skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> curl into sh is just as safe as any other software installation mechanism

It most certainly is not. Grabbing random code from some site is not the same as installing a package from a known repository which has been tested and inspected by a maintainer. Of course the latter isn't perfect, but it is way more assurance than the none whatsoever of a random script from an unknown source.
more generally, it's likely due to greater (indoor) distancing, of which school closures is a subset. the slight differences in transmission characteristics between flu and covid (also represented as differential r0) likely makes flu relatively more susceptible to reduction by distancing.

and distancing is a first-order mitigation that overwhelms the effects of inferior/ineffective mitigations like cleaning, sanitizing, mask-wearing, extra ventilation, etc. those secondary mitigations can make more of a difference when we want to pack it in, like at a movie theater, but otherwise they don't do much because those circumstances are relatively rare.

folks just don't want to accept such a simple answer because it means there's not much to hang their anxiety on, and that cognitive dissonance is unacceptable, as it always is.
Academia is extremely tough as well after a PhD. Just that we only hear about those that succeed.
You should look up bankruptcy laws. They can probably take your house, but oftentimes debtors reaffirm their mortgage to avoid that scenario. You can keep one car used as transportation to and from work, and like 90% of your personal property unless you were already loaded. It really only forces you to sell off assets. You have to meet specific discretionary income to debt forumulae to apply, which locks a lot of people out of bankruptcy as an option.

Your second point is fair, though. That's why student debt shouldn't be a thing.
I would also say, having worked a company of smaller scale trying to solve distsys problems, that they're hard to sell. But the distsys skill set does seem (to me) marketable at the large cloud providers.
If you're genuinely curious, James Hoffman on YouTube is the coffee wizard. All his videos are interesting, even if you couldn't care less about coffee!
> Demirkapi found the Experian API could be accessed directly without any sort of authentication, and that entering all zeros in the “date of birth” field let him then pull a person’s credit score. He even built a handy command-line tool to automate the lookups, which he dubbed “Bill’s Cool Credit Score Lookup Utility.”

Everything is broken and no one with any authority cares.
Crazy when things like this happen people even rarely get fired and the company just says "oops, we'll do better." US retailers should stop selling QNAP after something like this. Who knows if this was accidental or intentional.
Sorry--the goalposts are moving too fast for me in this discussion.
I am ALL IN for Good Kharma unsweetened Flax milk. I use monkfruit to sweeten it up, with strawberry or maple flavors, zero sugar. I do not get paid to promote, I am just a consumer.
8 grams of protein per serving, no animal fats, 1200 mg. of Omega-3 per serving. As we know cow milking operations are disgusting, blood in the milk.
I have mixed 3 tablespoons carob powder blended into a 3 ounces of water, them microwaved carefully till it just begins to boil (but not boil over) to pasteurize it, then stir or shake into flaxmilk carton.
I don't do chocolate because of high oxalic acid in chocolate.
It takes a few steps to get there but this is their own example game:

https://github.com/inkle/the-intercept/blob/master/Assets/In...

ETA:

here is a Cloak Of Darkness in Ink https://github.com/micabytes/mica-ink/blob/master/sample/clo... which can be compared to other languages http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/
People are down voting you but I had the same take in regards to the red flags. In particular -- > "him saying he wasn't as competent as he was marketed but also more competent than others on the team"
I don't really agree - having a STEM degree from an accredited university gets you pretty far. Unless you're going to an elite school for a given field, it doesn't really matter what you pick. An elite school's degree is better than alternatives, but a STEM degree in general is better than not having one (for STEM industries).

Going to a mediocre state school for CS will pay itself off quickly, regardless of which school.
Indeed. It’s not even clear that it would be helpful and especially not as compared to an extra 2 years of hands-on engineering or engineering leadership experience.
"Not that much left to choose from then."

If you are happy with non alcoholic beer, stay with that, but have you heard of - Tea?

There are lots and lots of different tea's around, as you can make tea out of allmost anything. So plenty of caffeine-free choices there.
> I think the computer term for the thing that most resembles how a meatspace virus behaves and propagates is "worm".

A compuyter virus self propagates with human intervention. A worm self propagates without human intervention.

I think the biological item that most closely resembles a work would be a parasite that is self-mobile. E.g. a botfly.

Various computer virus' in the past propagated through floppy drives and infected floppies, but you were safe as long you didn't initiate the action that caused the infection (use the floppy in your computer). Also, you can get a virus by visiting a website, which is also initiated by the uninfected.

Worms used infected host resources to actively seek out and infect other hosts without any initiating action by those other hosts.

In this way, meatspace viruses are NOT like computer worms. They don't cause their hosts to seek out people to infect. Infection is either coincidental or requires some allowance by the candidate (close contact, use of shared resources, etc).
I will certainly continue to wear a mask in crowded places like public transportation and concerts. This has been eye-opening for me in terms of virus transmission vectors. I kind of fell into the trap of "no one around here does it, so I'm not going to do it either."
My impression was more than a little regionalism. KDE came from Europe. GNOME came from America. Most distros that I know come from America.

In addition, Richard Stallman made lawyers nervous of KDE by claiming that using GPL libraries with Qt (which at the time was under a proprietary license with source code available via FreeQt, definitely not a FSF-approved license) meant the KDE developers had no legal right to use GPL programs at all, even after KDE and Qt were relicensed under GPL.

Stallman eventually relented and granted permission to use the FSF’s own software, but the KDE project didn’t ask for it and didn’t bother to get forgiveness from other GPL license owners. Whether they need to go through that ceremony was never tested in court. GPLv3 switched to a much more reasonable standard, just provide the source under a compatible license.

By the time the license tempest-in-a-teapot reached a conclusion, GNOME and KDE already had substantial-enough installed bases and corporate sponsors to keep going indefinitely.
My spouse and I cut out dairy and meat products due to health reasons. We are vegan now. Our bad cholesterol dropped over 35% and saved one of us from having to go on heart medication. We were already health conscious millennials but genetics are always pushing their own agenda. We gotten used to good vegan cheeses not Daiya and the previous gen of dairy alternatives. It helps to live in a major metro.
I find it lovely to use as an ingredient for a cupcake-in-a-mug; the texture really complements the coffee flavour.
I had one of this crazy apps that blocked all others apps. Didn't work at all for me. I was pressing delay all the time. self control i would say. you have to practice.
Haven't forgotten about you by the way, I actually just got a VOC sensor in the mail about an hour ago. Will get that written up soon! :-)
A conditional severance package is pretty standard stuff in a contract for white collar employees. I work at a startup, and if I'm terminated involuntarily, my company will pay me a few months' salary. But if I violate the non-disparagement or non-compete clauses I signed, I have to pay back the severance.

I also think the MIT references are reasonable because the article was published in the MIT student newspaper.

Besides that, I agree that the story by itself isn't really enough to draw any conclusions against MBB. The author comes across as unjustifiably entitled.
As a long-term (since last century) KDE user, it took me a long time to get used to Dolphin and wean myself off Konqueror.

I still see some weird artefacts / behaviour in Dolphin, notably around the sizing of the quick-access panels on the left, after window resizing, or display switching (effectively causing the former).

The copy/move option was present in Konqueror also, along with the same ctrl/shift modifier option to force copy / move without the pop-up.

FWIW with Microsoft Windows, for as long as I can remember, in Explorer you can right-mouse drag directory entries around, to trigger a similar copy/move pop-up. A little-known feature, but increasingly handy as Microsoft continues its war on its own users and obfuscates actual locations & paths, with the default move-if-on-the-same-drive / copy-if-not becoming harder to intuit due to these location abstractions.
In the case of the car I have the following options:

1. from the diagnostics port under the steering wheel I can get the speed of the car from the car's electronic control unit

2. a hiking or computer GPS could be used, probably anything that isn't marketed as a car GPS is OK, the car GPS probably makes awful tracks because they don't want you asking questions like "how much faster can I do the quarter mile if I wrap the exhaust pipe, load this software patch into the the ECU and, take out the passenger and rear seats, radio, glove box cover, wiper blades, and bumpers?"

3. You could add an accelerometer and use a Kalman filter to combine that with other information sources to estimate vehicle position. Consumer accelerometers aren't that good, you are taking $2500 or so for one that car racers use.

I analyzed it to death and came to the conclusion that 1 will be good enough for a project which is the reverse of the camera being described: that is, put a neopixel strip on the side of my car and generate i think high quality images at night if someone happens to be focused at about the right distance but NOT tracking the vehicle.
I'm pretty sure it's priced to actively dissuade normal people from buying it.

I doubt charging $500 more to a business affects FB's revenues any meaningful amount.
>"I'm not good at excel" is kind of a red flag for a variety of other incompetencies.

Could you please explain why you think that way?
Scaling Monorepo Maintenance at GitHub
I find this very interesting too. Firstly, let's be charitable and assume PG can look beyond any investment he has in judging this. I think he'd look at it then as some potholes on the way to an eventual smooth highway. He likes disruption of old, flawed ways. He likes motivated sorts doing the disrupting. Airbnb and Uber and the like are not without their own bumpy roads.

And the potholes here are lay-offs for people who otherwise saw employment for a period with Lambda. Or payments to Lambda that trigger only when you're making money yourself. He might think of those as reasonable downsides en route to a more polished, future Lambda service.

The model itself (pay if you earn) isn't outrageous. We had something similar (but government-based) with HECS in Australia, that's evolved a bit since.
Damn, build it and I'll be your first signup as a trainer.
Interesting! How do you handle apex custom domains with registrars that require an A record?
I don't necessarily disagree about how a student should handle an ethically grey situation. But that still doesn't justify treating other humans like shit.

And for the record I don’t think there is even level headed consensus formed yet on the whole paper thing. It’s arguably unethical, but it is also arguably simply inconsiderate. And it has certainly provided some degree of utility, although it’s unclear how much. I think most of the impressions have been molded by Greg’s response during the “kernel peeps are pissed” phase of the whole affair.
YMMV but I find freshly ground, bloomed for 30s before brewing, and 85C aeropress (inverted method) for 90s is my go-to for getting it to taste exactly how I like it. I thoroughly recommend playing around and experimenting to find your own routine, very cathartic.
The bug bounties are from companies who use the repos, not the repos themselves.
C++ is 35 years old or something, changes extremely slowly, has a mostly static programmer community, and has a wide range of compilers in current use. When new versions of the C++ spec show up it can take months for compilers to all catch up, but few C++ developers are in a rush to adopt new features.
Most of the Europe didn't close schools either or very short periods when numbers where out of the roof. School closure is American teachers union thing really, vast majority of the countries do whatever possible to send kids to school as it takes the priority above everything.
great one!
I think the article raised a good point:

"One final lesson that one might be tempted to take is that the kernel is running a terrible risk of malicious patches inserted by actors with rather more skill and resources than the UMN researchers have shown. That could be, but the simple truth of the matter is that regular kernel developers continue to insert bugs at such a rate that there should be little need for malicious actors to add more. "

How big/useful a revelation is it that you can show it's easy to break into someone's house while they are sleeping if it's well known the front door won't even stay shut.
Focusing the "child" cutoff at ten seems dubious. Why not set it at an age that includes school extra curricular activities? :(
... to captains not deviating from a storm to save on fuel and time as they face pressure from charterers ...

Rather than shifting this cost to the shippers, they are essentially shifting it to the insurers and then paying more in premiums as a result.

Slow Steaming is going to cause some of this because ships will be en route longer and therefore more at risk of weather delay. Maybe they should apply the principle of General Average and simply charge for weather delays, shift this cost to the shippers.
"though maybe that's because I associate the smell with the resultant feeling of being caffeinated"

Maybe not, as I am not a coffee drinker and don't like being caffeinated - but I really do like the smell of coffee, too.
What skills do people learn when consulting?
Dumb question: if the transmission rate of the flu got low enough for a full season, could it be eradicated too?
> ... for me it has far too much gimmickery (in settings), ...

One person's gimmickry is another's convenience.

Does the alleged surfeit of configuration options materially affect your usage of KDE, or just offends your sensibilities that they're available?
Your intuition is rubbish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton_Fracture_Zone
Ignorance is Bliss, is not knowing better?
Shilling my medium post
How do they know this new size is the "right size"?
Hmm, what language lets you use new libraries with old compilers? The only ones I can think of are languages that have stopped being developed, because as soon one of your dependencies uses a new feature, you're done.

I'm just not sure how what you're describing would work.
Template languages are meant to change a lot less than programming languages and adapt when they do. I see companies using programming languages like this and then in a year the libraries are no longer maintained, they have some churn and their new employees then want to rewrite everything. I rarely think it is worth writing CI/CD in a programming language unless you are committed to supporting it for its lifetime. Most companies will not be able to and they'll end up back at the standard templates sooner or later.
> Aside from that, there are people who go into consulting and gain a lot of skills

If what the author claims is true and consulting is basically making up numbers to fit some conclusion and general fluff work, I'm not sure that's a valuable skill to pick up. Sure, you could pick up networking and ...?
You sound like a BCG insider!
Mostly really boring stuff like deprecated API functions with better replacements and such. KDE does not remove features for the heck of it, if it happens it is almost always because of rewrites. There are no rewrites of that nature planned AFAIK.
Copious amounts of sugar and fat seem to work for most people.

That said, yes, I would love to know how to make it more palatable without making it so unhealthy. I'm extremely sensitive to bitter flavors, black coffee is a lost cause for me.
They were fired, not executed.
So, there is a code of conduct..

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/code-of-condu...
To be fair, that implicit assumption is pretty strong. There is an absurd bias to push kids back in schools so parents can get back to work.

Still, your points stand that there are some good studies showing kids are not necessarily the major spreaders. It is somewhat surprising to me, but it is data.
game programming is performance heavy, while other tech-adjacent industry may be requirements-driven. Also, C++ has existed for what? 30 years? t
Its mainly a question of it being deterministic and reproducible I think. The presumption is that you then go and test a bunch of stuff based on whatever was built, so no, it will not be buggy.

But if the code that actually goes to production is actually different to what is tested (because your rebuilt it based on a config with some runtime behavior that executed differently), you are compromising the whole thing and all bets are off.

People will try to split the difference and generate a static config with code and test that as a reproducible entity, but then you have another set of tradeoffs (not least, complexity).
It'll be interesting when these container are found thousands of years into the future, assuming humans (or transhumans) still being around.
If you’re happy at your current job and I don’t read anything else in your post that’s compelling you to change, why change? There are plenty of not great jobs and if you’re happy now...
I suggest looking up the process for making mozzarella at home. Then then process for making tofu at home. Your instructor was accurate on more than a purely nutritional level.
Not necessarily. Suppose, for simplicity, that we have equal number N of coffee drinkers and non coffee drinkers, for total of 2N. Suppose you try your model on them, and tell which is which based on their MRI 80% of the time. Let’s assume the null hypothesis is that you model doesn’t work, and you just were randomly lucky. If N = 5, that’s 8 successes in 10 Bernoulli trials, that’s already p value of 0.01. With N=25 (close to the study), that’s p-value of 0.002, much better than random chance.

Whether N = 50 is too small sample really depends on the strength of the effect you are trying to detect. For strong effects it’s plenty enough.
>Your argument boils down to “I want the right to poison myself and the convenience to do it at easily accessible retail outlets.”

Yes this is my argument.

>The suggestion that we should restrict healthcare based on the degree to which a person is culpable for their disease is a terrible idea, and impossible to implement.

We talked past each other here.

I did not mean that we should remove an individual's access to healthcare due to their habits.

My intent is that if we're OK with spreading out the cost of health care to every citizen, we must also be OK with the fact that some people will cost more due to their habits. If we feel the need to dictate which habits are proper in order to make the costs more lean, maybe we should reconsider spreading out the costs at all, and hold off on socializing medicine.

Socializing the cost of medicine is not a bad idea, but telling people which habits are proper in order to make the costs more lean is a dangerous idea with no limiting principle.
Do you think large populations are inherently bad for the environment, or is this problem specific to China and their laws? Also, do you think there are any benefits to having a larger population(with regards to technological progress and the future of humanity) and how should that be taken into account?
Coffee, done right, is delicious.

A high quality bean, appropriately roasted, relatively fresh, freshly ground immediately before use with a bur grinder, and then your choice of method, plenty of grinds but almost always hot water, and preferably some pressure to extract oils, finally filtered through paper.

My weapon of choice is an aeropress or a manual espresso press. An Americano is arguably superior to a cup of drip. I drink it black.

Coffee is fucking delicious.
In my experience, lots of people treat the flu like it was 'no big deal', and will happily go to work (or be sent to school) to share with the other children.

Covid sounded a lot scarier to them, so in the process of avoiding it, they accidentally did the right thing. Thus the drop in flu cases.
Once air has blown past a person, it should be pulled into a vent quickly. Draw lines from incoming air vents to outgoing vents and see how many people they pass. Don't give exhaled air time to disperse.
Easier said than done I suspect.
Sam was not anything to be admired. He ripped off his employees pay and when he finally lost the legal battle he threatened any employee that cashed the check.
The thing I don't like about KDE is that it is that KDE apps aren't individual components but part of a large framework. Anytime I go to install a KDE app on Arch, it wants to install like 30+ packages and unnecessary apps with it and I just end up finding something more lighter weight that doesn't have any or only a couple dependencies and it usually ends up performing a lot better.
By doing absolutely nothing.

Drinking and enjoying black coffee is like whiskey, it takes a few times to get past the “why the hell would anyone?!” hump, but once you do, you never look back.
I live in Melbourne, where most restrictions have been relaxed due to low case numbers. I and a good number of friends have all caught a cold in the past couple of weeks. I'm curious to know why isolation measures haven't worked on the common cold as well as they have on influenza.
What is your experience with coffee? Have you mostly had Stabucks/Dunkin/Folgers and the like or have you ventured out into trying third wave coffees? I recommend getting a drink from a third wave coffee shop if you haven't already.

Great coffee comes down to many factors: the beans, roasting, grind, brew method, and temperature.

A great resource for learning more about great coffee is James Hoffmann's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
Find an open source project you care about that uses it then try to fix some simple issues. That's how I learned!
Or a set of radio buttons (i.e. from an actual radio).
This actually reminds me of https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681877909/sailboat-from-u-s-t...

I think that in situations like that, you ought to cover the cost of a potential rescue up front, either by paying for an insurance policy or putting down a deposit. People search until your deposit/insurance runs out, then they stop. If you don't survive, that's on you. There's just absolutely no reason that anyone's tax dollars should be spent to help someone who performs a totally needless and incredibly dangerous activity of their own volition.
Finance is performance critical too, just to name one. Games are just one small part of the high performance systems space.