skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always strikes me as odd when articles like this portray the individual working with animals as having, or wanting to have, some sort of closeness to nature, or reverence for the natural processes that support the life they seem in awe of. Because invariably, they then feel some sort of entitlement to interfere with the processes and steal from them. In this case it’s honey, but we do it to so many living things.

Having respect for these natural creatures and processes means letting them live on their own without a sense of entitlement to steal from them. Honey is for the bees, not you. You don’t need it, and they do. Let them be(e) and just bask in the fascinating world of the hive as only an observer, not an intruder (as the author says themselves!)
I experienced the same thing, and it took me a couple of weeks to realize I wasn’t receiving emails. Luckily I was only testing it out with emails for non-essential services. I found it difficult to understand why they continued to not make an announcement even after I, and presumably other people, made them aware of the impact the change had.
According to rumors, a big "extra benefit" Google receives is that Windows 11 will be able to directly run APKs. So, retire the universal APK so people on Windows get odd and incorrect experiences with incorrect feature mixes.
It’s obvious the media are not unbiased.

They’ll go full throttle on something like WMDs, border crisis, lab leak cover ups, etc., but also be complicit in burying things like the new border crisis (which appear worse than Trumps) this witness recanting, etc., when it doesn’t fit a narrative.

It’s concerning because there has to be some agenda somewhere for things to switch on and off like this.

Russia is the biggest threat, no, China is the biggest threat. Oh, no Trump said that, they’re not. But now they’re the biggest again.

It’s not “pelosi” it’s not the Congress, it’s most likely what people derisively call the deep state. Unelected bureaucrats with inertial agendas that filter down to the media.

I can’t imagine the media running with this 24x7 to make up for their previous bias and asking for forgiveness and demanding the government come correct.
> The US government is [...] a democracy

No. It's not, or at least, it wasn't. By law, it is a constitutional republic. It was specifically designed to prevent tyranny, regardless of the source.

> If you want to talk about ...

You're just using one form of corruption to justify your chosen form. They're both bad. Tolerance of one leads to the other.
> end exams are standarized and in my opinion fair

there is actually a lot of ongoing discussion about that and there is no resolved consensus on your opinion
I think it's important to know about different data storage options and their trade-offs. Managing state is one of the hardest parts of backend development, particularly at scale, so an understanding of the trade-offs in databases/caches/blob-storage/queues, and when each is useful is important.

I'd pay close attention to speed and "correctness". What's the consistency model of a system? Can we lose data and if so how? What's the throughput? Latency?

These help choose good technology for backend systems, and helps answer questions like:

- Can we do this in-band while serving a user request?

- Can we do it 100 times to serve a request?

- If it completes successfully can we trust it or do we still need to handle failure?

- Can we trust it immediately or eventually?

There are lots of technologies and terms for all of this but I've specifically avoided them because the important bit is the mental model of how these things fit together and the things they allow/prevent.
Learning German for the better part of the last two years, I agree with the thought of your comment. The only way I could wrap my head around the notorious German genders is by divorcing myself of the English concept that gender in language depends completely on the object referred to. Rather, I had to see gender as an arbitrary grammatical category; so just get used to it!

However, I (an armchair linguist, I should note) am also a big adherent to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: your language affects your world view. And in terms of gender, there's at least research[1] that shows linguistic gender affects our perception of things. Of course, as with all research, it's open to critique, but I don't have the training for evaluating research in this field. Maybe someone else better equipped could chime in.

Interesting quotes:

> In one study, we asked German and Spanish speakers to describe objects having opposite gender assignment in those two languages. The descriptions they gave differed in a way predicted by grammatical gender. For example, when asked to describe a “key” — a word that is masculine in German and feminine in Spanish — the German speakers were more likely to use words like “hard,” “heavy,” “jagged,” “metal,” “serrated,” and “useful,” whereas Spanish speakers were more likely to say “golden,” “intricate,” “little,” “lovely,” “shiny,” and “tiny.” ... This was true even though all testing was done in English, a language without grammatical gender.

> Look at some famous examples of personification in art — the ways in which abstract entities such as death, sin, victory, or time are given human form. How does an artist decide whether death, say, or time should be painted as a man or a woman? It turns out that in 85 percent of such personifications, whether a male or female figure is chosen is predicted by the grammatical gender of the word in the artist's native language.

The second quote struck me in particular because when I first came across this, I just had a vacation in Paris where I visited the Pantheon. In one of the Pantheon's pillars is a depiction of Death (French: La Mort, feminine) and it struck me as very curious that in this depiction, Death is female. The only other work I knew of to do that was Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

(This is already long enough, but going back to the topic of "Latinx" terms...I don't intend my point above as an endorsement of this practice. In fact I find them quite virtue signalling. I have more thoughts on this but I think the majority of gender (and racial) activism is distracted on bike shedding issues such as using this "x-form". But enough said for now.)

[1] https://www.edge.org/conversation/lera_boroditsky-how-does-o...
Same here. My introduction to Linux was Gentoo pre documentation fiasco. Even though I tinkered with it all the time, it just ran and ran well in my Pentium 4. The apps may have not been as polished but it delivered what was promised.

Now I can’t even get Bluetooth to work, wifi is still a pain as back then, but the defense is that back then wifi was relatively new and it was expected to be a bit difficult. However once set up it actually worked. Now wifi won’t connect for ??? reason. No error, just… no. And this is with distros that are supposed to be user friendly (Ubuntu, Mint) even tried Manjaro because I figured the Arch fans would have it more figured out. Nope.

Everything feels so broken and disconnected, carrying legacy bugs, trying to reinvent the wheel.

What the Linux world needs is to get United and a bit more organized, even if that means less “freedom “
Nope. They did include GPL code.

> Once, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training -- that was the GNU General Public License.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...
Are there any instances of "criminal culture" flourishing in wealthy areas?

Or is "criminal culture" the byproduct of poverty and desperation?
> email security services do click on links before delivering to the client's email inbox

True. This may be a problem. Like mentioned, common bots are being blocked currently, plus, I will be testing POST instead of GET requests (Since bots apparently don't do POST). An another obvious solution is to include some kind of user interaction before the secret is fetched. Although I don't like that solution so much. C.
Very cool, in 100 years these works will be equivalent to Picasso etc.

As as side project I actually started online AI art gallery called Art Supreme. If you like please check it out:
https://www.art-supreme.com or instagram https://www.instagram.com/ai_art_supreme/
Paternalism, that's exactly that we have been suffering since before we were born, and it's increasing. I think the Internet has given ways for individuals to get information so easily that there are now aggressive restrictions put in place. Of course in the form of self gratifications, sense of duties;fb is here to protect us.

I find these moves good, they show their cards, more and more people will hopefully start questioning the paternalism and finally questions all these taxes we are forced to pay as well. Our bank accounts or at least transactions that may be frozen any time due to merely suspect acticity. The need for a business specific license for each and everything one can do, even to basically cut bread in half for customers. Border controls not allowing us to import/export a gazillion products for x and y security reasons, and, i will say it, the near obligation to take some vaccine shots to be able to move around the globe.
In our house, we changed the device's wake word to 'computer' as it is one of the alternatives. It's OK to demand things without saying please to a computer.

"Computer, play my music".
"It has to be hard to do at least some things on the system for some users, or the core group will not have the tools that they need to defend themselves. Now, this pulls against the cardinal virtue of ease of use. But ease of use is wrong...

The user of social software is the group, not the individual."
This book? https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Why do you want a device to have a name, let alone a human one, at all?

Having no name at all is much better, and more in line with all the sci-fi we've been through. "Play music" is sufficient, and less work. It's up to the tool to figure out if you are talking to another person or not, of course.
From Wikipedia:

> Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or use for food preparation.

40-50L per day would seem to about cover one person's essential uses of potable water.
Just the MP4, since it's hard to read in the smaller size: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/E5R5lsfXoAQDRkE.mp4
Slightly related, what are the most high-quality resources for learning backend engineering?
A house can be built on that lot for $150k (though most will probably spend more like 200k), a barn for another 100k. Still cheaper than a similar house right in SF.

There are cities other than than the west coast as well. 5 acres 1.5 hours from Minneapolis will be 300k with a house.
I know the position is listed as onsite, but any consideration for remote candidate whose experience closely matches the company's core offering?

My Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narasimha-kaushik-n-01340815
I use NetNewsWire (Mac, IOS) to subscribe to substacks RSS feeds. Free posts appear right in the app. You have to click through to read subscriber-only posts in the browser. It has several options for syncing your feeds' state between devices. (iCloud, Feedly, etc)
As others have said, I use an RSS reader for this sort of thing. Many newsletters provide a blog/syndicated version anyways which I can subscribe to, and there are bridges available. That being said, I don't have a bridge so for ones that are only available by email I setup filters and put them into folders unless I want to read them every single week (in which case I do think the inbox it the best place).

If you do decide to go the RSS route, I use https://www.inoreader.com and haven't found a better web-based/has a phone app one yet. The others I tried were all full of nonsense AI that kept bugging me, or weird javascripty fancy UIs that broke, or just didn't let me read inline (you had to click through to pages). Other recommendations welcome though.
An actor isn't employed by the state to uphold laws. They should be boasting to upload it to YT, to show they've done nothing wrong. The adage turned around "well if you've got nothing to hide", seems to fit.

Sure the video could still be held as legal evidence, but the uproar required to get the attention to get it there will not be possible.

People aren't upset police are doing this because it's infringing on their right to record, it's infringing on their limited ability to hold them accountable.
Asking questions even your mom can't lie to – Lessons from the mom test
I believe Star Trek solved this by saying "Computer ..."
Google infamously fired a male engineer for speculating on such things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
I have read that all Tesla's come with a mechanical switch, but I am not sure.
It's true the same thing including central door lock can happen on non electric vehicles in case of a short circuit.
The reason for the fires seems not known or truly established, else Tesla would fix the issue.
Private relay isn't an essential feature, it's a paid extra. Someone who doesn't want to create an iCloud account isn't going to miss it. You can always run a 3rd party VPN.
LIGO was already a major scientific achievement, it is amazing that they are still able to improve it. Many quantum effects are destroyed by heat, so having large objects at such low temperatures will certainly open new areas of research.
sounds very niche from an employability PoV.
You sound like a thoughtful person.

> I do wonder if there is a difference between playing/teaching nieces and nephews that you can hand back any time, and doing it all the time.

I think you're right about this.

Just remember, it's totally fine if you decide you don't want kids. It's usually a bad idea to feel pressured into it.

I'd be curious to hear what you end up choosing. Feel free to shoot me a DM on twitter or email me, even if it's a few years from now. (But only if you'd like to, of course.) Also, if you want to chat more about this sometime, definitely reach out; this topic is quite interesting to me.

Best of luck to you.
Tried to sign up and order the VR etc kit but when I get to the shipping address screen it only allows me to press “cancel.” Would love to try it out!
This is in line with my (admittedly not well researched) theory of why 'many primitive cultures built pyramids': a square-based pyramid is the most stable structure that you can build to be really high. Columns, arches and metalworking are the things that allowed us to come up with something else, right?
Yeah to everyone who says “communism is fundamentally flawed” I just point to China. Sure, they had some growing pains early on but the scale of what they were trying to do was unprecedented.

And yes, the Uyghur situation is awful and should be condemned. But let’s not blame that on communism because the US and plenty of its capitalist allies have done as bad or worse (see also the residential schools in Canada or the incarceration rates of black men in the US).
If you find yourself copying code someone else in your organization wrote rather than abstracting it to a function in a shared library or building a more declarative framework to manage the problem, something horrible has happened.
Different cities have different inspectors. However you should take up local politics if professionals are getting better treatment for crap work.

That said, my experience with inspectors is they know who are the good ones and who are the bad ones. The bad ones get everything looked over closely. The good ones get a close look once in a while, but if the inspector is busy a quick look is all they will get. Trust comes from the inspectors experience in this case though, something that one off homeowners obviously haven't earned.
The salt you release isn't instantly diluted in the whole ocean and we're speaking, for a plant, of millions cubic meters of salt enriched water per day. The release area is just dying.
As far as ecosystem, Clojure itself is smaller, but the whole JVM ecosystem is huge and you have access to that.

We're not at a point where we've figured out how we're doing report generation yet. Internally we do not have extensive experience with either Clojure or Node, but we have heard issues from colleagues with Node and running into performance issues by trying to do too much on the main thread. Since our load demands are not that high, and we're migrating from Rails so we already expect a very nice performance bump, rejection of Node is more a choice of avoiding potential downfalls rather than a fully informed decision based on experience with Node.
For inclusion into their official repo F-Droid requires you to either make sure each build is verifiably reproducible, in which case they will let you sign that build yourself, or else they need to sign it just like Google will now be doing. They used to always require that they sign it, without offering the exception for reproducible builds. They also support publishing parallel versions with both their signing key and yours, to help with smoother upgrades for users with the app already installed.

They do allow you to make your own separate F-Droid binary repo which doesn't restrict your ability to use your own signing key, but then you have to get users to add your repo.
It does not make any sense. To this measure, every last soldier in a European army until post-WWII era should be a highly trained veteran.
I am not sure it is any way better right now. Is there even a way a user can check who signed the apk unless he has his unlocked android device hooked up to a PC with android dev. tools installed and a black belt in android development?
It matters WHICH elite are in charge though, and this batch of Western power elite have no actually loyalty to any given country. China differs from the Soviets in that it's Nationalistic Communism (although perhaps National Socialism is a better term now). What international communism and global capitalism have in common is the destruction of any sense of national sovereignty. If the people of the world are to avoid neo feudal slavery in the coming century, then somewhat paradoxically we need to realize that we all do better, when we realize that we are not all in this together all the time, and that local and regional power structures are better at responding to the actual needs of their people.
I've made generative art and it involves studying the algorithms, guessing what inputs might produce good output, and generating hundreds of tests and samples, almost all of which are discarded without value. It takes time and skill to predict what'll work, and touch up the result to something presentable.

It's funny the linked article mentions "planet ruled by little castles" specifically because I've also made those [1] using generative methods, though in this case style transfer rather than language visualization.

[1] https://hypertele.fi/32c6f4c835b5e790
This is the network working as designed.

I mean, if you wrote an autocomplete system for written english and asked it to complete the sentence "O Romeo, Romeo" what would you expect to happen?

You'd expect it to complete to "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - a very famous quote.

How else could you produce the single right output for that unique input, other than memorising and regurgitating?
God, the current publication system is worse than useless....
“Cyberwaffen” made in Germany (Twitter Thread summarizing German news)
Not necessarily, you'd probably be surprised that many black employees don't really care about this whole ordeal or affirmative action in general.
Which is understandable; if you're confident in your skill set and take pride in your work, the last thing you want to hear is "we hired you for diversity reasons".
So basically, drive the cost of all products up to the point that only rich people can afford them, and disenfranchise an entire slice of the population.

If you want to have the ability to purchase ten year warrantied devices, that is a separate issue. And no one, no one, is going to 'reset' your ten year warranty at the time of repair/replacement. Never going to happen.
> We do have a diversity problem in tech, no doubt.

We should be a bit more exact. We do not have a underrepresentation problem in tech, but a misrepresentation problem.

There’s a lot of minorities that are well-, even over-represented - e.g. Asians, Russian immigrants, autists, people without formal education, … I’m guessing it’s one of the most welcoming and meritocratic industries!

But those aren’t the “right” minorities, and it’s not politically expedient to point them out.
doubt it, it really depends on how the public is moved by this form of creation

not necessarily the level of discipline involved, but the lack of discipline necessary and low barrier of entry will ensure that the public is not interested in discerning value to these works

there will only be some personalities that the public gathers around
I’m not sure, but I’d bet that this is a debate over precision Vs accuracy.3D printers can be pretty precise in relative terms, but they are difficult to make accurate. Extruder style printers struggle with small feature size because the heating and cooling distorts from the reference size. .01mm resolution does not mean you accurately achieve .01mm parts. It means your machine can be commanded to make .01mm moves and will make them repeatably.

That said, 3D printers aren’t bad. Small parts are just difficult.
Is this function used verbatim in multiple projects? I know it's famous but how often does one use an approximation of inverse sqrt instead of the readily available cpu call in the past 20 years
Imagine being the dude that made a mistake in accounting, and being remembered 5000 years later because it's the earliest recorded name we know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_Period)

I didn't find a mention of him making a mistake in this article, but I think I read somewhere a while ago that the numbers he wrote on the tablets had some error somewhere.
Did you have SPF and DKIM records created properly?
In my experience, value for life (both peoples' own life, and the life of others) is directly tied with wealth.

That is to say, poor people don't value living as much as rich people do. They're more likely to engage in behaviour that endangers their own life and the lives of others.
The size savings though are real in actual apps and they are generally around 15%. People are really desperate here to find ways to make everything a bad thing. Apple does stuff like this regularly.
> Does this de-emphasise their femininity, or increase their "sexual object"-ness?

Or secret option c): it has absolutely no effect on how they treat their women because they aren't actually that dumb.
Having a good knowledge of HTTP is useful in many different contexts.

- The correct semantics for each HTTP method

- What different status codes indicate

- Common headers, particularly around caching

- HTTP 1.1 vs HTTP 2

- Common authentication protocols - OAuth 2.0, JWTs, etc.
Copying GPLed code as your own and passing it under an MIT license is not too far fetched of a thing for a junior dev to do.

Jokes aside, to have a proper junior dev replacement you need something that is able to learn and grow to eventually become a senior dev, an architect, or a CTO. That is the most important value of a junior dev. Not the ability to produce subpar code.
I feel discourse nowadays could be substantially advanced by a new science of Discourse Mechanics which would include a Schrodinger operator to quantify the superposition of states applicable not only to the identity of participants in a discourse, but also to their opinions.

As science advances and the vagaries of thought are linked to organic and atomic, physical processes I expect the Grand Unified Theory of Quantum Mechanics to explain Discourse Mechanics too.