skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don’t agree with this at all. i’ve seen qa automation team members work solely as a resourcing issue: that if you have X developers you always have X feature developers and never enough people to automate. it’s not that devs aren’t capabale. i fundamentally disagree with rainforests mission that you need “other people” to achieve success in testing. your top engineers have no problem succeeding here
Indeed, distrowatch is full of them, one user distributions that hardly anyone heard of.

Pity that all that security goes away the second an Electron app or Chrome is made use of.
MIT and Harvard Engineers Create New Face Mask That Can Detect Covid-19
Companies should also look out for their self interest and employ the best possible talent at the lowest possible cost
"The simplest explanation is that these genes are adaptive."

Really? That's the simplest explanation?

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1979.008...
Those last two are the most important (and less subjective), and should definitively happen before the code is even written, using design docs.
"However, its website explains that the firm has developed a number of proprietary precursor compounds for “nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)” which “is critically important to the function of all living cells.”
This won't hinder app sideloading, right? RIGHT?
One thing that I found interesting is the implication that a strong negative reaction to alcohol is something that evolved as a response to alcoholic beverages being first created in Asia.

Is there any way to study the prevalence of the ADH1B and ADH1C genes over time? e.g. to determine if they actually become more common as alcoholic beverages proliferated?
I don't like my salary going down any more than everyone else where, but how are we going to save the planet without reducing carbon emissions and shouldering some of the resulting impact on our personal lives?
I like Rust’s approach to UTF-8: strings are rigidly UTF-8, so the general goal is to make encoding and decoding things that you sort out at the I/O boundary, and then inside the library you can have sanity.
You conveniently misrepresented an opinion and then ran it to the most illogical conclusion possible.

Saying the most highly paid US workers take a 10% pay cut if it means other economies rose above the poverty line is absolutely fine in my opinion. If you think that is akin to starving the entire US population so my country can live like Sheikhs, I feel like that's on you.
sounds like a toxic workplace
Tweets on this are horrifying https://twitter.com/coltondavies_/status/1410463746896527362...
That is good and should prevent against bringing down the primary. There is still the issue with being able to get that region back online once replication is severed, which isn't always possible even with co-located systems.
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> decent percentage of unvaccinated folks in the area.

Unvaccinated folks pose a potential risk to themselves and other unvaccinated people. So, if you're already vaccinated, why are you still hesitant to go out? Is it because you live with kids or with someone immunocompromised who can't get vaccinated?
How will we all access the torrents of corporate spam?!

A good while ago, I may or may not have heard from someone who had registered a domain name like "foo.bar"... a placeholder sort of name, a valid domain. Got the impression that lots of IBMer email was mostly about golf.
My experience in general is that most time series model are inadequate in predicting time series except for very trivial cases of seasonalities or simple linear/nonlinear trends.

I think that you can throw any model you like at the problem but all you will do is overfit most of the time.
Definitely degrees to it, and also for many people it does fluctuate over time depending on how much you help your guts keep feeding on lactose to keep the workers alive.
I think one of the greatest things that is missing from formal education is the encouragement of exploration, and the acclimation towards the failure that often accompanies that exploration.

Everyone in school is so caught up on checking off the right prerequisites in the curriculum for the next set of prerequisites all the way up until graduation, that there usually isn't much room for any sort of real exploration in the system until graduation. However, after graduating, a whole new set of real world responsibilities appear that often restricts the ability to both explore and fail since they come with real consequences that make failing a high school class seem like nothing in comparison. For example, it is kind of hard to explore in university when that year exploring will cost tens of thousands of dollars, or if you are on your own and need to find multiple low skill/ wage jobs just to survive.

I was just lucky that my dad had a stem job and had a computer, which got me into video games, which got me into hacking them, which got me involved in communities full of people way older and smarter than I was, which facilitated my growth in a way that school never could. Without that first computer, there is a good chance that I would have just been railroaded into some soul draining corporate job pushing papers.
I have very hard time believing it. Food that I consider above average may be a little more expensive, but mainly because it's much less mass-produced. And there's better quality ice cream that costs roughly about the same (though much harder to find), and terrible quality ice cream that costs more. We don't have to go far - Coca Cola earns billions selling basically caffeinated sugar water. Not because people don't have any money to buy better drinks. Because people want to buy specifically sugar water, because they have learned that's what cool people drink.

Finding a working ketchup formula may be not easy. But you have to do it once. Then that's it, you can sell it forever. And it doesn't take that much. As well as it doesn't take it that much to not just stuff tomato paste with as much sugar as chemistry would allow and call it "ketchup". And yet, mass brands to that and a lot of people happily buy it.

Better stuff may cost more, because of smaller volumes and better quality controls, but not 5x. At least not all of them. I just checked the list of ketchups in Whole Foods. Heintz is 17c per ounce. 365 brand is 8.7c/oz. Others range from 18c to 73c, pretty much equally distributed. Yes, there's one 5x brand - but that's one, out of a dozen. And that's just one store, I'm sure there are more brands which will occupy the whole gamut from 1x to 10x (I am sure somebody somewhere sells a ketchup for more than a dollar per oz, even if I haven't seen one).
> In what’s being called the “Great Resignation,” 95% of workers are considering changing jobs, according to a report by Monster.com.

I would be surprised if 95% of the people on monster.com are NOT considering looking for a new job
On 10 July 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace Creek area in the California desert reached a blistering 56.7°C (134.1°F).

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/move-over-death-vall....
It's hard to figure out what you're trying to point out specifically. There's a lot of words and emotions and editorials but the article doesn't actually say anything. Can you point to some primary source for the point you're making?
Rust deserves kudos for inventing the term "WTF-8", describing e.g. directory entries -- maybe supposed to be UTF-8, but obliged to allow invalid sequences.
From the linked documentation:

> The code transparency file does not verify resources, assets, the Android Manifest, or any other files that are not DEX files or native libraries contained in the lib/ folder.

> Important: The Android OS does not verify code transparency files at install time, and continues to rely on the APK signing schemes for verification of any installed APKs.

Do I understand it right that it basically means user's device doesn't care about this signature at all? Wouldn't that make it pretty easy to supply modified versions of app to specific devices without them noticing, unless users decide to check signatures by themselves?
I'd like to see this. Sounds difficult. You'd need very strong magnets and a very low friction surface. Perhaps tiny omni-directional steal wheels on each piece... Oops, those are moving parts.

It would also enable the movement of multiple pieces at once (for captures and make-room moves).
Southern BC is very much a desert and barely sees any snow in winter, yet negative temperature.

Source: I have family in Osoyoos.
The way to change peoples prejudice is by either experience or stories.
The east calls it Karma. We could call it re-programming.
Just like a computer doesn't change by force or by giving it the desired outcome. Neither does the brain.
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Yes, and no. Almost all of our customers already use PagerDuty, with Opsgenie a distinct second. They predominantly use them to wake people up when things go wrong, but don't use them to actually _run_ their incidents.

I think there's a variety of reasons for this from it not being easy to imprint your process onto PagerDuty, to it being harder to use for non-technical folks, and it not being where you communicate with the rest of your organisation (often Slack).

The most common competitors we come up against are:

1. Your process being written down on a piece of paper, which humans then remember to follow (spoiler: it's hard to do this)
2. In-house tooling that folks have built to help fix this problem. Many scale-ups have built their own (Stripe, Monzo, Robinhood, Transferwise, Influx Data, etc).

We take people from thing went wrong, to response, to debriefing, to following up on actions afterwards. Right now, we don't wake people up through alerting, but it's a natural next step for us to go and do that as well.
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You didn't actually say anything in retort. Merely saying ditto, or saying that something is supposedly a straw-man, isn't a supported position, it's the lack of supporting your position/claims.

It's particularly obvious "suicide" is meant as a figure of speech, although frankly it's not too far from the truth, given what deindustrialization (loss of very large numbers of manufacturing jobs) did to large swaths of the US. It did in fact cause large increases in suicide numbers, along with a horror show of other consequences / fallout. I doubt anybody is confused over the dire consequences of what happened across the US as manufacturing jobs got wiped out.
The author mentions that the product on which the suit is being brought about sold very few units and that if they really want to collect on their under-$500 in royalty, they are free to bring up an expensive-for-them suit to do the same.
Yeah, this article is shallow and avoiding the deficiencies inherent to Rainforest's offering. They are defining QA challenges as a nail so they can sell you their hammer.
Seems like devices still deal with apks. Apks remain a core part of development. The biggest hurdle to 3rd party app stores is the API, not making an apk.
A bit of a tangent, but what I always found confusing about music theory is which parts are arbitrary historical legacy and which are fundamental to human enjoyment of music. 12 notes in a scale? Their particular frequencies? That whole multiplying and dividing business? Why the letters are in the wrong order. Why have sharps and flats instead of just more letters? I always get stuck wondering how much of this is just a big ugly edifice and how much actually matters.
It's in the Homebrew repo, so installing is as easy as

$ brew install otter-browser

What's also interesting, is that the tab-close button is on the left of the tab, like every other macOS application. Other browsers (Chrome, Firefox) put it stubbornly on the right.
See What AI Thought about Nikola Tesla
https://youtu.be/H28eHfBLXvI
Systematically changing your beliefs takes a lot more work than just stepping through a door. I know people like to say this stuff to give hope, but the illusion does more harm than good imho.
What a strange way to write an article. You're primed with the repeating headline and lede, given backstory and camera angles (the helicopter saw the blast!), and only then told it had been loaded into a police van first.

Was it properly handled? Was any attempt made to render the material contained or inert before moving a truckload of explosives in the heat in a residential neighborhood? Sure would have been interesting if there were a journalist to ask these questions instead of passively waiting for word to come down.
Surely that would be the World Trade Center?
try using perceptual luminance (L* in L*a*b*) instead of BT.709 relative luminance
I think that falls into the category of “jumping through hoops to deliberately confuse consumers.”

If you call something “Acme Italian Marble, Mined in Spain” You’re just blatantly contradicting the “made in statement.”

That’s straight out consumer deception.

“Real authentic oak furniture. Made from polycarbonate.”
As side note, this is how Windows Store (the old one) used to work, a cloud compiler generated native code specific for the device.

The whole JIT/AOT infrastructure from Android 5 onwards, Microsoft did it on the cloud instead.

Hence why Windows Phone always tended to be snappier than similar Android devices.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native

Also how iOS and watchOS apps, since app thinning and bitcode were introduced as packaging format.
Pretty sure there's no technical reason they couldn't.
> offer to settle

They can do that. But there isn't much leverage for them if they do that. They'll be giving their hand away and at that point SparkFun has almost no reason to pay a single dollar.

Disclaimer : IANAL
Zero pay cut. Why should a person take a pay cut in exchange for being more effective at home?
Techniques that will make your co-developers hate your code
> Ouch.

Yes, that is such a complete misunderstanding on what IBM does that it hurts. IBM is a huge corporation close to be 100 years old that still is one one of the most innovatives in the world.

"In 2020, IBM topped the list of patent recipients for the 28th consecutive year with 9,130 patents, while Samsung Electronics Co. was second with 6,415. IBM received the most patents in three of the 10 fastest growing fields in technology -- quantum computers, machine learning and computer systems using neural networks that imitate how the human brain works, according to a recent study by Fairview Research’s IFI Claims Patent Services." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/ibm-s-pat...

Google Gross revenue: $161.85 billion. IBM Gross revenue: $73.62 billion. Twitter revenue: $3.72 billion

IBM does not dominate the cultural landscape like Google or Facebook do. But, it is a robust company that has stand the test of time.

It would be like laughing at Akamai or Incapsula because nobody talks about them on the general media.
Interesting article. I fell in love with the possibilities of GLSL shaders ages ago and tried to incorporate them more into day to day web development.

I wrote a library that enables to "apply" a shader from a GLSL file directly to an <img> tag without any additional bootstrapping needed.

https://github.com/paratron/shaderboy

I havent used it for some time but it sounds like its perfectly suited for projects like these monochromatic portraits :)
People have been worried about this since the 90s. But it hasn't stopped compensation from increasing dramatically.

Demand for software work is only increasing. The more software we create, the more valuable marginal software becomes.
The total number of software engineers has doubled every 5 years for a long time. Of course that won't continue forever but there's no reason to think it will stop very soon either. For a long time employers have been unable to hire enough to meet demand (the marginal engineer at the top tech companies adds something like $500k-1m in value).

I would guess that increasing WFH will cause at most a modest slowing of compensation increases. I would be very surprised if it led to any decrease. In the long term it will only be a minor factor, the bigger things to worry about are general economic trends and things like better tools (even AI?) making the job more accessible and easier to learn.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Bundles are essentially intermediate compilation units and apks aren't going away.
> I am skeptical that it would hold its own against latex for "serious" writing

https://www.troff.org/pubs.html
> If you think that is akin to starving the entire US population so my country can live like Sheikhs, I feel like that's on you.

Talk about jumping 27 places in terms of drawing artificial conclusions.

I got to see, up close, what deindustrialization looks like, during the 1980s and 1990s in the US. Its consequences are intensely negative on the population it affects. Allowing the US tech industry to be outsourced to save big corporations money, would be an identical repeat of the stupidity of what the US intentionally allowed to happen to its industrial empire - in the name of globalist corporations boosting their margins - in the second half of the 20th century.

If you want to see what a selfish industrial policy looks like, look no further than Germany. They protected their industry, they acted in their own national self-interest, and their people have benefited enormously from it over the last few decades.
oh cry me a river of tears. You obviously have no idea of what it is like to work 8-12 hours a day, for 6 days a week, of constant concentration for days, turning to months, turning to years on end.

Get real - you've been spoilt and have no clue of how others earn a living
In the grim far future, instead of an interlock device on your car after a DWI, how about some gene therapy to vaccinate against alcoholism via alcohol dehydrogenase?
I prefer the opposite situation where the car with Oregon plates is patiently sitting in a Washington state gas station, wondering what is taking the attendant so long
You mean, where passenger jets were used as missiles?

It doesn’t seem remotely relevant to what happened in Florida.
yes - thats why i'm hopeful for a decent paying (by my standards) job with a US company

Bring it on!!
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Is it just me or is the headline exaggerating a bit? The article doesn't seem to give any hint that "engineering" will change "profoundly", but rather checking that buildings are built to code, inspecting their current state, making extrapolations about their future. None of this is extraordinary, especially if somebody is interested in keeping a building intact and willing to pay for it.

Sounds more like a political change about allocating money for all of this and/or forcing someone to pay for it.
Meantime the broadband industry continues to exploit the confusion between 2G / 5G (cellular technologies) and 2GHz / 5GHz (WiFi technologies) and tell people (specifically my neighbors for example) that they will get faster speeds if they use the “5G” network exposed by their wifi router. If this article addresses that confusion I didn’t see where.
There are as many versions of the story as there are reporters right now. I have tried to pick the one that seems to have pieced at least 2 and 2 together.
> One big realization I’ve had is that children really grow when their parents aren’t around. Schools may suppress agency, but so do parents.

This sounds like a good point, I'm going to try to keep it more in mind, thanks.
Customer experience will drive MarTech
The text is the authority on what the phrases in the claims mean. So, you can be surprised when the text sets out a much broader meaning of a term than is used in common parlance.
I think another likely reason why disulfiram might not work is that the hypothesis is wrong, and the gene variant is only correlated with alcoholism, but might not be the cause of why there are lower rate of alcoholism in people with it.
Yeah, if you are doing global replication you are much more likely to fall behind so you should have aggressive monitoring on the replica to remove it if replica lag gets to high, that will prevent the primary from retaining WAL files for too long.

It also means you will need to be able to resync the replica from a backup once write volume calms down.
Thanks Lawrence! It's been really great to work with you folks :)

> I'm hoping the success of incident.io at GC can extend to the ops teams over time

I hope so too. Let us know anything that you think might make that easier.
I visited Thomas Nelson co[1] in edinburgh, publishers and printers. They had a map copying camera you walked into, took sheets of neg on the wall. Huge spherical lens. I was about 15 at the time, in the 70s. Walking into this room to see you were inside a 1:1 copying camera for the hand-drawn maps.

I watched their massive print engine churning out .. beetroot jar labels. (off season, they don't do maps all the time)

But the map copying camera was amazing. Stuck in my mind.

It didn't have bellows, the adjustment was at the lens, or by moving the wall for the negative sheet, but was basically set up for fixed focus in a plane.

I think they cut the printing steels direct from this negative to minimise transfer changes to size and alignment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_(publisher)
I guess we’ll all have the browser engines run on Kubernetes in a few years huh?
Please do consider sharing what you remember about these games, maybe with the author linked.
Is there really that much API churn on Android? I have a cruddy old app originally written for API 16 and it still works. It's not on the play store, though.
In probably most cases the person who does the code changes does write tests for it as well. So as a reviewer without understanding what the code and the tests do, how do you want to assess if the tests actually do something useful?
ztd::text::transcode takes an encoding type, as shown in the second example.

In any event, a single switch statement turns a compile-time encoding into a run-time encoding.
Totally agreed. However for the few cases where it matters, IMO it's a regression
Largest radio telescope to be built after almost 30 years of planning
I agree to disagree, but I appreciate the measured tone and willingness to engage, which isn't what I've come to expect from from bitcoin advocates.

I'd be happy to chat about it orally sometime; email me at ben@bencreasy.com if you're up for it.

I'll admit that growth, especially absent pollution pricing, is often negative for the environment. But unchecked population growth without tech-driven economic growth isn't great either, as one can see from numerous countries. To win in the marketplace, one often has to do things cheaper. Excessive profits or inefficient processes are more burdensome for the environment. It shows up in mansions, jetsetting around the world, etc. Investment in new ventures attacks this problem.

Investment funds innovation and meets real needs. Inflation which forces people to invest is good. India is country where the people are heavily overweight gold instead of real investing. I believe it has reduced their national prosperity, in the same way bitcoin will reduce global prosperity.
I was a bit bothered by this part, because the article didn't seem transparent in saying that this is only a hypothesis, and instead kind of talked about it as a well established proven fact.