skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year. Can I just join your team? You have a lot of interesting projects available."

MGR: "Actually, it's really hard to onboard new people right now. We're stretched very thin. Can you do this urgent project for us and then get back to me?"

MGR: <onboards some new hires>

ME: <finishes urgent project>

ME: "So, any chance I can join the team?"

MGR: "Actually, I'm not sure we really have space on the team anymore, I'm really sorry about that."

Takeaway: If you're in a meeting with a manager and they sound completely unenthusiastic, and not even making eye contact, and falling back on their basic lead training to feed you non-committal apologies, you have lost hard. I don't know how you messed up or what clues you misread, but there is nothing for you there. Stop hoping to strike gold. Run.
Great point! Currency selector coming soon. Would you recommend demoting the theme selection to like a last step in the onboarding process? Or not showing it at all during onboarding and leaving it for users to find on their own?
They're often special cases of general algorithms. You can do many divisions as combinations of multiplications & shifts; in this case, the resulting code simplifies down to the smallest possible.
With how I see software being developed in most companies, I don’t think there is much time left to consider social aspects in any significant ways. Today’s development is too agile for that. Analyzing social aspects and impacts would require deep thinking and there is no room for that in agile development.
Russia and China have announced that they’re now settling 50 % of their trades in Yuan. Iran and China continue to trade under the table. And now Iran also authorizes crypto.

The over use of sanctions by the United States is beginning to backfire and will massively weaken the dollars dominance in the next 10 years.
Coursera and Microsoft Collaborate to Launch Azure Fundamentals Specialization
Nearly an order of magnitude reduction. What do you think of that?
Alarming but otherwise China and to a lesser extent Pakistan take control of the narrative to their own advantage. At least the Modi government doesn't lock people in reeducation camps. India should remain a secular state though.
Oh you can definitely put together where I work in a few Googles. Not everyone cares equally about maintaining pseudonymity; the boilerplate isn't meaningless if your employer is explicitly requesting it as a CYA.
The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes
I had the pleasure to have a preview version. Matthias really care about helping founders and it really shows.

So much to digest, especially for technical founders, I am looking forward to regularly come back to the book in the next months.

Thanks for supporting founders.
I think it has something to do with one's tolerance of other people's version of truth.
The hex dumps are the front-line in cyber war. You're supposed to see those strings.
It’s one of the oldest cities with modern amenities.

When Rome builds its line into the heart of the city, they dig down very deep; where it’s unlikely that any ancient artifacts will be found.

Meanwhile NYC has 7.4k miles of sewage lines and a lot of unknowns: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/nobody-kn...

This isn’t meant to be a dick measuring contest, just that it’s a city that wasn’t really planned and so progress is painfully slow.

https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/projects/open-sewer-atlas-...

Yes, there’s a lot of graft, turf battles, and so on but then has its own unique set of infrastructure challenges.

Then you have building collapses due to age or shoddy workmanship; not related to boring, but clearly a concern as they extend the line:
https://ny.curbed.com/2015/3/26/9976560/explosion-leads-to-b...

NYC is dense and in Manhattan especially there’s no real business district vs residential.

It’s like code that is legacy and heavily used, with very powerful stakeholders. Retrofitting takes a lot of work and red tape.
The big difference is that Lolita is a book, so it aims to be published, while most if not all AI Dungeon content stays private and unpublished, so I don't think it's the same.
The funny thing is I can't even vote with my dollars. Most of the ads I get are for insurance companies that have already refused to touch my century-old house with knob-and-tube wiring.
I don't know what data backs this site but you can start here and do some comparisons

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
What it is, is that HR exists to serve the company. Helping you onboard, get your basic finances straight, resolving conflicts, etc, ultimately serves the company (or is neutral to the company, so free to be executed under moral/friendly obligation without repercussion) — a happy employee is a working employee (and resources suddenly quitting in anger is not good for anyone).

So they help employees, but it’s to a large degree self-serving (even if the HR person himself does not realize it — it’s why he doesn’t get in trouble for wasting time on it). But when it becomes actively detrimental to the company, always assume HR will make the decision in favor of the company.

Treating HR as generally hostile is also a bad idea — the assumption of hostility is often met with the same, and now both you and HR are acting slowly, carefully and inefficiently — but never assume they’ll always be your friends. They’re generally friendly, and they may even be considered friends, but ultimately their loyalty is not to you.

The same is true of really anyone in the company — your boss, your coworkers, your attorneys, etc. Their loyalties are always to themselves, and their families first (by which job preservation is a very strong incentive), and maybe you fall in line somewhere.
The LM does return to the CSM before the burn so it is conceivable it was needed for some preparatory step before TEI. Perhaps a fuel transfer or some guidance calculations or some other maneuvers. That it was jettisoned before the burn tells us nothing about the necessity of the module up to the moment it was jettisoned.
About the development of, distribution of, and continued stability of access to natural resources... which benefits everyone.
You still need webpack for production build :). So all is good.
Yes/no?

I mean I'm pretty sure there is massive demand for affordable housing (especially in Manhattan!) but there's no incentive for developers to shift towards that vs bilking the everyone out of as much as possible for more "high end" construction.

The current system "works" for the people taking in the money, which they can then use to lobby the people giving the contracts to continue the current paradigm.

As with most things related to capitalist enterprises I think the solution is pulling people kicking and screaming from their beds and dragging them to the gallows during a revolution, but that feels unlikely...
Deaths per capita: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

Cases per capita: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covi...

Attribution to lockdown or not is insufficient to determine these numbers. Mask adherence, population size, and climate are also important.

Top 10 deaths per capita are dominated by New England and Southern states
That may be the case, but Tokyo sits on one of the most active seismic faults in the world.

Buildings need to be solid (actually, they are often built to jiggle around). Friends who were in Tokyo when they had that horrible Sendai earthquake, said looking out the window from the 20th floor was scary as hell, but the buildings were fine, afterwards.
Chrome is considering removing HTTP2's push feature. I use it on my websites when there's not a same-origin referrer, but apparently not many other websites use it. It's really only useful if your html + css is less than ~14000 bytes. I know it causes a lot of confusing cache issues in some cases though. The alternative "103 Early Hints" doesn't look very useful to me because it still requires a full round trip time.

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6302414934114304

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/K3rYL...

Not sure if HTTP2 push is what you're referring to.
There's no specific optimisation for these specific numbers. There's a more general optimisation to turn division by a fixed number into a multiplication and shift where possible (because division is a lot slower than multiplication), and there is another optimisation that eliminates useless shifts. Combined they yield this result for these specific numbers.
They gave him a fucking Emmy in November:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/1...

And he published a fucking book in October:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Crisis-Leadership-COVID-19-P...

Broken doesn't even begin to describe it....
Thomas Ligotti proposes a theory which I will paraphrase badly as "people who like horror need a horrific reality they can cope with, because the horror of actual existence is something they cannot face". This rather neatly makes those who do not like Horror the insensitive ones, reversing the more conventional view.

There's a bunch of other stuff about The Nightmare of Consciousness and so on in his book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
Would you take on a hive of bees with "caveman technology?"
> The only incentive that you (the politician) have to vote for things that favor the company is that, if you don't, they may not advertise for you next time.

And also that if you do, you may be able to go and work for them for good compensation when your political career is over.
‘I think Stravinsky is one of the creators of minimalism,’ says Currentzis. ‘This is the challenge of his scores. They don’t have a definitive quality about them, where everything is set out. They are more like medieval scripts.’

Some fascinating insights here. For those not aware Chailly is one of the most distinguished and Currentzis one of the most exciting conductors alive today. (See the latter's recent Beethoven 7 [1] for some really exciting music making).

[1] https://www.classicalexplorer.com/the-return-of-currentzis-b...
i'd like to find these numbers for base9 vs base10. see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67226727/is-there-a-way-... if you look at that sample golang code, is that the right way to go about this? Or is there a much simpler way already built into a high level language like go?
Really impressive. Congrats!
what if they were wrong? they'd both crash the BTC price for everyone, plus stick themselves close to a billion dollar write down (is Bitcoin 'inventory') or capital loss. I doubt this carefully organized stunt overlooked the importance of ensuring the market pump punchline hit.

that is to say, I don't think tesla had any worries that someone wasn't ready to take the other side of their ask, very likely the round trip was already arranged from the day they agreed to take a billion in BTC onto their balance sheet. if elon can 'prove' the market has liquidity, everyone backing Bitcoin wins big, Tesla included.
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2021 Results [pdf]
I'm sorry for being frustrating! This criticism is valid, and I've edited the article to clarify that I meant market value. I hope that makes it less nonsensical.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
It is pretty unlikely that the earth has ever been visited by UFOS due to the physics laws such as light speed and the size of universe, the closest starts where is likely that there is life, are thousands of years away. For instance, the closest galaxy, Canis Major Dwarf, is 25 thousands light-years away from the earth. So, a trip from a galaxy like that to the earth would take thousands and thousands of years. Even the light coming from this galaxy is the image of 25 thousand years ago. That might be the reason the academia is skeptical about UFOs. Another physical limit is that nothing can achieve the speed of light and even at the light speed a trip to the galaxy would take 25k years.
Apollo 15, 16 and 17 did perform nominal EVAs from the command module after the lunar landing, to retrieve film cassettes. To this day they are the only 3 deep space EVAs ever made. All others have been either in Earth orbit or on the moon.
The parent commenter was sourcing "the NSA accused..." with the accusation, not making a claim as to whether the accusation was true.
- you use the auction house hack to inflate the value of the painting from $1_000_000 USD to $20_000_000 USD buy buying it from yourself

Isn't that a realization event right there?

Obviously, the described scheme could still work if you sold one painting to yourself, and then donated N paintings based on that valuation.
https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
Why would you rely on a company that is banned? https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/09/us-finalizes-r...
i've made a headless implementation in python for communicating between my server and my desktop

https://github.com/metallkopf/konnect
If you want to learn more about Vite, I recommend that you join Vite Land (https://chat.vitejs.dev). There is a very active and helpful community, and there are tons of opportunities to collaborate in the creation of plugins, integrations, and to improve Vite itself.
This is going to be the most surveilled generation in human history up to this point. Can’t wait for brain computer interfaces being mandatory to prevent cheating in 50 years
Until a few years ago, I was skeptical that North Korea had the technical expertise to pull off some of the hacking that was being attributed to them. In the past 5+ years, however, it's become increasingly clear that they have a well funded and dedicated team of competent hackers.

The NSA and CIA, on the hand, are always assumed to have some of the best hackers in the world. So when I read that some huge exploit with multiple complex 0-days chained together has been discovered, and it's being attributed to the USA and/or Israel, I usually assume that's true because very few other countries have the ability to pull it off.
The link is included in the article ("Kaspersky’s full description is below, from its <link>quarterly APT report</link> released today.")

The linked article's url is https://securelist.com/apt-trends-report-q1-2021/101967/ , which is from a site called "SECURELIST by Kaspersky".
One of the interviews in the "Sugar Coated" documentary was about a pair of athletes that faced the same trouble.
The importance of monitoring depends on your needs.

Do you need to know if your website or service goes down?

If your website or service went down how soon would you want to know?

Do you need to know if your server's CPU is running at 90%+ for more than 10 minutes?

Do you need to know if your server's disk usage has passed 90%?

The right monitoring tools check for these kinds of conditions and can alert you as soon as problems occur or when problems are about to occur.

Whether they are worth the cost or not depends on your needs.
It even has things like zip-ties and other miscellaneous items priced out. It's still a rough estimate for a minimal install, but I've undertaken DIY home improvement projects that were in this price range and my estimates weren't quite this detailed.
For anyone who's not already familiar with Schneier,

> Bruce Schneier taught his dog to do a secure handshake

https://www.schneierfacts.com/
>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Posting the same site twice in 2 weeks seems more than "occasional", and in my opinion, crosses the line from "look what I made" to self promotion.
"Shoot first and ask questions later" isn't a great doctrine for diplomacy either.
Seven seconds? Looxery, Lad!

Way back in the 90s, it was pretty common to have 30-40 minute kernel compiles.

Having said that, I can't remember having to compile a kernel for probably 10-15 years or more, ever since we have had loadable modules.
The US should consider itself lucky that its well armed neo-nazi lunatic fringe and the Orange Man were better at racist shitposting than pulling off a coup d'état.

"Pretty good" sounds like a B, but I'd give this last election a C- at best.
From https://web.dev/floc/ in section "Do websites have to participate and share information?"

> For pages that haven't been excluded, a page visit will be included in the browser's FLoC calculation if document.interestCohort() is used on the page.

> During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page loads ads or ads-related resources.
A great video about the The Vavilov-Lysenko Contention
https://youtu.be/eDteTc9aEKQ
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/195696/do-chemic...

Seems the unanimous answer is 'yes', which surprised me. I considered that chemical bonds are actually changes in electromagnetic potential (i.e. similar to the leaves in a Leyden jar repelling, converting electrical potential to gravitational potential). With no change in mass, I expected that the relativity equation would zero.
> the problem here of course is that it is not so easy to define what "societal interest" are at any moment, plus what makes Twitter qualified to pass judgment?

As you suggest, there is no absolute way to appraise societal interest, since interest is in the eye of the beholder.

The value of the methodological shift TFA highlights is not to define a societal interest but rather to change the way content is evaluated.

Instead of using the first amendment as a metric, TFA says social media proprietors are now using a different frame - whether content is in the society's interest or not. That's something that individuals are free to argue and differ about, which of course they will, in each individual case. The point is, to win the argument, they have to demonstrate something different than conformance with the first amendment. They have to make the case that including or excluding certain content makes the world a better or less worse place.

This change leads to debate and consideration about the merits of content, or at least, its effect on members of the polity. Using the example of holocaust denial, which gets a free pass when judged only by the first amendment, an argument about censorship has to take account the impact of the speech on individuals. That's a significant step towards enabling empathy, which might actually improve the quality of public discourse.
Perhaps it would be better if there was a trusted co-op that ran a telemetry service that package maintainers could opt into and create integrations which could properly anonymize and provide open data for analytics. Similar to how npm shows the number of downloads.
Xbox Is Absolutely Killing It for Microsoft
I hear you, and agree with you, except I've worked at multiple non-tech companies that still had better people than the consultants that were brought in.

I worked for a tools company and we were the ones pointing out that the consultant's solution, intended to be a consumer application exposed to the world, was not written to actually have multiple nodes for any sort of scale up or fail-over. When they added that, we were the ones that pointed out it fell over at 10 RPS and didn't recover without human intervention. Etc.

I think you're maybe explicitly thinking of internal IT groups, rather than internal software groups, and I would agree with that, because, again, misaligned incentives. IT is all about preventing change; you don't want to risk breaking key services, and so you try and ensure that every interest has a representative and that change only happens when all of them sign off on it. That is a very slow and very flawed way to create -new- things of value, and because of that, deferring all of that to a different entity makes a lot of sense. Just, that different entity can be an internal software group more efficiently than an external one, I've found.
How much $$$ could you have made developing this solution without the middleman (Accenture), how much did they bill the client, and how much of what they billed the client did they pay you for your work?

Why not go straight to the source and sell your services for the full amount they billed as a consultant?

This is HN after all, get that money you deserve or use that idea for a new start-up to solve client problems at scale
Wow, the New York times has truly hired or acquired everyone.
The feature exists, as shown here. But it is clunky, provided by a third party. The more elegant solution would be to be implemented in the core product but turned off by default of the concern you’ve mentioned is the actual reason.
Nor can alternative stores provide automatic background updates.
Program in C (Parody song) – fasterthanli.me
Yeah I've heard about it and will be looking into this. But I haven't actually ever seen it in the wild anywhere online which makes me wonder why it hasn't gained traction much.

For a country like India, the solution needs to be dead simple. Exploring a mastadon server a bit, it doesn't feel like it would cut it.
I don’t understand what Modi is doing. It seems like many huge companies based in the west will be looking to leave China (as much as possible) in the next 5ish years and India is a democracy perfectly situated to grab all of that economic productivity. They have the education, the infrastructure, and the population. All they have to do is be a bit less dictator-y than China and a bit more respectful of human rights.

That should be a pretty low bar. But for some reason when Modi should be positioning India as “we’re not like China” he instead seems intent on repeatedly pointing out the similarities on the international stage. It just seems really short-sighted to me.
The original meaning of "religion" in Arabic ("Din") is law. What you call "religious error" is tantamount to "illegal behaviour" to others.
He did get hired as full time eventually.

But I don’t know why he took the second offer for contract work other than lack of options, as they say “fool me once…”
The thing about LUTs is that it's only mathematically valid if you know the type of data the "input" is--and I'm not just talking about oh is it an 8 bit image or a 12 bit image.

It needs to be aware of the color space and EOTF (an extended idea of "gamma")--which is why LUTs are only used in very controlled scenarios (e.g. for videography, the input color settings are fully detailed, for example Sony's slog, so the LUT is a reproducible, mathematically sound operation)

"RAW" photos from cameras are what we call linear color space, where the RGB values correspond linearly to the amount of light received by each photosite. If you try to use a LUT designed for RAW on an sRGB JPEG image, you're gonna have some problems, at least without screwing with the color space.

It's why I kind of gave up on trying to use LUTs in photo editing, it's just so unreliable.
Building Least Privilege Policies with the AWS Policy Advisor
So the basically reinvented the shuffle button?
OK, so by at least two measures in the blog post, we are due for World War 3.
In many cases it is indeed not so simple:

* Most nontrivial Windows program would get very confused if exposed to a trivially mapped Unix filesystem. It's not so bad if every program would use environment variables to locate stuff, but you can't discount the possibility that some of them hardcode paths. Also, application data in Windows is usually kept in a common folder, while in Unix filesystems it is usually split across `/usr/bin`, `/usr/share`, `/usr/lib` and so on.

* Many Windows applications store their configuration in the registry. That part is not too bad though; it should be completely doable in userspace.

* The application might issue system calls that have different semantics, or that don't even exist on Linux. TA is significant because it paves the way to an efficient implementation of one of these system calls.
It goes where it came from