skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I used Chromium as my main browser a couple of years ago it was still possible (by dragging the .user.js to the extensions tab, not directly from the web anymore) but the userscript would be automatically disabled each time I opened the browser. While that's not completely dead it's mostly useless, I don't know the current situation.
What a bunch of ideological cr*p. All you need to know about this is the author puts the word science in climate science in quotation marks. Or makes a "highly reasoned" point about redistribution: "Redistribution, by definition anti-merit,...". I presume fire/flood insurance is also anti-merit by this guy's standards.

Notwithstanding all that, I have issues with some college admission practices for example, but it has to be reasoned with facts and rational discussion, not with a political zeal.
I’ve not generally found that fresh college grads know the newest technology. If anything, many of them were taught impractical languages and all were taught impractical constraints imposed by the problem set plus one or two short project format of college courses.

If I picked a random 35, 40, or 50 year old practicing programmer, I’d bet that they know wildly more about practical, day-to-day programming than a 21 year-old whiz from a top 10 comp sci program.
Way to set us all back another 10 years before we can expect to actually get away with using anything other than MS Office for day to day interaction with everyone else in your own or any other company.

We WANT big companies to use LO, or anything else, simply so that it becomes acceptable and supported to do so, you freaking oafs.
Ask HN: What's has you experience been using Domain Driven Development / Design?
I'm currently studying DDD and find its ideas compelling, but I wonder how effective they turn out to be in practice.

How has it panned out for you and your team?

Do you know of any medium-to-large organizations that are using DDD effectively?
The control scheme is similar, but this is player vs player only.
Oh man, I played this a ton back maybe 15 years ago. I haven't played it in forever and a half, but it's a really solid game and a lot of fun!
If only there was a tool in binutils to convert dynamically linked programs into statically linked ones ...
Frontex is accused of doing pushbacks, meaning the large boats create waves that push the migrant boats back. In the linked Video Segment they had a German police offer testifying to that.

The concern with Frontex investing into planes and drones rather than boats is seen as a strategy to control the border without needing to help the migrants.

One other point that is mentioned is the „coast guard“ of Libya which Frontex allegedly cooperates with. That coast guard is accused of either not responding, or if they respond to torture and rape rescued people.

One final problem, that even if one were to have proof of those atrocities, it is really hard to sue Frontex for misconduct, because you have to sue them to what’s equivalent of the EUs Supreme Court.
>I don't condemn steroid use btw. I oppose widespread lying about it by the users and the media.

Yeah this is the thing that annoys me. Recently listening to Tim Ferriss interviewing an amazing female powerlifter. She deadlifts 4x body weight and other sorts of remarkable feats.

So the entire 2 hour show discussed her insane training regimen and diet and other forms of wellness. Hearing how much she squats in a week was daunting (“what am I doing with my own weak training then!?”)

Then I googled her (Stefi Cohen) and she has shoulders like cannonballs (female Dan Green) and ripped abs like a male bodybuilder. So very obviously steroids play an essential role in her training /recovery capacity.

I have no problem or quibble with that. Want to take that, fine. Probably the only way you’ll meet the records she has established.

What I dislike, though, is the interview where everything BUT drugs is discussed. Drugs enable the recovery that enables her insane workload. Especially when Ferriss purports to dig into “the secrets of high performers”. Well this is one vital secret.
I felt like this interview was deceptive in a way.

Like I said earlier, I’m not opposed to steroid use. I decided not to use them myself. But it would be refreshing to hear about the high performers among us who do. I’d like to know their thinking around the decision. I’m sure it valid and more refined than whatever I’d expect them to say.
“Presentable” and “attractive” are often different things. Most engineers I know put in enough effort to be presentable, but not attractive.
Good question! It's the location of the owner, that may also confound the outcome as well.
When unsubstantiated and without evidence, they aren't facts.
I attended a presentation by the creator of this game, it was around 2010. The most fun part was the business model. I don't remember the exact numbers, but he made a lot of money on a free to play game before "free to play" model got really popular. One notable thing I remember is that the paid version had higher resolution options and it was one of the highly sought after features.
I have a collection of non-utf8 and other problematic files to test such tools:

https://github.com/benibela/nasty-files

You probably cannot clone the repo on Windows. It works well on Linux. But in KDE you could not delete it after checkout
In what way is Hawala trustless?
>Strong people are harder to kill

Is that actually so? Looking at US homicide statistics, over 75% of cases involve firearms. Would a bodybuilder have better chances of surviving a bullet wound?
>>What else could it be?

At that level, it's generally known to be the mental preparation for the given day (along with a bit of luck, as you mentioned).

Indeed, everyone at that level has already been filtered and selected for similar top levels of skill, knowledge, conditioning, equipment, diet, coaches, etc., etc., etc. It comes down to the mental game both internally and between competitors on that particular day.

A classic book to understand some of this is The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey [0]

Source: I formerly competed at international levels for several years in alpine ski racing (mostly DH/Super-G), and studied neuroscience in college as a result of the many fascinating mental phenomena I found in training and competing.

One very interesting fact I came across in neuroscience is that perceptual thresholds for relevant senses, e.g., touch sensitivity for a musician, are about 10X finer than normal people (i.e., they can detect physical differences only 10% the size of that detectable by normal population), and that this is trainable. So yes, this is definitely on the skill/ training side, agreeing with the author.

OTOH, I know some top level musicians who quickly point out that the people with insane levels of desire, motivation, and hard work who will never get to the level to pass a professional audition. But I haven't further data to see what is the issue (does it come to talent, or some genetic shortcoming in their sensory-motor systems, or have they self-sabotaged, or what 20 other factors?)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance...
> > Meat exists but some people want to go vegetarian without sacrificing anything.

> I’m not vegetarian and it’s not about feeling superior.

Well, clearly you have some martyr complex issues around it.
Last time I learned about this game I think was when someone shared WebLiero. Which was a pretty fun distraction for me and my son for a few hours :)

https://www.webliero.com/
And Amazon should be thankful that they're terrible at interviewing. Else given just the normal churn of employees they'd have very quickly been unable to keep growing.
For the benefit of anyone not in the UK, there is a marvelous Christmas advert inspired by this event, which aired in 2014 (100 years later): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM
Ask HN: Leading indicators for Covid-19 spread
Hi,
I've built a small covid-19 model. Looking at the data for Germany, it is quite visible that the data seems to be offset by 9 days. E.g. a clear spike of new infections 9 days after new years eve.
In my mind the chain is as follows:
attitude change -> behaviour change (x days later) -> more new infections (x days later) -> officially reported new infections (9 days later)
I would love to find some (publicly available) data source that I can use to model (one of) these leading indicators. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful.
Thank you!
A free high school where I can pick and choose from a wide variety of subjects where I have support to help me along with learning? Shit, sign me up.
The traits associated with technical skills definitely bump the distribution more to the side of 'neckbeard'. So, yes, most programmers are normal (well groomed, exercise, developed social skills) but the number people who show no compelling evidence they possess a theory of mind is noticably higher and account for the tropes.
Flagged. This is not a personal gossip site.

At this point it's hearsay upon hearsay. The restaurant management should put a phone call into the Tesla office and ask for a statement.
That makes the system more efficient by allowing more transactions but doesn't lower the total energy expenditure.
There is also the established pattern of coronavirus infections. In the northern hemisphere infections are at their worst from mid December to mid January. Near the equator the established pattern is a kind of double hump in the summer that peaks and fades around September which is what people saw. It is quite possible that at a macro level these patterns were repeated and attempts by people to contain the virus were of limited utility.
As the thread shows, the intent of the original FAWB proposals was not to focus on scary-looking cosmetic features. I think my description in this thread is fair, you'd like to qualify it further, and that's fine, but I don't think we should pretend like we don't understand each other, or that there aren't sources that refute the idea that the original intention of assault weapons regulation was just stuff like barrel shrouds.
I don't think it ends at university. I have been in IT a while but am somewhat new to my stack, and had trouble two years ago when interviewing, a number of companies passed on me. I got hired at a decent salary but don't want that to happen again so I have been studying. I am more in control of my timeline, and have been studying, but I want to be in a better place if I want to look around in a year.

So for your choices of learning to improve quality of knowledge or doing what needs to be done to pass leetcode, my choice is to do a little of both. I am studying for the things they may give me on an interview (work samples to complete, 30 minute coding exercises, whiteboard class design etc.) But I am not doing it in a shallow leetcode way where I just want to know enough to pass the interview.

If I am building something akin to the complexity of a given work sample, I want to understand the architecture of what I am handing in, the language aspects of it, how the unit testing works and what to unit test and all of that. To have a deep understanding of it, or at least more than a surface leetcode understanding of it. If I am new to the topic I try to get some grasp of it, move on, and then sometimes I revisit the topic in the future to deepen my understanding of it.

So the immediate ends of a lot of what I do in my spare time is to prepare for the interviews I may have in a year. But one aspect of it are that I will spend a little time if needed to learn things which may not be asked in an interview, but which would let me do a better job at my current job or next job, or even if I want to write a program on my own. Another aspect of it is that I spend the time to try to get a decent enough understanding of it before moving on, not just enough that would pass over the leetcode bar but not into a slightly deeper understanding. So the main aim is passing an interview, but I will take the time out to learn things to improve my work, not just interviewing, and to deepen my knowledge of the subject as well.
Title is flamebait.

The article says

> Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence
"The law" was the result of intensive lobbying by groups like the NRA and represents a capitulation from the original position of gun reformers. I don't accept that we're bound by the definitions in that law when we're discussing potential new policy. In fact, rejecting that definition of "assault weapon" is the point of my comment.
You are blaming things on a class (or perceived class, young and old), when in reality the culprit is scale. At scale, there will always be lots of good people that know exactly what you need them to know.

The only part about all of this that will suck is if we don’t have enough companies to keep this a liquid as fuck market.

As for the original topic, again, at scale talent is not a large enough multiple to be noticeable. We are entering, or already entered industrial scale computing. We will absolutely be cogs in the machine and will look back in wonder how this small community once lauded the notion of a 10x developer.

Where does this hurt? The same place it hurts in love. That for a brief moment to think you were special to someone somewhere is just, ugh, rough.
Dog shows are a great example. Many breeds are actively being destroyed, and breeders going against the norm are being excluded from the community.
The number of uops for each instruction is well documented.

IIRC uops can take more than one solt in the uop cache if they need to encode large constants, so they are technically variable length.
Ransomware: Company paid millions to get data back, hackers came back again
Does this exist? If so, what is it? Genuinely curious.
For my purposes the extreme end of elite competition is less interesting. My intuition tells me that the distribution of all athletes is multimodal, and that whatever attributes contribute the most to ending up in the normally distributed pool of elite individuals are present in all of them, and so I would expect a lower variance as you've indicated.

I would like to allow for the possibility that mindset and internal mental models which are learnable rather than innate could account for the particular distribution an athlete belongs to.

For instance someone prepping for Olympic tryouts may be in either the right tail of a lower mode of the distribution, or the left tail of the higher mode of the distribution.

The 14-year old that smokes you may have developed a mental model or learning approach which places him in an entirely different class at the outset. Talent is a label you've placed on him retroactively, but what assurance do you really have that those differences are explained biologically/genetically rather than resulting different mental representations of the sport and training process?
Each company you select shows you how many today's-dollars you'd have today given the "same" initial investment. Given that, it seems to me it would make the most sense for the initial investments to be the same value, instead of the same number.

In this application, it would make more sense for each initial investment to have the same value instead of the same number, i.e. having an initial investment of however many dollars would be equivalent to $1000 2021-dollars.
This is just wrong.

Nujani is on gear, and what's more, he has an NDA which means he can't talk about it even if he wanted to.

I can't prove it, of course. But don't fool yourself, that's what's happening. Look at his jawline if you don't believe me, what diet is supposed to do that?
Yeah but a smaller, weaker body can find sufficient food more easily because it’s needs are far lower. Growing big and strong means a higher risk of starvation, means you have to take more risks (eg of birds eating you) to get food.
A threat model is just a cognitive tool whose primary value is in creating an alternative perspective on a design problem to broaden thinking and improve outcomes. Like any tool, there are people who carry the hammer too far and suddenly everything is a nail.

As soon as they start harping on about a "journey of understanding" and "multiple deliveries" your bubbling instinct of disgust is correct and you should run and hide.

I don't trust security people to do sane things. - Linus Torvalds (2017)
We should be able to agree here, at least, that commonly cited counts of Parkland-style mass shootings are overstated, and that the prevalence of tactical rifles in those kinds of mass shootings are not.
Actually you're right, recent designs use 64 byte because of things like this

https://www.mono-project.com/news/2016/09/12/arm64-icache/

Perhaps, either Apple is fooling the userspace software or is using 128b cachelines for their little cores too.
Gox or Mark didn't steal any money from you, you lost the money you had left in the casino. While it might be true the casino lost it, it was no longer yours the moment you transferred it out of your own wallet. I'm sorry for your loss.

"I can’t give you your money, it isn’t here, it’s in Frank’s house and Joe’s house".
Indeed! The Swedish metal band Sabaton recently released an 8 minute animated video of their 2014 song "No bullets fly". After the song, it includes a clip of Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown's first meeting, as well as a clip of Franz Stigler's grandson discovering the song in 2014, calling his mom and her message to the band!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslO-3GgenY
> Anyway, if we accept that intelligence is adaptive it should be clear any measurement of current skill is less interesting than the adaptive potential of the individual

It’s always been obvious to me that it’s both but adaptivity naturally fades with age. Someone who hasn’t practiced a skill until their 30s is less likely to obtain success at the highest levels. That’s why elite mathematicians are famously said to hit their peak by that time but those people have also generally been practicing math from the earliest age (you can see this on the physical side with limberness and dexterity). I suspect that adaptivity itself starts to fade with age (or at least specializes) because you stop doing it as much if you pursue mastery as mastery often can either mean deep study of 1 field (likely limited to no adaptivity) or related sub fields (some cross adaptivity of related concepts).

It’s also likely an exponential curve. So someone who’s been at a skill for a long time, even if they’re learning slowly, might be better anyway than someone who’s extremely quick learner but is starting from way further back (ie potentially a hire in the future once they’ve realized some potential). Interviews can give you only a sense of someone’s level now, but potential doesn’t have a measure right now (beyond a vague “I can have an intelligent conversation with this person about a problem neither of us have tackled yet”). Interviews also measure things other than practical skill.
Poppler is a library, not a reader.
Not how carnivores work, I'd say.
Flash loans open and close that 100M in a single block. It is instant execution on the mining nodes.

Nanoseconds of computational time.

If the trade isn't possible then the transaction fails and it doesn't go through at all. You pay the transaction fee.
Flutter continues to grow; Stream io just announced v1 of their Flutter SDK
The evolution of Covid is not random
cd ftp://<whatever address> and then copying files remotely to whatever local location is my personal favorite.

I just tried and it also works for sftp as well! Though it doesn't seem to read ~/.ssh/authorized_keys -so you have to enter your password each time.

But typing something like cd sftp://<server>/<directory> is a great way to access my unsupported (no guest additions) virtual machines from WSL

There's one snag with ctrl-o; it only works for Linux consoles and xterms. It doesn't appear to work with a BSD (or whatever) console -at least it always gives me errors.
Anecdote: I went there two months ago with a shovel, and couldn’t find any burning sites.
In the same vein, why should we be obsessing about mere 12 years of German history, and one guy (who isn't even a German but an Austrian!) instead of looking back at hundreds of years of European history and ignoring that unfortunate, but ultimately minor, incident? I mean, if we're about understanding, not scoring points.
Booth assassinated Lincoln in the theater while Lincoln was attending Booth's play and the fact everyone there knew he was an actor contributed directly to his escape from the scene. Just because you are uninterested in context does not make it irrelevant.
Thanks for the writeup! I really hope you didn't take my comment as criticism. I can definitely understand!
Lets not forget gentrification. In the bit of London near London bridge, there were 3 clubs, (a large, medium and small one), that have all gone due to gentrification.

Now there are no places doing proper music + DJ nights.

What is there now? There's the odd late night cocktail place thats moved in, but nowhere to go and dance + listen to loud music.

EDIT: The only hope I see for the future, is that lots of people are moving out of cities (700k out of London in this year alone). As buildings empty out, there may once again be landlords willing to rent out places to be music venues.

It depends on whether foreign money continues to buy up all the properties in London, landbanking at the expense of homes and culture.
Talent is real but software companies are useless at selecting for it. Perhaps they're not actually interested in talent. They don't want talented developers, they want compliant employees who will do exactly what their superior tells them to do no matter what the ethical implications are.

I'm a >10x developer in the sense that I've produced better, more reliable, more scalable systems on my own than a typical team of 10+ senior developers working at a large company in the same amount of time. But even that's trivializing it because it would be impossible for that team to match the quality of my work no matter how much time you gave them.

That said, I think most people could become a 10x or even 100x developer if they wanted and worked hard, but the problem is that there is no motivation for anyone to do it because companies don't want to hire them anyway. Most people only do things for money so they're not going to waste energy on trying to achieve mastery of the subject. If anything, it's more profitable to work slow and increase the system's complexity to give yourself more work. Making yourself just competent enough to convince your idiot boss to let you keep your job but not so competent that you ever run out of things to fix.

Nobody cares about who the best developers in the world are... On the other hand, everybody in the world is interested to know who is the best at kicking a ball inside a net, hitting a ball with a stick, who can jump the highest with the help of a really long stick, ...

The closest attempts at identifying coding talent are hackathons but they're a joke because 2 days is not enough time to judge someone's talent. Coding is more like a marathon; unless you're a really good developer yourself, it will take years to evaluate someone's skill. Unfortuantely, big companies have hardly any good developers.
It bothers me as well but let's face it - western media has blacklist them anyway and wouldn't even care to write about it now. During the Bush era they were heroes and Assange a Saint.
Those aren't third-party HTTP proxies, they're local HTTP proxies.

If you want to do it locally, then you're paying the CPU / RAM cost yourself, not to mention doubling a lot of the work (the page needs to be parsed / interpreted / JS executed by the proxy, and then again by your browser) -- so why not just do it in the browser?

If you want to do it third-party, you need to trust this third-party because they're terminating the TLS connection for you (not to mention being fundamentally incompatible with TLS 1.3)