skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody should be banned, hands down, from working at a company, generically (that is. legally unemployable). But companies are run by people. And people make decisions about who is allowed to work in their company specifically. It's nonsense to suggest that managers of companies cannot factor reputation into their consideration of the pros and cons of having a person in their employment.

I would fire someone in a heartbeat if I heard they were a self identifying Neo Nazi or klansman, and they affirmed this when confronted. I don't want to work with nazis. I don't want my team to have to work with nazis. I don't want people to think I work at a company that knowingly employs nazis.

The converse is you need to offer a way for people to change. The point of social pressures like this is to get people to stop being the worst. We say "echo chamber" like its unilaterally bad, because in america 'muh freedom' means whatever the individual wants is what the individual is entitled to preach. But honestly there's a lot of basic social norms that are healthy to enforce, without embedding it in legal code.
0.5kg a week is not rapid weightloss, nor is it extreme. That's a 550 calorie deficit, which is less than two candy bars worth of calories (an 80g candy bar has 300-400 calories).
Oh, this looks really cool! I was just research the other day how I could make a RPI running some simple LED-blinking app boot as fast as possible, this looks quite much faster than trying to strip down linux.

For someone who doesn't know that much about unikernels, is it possible (or a good idea) to run a multi threaded / multi process application on there? I'm thinking of something like a python app + nginx reverse proxy, or a Go App using the built in http server?
Try Flutter! Great SDK to get started with mobile development, and dart is a really nice language
You bring up a good point. I have yet to see anyone construct some of these structures on a shake table and report the resultant data. I wouldn't look for unreasonably good performance, but I wonder how it would perform against, for instance, modern rammed earth structures?

If any engineers out there have links to tests or studies please do post them.
Washington DC shows as "CONFIDENTIAL" in your link :)
Good luck trying to get permits to build anything the slightest bit unconventional in any populated area. I looked at building a geodesic dome, and was going to end up in the boonies and likely still paying off the inspector to pull permits. You could get it done in town and it would have to be over-built, completely ruining the whole efficiency angle of the dome to begin with, and taking months or years to work through the process.
A program running under RR generally only runs about 40% slower than normal, which is often unnoticeable. The recordings are usually smaller than you would expect too; the largest one I have is 74GB, though that was because the program read in a whole lot of data. I didn’t record it reading in the whole 400+GB file… most of them are under 200MB. Actually, about 60% of them are less than a single megabyte. There must be a power–law thing going on there.

Still, disk space is cheap; I may have to delete that recording one day but there’s plenty more disk space available.
In both the US and EU, credit card fraud is 20% POS and 80% online.
Interesting!
On a different note, recently I was looking to learn AWS concepts through online courses. After so much of research I finally found this e-book on Gumroad which is written by Daniel Vassallo who has worked in AWS team for 10+ years. I found this e-book very helpful as a beginner.

This book covers most of the topics that you need to learn to get started:

If someone is interested, here is the link :)

https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/MsVlG
We had pandemic preparedness guidelines, and none of them involved lockdowns. They go thrown away in blind panic.
The web is moving on without you.

Edit: Your blog doesn't even use SSL...
It is a useful tool especially if coupled with saved copies of weekly status reports of yours.

- Saved my butt a few times and often with no hard feelings when having had meekly pointed out the “dirt”.
Marketing templates for all the channels our startup used to get 500k users
This is called "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."
If you can use DKMS for your proprietary drivers then the downsides of the quick updates go away, in my experience
The problem dive locations have is a lot of people a) overstate experience or what they remember, b) are unfamiliar or have not tested equip they will be diving with and c) equip is not familiar to operator if they bring their stuff.

People don't dive enough. So they buy all sorts of new stuff for their big new drift dive vacation. In some cases they've literally not been underwater with it for even 20 minutes. Also makes it harder to do an at a glance x-check for folks if you don't know their gear. And some gear harder to deal with (ie, adding weights underwater) if someone turns out underweighted.

My own feeling - unless someone is current with their equip or has current diving - start with a hard bottom dive at 40'.
I think this train of thought might be headed towards what Hannah Arendt described as the "banality of evil"[1].

An average person with a mundane office job that happens to be for e.g. a certain government agency (to stay with the example), indirectly causing all kinds of mayhem elsewhere that is largely beyond their comprehension, simply because it's all neatly abstracted away from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil#The_Banality_...
That's a different topic though.

Also, the software vended by traditional car companies are usually bound with hardware and readily replaceable if a reboot can't solve the problem.
Turn and face the strange: Kotlin 1.5.0-RC showcases ch-ch-changes
The interesting question would be to know if the mix of raw earth + additives necessary for 3D printing, can be reused for a new construction after 20 years.

The raw earth used for traditional building techniques like rammed earth, can be re-used just by adding some water after razing the earth walls, as long as no cement/lime additive was initially used. This is also the Achilles heel of these traditional techniques: moisture will destroy the structure of a rammed earth wall when not appropriately protected with a large roof + above the ground foundation to avoid capillary rise.
Mathematics is indeed not taught in a proof-based manner, but I would also argue that it takes a lot of training to teach proof-based maths to primary grade students. It is far harder than teaching maths to undergrads or high schoolers. Which is the real reason it doesn't happen in schools.

> I didn't enjoy the endless calculations of long division in grade school...

Sure, everyone has their own cup of coffee. But drummers, for instance, practice the same beats over and over again for dozens of hours to perfect them. Not very different from doing long division over and over again.
I asked my kids (all software engineers) this same question about a year ago. My daughter said it was because class diagrams became too complicated for uml.

I used to use uml class diagrams when coming up to speed on a new framework. I tried to do this recently and it was a nightmare.

I used to use sequence diagrams for my own code - but that is difficult to derive from someone else's code.
I don't know if the HD remake would have bothered me so much as the original felt really engaging and ethereal.
> a 90k job

Basecamp pays SV salaries to all employees regardless of location.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp/
You wish they unbanned things. I think content blocking will still suck in future Chrome versions.
As far as I know, the elephant in the room problem [1] is still unsolved? Without support for double take, an adversary attack would still be fairly simple by simply including out of place information?

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learning-confronts-th...
I can give you a pretty useful scenario: tracing a sequence (calls, assignments, whatever). Adding a print statement at critical points will allow you to see what happened and in what order (and possibly the time intervals as well). You can copy and paste that in a document, collect other cases, and think a bit about it offline.

If you would do that inside a debugger, you'd have to make a note when you hit a break point. That's not helpful. It gets worse when you can't really halt the program because there's some kind of real-time effect in your problem.

Yes, you can tell debuggers to print messages instead of halting, but that's just like adding a print statement. IMO, it's even better, because when you make a change, your print statement will still be at the correct point, while your breakpoint might have shifted a line or two...
I believe that is because we are essentially taught not to think today. Most of the stuff in school is about deferring to experts on matters of fact. There is very little about creating one's own view point, or even exploring a varieties of existing ones beyond the facts on the surface. I don't see philosophy of argument or formal logic being taught in primary or secondary schools. In my experience, when many teachers encounter a novel idea or viewpoint related to personally important topics, they simply tell the person they are wrong due to the cognitive dissonance of admitting they are wrong or don't know.
This misunderstanding of what is ethics is exactly why we need to be teaching it.

Ethics is not about the moral compass of an individual, but it is about the moral obligations of the professional community as a whole.

What is and isn't Ethical has largely already been discussed and decided. It is up to us developers to learn about it and apply it to our field.
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> Play Store vetting process

You mean the one that doesn't exist?
You may be able to use a UTF BOM instead of the meta tag, or I think someone mentioned elsewhere having the server declare the character encoding in a header. I guess it depends on whether you count the header size which is better for golfing.
> As a graduate of the UMN these actions have reduced the value of my degree.

Isn't that like saying an MIT Media Lab degree has reduced in value due to their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Nicky Negroponte and other deplorables.
Print debugging also lets me debug precisely how I want, across all languages that allow display of a value at a particular point in code. I'm not dissing folks who like the debuggers, but I think theres always going to be some folks who prefer one method over the other. "Print Debugging Should Go Away" is awful presumptive in suggesting that the author is an exclusive authority on how other people go about their workday. I mean the guy probably doesn't even know me.
The EU's industrial sector is larger than that of the US as percentage of GDP (25% vs 20%). Both below Japan (30%) and China (40%). [1]

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/eaec/html/index.en.html
I can't find any copy on the MAS listings or on the website that describes the differences between Paletter and Paletter Lite. Even just a feature matrix would be good.
This was actually more enlightening than I expected... Ultimately, I think it comes down to:
"...software culture shifted progressively towards large tech-first companies and startups. Neither, historically, was the target audience of CASE vendors."
My operating systems teacher 2001 was a total RISC fan and always said it would eventually overtake CISC.

I guess, he didn't expect this to take well after his retirement.
Why create a new account just for this one comment?

Anyway, it's often legitimately faster to use the mouse with the Dash to Dock extension. It blows my mind that it's not the default behavior of the dock.
> wrapping every API with Javascript sounds non-trivial.

I am not an expert in JS or the Android API, but I wonder if you couldn't do it automatically? If types line up closely enough, I would think that you could get a list of Android APIs (pull it from AOSP if you have to) and mechanically translate to a JS API.
https://archive.is/8MpzA
The Formalization of Early-Stage Fundraising: What You Need to Know
New system expedites drug discovery by tracking RNA viruses in real time
Did you read the studies (cited in that review) that do Mendelian randomization? They seem fairly conclusive in favor of the view that the optimal alcohol intake is zero.
If you observed carefully, UMN research is correct even though ethics-wise is very questionable. Linux foundation only managed to notice a few of those "bad faith". This means some of those commits did slip through. And many at the Foundation had their ego bruised. Now imagine it is not done by UMN but real bad faith parties. Linux Foundation process do have weaknesses that UMN had discovered. We should not be too quick to blame rhose researchers. Open source do require many eyes to verify. Simply notifying Linux maintainers of incoming broken patches will defeat the purpose. If the creator of Linux is widely known of his ego, extending similar expectation to others are not unreasonable. And if you have ego and reputation to protect, either the research permissions wont be granted or one actively be on lookout.
Hello, a friendly correction if I may. In English 'grind' and 'halt' can function as both nouns and verbs - the common colloquialism is 'grind to a halt' where grind is the verb and halt is the end state.

In response to your comment, I think that the Norwegian system is inferior in the respect of the end-consumer having the final responsibility. I think that if the bank had final responsibility for any credit fraud, the fast-tracked system would hiccup perhaps, but not grind to a halt. Fintech is evolving rapidly and a new innovation could satisfy both fast banking and keep incentives correctly aligned between banks <-> consumers.
There are only two Asian countries where mask wearing was common. South Korea and Japan. Hardly anywhere in Asia got hit hard. One theory is that there is a lot more contact with bats, trading them which act as a reservoir, and providing some level of immunity. Obesity rates will be another big factor. Masks show very little evidence of having any effect whatsoever.
> According to benchmarks, writes to SSDB are slightly slower but reads are actually faster than Redis!

How is this possible? Surely reads from RAM are faster than disk?
Hadn't heard of MinIO. We looked into another S3 caching solution that someone linked in comments here, but it came down to we already used SSDB in production. Also, a personal preference of mine is to keep all logic in the same layer: Python.

For ex: We use SQLAlchemy as the source of truth for our relational database schema, and we use Alembic to manage database schema changes in Python. We even shard our Postgres tables in Python [1]. It fits with my preference to keep this caching logic also in Python, by reading/writing directly to the cache and S3 from the Python app and workers.

[1] https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/6055#issueco...
There's more than just informant data in the leak. Some would argue, for instance, that police disciplinary records being public is in the public good.
The device manufacturer has access to the device (at the hardware level even) the moment they start building it. They don't need to push a patch to gain access, they could access your logs at any point throughout the lifespan of the device.
They are allowed to do anything within the law.
Muon measurements embolden the search for physics beyond the standard model
EU to charge Apple with 10% of their global revenue
Until this day, the EU only vaccinated around 20% of its population with one dose of the vaccine, the USA did 40% and the UK 50%.

The vaccines were bought by the EU and distributed by a quota system to individual member countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Yeah, and then there are the ones who aren't in uniform.
Where is it illegal to pay a ransom?
On the company wiki page it says: "In December 2000, the Montrose Chemical Corporation of California and three other corporations settled their lawsuits for a collective $73 million."
My card has always had cash back. I always pay it off so I don't care what the interest rate is. If somebody steals my debit card I can bounce checks. If somebody steals my credit card I might hit my limit, but they'll give it all back.
WAL-G by Citus: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres (2017)
Then you shouldn’t have an Android device. This isn’t complicated.
> Droidscript itself may not be engaged in advertising fraud, but it makes advertising fraud trivial to deploy.

No more than being able to build an app on my laptop and push it over ADB.

> (And it needs to be said: this is the kind of app that would never have been legal at all on any version of iOS.)

It also needs to be said that this is why I don't use Apple devices. What they inflict on their platform is not an argument for what should happen elsewhere.
Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests
Chrome is closed source and has developer tools, and has damn near every permission Android provides. You can app your apps on it, as long as they are of the web variety. Should we not ban chrome too?

If droidscript enables ad fraud, isn't it an issue with how the android sandboxing model is fundamentally broken? Given that there are far more people using phones than computers, and a lot of new smartphone users will have never used a desktop or laptop computer, droidscript might be their first venture into programming and/or hacking. Let's not shut it down.
Why would Apple build fancy graphics cards? They have no meaningful gaming market and haven't cared about it for years. For machine learning?
I still use it, just a few minutes ago actually. If there's a process that goes over multiple threads or actors, it's nice to have a sequence (?, that one with lanes). If there's a process that has distinct ways to change states it's nice to make a state diagram. Also you might like to have a diagram about your database before you build your database. Or one of those classic decision trees that everybody uses even outside of software.
Malaria vaccine shows promise – now come tougher trials
How is that relevant to the original post?
The school I attended had a half-semester ethics course that was required for all engineering PhD students. Not sure if this a common thing, though.
Right, but according to what's said about the study design, they (1) fixed an existing bug
(2) introduced a new bug, and
if maintainers didn't notice the new bug, (3) followed up with a patch removing the new bug

Overall there's benefit in that an existing bug is removed and no introduced bugs persist. I don't see why IRB would be likely to object to this.
Yep, Termux is the most used app on my phone and I don't know what I will do when they have to migrate to SDK 29. I will probably buy another phone and install LineageOS.
Yes, most Cyber Insurance covers Ransomware. It's been a huge driver of claims and claims cost in the last couple of years for insurance companies.
I worked for a company that was making a large CASE tool way back when and even at the time it felt like nonsense.

Internally it never even crossed our minds to use it as a means of building the tools themselves. I remember bringing this up at one point during a company meeting and the CEO glowered at me like I was pointing out some inconstancy in religious theology. He spun some web of garbage about why it wasn't appropriate for our specific needs. I was young and realized only afterward that it was just not something you were supposed to mention there.

It was actually fun to work on for a while and we sold a lot of product, but it eventually dried up along with the rest of that part of the industry.
Considering where Firefox and Chrome overall stand on sandboxing, two libraries isn't substantial. Chrome has consistent, extensive sandboxing, and Firefox has sandboxing here and there as an afterthought. I looked into trying Firefox on Android but it apparently doesn't even have a sandbox.
It does appear people are willing to pay those costs :)

Also, electricity transmission appears to be much more expensive than generation. On my PG&E bills in California, delivery costs 2.5x as much per kWh as generation for 100% renewable power.
I've been exposed to the ludicrous US credit system through my fiancee who was affected by the Experian hack, and frankly, I completely get anyone who wants to see it all torn down. I find it ludicrous there are three different credit bureaus and they all seem to be equally incompetent for something as critical as an attempt to summarize a perception of your trustworthiness into a neat little file.
I still see UML as a blueprint in my industry (safety critical software), MagicDraw is one tool rising in prominence, Enterprise Architect is another. I definitely have seen a decline in UML for code generation. (I forget if the tools I mention have code generator capability but I generally don’t see them used if they do)

Interestingly I have seen a steady uptake in model driven development with code generation but it tends to be in tools like SCADE or Simulink, tools that are not directly object oriented but are more traditionally model oriented (code generation wise I believe these both generate C code).

I think one problem with UML as code generation is that the relationship between the model and the code can be constraining and many domain experts do not think in terms of classes and objects.

By the way, I do like the concept of UML as generating a code shell that gets filled in and modified, anyone have any open source recommendations for that? Preferably something that can integrate with Java and Spring
a spec precise enough to describe an "app" is a program. A person who creates such a spec is a programmer.
Sequence diagrams, as probably most other UML diagrams too, predate UML.
This seems so self-defeating by these companies. All this will do is push people to learn to develop on the web (arguably where they already are learning), while completely bypassing any built-in API's and stores. Sure, there's stuff you can't access without native code, but at a certain point why would anyone want to risk making their primary codebase dependent on one of these stores?

When FOSS tablets and phones become competitive, I'm really interested in getting one. Maybe even before they're realistically competitive.
Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers
Why Do Software Developers Get Rejected for Job Interviews
It is only a Supreme Court preview because the school is a (local) government entity and that the coach is a government employee.

This event CAN STILL be “cancelled” with the same scenario if it were a private school instead of a government school.

First Amendment applies only to government entities and its employees.

Caveat!
Monsanto.....doesn't exist anymore....Laughable people hate on Monsanto/Bayer for protecting their IP, but when big tech does it it's just good business
all of the reports are pretty tame in comparison with what they could uncover in war zones that involve the US. Taking a swing at US LEA is hardly something to write home about. Until they give me scoops at an equal magnitude say something that shows US black sites still in operation, or another Abu Ghraib or something about Gitmo? Nobody really cares about US racist cops - that's stuff that is anyway covered by WaPo & NYT.

Give me something of the same magnitude that got exposed by Manning, Snowden or Assange and I will be happy to believe that they are "neutral". But oh wait - they'd be in exile or dead. So my point stands.