skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not as far as anyone can tell. Everything in her bloodwork comes back perfect. She eats well balanced meals, stays as fit as the pain will let her, doesn't drink much, no drugs that aren't prescriptions because of all this. By all measurements, she's in peak health... you know, except for the debilitating pain, bone fusion, rapid onset arthritis and degenerating vision.
My guess would be that napsy uses a private GitLab instance at work, doesn’t use gitlab.com, and does have a GitHub account.
It's a natural monopoly. It has already de facto prohibited everyone else's own crawling, as the linked article demonstrates.

When it had a monopoly, AT&T was forbidden from selling software.
Boiling doesn't (usually) remove the harmful chemicals introduced by plastics
>"You can observe a lot just by looking."

This is a paraphrase of a Yogi Berra quote. He's famous for saying silly things like this. I suspect the poster was intending this to humorous rather than pompous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#%22Yogi-isms%22
Depending on your product, blacklisting all AWS IPs might be acceptable. For example my company has a VPN exit on AWS, which appears to be blacklisted by twitter.
You dont need to do any of those things. You just study algorithms obsessively. Forget about developing any kind of skillset. Go to leetcode.com and do 500 problems, then stroll into google
Excuse me, what would save rainforests is to stop this expansion of soy and cows by Bolsonaro in Brazil, and so on.

People throughout those latitudes are burning down rainforests for bullshit reasons!
Crypto, the Year in Review
One should be aware that these wavelengths might not be particularly healthy for your skin and can result in sunburns without causing the usual red skin symptoms. You should also not look into the light source and wear special glasses if you handle UV light.
Do you always sleep with your legs stretched out?
> So I used ildasm and found out the year was hardcoded.

Deliberate time bomb or honest mistake?
>>a drug intended to induce gender dysphoria

Why would someone want to develop gender dysphoria? It is associated with a significantly heightened risk for multiple mental illnesses and suicide.

It would make sense that someone would want to get rid of gender dysphoria, not the other way around.

>>I've been forced to not transition, and it was utter hell.

How were you forced to not transition? Did someone threaten to punish you in the event that you made an attempt to? Or was it just a matter of the procedure not being available to you?

Anyway, would it be hell to not transition, if you didn't have gender dysphoria?

>>Development of such a treatment would be immediately followed by it being forced on people.

This is speculation, and your speculation on how such a treatment would be used doesn't create a moral justification to exert totalitarian force on others to prevent them from developing the treatment.
Yes, I think what you’re saying makes sense.
I stopped playing Ultima Online (same led designer as Knights of the old Repbulic iirc) when I did the math and realized to become Master Alchemist, I would have to mix 3000 potions, always with the same repetitive clicks.
I think you can view this advice in a negative light or a positive light. If you interpret it as "my maximum is lower than other people's" then it will naturally lead to worse outcomes. I believe the author intended it as "my current progress is less than my peers". This outlook can encourage you to work harder to accomplish the thing that you want and be more open to new strategies, if you earnestly believe that other people might have better strategies than you.

(Note, this blog post was written in 2010.)
Diffing log output is a great technique for tracking down weird, hard to repro bugs I find - log out as much as you can in a normal session and then in a buggy session, and diff the two, just as you describe.

Have also used this technique to compare build logs when you have a version of a project which will compile and one which doesn’t (eg when trying to integrate a second project into an existing one, or battling CI issues), useful if you aren’t an expert in that particular tool chain especially.

Personally I use VS Code’s diff these days, since they added support for word wrap recently, it’s the easiest to read.
Btw for people who want to use js_of_ocaml instead of rescript but still like react, there is https://github.com/jchavarri/jsoo-react. It's obviously not as polished. But it's interesting to see how much work it requires to bind a large lib like react.
Exfiltrating data from airgapped computers via DDR Sdram
POTS is not POTS any more. Anything other than possible last mile is now digital, with lowest possible if not lower bitrate and old codecs. And that extends to mobile.
Aren't some kinds of palm oil actually good for health?
Why do truffles taste so weird?
While it’s not a requirement of brexit it’s likely.

Brexit doesn’t stop 27 forward looking countries from enjoying Interrail though.
It's probably better to assume you might be wrong than to assume your abilities/understanding are below average in some area. To assume you're below average in some aspect when you're not also causes problems in interacting with others. ("This is easy because I find it easy and I'm below average. Anyone with a high school education probably has a functioning knowledge of linear algebra and differential equations.")

It's absolutely true that you might be wrong, and your decision making and behavior should take that into account, regardless of your abilities relative to others.

My general rule is to assume I'm missing something or could be wrong. For instance, I was skiing with my dad this February. He said he didn't have his milt-resort pass with him, but it sure looked to me like it was attached to his arm. So, I asked him if the thing on his arm could get him what he needed, instead of flat-out telling him he was wrong. For all I knew, it was some expired single-day pass from the previous season, but it could have been some kind of membership ID that was still useful in our situation. It turned out he had forgotten that his multi-resort pass was on his arm, but my response was less confrontational and more focused on cooperatively reaching the goal.
The yield per hectare of palm oil is 5 times higher than the next most productive edible oil crop (rapeseed).

Note that there is nothing wrong with palm oil itself, it's just that the cheapest way to produce edible oil on Earth, is to grow palm oil trees in a tropical climate. Replace palm oil with another vegetable oil, and the effect on deforestation will be even worse, as we would need even more land to grow the replacement. Even Greenpeace is not calling for a boycott or palm oil.
Biki bikes costing Honolulu an estimated $460,728 in lost revenue, audit finds
Exactly. Those phones were very popular on construction job sites. Have a buddy who used to sell them. He talked me into getting one that supported J2ME. It really wasn’t much, but, in 2002/3, was the aha moment that showed where programmable phones would go.
That's impossible in the general case, since it's trivially equivalent to the halting problem (take the UB-detecting compiler, have it perform UB iff the program has no UB, run it on its own source code).

What we can do is a combination of formal methods, heuristics and sanitizers. Plus software engineering techniques, such as running tests to high coverage with sanitizers, fuzzing, and so on.
Oh, I thought it was about VHS video for some reason. I guess I'm old enough to rant that this should be named 'how video streaming works', not 'how video works' :/
well sorry if this isn't true, but I haven't insulted anyone. If I get those feedback and they are incorrect, I hope that you can provide my insightful ones to clear the situation.
If you put a lot of fat in your pasta (e.g., guanciale) then you get filled with a much smaller serving, like 100g.
There's a fully functional open source version
Why China developed a fresh taste for milk
I'm curious to know how directx has been so bad for humanity.

For one I recommend you read John Carmack interviews from the time directx was being developed. Straight from the horse's mouth. I can assure you, things before directx were not pretty.
While you are busy boycotting palm oil, I would suggest you also stop flying if you are concerned about species extinction (unless your flight to Borneo was absolutely essential). Sorry if this sounds sarcastic. I don't mean it that way. Just couldn't help but notice the irony in your post.
It's from the UTC+384h time zone.
Pardon my ignorance, but what should be used instead of encoding/xml?
These are the same arguments I make in favour of airships - I can see people preferring a slower transoceanic trip in much greater comfort than a jet affords. Also, sky cruises. The cruise industry is going to need one hell of a hook to recover from this year’s PR hell.
You are right, I should have done more presentations for non technical people in other organization and the great failure could be avoided. Normally managers should listen very good when somebody explains how to save €0.5M.

But for this particular organization can’t be helped. We ship products assembled with duct tape and that’s ok. Every piece of the electronics looks to be done by a child during first ham radio course and that’s also ok. I am glad having job during these times and don’t take it seriously anymore after my burnout.
Presumably by installing Linux?
It doesn't really, but what does matter is whether you FEEL like you are. The software industry (and broader, the whole STEM industry) is full of people who are kinda full of themselves, and people are being TOLD that they are above average, that they SHOULD be above average, that they should be or strive to be a mythical 10x developer, a thoughtleader, that they should be writing blogposts and appear on stage, organize and attend meetups, create and maintain open source software, read books and papers, etc etc etc.

And those that don't are silently shamed or shunned, looked down on by those who do (or say that they do; in practice / what I've seen is that that energy they have lasts for only a few years, after which they either settle down in family life, end up in burnout, or both).

It's a toxic culture, one that isn't actively pushed by any one individual or organization, but one that is prevalent and normalized throughout the industry.

The SF bubble is even worse, where you're considered cool if you do 24 hour hackathons, work nights, sleep in overpriced bunk beds in hacker homes so you can hop back on your tech five seconds after waking up.

Anyway sorry, I had a rant brewing, it's not specific to your comment. Speaking for yourself, while I will acknowledge I'm probably better at my job than a lot of people, I also suffer from impostor syndrome, from not being good, fast, ambitious, productive or smart enough. I've thankfully gotten out of a "rat race" organization (consultancy, yay) and I've settled down in a job where I have both responsibility, time and space to do my own thing, pick my own tools and tech.

In that job, I can decide on my own technology choices without having to compete with egos and trends. I can sit down and think about, write down the tech choices, instead of landing in an assignment where the decisions have already been made, or where they're made in a 15 minute meeting where the loudest or most impatient guy decides without any deliberation or paperwork.

I am a lot more confident that the software I write now will last for longer, whereas other jobs I've had, code I've written would likely go quickly to subsistence / maintenance mode, then a full rewrite by the next generation of energetic hipsters because the existing stuff is unsalvageable, because the previous generation of energetic hipsters got bored and the opportunity to start something new (which they prefer to do every 6-12 months).

I should probably write an angry rant blogpost about this, ironically.
> It is not obvious at all. There is no evidence at all of a general trend toward planned obsolescence. This is another layman's talking point.

All incentives in capitalism encourages quick cyclic consumption, and corporations spend vast amounts of resources to various forms of obsolescence [0]. This can't just be ignored even if you would like it, because it blatantly shows how wasteful the current system is.

> You didn't even address what I provided about Pareto Efficiency

"I ignored your questioned and posted something else, now please answer what I posted meanwhile I'll keep ignoring the question".

> Yes it is alleging a conspiracy, and you're claiming Economics in general has been coopted by it. This is no different than anti-vaxxerism.

A field of study with so close connections to power and wealth must be seen with skepticism. It's like not questioning the upper-classes theories of society of old. There's a lot of examples of theories justifying their privileges.

There's also an important distinction to be made. It's true that capitalism/free-market produces alot of stuff. But it's certainly not true that it produces freedom, happiness, and justice for all. The problem is that you will take the former to justify the latter injustices. That's obvious bias.

[0] Planned obsolescence:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/the-right...

https://www.green-alliance.org.uk/resources/A%20circular%20e...

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/23...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160612-heres-the-truth-...

https://www.consumersinternational.org/news-resources/blog/p...

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/innovation/origin...

"Yale University economics professor Judith Chevalier explained to the BBC that companies react to consumer tastes, and that planned obsolescence is not simply a deception by manufacturers, but in certain situations the fault lies with consumers, who do not value a more durable product, but one that possesses the latest technology." (admits to its existence, but just blames it on the consumer instead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

"An Economic Theory of Planned Obsolescence"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1884176?seq=1
What a shockingly dishonest title. Well first, the relief bill is smaller by a lot because there are now 2 relief packages "worth a total of $908 billion. The first bill, with a $748 billion price tag, will include all the spending both sides have signed off on, including replenished funding for small-business loans, extended unemployment, money for schools and vaccine distribution.

Senators will hive off the other $160 billion into a separate bill. That measure will focus on items that continue dividing the parties, including a business liability shield and aid to state and local governments, Politico and CNN reported Sunday night."

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/14/finance-2...

How about instead of reading totally made up blogs we stick to real news sources with actual reporting?
How does the buffering proceed quickly, but then the (slower than usual) periodic calls only copy a limited amount of data? That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. Normally if you're filling buffers, you copy as much data as is needed to keep the buffer full, no matter when you're invoked.
While small businesses closed and people suffered, politicians played power-games with our lives. Now that we technically don’t matter anymore - the election is over - the politicians have lost interest. It happens every 2 - 4 years and this won’t be the last.
More passwords leaked on GitHub?
No, but many workers get paid meager (but slightly livable for their area) wages we would likely see as/refer to as modern "slave labor"

Is it a pretty thing? Not even slightly. However, this lets them/their family survive. Take it away, native workers will die/turn to even shittier methods of survival.
What?

No, but I suppose you miss all the vocabulary you need to efficiently communicate about ML in German... Or why is it?
According to [1], small farmers represent 40% of Indonesia's palm oil industry.

[1] - https://snv.org/update/smallholder-palm-oil-farmers-can-farm...
Presumably 1 ha of tropical forrest > 1 ha of temperate-climate forrest, that is if the replacing crop would be a temperate-climate one.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Or self-host your own Open Source encrypted call system https://github.com/meething/meething !
Interesting - I wonder if not having the source code means coreaudio and video playback on apple is actually better behaved across the entire ecosystem of devices vs android. I've never seen a music production app I don't think on android now that I think of it.
Rare in Europe? I'm looking out of my window in central London and there are at least three squirrels arguing about brexit or something. In warmer months, I need to be careful not to kick one of them as I go by on the sidewalk. They are everywhere.
Palm oil is not unhealthy. Th reason it's bad is because the cheapest way to produce it is to destroy rainforest to grow palm oil trees in a tropical climate. UK consumers managed through campaigning to force the industry to source 50% of palm oil from non-tropical origins. When the worlwide demand for tropical palm oil drop enough, tropical deforestation will drop.
Threema is not open source yet so I wouldn't use it for that reason. I did like their security whitepaper, though, and they do have some impressive clients (Mercedes-Benz, etc.).
Is that on the roadmap? I was under the impression that native video calls will never happen. They might bundle jitsi automatically with the homeserver though
Right. So substitute "AMR-NB" for "POTS".
While you say "for seemingly no reason", somewhere there is a team happy that an A/B experiment has shown the change to move some metrics (which they care about and perhaps aids the team-member(s') goal(s) of being promoted) in the direction they desire. It's a thing of beauty when the metrics align with the interest of the user but this of course is secondary to the profit motive.
It’s worth fuck all because sellers will bang their head on a wall for 2 months until they work it out because they have no other option.
Isn't this simply because disk is short for diskette? Which is the word for a floppy often used in the 80's and 90's.
94% opens; 42% replies: how I used cold email to win 20 B2B partners in 3 months
> But if you're given the definitions and a couple minutes to figure it out (which, in an interview, you are), and you actually can't come up with the 10 lines of code to do it, maybe that question is working as intended after all...

or maybe the person struggles to work things out in an extremely stressful situation

I speak as somebody that finds interviews Extremely stressful and if working there is regularly my interview levels of stress then please do reject me.
yeah I also hit this impression. despite all the investigation and detail it seems in the end it was an exercise in hand washing and blame shifting.
Yes. Everyone is so used to being manipulated, and, it seems, without the ability to work things personally, according to their principles. (Do people even know what principles are? Is it whatever is expedient or are there lines that cannot be crossed?)

They actually prefer sugar-coated bullshit to honest responses. They do not use logic, it is all emotional responding. Their ears or eyes cannot take honesty, and they actually feel psychologically assaulted by honestly stated propositions.

For myself, I intentionally don't play that game. I don't seek to manipulate or sell ideas to others. I want people to engage with the ideas or not. And I'm fine either way. But I get slammed in this thread and others, not because I may be wrong (and I may be) but just because they don't like the simple, unadorned, probably true, message.

If this is where we are at on hackernews, in a thread about philosophy, it speaks volumes about how much trouble we are in as a group, and how we will not be getting out of it anytime soon. The only solution they see is to close down voices like mine.
180g cooked or uncooked?

Portions with 125g of uncooked pasta feel fine to me. That‘s 450 calories. Plus sauce (200 on the low end, 350 calories on the high end, depending on what exactly you want to eat – 200 calories would be something like a 400g can of tomatoes, garlic, onions, some olive oil) and cheese (100 calories for 25g Parmesan) you end up with a meal that‘s between 750 and 900 calories.

That between a normal and large-ish meal, though in both cases not exactly huge. Definitely something you could conceivably eat every day without much trouble, though I do agree that something with less carbs would probably be a bit more filling.

125g uncooked dried pasta should be about 280g cooked pasta.

Don’t get me wrong, I can eat 180g of uncooked pasta no problem. But that tends to go right up to the line of feeling very full.
Is Multi Level Security the Answer to Our InfoSec Woes?
It seems to me that for some reason almost everyone in the tech community doesn't know about Multi Level Security. (AKA Capability Based Security)

Multi-Level Security was developed in the 1970s after there were problems with air traffic control/flight plan data processing issues related to security classification levels during the Viet-Nam war.

Operating Systems that supported Capabilities such as GNOSIS were in operation in the 1970s. Multics was planned to add Capability Object support.

Unix short-circuited history, and for the most part, Capabilities were forgotten, because they were seen as unnecessary and wasteful of resource.

I believe it is time to re-examine these beliefs, and start a push towards widely deploying Multi Level Secure systems.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%E2%80%93LaPadula_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyKOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/KK/

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Limited to 90 days because the over 50s decided to remove rights from their children that they themselves enjoyed.
It is never about how you perceive your self vs the crowd, it is always about how you fit in your team and microcosm. Evaluating yourself vs the biased projected skills or knowledge of your equivalent in your field is just a way to give you a tap on the back and saying "You are right, you're the smart one in the room" aka living in your own echo chamber.

I have always struggle to evaluate myself and deal with the impostor syndrome because I tend to be a generalist dropped in team of specialist acting as a bridge. Am I less knowledgeable that those specialists in their field? Yes but they lack the skills to understand deeply each other and communicate clearly their needs. I was the average finally between them and nobody was doing the same kind of role around me to compare with.

Learning is a mindset that is not equivalent to how you can have self-assurance. It is the ability to keep an open mindset to enrich the set of ways to approach your field. If you restrain yourself to only one hammer, you would be above the average smashing all the nails of the world with it finally. You will just not learn anything after a time twisting your hammer to fit every nails.