skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology near Jeddah (new world-class university with the best brains money can buy, except it's not)

I don't often get the chance to tell this, but I was - through a series of strange circumstances - briefly involved with the initial set-up of that university and I got so many war stories out of it.

This included:

* The contractors built the on-campus housing without drainage (...although money was allocated for drains, it somehow went "missing"). There was a rainstorm right before campus opening and most of the housing was destroyed.

* During the same rainstorm very expensive IBM supercomputer was partially destroyed. It transpired contractors had drilled through the damp-proof coursing above whilst fixing a light.

* A number graduate students were arrested in the first few months for fraternising outside of campus (inside the campus most morality laws didn't apply, but once you left you were on your own)

* One of the chemistry labs did a roaring trade in sid (the local arabic for hooch) amongst the faculty and staff

* Getting absolutely anything done relied on "wasta", which kind of translates as "clout", but encompasses a bunch of things including nepotism, who you know, and your skin color (Saudi, like much of the Middle East, suffers from significant racism. Faculty and staff who looked Indian or Pakistani had a very rough time of it).
And most of Nymphomaniac is very very boring
European Banking Authority Hit by Microsoft Exchange Hack
Not OP, but I absolutely prefer R, the Scheme inspiration is obvious and allows for flexibility completely impossible in Python (here's to PEP 638, but there's a ton of hostility to it from what I can tell).

I also really really really (really) like Julia, but don't quite think it's there yet. I'm optimistic though, these things take time.
When posters assume competence within a domain that they do not have and make predictions with absolute confidence that they have no evidence for, it damages the greatest quality of this board, which is open intellectual discussion. When bullshit get called out in a snarky tone its in the defence of that quality.
You might be coloring that one with your own perspective. "Failed to realize" and "Didn't see" both parse with the same emotional connotation for me personally.
This is for people that don't want to do that.
Shame I can't get a 30 year mortgage at 1.28%
I switched at 30, and already it felt like I would never catch up to my same-age peers, who alrady had close to 10 years of experience under their belt. In some respects, that has been true, especially with regard to pure technical abilities. But from my previous career, I brought with me another set of skills, and also a decent amount of experience that wasn't directly relevant but that helped me see the bigger picture in many cases. That has proven to be very valuable, and I'm glad others have recognized its value. Now, at 40, I'm leading a team and making strong contributions to my company.

So in terms of practical tips, I would say to look at the ways your previous experience may bring something extra to the table. Things like management experience, communication skills, mentorship/teaching experience, sales experience, etc. are often transferrable across domains.
This explains why zoom and powerpoint presentations numb your grey matter.

A lot of zoom calls don't show hand gestures. PowerPoint is always turning your attention away from the speaker.
Icelandic communal hot springs. Aren't those nude too?
Amazing. I can see this project completely destroy substance painter in a couple of years.
> Developed countries can cut themselves off from that labour supply if they like

The UK has done, it is known as Brexit.
Rush to Bitcoin? Not so fast, say keepers of corporate coffers
I assume if you're thinking about it you're interested or doing it already. Best to tell recruiters that you've been doing it for X years for whatever reason (hobby, side business etc) AND you have all this other experience you can bring to the table.

Would be useful if you could list what you've been doing for the previous 24 years.
McAfee to sell enterprise business for $4B
> They were imagination amplifiers.

That's a phrase that's always intrigued me. I think Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson said something similar and Steve Jobs is famous for saying computers are bicycles for the mind.

I've always wondered what exactly these people were thinking of when they said that. Maybe I'm just spoiled from having computers within reach for the past 40 years, but I wonder if the phrase still means anything. Do we all have mind bicycles now and so it's just the default state?
How to implement DMARC/DKIM/SPF to stop email spoofing/phishing
European here. Yes.
> being slow to remove it

They just didn't. There's a difference between being slow and just not doing it at all.
Do you see Rust coming up a lot in your field or is it mostly a personal favorite right now ?
Yes. Kids are taught to be ashamed of their bodies by their parents and society. And then teenagers are taught to be ashamed of sex. Some societies inculcate even more shame than others.
> Also FUCK EA for destroying SimCity

Amen bro
Yggdrasil uses curve25519.
I get the first 3, they are surprisingly powerful for data. But why VB.NET? Its many times alower than VBA.
'as per Newton, Leibniz et al...' isn't good enough?

Seriously though: if it is indeed true that you need to justify it this way, that is insane: this is just basic calculus. Do you have to justify every single statistics calculation also? Do you have to say 'as per Whoever et al' every time you calculate the standard deviation of something? What referee would object to 'estimating the area using the trapezoidal rules gives us...'? (note that this paper was purely about the CALCULATION of the area, not justifying whether or not the area is a useful thing to know)
Cuckdowncels, you can eat my dick if you are hungry.
This is a good point! I like your way of approaching this space :) Though, what you are describing is very different from what GP was claiming, which is using Julia for production.
"both"?

I mentioned 3 things :P
Yeap. I've seen this. People who pee or poo wherever they're at.
Ask HN: Would You Pay for a “User Content Report System”?
Would you pay for a system that allows your users to report user-generated content from other users?

A service like this might be useful for people who run communities to keep unwanted content away.

1. How much would you be willing to pay monthly?
2. What is the top feature you want out of this?
I'm pretty sure interest isn't prohibited in Christianity (not protestant Christianity anyway.)
The thing with the resource sharing is that it's peanuts compared to what youtubers earn off of other sources of income; sponsorship and product placement deals (which I'm sure is a thorn in Youtube's eye, unless they get a slice of that cake), Patreon is a really big one, and merchandise sales. I'm sure that Youtube ad revenue is in 4th place with regards to income for youtubes, especially since the 'adpocalypse' wherein advertisers pulled out of youtube and stronghanded them into a strict demonetization practice.

Anyway that said, there's enough competition for youtube to ensure that these channels don't have to die; it's just discoverability that is the issue. Youtube does not have exclusive rights to any video uploaded (although I'm sure they have negotiated exclusivity contracts with some), so anyone is free to mirror their uploads elsewhere, just in case. I'm sure there's software out there that makes cross-posting videos easy.
I've seen a lot of people say not to design code to be testable. That instead tests should work around whatever shape the code should be in "naturally". Writing this out this seems stupid, it's been pretty influencial on how I code (for the past year or so, I'm a complete beginner).
What’s GSG?
TLA+ is a nice tool to help with thinking. It is surprisingly approachable for a formal system, so don't hesitate to try it.
Is the based on pre-emption or based on an event loop(or co-operative scheduling)?
One of the biggest selling points of Erlang is pre-emption
Another bizarre example of reinvention, but unmitigated by ignorance:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

For comment:
https://eagereyes.org/series/peer-review/1-quilt-plots

First author is now an A/Prof at one of Australia's top Universities.
Hmmm, I don't know what's different in your case. For me it switches very seamlessly if I walk out of wifi range. No dropped frames. I haven't tried manually switching off the wifi though.
We should say "food prices are soaring faster than the average price of the consumer price index basket."
My biggest issue is the lack of coherence in the ecosystem, from using macros in whatever cases, to the inability to do otherwise trivial stuff in python, or the huge bottleneck of unpacking (star operator in python). I tried to use it for a class and there was just too much friction between the expected behavior and the observed behavior that I gave up.

My issue with python is speed, but I will probably end up implementing what I want/need in rust and call that from python.
Did no negotiation also apply to senior leadership compensation? I'm skeptical about those policies, since they never seem to apply to the people on top.
> April Curley was a diversity recruiter at Google.

What is a "diversity recruiter"? Does Google have segregation among recruiters??!?
Some people aren’t gonna be interested in sex at work. I would expect many women and non-binary people gonna pass. This means they’re unfairly compensated. While you can argue employer-provided or subsidized childcare is unfair too because people without children don’t benefit, I think there’s a consensus that productivity hit is too expensive for the company.

Other people have families, for them it’s even harder to solve in a good way. You can’t just pay them more money, they might find themselves in a position to choose between job and marriage, that’s not a good position to be.

Sex at work might be a great perk for single male employees, but I think issues caused for the rest of the people are worse, gonna affect bottom line in a negative way. Hiring is the worst of them, IMO.
There are exceptions but it is hard to think of many. Nintendo, for example, is 120 years old.
I think the industry should re-evaluate whether unit testing ought to still be the dominant testing paradigm. With Docker and things like WireMock I can fake/mock anything downstream of me in a fast, isolated and deterministic way. Both locally and in CI.

There is so much accidental complexity cruft and ceremony involved with the writing of unit tests and making things unit testable. In a lot of cases, the "coverage" is an illusion and the tests add more friction than there really ought to be.
There is also the issue of pay and a sense of having enough. Many tech workers are very highly paid. At some point, you have enough money so you don't really have to work. I myself reached "my number" last year and retired. My guess is that there must be many more people like me who will be retiring early in the future.
Are they saying that food prices are driving the inflation vs the other factors? Housing is going up fast too isn't it?
I don't understand Greece's actions in this matter. Why is Greece so keen on poking Turkey rather than working together? There is no winners in this lose-lose scenario.

This is like trying to go Manhattan from NJ without entering NY. I mean... it's impossible.

(Greek nationals doesn't seem to like this comment)
People are not robots. Obviously there will be some selfless individuals. But the discussion was on general terms and politicians as a class.

As for blaming voters, that is entirely useless and simplistic.
Food price rises are not inflation. Inflation is an increase in the general price level, and specifically it's not an increase in the prices of a selected set of goods.
This article is about food prices in developing nations like Indonesia. It’s not about food costs in countries like the United States.

The article mentions that US food prices are inflating at a much more pedestrian 3%:

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.
I understand that stance, but when humans are the decision makers and have all kinds of other pressures (cost, schedule, etc.) it’s often not enough that people “may” die. Especially if we’re talking about risky endeavors like human-rated space travel, “may” is only one level across the gradient, and that level could be considered an acceptable risk by some. You will never drive risk down to zero, so “people may die” will almost always be true. If that’s your threshold, you will never launch.

The real difficulty is accurately gauging risk, especially when there isn’t substantial data.
EE noob question: Could it be dangerous if a cable were damaged in the (salty) sea?
not really, I will just soak in all the comments on topics I find interesting and by repeatedly clicking comment threads to topics I find interesting, I kind of do that automatically, I guess. The HN people tend to repeat the same sentiment over time for each new link on a certain topic, so much even, that it is easy to assume what the top 5 comments will be, haha. however, sentiment can change over time. and sometimes a comment is so poignant or interesting that it will just stick in my brain immediately.
It indicates a broken system with bad incentives. Integration is integration regardless the domain of application.
Which prices are increasing slower than inflation to counteract this?

EDIT: It's energy. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
The Context Driven Testing community said it [1]

#1) The value of any practice depends on its context.

#2) There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices.

[1] https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-context-driven-t...
It seemed a big jump by the GP to conflate free love with a lack of consent. And what "boiled over?" There is NC/CNC but ultimately that starts from trust and consent.
I agree. I may be being pedantic, but I think food prices are (or should be) the first and most important component of what we measure inflation with.

It's much clearer to say "the rest of the basket hasn't risen above normal yet, but I am concerned the headline I quoted will mislead people who don't understand inflation.
This article and the associated study are about food costs in developing nations like Indonesia.

The article mentions that inflation in the United States is much more pedestrian:

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.

Buying and storing food is an inherently inefficient process relative to buying the same food as needed. You would end up spending more to build and maintain food reserves than you would save against inflation. Far more.

The article doesn’t suggest that we’re at risk of running out of food.
Scarcity mindset, fear, adds undue pressure onto natural mechanisms - adding the whole pressure of the Disney Princess story to find your "one true love;" which eventually you do but that won't be until you've figured out yourself, the more you've figured out yourself, the better you'll match with someone and grow old together.
Yes, similar in the US. First all flour was sold out, then as it became available again it was bulk bins first, and then brands that sold in 1 and 5 pound bags last.

Interestingly (well kinda) the similar yeast shortage is still not back to normal. The shortage was partly related to packaging and the yeast at my grocer is still in the post COVID foil packaging and not in the packages it was before. (Luckily I had yeast in the freezer)
You seem to be making a political point about the Netherlands which is completely separate from the fact which I presented, and which you incorrectly contradicted.
I had a similar situation happen to me on this very site. I was expressing my concerns about the master/slave terminology and got totally ganged up on, so much so that I abandoned my account that incident occurred on.
I did say it was a European art house film :-) I'm pretty sure I never got all the way through the first one.
Why the Stock Market Crash Was One of the Best Things That Happened to Me
This has a Wikipedia entry already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAsia_Interconnector
> For instance there's a trend for medical students to believe less in evolution than other biology students

I don't find that particularly surprising, actually! I would assume that most subfields of biology relies more on deep understanding of evolution than medicine does. Like, if you're a botanist or entomologist or whatever, you need to have a very understanding of speciation and evolutionary pressure and whatnot, more so than a doctor would (I would think, anyway).

Now, if medical students believed less in evolution than the general public, THAT would be shocking. But I doubt that is the case.
The use of automation to launch very sophisticated attacks may mark a new, frightening era in cybersecurity, one that could overwhelm the limited resources of defenders, several experts said.

That's the part I was thinking about before I read that, and that is indeed to me the scariest part. There's nothing new about automation. But the evolution from script kiddie to something like this and the increasing speed is worrisome.
Rape and racism don't go away because of a social movement.
Flutter supports server side dev also.
There is no significant inflation measure that does not include food.

I agree they're not the entirety of the basket, but they are a core component.

There is no "general price level".
The readme doesn't show any example visualizations...
I’m not sure how people post publicly to a worldwide forum expecting everyone to know the meaning of acronyms. Thank you for posting these.
In the ML, DL world or in the physical simulators, people just compose a task and throw it to a CPU/GPU/TPU or a cluster of these and let it run for a long time. I don't see how Julia will be different for this kind of tasks. I understand that in Julia you solve the 2-language problem and all the goodies that multiple dispatch brings but the Python ecosystem progressed a lot in the past 2 years, now you have Numba JIT, Jax JIT, PyTorch JIT, XLA JIT and many other proprietary JITs that are not open-sourced. Since JAX (as an example) is mostly numpy and Python, you can leverage your existing knowledge instead of having to learn a fundamentally new paradigm. I would say that Python has many "specialised" JIT engines and it seems to work great for the community. Don't get me wrong, Julia is interesting, I can't deny that but I expect a huge adoption period for it. It can find its niche as C++ did for extremely high performance computing or Scala for Big Data (though Java is starting to replace many use cases). If you ask me now, I would say that the world converges around Java, C++ and Python when it comes to data, the old trio and it will remain this way for at least another decade.
I've given up on commercial games after online DRM. I'll play the game when the source is on github.
TLA has some amazing capabilities, no doubt about it. A few years ago I had to try to fix some security issues in the most complicated code I'd ever worked with [1]. Some of the "attacks" involved race conditions across three different processors: it was incredibly difficult to keep everything in my head.

So I entered the key parts of the algorithm in to TLA+. It found all of the races that I'd found in the original algorithm; and then didn't find any issues in my fixed algorithm. That gave me at least some confidence that I'd gotten things mostly right.

That said, it's really quite a wonky tool in a number of ways. The almost-C dialect which doesn't have local variables is quite a footgun. And it's quite tightly bound to their particular UI tool, which makes keeping the models in git possible but somewhat quirky.

What I'd honestly like more is to be able to make some files which could be compiled either in the real software project, or as part of a formal verification testing step. That way you could verify the properties as part of your CI loop (or perhaps part of more extended testing done elsewhere, if that's too expensive), and also have more confidence that the implementation matched your model.

[1] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html
Even if you were to believe that Northern Cyprus was an independent country, or part of Turkey, this cable passes through Israeli, Cypriot and Greek waters, to the south of the island
Things would have been better had Turkey tried to actually cooperate for once, instead of repeatedly provoking and going as far as invading Greece's and Cyprus' EEZs.
because:

- the US prints infinite dollar

- the US impose trade restrictions that kill businesses

- the US send the lawyers when you try to compete with them
Whys is this considered poking?
I think the interpretation of this is highly linked to political interpretation.
I was thinking transmutation.
The cables are well-protected, but if they are damaged - same as with HV overhead lines - there is protection circuitry on both sides that trips and shuts off the power. So it will limit the damage to the rest of the grid, but you probably wouldn't want to be scuba-diving next to the cable when that happens.
> Why spend the executive energy really nurturing something new to life over multiple years when you can just turn the screws on your dominant internet advertisement winch a few more degrees to make the quarter?

Because, in theory, antitrust should prevent Google from obtaining market dominance, and therefore differentiation is necessary at that scale.

In theory.
Nintendo as everyone knows it is only a few decades old; a company can continue to exist for centuries if it becomes simply a "holding company" (Berkshire Hathaway is just a mutual fund, basically) or otherwise reinvents itself.
also, what's stopping an antagonist from severing the cable?
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
But is it really that much easier to use than the first-party offerings, such as Google's AI Platform Prediction[1]? There are similar offerings from every major cloud provider and the number of slightly different and more easy to use offerings is growing every week it seems).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/prediction/docs/overvie...
I think that this is more of a marketing post than a technical post. That said, I really wish people do not promote bad practices, they are already too well established :)
"Pitched by Google" == pitched by one dude (Lattner), basically.
Inside Jeff Bezos’s failed attempt to make Amazon “cool” like Apple and Nike
Inflation indexes don't give a lot of weight to short term price changes. So there doesn't necessarily have to be anything offsetting it. If prices stay high it should show up in inflation.
GFCIs go by a different name in the UK (RCD - Residual Current Device), so I wondered if this was a US specific electrical term I'd not heard of.
https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed...

> BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.

> “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.

> “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” it said.

> The other books affected are “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

> The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company, which was founded by Seuss’ family, told AP.
(Emphasis mine)