skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I haven’t looked into that but there’s no reason to expect otherwise. Speaking broadly, farming optimizes for output and disregards the ecosystems that the farms are a part of. For each farmer, this is okay; it works for them for now. Taken as a whole, it is not okay and contributes to bigger problems later (sometimes for earlier values of later).

A greater understanding of farming trade-offs when it comes to ecosystems would likely obviate the need for farming insects in the first place. High up on the list is eliminating factory farms, and IMO all livestock farms and massive monoculture plant farms will have to be deeply scrutinized.
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Does internship experience count? I graduate in May 2021 but I will have more than 1yr internship experience.
There appears to be lingering long term inflammation and cardiac damage in a percentage of children after covid infection.

https://news.uthscsa.edu/post-covid-syndrome-severely-damage...
> but Russia enables the operation to not worry about consequences (a lot of ransomware will disable itself on Russian computers to avoid local prosecution).

I remember reading how supposedly adding a Russian or a few other keyboard layouts might fool some of the malware to ignore the machine [1].

I guess one idea for the Western intel agencies could be to play off of that, and somehow disable that check (infect their malware) such that it can and does attack the Russian infrastructure.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
We now have proof that it really is "going far beyond the author's intention". Texas licensed a poem for a standardized test. The poem's author was still alive, and was unable to "correctly" answer test questions about the meaning of the poem.

So yes, the English teachers really are spouting nonsense, and we have proof.
> In my humble opinion it is not Amazon who is at fault here, but our flawed human nature.

Good management should be taking human nature into account.
JBL 305 + 310S matching subwoofer will measure impeccably and play nearly full range with strong bass down to 27ish hz. Would have to catch some sale prices around black friday or some such.

Or this excellent DIY kit and basically, any solid 50-100W ish amp. Might push you up to more like $600. But you get the idea.

https://www.parts-express.com/Amiga-MT-Tower-Speaker-Kit-Wit...

I have a generally very high opinion of Wirecutter's bookshelf speaker and receiver recommendations - any recommended receiver and any recommended bookshelf speaker, basically. Although, most retail bookshelf speakers in this range might be more like an 80% experience not 90% lol.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/electronics/audio/

Another thing you can do for a very legitimate hi fi experience on a budget is to turn modest speakers into excellent performers with DSP EQ. Either automatically with a receiver that has e.g. Audyssey auto correction or with a MiniDSP etc.

Audio reproduction is, well, signal reproduction/amplification. Whether a driver produces objectively correct sound via excellence in physical driver construction and engineering, or via a DSP assist, makes little difference.
> I've seen "citizen developers" turn away from Power BI/Power Apps precisely because their M365/Azure admins are too micro-managing

I've been on both sides of the IT gatekeeping story, and enjoy the irony that we've gone full circle from the mass exodus of business users to SaaS to circumvent gatekeeping only for the success of those tools to introduce centralized management to appeal to more IT organizations.
The whole capitalist society is based on how much money (some) people have!
The academic research does not validate your gut assessment.[1] Remote work in 2020 was associated with a significant increase in worker productivity.

[1]https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...
Didn't Garmin pay a ransom? Which is more well known?
Only in Silicon Valley...
There is a vaccine
Denouncing and the Doherty Threshold
Most programmers haven't experienced the power of strict type checking.
Not having kids always struck me as a short sighted solution (not saying you are specifically advocating for it but there are those that do).

One/two/three less people will have negligible impact but if the most environmentally aware people are the ones not having children, not passing on their values, the next generation will be missing their voices. Fixing this is a relay race through the generations, not a sprint for an individual or couple.

If anything, the most environmentally aware of us should have more kids than average to help dilute the ranks of ignorant people and boost overall awareness. That would lead to higher chances of good leadership in 2060 and beyond.
I see a lot of outrage in here and I truly love that.

Honest question: would you express the same level of outrage, if the service in question was primarily a purveyor of political content that you disagreed with, or "hate speech"?

I see a lot of libertarian-minded comments whenever the service in question is some form of file sharing/hacker related service, but I don't really see much outrage when the same culprits use their weight to censor political content, and / or wrong think. PayPal, Visa, YouTube, Amazon, all of these big companies have been engaging in censorship.

Too many seem to be OK with others' rights being taken away, as long as they disagree with those who are losing their rights. How is that any different than what happened to this Tor supporter?
The equation itself is called "implicit" because it describes a set of points without making it obvious what that set of points looks like.

For example, consider an equation like `x^(2y) + y^(x^2) = -1`. This is a well-formed equation that describes a unique subset of the (real) plane, but it's not obvious what points are in it (or even, if any points are in it) at first glance.

The "normal" rules of calculus apply to _functions_. But `x^(2y) + y^(x^2)` is not a function; neither syntactically (since it refers to both x and y) nor functionally (since the relation ignores the sign of x).

Yet, despite not being a function, you can still compute an "implicit derivative" of the "equation". The reason this ends up working, hinted at by writing `y` as `y(x)`, is that the equation is equivalent to the graph of unknown "implicit function"(s).

But even this is slightly different -- when you do `𝒟(left) = 𝒟(right)` -- the derivative is an operator that operates on _functions_, so this is actually an equation between two functions, something that doesn't normally come up in "normal" calculus.

It turns out that all of the same algorithmic steps work out to be correct in this slightly different setting, but it does involve some things that are new, if you look at why the manipulations are happening and not just the algorithmic steps.
That's what I was trying to avoid to be honest. I'd like to keep the 5000 tabs and the tab containers. Maybe I should try migrating to a new profile. Thanks anyway!
I think they made the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines extra strong (and double dose) because we were in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Would've been still somewhat effective at lower dosage. Folks have tested Pfizer at lower dose, and it seems to work still. But being high dose and double dose probably has also helped protect well against variants.
Right?! My company was mostly remote pre-pandemic, and we've gotten more remote friendly during the last year. We share memes, conversation, movie reviews, etc. all over Slack/Zoom/Signal/etc. I'll just get random weird texts from one of my co-workers.

It helps that a lot of us have worked together through multiple companies, but even the ones that haven't... I've honestly never met my manager in person just due to timing issues and the pandemic. Literally all of our interaction has been online and we have a really good relationship.

As long as I have the choice, I will never go back to an office on a regular basis. WFH works for me.
Good luck if you want deterministic state replication across processes!
On a big phone it is really comfortable.
Yes I believe that is the information I was thinking of.
then get a job that requires less hours and/or less transit. Don't try to work at a place that requires a very high dedication with a lot of hours and then use wfh as a way to lie to you boss to spend more time with your kids when you are supposed to work.
Probationary periods are a thing, and in fact are the default form of hiring in many countries. If the intention of the policy was what you said then Amazon would have told these candidates "we are hiring you for a one year period, and will then evaluate your performance and decide whether to keep you or not". Their comp plan and stock vesting structure would have reflected this as well, and they could then make their decision with all this info.

The fact that "hire to fire" wasn't even an official policy but rather an off the books stunt pulled by managers should tell you everything about it.
I think it’s interesting that it appears ‘coming back to the office’ and ‘get vaccinated’ are apparently two different requests.

How does that work for unvaccinated employees coming back to the office? I certainly wouldn’t want to share a space with them.
Trump closes his ‘beacon of freedom’ website a month after launching it
Banning crypto currencies would have no negative impact on the real economy and end ransom payments overnight.
Many of the comments here would get you literally laughed at interviewing at 99+% of the companies (including tech ones) in the US. "Give me $50K more if you don't offer three high quality free meals a day."
Former AWS dev here -- the bar is the same but the workloads can be so insane that you meet the requirements faster than anywhere else in the company (there was one engineer that made principal like 5-6 years out of undergrad, which means they would've had to have been promoted every 1-2 years assuming they were hired as an L4). I think parent comment might be referring to more lenient stack ranking policies, I never experienced any of it during my time there but then again I saw teams with 20-30% annual turnover rates so no need to force people out when they're already showing themselves the door I guess :)
There’s a big jump that happens when you have no food in the house. No spoilage, no dishes, no pantry to stock. I didn’t even work for a company and this is how I lived immediately pre-covid in Mexico City. I kept the ingredients to make a protein shake, and had one at 11am after the gym every day. Then went out for dinner. That was the distinct downtime. If I wanted a snack, I walked to the corner store and bought one. It was a sweet setup.
I learned new skills and experienced personal and professional growth through the different projects I worked on and situations i found myself in.

I made friends and together we did an amazing job, made happy customers, and helped build a business, which gave me great personal pride and satisfaction.

The pay cheque showed me the work i was doing was valuable
To the customer, yes and bought me a house etc, but I can’t imagine being at a job that I also didn’t enjoy and see some purpose in, some utility that I was bringing to the world.
I remember being stunned in high school that people would get degrees and an entire semester would be devoted to finding hidden symbolic meanings that authors in many cases obviously didn't intend.

This was back when you could read Huck Finn. The teacher droned on and for over a week about how it was a symbolic journey of a boys growth towards manhood, how Huck was on the metaphorical river journey of overcoming racism. I said no, I didn't think that was what the story was about. It was just a story, in a certain time, in a certain place, meant to entertain, not to enlighten. She got really mad.

So I opened up the intro to Huck Finn where Twain writes the following:

*
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”`
*

I read it out loud in the class and said I didn't believe he was joking. He had foreseen the possibility of people like her arising and attempted to preempt it! I'll never forget her standing there with her mouth open and no answer.

There is deeply symbolic literature, no argument. But all of it clearly is not. And interpretation of symbolism in many cases is summoned directly from thin air. Turns out it's an entire profession!
“Widely viewed” is unreasonably charitable. IV is, in fact, a patent troll.
I was once called into HR for smoking outdoors on a balcony that no one ever told me was no smoking. No signs. I found the ritual humiliating and belittling. Then they had an issue for going to group therapy at the end of the day because management decided to get pizza and make everyone work late. I hated corporate culture with a passion. It definitely screwed up my creativity and productivity. If you like going into the office go, but let people like me work at home please. I like to write code, not fit into your idea of a new family.
Funny, I just found out about this today.

Infuriatingly, this behavior is _not_ preserved for the set type.
I was at Microsoft when the switch happened, and can confirm this. The only thing that changed after they dropped stack ranking was that employees were no longer told which performance bucket they fell under, and any comp changes/stock grants were now fully opaque with zero justification given.
I think you're forgetting storage

>The Australian study makes it clear that there’s far more resource capacity than is required. They modeled only 300-meter plus head heights close to grid connectivity with limited height dams and found 250 times as much capacity in the US as was needed.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/13/a-modest-pumped-storage...
my take:

1. It's an assertion. I think a punctuated equilibrium model is a reasonable argument looking at the last 250 years or so of technology progress but I agree he does not present data.

2. I understood this to mean that a breakthrough is a "combination lock" event that requires multiple positive events to align. If counter parties are more suspicious of you then the odds of a favorable interaction go from 50% to 30% so the odds crater.

3. Your reputation is bounded within a group context. Your weak ties are more likely to lead novel insights and (see for example Granovetter's "Strength of Weak Ties" https://sociology.stanford.edu/publications/strength-weak-ti...) by enabling unique combinations of multiple ideas.

I think your critique is accurate but from my perspective Lui's article represents some very innovative thinking that offer the core of several valuable insights.
A Modest Pumped Storage Proposal
For the specific case of doing a map or filter operation on a really huge list, I've found it helpful to yield the main thread every once in a while with a setTimeout(0) call. Usually this means setting your code up so it can do the processing in batches of, say, 10K items each. That way, you can do your processing without locking up other UI stuff on the page (like scrolling or animated loading spinners).
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Not sure how much more info to give, but the talk was given in the University of Hong Kong a week prior this posting!
For game dev my gut is that WFH doesn't work unless maybe you're on the library team and so need no collaboration. Game devs have artists, game designers, and programmers working together, passing the controllers back and forth, asking for comments on what's on the screen, etc....

Maybe there's some teams out there that are doing WFH well but every person I know on game dev has commented on how productivity is way down since WFH.
I think support people will claim they can't hear you in order to get the caller to hang up so it improves their metrics (short call time and the caller hung up).

I always say "I have plenty of time and will wait until you can hear me, and I won't hang up" or something along those lines. The connections always seem to magical improve after saying that.
As many of the best are.
Separate from dumb attrition goals, you'd think they'd also be tracking hiring vs reviews metrics. Hiring takes a lot of time and resources, and so does training new employees, so if you're firing a lot of the people you hire within a year (or whenever), you need to do better hiring.
Would you consider an intern position either full-time or part-time?
As long as you are enjoying yourself it’s fine right? I enjoyed that for a while too, but just developing became boring, so now I’m also trying to play office politics. Not in the sense of some machiavellan scheme, but previously I’d just utterly ignore it.
Funny, because I always think of Amazon is as a "non-cloud" company, especially when most think of it as a place to shop. Of course, I know it's not.

Seriously though, fujifilm is a conglomerate and known for their pivots. If they did not reinvent themselves, the would have been joining Kodak.
This was still straw grasping. Tactics and techniques get imitated all the time. Covering your tracks and laying down false trails is standard opsec.

This hack wasnt special in this respect though. Hack attribution is usually based on pathetically thin evidence.

For a high profile hack attack it really isn't feasible politically to say that you aren't sure who the attacker is, though. It makes you look weak and powerless.

Not being sure who the enemy is or being utterly sure and wrong for long periods of time is a weird feature of cyberwarfare that I'm not sure any country is capable of adapting to yet.
How is Lenna's picture disturbing or suggestive?
Really exciting.

In my dreams, humanity colonizes Venus much more readily than Mars, because Venus has much more energy to tap into, has a much stronger atmosphere, and at the closest point in orbits, Venus is far closer.

I envision Bespin-like floating cities, high above the ground, with long geothermal tendrils, designed to withstand the extreme atmospheric conditions, and convert heat energy into electrical energy.

Maybe, just maybe, these missions will inspire new research in the possibility of human habitats based in the high atmosphere.
You've lost me.
Yes F3 is the standard "start typing to find ANY command"
I wondered why the days felt longer. Thanks.
Imagine having that as your family history. There are still 50 or so descendants still living on Pitcairn today.
Most of them look for window events. I've not seen an RPA tool that actually reads the screen like a human, even though that's how you're thinking about it.
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I don't think that would be humorous to a human, either.

Intriguing perhaps, but then I expect most dogs would be intrigued as well.
Jesus Christ.

I eat well and spend maybe $400 a month on groceries and food.

I’ve heard that Google recruiters attempt to con potential employees into some ridiculous assessment of the “free” food as a compensation benefit with numbers like those that you posited above. I can’t imagine valuing daily meals that highly.
It doesn't now, but I can confirm that it was an excellent piece of software before. Thank you!
This is really nice. Have you given any thought to visualization of non-Gaussian processes / systems (think particle clouds, or systems that are mixes of Gaussian and non-Gaussian processes?)
Backdoor malware found on the Myanmar president's website font package, again
Same diff.
At least in Florida, my kids were never required to wear a mask to school.
I wouldn't be surprised if that comes someday, since there's already super basic painting on UVs, but "real" work tends to require exporting and working in some form of 2d app be it Gimp or Krita or whatever. Having the same level of functionality directly in the UV editor or even directly on the model to help deal with seams would make shit SO MUCH easier.
I never said there wasn't value in being vaccinated. Obviously it reduces death and severe illness.
From what I understand, AWS does this at the org level, i.e., an org is expected to have a certain URA rate. This is not an unusual policy in the tech world.

Personally, I hate systems like this. I can’t think of a quicker way to kill any loyalty or good will I might have to an employer.

Apart from this I think it encourages bad hiring, since hey - we can always just fire em. But on the other hand, a ‘firing people is impossible’ culture has its own problems.
New infections means new opportunities to mutate, does it not? So maybe it silently infects kids now, but, through infecting kids, it changes enough to evade current vaccines, or, starts producing more symptoms in kids.

I don't know how likely either of these scenarios is. But it seems like leaving kids unvax'd allows a possible reservoir of virus that could resurface and affect people.
Decentralised currencies just open up a whole new can of worms.

How do you reverse fraudulent transactions? What happens if your wallet is stolen? Who do you speak to when you need help setting up an account? On a macroeconomic level, it prevents the government from setting certain types of monetary policy that benefit the economy as a whole (although I may be biased there, as the Australian government bailed out the economy as a whole through economic stimulus in 2008 and prevented the spread of the GFC to here).

This is all assuming it's pegged to a stable asset like the USD. Bitcoin's average annual inflation over the past 5 years is around 3,000%. For comparison, Zimbabwe's inflation rate in the early 00's was around 500%.
But this is also true of any communicable disease. Rare serious complications taken with anything and not just to “sick” people.

We don’t go back to normal when the earth is a sterile disease free environment, we go back when the outsized risk of this particular disease reduces to the noise floor of everything else.
Off-topic, but I want to ask because you seem like someone who might have heard a theory:

Why do we appreciate beauty? As in natural beauty. A sunset, a rolling field, the stars, a colorful flower, etc.
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Right. The issue I have with this is that we have i7 models that are from 5 and 10 years ago with vastly different performance due to their generation. If it was more iterative it would make more sense.
There was a comment in yesterday's post about this, which applies here as well – there is zero evidence in the article that "hire to fire" is actually a thing at Amazon. Managers simply cannot hire people just to fire them because they do not have the final say in who gets hired and who doesn't. They can offer an opinion, the same as all the other 4-5 interviewers in the round, and then the bar raiser makes the final decision. The manager might not even be part of the interview round at all, and if they are they certainly cannot overrule anyone else's opinion.

This "fact" can be sourced back to an article from Business Insider which is pretty much blog spam at this point.