skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a data migration tool that, unknown to me, reset the counter for auto incrementing indexes. I had used those counters for serial number fields.

There are hundreds (thousands? It’s been a long time) of high end bicycle components in this world laser etched with overlapping serial numbers because of me.
I think there are lots of "porting" artifacts.

Like the "attract" screen when playing on a console which previews the game in a loop. (guess it came from arcade games, or maybe like DVD menu screens)

No need for that with a PC game - you're launching it manually, why add a "click to continue"?

I am amazed by those reaaaaallly wide displays - developers in the 1990's might have predicted 16:9, but 32:9??
I wonder if I would be safe to use this if I removed all my sensitive passwords from the browser's password manager and/or harddrive?

Does anyone know what is at risk from these exploits?
Hey look at that, another Winnipeger. Winnipeg, as well as the other small prairie cities I'd imagine, also have the disadvantage of just not that much competition and not that much in terms of newer rentals. When I moved to Vancouver 6 years ago, I doubled my salary from ~42k to ~80k. Most of the well paying jobs from that time were for Java devs at the big 3 or 4 insurance companies. If I wanted to work there, there weren't really many nice apartments nearby. Some were built way out in burbs, and now there's a few downtown and in Osbourne, but it's slow going.
Paternity tests solve the male problem and child support laws solve the female problem.

When both of those are in effect, does jealousy dissipate?
Working at the NSA.

I am no longer able to travel to mainland China out of concern for my safety. I work closely with hardware and the inability to visit Chinese factories is becoming a career limitation.
I spend so much time drawing diagrams that I’ve stopped trying to make them pretty and now I just try to make them meaningful and accurate. So for in-code docs ASCIIFlow is great. I still struggle trying to find an architectural diagram tool that’s not junk. We use Rational and it’s fine. But I’d like something nicer and with a more 3D view.
hahaha, so true. But now a days having a career that is more than 3 years is considered weird !
Who said anything about walls? A state’s borders are defined by the land area over which it upholds its own legal system. If a state’s legal system is unenforceable within its so called “borders”, then by definition those are either no longer its borders, or the people living within the land area over which the state’s legal system cannot be enforced are living in a failed state. The borders will have become disputed in that case.
Not taking investing seriously or making a budget when I had my huge wins
As a graduate of the high school in question, I support the idea of selectivity everywhere, not just as a "magnet school" or "honors track".

There is a major downside to selectivity as it's done right now, which is that you end up with a competitive pressure cooker in that program since the student body will mostly consist of kids with highly driven parents who demand top-of-class academic results, every assignment perfect. It makes kids anxious-to-suicidal depending on how much pressure they experience, but it doesn't make them uniformly better at the material; depending on the subject and the student, either they're way ahead or they are really struggling, and if they are already doing some work to think about the material, "study harder, do more homework" doesn't really increase that rate, it just makes them more performative and "grade-grubbing". And this doesn't change when you look at secondary education either; there are many "tough" and "competitive" colleges, but they don't turn out graduates that are of equivalently greater skill.

But that does not mean that dumbing down is a good idea! Selectivity within each school, and making greater use of online learning to offer advanced, fine-grained tracking, gets to the good part of selectivity, which is that learning becomes more focused on individual student needs. "Staying with the class" is in many ways the worst part of school and absolutely shouldn't be the thing to emphasize, whether we're talking about high-flying academics or troubled delinquents and special ed students.
I think printf has a %n specifier that writes the number of characters so far to a pointer passed in.
In the hundreds of HCQ studies out there, eyeballing it about 2/3 of them show some sort of positive result [0]. Early treatment with the dosage on the lower end of the tested spectrum has 100% positive results [1].

It was odd a week ago to see some of the media suddenly decide to report on one of these [2], like the "HCQ Bad!" blinders had finally been removed.

[0] https://c19hcq.com/

[1] https://hcqmeta.com/

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9671029/Hydroxychlo...
Do you mean that by saving money people can leave the profession sooner or at least move to a school with more favorable working conditions?

If so, maybe you’ve hit on a kernel of truth: we can’t risk paying teachers enough that they’d have the financial security to leave a bad work situation.
I can't imagine that they ever would give you that, because it would break everything about PKI for the real example.com domain. If you got valid private keys for it from an authoritative CA, you could conduct a man-in-the-middle attack (amongst other things) and there'd be little to no way for anyone to notice.

Now locally on your own network, you can set up a certificate authority and your own DNS service for the domain, and then do whatever you want within the confines of your local network. But you won't be able to reach the real example.com at the same time, since you'll be configured to route example.com through your internal imitation of the external network for at least that domain.

I used to do this for "hacme.corp" (which is not currently a valid domain on the Internet) for teaching penetration test courses.
It's cultural. A school system can only be effective up to a point, but depends mostly on the stock of students/parents involved in the system.

You'll see MA scores among the top states in most forms of human development, so it shouldn't be surprising that the schools reflect that trend. The MA school system is likely not doing anything particularly unique that will be the antidote to failing systems in other states. It's likely the best way to replicate their success in other states lies in policy not directly related to school systems.
TIL Part.1: QNX was acquired by BlackBerry at 2010 (and BB still is selling it!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX#History

TIL Part.2: SO covers Ada! [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ada

This kind of random-looking, seriously-written but who-cares-other-than-few tech articles are something I'd love to read more.
It's an approved drug. Fully licensed and considered to have a wide safety profile.

Doctors don't need permission for off-label use. It's just not a thing. We're in strange territory where doctors (professionals) have been demoted to nurses and they can't profess.
Probably the movie theater incident. My mother wasn't a fan after that happened.
It's not easy (or it would have been done already!) but I don't think it's a pipe dream. A lot of the computer vision capabilities that are taken for granted today would've been pipe dreams a few years ago.

It's true that the process is data hungry. But this isn't such a big problem in some cases. Having a few dozens or more of robot arms just figuring out stuff by trial and error isn't such a big deal (you don't have to do this at the customer's shop floor...). For self driving cars and drones this isn't such a great idea (though it has been tried to some extent). That's where simulation and more clever algorithms come in. Including, of course some prior knowledge, like you are implying. I don't think anybody expects to "transform manufacturing" by just throwing REINFORCE into a random KUKA arm.
Perhaps, but jokes can convey meaning, and I think this was the case.

[Dying is easy / Comedy is hard]
Why wouldn't MS just start a new OS like they ditched IE?

They can't get rid of backward compatibilities and pretending to be moving forward with the pace of walking in snow and everything is just half way done for the past 10+ years.

Just port the drivers, add some compatibility layers so that half apps work, ask big software vendors to port their apps to the new platform and let Windows fade out slowly so that finally they can create a fully vertically controlling software/hardware based on ARM and compete with Apple.
Submitted multiple times earlier. The thread with the most comments (227 comments) -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605687
Should mention type-safe printf in dependently-typed languages like Idris[0] or F*[1]:

[0]: https://zgcoder.net/ramblings/typesafe-printf/
[1]: https://fstarlang.github.io/general/2017/11/23/sprintfstar.h...
I played the 360 version of Braid on standard definition, and much of the text was unreadable.
Eh, yes and no. Reusable rockets are the future but in many aspects they are still behind Soviet technology, especially as far as engines and cost efficiency, which is quite incredible. Indeed, the NK-33 has a higher ISP and similar throttle range than the Merlin engines. There are even more efficient engines but IIRC they are not comparable in throttle range or TWR.

The Raptor engines are better, but they haven't flown a mission yet.

But the killer feature of Soviet rockets is really their cost. They are much cheaper than anything else due to much cheaper design and engineering for their performance. The Merlin engine is much much more difficult to manufacture than the NK-33 and much more expensive.

This leads to a situation where it's much cheaper to build and entire Soyuz, throw it away, and build another one, than to use a reused Falcon rocket to put people into the ISS, per person.

The Soyuz, even when you throw it away, is so cheap that IIRC most of the cost is from operational expenses and not actually purchasing the craft.
Did she by chance drink a lot of soda or other sugar drinks? Or was she a diabetic? I've heard that high blood sugar causes the similar types of damage.
I have read through a bunch of your comments and it frankly doesn't even sound like you are doing database queries for an application: it sounds like you were tasked with creating a very general purpose API endpoint for application developers. You thereby to me don't even seem to be having a use case for an "ORM", so I am extremely confused? It seems like you wanted a tool that let you describe an intended API surface over some schema and have it automatically construct your backend for you... that sounds useful, and if that's some side effect of working with an ORM that is really cool I guess, but it isn't what an ORM is about. I would imaging then that the client is then using a GraphQL adapter to access your data.

In contrast, when all of us who despite ORMs are using that term, we are talking about a library or--worse--a framework designed to have the developer directly make queries using object-oriented data modeling. These layers then generate SQL that is pretty much guaranteed to be not just inefficient but ridiculously unscalable in ways that you run into even in simple software.

It sounds like in your architecture you would have no use for what I would call an ORM: at best, maybe the application developer that is consuming your API would in turn (I would argue, incorrectly) choose to use an ORM to access your GraphQL... but they are not generating SQL and you are not making queries. So I guess I just feel like you and we are talking about entirely unrelated use cases?
AI Will Impact Computer-Based Jobs First and Hard
Always use pipenv (although somebody else suggested pip-tools as better than pipenv) instead of pip for package installs. You can install pipenv using pip. It works /so much better/ than regular pip. Pipenv installs the right versions for the dependencies needed for the package you are installing, very well. It is astonishing how much better it works compared to pip.

Personally, I use pipenv (manages package dependencies and sub-dependencies), pyenv (python version management), and pyenv-virtualenv (creates an isolated version of Python such as 3.8) together, in tandem, over poetry and others. Personally, I think this combination gives the best amount of versatility. This even works well with difficult installs of python packages that need to be compiled into executable software. This includes stuff that has not been recently updated.

A good guide on how to do this is here (see table comparison against poetry at the bottom of the article): https://towardsdatascience.com/python-environment-101-1d68bd...
Ummm, isn’t that literally what marxists and communists believe?

That the proletariat must rise up and overthrow the bourgeois
Not seeking medical attention sooner. I have anxiety disorder and a large amount of unproductive times were due to mental health issues.

My excuse to.myself was "its not the right time" over and over again.
Joe vs. Elan School
Breaking and entering? Invasion of privacy? 4th amendment?
I'm sure its covered in the EULA when they signed up.
>"Giving the speech in a court, on the witness stand, under oath"

The right and duty of every citizen, what's your point? The oath obligates you to tell the truth, people testify about fraud and murder without being experts.
Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
Hey @jedwhite! Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Yeah I'm pretty much relaying from https://stocknewsapi.com :)

I've been using them for about 2 years and they have an awesome team and service.
Great phrasing!
I am a long time paid user of renoise. It was the perfect (affordable, surprisingly high quality and full featured) step up for me from earlier trackers like fasttracker, MODPlug, Psycle.
On my laptop each run of boto3.client("s3") takes about 4 milliseconds. I'm guessing this is okay for most crud apps..!

Edit: especially compared to any interactions with s3
At least on AWS EC2, malicious neighbors won't be an issue. "This issue has been addressed for AWS hypervisors, and no instance can read the memory of another instance, nor can any instance read AWS hypervisor memory. We have not observed meaningful performance impact for the overwhelming majority of EC2 workloads."[1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/speculative-execution-os-updates/
Apparently when they signed up as an IOT device, in the fine print there was a clause that allowed rampdown of power consumption if and when there was a power shortage - you got a quid pro quo discount. Users can opt out at anytime.
I imagine a number of people will now opt out.
The whole alpha thing is from a study of captive wolves. In the wild, the alphas are the two parents and the betas or whatever are their pups.

It's like drawing conclusions about human society based on just watching prison inmates interact.
"with consumers nearly three times as likely to complete a purchase when PayPal products are available at checkout"

[citation other than PayPal PR needed]

The PayPal API is still 20 years behind Stripe... so...
We pay taxes. The Super rich pay politicians
Most people cook daily, but have you ever used an autoclave?
Every time I've left a job, I've been uncertain and conflicted. every. time. Then, after being in the new job for a short while, I thought, "wow! I should have done this sooner!"

Related, I remember a friend telling me a story. It wasn't so much about leaving, but how to leave.

She was in a job that was just a mess. Finally one day during a spectacle of mismanagement, she just quit in disgust. She said it was a mistake. If she could have done it again, she would have just shut up, quietly gotten a job, and quit in a stable, predictable way.
Some most interesting thoughts are not less draining, than video games.
I really appreciate both points of view here! Thanks for your feedback :)

I honestly just built this project as a tool to aggregate market news for myself and build something simple with Elixir + Phoenix.

I don't have any plans to add commentary – but I do intend to keep it running and building things that are helpful to myself and the community!
Education and education leadership heavily skew leftist. Part of the leftist creed is destroying the West from within. What better way to do that than destroying the institution that's sole purpose is creating the next generation of citizens?
I dunno, why does government do fire safety?
Depends on the company you’re interviewing with and (IME) region you’re looking for work. In my 26 years since graduating university, I’ve had 13 jobs. So an average of 1.8 years per job. My longest was 6 years at Amazon (ironically enough considering they have such a high turnover) and my shortest was 3 weeks (I knew during the interview it wasn’t a good fit, but I was young and they threw a stupid amount of money at me).

Where I am now (Seattle area), it isn’t really seen as a that big of a red flag. I always had good reasons for leaving. Other than 2, I’ve tried to never burn bridges intentionally and was even a rebound employee at 1 place (never tell HR during your exit interview what you really think of them).

I grew up in the South and moved back there for a brief period of time. It was very hard to find work down there because they called me a “job hopper” (which I was/am). I was asked several times “You’re going to give me a year and then be gone. Why should I hire you?”. Never had a good answer when I was in my 30s. Now that I’m in my 40s, I have a pretty good one.

That’s been my experience. I’m at a place now where I can see myself staying for awhile. I’m not curing cancer or doing machine learning or scaling things to gagillion requests per second. But I like the people, like my boss, and the problems are meaty enough to engage me during the day, but not so complicate that I work on them in my off hours.
> Shit I have to run but hope to return to this conversation to discuss the other fun questions raised.

Off-topic, but I really love that you contributed a healthy starting point for conversation with a few great observations, then left us waiting for more. People have lots to talk about with what you started, you've piqued interest in the rest of your analysis, and I'm curious about why you had to leave.

Glad you didn't abandon your comment or edit out that you've taken away so much more than you let on.
Hardware Security?
Does being born count as early in my career?
Eh, I disagree. Soviet rockets are really exceptional to such a level that, for the task of for example putting people into the ISS, they are so cheap that making the rocket isn't even the most expensive part.

These numbers are from 2-3 years ago, total launch cost is 4 billion rubles, while the cost of a Soyuz FG is 0.9 billion rubles. So the rocket is actually less than 25% of the cost of the launch, which is why Soyuz will for the foreseeable future be more efficient at its task than any rocket, reusable or not (!!!)

So as a product intended to fulfill a task, the Soyuz is actually the result of much better engineering decisions and really engineering and manufacturing in general than anything else. Because it's performance here is launch reliability, where it's #1 and can launch in conditions the SpaceX craft can't, as well as cost, where it is still lower and will be lower than anything else for over 50 years.
For anyone reading the above comment:

* The quoted 95% etc. numbers are in terms of Relative Risk (ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR)
* These numbers are essentially a reported efficacy and useless to compare between studies held under different conditions.

With this in mind, from the lancet article linked above:

> However, RRR should be seen against the background risk of being infected and becoming ill with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time. Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute risk reduction (ARR), which is the difference between attack rates with and without a vaccine, considers the whole population.

>__ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRRs: 1.3% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford, 1.2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1.2% for the J&J, 0.93% for the Gamaleya, and 0.84% for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines.__
No, kids getting gender confirmation surgery is little more than a right wing talking point. WPATH recommendation is to put kids on puberty blockers 'til they're old enough to consent. Sure, some trans kids probably want that, but some cisgender teens want plastic surgery, too (and, a gal in my high shool had rich parents who paid for that, and they had to fly somewhere because american surgeons can't or won't)

"Extreme gun control" is interesting. By that criteria, Australia is extremely leftist! As is the UK and almost all of europe! Or... maybe the US is the extreme one here.

No. Extreme leftists use guillotines to bring literal class war to the rich. Sieze the means of production and all that. You get the job the state gives you, you get what the state gives you. Collectively somehow even though everybody disagrees with the fundament?

Moderate leftists write laws to tax profits in order to provide infrastructure and services to people to increase the baseline of wellbeing in the state. Biden is actually quite conservative in that regard
Trivia: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) wrote a paper about this on 2003 [1]. And Amazon S3 was using a gossip protocol [2]. So they knew and used it before it was cool.

- [1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/PowerEpidemics.pd...

- [2] https://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
Similarity attacks can be mitigated in the following ways:

[1] Create as much perceptible variation as possible - TV static and minor color changes are not.
[2] Make representations humans can remember - faces or images over abstract objects/shape color combinations
[3] Make generating each representation expensive, so that searching for a visually similar fingerprint is expensive.

IMO most hash visualizers fail at all 3.

[3] is similar to hashing itself, except "visually similar" is substituted for "exactly equal". This is already taken care of by the hashing algorithm if it is slow, e.g. password hashing algorithms.

[1,2,3] could be solved with a GAN. Note that the GAN does not have to worry about making similar hashes produce dissimilar outputs, because finding a similar hash is already hard.
This. A lot of things generate a broad immune response that would probably improve mild to moderate cases of just about anything. My gf secretly switched my usual horse dewormer for Sanka. On the third day I ate the postman, but I haven't had covid since.
what made you leave?
> It just makes running a gas station more expensive

Not quite right: It makes buying gas more expensive.

The state of Oregon could, instead, increase gas taxes by a few cents and devote that wealth to some other economic activity. The net result of the law is waste.
The same is NOT true for dexamethasone, well not exactly,
since there was no directly competing drug. Dexamethasone, which you can probably confirm, is useful in the later stages of COVID where there's an inflammatory response. Since no other proposed medications were seeking an EUA as a "late stage" therapeutic, there's no chance the already approved Dexamethasone would have blocked the issuance of an EUA.

That's at least my understanding based on the proposed systemic problem in FDAs.

Conversely, in this proposed problem, it's said that ivermectin (and others) are only effective when used in the early stage or even prophylactic. Being already fully licensed medications, that could put the issuance of an EUA for vaccines or Remdesivir in jeopardy.
In SF, the parents are absolutely not the cause here. The issue is a top-down mandate from the school board focus on equity to the detriment of all other objectives.
This was a great read - particularly the section on the thinking framework / mental model. I think survey papers like this are necessary to keep up with what's going on in the community.