skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to enjoy Schopenhauer, and am still fond of him, but his student Nietzsche has taken his place for me, a cheerier, funnier companion. Well, like me, Nietzsche was inspired by Emerson throughout his life. Emerson was never funny, but always inspiring.

Santayana's Egotism in German Philosophy is one of my favourite books in philosophy, a history of German/"continental" thought from Leibniz to the Nazis—published 1916. Chapter II, The Protestant Heritage[0] begins:

"The German people, according to Fichte and Hegel, are called by the plan of Providence to occupy the supreme place in the history of the universe.

A little consideration of this belief will perhaps lead us more surely to the heart of German philosophy than would the usual laborious approach to it through what is called the theory of knowledge."

Gold! I love Santayana's gentlemanly, restrained sense of humour, so superior to, say, Russell or Nietzsche's savage mocking.

The best short thing I've read on Hegel is William James' essay On Some Hegelisms[1], and the long Note at its end, where he recognized Hegel-style thinking in his own crazed thinking while on nitrous oxide. Very funny, insightful stuff. After all, psychological experiment was James' own field:

"It is impossible to convey an idea of the torrential character of the identification of opposites as it streams through the mind in this experience. I have sheet after sheet of phrases dictated or written during the intoxication, which to the sober reader seem meaningless drivel, but which at the moment of transcribing were fused in the fire of infinite rationality. God and devil, good and evil, life and death, I and thou, sober and drunk, matter and form, black and white, quantity and quality, shiver of ecstasy and shudder of horror, vomiting and swallowing, inspiration and expiration, fate and reason, great and small, extent and intent, joke and earnest, tragic and comic, and fifty other contrasts figure in these pages in the same monotonous way. The mind saw how each term belonged to its contrast through a knife-edge moment of transition which it effected, and which, perennial and eternal, was the nunc stans of life. The thought of mutual implication of the parts in the bare form of a judgment of opposition, as 'nothing — but,' 'no more — than,' 'only — if', etc., produced a perfect delirium of theoretic rapture. And at last, when definite ideas to work on came slowly, the mind went through the mere form of recognizing sameness in identity by contrasting the same word with itself, differently emphasized, or shorn of its initial letter."

[0] https://archive.org/details/egotismingermanp00santuoft/page/...

[1] https://archive.org/details/willtobelieveoth1910jame/page/26...
But their paper argues that the null results were due to A)using tasks that do not have the strongest association (i.e. they did not measure fluid intelligence), and B)setting baseline lighting levels too brightly so that pupils began at the minimum possible size.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00100...

So we will see going forward.
> When I was at the office, it was not uncommon for someone to walk up and strike up a conversation that lasted 20 or 30 minutes and was completely unrelated to work.

I was in an office setting in late 2019, and was often told "go ask so-and-so, he/she knows the foobar/etc". And... when I went to their desk, I was... interrupting. But I was told to do that. And... for the 'company as a whole', I guess you could say it all balanced out and they did knowledge transfer of what I needed to me, then everything eventually "got done". I was painfully aware that I was an intrusion, and was preventing them from hitting whatever deadlines they had to hit. But... this is how the management structured stuff. No scheduled time to document (and update existing docs) from what I could tell. Just "go talk to so-and-so". And that was seen as a 'benefit' of being in the office.

It didn't help that some of the people I'd go to were actually quite hostile to this, and took it out on me some. Some just ... answered some questions then... trailed off and stopped responding to me (weird). A couple folks were quite helpful, but the process was still an unaccounted for interruption.
I was thinking something like the Wintergatan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
We can only talk about breaches on the day they happened otherwise it's propaganda?
As someone who works specifically in this subgenera of computer security (ir) I can say a few things that might add to conversation in a meaningful way.

1.) There is a cottage industry in this space that sells kits for these randomware compromises. Everything provided is off the shelf, this is why you’re seeing such an emergence in this space. It’s not that the barrier to exit from a ransomware attack cost decreased (cryptocurrency). The barrier to entry lowered, any jerk can pay a small amount of funds to buy a software kit and instructions on how to do it.

Furthermore this is also why you’re seeing so many public defacement go politically neutral (ironic given the times). It’s simply a relatively lucrative, with a low amount of risk, and only requires the technical aptitude of someone capable of using BitTorrent/Tor/Warez.

2.) Hiring / Managing security teams - unless you’re in technology or selling security as a part of a product you can’t afford a quality team/tools. Most business are trying to optimize their cost centers to maximize their profits. As such most of the time that means it’s a race to the bottom to get them to be “insurable”. Salary + Software is expensive. 500k minimum investment for an meat processing company or whatever is not the easiest pill to swallow.

3.) companies that pay this are not good judges of security talent. They don’t know if the herjavec group really is an effective detection company. They judge almost entirely on feeling. Same with that one fast talking hoodie wearing self proclaimed hacker talking out of their ass.

Not understanding what you’re hiring for also creates friction, since any deviation from the fantasy security hire they imagined will be met with extreme resistance. “I thought they were going to sure up our servers, why do we have to log in on our email every 8 hours now”. Often times when an executive leader does not understand why security trade offs are made they just make the decision themselves (pro tip they’ll accept the risk) and you’ve failed regardless as an employer and employee.

4.) the industry does very little in a practical sense in preparing people for these job functions (with a few exceptions). Security engineers often have technical skills in spades.However, if they don’t understand anything outside of security they are going to fail. Civil Communication/ debate, the ability to navigate political issues, understanding the business etc are actually super important. The biggest tragedy was that someone internally probably saw this coming but couldn’t actually get the messaging across.

When you combine all of these elements you have a confluence of shit. It’s once again getting less expensive to perform a wide attack with little know how intersecting an industry that has yet to course correct.
After the Beirut explosion, I don't think that simile is as reassuring as you meant it to be.

I'd be happy to abandon the Uranium circus entirely.
You just described “double tracking”. The point is that we blur them into a singular event with spatial definition, but I digress
Luck and the Entrepreneur, Part 1: The four kinds of luck
10 years later, still no mass market product like this widely available

or anyone know, please ?
From your post,

[2] says, "Maj. Justin Lee, USAF is an active F-35 Joint Strike Force pilot"

[3] says, "I'm an F-35 fighter pilot for the Air Force."

... both of which seem to suggest that he's still active?
Any suggestions? I'm not going to argue with myself :) I merely explained my understanding of how federal policy works, the good and the bad, because I get rattled by cynicism.

Imo a great way to get things done in Canada is at the municipal level, but the money often comes from the federal. c.f. Montreal's current admin (I did my small bit, even ran for office)
MongoDB Announces Versioned APIs
As a side note, because the common argument for thorium is proliferation, you can do similar things with uranium. Not all uranium cycles will lead to weapon productions (IIRC MIT did a study and found no significant correlation between power generating countries and respective nuclear arsenals). You also can of course do Megatons to Megawatts[0] which is a far more efficient method for dismantling or retiring your nuclear arsenal. Just factors to consider that I don't think many are aware of.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
In 2018/2019 discussions about open offices vs private spaces were all the rage. Bean counters (C*Os) were fast to position open offices as great promoters of interactions and teamwork.

Fast forward 2 years and thankfully that conversation has moved to WFH vs office work.
Unfortunately, many of them hand down rulings which conflict with UK and other local laws. At the very least they are conflicting systems — to what degree is a point of contention among legal scholars in the UK, as outlined in the linked BBC documentary.
The Bounty mutineers' settlement on an uninhabited island also comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty#Pitcairn
Could you share the metrics on which you as a BR are evaluated? Employee retention? Time to hire?
> The internet. The vast, vast majority of companies that are the backbone of any country. The financial system that runs credit and capitalism. All these things were built in the office or it's equivalent.

Exactly, this is what we were able to achieve while being constrained to being forced to work in an office. Never before have we had tools good enough to empower individuals to work from home and an event to force as many people to work from home.

Free of this constrained mindset, that massive achievement is only possible together in an office, think how much more we will be able to create, build, improve and succeed with even more flexibility.

Like someone else posted, that's the equivalent of saying, because it worked in the past its the only way it can work in the future which is not a growth mindset. We're now empowered with tools to unlock more ideas, creativity, and innovation than ever before. Best of all, we don't have to do it in a noisy and crowded office when we don't want to.

I'm excited to go back to the office, but only 2 or 3 days a week. I can't wait to continue working from home 2 to 3 days a week still be able to contribute just as much as if I were in the office, if not more. I also switched jobs throughout this period. Achievement is just as possible as before. WFH won't change that negatively.
HIV has a transmission rate below 2% - I'd still suggest wearing a condom though.
Ask HN: Algolia, for Google Scholar?
I often use the Algolia reader to look through past Hacker News entries, and find popular articles (hn.algolia.com).

Is there something similar for Google Scholar? (scholar.google.com).

I think it would make it much easier to surface and find interesting research.
Try VS Code &/or Visual Studio Live Share or a similar feature on another editor.

In my opinion it's a much better programming experience than having your laptop and sitting next to someone so that you can each look over at each other's screen.

Also by mid afternoon you might not want to sit physically that close to someone.
Does this mean there is no carrier virus? You just apply the spike proteins directly to the skin?
It's propagating over french areas. Even overseas.

The health minister said it was caused by an upgrading problem, while Orange (phone infrastructure owner) said it was a device failure.
Fuck extroverts
No, I'm not entitled at all. I work more when I am WFH because I don't commute. I work for less when I WFH because less goes a long way in a rural area (where I'd have to commute from if you make us go to an office). I am highly productive when I'm WFH because I don't have to go 3 buildings over to another meeting and waste 15-20 minutes of completely unproductive time so you can shake my hand in person instead of waving over a zoom call.
Pidgin has, or at least had, more usage than you might think. I know that it was the typical Jabber client at Oracle a couple years ago. It's been superseded by Slack/Teams/Zoom recently, but it's not exactly rare. Also, if you were going to profile network admins or ops people that might be interesting to target for attack, they're more likely than most to be running Pidgin.
Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life
It's very unfortunate that the WFH experiment didn't turn out to be a 100% winner. We had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do all office work from home for the rest of our lives, and it certainly feels like that most companies didn't love it. There are obviously some exceptions, but what matters is what 90% of them will do - and right now it looks like that they will be asking for on-site presence somewhere in the range of 3-5 days. There's a massive difference between 100% WFH and 20-40% WFH: you cannot live wherever you want. I am really bummed that we as a collective society didn't come out of this thinking that 100% is the way to go.
Think a lot about the Friends episode where Rachel starts smoking, to join in on smoke-break chat.
Technology company Cloudgen admits to H-1B visa fraud involving Indians
If you're paying rents/mortgages close to your work, those savings from AC probably disappear pretty quickly.
The first 15 of 24 instances of the term "Upside Decay" that are actually in the article title/body are not at all definitional. Somewhere between 1 and 15 I stopped caring about whatever the writer is either too cool to tell me or assumes I already know and decided to count instead...

The 16th use gets close: "Upside decay is preceded by a lack of virtue."

The 17th, 18th, and 19th invocations get closer still (but, pardon my French, sound like astrology):

> There’s a good reason why lack of virtue causes upside decay, and why virtue isn’t just a feel-good luxury: weak ties.

> Weak ties control upside decay
> Unvirtuous actions cause upside decay through the mechanism of weak ties.

The 20th use is the first to say anything I'm comfortable with calling a definition:

> Without weak ties, organizations resort to strong ties and hard assets. This leads them to adopt a mercantilist approach. Their zero-sum mindset alienates others and makes them even less virtuous, because their positive-sum actions are now viewed suspiciously by others. Left with no choice but to double down on their zero-sum approach, they’ll antagonize all their weak ties and enter upside decay.

If you write anything, please don't do this. If you must, put a disclaimer at the beginning that says the article is too cool for people who don't already know what upside decay is. Or a link to the definition. Anything, really, that shows respect for the reader's time.

Edit: or, per slowmovintarget in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376573, a disclaimer that this is notes on a talk.
I recently heard about a tool called Miller that helps convert between JSON and CSV among other formats: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

mlr --c2j cat documents.csv > documents.jsonl

Converts a CSV file to a JSONL file
This isn't very helpful, but yes there is a term for it - however I have forgotten what it is. It's something like "god complex" but not quite that. Sindre Sorhus actually told me once but I can't find the message off-hand.
How to Parse Notarization Tool Output
I tried. I stopped at ‘pip install whatever’ in nix.
A Google Employee working from home could save $200/day versus getting a fancy limousine to go to work.

Nobody buys prepared food every day, and the costs of food are negligible for a Google employee.
The article somehow embraces tracking and targeting attrition yet acts surprised that the natural result is planned attrition.

This "stuffing the deck" used to happen at Microsoft too before they dropped stack ranking. It meant any fresh hire could never truly know if they passed interviews or if they were setup to fail. It is one of the many absurdities caused by stack ranking.

A good manager will collect and maintain a good team. Asking everyone to churn their teams means a healthy team of power players is just not allowed.

Beyond hiring to fire, having under performers is also a powerful tactic in stack ranking. It allows managers to reward their power members with more raises.

Frankly any aspect of stack ranking is a curse. It sounds great from the top level but currupts companies from the bottom up.
My ranking is:

1) WFH

2) dedicated office

3) cubicle

4) quitting

5) open plan office

Not every employer gives you free meals, and when they do, you may not always like them and may still want to eat something else.

Commuting can many hours of your time. I have more valuable things to do with my time rather than commuting.
Pandemic Remote Is Not Normal Remote
For what it's worth, OCaml is a great under-appreciated language forever dented by ugly (in my opinion) syntax and oddities like different operators for floats and ints. There's a good reason the folks behind the Reason ML fork changed things up.

Swift is another great language - forever dented by being tied hand and foot to the Apple holy garden and Objective-C legacy and runtime with memory-related keywords such as 'weak' and 'unowned'.

Nim (and perhaps D) are the closest in my mind to the "garbage collected Rust" in that they are not only garbage collected, but they are procedural-oriented, can write highly generic code and macros, and come with near-C performance. Given the "Pythonic Rust" title, another edge Nim has is its semantic whitespace, very Python-esque syntax.
Those are all great advantages of working at an office. Unfortunately they are inconsequential compared to advantages of working from home.
I kind of enjoyed the absurdity of it, but I openly acknowledged it was a game. Fortunately discussions at my highschool after freshman year were less about the teacher imposing their will, and new ideas were the most rewarded. It was fun racing to support tenuous conclusions before anyone else could.

Spanish Literature was an especially exciting class. I still think one of the greatest accomplishments of my life was writing a two page Spanish paper on a 12 line poem and only receiving marks off for grammatical mistakes. My teacher even wrote "haha" in the margins next to one of my more ridiculous explanations, but didn't say it was necessarily wrong.
I used the improvisational analysis techniques I learned in those classes to entertain art student friends in college sometimes. Especially popular with free drinks in an art gallery.
This isn't just a truth about management, it's about human nature. The minute we start tracking a specific metric, it gets gamed into a useless metric. Look at the Cobra effect, politics, school districts 'reopening' for 1 day to get reopening funds, or a thousand other examples.
If this was a programming/deep-learning thread, we'd all feel like we'd better shut up if we didn't have anything actually insightful/knowledgeable to say.

But when it comes to neuroscience and psychology threads, everyone here thinks they know a lot and wants to comment. But if there is one thing that the majority of HN know next to nothing about its neuroscience and psychology, but boy do they have opinions. Its like a bloody kegger.
Bold prediction on China.
A large clock like this is an aesthetic work as much or more than a functional one, and a good design would make sure those aspects were consonant with each other.
The links are dead, but the citations are valid. Here are working links:

J. Gutbezahl, How Negative Expectancies and Attitudes Undermine Females' Math Confidence and Performance: A Review of the Literature. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED380279

E. Spertus, Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists? https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7040
I agree - not sure there will ever be this kinda leverage again in our lifetimes
There isn't a carrier virus for the mRNA shots either. It appears that is how this works. Check out HD-MAP for more info on the patch technology too
Propaganda doesn't neccesarily mean a lie. The best propaganda is propaganda rooted in reality.
It sounds like that pill variant is an anti-viral treatment, not a vaccine, though. Still an excellent development, but it would complement vaccination rather than competing with it.
This is a wonderful read on the "portable dumper" https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/

https://web.archive.org/web/20191030205003/https://dancol.or...
The first one is going to be expensive, but subsequent plants if they're built will likely be cheaper. The whole point of your article is that standardization and repeated construction of the same design reduces cost, while first-of-a-kind projects are more expensive.

Not every watt of energy is equal. Energy that is produced intermittently, is not interchangeable with dispatch-able energy. Renewable trail-blazers like California and Germany area already saturating the electricity market during peak production hours. The remaining carbon emissions are occurring when renewables aren't producing. That's a gap that only geographically dependent sources like hydro and geothermal, or nuclear are capable of filling. Or fossil fuels, which is what we're mostly using now.
Thanks for sharing Haveno. Sounds like it's not a mature app though. I would recommend Bisq as a more refined alternative:

https://bisq.network/
I promise to you that there's a job out there that would change your mind. It might be impossible to get it for a number of practical reasons, but please know that those jobs do exist. I am only sharing this to encourage you to look around.
Sounds like a cool technology - basically 5000 very tiny needles instead of one standard one (though conventional vaccine needles have gotten very small). I wonder how much it costs to manufacture.
> then you can filter by those characteristics without the automated process being "based on the physical characteristics of an individual's face" -- you'd just be filtering on a DB column like any other.

A case agent looks at the still photo from security footage, concludes the person is male and white. They put that information into the mug shot database and it returns the subset of all mugshots that are male and white. They have just used a semi automated system to assist to ascertain the identity of the person in the security footage based on the physical characteristics of their face. This is forbidden by the ordinance.

>what if your system is much more accurate guessing ages for some racial groups than others, or more accurate in distinguishing between white and latinx than between latinx and asian? Suddenly your "filtering" process can also have a bias problem, where some people are more likely than others to be included in the results for a query which shouldn't actually include them.

What if it isn't? Doesn't matter. It's a tool to attempt to match two photos. If a tool is not as effective due to the way light and different skin tones interact, it just limits the leverage factor of the tool. It doesn't make it wrong and it isn't an infringement on people's rights. We use DNA matching even though it can't distinguish twins and sometimes it comes back and says it's a close match for Bob which leads them to suspect Bob's brothers family, e.g. Golden State Killer. I fail to see why tools have to be perfect or not be useful.
Which is ironic as usa benefited a lot from scientists who fled germany in the lead up to ww2.