skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in a large corp you know about in California.. as a loner with few colleagues, I was deep in some assembly language and other nerdy topics, and not great with culture and certainly still a visible rebel. Meanwhile, my colleague from Big School Nearby was hired as staff engineer. There was serious IP on the table and security was an issue always.

It turns out that my colleague had an appetite for money beyond his paycheck as a starting engineer, and was talking to certain third-parties that sold peripherals and such out of Silicon Valley; not massive money by today's standards, but not nothing either. My colleague it turns out was somehow providing inside information to whomever. I was not interested in all this sort of stealing and whatnot, but I showed my 'rebel' flag as a cultural thing at that young age and was viewed with suspicion by the security people for sure.

So the Senior Engineers of the department figured out that there was a serious leak one day, and my clean-cut colleague and I both had access to it. The engineering management literally stormed my office, but I happened to be out. I was called to the main office later and it was serious. I denied involvement (TRUE) but they could see I was not telling them everything. My clean cut colleague .. no idea, but I think he worked there for more than a decade after that, with raises. I was put on a secret black list and didnt last much longer.

I never told on my colleague, and he has a house in Marin now. I am certainly unhappy telling this story. Reflecting on it - that story is probably part of why I chose this nick on YNews.
Worth noting, a group of linguists led by Noam Chomsky.
I was under the impression that spectre is is much more limited in scope than Meltdown. I think you have to be in a position to influence the execution of the program you are trying to extract information from. Like JavaScript engines running in browsers. One example is your JS can be used to get the browser to speculatively execute something that leaks data. I think that it’d be pretty hard for one VM to set up a spectre attack on another arbitrary VM. Meltdown however does expose everything.
Launching a venture backed bespoke eCommerce website many moons ago using staging payment gateway credentials and not coming to the realization until a week later when the accountant asked me why hadn't any funds settled yet.

Boss threw his blackberry out of a high rise window shouting profanities in German while I shrunk into my chair experiencing waves of hot flushes.
That list of URLs is the torrent tracker equivalent of blog spam. It contains none of the big private trackers that are trivial to join or the big public ones like rutracker or rarbg

There's an entire wikipedia article listing them! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites
The thing that most immediately comes to mind is Cameron Kyle-Sidell, who recognized that the standard treatment protocols were over-intubating people for hypoxemia, and that overly high pressures of ventilators were causing damage. He faced a great deal of resistance within his institution at the time, and was quite controversial in taking his case to Twitter and Youtube. Since then, he's been vindicated, and protocols have been changed.

I post this because I think it's the exception that proves the rule. Dr. Kyle-Sidell is a physician of great perception and insight. For every one of him, there are no doubt hundreds of "hydroxychloroquine doctors" who peddle bullshit without scientific basis to the harm of their patients. But the existence of doctors like him does boost the "maverick doctor bucking the institution" narrative.

[1]: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156

[2]: https://elemental.medium.com/how-one-covid-19-doctor-became-...
Similarly, I've tried to power through issues and leverage my ability to focus and grind through hard problems rather than communicate the problems and my situation.

Sometimes it impressed people that I 'got things done', but that isn't as great of a gain as the inverse is damaging. People could become frustrated about delays if I didn't manage to power through it in time, or they'd be confused and/or concerned that I never thought to communicate events with them.

Part of this, at the fundamental layers of this failure, was a desire for everything to always be alright. I didn't want people to think I was struggling, or to think I encountered issues due to my own faults. That in itself is poor communication, both with myself and other people. I really didn't want to think I was failing, let alone that others thought I was.

Ironically, people tend to like it when you communicate your problems or struggles so they know where you're at and what to expect.

After 15 years I've encouraged countless coworkers to follow this advice – I have a great eye for it now – but of course I still struggle with it.

Communication is a big part of working smart. Don't sacrifice communication and work harder as a result.

In tech it can be hard. It's easy to think everyone else knows what the hell they're doing. The truth is, most of us are winging it at least half the time. Like running simulations until something works, then examining it to be sure it works for the reasons we think it does. That's bizarre. It's fine if you struggle, (almost) everyone gets it.
Top Trump officials pushed the Covid-19 lab-leak theory
Parsing unstruted strings without escaping special characters is an issue in any language. This is completely Apple's fault.
As my grandfather told my Dad one time (California) “Why would I pay good money for worthless dirt in La Jolla?”
Moonshot to establish software development centre in Irish capital
In this case he was speaking as an expert to the jury. I think the real question is who can define who can be an expert to the court. Is it the court or the state that defines the qualifications of the expert. If it is the State who can define who is an expert then the could very well require him to have a license. It is not about what he said but where he said it.
> unambiguous double entendres

An oxymoron if ever there was one?
I think you forgot "eat" in your translation.
No it won’t transform manufacturing. Deep RL in physical systems is a pipe dream.

Deep RL is one of the most data hungry methods. And in physical systems you don’t get enough samples.

There are loads of data. But no manager of a shopfloor lets you produce scrap just to potentially learn.

There is an opportunity to combine ML with classical engineering models for manufacturing. Think differential equations for chemical processes. Then you end up with something like ML augmented control theory. That does work.
I'm always happy to see linux compatibility in DAW software. $75 seems like a reasonable price for a license.

I'd love to hear HN community feedback on how this stacks up against Reaper (my current DAW) that's priced at $60 for personal use.
I actually disagree with you completely. (And I'm a professional, this is my day job.) For breadboarding I buy from Adafruit and Sparkfun, since they have good selections of breakout boards, MSOP to DIP adapters, etc. DK and Mouser have plenty of that, and some really nice stuff (like TI's adapter "EVMs")... but for prototyping on a breadboard, I start with the other guys.

(Then usually tack them on to a Digi-Key or Mouser order, because if it doesn't require something weird, I probably didn't need to prototype it.)
This must be a comedy article, at least judging by the supposedly Belgrade version ("
Imam automobil sa dobrom mašinom na unutrašnje sagorjevanje. Krenuo sam u dućan u soliteru. Predmnjevao sam, biće tamo hleba i za mene. Nemam svoje bašče, zato ću da kupim još malo kačkavalja, šargarepu, krtole, spanać, raznog drugog povrća, pečurke i makarone, sve to ću da stavim u šerpu i u svom stanu na drugom spratu ću da skuvam supu od povrća. Prljavo suđe ću da stavim u mašinu za pranje sudova, a onda ću da opeglam veš.") which I attest is not written by anyone living in Belgrade, nor Serbia.

What gives it out is that, although it mainly uses "correct" words, with some obvious slips, makes some pretty obvious gramatical and ortographical errors. I guess that it's written by a Croatian journalist, who obviously can speak, read, and write "Serbian" rather well, but who wrote several things wrongly because he imagined that Serbian uses these distinctive features. I can attest that I understand all words in the "Croatian" version without any help, and that the "Serbian" version sounds closer to what is spoken in Belgrade, but only to an extent (it sounds silly and artificial to my ears).
Stuck too long only with Microsoft ecosystem.
And you think the solution is to give these families cash?
If the state wants to subsidize an industry for strategic reasons, that's the state's business. Tying it to ownership could scare away potential producers, and it's a step towards a state-run enterprise. The US already subsidizes farms for food security; no one's saying it should take partial ownership of them because of that subsidy.
I understand that, maybe they’ve done studies on how often people reload a page and made a decision based on numbers.
After 20 years of browsing the web, at least for me, THE way became the shortcut and I never click on that (now useless) button. I can understand why they pushed it a click away, maybe numbers/studies back this up, maybe not.
Personally I like having some buttons on the toolbar but I think I prefer the cleaner UI even more and I don’t mind doing 1 click to find them back. Anyway when we play games we never count clicks right? It’s not like it really cost us anything … but that’s just me.
OK, that's awesome.

But type safety is only part of the equation.

Automatic CRUD or GraphQL code generation and/or other abstraction such that you never need to write basic CRUD code ever again? That should be a minimal software engineering best practice at this point, and yet we have tons of people insisting on writing every single query, either as a SQL query directly or using a query builder.

It's on the order of professional negligence to ever write complex code to handle the same situation over and over. CRUD is exactly that. Huge swaths of CRUD code are blatant DRY violations, and using an ORM or another kind of query builder that can interface with CRUD/GraphQL automation should be the minimal best practice we're all using.
One area I've been playing with is "theory exploration", which takes a set of definitions and produces lemmas that are 'interesting' (i.e. irreducible, via some scheme like Knuth-Bendix rewriting).

(Thanks to Curry-Howard, we can also view this as generating test suites/specifications for software libraries!)

Notable tools include Hipster, IsaScheme, IsaCoSy, QuickSpec and Speculate.
A related tool: https://github.com/OWASP/Amass
>CPU Manufacturers Are Pushing the Boundaries of CMOS and Starting to Pay for It

They can rest assured the users will finish paying for it.
Agreed. Markets are open, gray, black, private, or closed. "Free market" is just very successful agitprop.
My biggest mistake, that I made again and again, was not leaving a job when it was time. I thought I had something to prove, but there was never any point to it. You don't owe anything to an employer. You can't prove anything to an employer. They have absolutely no loyalty to you, and care less than nothing about what is right or wrong, wise or foolish.

So: If you ever think things might not turn out as well as you hoped, move on. There is so much else going on in the world that is at least as interesting as what you are doing, where you have a much better chance of making a difference, that spending time on things that you might not end up proud of is a terrible waste of your short time on Earth.
> Your question was “Do these 10 year old not care about school because there is something intrinsically wrong about them”.
> My indirect answer is not necessarily, although there may be some for whom the answer is yes. I suspect the more common answer is no: They do not care about school because they have other, more pressing needs besides school.

So, the answer is: no, these kids are not broken.

> If you want to focus solely on 10 year olds and not teenagers, and ignore that I wrote working is “just one example of many possibilities” , then you are probably purposely missing my point.

You said kids can't write essay because they have to work. It sounds rather absurd to me.

> I agree most 10 year olds are not working. Substitute “working” or “poverty” with some other problem at home and you’ll get the same result. Alcoholic parent, drug addicted parent, parent with major mental illness, homeless parent, absent parents, foster home life, etc.

Fine, so we are excluding them because they are poor or disadvantaged, which was my initial point. And we are calling it "merit" because we ask them to write an essay.
Quick correction, those are 50,000 ton presses, not lbs.
I use a desktop computer, with monitors at about the same height as one would find them at an average desk (surprisingly), just tilted downwards a bit. Mouse + keyboard sit on a long tray that rests across the chair arms, over my lap.

I don't use much paper, so I haven't needed a larger work surface than the foot or two of extra space on the tray. (Obviously this isn't true for everyone.) If I find myself in need of work area in the future, I plan to build or buy a wheeled "overbed table".

>The zero gravity chair idea reminds me of this insane thing: ...

Yes, that insane thing and the other commercial variations of it were part of my inspiration to finally try this. I had wanted to create a reclined setup for years before seeing them, but learning that I was not the only one with such a weird idea validated my beliefs enough to actually try it. I could have splurged on something insane like that. I am, after all, presumably the target audience. But I didn't want to spend thousands of dollars on an experiment, especially if I was buying something hideous and overbuilt. Thus the super cheap, goofy setup I'm using. (Which is hideous, but at least it's hideous for the good reasons of expense and experiment.)

I had expected - if my experiment worked - that I would quickly want to upgrade to a nicer zero-gravity chair. But it turns out these cheap chairs really are damn comfortable. So until I have a "Lenny moment" as in [0], I don't think the impetus to get something nicer-looking solely for the sake of it being nicer-looking will be very strong. (Of course, this will change if I return to an office environment. I'll have to figure out something that won't get me odd looks, because I can't imagine myself going back to upright chairs.)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwyyjtxlzU
That a widely-disputed "leader" is "promoting" a treatment in a country as diverse and with as many systemic issues as Brazil, has no necessary bearing nor indication of that treatments actual use or resultant efficacy.

That you have a friend that took it and went to the ICU is similarly meaningless. What dosage did he take? What other predispositions did he have? How badly was he exposed? What other treatments were used? Did he keep taking it throughout, or not? You say he's recovering now, would he have died without it, then?
So many. But it all boils down to not understanding how commercial software gets built.

I changed careers and did a 4-month “boot camp”. All the real learning was after that, the hard way.

My first job, I was left to work on a government project by myself. Everyday was mild panic. My only interaction with my boss was a weekly email saying what percentage of the project was complete. No one ever looked at my work, or cared to look. So I bumped it up a few percentage points every week. I declined a permanent position after the contract was over to spare the embarrassment of the state of the project I was building.

After that, I got hired by a consulting company. Over and over again, my total lack of experience was causing issues with clients, and I was in a daily state of stress and anxiety for 2 years until I was let go.

Finally, I got a job building enterprise software, with a well-defined lifecycle, and got my career on track. Eventually I became team lead. Now I work on the Standards and Framework team, building foundational components, libraries and templates for the other teams.

You will make mistakes. They are valuable to you.
I guess we disagree that making an argument backed up with engineering while clearly not misrepresenting himself is ‘practicing engineering.’ That argument, however, is somewhat covered by the proceedings of the Oregon case.
John Oliver did a segment on this.
In terms of a "whoopsie" without guard rails: lost data because I was in a production database and didn't create a transaction. But, to be honest, I shouldn't have even been able to do that in the first place.

Otherwise, I spent too much of my early career focusing on learning application development tooling, and ignored database systems. Often, a fantastic distributed, networked application is right there in your stack. A lot of good information comes from getting to know how these pieces work, instead of treating them as "magic black boxes".
China is kicking out more than half the world’s Bitcoin miners
Rant ahead.

(which value to return)

This always bugged me in C interfaces. All these metrics are accumulated in the scope of your qweasd(), why not at least take a pointer to a “struct strcpy_result” instead and return them all with it, dammit, stack space is almost always free. After two decades of C, I turned to jitted scripting and hopefully will NEVER look back (but thanks for the xp). Low-level bit-fiddle style programming outside of very restrictive embedded tech is a distilled schizophrenia of tiling sharp irregular shapes, trying, failing, vapid engineering, byte economy, and finally losing a larger part of the ephemeral benefits that you never needed (or were able to get) in the first place. (C++ being a drug that doesn’t fix the issue, but at least reduces voices in your head to “just” a heavy form of OCD).

discussion on losing 4/8 bytes per string in this thread

Insanity.
I believe he/she is being sarcastic.
The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
Earlier this week, the ACLU published this[0] article, "The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online – Including Trump’s". More substantively, they recently filed a brief[1] supporting Americans for Prosperity (the Koch brothers' primary political advocacy group) fighting against a government demand for donor lists. That's just the stuff I found on the national website with a minute or two of looking around—I didn't even dig into what state ACLU groups are doing, and they do the bulk of litigation. Abandoned free speech they have not.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-problem-with-censo...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/prosperity-foundation-v-...
Agreed that this does not represent the world, or Germany, or students in general. But it is one datapoint about social science students in Frankfurt, which was deliberately chosen as a "likely worst case" to detect the problem.

In fact, the authors are very explicit about that point: "We are certainly not under the impression that our sample is representative of university students in general (or the wider public, for that matter). On the contrary, we purposefully consider the social science studentship at Frankfurt as a most likely case."

Next, as outlined above, n=500 seems enough to reject the hypothesis that the percentage that wants to ban the books is near 0. In other words, I dispute your notion that the study has not enough power. Strong sampling bias might be a problem, but nobody has made a case for that yet.
Exactly. Just because someone doesn't dose something correctly, doesn't mean there is necessarily anything wrong with it.

Shall we ban water? Sometimes people don't dose that correctly either, and drown.

What a dangerous substance!
This measures output in dollars, which is an absolutely useless metric since China’s manufacturing appeal lies in its ability to undercut every other country on earth in its cost to quality ratio.

If you can make, say, a screwdriver in the US for $2/unit, you can make 50 in China for the same cost. But if the US makes 1 million and one screwdrivers and China makes 50 million, then technically the US has higher manufacturing output since the dollar total is higher.
My mother was on the conservative-Christian side and didn’t allow us to watch PeeWee. I don’t really know what her reasons were.
>There could easily be somebody with a burning desire to fight IP piracy.

It could be some kind of Robinhood vigilante figure, but that's a hard sell for me given the already-known abusive history and tactics of the game industry.

Here's another hard sell : it's the TPB people releasing it in an effort to reduce their hosting costs. (It's not, but since we're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, why not?)

Many of these video game groups write root-kit style DRM mechanisms for a living; given the (shady) history & experience at the task, it's not a far leap to assume that one of these groups would irresponsibly combine the efforts, if given enough legal ambiguity and a long enough paper-trail to make legal harassment separated from the major group.

Personal anecdote : it's often talked about within game-cheating circles that mega-game groups actually take part in the ownership and funding of groups that sell third-party 'cheating' software. This new virus-writing behavior wouldn't surprise me in the least.
> not very hot at all

Any linear driver will have equal efficiency to any other, and PWM just changes the overall on-time, not the efficiency during that time. So a simple resistor, if you can live with its variability in the application, can be used just as effectively as a fancy trimmed current source. They're even relatively similar in difficulty to PWM a single output, though current sources will usually win for multiple equal outputs.

> I typically run LEDs at half their rated current

Half? I start at 500uA these days, or 1/10th to 1/40th of "rating", and have been known to go down as low as 50uA, with a series resistance of 100k! Modern LEDs, especially the 0402 white ones, are amazing.
What obligation do I have to sign on to exclusionary immigration policy. The southern border is just a line in the sand. No party (US or Mexico) has a reasonable claim to the land to begin with.

Building a wall is just a dumb move regardless.
I never understood the good effects of American hegemony until they started breaking down. While I can’t approve of the evils, e.g. Iraq War, creating an international security order has enabled secure trade between countries and continents that has brought 75 years of peace to Europe, allowed the rise of China, and brought billions out of poverty by removing many of the limitations of geography. That is a great good, and it’s falling apart. The near future is going to get scary unless everyone begins cooperating in a way they don’t seem willing to do.
Coming from a family of turkish Gastarbeiters, I am not surprised. You still have that problem in Germany, and I think it only got worse during the pandemic.

Edit: The Biontech founder comes from a turkish family, I don't. But I see that happening a lot, first during my school days. And now at my children's schools.
Teachers (or their unions) often lead the charge for the very policies that hinder performance. Some of these are done in the name of equity (local metro school districts are a prime example).

Ultimately, teachers alone can't solve the problem. As seen in both poor white rural schools and poor non-white urban schools alike, if the parents don't care about schooling or enforcing any discipline at home, there will be significant problems at school.
PCs Are Turning into Giant Phones