against Firefox, Chrome itself offends to an exponential degree.

Their conclusion of using ungoogled-chromium makes no sense, as it still suffers from at least three of the five issues outlined. At least with Firefox, you have ESR to keep using the version you're accustomed to for a few years. Or you can jump over to TOR if you really distrust Mozilla that much with their opt-out user metrics.

I agree that individual browser choices won't make any changes. But this is where we're at. At least there _is_ a choice. Legislation to break up the browser monopoly is likely our only hope.
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See: Hanging Chads
CS/EE degrees are optional. Many hackers do not have them. It's just an indicator that they probably know the basics (bits, bytes, systems, etc.) but certainly not required. Some of the best hackers I have worked with had dropped out of (very difficult CS/EE programs) and never finished college.
There's a good book, "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft", which documents the original development of Windows NT in the late 80's and early 90's. A large amount of the focus in the book is on Cutler himself, including some of his history coming from DEC, and his personal style of running the project at the time. I found it quite an interesting read!
Ok as a general point, but those criticisms simply do not apply to Cooke. The company has done absolute gang busters both in products and fundamental performance, and that's what has driven up the stock price.
I was translating 'direct line of sight' as 'parallel enough to our ecliptic plane to see the Earth occluding the Sun'.

> Every star within 1000 light years is in a direct line of sight to every other star.

There could be space crap in between. - Of course I just realized something obvious. Along our PotE lies most of our solar system debris. Shouldn't that be obstructing alien views?

Excepting highly tilted orbits or unusually clean solar systems, how are we seeing exoplanets at all? Is there a sweet spot, just a bit above the plane, where observable solar occlusion still occurs?
Or PA.
I maintain half a dozen PHP apps written for PHP 4-5, all of which now run on at least PHP 5.6, and a few of which I've gotten to PHP 7. Advice given by everyone else is excellent. PHPStorm is a must for me, one of the only pieces of software I pay for instead of using some OSS alternative.

One thing on automated tools: getting a good result is decently tied in to the structure of your project in my experience. A common scenario I've seen is projects relying on requiring other files as part of their business logic (IE, parent file A includes file B that processes and renders content vs file B including file A that defines helpers and what not). This is especially common when projects use something like index.php?file=whatever for URLs. Most automated tools and IDEs will struggle with this and false-flag undefined variables, etc, because there is no hard include path. There are a lot of ways to resolve this but it depends on your project.

Also, PHP 7 is much more aggressive about warnings on types and various other things. Unless you adjust your error reporting settings, you'll likely see a ton of these when you finally switch. I personally enable them on dev so I can clean them up, and keep them reporting to Rollbar on production.
Expensify emailed its 10M customers urging them to vote for Biden
How the Venus Flytrap ‘Remembers’ When It Captures Prey
2020 is unprecedented with the various pandemic voting procedures (mail-in, early, and election day) across the country. If the models are wrong this year, that would be much more understandable than them being wrong in 2016.
Funny thing about kids, they aren't allowed to drive cars. They actually aren't allowed to call an Uber either, but they can call a real taxi, or take public transportation, or ride a bike, or god forbid walk around unsurprised.
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I agree with your emotions. 538 puts Biden up only about 6 points in Pennsylvania (their tipping point state). If the race tightens by a few points and the polls are off by a few points, then a very tight race in Pennsylvania is plausible and due to his Electoral College advantage Trump would have a plausible path to victory that doesn't require anything shocking. It just requires several unsurprising things aligning in his favor. The odds are against that, but it's a real possibility that doesn't involve saying that "polls are meaningless!! Fake news!".
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems obviously dumb that the electoral college has an even number of members? Wouldn't making it an odd number prevent this possibility?
And also, in some jobs, having a PhD puts you at a higher starting point even for the first job than other non-PhD holders, whatever the PhD. The mistake most PhDs make when going into the tech industry, especially when coming from non-traditional academia-to-industry fields (say, biology, genetics), is trying to shove down the throat of hiring managers or recruiters their specific papers or research, when they have zero relevance for the industry job they are applying to.

So, where is the competitive advantage? It is in the PhD itself (first), the methods that have been used and the skills acquired (second), maybe the volume of publications and the number of citations (third). Talking about research and papers is like trying to convince a potential partner that you are interesting and charming and lovable, when you are extremely good looking. Use what you have, not some idea on what other people should appreciate in you.
Especially text with a lot of repetition.
IT cell seem to have reached HN too. I've seen many legitimate stories getting flagged too many times
sure thanks for your feedback. yes i will plan to add this for next major update.