skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting example. Yes, it’s not a perfect language by any means :-) Some things are better in Lisp, some things are better in other languages as well for sure!
I kind of think that they put their name in there just to try to make life hard for SpaceX. Basically throwing in their lot with anybody but Elon.
Sorry about that, thanks for the warning.
The universe in a teacup touched me deeply. Changes how I look at the world.

Thank you for sharing this story.
I'm definitely in the minority of commenters on these FLoC threads. I hate that 3rd party cookies exist, and support FLoC if it would hasten the demise of 3rd party cookies. It seems like many consider the alternative to FLoC to be an anonymous web where content can be accessed without login. The migration of content into walled gardens like Instagram seems more likely to me.
I think WFH works well because it takes extra effort to reach out to someone and therefore is used more as a necessity. For me, the office has lent itself to a number of one-off tasks that didn't end up being important that distracted working on the recurring production items that make a larger impact. Removing the starting and stopping lends itself to more productivity and being able to answer the phone as opposed to having to step out of the office after going down the elevator has been great.
Rationale: email has become a universal cybercrime portal, as it enables social engineering attacks.
I wonder whats the source of this kind of perspective.

My current hypothesis is that the technology industry hasn't been around for as long as other industries, so people that go to business school, for instance, don't understand the value that SWE's offer to businesses.

When the tech industry was small, this was probably ok. But today, those assumptions no longer hold.
> The original Artemis plan never made much sense as a Mars "proof-of-concept", but it actually does now.

IIRC, in the Iliad Artemis helps out Ares (which is kinda the Greek version of Mars). Probably just a coincidence (I'm sure Artemis was chosen because she's Apollo's sister), but fun nonetheless.
I interviewed with epic games and got all the questions answered, though I used generic term to describe each aws product and drilled down into specifics/fundamentals of the questions, protocols, configuration gotchas, etc.
Got rejected with "no experience with aws".

Now seeing this I'm sure I dodged a bullet.
I'm pleased to see that Netflix has been kicked out of FAANG. Makes sense since they are facing robust competition and no-longer qualify for near monopoly status. I also support the reordering of the words as presented in the article since GAAF is way more appealing than leaving it as is with Netflix removed.
What? You think it's ten thousands to hundred thousand. Hundred thousand seems excessive to me.
The live announcement[0] just announced that the SpaceX bid includes an uncrewed test flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6BqZrs0x4E
Apple uses the carrot (higher payouts to musicians) to muscle out Spotify. Of course they have the advantage of not having an ad supported business model (or mindset even).
The most jarring Dazzle camouflage[1] imaginable.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
> Which actually feels less secure since if hackers get their hashes, that as good as getting clear passwords to login directly your site? I'm not actually clear on that.

You're right. This turns hashes into passwords, and is distinctly a step down in security.
> If I’m expecting 60% of my flips to be heads, and I’ve already had 60%, isn’t it more likely that the next one will be tails?

Nope.

> I’m sure you can probably tell I know next to nothing about either maths or probability, so feel free to explain why I’m wrong.

Lots of people have explained in terms of independence, which is correct. Another way of looking at it (definitely not more correct, but maybe more compatible with the “a series should eventually match the quoted probability” thinking) is in terms of infinity:

If you are expecting 60% of results to be heads, you expect that to hold over an infinite series of flips.

If you see any finite number of heads in a row, the probability for each of the remaining flips in the infinite series to get the total to 60% is…still 60%.

No finite series of results can change the probabilities necessary to get the infinite series to turn out as expected.
> If it possibly might end badly, it must never happen out of lab.

There are many different ways and degrees of "badly". What you you thinking of when "ending badly" is mentioned? How accurate and likely is that an outcome? Is it based on knowledge of possible outcomes based on the science, and extrapolations, or on popular science and/or cultural depictions, or something else?

For many possible outcomes, we have real data. We have many cases of a species being removed from an ecosystem, and of a subspecies being removed. Some of those are because of humans causing extinctions (or near extinctions), some of it is from humans causing the removal of a species from an area, and some of it is from natural change in ecosystems that is not the cause of humans (the world is not static, species evolve, evolutions and natural phenomena such as weather patterns allow species to spread to new areas).
All of this is 100% correct and if its easier / easy enough for you then that works. I wasn't really making the case that it was explicitly better for everyone, but it is awesome for my clients.

For backup, I either end up paying as much as Squarespace (WPEngine) or have to keep an eye on it to make sure its working.

I have no global stats on Wordpress hacks, of the clients I have running it (40???) I think probably 10 have been hacked. Zero have been hacked since moving to WPEngine (which is the first thing we do when we take over management), which is certainly something.

I'm not sure what the exact definition of mature website is, but I'm not sure it is that difficult. Certainly if you have 100s of pages, posts, articles etc. then it could / would take a while to make the move. At that point we're just talking about target market. Most of my clients have stopped posting tons of news / blogs because they were only doing it for SEO and it didn't really work anymore. In my world where sites have 25 pages with semi-limited complexity it just doesn't take long to move anymore.

I do certainly have clients with more complicated needs (member areas, ecommerce, etc.) but most of the time I just recommend they link out to that content and use another service (client portal in their main line of business app, shopify, etc.) rather than building it into their site.
> They also do some kick-ass CS research, but that’s not what makes the money.

Yeah, that's kind of known.
Reminds me of The Prometheus Rising

William James, father of American psychology, tells of meeting an old lady who told him the Earth rested on the back of a huge turtle.

"But, my dear lady," Professor James asked, as politely as possible, "what holds up the turtle?""It's no use, Professor," said the old lady "It's turtles-turtles- turtles, all the way!"
Rivian to initially launch in-house insurance program in 40 states
So when are we banning human judgements? They are the ultimate black box.
Sure, but sadly that's not up to NASA. Congress insists on forcing them to keep this bloated jobs program in place.
can you actually write/compile/run/debug a "modern" java project without using a bloated IDE and waste half your morning tinkering with XML configs? my current setup with Go is amazing, I can use a minimal vim/tmux setup to work on just almost anything and it's great. my experience contributing to big java projects has been enough to make me dislike it and never look at it again
Yes, in star date 43156, humans no longer require money or employment. Until
then, while market notions of human usefulness are not the only or best
evaluation metrics, they are the only robust ones. My recommendation to kids
is not to question first, but to learn how we stupid adults do things, then
critique (much) later.
Depends what your developers are running internally. If they’re already on macs, some will be on M1s soon, and then you’ll have little choice.

I’d wager that right now the M1s are about the most bang for buck you can get on desktop machines.
From what I can tell “Kelly Criterion” originally applied to one bankroll and a single repeated bet.

It seems the choosing the optimal strategy for allocating a portfolio to maximise growth is often called “Kelly style”, “Kelly strategies”, “Kelly methods”, and also “Kelly criterion” by some people (which is why I was confused).

The details of an optimal strategy are completely different depending upon your assumptions (how reallocation is performed as new information is received, accounting for error in predicted outcomes, blah blah blah) so there cannot be a single definition for the Kelly Criterion for a portfolio, instead there are a variety of strategies (each with different assumptions and constraints).

For example the “many assets” model you refer to looks like it models a single market correlation (alpha), and not the multiple correlations within a real market.

Disclaimer: I am not an investment professional, but a small amount of software experience with hedge fund NAV calculations.
> If the experience of the procuring department is that "BSI finds everything is insecure", then you procure without letting BSI know or have a say in it, and then you look good for getting the procurement completed.

Sounds plausible. Especially looking at years of (German) data protection officials recommending against using Windows 10/Office 365 in government agencies, followed by officials explaining that only Microsoft's products are able to fulfill their "extremely complicated requirements".

I'm not entirely convinced that only Windows 10 has the necessary features for registering a vehicle title...
Microsoft didn't ban anything. They commited the mortal sin of bundling notepad.exe and freezing out text editor innovation... or something like that.
That's true, but the statement I was addressing was

wether the party controlling the senate will grant the president his constitutional right to appoint a judge

Not granting someone their constitutional right can only be interpreted as claiming that doing so is unconstitutional.
With C++20 and the std::invocable concept, is there still much reason to use std::function?
>" Shuttle runs are really only used to get samples for the first version of your chip."

Is a "tape out" the same thing as a shuttle run/sample chip run?
I get what you're saying, but people with privilege will generally not garner much sympathy from anyone.

It's just not a good look (pun unintended) for a someone born attractive to complain about their hard life.
Tech keeps trying to 'fix' recipe sites. Food bloggers wish they’d stop
This is exactly it.

And to be clear, there's a good reason for it: it's to prevent corruption.

If things aren't overspecified and providers aren't treated like a commodity, then it's incredibly hard to prove that a government official actually awarded a contract in a fair process, rather than just sending it over to their best friend's business.

Unfortunately, nobody's really come up with any reliable process for having the flexibility to get good products for good value, while reliably preventing corruption. And when there aren't these ironclad protections against corruption, experience shows it turns endemic, so much money flows through the government.

It's a seriously tough problem.

The reason it doesn't exist in the private sector is that the chain of accountability from managers to CEO to board seats is actually quite strong, and shareholders are incredibly motivated to extract profits. The accountability to voters in a democracy, on the otherhand, is far, far, far weaker -- as voters vote primarily along party lines or on only the absolute biggest hot-button issues.
"I wonder if it's also 60% likely to be Tails if I bet on Tails, and I might be tempted to check."

Only if you were clueless, or perhaps if the experimenter said "if you bet on heads it has a 60% chance of winning". Being unstated what would happen if you bet on tails, you might forget that the coin has know knowledge of how you bet, thus making it impossible for there to be any different outcome than a 60% chance of loss by betting on tails.
Manufacturing, safety, maintenance and recycling cost definitely matters. Other than that from physics point of view you just immerse it and hundreds of Watts radiate into liqid as heat, and with miners a few Watts return as electricity with the information over wires.

You may need no sealing if dielectric thermoconductive liquid is used, but such is synthetic toxic mix usualy.

Don't forget abot heat from power supply unit.
One thing repealing section 230 would definitely do is bring big tech business operations to a screeching halt. Republicans are betting on the fact that big tech would be willing to do anything to avoid that outcome.
> What gives you that impression?

People often cite the extraordinary cost per launch of missions such as this, and how SpaceX can reduce that cost (allegedly) via reusability, etc. I just don't think saving a few bucks on a mission of this importance is worth-while. I'd, personally, much rather return to the moon first, and then figure out if reusability even makes sense later on (if we are to continue going to the moon with any sort of regularity).

After all, SpaceX's goal with Starship isn't to do NASA's bidding, it's to push a private company to Mars.

> The only way that there would be more money is if NASA gets a bigger budget for their lunar program

Which is quite sad. $2.9 billion to go to the moon, and hundreds of billions for congress-critter pet projects in the last few "stimulus" packages. We really cannot find more money to throw behind such important achievements?
This wasn't a case of being ignorant of the social hierarchy. It was about technology being able to pull me out of my introverted shell. Things got much better as I grew up.
Personally I'd be fine with crashing a tab or five.

For example Slack uses several gigabytes of memory if I forget to reload the tab every hour or so. It has a DOM live-leak or something. Perfectly fine to let that thing crash and burn.

Letting my PC grind to a halt is far worse for me.

Now my point is, I don't want the kernel to try to fluff Firefox and try to limp it along. Sure for a few applications it's good that the kernel tries its utmost.

But in most cases, I don't want one application to dictate my PC's performance. Gone are the days where I use my PC for one thing at a time.

And if the kernel was more strict with applications, then hopefully sane OOM handling would force its way into more applications.
Love squarespace, but what's up with the wacky pro-forma vs 'actual' in the operating income on pg 8?

Difference of $300m in operating income from sg&a (2020) and then $500m+ in balance sheet assets on the next page...
Collection of Quotes on Notation Design
I agree, but I don't see why we would then assume that forking some ftp server library from npm would fare any better, security wise.

I see a fairly alarming open issue: https://github.com/autovance/ftp-srv/issues/167
In the EU, money for fundamental research comes from the government. I agree that this means less money and perhaps more bureaucracy, but als less dependence on economic trends and fads in the industry, and the ability to focus on fundamental questions without having to chase commercialisation.

I know both sides, EU and US approaches to research and research funding, and I think both have their strengths and weaknesses. But either way I think measuring research performance by the amount of money made is the wrong measure.
shouts to whoever is out there rotating keys since the announcement of this incident.
Semantic layer webinar – Better information comes from better governance
The idea that FLoC is a more privacy-friendly alternative to third-party cookies is deeply flawed, please read [this](https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/100).
"Okay, it is true I can do nothing to force you to eat this pile of poo and I have nothing as means of payment, but let's make a compromise: How about you eat half?"

How about no, Google?

DRM made its way into browsers only barely, and in that case they at least had something people wanted.
It depends on your job description. Usually Android/iOS developers do not need to work on backend/server-side/api end work. But if your company is a small team and everyone wear different hats, you might need to handle some of the backend services.

I am a front-end web developer at my current job, I have seen my co-workers (Android/iOS) never have to touch backend code, we have dedicated team for that. But in my side projects and/or product that I am building full time, I handle backend, front-end, DevOps, and all other technical stuff!
Idk, good point. I just can’t imagine it. A company I worked at made a huge push to replace a REST API with a GraphQL one, and I can’t think of any reason they’d want to build a new REST interface on top of it.

I know I’m missing something because this tool IS used.
I'm extremely anti-ads and tracking.

Part of that was because I used to work for a website that was an ads publishing platform.

And I'm here to tell you: More accurate metrics don't actually generate any kind of wealth. What they do is allow ad buyers to push down the prices they have to offer to publishers for clicks or lower the overall numbers of impressions they are willing to buy, based on the targeting metrics they have for the publisher.

More precise, fine-grained targeting information = fewer and lower value spends to gain the same conversion rate value.
I'm just glad this didn't open with "good reads is broken here's why"
> One thing repealing section 230 would definitely do is bring big tech business operations to a screeching halt.

Not all big tech business, just the no-prior-review dissemination of user-generated content.

EDIT: At least, without some kind of financial protection against publication liability, such as the user providing indemnification with proof of adequate liability coverage. So, things like say Github Enterprise would still exist but probably be more costly once all associated costs are take into account, but free-of-charge individual accounts would either not continue or, if MS could subsidize them from Enterprise profits and saw value in having them, they’d be much more aggressively scanned for “bad” content and summarily deleted if there were any signs detected. And the same kind of calculus would apply all over the net.

It would definitely narrow the voices that have reach, both in number and ideological distribution.
Gnome shortage: Lockdown and Suez canal blockage blamed
"Supply chain issues and the popularity of garden centres during lockdown are causing a shortage of garden gnomes.

The ornaments are in short supply with raw materials hard to come by and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal contributing to the national shortage."
Each neuron contains within itself a nanostructure whose resonance acts as an antenna both for receiving quark vibration frequencies and transmitting back to them for synchronization, effectively forming a communication protocol with higher dimensional string structures.

In higher dimensions our common thoughts are aggregated into massive socially-shared hyperbrains, each of which is segregated from the other based on both cultural and genetic similarity between specimens (mostly of the same species). Hyperbrains form a trie predicated on the commonality of our toughts and the closer you move to its roots, the closer you get to our biological origins, until eventually all species merge at the root.

Our individual biological brains then acts only as secondary devices similar to how L1/2/3 CPU cache is to the main memory of a computer. We use our brains to think only when the communication bridge is unstable, or when our experiences cannot be matched into compatibly vibrating wavelets in the hyperbrain. Our brains are also an anchoring devices of the self. While the hyperbrain encodes the shared memories and experiences of entire groups of specimens, our brain is a "diff" between the personal and the communal.

OK, anyway, I had fun making some stuff up, it's not like I understand anything this article says.
SHA-whopper
But just offering better service for a lower price destroys competiting businesses. There is a reason competitor harm wasn't the standard for anti-trust despite it being about competition between companies.
I remember that ... it was pretty surprising!

I thought I could do (string "a string") to prevent it, but that didn't work.

(concatenate 'string "a string") worked, though ...
You're right, I should have said "social media" instead of "big tech".
It's more of the principle. I don't like giving giving any company money, especially when there are cheaper alternatives.

I'm cheap when it comes to spending money on tech. I'm glad people are questioning the price.

We need more competition. It seems like we are just giving into the bigger companies, and I don't see the innovation I saw a few years ago.
The biggest help might be in attracting really talented employees willing to work for affordable wages, and keeping those employees excited enough to keep pushing hard.
> How is Apple allowed to disallow any other web browsers on their mobile devices? We already went through this with Microsoft in the past but suddenly it's different?

How can Microsoft control what games you play on Xbox or how can Nintendo control what games you play on switch?

Why are grocery stores allowed to sell private brand products that compete?

I'm worried we don't quite have a good grip on how to solve this problem.
> I never thought I would say this, but I actually implemented an FTP server in 2020.

If you did this for work, junior engineer move in my opinion. This practice is called not invented here syndrome.
It's definitely a strong recruiting tool. SpaceX is known to work you harder for less money than other firms, but they can get people who are invested in the vision of the company. Also at this point there's been enough time for a high schooler to be inspired by SpaceX's first rocket booster landing, decided to go to college in a relevant field with the sole purpose of working at SpaceX, graduated, and gotten a job.

I'm sure the popularity is also helping with demand for starling.
Didn't know that, but there's far more out there on the topic if you go looking for the info. Bill Gates had some commentary on the topic regarding the ecological impacts not being what people believe them to be (under the umbrella of public health in Africa).
> Every place I've worked which has had issues with last minute certificate changes or expiring certificates without renewal has had a systemic problem with underpaid and understaffed IT department.

That's an interesting anecdote, but its quite easy to find examples of companies with well respected, well paid engineering teams that still have an occasional certificate expire. Microsoft[0], Spotify[1], Facebook[2], Apple[3] have all had embarrassing outages due to certificates expiring.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120248/microsoft-teams-d...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/19/21375032/spotify-down-son...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17092084/oculus-rift-heads...

[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/12/9721108/apple-mac-app-st...
Your experience is pretty uncommon. Grepping for it in my home's .h/.hpp yields roughly seven thousand matches
That ferret experiment sounds ghastly. Am picturing it in some quack's garage for some reason.
That's fair, but I think it serves my point: you weren't interested in experimenting with your childrens' education.