skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take away from this affair is how we again and again overgeneralize. It never made any sense to blame UMN in general for an action taken by arguably only a single department, and even holding them culpable is a stretch (this is in response to some people in another thread saying no one from UMN should ever be able to contribute to the kernel ever again to teach them a lesson).

It's not really surprising a bunch of academic-types were too far removed from open source etiquette - that removal is pretty much the source of the drama (this entire thing would've been avoided if a few key people were informed ahead of time).

My other take away is that it seems social engineering still is the most powerful type. From this to the Twitter fiasco - it's worth trying to make your workflow resilient against social engineering indeed - by the authors own admission, the process leans a bit too much towards pre-established trust and credibility. Unfortunately that trust isn't immutable, nor is it everlasting so it's a spot that can be exploited.
It's the grown-up version of school as a substitute for parents. In grade school, school holds your hand and ideally teaches you how to be functional in society and in groups. In college, the school holds your hand through learning to be an independent adult with freedoms and responsibilities, but shielding you from real consequences: bad grades? Probation. Drugs or alcohol? Deal with the school, not the cops. The office is just another iteration of that: can't meet people on your own? Just come to the office. Can't find meetups despite infinite facebook groups, subreddits, etc? Come to happy hour.

I understand why people like the office, but it's frustrating to be forced to go into the office just because other people aren't able to have a social life without an office holding their hand through it.
> The thing was a ticking time bomb that would have killed dozens or hundreds of people the next time a moderately sized earthquake hit, to say nothing of the cost of cleaning up the damage and replacing it.

It could have been replaced with a much cheaper and safer viaduct, instead of a tunnel boondoggle that was way too expensive.
When I ran cross country in high school our coach always said to go on the sight of the smoke not the sound of the shot. This was when the starter was in front of the whole mass of runners. Not sure if it ever helped me given we were mass starting a race that lasted for 3ish miles.
They were forced to retract the paper as a result of this debacle.
After reading many of the comments I agree with the decision to ban the University.
Why?
You are free to choose your actions. You are not free to choose the consequences of your actions.
The first version was actually in Rust, then Haskell and finally in Fortran.
You're speaking with a white person who has been charged and convicted of cannabis possession. It certainly seemed like a priority for them when I was in the back of the squad car, and when they knocked on my door and arrested me at 5:30 AM in my underwear for supposedly failing to pay a fine I had actually paid.
Taiwan China.

North South Korea.

Kashmir.

Nagorno-Karabakh. I have not seen this much in the social media.
ex-SAP, left voluntarily to try startup life

Never felt more secure and welcomed by colleagues and customers. They knew I was there to work on something they would rather not have to deal with, and I was happy to do it as a recent grad.

Might consider going back in my endgame :)
Vite is really fantastic, but I've had trouble migrating projects with vendored libraries that use JSX inside .js files. There's kind of a hard requirement that JSX lives inside a .jsx, .tsx, or .ts file.

If anyone has come up with a workaround, I'd love to here about it.
That example no longer applies. Equipment is orders of magnitude more complex now. Entire supply chains have to be established which can take years regardless of how much funding you throw at the problem.
That argument assumes women aren't interested in those roles, and that their disinterest is the only or primary thing that causes an imbalance.

You have to know that isn't true, which makes this a great example of why people are frustrated about discussing anything 'political' in the workplace.
Presumably your going to sleep somewhere. Anywhere you sleep that has a 120V outlet is effectively a charging station. Which means staying in a rustic cabin in the middle of nowhere for a weekend is still going to fully charge you for the return trip.

Generally you end up spending less time filling up in an EV than gas powered cars due to this kind of convenience. Filling up once or twice a week gets replaced with 2 or 3 fast charger stops on long trips and simply plugging in at home.
Most of the cost was labor, according to the picture in the article. I don't know which dining hall or cafe the "canteen" they're referring to is, but much of the food sold on Harvard's campus is produced by unionized dining hall staff with decent pay, hours, and benefits, which affects the costs.
Who will watch the watchers? It isn't like there was no crime/terrorism before 1995. Look at how ex-AG Barr wanted backdoors in everything but they "promised" to only use it responsibly and with warrants. Do you sincerely believe that?
Although democratic republics are now in heavily advertised fashion, I'm reminded of a small scene in Heinlein's Glory Road ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road ): in that story the 1960's American ex-soldier protagonist was picked up by the Galactic Empress for a tough but vital quest, married her and lived at the palace for a while.

At one reception, a guest asked him how were things back home, if they still had the "noble experiment". The American thought he was referring to Prohibition, but the Galactic clarified he was referring to democracy (and got punched.)
I'm not holding onto laughably provincial notions of cosmogony- it is just strange to start a history of a subject several years after its development, and only make passing reference to its progenitors. Krautrock developed into electronic music, including Kraftwerk, who coined the term 'techno'
The Architecture of Tomorrow
>Nintendo said they’re moving away from mobile because of how disappointing revenue has been, not to it.

The article didn't say that...yes that was apparent recently but it wasn't apparent in 2019 when Mario Kart Tour was just released.

I realize the pandemic warped people's sense of time, but in 2019 it was common belief people had that the switch was the last effort of Nintendo, and given Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo was trying to pivot to a mobile style micropayment model that everyone else on mobile does. You're messing up the order of things, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot. I thought I said that in the above comment but I guess I'll say it again.
They wanted to replace the A-10s because they are very vulnerable to modern anti-air systems. A near peer would whack em out of the sky pretty quickly. The solution is not the F-35, we just need a low RCS A-10.
Evolution of Random Number Generators
>We did something similar in 1918,

I looked at this a while back and, as far as I can tell, there were relatively limited interventions in the US. If you read beyond the headline of this link [1], for example, it doesn't seem as if you had much in the way of workplace closures and, in general the "non-pharmaceutical interventions" were for a fairly limited period of time. This study concludes they helped but the data is inconsistent and hard to interpret.

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/08/study-sa...

"The researchers report that all the cities used at least one of the three main categories of NPIs, and 15 used all three at the same time. The most common combination was school closures and public gathering bans, used by 34 cities for a median of 4 weeks. All the cities except New York, Chicago, and New Haven (Conn.) closed their schools for some period of time; the median was 6 weeks."
Twenty years ago, this incident would have been met with a "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." A decade back, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" would have won out. Now, I think The Kids would say "Fuck around and find out" (this is often accompanied by a stencil of an open-mouthed alligator).

No matter the form of the reaction, I am still left wondering at the proportions of disregard, hubris, naivete, and perhaps sheer lack of consideration of consequences that went into this whole affair. For the life of me I simply cannot imagine anyone patting me on the back and saying, "Good show on that paper, old boy! Smartly done!" Was there nobody in the whole group who had reservations? Were any expressed or were they simply hidden away? I am sincerely curious as to how it managed to get to this point.
C2 is "Command and Control" server I guess. VT no idea.

EDIT: Someone else commented below. VT is number of scans on Virus Total website.
The commute to & from work is 2.5 hours of my life for which I don't get paid. This is time away from my school-age kids. Not to mention everytime there is a Covid scare in any one of their classes, I will have a kid who has to transition to online learning. No, I really don't see how I can justify going back
VirusTotal?
Maybe. Or maybe there are enough pure speculators where some art really does just get passed around for a century to different investors despite remaining in some storage facility the whole time? Don't know anything about art collection, so I have no clue.
What states are you comparing? Massachusetts and NYC locked down pretty hard and their post-April numbers look pretty good compared to, say, Texas, Florida, and South Dakota.
VT = virustotal.com, a popular site to check unknown binaries.

C2 = command & control, a server which tells the malware what to do.
pikchr is awesome. A project I did recently was a WASM-compiled pikchr library to generate diagrams directly
in the browser [1]. Here's a very early demo of a live editor you can play around with [2].

Not fully-featured yet but what I'd like to eventually do is set it up in a similar way to the mermaidjs editor [3]. They encode the entire diagram in the url. That makes it really easy to link to from markdown documents and has the nice benefit that the diagram is immutable for a given url so you don't need a backend to store anything.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pikchr-js

[2]: https://pikchr-editor.insert-mode.dev/

[3]: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid-live-editor
Show HN: Pruning Machine Learning Models with the Shapley Value
The website this was posted in seems to be a company offering network monitoring tools. So they probably saw it in one of their customer's systems.
Nvidia Updates GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Throttle
The right wheel appears to be elevated, per another article they both threw their bikes forward at the finish. That would impact the view from this angle to the point where I don’t see that as definitive.
> The old saying still holds true: one should not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.

To the contrary, my takeaway from these events is a further erosion of the credibility of Hanlon's razor.
> A regular 120v 15a plug in someone's wall will give you 100 miles of range in 6-7 hours.

For anything other than an Aptera, this is going to be really optimistic. For a Tesla Model Y LR or 3 LR, 7 hours on a 15A 120V will get you 10%. This is closer to 30 miles than 100 and a bit less at interstate speeds.

With a 20A outlet, you can bump that up to 14% and closer to 40 miles.

The Model S and X will do worse than this.
You were quoted in a VS Magazine article!
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/04/19/vs-2022...
This study made the rounds in 2020 - Attenborough wrote a forward and was heavily involved in the press:

https://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FFI_2...
I never want to work in an office or around other humans again (besides loved ones). I never enjoyed it at work or in school. The pandemic has been the best time of my life because I've finally gotten a break from having to be around people unless I choose to. I'll probably be going back to the office, and I'll definitely be looking for fully-remote opportunities moving forward.

WFH makes the days easier until I can buy a house in the country and hopefully go days without seeing other humans.
VirusTotal, online virus scanner and file sample collection

Command & Control - server coordinating a botnet
In a more business sense, Id say this is a mixed bag.

I have some clients I'm extremely open with about team and jobs costs. Usually more experienced people who know we're all here to make a dollar, know a good job isn't the cheapest, know everything looks simpler before you actually do it. Generally operate on my preferred methodology of 'everyone be reasonable'.

With some people, not always but often more junior, I limit detail. Some people want to micro manage quote breakdown pricing, question and screw down individual costs to the bone. Or use your details to improve their job plan and go to the next vendor and see if they can get it a bit cheaper. Etc. So when you know these people or feels like it will be, as few lines as possible is best.
I am not terribly surprised to learn that code review processes for the kernel are not as stringent as they should be. However, I do wonder whether the kernel's defect rate is significantly different from that of NT or XNU, and whether the situation could be significantly improved. I thought there was large institutional investment in Linux kernel development, but if the existing developers are horribly overworked and stand no chance of properly reviewing every patch, even from existing contributors, clearly the project needs more resources.

I'm glad that this situation has prompted reflection on these issues for kernel developers though. It seems like the best possible outcome.
Eight long years to overnight success
I recall Google coming to our career fair (maybe 10 years ago now...) and they weren't taking resumes or doing interviews, it was just them talking for a minute and telling you to go online to apply. Still had a queue of people probably 30-50 deep waiting all day.
> Ownership of a Fortnite skin guarantees that only the owner can wear the skin.

Is that guarantee in the cryptographic sense or policy sense?
I'm actually seeing a little of the opposite. I've seen some little caesar's pizza locations advertising free access to their 14-50 outlets when their own vehicles aren't charging.
I'm in India. I really doubt I will be able to make out of the current mess alive - so, no, I won't be going to back office even if I wanted to.
IBM is HAL
Key takeaway from this update:

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.
> Because by accepting these measures now I can guarantee they'll become the new norm just like the changes after 9/11.

What measures are you referring to with this? Masks clearly aren't going to stay around, and there's a push to reopen everything and get life back to normal as soon as possible.
I never lived in Japan, I know about a few issues (from hikkikomoris, suicide rates to good old mafia) but there's something fascinating about that country. Tell me if I'm wrong but their sense of aesthetics, minimalism, precision is special.

I argued with a colleague who worked for a japanese import/export company, he said they were crude, dumb and sleazy.. mostly succeeding by hiring hard working foreigners. That's one viewpoint, but I've also seen documentaries about early semiconductor industry in japan, and while they lifted a few patents, they did do their own share of hard work to turn them into workable devices (to the point where Japan became a reputable country in the field, from audio to computing).

Same goes for animation, Akira was a masterpiece of detail. The gaming industry was great. Ancestral toolsmith (famous katana blacksmith process).. samurai code.

More recently the manufacturing paradigm (toyota/lean).

There's a lot to love from there.
Teslas are expensive, but the compliance EVs are quite good now and the economics are more compelling. We pay about $0.01/mile to fuel our Bolt. I had a Tesla P3D and it was a little more expensive, but still nowhere near the cost of gas, which is about $0.10/mile. Just in fuel savings alone it was an easy decision for us.

We leased our Bolt, because the price was great ($6K for 3 years at 15K miles/year). When we replace it in a couple years, we will buy something similar, maybe another Bolt (GM really did a great job with this car IMO), and keep it until the wheels fall off. If something happens to my pickup anytime soon I may buy another gas-powered one, because I don't think EVs are likely to be good RV-towing machines for a number of years yet, but I don't expect to ever buy another ICEV daily driver.
Rolling sounds good for proprioception. My toddler enjoys being rolled around, and I remember rolling as a kid, and having to adjust to keep going in a straight line. Thanks, I’ll do it again.

Also thanks to this thread for the nudge back into morning exercise. “The Five Tibetan Rites”[0] is a dynamic set that can be committed to memory easy enough, as one example. Jogging around the field with an aging-but-still-faster dog for the morning perimeter check/mark also helps.

[0] https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites
interesting that they admit that going forward, they don't really have the resources to fully vet all submitted patches to the degree necessary to prevent something like this from happening again. seems like, if nothing else, this has proven the Linux kernel as pretty vulnerable to similar, more malicious future attacks. there's no real easy solution to this problem
How does only allowing yes or no answers increase nuance?
The full name of the movie is “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It’s based on a novel by the great Arthur C. Clarke.
Before that there was the lawsuit culture.. I wonder if it faded.
Nuclear power had huge setbacks due to environmental concerns accepted by a majority of the people. Also, the ban on supersonic flights over noise pollution.
Practically, yes, absolutely! Theoretically, we want the "black box" learning system to do such feature extraction itself. At least, that is the goal.
This is a reasonable and balanced analysis of the situation. In retrospect, it seems like the reversion of the 190 patches was an overreaction that ended up causing a lot of confusion: many people even on HN misinterpreted the comments on reversions to believe that bad patches were committed to the source tree or to stable.

But besides the lesson that one ought not to be deceptive with submitting patches, is also the lesson that the kernel is not as well reviewed as one may hope and with some effort, it's certainly possible to add an undetected vulnerability. I think that's probably one thing that led to the drama, is that the fundamental trust and work of the kernel was attacked, and the maintainers felt the need to fight back to protect their reputation.
I'm surprised by how small Xenia is, 11.1MB to emulate an XBOX 360!
There's absolutely no correlation between lockdown policy and mortality. For example, click the link above and compare Florida to California. Florida has been wide open since last summer (over 9 months now) and has performed about the same as California. And you can cherry pick Hawaii, but New York and New Jersey have been among the most strict lockdowns and they find themselves in the top 3.

It seems to help to be an island country or state though, or a geographically isolated region like South Korea or Alaska, as they can screen people coming into the country and there's not a lot of cross-pollination with tight border controls.
Matrix Fortran code can be faster (due to more information for the compiler)
This seems pointless on so many fronts, especially a waste of engineering resources at Nvidia. Last time they accidentally broken their own throttle.
> Political polarization is older than social media

Yes, it was widely reported in debates in ancient Athens and the Roman empire.

But I wrote "Social media did a lot to foster outrage and destroy nuanced thinking.", which is different.

Humanity has never seen before a billion-dollar industry generating user engagement by fueling online altercation.

Instant gratification, dopamine cycle addiction and all of that.
> A landlord can only charge what a renter is capable of paying regardless of taxes or value on the property.

If there are no/insufficient renters able or willing to pay rent above some point, then that strongly implies what the actual value of that rental might be. So I'm failing to see where what I wrote would be "not numerically correct"; if anything, that only serves to demonstrate my point, no?

> Also, high property taxes do not penalize development. I live in an area with high property taxes and it’s one of the fastest growing areas in the country for the last 20 years.

Seems more likely that the growth is in spite of the high property taxes, and that converting those property taxes into land value taxes would improve things further. Numerically-speaking, a general property tax does penalize development, since more development = more overall property value = more property tax; the rental demand might be sufficient to make it worthwhile to develop anyway (because the increased rental income exceeds the increased property tax), but it's still a hindrance in that equation.

Contrast with LVT, where the tax is an active driver of development rather than being some minimum bar that not everyone will be see as worthwhile/profitable to hurdle.
Sorry for the downvotes you get, it's appalling. The whole piece is superficial and riddled with inconsistencies. I guess we can take it as entertainment? It's what non-marketers think a growth marketer does, just put in text form. I'm not here to make friends, but if you state that you got 21% increase, you better show the work. In a world where everybody lies, you better have proof.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2569814/fourier-tra...
If this is what I think it is, I want it. I truly do not like all the tools out there for doing deployment -- CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, Terraform, Ansible, the various container management schemes. If I can just create a little config file, push code, point, click, and deploy, I will be happy. I'm happy to live within a simple, opinionated environment if it strips the complexity out of the process.
Just create a whitelist in email if that’s what you want.
>Apple is hardly shy about marketing itself as a purveyor of luxury goods.

And why would they?

Should they instead market themselves as a purveyor of shit goods? Sounds like a sure fire way to increase sales /s
Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
My recollection is that most of the multiple solutions are actually just cases where you're supposed to identify one correct solution, but how that solution actually maps to the very limited possible choices is ambiguous.

This is most annoying in (I think) chapter 5, which is where you get some of the more difficult characters to identify, dying deaths that are somewhat ambiguous, involving some of the supernatural aspects of the story, all in scenes that can only be visited by going through other scenes (so it's hard to go back and check them).