skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The People" believe whatever information has been promoted the most. To claim that we should do nothing to stop malevolent organizations from radicalizing vulnerable citizens is reckless. To lay the blame on individuals to fight this is victim-blaming. We need to battle this industrialized con artistry with whatever power we have - including police, courts, and laws.

This is exactly what conservatives said in response to people promoting liberal ideas. Violent left-wing events in the 1970s (e.g. courthouse shootings) could easily have been used as a pretext for massive speech suppression. 9/11 and cries about the radicalization of Muslims through jihadist materials online could have been used the same way. Luckily none of that happened.
> Unless you have a mind-reading device, there is no way to be sure what somebody believes.

In general, we are comfortable doing this in at least some contexts. The legal system in almost every case attempts to ascertain intention to satisfy the mens rea of a criminal act. They don't have mind reading devices, but they do have expert witnesses such as psychologists and doctors, and testimony.
Including this snippet of a time long past:

<html>
<body>
<script language="PerlScript">
$window->document->write("Hello world!");
</script>
</body>
</html>

It was actually possible to use Perl as a client-side scripting language in IE, through ActiveX. I'm imagining a different future where this won over JavaScript.
I get what you're saying, but microcomputers of that era felt more like appliances. It was like switching on a radio. You plugged it in, switched it on, and there it was the prompt greeting you, ready for typing your program.

And -- get this -- there was no shutdown procedure either. You just switched it off!

For javascript in the browser you still have a complex stack, including a pretty complex operating system, which must have been booted up first.
I agree with this. There are so many other stores that do loss prevention in a way that is effective but very muted if you aren't a thief. The way Fry's did it almost felt like disdain towards their customers.
I'd happily pay less for an unpopulated board and do it my self, but I don't have the eyesight or steady hand for SMD soldering - a lot of these new 'retro' hardware releases are designed in such a way that a hobbyist has no hope building themselves, and nor can they afford the pre-builts. :(

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Off-topic: Another couple of downvotes for simply expressing an opinion... HN's echo-chamber tendencies are in full-force these days (again... my opinion).
This looks great! I hate it when I have to commit and push a new change for a simple bug.
That being said, how does this differ from something like act [1] (besides the fact this is for Gitlab)?

[1] https://github.com/nektos/act
Wonder if Twitter will block this as misinformation if it’s not blessed by the WHO or CDC. Remember all those other small studies that looked at Vit-D and other drugs that showed they might help but got labeled or banned by Twitter as not official possibly misinformation?
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Hey Astro, I’ve often looked and thought about the jump the other way from aero to medical, thinking the same thing about the dev and quality processes.

What pops into my head is to start reaching out to SpaceX. Their job posts indicate they will hire smart people and get them to work. The formal high design assurance type work from your medical experience will be a plus for sure. Step one just start reaching out.

Step two would be working on the background to explain why the medical SW experience is transferable. Know the DO-178C, DAL, ARP4754 buzzwords and flows, and I’d say even how the equivalent medical ones you are familiar with map over. This could even be a series of blog posts for you. It’ll show your communication abilities, your experience in the med side of things and then that you are working on the jump to aero.

It’ll form a good base for your knowledge, be a talking point when trying to make contacts and then in any interview. A banner at the top of the blog “I’m making the jump to aerospace, get in touch to hire me!”

But in the end at any established company, all the processes will be in place. If you join a 10 person startup then that would be tougher but that can come after a couple years at SpaceX. But I don’t have to tell you this part with your medical industry experience.

Good luck, feel free to reach out.
Thanks for your comment! Just released v2 with iptables tproxy support. With tproxy, you have all income and outgoing UDP traffic proxied, which should support your use case now.
It is interesting to see that the biggest distance, in terms of orders of magnitude, is between Sol system and nearest stars.
I pay for Google Workspace as my mail provider on our domain (I know I should look at Fastmail etc, but family is used to Google interface). How much scanning or data collecting would we be subject to?
I remember back in June 2020 when Dr. Richard Bartlett called this drug a silver bullet. I was hopeful it would be considered for widespread use. When the media slapped labels on the articles and inserted other doctor's comments about lacking scientific data, I was dismayed.

See how coverage of the same drug for a novel treatment was different pre covid:

https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/11/13/new-drug-delivery-relie...

Post covid:

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/07/14/is-inhaled-steroi...
Back when I worked for the state (of North Carolina), I did a lot of public data reporting for state-run education programs (e.g., community colleges, public universities). Our system had access to enrollment and graduation data from those programs, as well as wage data on everybody working in North Carolina in a job covered by the state's unemployment insurance program (which was most jobs). We could therefore report on things like how many people were studying what subjects at what institutions, what the X-year graduation rates were, how much money people were making Y-years after graduation, what industries they were employed in, etc. It was an extremely cool data set.

Of course, the major concern in publishing that data was precisely this - people's income is super sensitive. If there was some program at some university that only graduated one student in a particular year, you couldn't report the average wage outcomes for that program, because you'd essentially be putting that student's salary online for everybody to see. Instead of adding randomness to the data, as described here, we'd simply hide any information that was based on 3 or less individuals, or which could be entered into a mathematical formula to enable you to DERIVE information on 3 or less individuals.

For example, suppose you reported the mean salary of everybody who graduated with an art degree from community colleges in 2010, then reported the mean salary for everybody who graduated with an art degree from each individual community college in 2010. Suppose further that one of those individual community colleges only had a single art degree graduate and you hid the data. Under those conditions, somebody could still do some simple algebra to calculate the hidden value. So you'd have to hide the value from a second community college to prevent somebody from working out the unknown value at the first.

As you reported more and more data across a higher and higher number of dimensions, the problem grew more and more complex. It actually ended up being really cool to reason about, and we developed both a greedy heuristic and a binary-integer-programming approach to solving to near or true optimality, respectively.
so as long as clouds are above snow/ice they have a net warming effect and if they are above open ocean they have a net cooling effect?
Not really. First of all, most Uber drivers don't have an alternative option. At least not to be able to work in their job, e.g. as taxi drivers.

This is a huge difference, since developers are in huge demand. Then there are some of us, who actually like working with clients. So instead of sitting in a large (or sometimes small) company and doing what you are being told to do, you can discuss it with a client, sometimes convince them to take another route, etc. So for some of us the point is that it's a more versatile role. (And I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with wanting to work in a larger company or not wanting to talk to clients directly. It's just different.)
It pretty much is the case.

Part of it is that predictability is a desirable feature in these systems, but also that problems like the one described in the article you don't really need things like ML. The majority of control problems like this are surprisingly straightforward. They might be complex, in the sense of having a lot of variables, but the physics involved is well understood and can be modelled using traditional techniques.

The progress of self-driving cars is a good example of this. I can remember seeing expeimental self driving cars many years ago, but always going round mostly empty test tracks. Driving a car isn't that difficult for a computer system, what's hard is driving in highly complex urban environments with many other cars around that you need to predict.

Planes, in contrast, have a rather simple environment. The number of objects they have to avoid is massively lower, and their freedom of movement is higher, with established rules for how to behave, there are no traffic signs to interpret. This means that all you are really doing is object detection with radar, and collision avoidance.

In addition, modern combat planes are effectively flown by a computer all the time anyway, with the pilot providing the instructions. A number of fighter planes, especially the most modern, are essentially unflyable without computers due to their aerodynamics. Most are inherently unstable around at least one axis, which makes them more manouverable, but means they will not fly stably in the way a 747 will.
Plutonium in Space: What are the odds of a Catastrophe?
I'm so grateful there are people with the courage to stand up and say unpopular things. Weinstein is a human whose outspokenness I've been particularly grateful for.
Tether is scam and even use of Bitcoin looks unethical when you know that:

>> the power consumption of bitcoin is 160% times the energy use of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all combined
I'm fairly certain you have far greater problems than hard butter.

Like that veritable mountain of sulfur that you guys have no clue with what to do...

https://www.southernfriedscience.com/alberta-canada-is-the-p...
IDK, I’ve never seen HR add value to a company. They’re always a cost center and should be minimized as much as possible in order to hire more engineers.
Good thing they wrote −273 °C and not "0 °K".
Nice! I made a similar tool a while back:

https://gitlab.com/rhn/cirunn

It's a pair of really simple Python scripts: cirunn.py for executing locally, an ciorder.py to execute stuff via ssh on another host (useful for projects that are too big for the laptop).

The main advantage is that podman does not need root access at all, making it both easier to use and more secure.

Also, no installation.

The difficulty I found here is deciding what the user actually means to run: is it more like `make test`, where the current state of the working directory is tested, or more like the CI pipeline, where only committed changes are tested?

For the sake of practicality, the local script tests uncommitted changes, and the remote one checks the last commit.
Correct Reddit link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin
> When you say "if their site is not set up in just the right way to fit weweb", do you mean that it feels like the editor won't allow you to build custom layouts that fit with any design?

I find it a little hard to put this succinctly, but basically as a dev I get a little nervous seeing all the features in the UI. In my experience any complex editor like that has to be designed around a bunch of assumptions about what kind of site you’re editing, and almost every slightly complex real world site will have aspects that break those assumptions. It could something subtle, like confusion around terminology (imagine being a non-technical editor for a book binding website, and seeing terminology about “bindings”), or features that look like they should do something but for whatever reason don’t have any effect on the components in use. The more complex the editor is, the more likely that certain things will cause confusion when they meet the real world.
> please consider buying something with Linux officially supported. Between Dell, Lenovo, and smaller scale setups like System76, there are plenty of options.

My biggest complaint about them is heat and performance: my MBP seems to be almost always ready to take off. Apple really did hit the sweet spot with the M1 and I don't see x86 laptops catching up anytime soon. If they release 32+GB machines, I'll be seriously tempted to get my Macs refreshed even though I know they are essentially discardable machines now.

Also, Apple is the only manufacturer I can count on offering US keyboards without any hassle. Lenovo does that with Thinkpads and with Dell you need to work to find the models that are available with that option.
Oh, absolutely. I wouldn't want to work like that either. Just saying I see it as a bad decision, not ethically or morally wrong.

As opposed to, say, controling employees bathroom breaks as is routine in retail and industrial jobs in some places. Or prohibiting/preventing unionisation.
A U.S. Teachers’ Pensions Helped Fund War over Oil in Iraq
I don't think it's a dystopian nightmare. I just think about how you guys got all those counter productive policies.

Guaranteed student loans in combination with private college simply doesn't work.

The way you zone your cities is causing widespread social problems.

Arresting people for doing drugs doesn't rehabilitate them.

It's not a dystopia, it's just lots of short sighted policies that cause long term failures.
Yes, in fact many static code analyzers and metrics will flag a piece of code as too complex if it has too many nested ifs.

But it does sound a lot less glamorous, doesn't it?
The problem is not necessarily slow init, but some pipelines are just long and complex.

If you have a problem in your deployment script, for example, you might need to wait a long time to test and fix it.
How do I find this info? Smartctl was not found.
Good points. I think we are slowly becoming commodified or at least there will be greater stratification between different types of developer with much higher salaries on one and and much lower on the other.
What is your sales / cold outreach stack?
Hey there!

I'm sharing the sales stack we are using.

Hope you will enjoy it ;) Comment with your suggestions, we are always willing to improve it!

Email/lead generation: Snov.io / Hunter.io / Lusha.co

Mail checking : DropContact.io / ZeroBounce.net

Email warm-up (one of the best around to boost delverability!): Warmbox.ai

Cold email & Linkedin message: Outreach.com / Reply.io

Booking meeting: Calendly.com

Cross-channel automation: LaGrowthMachine.com

Cold calling: Ring.io / Aircall.io

CRM: Pipedrive.com

Glue to connect everything : Zapier.com

Would love to see what you guys are using!
Agree with this 100% people never seem to realise HR is there to protect the company ONLY. Literally they are a compliance function to stop company getting sued.
China still needs the US and the world still needs China. But not a powerful China that rivals the US and has an extremely authoritarian ideology and is willing to commit genocide of people that have been there for thousands of years.
Yes packaging for different distributions can reveal unknown problems or enhancement possibilities in the project, however I would be surprised if the developers in general were interested at all in supporting that activity. Maybe Clojure is, I don't know.

Packaging is beneficial mainly to users, I expect developers to choose single platform and support that, if there is more, great. But most developers aren't interested in a massive distraction that accomodating 520+ distributions is.
> Eventually, with the help of traders, the regional government of Kurdistan was shipping almost 600,000 barrels a day at the peak. Yet the Kurds were still short of money, so they again turned to the commodity traders. Would they lend the government some money in exchange for future oil shipments? Vitol, Trafigura, and Glencore—the world’s three top oil traders—together with the Russian oil company Rosneft and another, smaller trader, advanced the Kurdistan Regional Government as much as $3.5 billon.

Some traders enlisted the help of their banks to provide the money, but Glencore took the most unusual route: The trading house decided Kurdistan was too risky for its own money, so it turned to international investors for $500 million in cash, selling them an oil-backed bond that paid a high rate of interest. That note, in turn, would fund Glencore’s advances to the Kurds. Oilflow SPV 1 DAC was born. The investor presentation for the notes laid out their numerous risks, including civil wars and border disputes. Glencore declined to comment.
Yes and no. There are several differences, the biggest one in my opinion is that cproxy proxies all TCP and UDP connections without requiring the underlying program supporting any proxy, while if you want to use HTTP_PROXY on a program, the program has to explicitly support HTTP_PROXY in its source code. Overall they are all methods to proxy some traffic though.
exec is extremely limited and it's not being actively maintained.
I've definitely heard stories from old pilots of blacking out and coming too while out of control, and then having to wrestle control back while coming round. I wouldn't be at all surprised if many more never recovered in time.

I remember a WWI era flight-sim called Red Baron that included this in it's mechanics. If you tried to pull a turn too fast you'd start to black out and lose control.
Wow, where was this? What library was that?

I was 12 at the time and had to take turns on my friend's BBC Micro (his parents' really). Of course, he was at the computer for 75% of the time, because "I know how to operate it".
While this is true, you could say the same for all the ostensible Christian majority countries that both refuse to acknowledge the Armenian genocide that was inflicted by the Turks and the current genocide in Yemen targeting both Shia Muslims and Christians in the region.

Point is pundits like Sam Harris are full of shit - Religion is only ever evoked when the ruling party's self interest and the regional interpretation of scripture align. Such pundits also ignore the inconvenient fact that many Muslim majority countries often have very old Christian communities yet the same is not true of Christian majority countries. I wonder why?
It's not a question of trust, it's a question of time tracking for hourly employees.

I agree that if you are a salaried employee this type of tracking software makes no sense.
Tomorrow and Every Thursday: The Legal Tech Groucho Club
effective co-operation is hard to do when your job is at stake in a pyramidal structure. There is no co-operation when you cant argue with your boss.
Some in France, Germany, UK, Avoid AstraZeneca Jab for Pfizer
In Germany, they imprison holocaust deniers. Its time we start imprisoning climate change deniers.
My parents lived in the countryside in the middle of the "dark triangle". They went without power for about 30 days in the middle of winter. They lived in the basement around the wood stove. Dad was an obstetrician, and Mom was his secretary. They kept the home office open and he examined his patients using a flashlight, then candlelight when the batteries ran out.
> Apple switched from torx to pentalobe screws because torx wasn't proprietary enough.

That was a simple and cheap change with clear benefits for Apple in terms of discouraging modifications to devices they support so the cost versus benefits actually makes sense for Apple there.

Whereas to suggest they designed a whole property storage controller interface just for the purpose of discouraging user servicing doesn't make sense at all. If that was the goal why not just use off-the-shelf NVMe modified to have some kind of secret power-on key or something?
No, I don't remember that. I do remember Twitter banning people making wild claims on the basis of studies that didn't support those claims, of course.
To your point of reducing waste, Pilot cartridges are refillable - you just need to tweeze out the little plastic biscuit, and later push it back into the refilled cartridge with the back of a chopstick or something.

I refill from Iroshizuku bottles, having found inks designed for Western pens to tend to flow poorly in Pilot F and EF nibs - a shame; I really like Herbin inks. For the actual filling, I use an adjustable automatic pipetter that I got for $30 off Amazon, before I quit doing business with them, and which can anyway be found more cheaply on eBay; the cartridges take about a milliliter, so get one whose range includes that volume. (I fill mine to 950ul, but it's not super critical.) If you haven't used a pipetter before, read the instructions carefully and practice with water first, since misuse can potentially damage the tool. But you'll get the hang of it pretty quick, and it's a lot faster and neater than syringes and dispensing needles. The tips are meant to be disposable, and it's good to have a few spares on hand in case of inadvertent bumps damaging the very fine dispensing orifice, but you can also just flush well with water after use and keep using the same tip for a long time.

Another problem is holding cartridges for refilling. I made a six-gang rack a couple years ago, but before that had reasonable results with a clothespin at the bottom of the cartridge and a bit of masking tape to keep the clothespin in place on my desk - slow, but workable.

I don't even know the last time I had to throw out a cartridge. They can crack if you have the bad habit of squeezing to push ink from a newly installed cartridge into a dry feed, so don't do that; otherwise, I've found them to hold up really well.
we actually "privately launched" 18 months ago and we knew some people in these companies who had the problem we are trying to solve - so they were willing to try us out.
They gave us tons of feedback, we improved the product thanks to that and we now felt like it was a good time to launch publicly and get more feedback from you folks :)
Even worse, many large companies now monitor employee LinkedIn activity as a measure of "market eminence" and "thought leadership" for performance reviews and promotions. Like everything else, it gets distilled down to a single metric like activity count. Which is why you see so many people sharing the same articles with a comment like "Really good perspective Joe, could not agree more". Do that a few times per week and you are demonstrating serious thought leadership to your management, as opposed to doing something like creating and publishing original content.
Looking at the proposed permission UI, I would - as a programmer and heavy web user - have no real clue what to click/what the implications were. If it were Google - do I know and trust them? Well, sort of. I know them; I trust them in the same sense I don't trust a scammer.

Also: 30 day timeout? I'm getting pretty fed up of re-logging into websites already over the last couple of years. Add on re-allowing various permissions for access to various things (sometimes every single time), trying to figure out why websites are broken (ad-blocker vs browser blocker vs not cross-browser tested vs temporary problem vs just totally broken) and it's rather a big productivity drain.
Dividing game devs into archetypes is such a game dev thing to do; I love it
For IT dev work, how on earth are people in UK/US/Europe/OZ/NZ going to compete with low-cost devs based in India and Africa ?

I see this problem in quote offers on Fiverr, and I have no idea how people in the 'western world' can compete.