skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, this is the best thing I've watched in a while. :)
Accessing Raster Data Using PostGIS on Crunchy Bridge
Think about it if even JSON which is kinda simple has that many problems with parsers how likely is it that something multiple degrees of complexity higher which wasn't developed with untrusted database fiels in mind is secure?

Besides that the large majority of thinks tested in your link are irrelevant for the security in this use-case. They do matter if you need fully stable de- and re-serialization or e.g. have a fully trusted validator. E.g. for certain security token use-cases it matters. Many of the thinks which are marked as failure could even be considered as a "more robust" or "more secure" (through not fully standard conform) parser. E.g. parsing tailing commas (disallowed by JSON), rejecting certain unescaped control/special characters (which JSON allows), rejecting to long field values (which JSON allows) or similar. What matters is that a) it has a protection about to deep recursion and as such no stack overflow can happen, b) it makes sure the text it outputs is correctly encoded (independent of weather or not it was well-formed in the JSON blob) and c) it doesn't crash in a way which leads to security problems (which the test suite you linked doesn't differentiate from "acceptable" crashes).
JAX and Pytorch have somewhat different scopes though... JAX is concerned about much more than the kinds of neural nets we write today. It's a general system for expressing and transforming numerical programs, and the devs are as genuinely excited about e.g. scientific programming, probabilistic modeling, etc. as they are about NNs.

A technical reason for "why not pytorch" is that JAX was also built in part to expose and leverage the power of the XLA compiler, which is at least for the moment a pretty uniquely powerful tool for producing efficient, highly-scalable accelerator code.

I should underline that this is a friendly community of peers though: there is a lot of respect for Pytorch, which in turn was certainly influenced by the original Autograd that many of the JAX devs also worked on. JAX (and its fancier sibling Dex) beyond being useful tools are also still research projects in and of themselves seeking to advance our ideas on how to write expressive, powerful numerical code on modern architectures.
You can't use entanglement (on its own) to communicate at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
About 7 or 8 years ago, I hit a point of "I'm going to quit tech completely." I felt everything this guy was feeling. Loved programming. Hated the people I invariably ended up working for.

I spent a month on unemployment, looking for my Next Thing. Ended up doing more programming than I had done in the previous year. Went freelance. Suddenly, most things were better.

Started to hate things a little bit again. I was never very good at finding clients, so I got stuck at a single, long-term, full-time one, and was feeling stagnated. Changed my focus from webdev to VR. Loved the work, but couldn't find clients. Ended up an employee again. Right back into the same, old shit.

Eventually ended up at an established, non-tech company that decided they wanted to start doing their own R&D on improving their offering. Everything is great. This company has the best culture I've ever seen. People work and are happy to work, but it's not a cult that fawns over the company. The company is small enough that everyone knows everyone else, but not so small that we're constantly rushing around, looking for money.

Moral of the story: never trust an MBA who has studied the tech industry. My boss now has an MBA, but it was more "this is what I'm going to study to help out in the family business".
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Trump Supporters
Self-hosting is a thing, at least as far as the amp-geo component is concerned:

> Publishers and caches that re-host AMP JavaScript files...

https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-geo/#self-hosti...
I don't think there is any evidence to suggest deep, unbiased, evidence-based journalism ever dominated the field, or that the "crass commercial" interests didn't drive the news rooms.

See the "yellow journalism" of Joseph Pulitzer's era, for example.

Further, "expensive, pulitzer level" work may also be agenda-driven. Walter Duranty's bias and agenda, for example, aren't really in doubt anymore.
When I read his "I'm sick of..." part, I think you could replace most of that with any other industry (modifying the coding specific bits with industry specific bits).

It really sounds like the root cause is hating working for a large company.

I do freelance software development work and I experience none of those issues in my day to day. That includes never having done a coding interview in ~20 years of freelancing.
I’m over 10 hours in on pc and there’s more than just “some bugs”.

This game is still in alpha.

I don’t know why people are being so defensive. We were looking forward to a great game and were mislead.

I’m personally just gonna hold off on playing anymore until they actually finish the game.
This was sad to read. I've been in jobs I hate before, and had burn out, but I feel privileged to work at a role I love with a group of people I respect (helped start a company).

To anyone else reading this who has felt the same, the entire industry isn't this way. Yes we have many issues in the tech industry. My current rule is to only work with people I believe in, and on problems I believe should be solved.
I don't, ad-blockers have become a lot more effective since the late 90's. Arguably, browsing today's web filtered through a modern ad-blocker (such as uBlock Origin) is safer and more enjoyable then browsing the web without an adblocker in the late 90's.
The video lecture of Vonnegut himself explaining this is also worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc
That sounds right--I see he got an article in the Times end-of-year "The Lives They Lived" issue in 2004.
In some sense the two systems that are entangled are connected instantaneously. The problem is that the information doesn't reside in either system but rather in them as a whole. So, if you were in space with one part of your "walkie talkies" you wouldn't be able to make sense of the information unless you have access to the other system. This access would usually occur through some slower than light channel.

Imagine that you have 2 coins and give one to someone on earth to flip and one to someone on the moon to flip. The outcomes in either location is random 50/50, but interestingly they are perfectly correlated (H<->H, T<->T). When you flip a coin you don't have the ability to pick it's outcome. The only thing you can pick is whether or not to flip it at all. So, imagine you want to communicate one bit of information from earth to the moon and decide that a 1 will be encoded as "flip the coin" and 0 as "don't flip the coin". When you're standing on the moon and want to reveal the information you flip the coin and see e.g. H. There are two ways this could have happened: either the earth coin had already been flipped and showed H or the earth coin had not yet been flipped and you just randomly got a H. In other words, the outcome by the flip is useless by itself.
May I ask what you use instead? Duckduckgo?
Bank loans used to be more significant and commonplace though.

And probably historically it would be (even) more likely to be significantly self-funded as opposed to being all but unfunded and 'bootstrapping', that's my impression anyway.
New York Times Says ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Fell Short of Standards
You should actually watch his lecture on this. It resembles a a comedy routine far more than something that would be ‘covering all the bases’. The stories that are similar, are in fact presented that way and the punch line to jokes. You are definitely right about the “it’s complicated” part and this ends up being the main thesis of the whole speech he is giving. Which is: that real life is complicated so which way is up?
I'll tell them mine if they tell me theirs.
Facebook seems relatively easy to me as well, although I have few friends/family who are regular Facebook users at this point. Maybe if I had extended family or circle of friends who all used Facebook daily, I'd feel differently.

Google I agree is harder and not using Google (including Android) makes it pretty hard not to use other tech giants like Apple and Microsoft.

You can mostly avoid using one or two of the dominant firms. It's pretty hard to avoid using all of them.
https://writing.kemitchell.com/
Why Big Tech Is Being Attacked
Just as likely for there to be no fossil fuels and no metal is for there to be vastly more fossil fuels and metals.

I don't see any reason why it's more likely for an alien civilisation to be suffering from a comparative lack of resources than it is for us to be suffering from a comparative lack of resources.

And if both types exist, we'd be more likely to hear from the ones that have resources than from the ones that don't.
Oh man, it's easier than that! I use Google Dampener (tm). It's a new revolutionary, cloud-based product, coming to you soon (tm). Basically works like this - something that Google makes/announces makes you excited? Dampen you expectations. New revolutionary social product? Dampen you expectations! IoT platform? Dampen it! A great RSS Reader? A responsible and honest approach to AI ethics? Unified approach to messaging? Making the world a better place? You've guessed it! Dampen it!
SoftBank-backed Creditas raises $255 mln in new funding round
The core narrative is broken.
WARNING SPOILERS!!!!

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

/n

The whole Johnny schtick is an utter disgrace to RPG design, this isn't an RPG anymore it's a GTA5 wanna-be.
The prolog is great it works flawlessly the combat in it is also good which is suspect is because it's heavily scripted.
How this should've worked out is that the whole story of the chippening and Johnny should've been mechanically integrated into the narrative.

Firstly you are told you have two weeks to live but there are no repercussions to just fucking off and doing side quests for 6 months in game time. There should be a trade off between the power you can gain from doing missions and the damage the chip is doing to your brain.

Secondly the whole concept multiple personalities should've been a game mechanics it's a goldmine for a morality and loyalty system that actually fits perfectly within the nerrative.

You as a player get 3 options, Fight/Control Johnny, become Johnny or become something new this could've been the basis of a morality system that isn't good/evil and you could've essentially had 3 factions that represent your moral compass.

The people who knew V before the chippening, Jackie should not have been killed he should've served as the moral compass for old V, Johnny's old gang like rogue and the new factions/chars you meet in the game after the chippening like Panam and her nomad tribe.

I loved TW3 despite all it's flaws, and I've actually created a lot of mods for TW1 and TW2 I'm not American, my GF is Polish I actually know people who worked at CDPR on previous games so please stop with this whole poor polish schtick it's unbecoming, CDPR has no longer the benefit of being an indie/small studio when they are working on games with a budget of over $300M. Their long term support for their titles is admirable but it doesn't excuse the piss poor state of the game considering that Cyberpunk 2077 had a bigger development budget than freaking GTA IV and probably in the same ballpark as RDR2....
Same here, playing on Stadia (4k). I tried it on 3 devices:
- windows 10 PC over Ethernet - no lag
- MBP 16 over WiFi - lag
- pixel slate over WiFi - lag

The lag is not too bad, but still noticeable. I only play on the PC now. I have no idea how to fix WiFi lag.
Started using jetbrains ide around 7-8 years back. Couldn't leave. Tried vscode, netbeans, Atom, eclipse(2nd chance), online ide's, just nothing comes even distant close to jetbrains ide. Can't even think of coding in java without this. This thing just works. Very well deserved valuations.
"I'm the kind of person who takes the most important unclaimed tasks - which are often unclaimed because they're unpleasant."

I feel you. I've always been one to fill the gaps on the team. You need someone to learn this new tech/process/etc - sure, I'll do it. It's hurt my career. Now I'm 9 years in and I'm not an expert in anything (anything that matters - they outsourced the tech/system I was an expert at), just average/passable at a bunch of stuff. I'll be an intermediate developer permanently.
It seems to tie in closely with the article from last week or so about "Blub Studies." Learn your tools, learn them well. Knowing the details of how real software actually works really compounds over time. And a huge amount of it transfers, because we just keep building newer and ever so slightly better mousetraps.

https://www.benkuhn.net/blub/
As someone with a small tech company I need to work with bigger tech companies to connect with their API or vice versa, I always notice how little these guys often care about just anything. Everything takes ages and costs enormous amounts of money and they seem to botch up even the simplest things. From not being able to craft proper HTTP headers to messing up UTF8 encoding. When we asked one of them to help one of our clients with his ERP they said they'd be able to help us in 6(!) weeks. Mind you this was a small ask.

I truly hope my company will not turn out like that, because I don't think I'll survive that. I've been in the game for a while, but I'll need to survive at least another 30 years of working. God help me.
> zero exploration benefit

But Deus Ex (The original) had great benefits from exploration.

If it was like Deus Ex with updated graphics, I’d probably have bought it, but it looks more like The Witcher with a Deus Ex paint to me.
Yeah but the fat checks act like golden handcuffs, one is reluctant to lose them and will take more shit over time just because of the fat checks. Smart folks realize this and instead of enjoying the lifestyle fat checks bring they live frugally instead and get ready for an modest exit. It is possible, yes
Read about FODMAPs and the FODMAP diet - odds are you probably aren't celiac. Another thing to consider if you are on PPIs like Prilosec or take Pepcid or similar histamine blockers. Especially the former, but both can really muck with intestinal health.
SolarWinds filed an 8-K report with the SEC[1] stating that they first learned about this after these sales closed:

> On Saturday, December 12, our CEO was advised by an executive at FireEye of a security vulnerability in our Orion Software Platform which was the result of avery sophisticated cyberattack on SolarWinds.

That timeline also matches FireEye's statements and disclosures.

Since negotiating these sales takes time, it's likely that weeks elapsed between the negotiations and SolarWinds learning of this on Dec. 12.

[1]: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001739942/6dd04fe...
I got a 5g phone recently and still only get around 400kbps on average. Don't hold your breath for it streaming Stadia well
Are there any proof of Scrum and Agile increasing successrate?
Since it became a dissemination service for public officials. The moment it became illegal for the US President to block people on Twitter, it should have become illegal for Twitter to restrict access to information to the public, for the same reason.
I'm fascinated to see how all this plays out over the next 1, 2, 5 years. I think a lot of people are leaving big cities for good. But falling rents could make way for a new generation: it's likely easier to move up in a lot of careers if you're there in person. It could lead to more startups and innovation coming out of "2nd tier" cities and other places.

As someone who lives in an 'outdoorsy' place that's been a hot market for a while, I'm curious if people will end up spread out widely in the many towns in the west with outdoor access that still have cheap prices, or tend to cluster more in places like Bend (where I live) and Boulder.

Should be interesting to watch wages too. Companies that pay the same across the board and don't cut for remote workers could be very strongly placed to attract a lot of great talent.
How about the Q32-17? For $800, it sounds like a pretty decent server and I am interested.
> I'm not sure there's any evidence to suggest it was intentional.

From the original article calling out the problem.

>>>

When "suiting up" for a BD, especially with Judy, V will be given a headset that is meant to onset the instance. The headset fits over both eyes and features a rapid onslaught of white and red blinking LEDs, much like the actual device neurologists use in real life to trigger a seizure when they need to trigger one for diagnosis purposes. ... This is a pattern of lights designed to trigger an epileptic episode and it very much did that in my own personal playthrough.

<<<

Emphasis mine.

> What possible reason could there be for that?

Probably for the same reason devs model decapitations and other deadly effects off real world references: using real world lighting patterns that are known to effect the brain adds a sense of authenticity to the world.

Even if the intent was not malicious, the device and lighting pattern are too spot-on to be mere coincidence.
Which is, undoubtedly, so much worse than the spying by US companies?
Amazon, Apple and Google: Which tech giant won the smart home in 2020?
As an interviewer you are also trying to figure out how the person will fit into the team, there are literally people that you can't get a word in. Learn how to pause and get feedback to see if you are on track.
The missing piece is you had no leverage. As PG says leverage is everything.
Here is another good examples,

- Jetpack Composer vs Flutter vs PWAs

Android vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia
Yeah, I expected to hate the new website (nothing specifically against it, just bad experiences with branding updates), but it's... actually nice. Clean, but actually seems to expose everything I'd want from the site.
What we're witnessing, mercifully, is the strangling of programmatic advertising. So much of the app install business — the thing that is most at stake to Facebook here — is in free-to-play games, which are going to be plummeting in profitability as those apps become a less effective means for the delivery of programmatic ads.

Programmatic advertising has so many negative externalities that we should all cheer the diminution of this industry. Breitbart and Infowars and a million other toxic cesspools pandering to all manner of human weakness wouldn't exist without programmatic, the means by which these sites both grow audiences and monetize themselves.
His entire philosophy is the market is only imperfectly efficient, so prices may or may not reflect actual value. Determining actual value is an estimation process, so he works very hard to avoid bias.

An example is he comes across a company with an excellent business model, that he would like to own. If he knows it’s trading at $10, when he does his DCF analysis he will need a valuation over $15. When he makes key DCF assumptions (growth rate, profitability, margins, lifetime of competitive barriers, etc) he is also subconsciously rooting for that > $15 result. It’s too easy to say, well normally I don’t think growth rates this high can last that long, but in this case the company is unique and special, so I’ll give it higher growth prospects than I usually find prudent, etc.

Go read his shareholder letters, you can find them back to the mid-70s online (and Buffett partnership letters back to mid 50s), and he often discusses his efforts to avoid bias (sunk cost fallacy, Mr. Markets influence, etc).
Exactly. The Turkish military perfected that tactic earlier in the year, that's how they managed to suppress the Syrian Army's latest advance (which had been quite successful until that point). Artillery + drones proved to be too much for the Syrian Army [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2020/03/02/idli...
After a bit of "anger" I finally switched over to CentOS streams and can't be more happy with it. I guess it's wait and see how things are going to pan out, i have the luxury to be able to afford some downtime if things are not working well...

I was suggested to try Oracle Linux, but I will always trust more Redhat than Oracle..
I think to survive in this field you must detach yourself from yourself. I remember burning out at every job, just like OP. But when I stopped "thinking" and looked at myself from a third perspective, I could see the politics and grind work affecting the "me". But just observing that phenomenon and detaching yourself from it prevents the stress.
I don't think that's the case. Psychology (however weak grounds it stands on) says that the primary reason for burnout is losing the belief that your work matters and then continuing that work for a prolonged period.
In my 40's and been coding since I was 6. Still love it. I even stepped down from management roles to go back to development (but switching industries to one that I'm passionate about) and it's made all the difference.

There's a lot of software development out there and a lot of different companies. Sometimes it's better to not work for a pure software company.
Cyberpunk 2077 had a budget of over $300M the flack it's getting is because CDPR is no longer some small time studio that is known for good attitude towards DRM and a very long term support for it's titles.

When your game development costs outclass that of GTA 5 and probably in the ballpark of RDR2 and you release this mess after delaying the game by a WHOLE YEAR you'll get flack because you deserve it not because you are Polish.
Identity politics have made it even more miserable.
On 720p the TAA and post processing are already on their limit. On 540p it would be gta-vice-city-motion-blur level unbearable
Better navigation and offline viewing might make sense if I really want to read the New York Times specifically, but that probably isn't the case if I'm getting there by way of a search engine.
Not in the "open world" sense. I think a lot of people were expecting a more open world, but in this case, there just wasn't much to do in that world (from what I can tell).
What do Jetbrains customers mostly use?

From my understanding, it's mostly Intellij and GoLand, and some PyCharm. At least two of the three are languages that are every difficult to be productive in with Sublime or Vim alone.

I guess PyCharm allows you to stop thinking about whitespace? In seriousness, not trying to start another holy war.
Frontline: Return from Isis [video]
I'm enjoying the game too and I was defending it in a thread the other day. but now that I've gotten past the intro arc, I'm noticing a lot more issues. mostly just little stuff like NPCs warping around in the background, a suitcase levitating in place when it should be in jackie's hand, objects clipping through walls that can't be picked up. doesn't break the game, but it does take away from the immersion.

I did encounter one more serious issue. there's an early main story mission where you have to get a key off the body of a guard you just killed. unfortunately, I killed the guy while he was standing in an elevator. his body fell through the floor and (presumably) out of the map. at least the game managed to showed me a waypoint to his body, 1 km below my feet. this just seems like bad judgement by the devs. if you have to have moveable ragdolls, please don't put items on them that I need to advance the game. stuff like this will inevitably happen.

anyways, I'm still enjoying the game but I'm debating whether to shelve it for a month or two while they patch more bugs.
I agree! i use CentOS streams because i need some sort of redhat environment for my customers, but if i had the choice or if i have to do some opensource work, i would choose Debian over anything else....
Wow VisBug is really interesting. Never heard of it.