skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't take broken code to have a net negative impact. Any code at all is liability, so if you're writing code, it better be worth it. Figuring out what produces value is surprisingly hard, so I would bet the majority of code being written has a net negative impact.

And then don't get me started on marginal profit. Producing some value is a lot easier than producing marginal value that outweighs marginal costs. Now we're talking a smallish fraction of the code being written.
I can't decide whether Gödel's method and Lisp are yet another Strange Loop [1]. Fortunately, I am still in the beginning.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123471.I_Am_a_Strange_Lo...
You'd be even even more surprised to learn uBlock can block GPDR banners and works for Safari (and of course Firefox on MacOS). The blocking has to be enabled: in the "uBlock preferences (dashboard) >> Filters Lists >> Annoyances" check all the boxes.
Right.. in my state weed and alcohol are essential and remain open but exercise, education, social interaction are now once again limited to your own home and we wonder why mental issues are sky rocketing. The latest order in my state made this week bans all indoor gatherings with people outside your home and it’s about 40 degrees F outside.
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I'm not a Swede, but if an random person that I don't know waves at me for no discernible reason, I too would be cautious. Although, it's not clear if you wave at everyone you see, or just at people you need to interact with (such as a store clerk).
Increased demand for homes can be handled by adding more transformers. The lines are fine, but the number of homes per segment behind a transformer needs to be reduced. This is already ongoing in Germany for example.

And the switch from incandescent to CFL/LED did save a lot of energy in total, both for residential and business applications. I once read the number that the net load was reduced by 1 GW due to the change. That is a reasonably sized nuclear power plant.
He was one of my professors too. I tried to get into "Programming for Artists" but was never able to get into that particular one because the waitlist was always full.
This was exactly what I was thinking. However, I have read two things that I haven't yet been able to confirm.

The study on the efficacy of the drug was done by a 3rd party and supposedly the timing of the results was not under the control or knowledge of the company.

But I also read that the sale was setup to trigger at a certain price.

So I'm not sure what to believe.
Both the 6502 and Z80 were designed/imagined for use in embedded systems, not the general purpose computers they became famous in.
Sad that yellow peril alarmism with no basis in reality is what counts as "good analysis" when the orange website talks about China.
Chinese police are known to shy away from any work that falls away from what they are normally doing.
Registering a foreigner in a small town is a once in a lifetime experience for them, so many things can go wrong, so they wont do it.
Any recommendation for structured logging library in Golang?
I am considering moving from glog to structured logging. I tried logrus. But it is missing file name and line number by default. I could not find a good 3rd party plugin for this either.

I just want to show the correct file name(need to pop out a few call stacks) and line number in a customizable format, not as key-value pair for each line.

Please let me know the one you actually use.
>ie, people dying of covid are people that would have died anyways from other causes.

yes, with some exceptions (Spain, the UK, the US seem to register an actual significant spike in deaths). But overall it's true that the age of the average covid death is as high, or in some countries even higher than the average lifespan, meaning it's likely the person would have died of some other cause.

I've always thought that not comparing deaths, but comparing 'number of high quality life years' lost or something similar would make more sense, even if it is somewhat more abstract.
Ok, then I apologize, it seemed very similar and recent.
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> security should be following basics as specified in common security standards (PCI DSS, ISO 27001 etc)

Would be nice but no, not really. The standards you mentioned are mostly compliance requirements. To be honest, a good chunk of the industry considers them as kind of a joke from a security perspective.

> It's comprehensive and not that hard to learn

Have you even read these standards? I mean, they might be "not hard to learn" but they are far from comprehensive (or specific, depending on which one you are looking at)

> Twitter are not remotely close to operating like that given their recent hacks

Ask literally any security professional you trust, companies compliant with PCI DSS and ISO27k1 get security incidents and breaches all the time just like everyone else and possibly more (given that if they need compliance with these standards they are probably big enough to have very wide/heterogeneous infrastructure/applications portfolio/administration practices/etc). If they claim they don't, that's most likely because their telemetry sucks (so, it still happens they just don't know about it)
Electric cars are a win in almost all countries already, but of course, if we want to prevent climate change, we have to convert energy production to be 100% carbon free, and that quickly. Basically every electric car bought today will eventually run on 100% carbon free electricity. Any ICE vehicle will run on 100% carbon.
I could do all these things beside Vim in the same terminal
multiplexer instance or within Vim's terminal buffer.

You have to understand that I'm not impressed by the number of
features in a program but how it fits my workflow. Emacs just
doesn't cut it for me despite multiple attempts, and Vim does.
They are real and this is the future of advertising.
I can't imagine a situation where I couldn't tell the difference between either of them and a bad engineer. I'd either be pair programming with them and learning a lot or be pairing with a "bad engineer" and suffering.
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Please elaborate on this, I'd like to learn more about the implications of finding this word in the terms, speaking as a complete noob on the issue.
If those are actual numbers (a day versus a few days) then that should be an incredibly easy decision. A few extra days is nothing compared to doubling your capacity to deal with problems in that system!
Email will never be secure, since it is not end-to-end encrypted. Regardless of the service you use, your data is sitting on a server available in plaintext to someone who has the keys. We need to move on from email.
I wound up at Caltech by pure luck too. Walked there from PCC, which I went to for 2 years (I didn't attend Caltech).
Thank you for the YouTube link. I listened to parts of it. My dilemma is that my notion of divinity/god/theis’ has its beginnings in Hinduism, the religion of my ancestors.

I reject all monotheistic/Abrahamic faith based notions outright.

When I first came to the United States and became a card carrying member of American atheists, I was carried away. Rationalism was the name of my game. Except ...what if a religion can be religion? But soon I realized that my polytheistic faith of birth origin was a completely different animal. And I had to start from scratch again. I called myself agnostic and then ignostic rather than atheist.

I outright reject all monotheistic notions of God as in organized monotheist religion but I do recognize the common strain it shares with polytheistic faith that is Hinduism. So..what is THAT? It is just a deeper layer of religion that delves deep beyond superficial notions and motions of organized religion. That is just the packaging. What is The Gift? I want that. If it exists. A rational religion and a compatible God. How wonderful would that be!!
Referring to Ike Broflovski of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77Zv9Eo0-k
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I thought this was cool.
Nowaday ppl doing nothing valuable...

So they scrap free and public things as little than a phone numbers to rent it... Awfully...

Internet is a SHIT HOLE FILLED OF STINKY CRAP... you have been warned...
This probably should contain a [pdf] tag.
Anyone else think this is a pretty bad time all things considered?
This is good news for platforms that sell old games (GOG). Anyone who owns a few of those old school games on their platform knows that the DOSBox powered launcher/emulator that they use can be a bit quirky at times. Hopefully this update will help to add some more stability there.
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I prefer to pay even if its clear that the price don't cover the whole cost. Because the EU customer protections are pretty good if you are a customer (not sure that it applies if you are using free stuff).

Self hosted or paid is my first choice if at all possible especially for one of the most important services.
> "web consultancy" business

Notably, they provide[1] VOD and AOD for the Swiss French public radio and television (RTS), the French Belgian public television (RTBF), and the Montreux Jazz Festival.

[1] https://www.infomaniak.com/en/multimedia/vod-aod/audio-on-de...
I use FireNVim. So far it works exactly as advertised. It could
use one or two more features but overall I like it a lot.
I like the term glue, I am a senior tester but a lot of my work is around just that- gluing things together, although sometimes it is more about un-sticking things.

I enjoy the large variety in my day to day work, it helps me build a large network of people and until now it made me a more essential and valued employee
I’m the furthest thing from a conservative, even in Europe I’m on the left.

Still, I believe that the massive restrictions on civil liberties in the form of lockdowns are completely unacceptable. I’d explain my arguments, but they’ve been repeated over and over by “conservative think tanks”.
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It is a section in the terms and conditions that says if you have a disagreement with the company over something in the contract and cannot resolve it with them informally, you may not sue. You may only take your dispute to a non-judge arbitrator, who is usually paid by the company you are arguing with and whose ruling you may not appeal. You also may not come together as a group with other people who are wronged and argue as a group; each of you must argue individually.

A series of articles with more information on why this is crap, especially for business-to-consumer take-it-or-leave-it contracts: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitra...
Folks - pay $5/month for Fastmail, Migadu, ProtonMail, or self host + your own domain name. Companies like this come and go, it’s a good chance you’ll still own the domain name.

There is no such thing as free. They’ll nag you for hosting on their site. UI will degrade over time. Something will give, if not now, at some point in the future. Lifetime is a bold claim. I’m being cynical but this smells like an attempt to get a whole lotta buzz.

I also do not buy the Swiss marketing. You know how you know a company is Swiss? They’ll tell you. 100% of the time, every time.

That said, I think Swiss laws are great and immune to a lot of bullshit.

Edit: I meant free in absolute sense. There are some relatively free things out there. For example: readthedocs.org, but runs on donations from big companies like Microsoft. Same with GitHub (free private repos after Microsoft acquisition). Perhaps Ik is big enough to afford to build goodwill through free email? I know Apple is getting a lot of flak lately, but iCloud email is also “free” and not adtech driven.
Why aren’t there more new religions?
I am a Lindows OS Lifetime License holder. I disregard the fact the company/product is gone. I will forever be a license holder...
Haha no, but makes sense.
Hi, I'm the original author of the article.

I'm quite surprised to see this got posted and made it to the front page.

I'm a bit late to the party.

Don't hesitate to ask questions, though.
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Laser & Lidar and also straight up GPS for many big buildings.

My robot vacuum with lasers has better indoor positioning than we ever managed to come close to in ideal conditions.
I guess what I have now is a kind of HUNGER that I can’t quite describe.
Your knowledge of history is so little that for you Washington is the guy who prints green notes.

Jokes aside if the legitimate government are only the elected one lets wipe 2/3 of the world's government lol.

Taiwan is a dispute territory because the kuomintang after they lost the civil war in China they moved to Taiwan and claimed the territory. Taiwan was not even a democracy after that but rather a military dictatorship with the martial law being applied till 1987 (from 1949, year in which they lost the civil war in China)

Only after that Taiwan started to open their system and allow general election in the 1990s (in some form in 1991, 1992 and presidential election only in 1996)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Taiwan
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So there is no privacy in your home because someone somewhere knows who lives there?
Was Jair Bolsonaro Right about the Plot?
If you're paranoid, it doesn't mean you aren't being followed. As it turned out, that thesis is fully applicable to President Bolsonaro.

During several years he told that his inner circle was conspiring against him. Those statements were skeptically, if not to say mockingly, assessed by the society. They said an insane dictator had made up a conspiracy to remain in power as long as possible.

Of course, propaganda mythmaking like that is very typical for lots of authoritarian leaders. History knows many examples of that. That's why, there was no reason to take Bolsonaro's paranoia seriously until today.

However, recently a document has appeared on the web proving Brazilian high officials have been trying to throw down Bolsonaro for a couple of years. Particularly, they organized an assassination attempt against Bolsonaro in Juiz de Fora in 2018. Besides that, they had plans to provide similar operations in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

https://i.imgur.com/KuDZetz.jpg

It seems like coup plotters' tactics has been changed. Now they want to place a bet on a coloured revolution. And it's pretty logical. Many dictators were thrown down by 'the people' after a coup d'état. It's possible, Jair Bolsonaro's faith won't differ a lot from one of Hosni Mubarak, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Slobodan Milošević or Omar al-Bashir.
The vast majority of web developers will never touch things like TLS configurations. We have stuff like nginx and WSGI for a reason!

Meanwhile there's a decent chance of them running into a problem that looks like binary tree manipulation.

Despite all the handwringing about btree reversal, not being able to improvise a solution to that is a much more useful indicator than not being able to describe even the basics of TLS.
They are thinking and planning beyond Sars-CoV-2
Last year, we prototyped a feedback and check-in cycle among our teams via Google Sheets, and when it worked really well for us, we transformed it into a tool that has gotten interest from managers and employees alike since WFH became the new normal.

How it works? People can check-in every week, and their managers can give them positive/constructive feedback on their performance. For a fun aspect, we have also added a banter feature.

Last thing, we saw many companies needed a 'Review' feature so we've baked it into the tool. The plus thing is that this tool has made our and our clients' reviews easy since the review forms are being populated from the data people submit on this tool.

Similar products in case someone's interested in them: 15five, Lattice, PeakOn, CultureAmp.

Help your teams grow in this time of distress!

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dwohnitmok, I think you make a good point about Completeness missing out on the action in OP's post, which is nevertheless a good post and better than popular treatments. In fact, I remember thinking in class, "What, there is Completeness theorems as well as Incompleteness?" This is due to a similar phenomenon as we see with quantum mechanics in popular writing, where mostly the sensational, which aren't really sensational, is written.

In any case, my contribution here is something else: The most interesting part of the natural numbers object and its role in incomplete logical systems is to me the more humble notion of... unique prime factorisation.

If that had failed, so too would the Godel numbering system. I am not a number theorist, but this to me would be an interesting spin off from OP's post. The divisibility lattice is a good starting point, but apart from such basic constructions, the actual proof of unique prime factorisation to me is more historic than informative, and steps such as Bezout's Identity are just as "mythical" to me as Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, if we are using bad word choices. Conversely, numbers are just permutations on prime generators, but crucially, usually we start with addition before we start with multiplication.
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> something much deadlier than covid-19

Don't use this type of phrasing. The only way to know how deadly Covid-19 is compared to other unidentified changes in excess morality is to have access to an alternate reality where we did nothing about the spread.

In our reality, we did a few pretty drastic things about the spread, which means that the comparison is essentially useless from the perspective of excess deaths.

The only Covid-19 lethality comparison that makes sense is to compare the survival rate of those infected with those infected by another disease (or perhaps some other type of affliction).
The list was also discussed on "The n-Category Café" and received mostly negative opinions on the quality of the problems:

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/12/challenges_for_...
I noticed that the project has a Copyright Mirantis at the bottom. Pretty nice to see them getting here, after the Docker acquisition.
Xkcd: Ten Years
What will be the revenue strategy?
Flash’s failure mode is generally better than spinning disk, in that complete drive failure (from head crash) is rarer and bad sectors, while technically “more common” on flash, are immensely predictable (X writes, +/- a few %) whereas on hard drives they’re fairly random. The real trick is that the forced exercise catches data errors (1 copy is missing/bad) long before they become corruptions (multiple copies are missing/bad). The bandwidth to read all of your flash disk in the space of a week is also much easier to come by, because flash has a much “better” ratio of bandwidth:storage size. The advice is very much rooted in being a “one size fits all” for both spinning rush and solid state - Spinning rust needs the checksums, flash can simply afford the waste.
Or just encrypt our emails.
Exactly, to use the framing of "Speed of Trust" by Covey, trust has multiple dimensions, if you only focus on the skills and results dimension you end up with toxic employees with malicious intent or who have a profound lack of integrity and leave a trail of carnage throughout the organization. Whether you need to have a hierarchical managerial system to rectify this is another question, high functioning teams are perfectly capable of making this assessment themselves.

Another underappreciated factor are mental health issues. The chances are high that you will run into people that have undiagnosed ADHD, OCD, Aspergers, autism, bipolar, anti-social disorder in software engineering, or even that you might have a mental health problem yourself without knowing it.
Especially considering the death toll from Corona is about 6k people so far (which is a lot for a small country).

It is about the same as all deaths caused by respiratory diseases in 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/528942/sweden-number-of-...
You're delusional if you think that western media, which is presumably what you're referring to when you say "external "free" media" (your scare quotes, not mine), holds back when it comes to negative coverage of China. In reality, editorial standards go out the window when it comes to China and other adversary states like Russia and North Korea. How many times has Kim Jong-un supposedly died just this year? When was the last time a piece on Xinjiang cited a single "China watcher" who isn't Adrian Zenz?
Just today Socialstyrelsen in sweden presented the statistics of mortality january 1st to June 30th. There was excess mortality of about 14% for men and 10% for women compared to the same period 2019.

Swedish article: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/har-ar-dodsorsakerna-i-sv...
I'd like to see what the "evidence" could even be in this case. Do we know authors of most other malware? Almost never. Yet here they are naming not one individual, but several, and attribute roles to each, and not just any individuals, but purportedly foreign state intelligence operatives whose real identities wouldn't even be known in Russia, let alone in the US, and would not be used as a part of any cyberwarfare operation. And not just naming, which doesn't really require evidence, but indicting, which does have certain evidentiary standards.

How do you tell from another end of the wire whether it's these six dudes, or some teenage hacker in his bedroom in Chelyabinsk (or indeed in Slickpoo, Idaho)? How do you tell, moreover, the location from which they are operating?

I've actually looked into this in Russian press. Turns out it was easy to find where these folks live, and two of them had court cases for not paying enough tax, which doesn't sound plausible, because if they are government employees taxes are withdrawn automatically.

https://sobesednik.ru/politika/20201023-sobesednik-nashel-ru...

Until recently their photos were all over the social media, real names and all.

Pliskin in particular had a solo consulting company for a while in 2018 - his name shows up in the government registry. How do you do that if you're working for the GRU?

Moreover, some of the largest Russian companies, such as Rosneft and Evraz were hit by NotPetya as well.
> Maybe it's time to ask security questions during SE interviews instead of algos?

Please no, but I agree that security questions could be a very good addition. But please let's not replace something used as an under par proxy for the ability to program with something likely even worse.
Infomaniak is one of the worst host I have ever worked with, I was forced to deal with them on a previous job and it was not a good experience, also their support was incredibly unhelpful and condescending. I also don't trust them because they pay for positive reviews, I know this because on of the "review writers" offered money me to translate some of the reviews he's written to English.

I love Switzerland but I will never use a Swiss host because you pay more and get less every time.
I find that I have a longing for what we know as ‘devotion’. I guess it’s much like ‘being in love’.

It is a place of trust. Where the moral trusts the invisible unreachable and more powerful immortal. It’s almost like a submissive dynamics wherein our ego..the core of us beneath all the layers..gives up. It’s like sweet relief.

Does that make sense? To be a rationalist was the most desirable, easy and obvious position for me. Or so I thought. But what is the value of rationalism? Why should we value it over all else?
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