skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The interviewers (senior developers within the company) really just did not get it. Responding with questions such as: "Is this going to make you any money?", and "When do you expect this to be complete?".

I would expect that to be followed by, "Just kidding! I have side projects of my own, and that's what my wife says, haha! Don't you hate that?"
I'm not sure, but this probably fits the facts better: the Romans figured out how to make cement with volcanic ash and salty sea water, and it turns out that it gets stronger with age.

It's not clear to me that the Romans knew that, or that it informed their choice of that building material. I suspect it's more that they built with what they had, and got lucky that it turns out to be incredibly durable stuff.
Well you can try to reach a human being at Google and see how frustratingly impossible that is.

Even Amazon has live chat any time I need it. Google has no real competitor, so doesn't have to provide customer service at all. It's more fuel for the "break up big tech" meetings that I hope come soon.
I worked in the hardware lab for a while, and we had the incredulity to ask why they didn't do just this. Turns out, our director told us "it set a bad precedent, and if they did this with us other teams might be encourage to do this as well." As you might have guessed, the hardware lab was not the most social and 1/2 of us didn't drink, so bars were out.
If you want to raise the bet to a few billion dollars I'll happily take you on.

But that's just a question of scale - if you have a rando-blockchain you use for immutability internally then how trivial would it be for me to spin up five servers to outhash you and rewrite history?
"A democracy loses something central to the concept when a restricted group has a very concentrated power (be it political, as in the case of pure collectivism, or economic, as with pure capitalism)."

Yes, it's concentrations of power which are the real enemy.

Unfortunately, no matter how many dictatorships, oligarchies, monarchies, theocracies and kleptocracies the world suffers through, we never seem to learn that lesson.
Patagonia. I don't know a lot more though.
Think about it this way: every time Google shows that to you, it's taking a bit of PU's budget that's not being spent on a receptive audience.
Due to possible enemy infiltration of our computer systems and spy networks, there were multiple levels of secret data that had to be coordinated to allow airstrikes (one level of secret information) to avoid enemy radar(a different level of secrets).

The location of enemy radar sites was very tightly held information, as knowing what we knew could reveal means and sources of information. The actual airstrikes would eventually be known by the destruction of enemy targets. It wasn't possible at the time to have a computer system which could allow the mixing of these levels of secrecy. This meant everything had to be done by hand.

The development of Multilevel Secure systems by the Air Force in the 1970s is a direct result of that experience.
I don't think that's what's happening here for the most part. Many NFTs are not even purchased with crypto, they're bought with credit cards or bank transfers on sites like NiftyGateway.
This would tarnish their reputation
> we're likewise declaring a restriction to unicode.

U+1E is a Unicode code point, and therefore requires escaping inside of a ‘no-delimit’ sequence of Unicode characters.
It is Belarus, yet he is talking in Russian. Though it is pretty obvious that he isn't really talking, he is reading the text behind the camera, and evidently that text is in Russian.
"typical German conglomerates"? Funny expression. You mean, like the three or four there are in total? Why does it matter that it's german? And how does this differ from a typical "us conglomerate", or "chinese conglomerate" or "tajikistani conglomerate"? I am smelling some resentments and stereotypes right over there ...
It's worse than that. I can take the same exact digital image and issue 2 different NFTs for it on the same blockchain. Only the NFT itself is "provably unique" not the thing it represents.
I think the difference is that, with NFTs, you know someone else is losing out BIG time and, being a compassionate human being, you feel sad that they're being taken advantage of. In the cases of inherited wealth and the lottery, huge numbers of people are losing out to an infinitesimal degree, so it doesn't seem as bad.
Fixing duplication is never hard because by nature, duplicated code will drift over time even if it shouldn't have. So it's technically not "duplicate" anymore even if they are supposed to do the exact same thing.

Fixing a bad abstraction is only hard because there's some weird culture about not tearing down abstractions. Rip them apart and toss them on the heap. It's a million times easier than finding duplicate code that has inadvertently drifted apart over time.
Despite your incredulousness, I maintain my account's truthfulness.

Thank you for your comment.
I worked for another company acquired by Siemens and it went quite well. Profitable, full of world class people, chill atmosphere, and you get to work on some pretty amazing challenges.

It was a bureaucratic beast, for sure, but definitely the best place I've ever worked. That being said, this was a business unit that was very complimentary to a lot of their other BUs. So the acquisition was for growth, not to destroy competition.
TLDR:
The CDC doesn't want to invest time and resources into tracking vaccinated people who test positive for COVID unless they experience serious symptoms.

Critics point out the advantages of greater data collection for studying COVID. The ROI of data collection is subjective and not seriously addressed in the article.

The tone of the article suggests that the CDC isn't doing it's job.
> I thought “remote work” already meant this?

I think since most people's taste of remote work happened during COVID, so home was the only acceptable remote work place.
If you check the Indiegogo history for them, Dasung has released several previous e-ink monitors and you can find reviews of them at the various tech news sites. There are even usually a few of their previous monitors to be found on eBay so their products aren't vaporware, though one has to wonder a bit why their owners are selling them off.
That doesn't smell right. I've got 15 year old knives that have never once shown signs of rust. A pair of old scissors left in the rain rusted in under a day. That puts the factor to closer to >10000 than 10 or 100...
In Spain buildings older than 50 years are required to be inspected and mandated to make reforms if necessary. I doubt it's much different in the rest of Europe/north America

Also, buildings don't fall all of sudden. You would get a lot of cracks and problems before your building collapses
Actually not probably that weird. May be a sort of impedance mismatch between academia and software scenes. It's very common in academic circles to be quite jealous of ideas, especially good ones. The academic game is often to get your name associated with some good idea, and this is what carries a researcher in their career. I find this rather counterproductive and try to avoid it myself.

I'm a researcher but I have a background in software development, and especially open source. Academia is way behind software in openness, which is rather bizarre as the institutional role of academia is usually seen as providing new ideas and challenging old thinking so the community can prosper. There's some kind of a bug in the current academic culture that causes it to freeze up when it should fulfill its promise to share its findings with the world.

Probably a good way to debug this thing is to follow the money and why on earth do we have these weird hats and robes?
Has anything ever improved after an assassination?
Emergency braking requires quite a bit of range, which ultrasonic sensors on these vehicles definitely cannot replace. They can probably see 10 feet in front of themselves at most; any reaction would be way too late.
Given past "innovations" in the space of building materials, I think this is just about the last place people should be complaining about needing to comply with regulations...
nit: Android was purchased before the iPhone was announced.
As a point of interest, recycled concrete is referred to as "urbanite".

https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/demolition/urbanite...

It's definitely a case of downcycling, though: there's a lot less we can do with urbanite than with cement and aggregate in their original forms.
With the art market, at least you're buying something. Ownership is being transferred. As far as I can tell (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong), with NFTs you're effectively buying nothing. The seller could just turn around tomorrow and make whatever it is you have worth literally nothing (if it wasn't already).
I would ask questions about it.

1. MIPS, eh? Say, does your assembler automatically fill branch delay slots, or is that manual? Does it just fill them with noops, or does it move instructions from the branch target?

2. Do you have all the pseudo-ops, so that a move doesn't have to be expressed as add dest, src, 0 type of thing?

3. Is your assembler syntax compatible with other assemblers? Is the object format?

4. Is there a regression test suite?
Those are services that can be provided by others on any Android device, including those sold by Google. The fact that others aren't providing those services doesn't mean Android itself is meant to lock in users (or to collect data / serve ads), only that others haven't found a reason to provide those services. Google also provides many of those services on other OSes it does not develop (e.g., Chrome push notifications and Widevine).
If you also need a refresh about memory architecture (banks, rows, etc.), this is a slick overview:

https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece740/f13/lib/exe/fetch.php?med...
It could only solve the two language problem if the "users" were writing their program in Julia themselves. Otherwise your ideal solution is still using two languages. And if they are writing their program in Julia, there's no reason to compile your code into a shared library; you'd just share a Julia package with them.
Do some research about exactly who is randomly attacking all of these Asians. You'll find that I'm right: it's basically just a huge uptick in black-on-asian violence.
Fiber-reinforced cement composites are an interesting alternative:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/suco.2017001...

Some German researchers seem to think that carbon fiber-reinforced polymer "rebar" could be more durable than steel bars with similar cost and lower weight:

https://www.aboutcivil.org/carbon-reinforced-concrete-buildi...

Unfortunately, the terminology is not well standardized, and when you look up "carbon fiber reinforced concrete", you never know if you're going to get a fiber-reinforced cement composite (incorporating carbon fibers directly into the cement matrix) or a CFRP rebar system. Regardless, there do seem to be some improvements on the horizon.
It's a last-gen device. Why not interpret the lack of fanfare -- by design, a user won't even notice the swap -- as a soft launch?

The smart home space has always been a shit show, from the radios up. It's a separate bag of rats from launching a research OS on real hardware.
Lots of comments around code quality, primarily as it relates to testing.

The real code quality sin here is that R, a vectorized-by-default language, is being used to employ for- and while- loops everywhere. It’s strange to see given the absolute plethora of R resources available aimed at avoiding just that.

But props to the economist for releasing the code, anyway. I’m a happy subscriber and will continue to be one.
It is possible to choose not to work at a big company.
>Then why are wills permitted and enforced?

Wills are for the living, not the dead. It is a coordination mechanism to reduce conflict between heirs. It obviously doesn't function perfectly, but otherwise every death would result in legal battles, or, as has been the case for most of recorded history, physical violence.

Also note there are significant legal restrictions on wills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
So now all the same old finance jerks are making money by manipulating a huge unregulated market to scam everyone (ponzi schemes, pump and dumps, outright theft, etc)… with the added bonus of wasting huge amounts of energy and making computer hardware scarce.

What are the upsides of crypto again?
> The people who are buying these are just burning^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlaundering money.

FTFY
>This is the point you are trying to make but you just keep repeating it without backing it up in any way.

Do I really need to back up the claim that what applies to the rare talents doesn't automatically apply to everyone? That should be the default assumption unless proven otherwise.
The NFT is not the image/media - it is the transaction securing a relationship and/or movement of tokens from the artists wallet to the buyers wallet (which may or may not point to a file hash, or some other data).

The authenticity of this is easily verified by querying the transaction directly from the on-chain smart contract.
“This app forced me to give it a good rating before I could use it.”
I didn't mean to sound condescending, and if I hurt any gimp devs, I'd like to apologise.

I... Partially agree with you that every UX is "engineered" but that depends on how far we're willing to stretch that definition in the design domain.

I'd hardly call any workflow I design an engineered one (even if I like this field), when compared to something produced by an UX designer (or a team of them) who specialises in the field. Maybe someone put a lot of thought into the gimp UX, but it seems like a wasted effort (or maybe it was just inexperience). I don't know how to phrase this without it sounding insensitive, though. I'm not criticising the people, just this instance of their work, so I hope it inspires them to improve. I'd like to see Gimp become as successful as krita or inkscape (which had UX issues for years, too)

I realise gimp is free, but there also seems to be a general attitude amongst gimp contributors that they think the UX is fine, while most people (in my circles, at least) disagree with that view
Just to shout out that Raspberry Pi Press produce some excellent print magazines, albeit very beginner-focused.

Whether they'd be a profitable standalone business I don't know, but as a whole the Raspberry Pi operation seems to be very successful.
This reminds me of the recent uber post that talked about how uber SEEMS simple because it is just a few screens but it has to handle thousands of possible international language and location permutations. And keep the install under 100MB or whatever the app store not over-wifi limit is nowadays.

How does uber default the language for you? They've got the advantage of your registration so probably easier...
It was actually mostly serendipity! They’ve never created a factory from scratch; every single one was the purchase of a struggling, poorly-managed little place on the verge of bankruptcy, but with an order book. Each one had its own set of strengths and weaknesses, and they figure out how to use the combined entity to maximize each ones strengths.
I am unfamiliar with the US employment law, but isn't the job offer a contract? Therefore I am assuming you would still be compensated, and its simply a matter of finding your next gig?

Or is this as simple as the offer could be modified and therefore your shafted?
yeah, after pulling long hours to meet ridiculous deadlines, the last thing i want is to be required to spend even more time with coworkers instead of just been given time off.
To be clear, the article is discussing reinforced concrete—concrete made with steel rebar, which rusts.

Unreinforced concrete can and does last for many hundred years. Reinforced concrete, not so much.

FTA:

“Early 20th-century engineers thought reinforced concrete structures would last a very long time – perhaps 1,000 years. In reality, their life span is more like 50-100 years, and sometimes less. Building codes and policies generally require buildings to survive for several decades, but deterioration can begin in as little as 10 years.”
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Why should people who lived thousands of years ago have an indefinite claim to a piece of land and the materials upon it? Why should we leave the pharaoh in the pyramid?
> Then why are wills permitted and enforced?

Wills distribute the estate. Once it's distributed, the new owners can do what they want with it.

> Barnes Foundation

"to be honored in perpetuity after his death"

Such things should not be legally binding. What can justify a person controlling their estate a year after death, a century, a millennium? It's absurd.
Gumroad is in for a bit of direct competition by a behemoth. I'm sure they won't have good sleep in the coming months.
You can estimate gradual changes like that by looking at a long-term graph.

Here's a graph from before the pandemic, including a (now out of date) projection:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...

(Note that the slope looks exaggerated because the baseline isn't zero.)
I’m a huge fan! Great work team! Love your tools!
While this explains how the problem happens, they should still fix it.

I do agree that people get overly outraged when it's likely an honest mistake by a minimum wage worker.
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I agree with all of your points and I probably would never use this product. That being said regarding Linux support, given the fact that Fig effectively needs to hook into your terminal emulator and your shell to drive a custom overlay, it seems like it would be a huge headache to add support for Linux given how heterogeneous the terminal setups can be on the platform. Imagine having to support urxvt running zsh on X11 and the gnome terminal running bash on Wayland or xterm running tcsh or...

I think on Linux it would make more sense to directly modify one of the many existing terminal emulators to add this functionality or you'll have to severely limit the supported configurations.
I took an engineering course on concrete 30 year ago. There were a lot of additives and techniques described which improve various properties but it seems like 30 years later cost is the biggest consideration.
I think the main reason they stopped referencing that claim is that "two-language problem" means too many different things to different people. But yes, real static compilation would be great.
This is an interesting comment on the Linkedin page:

In my experience, This is actually not that surprising, don’t find yourself cornered by such situations, always get offers more than one and then keep them on their edge until you have joined. Such is corporate life.
This is an interesting idea, but their conclusion could be a coincidence.

They might have inadvertently just been covering a standard slide into extremism from normal users, and the fact correction response might not have had an effect on the users.

Also, political facts / misinformation is very hard to judge accurately. For example, just a few months ago, Politifact was calling the "lab leak" hypothesis a "Pants on fire" falsehood. Now, it is being presented as a possibility.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2021/05/20/politifa...

This study also appears to have had no control group. Odd.
Gumroad had this since 2011, 5 years before you filed your patent.
In America, you're basically on your own. Unless you have a lot of cash and social connections and can afford expensive lawyers, there's not much you can do.
Aren’t these quite different things with similar copy?

Gumroad seems to me to offer a way to eg sell copies of your pdf. This stripe service seems to be a way to make a link saying “that will be $79.82 please” and collect payment (and maybe some other details).

I.e. Gumroad provides some online store for a single digital product and stripe offer a way to collect money for anything but they don’t handle actually giving you the thing. Obviously there is some overlap but the pitch is different.

Edit: maybe I’m actually wrong and these are really similar. The thing I described above is more like an invoice for which this maybe isn’t suited (pay an invoice once/periodically but these links may be hit many times). So I’m not really sure now
I don't know if that's a fair reading of the functionality. It seems likely your mistakenly pasted password will generate an autocomplete and the (mis-)matched "spec" command will be sent as the telemetry, e.g., pasting "gi)#(RCS23!_)(U" into your terminal might result in "git" telemetry, not the password itself.

It's one of those things that is just trivial to introduce breaking changes to, though, intentionally or otherwise. And as-is the functionality does share what amounts to the terminal activity in normal cases.
> It wasn't possible at the time to have a computer system which could allow the mixing of these levels of secrecy. This meant everything had to be done by hand.

> The development of Multilevel Secure systems by the Air Force in the 1970s is a direct result of that experience.

BTW, this stuff is not just for Air Force folks, either. Multi-level security is the most principled approach around to efficiently mitigate pervasive information-disclosure vulnerabilities like Spectre. The current approach to mitigation has us flushing speculation contexts down the drain even when sensitive info is provably not at stake, which is wildly inefficient compared to what's theoretically possible.
Semi-related: One way to test if you have stray capacitance is to bring your finger close to the circuit and see if readings start to change.
It's also used to break people. It reduces a person's self worth when he confesses to something he didn't do. It makes him feel like he let people down.
In most of the US, employment is "at will" [sic], meaning your employment can be terminated any time for any, or no cause.
My original claim was that the scientists who wrote that letter and went to the press saying it was a natural origin helped frame the debate in a political lens rather than a scientific one. It became politically expedient for many mainstream media outlets to claim the lab leak was a conspiracy theory based on statements made by scientists with clear conflicts of interest, in direct response to a sitting President claiming it was a lab leak. Should Trump have just gone out and said that without presenting a coherent argument? No, but the media shouldn’t have called lab leak discussion the talk of crackpot conspiracy theorists either.

The evidence I listed is so strong that it’s now being seriously considered by many scientists, including Fauci who originally said it was far fetched. Saying its circumstantial to deride its importance is anti-scientific. And I’d clarify that even last year it was remarkable that the incredibly effective Chinese govt couldn’t produce evidence of a biological spillover 4 to 5 months after the first reported cases.

I’m not saying any of these scientists were directly responsible. Was gain of function research irresponsible? Probably, yes. Should these scientists go to prison? Of course not, not without evidence of bad intent. But should we at least have been these discussions last year? Yes! That’s all I’m saying.

Edit: I will point out that there is some serious evidence against Daszak for authoring that Lancet letter and declaring no conflict of interest when his org was partnering with WIV, which was the lab coming under scrutiny. That alone does deserve some serious investigation into why he’d lie about that. Him and any scientists who signed the letter who were also involved with Daszak or WIV.