skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you pass the algo / data brain teasers, they need to invent other ways to reject you. Hiring in tech is broken to the extent that tech management is bad. I think because there's not the same level of people skills in order to manage teams in tech (maybe because the industry skews toward that as a whole, by deemphasizing people skills at the top of the funnel, and sometimes substituting for specialized "culture fit" as an inaccurate proxy because they don't know better). Due to this, i think they are scared to hire anything outside the mythological 20-something "sir, yes, sir, rightaway, sir" , no-brainer-to-manage report. At the consequences, of missing out on lots of great human resource. Vicious cycle.

Some small tech teams compensate with elaborate "cultures", that are really like cults, as a substitute to having management skill. Everyone will behave inline with the haute cult-ure, which may be toxic, simply because, i believe, they don't understand people and know how to manage. The cult keeps people inline, so management doesn't really have to exist. And they don't know how to deal with disagreements, or to manage to get the best from people, so their only responses are: isolate or fire. Because they only have these measures, they need either people who require no skill to manage, or they use a proxy of culture-fit, to pre-screen some sort of conformity.

I think the solution is people who are better interpersonal communicators, and better managers. Right now i don't see tech jobs valuing this. But i believe it must be out there, somewhere... The maybe in this industry it's very rare.

I'm sure there's pockets of awesome in many tech companies that rival or exceed the best teams in other industries, but i do think the brokenness is a real thing.

Also, the signal that some companies use, that they need to offer elaborate treats to entice people, while on the surface looks great, i think could also be an acknowledge that they know they don't have that much to offer people in terms of great teams otherwise. Catered lunch as compensation for nonsensical management.
Yeah, batteries can go for a surprisingly long time. Still, I'll never buy a phone without the ability to replace it. Apart from the benefits of replacing old batteries that only hold a fraction of their original charge, swappable batteries means I can take a spare with me if I need to, and I can increase the size. I've got a 7500 mAh chonker in my Note 3, slightly over 2x the stock battery, and it does many hours even watching video.
IIRC from a talk a few years ago, Xorg can be stripped down to around 600KB, so you could probably have a minimal X environment.
> how are we supposed to reason about something that vague? [...] I feel that anyone proposing that it's just emergent behavior should be at least a little bit more specific.

Sometimes it rains when we predicted it wouldn't, sometimes we get a full blown storm we didn't see coming... And that's using advanced techniques developed over decades on a continually available complex system for which there is demand to be able to predict on a daily basis. The very nature of these things is to have unpredictable behavior... That does not mean we necessarily do not understand the governing rules, but that the emergent behavior is not reducible into a simplified description.

> We have a simple explanation that's consistent with the known facts

It's simple and correlated, but highly suspect when a significant degree of chaos adds massive error bars to the significance of that correlation.
There were gunshots sounds but we're not sure if it was audio from the RV or actual gun shots
This is the first talk I've considered listening at less than 1x speed.
You Need to Start Stretching Now: Here Are the Benefits
Air Canada Boeing 737 Max Suffers Engine Problem
I had an experience the other day where duckduckgo worked where google had failed (an obscure java default bug). It was pleasantly surprising.
In short - zyfwp is another way to login as root.
If the theory is that everybody is just waiting for e-ink patents to expire to open up the market, wouldn't it be a bad idea to invest in the company holding those patents?
This. Imagine working for Pinterest.
It's a pity there are no long-term effects from the cases like those.

We've had a serious security vulnerability introduced in the firmware release, and there were no negative consequences for Zyxel at all, other than some bad press (and it's probably a fairly small amount of the bad press). What I would like to see is a post-mortem with mitigations -- how did this happen, and how will they prevent similar occurrences in the future. Instead, most likely nothing will happen. And I will not be surprised if the "firmware update account" will be back in the next release, probably still insecure, but hidden better so that random researchers won't stumble on it.

I wish there were some sort of liability for the manufacturers for the cases like those. For example, if a person runs a red light by accident and get caught, they get a fine and an insurance premium increase. We need something like this for IOT suppliers as well.
Mind that this is Zoom Rooms, a "calendar"/meeting room billboard/management tool like that facebook one that was posted here a bit ago[1].

It's supposed to be on 24/7 and I assume they just found that it's the easiest to reboot mac OS on a cronjob every Sunday to keep the system stable, not like it's necessarily made for that job.

I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use, in the case of the Facebook one, they had the money to put in the engineering to build a custom solution. I often see iPads running zoom rooms as well though.

[1]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310377930661351424?s=19
> Many if not most things people believe which are incorrect do not involve any logical fallacy.

Every false belief involves a logical fallacy, either the fallacy of false premises or a fallacy of reasoning, because starting with true premises and employing sound logic will always produce a true conclusion.
Your reply is too long. I will get back to you in 6 months. Maybe.
Fear not, The President has announced the SolarWinds hack is fake news.

I was expecting him to blame Biden and Obama, but still.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13403336186910023... for the skeptics
If Pinterest is one of your main competitors for search engine results there’s a good chance you’ve clicked on them plenty of times to check out what they’re doing. Google is going to personalise your results on that and they will think you like Pinterest. I personally practically never see them as a result.

Been a while since I’ve done any seo but iirc there are tools you can use to try to get the most objective serps.
I know that some people consider it poor practice to anthropomorphise virus particles, but isn't this just an abstraction - a reasonable illustration - of what is happening?

What would you say instead, to capture these ideas, that are equally clear to everyone?
There are a number of very useful systems written for BEAM!

Consensus protocols are too slow for Universal Intelligent Systems (UIS) :-(

See the following for UIS:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3428114
Pilots are like Air Force fighter pilots. If you can go to school to become one you would and everyone would love to be one. The former is less selective than the latter.
That would be a good Kickstarter!

Incidentally, I think 18xx has been going through a mild resurgence as board gamers graduate from the economic Euro-style games and into the rules-heavy games, eventually becoming curious about this 18xx genre. It's been creating a bigger demand, and as such, many 18xx titles are getting reprinted commercially, instead of the traditionally hand-made variety.

https://all-aboardgames.com/

https://medium.com/grandtrunkgames

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1840vienna/18magyarorsz...

https://www.gmtgames.com/p-847-1846-the-race-to-the-midwest-...

https://www.gmtgames.com/p-692-1862-railway-mania-in-the-eas...
Blue Screen – I wrote a short story about about AI and the end of the world
I usually procrastsinate till it’s very close to the deadline and have no problem doing it then, with a bit of stress. In general if I work on a couple of projects/tasks simultaneously I find it much easier to build up momentum to start pecking at the least pleasant of the tasks. If there is only one I have a harder time getting started and find myself doing anything but what I should be doing.
>> I would love nothing more than to hear what holes could be punched into this hypothesis.

I'm not a physicist either but believe that this is a well-known idea.
There is no point in even trying to improve the technology right now because the patent holder would just take it anyway.
Exactly, the same usage for cpu and astonishingly also for memory. It's no virtual machine but a contained program that doesn't access your host system. Even X11 forward is secure with Xpra X11 bridge.
> Python and Ruby are somewhat slow, which is absolutely fine for a lot of projects and in a lot of contexts

You can say that, but it presumes they are better than alternatives in other regards when there are options with really no disadvantages but better performance. The primary reason for using these languages appears to be that they are easy to learn when getting started (either as a new developer or a new project). But when you think that you're optimising to save a couple of months coming up to speed on tech over a lifetime of maintenance and performance benefits ... it seems lazy to me.
> I heard something about "fake reports" about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up?

Reports of gunshots weren't fake because multiple witnesses heard gunshots. No idea if it was related to the bombing or not.

Example:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/index....

>McCoy said he was originally woken up by what he believed were gunshots prior to the explosion. He got up and looked out the window, he said, but went back to bed when he didn't see anything. Asked if the noise he heard could have been something other than gunfire, McCoy emphasized that he believed it was, saying he owns a gun and goes shooting, so he's familiar with the sound of gunshots.
There have been companies offering gas-mains alternatives to generators; it's pretty rare that both your electricity grid and gas grid go off together - and if someone is bombing your building you've got other problems.
Regarding Great Barrington: I wonder if we'll ever see people apologise for their contribution towards this mess.
If for whatever reason you don't want to use Linux (or a BSD/etc) then you have two options for OS/GUI. So much for great products.

Personally, I found and still find OsX terrible, but the redesign of windows to be mobile/touch first was high art which I assume is kept broken for mouse users to drive sales of surface.

I also am not much of a fan of the many common Linux window environments, but in the Linux case you actually have options (at great inconvenience to developers.)
I guess the fact that the lack of mutation in a single lineage increases overspecialization which could lead to death en mass, is important too. So short, promiscuous lives maximize random changes in the gene pool, which increases the species' genetic diversity. That's the most convincing argument for me right now. If only there was a shot to make you not age, but also to mutate your germ cells to simulate greater diversity...
From the video it looks like they haven't completely solved the ghosting problem which occurs when the screen is updated without going through a full-refresh cycle.

They seem to be trying to hide it too, given how they cut away so quickly from moving content on the screen...

That said, E-Ink displays are cool, and this still appears to be a huge advancement.
This makes for such a fascinating story. Supervillain type stuff. Except fortunately in this case a supervillian with some sort of code of ethics.
That's BRI ISDN. PRI has a lot more channels. Also, there was dial setup and PPP vs IDSN bonding. So it can be complex.
Re 3, here's some more examples:

"How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?"

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-many-...

"Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident":

https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/nurses-no-guinea-pigs-87000-health...
oops! shakes fist at Google
Anecdote: In my experience, a small but sizeable number of homes in suburban areas that are still outside the city enough to be affected by weather-related power outages every several months have whole-home generators connected to city natural gas lines. Growing up in one of these areas, there was the occasional power outage (once a year or so at most) but I can't recall any gas line outages. Those who had whole-home generators experienced no real outage, although in a colder climate having a gas heating system and a gas stove with a backup lighter/match are definitely more essential than keeping the lights on.
Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident (2014)
Thanks.

Well, then it's news because it means that Japan is now going to face, or has been facing, much faster spread than before.
We don't need to make such a large investment. I, for one, am satisfied with the ecology today and would rather have lower electricity rates and get people into electric cars and off gas heat.
I could have this wrong but we had offices in Amsterdam and Berlin and ISDN in Europe wasn't nearly as polluted with old standards as it was in the US. I don't even think a 56kbps B channel was an option in Europe. I stood up dial plants in both continents and I distinctly recall it being plug and play over the pond.

We also used the ISDN to back up our circuits and Cisco had a pretty cool demand system that would just use what was needed to service the demand.
Very common for residential buildings - the house I grew up in in Ohio had an automatic standby back up generator than ran off of piped in natural gas. The idea was to protect against weather-related power outages. (Generally snow or wind causing trees to fall on power lines)

I’m not sure how common this is in commercial buildings. Mains gas powered generator doesn’t seem like a very good idea for anything critical.
Interesting. I had forgotten about z/OS. I don't know much about the mainframe world. Several years back, I did get it booted on the "Hercules" emulator, but making much real use of it was beyond my capabilities.
You're welcome. I found this on stackoverflow and gosh it's from 2015!

I was about to just use a plain docker for firefox and slack with mounted X11 file. This project tought me about a more secure method for X11 forward.
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That voice announcing evacuation sounds very professional, not like a computer synthesized voice... I wonder if they will try to trace that.
The description there gets into assumed motive which is really irrelevant to the fallacy. The fallacy isn't in the assumption of error, but rather in attacking a characterization of the process by which the opponent arrived at their argument rather than the argument itself. That one might infer from someone engaging in that fallacy that they have also assumed the opponent wrong and sought an explanation is, well, a reasonable conclusion but to highlight that as the fundamental issue is, ironically, making the same mistake that is at issue with Bulverism: focussing on the process by which one gets to the argument rather than the flaws in the argument.
Whoever did it seems to have been inside the RV at the time? Or a body was -- they say they found human remains.

I don't think this person wanted to kill anyone. 15 minute warning, low population, date & time. Was it someone who really didn't like AT&T?
Very common. Short of something like this, it's unlikely your natural gas and electric service will both go out at the same time. Natural gas turbines fed by the city service are a common backup source. Some sites will also have provision for running off bottled gas, some won't.
The thing is, we don't know really. Is aging evolved, or a disease? Or a complex of some evolved and some diseased mechanisms interacting... Or something else.. i don't think we know yet for sure.
Patents holding things back is a feature. It encourages innovation because patents give a lot of security to innovators. Even if you found a way to incentivize innovators while simultaneously subjecting them to the ruthless meat grinder called the free market, it would just result in everything changing all the time. There’s no hurry. Technological progress isn’t always neutral, either. A new technology, even medical technology, could change the equation irreversibly in a very negative way. We’ve just been lucky recently.
I've heard here on HN that the problem with Snap is that it doesn't enforce restrictions, and that most used programs on snap ask for all permissions, including access to all of your files.

I think you can check it in the snap metadata.
I think you’re being generous. I don’t think it’s survivorship bias. I think it’s narcissism. She’s not willing to be inconvenienced for the benefit of people she doesn’t know, or to listen to evidence beyond anecdotes from her own life.
That doesn’t jibe with these videos from Hans Rosling:

https://youtu.be/jbkSRLYSojo

https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w
thats even more impressive really, reckon decent history and never pruned before
Obviously the primary intent was not loss of life. But there are multiple possible intents, one being obviously to instill fear: "We didn't kill you this time, but we totally could have". Imagine living in the area now.

Anyway, it's better to wait for more information than to speculate.
well, you can run valgrind on linux :-)

meanwhile i have to recompile drivers to get a mouse sensitivity that isnt insanely too fast with an 800dpi mouse and various other fun things for desktop use
Why? This is a quick fix. Maybe the problem will get fixed "officially" someday. But I have the problem now, I need a workaround now, not in 5 years.
Is there a similar resource for liblldb? The only documentation I could find was the Doxygen-based one, and it doesn't provide enough hints to a newcomer to know where to get started if I want to write a debugger frontend.
there might not be any native uis in uikit that need nstreecontroller, but ive done custom uis in appkit that utilized nstreecontroller (think of a diagramming ui with groups and child groups) and would love to have been able to use those in uikit too, with pure data bindings....
Julia has an interesting split here, it does the lowering into SSA from in pure Julia and then has a codegen steps that translates the SSA from into LLVM IR, but for that second step we do use the C++ API. We have very robust bindings to the C-API, but it forever feels just a bit incomplete and less cared for. The C-API is very stable, whereas the C++ API does change quite a bit.
Try mailbrew.com
I assume you are referring to limiting free speech. I think limiting free speech for non-natural persons (i.e. corporations, partnerships, LLCs, etc) would be extremely effective without leading to problems associated with limiting free speech of natural persons.
> Pilots are like Air Force fighter pilots. If you can go to school to become one you would

You can go to school to become a pilot, and lots of people who could don't. The school is expensive, and so is pleasure flying, and even if you like flying you may not like flying as a job, just like anything else people like doing for fun.
This is biology-dependent. With CRTs, I could detect flicker all the way up to 85Hz* (where it vanished for me). Made it a real pain to find a good monitor.

* Hitachi 21" CRT which seemed enormous at the time
So I can say from experience, none of the production issues we ran into in two and a half years of Erlang would have been solved by better typing.

That said, our own practices meant we included a lot of unit and API level tests, and some of the issues I personally caught and fixed when testing might have been avoided by typing, and were, eventually, when we added Dialyzer about a year and a half into the project.

Dialyzer itself was worth it to me only insofar as type specs gave me a language to express the typing I was going for, rather than leaving it implicit. It also helped me understand what my colleagues were trying to do in some cases. The explicitness helped me feel better about what I was doing as well; in hindsight I don't think it sped up development, nor did it reduce bugs (though it likely reduced testing time...but that's probably a wash given the time to get the spec right, and update it as data structures evolved).

Can't speak to using another language on the BEAM, whose typing isn't optimistic like Dialyzer, but my experience with Dialyzer, at least, left me feeling subjectively better about the code, but objectively and in hindsight I don't feel it gave us measurable improvement. Just more confidence. Which may be enough of a gain; confidence in the system is what you want when you're optimizing for reliability, even if it's not really a gain on that front.
The iPads are generally paired with a mac mini - they don't run the zoom room, they are just the scheduler. (The iPads also emit a subsonic signal that allows other macs to autojoin the meeting.) Source: I run this setup for a startup.

And - well before this request from ZoomPrensence.app - we were weekly rebooting these mac minis via launch daemon. Would continue to do so no matter the specific meeting app - macOS updates often require a reboot.
Oh dear :( I hadn't seen that
Correct - ZoomPresence.app.
It's probably not very productive to guess at the purpose with so little to go on.

But if that's what we're doing, then my bet is on "overwhelming law enforcement and emergency response so a different crime can go undetected".
I think the existence of trolling is the prima fascia case for this. Unless you believe that trolling doesn’t exist.
But then you can’t figure out what your client is willing to pay and charge them that amount! /s
Dan's emails and milk-related content are also pretty interesting: https://milk.com/experiments/
> People appear to be expecting there will be "weaker" variant/strains/mutations of this virus as time goes on. I am not sure why this is the mainstream thought.

I remember the scientists telling us early on in the pandemic that mutations typically result in less lethal viruses.

Is this not the case?
It depends on the hardware and usage.

For older computers, virtual machines are too demanding.

As for escalation hacks: they happen also on virtual machines. Check virtualbox and vmware cve's.
> How about South Korea? It isn’t an island, and it’s doing pretty well.

Cases are at all-time highs, and have pretty much escalated out of control:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020...