skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory all is fine. The problem is the A-team shows they have the skill, not the capacity. So in practice you'll never see that A-team again because that's not their job.
Hey! The support starts from Catalina (macOS 10.15) to the latest Big Sur. And works for Intel or M1 processor.
Business Proposal Templates [+ Resources]
Reminds me of the education blogger who did the whole MIT CS curriculum in 12 months: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
fair point, I suppose humidity and clothing is also a factor.
> I pretty much know if I learned the material or not.

Yes, but have you never met someone that was convinced they knew the material when they in fact didn't? They're everywhere! Accurately assessing oneself is a skill that needs to be taught for a lot of people, and an important part of it is by having people fail tests they're not capable of passing.
This actually happened in some places.

In Chicago, there were ad agencies who would hire actors to engage in "spontaneous" conversations on the subway about various products. I read a couple of articles about it in the newspaper at the time.

This was around 2005ish. It's interesting to think back to that era. I wonder if a book or movie will ever capture the energy, optimism, and audacity of a time when everything seemed possible, urban startups were awash in cheap cash, and there were so many young people full of vim, ready to reinvent the world.
Right, there are two groups and you have to figure out which group you're talking to.

One group sees new, distributed consensus data structures with unique properties that can advance civilization. They're out there; I've met them and they're doing good work.

The other group are pure crooks and speculators willing to burn everything to the ground as long as they get theirs. But they wear a cute face and tell a flashy story, so it's hard to tell them from the first group.
Microsoft's history in open-source, privacy and user hostility
> BTW what you're actually doing by planting a tree is burning carbon to move an already existing plant from one place to another.

That is true (unless you're actually planting seeds), but generally the idea is that another tree will grow where you took it from, so the end result is more trees.
1. Yea, a road that was used for target practice during a large-scale NATO training exercise is the same as a road that could do with a bit of maintenance with painted potholes to warn people. After all, they both have potholes.

2. You are cherry picking. He also said "These are hard to locate for most languages; I wouldn't know where to look in case of C." Rust has some advantages from for example Clippy and from a very newcomer-welcoming and helpful community.

3. Rust in kernel would indeed have kernel-specific idioms. But it'll probably be very similar to other embedded Rust and relatively easy for a newcomer to pick up. (Ee'll have to wait and see, but there is good reason to expect this.) C in kernel is known to be very hard for other C developers to pick up.

4. Thanks for the info.

5. But some things are special about Rust that makes testing easy.

6. The kernel doesn't deal much with text and even when it does, it generally doesn't need to deal with encodings (let alone modern encodings). That said, text is really a nightmare in C. Even just ASCII is needlessly complex due to null-terination, badly designed functions and the regular C UB pitfalls. At least you did acknowledge it may indeed be a problem for C compared to Rust.
> When someone mentions correlation, they imply a linear relation between the correlated variables and a range of values for which that relation is valid.

Yeah that's what correlation means?

> Only when that model is further validated correlation suggests causation.

No! It suggests causation already. There may not be causation but it definitely suggests it.

For example if I find that eating fast food correlates with BMI then there's a pretty clear suggestion that eating fast food causes increased BMI. It might not be the case! But it's clearly very suggestive.
Running your own local resolver doesn't help. Your ISP will just hijack the packets on the way to and from the authoritative servers, since they're in cleartext.
yep. Harsh judgement but true judgement. Now there's rust-qt but I dunno how good it is.
I had a candidate once.

He was way overqualified for the position, so I asked him "Why do you want to work for us?"

He said he doesn't, he just wanted to "sharpen his interviewing skills".

He was very surprised I have unceremoniously ended the meeting immediately.
> Cigarettes are hard to covertly hit at school/home.

I once knew an adult smoker who smoked about 1/2 a pack a day. She also didn’t want to smell like it, he had methods she employed that would leave absolutely no smell on her.

If your kid wants to hide smoking analogs then they can easily, just stand in front of a fan and wash your hands and face after.
The fact that you could rebrand at least 70% of these as Facemics or about a hundred other Xyzmics says a lot about how much Google drives tech-industry culture. Worth pondering whether that's a good thing.
Hey Zuck, can't you innovate anymore?
There are very large portions of land in the US that produce very little return compared to simply buying VTI. Large tracts of upper Midwest and Northeast and states (and cities) with outlier debt per taxpayer burdens come to mind (CT/NJ/IL).

Land, specifically individual land ownership on a non REIT scale, is a notable asset class for a variety of reasons, but diversifying investments is still a good idea in my opinion. It is not impossible or even very unlikely that the specific piece of land one owns to stagnate or even decline in price for a long period of time.
The Most Valuable Soccer Player in America Is a Goalkeeper
This is as insane as the blackbird land yacht which is a vehicle to go directly downwind faster than the wind!
> But this isn't how other insurance policies work, at least in the US.

How an insurance policy works depends on the terms of the policy. No more, no less.

> An occurrence policy will cover claims related to activities or events that occurred while your policy was in effect. Even if your policy expired or you canceled it, the claim would be covered if the event happened during the policy period. […]

> When you buy a claims-made policy, you will be covered if both the event and the claim arise while the policy is active and are reported during that time period. If you do not add the expired term to the subsequent policy period, you will lose coverage for any previously unknown claim that took place during the prior policy cycle. […]

* https://www.embroker.com/blog/claims-made-vs-occurrence-insu...

> An extended reporting period (ERP) is a feature you can add to your claims-made professional liability insurance policy. It allows you to report claims even after your policy expires. This policy endorsement is also known as tail coverage.

* https://www.insureon.com/insurance-glossary/extended-reporti...

> The liability insurance I have will cover the cost of the damages provided someone gathers enough evidence and presents it.

Does it? Have you read the terms of your policy? Or are you just assuming it does? Even if you're right, it could be that, since vehicle insurance is mandated in most jurisdictions for public roads, certain clauses are also mandated as well. Whereas other types of insurance, which are not government-mandated, it is the responsibility of the purchaser to actually get check the contract they're signing.
Has this actually changed since 2017?
VzLinux [RHEL Rebuild]
I hadn't come across this before as an alternative to Springdale, Alma, or Rocky, to replace CentOS. It clams to beat CentOS' rebuild latency.
No, just keep the fibonacci coding, or whatever code, just feed to output bits from that coder through a simple statistical model and then into a range coder.

Here's how LZMA does it, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel–Ziv–Markov_chain_algori...
A typical AC cycles its power input. Its not constantly On. One benifit of using this system could be to continuously remove heat from the house and then use an AC on top of it.

There is always a consumption value to free beer.
Seriously. Even assuming those things--I would say the program I went through was very relevant and I don't think cheating happened very often. It was a really small program and everybody got to know everyone else. So while I can't say for certain, I never saw cheating amongst my friends, nor was ever approached to assist in cheating (though I was frequently asked for help in studying).

The problem is, I knew some of the guys who graduated, with extremely low GPAs, who didn't cheat, have the same degree as me, exited with the same student loan debt as me, and can't code their way out of a wet paper bag. I've ran into some of them working retail jobs back in my home town.

It's a fucking travesty. They had to be saddled with a student loan debt load they would have no chance of paying back. I only paid mine back so early because of a lucky break on an insurance claim. I'd still be paying on them, 20 years later, if I hadn't lost everything I owned in a flood.

Universties talk about how they don't want to be seen as vocational training facilities. Well, they need to admit the reality. Primary education is not preparing people for the work force. We give people a free education for 13 years, and if they want to have economic opportunity, they want to do something more than just manual labor, we can't give them another 2 to 4 years? It's bullshit.
Yes I'm sorry to tell you that this area is much much worse in term of human respect than you think.
Bulk Mailer with anti spam system Alpha Test
Hello everyone.

Me and my brother made Bulk Email Sender program that's in very early version right now.

We need beta testers for it.

The program is fully functional but not the prettiest, still working on making better UI and more settings.

So far its equipped with CAN-SPAM C# Detector, Random Email Delay System (so algorithms don't tag us as bot or spam), email list inserting, email HTML msg inserting and right now only 2 customizable inserts that can grab info from mail list to add to your msg like first name, last name, address etc. depending on what you placed in those slots.

Program is completely free for testing and you can keep it forever is you wish so.

Any one interested can send me mail on: uross.nikolic98@gmail.com and will get a copy.

Just be sure to come with feedback, what do you think is good/bad and what option would you like to see/have in next versions of this program. Thanks in forward.
There's no indication that company was doing anything illegal though.
ICFP Programming Contest 2021 has started
It's certainly slow at 3.3 to 7 transactions per second[1]. I could make a breadboard TTL chip computer that could do more transactions per second than the entire bitcoin system.

Visa does 50,000/second during the Christmas season. When you're 4 orders of magnitude away from the speed you need to be, you can't just tweak it a little to get it where you need to be, you need to start over on your architecture.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
Oh please explain what’s different. The entire code chunk is the same. How is that not reproducible?
You wouldn't ask the question if you had developed both GUI apps on MS stack with VS and web apps: the MS dev experience is very good, while the web one is meh at best. C# vs JS, XAML vs HTML+CSS (debatable), desktop application model vs web one, VS vs whatever else, there is a lot of strong arguments in favor of the MS stack in that case.

Microsoft is trying to port some of this magic with Blazor, with is quite liked from what I read here and there.
That was Germany in the 2000's. This is the USA in the 2020's. College is a game. They are getting rid of even having tests as a requirement for your application. And the admissions process is openly racist, even though this is directly banned by our constitution (for public universities). But don't mention this, or you will be called racist. You will be required to take "distribution requirements" (courses that have nothing to do with what you are there to study) for up to 2 years of credit hours depending on the school. The reason they do this is because department funding is set by the "asses in seats" formula where each student enrolled in the class is assigned a dollar value to the department. And, if you are an unpopular department, these 300 seat 1 level distribution requirement classes will be the vast majority of your funding. Departments typically squabble with each other about how many classes they get to have on the list. And everybody gets an A. Wouldn't want to have a reputation for being hard, or nobody will enroll in your cash cow class. These are all 1 and 2 level courses, which means they are basically high school level, or sometimes not even that. But they are not free like high school! Most people will be deep in debt when they graduate. And there is no way to distinguish yourself. The grades are so inflated that the median GPA is around 3.7 / 4.0! So I can't blame anybody for cheating the system that is cheating them.
The Egyptian army was also used in construction projects. I believe the general thinking is that the state wanted to have a military force available, but didn't want it to be idle. That reasoning would predict that every standing military would see similar uses.
in the first line you mention you lead a team of NOT very experienced devs, but you end up saying you need "deeply experienced" folks, make your mind up before you post.
Xoogler here, I loved these too... I wish I could find the internal comic about Intellij and Eclipse both as big floating messes -- similar in style to https://goomics.net/364/. It might have been an internal meme.
It's funny -- this isn't too foreign to the way I think these days.
Someone in Portland has a beautiful olive drab Ural and matching sidecar. I want it.
First, I recommend to have different subscriptions for each environment. Second, the thing that is really nice with Terraform is that you can see what it plans to do before it does it. One can also set it up in the CI/CD pipelines to align it with other change processes.
I'm guessing TWIR was new to the poster (it is to me), the specific issue was more or less coincidence, and the upvoting was from people (like me) previously unaware of this periodical?

Hopefully they'll chime in themselves.
I just opened this today, what a nice coincidence to see it here. I want to create a cross-platform app to show some information on a Git repository. I do not have many UI widgets, it is just a visualization in a way. I also want to continue learning Rust. So I want to create this in Rust, but I am not sure if that means my project will take many many months. I thought of desktop web-app too, using Tauri (1), if this effort is too much.

1. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
You can request a clause to be added:

> An extended reporting period (ERP) is a feature you can add to your claims-made professional liability insurance policy. It allows you to report claims even after your policy expires. This policy endorsement is also known as tail coverage.

* https://www.insureon.com/insurance-glossary/extended-reporti...

An insurance policy is a contract that you are entering. Like all contracts you need to read and understand it (or get a trusted lawyer to do it on your behalf).
> In terms of providing value to the world at large they should have gone with Wozniak.

Wozniak would have gotten them nowhere, especially in no position to create products worth opening up.
I think it's important to remember our cousins at Data General and their Nova and Eclipse series too. DEC and DG had the best groups of computer scientists the world has ever seen in one place and I don't think PDP11 or VAX11 would have come out so good without such stiff competition from DG Nova and Eclipse. (Youngling computer scientists, mandatory reading "The Soul of a New Machine".)

Also, modern people should realize that electrical interfaces on old 1960s-70s mainframes were almost always locked down by license agreements (as in "touch the backplane in an 'unapproved way' and your institution could be charged thousands of dollars in 'service' fees.”) With mainframes locked down and costing so much money to operate, one couldn't exactly do anything particularly exciting with them beyond mundane information management tasks. ALL of the real action, including creation of UNIX, C-Language, controlling the public phone system switches, aerospace platforms, laboratory c&c, numerical control, industrial process automation, etc. was happening on "mini" computers that were relatively cheap, could be electrically interfaced to almost anything, impacted less users during system-level operations and (usually) were pretty easy to fix.

But IBM, CDC, Burroughs, Sperry, etc. had no real financial interest in creating "mini" computers, so employee spin-outs like DEC and, in turn, Data General happened. In DEC's case, they grew so successful they even tried to produce a couple of their own "sub-mainframes" like the PDP-6/10/20 (aka DECsystem10/20 series), but their core competency was hardware-level computer science until the VAX.

The VAX (and DG Eclipse) came in as the 1970s were ending, because IBM and other mainframe manufacturers were flying “too high” on sales that supported "information technology" needs, but DEC and DG were seeing erosion from VLSI-based microprocessors sold by Motorola, RCA and Mostek. DEC responded with LSI-11 but also divestiture to a new class of computers, decentralized systems that would ultimately be called "departmental computers" that could network with each other and thereby eliminate (or at least supplement) the need for expensive big iron mainframes. With newer and better PDPs in tow, DEC began to tear into IBM's mainframe market with cheaper and cheaper VAXen.

(Unfortunately, a kid named Bill Gates was dedicating himself to enable microprocessor-based computers to do the same to the VAX that VAX had done to mainframes, ironically using an old PDP-10 at Harvard to prototype his code…a decade or so later leading to DEC being acquired by Compaq and then destroyed by the mismanagement of Carly Fiorina.)
I see it as the exact opposite. Intel is being toppled because it was not the only place one could get what they needed, especially Apple.

On the other hand, vertical monopolies are huge right now, since technology and automation allow you to gobble up adjacent businesses and squeeze out the margin at very little cost. You see this in many other business lines, even healthcare.

The question is how defensible is your monopoly?
I'm not sure about the entomologist issue but for this article, I feel that some of the issue might be language barrier and cultural misunderstanding.

For example, she mentions this paragraph:
> She said that while she gets some help, Sci-Hub remains pretty much a one-woman show (it’s “mainly me,” she said)
The Chronicle of Higher Education

And criticises it by saying:
> So they lie to their readers that Sci-Hub run by a woman is some kind of not a real thing but a ‘show’ , and to support this, they seize upon a word ‘mainly’ that I have used to describe my work, as a proof that I am not doing this myself, but getting helped instead.

The use of show in this context is normal and typical language usage, but she instead tries to ascribe the literal meaning to the word 'show' and is offended by it. No native English speaker would interpret "one-woman show" as meaning "Sci-Hub run by a woman is some kind of not a real thing but a ‘show’ ".

So combine a thin skin due to numerous attack, a good command of English but no mastery of the subtleties of certain words and expressions and you have a recipe for her to seem overly susceptible.
mRNA Vaccine Inventor on the Bioethics of Experimental Vaccines
Why the hell is that not just the default.
How to Lead Your Software Team Through Change
I've started working on this. I'm not really ready to loudly announce this yet, but you can check out my plan and what little code I have so far (really just data structure definitions) here:

https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

Edit: I'll be spending next week working on a prototype, so I'm confident that I'll soon have something real to show.
Given the deeply unethical hiring and interviewing practices across the entire industry, I would not be worried about the ethics of leveraging the process for the benefit of the "smaller guy".
I think he's referring to those white board coding sessions where the interviewer forgets that you're a human being and not a dog.

"Draw Spunky" as a reference to the ubiquitous "If you can draw Tippy, you can be an artist!" ads in the back of comic books where a kid would connect the dots to form a turtle and then send five bucks to some fly-by-night diploma mill.

Putting the two concepts together as "draw Spunky" you get a real-life CAPTCHA.

Or maybe I've been smoking crack again.
There is not, though. No native speaker of English, which the newspaper of record in Houston, Texas, might be forgiven for assuming make up its primary readership, would ever assume that anything described as a "one-man show" must have a woman hidden away doing all of the behind-the-scenes work.

The idiom means "the work of a single person," and that's it. Nothing else.
> The employees now have a proof ("my work output hasn't decreased during covid") and want to renegotiate their contracts.

Are you sure? Plenty of companies have experienced lots of issues with communication and velocity during covid. I don't think you can declare, in general, that WFH was not a blow to productivity. Granted, I don't think you can declare that it _was_, but it certainly seems dependent on the type of person and the type of company. Your experience is not everyone's.
The developer experience of web technologies is after all this time still far worse than all the desktop libs I've tried. It is even worse than Swing (for those who don't know: That's Javas GUI technology. From the 90s). Add to that the horrible RAM usage, the general jankiness and ... thanks, but no thanks.
This is great. I've always been fascinated by transducers.
Yes, the mining and PoW is the thing that is absolutely insane so most people will assume they don't understand rather than they do understand and it is stupid.
I Still Recommend Learning Elm
I'm guessing this is a psych/creativity test about drawing an abstract concept, like courage. "Spunky" would then be the abstract concept of spunkiness.
It is a valid behaviour to not join a company who use a technology you dislike. Rather continue looking for a job which will make you happy waking up every morning and starting your work.
I know I only skimmed the article, but at the end of the day they need the plain-text of my email to send it forward so that my Gmail friends can receive it.
>As always (this _is_ HN) because the poster thought _it_ might be of interest to the HN crowd

I think you misunderstood the intent of gp's question. The "it" could be mean very different things:

(1) It is this particular #398 issue has something notable in it that the previous 397 issues don't have: https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/archives/index.html

or

(2) It is the whole TWIR blog of only which #398 is merely a representative sample that has no more and no less significance than the previous issues
That's the thing, not only is this unethical, I can't imagine how much you would have to pay me to make it worthwhile to interview on a regular basis ...
Economists are famously clueless, just look at the top ones from the Fed, predicting higher interest rates every year just like climate alarmists with their failed forecasts.

Let's also not forget that 30ish years into this long con there's still no evidence that any implemented measure and trillions in spending make any difference. In other words, the only thing we know for sure is that the tax money has been stolen and spent.

It's all too similar to how central banks and governments operate.