skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time taking seriously a semiconductor fab/technology discussion that refers to SEC as a manufacturer. SLSI is the silicon design and wafer fab company. It may incorporate IP from SEC, and certainly SEC are it's largest (and prefered) customer, but it has a separate CEO and is much tighter with other parts of the chaebol (SDC for example got their leadership from SLSI). Not knowing this implies a lack of knowledge of Samsung's business structure and operation.

The problem is that, if I believe that label, then I have to assume all the sales/investment $ numbers are completely off. SLSI is very big (RAM/Flash/Display/Exynos), but their revenues are tiny compared to SEC which sells hundreds of millions of ~$1k phones. SEC is more of an OEM like Apple, than a chip maker like Intel, much less a foundry like TSMC.
Which means that if every one of us was using it, many of us would be using copyrighted code by the end of a single day.
I find that a bit hard to believe.

The rate of heat flow across an insulator is proportional to the temperature difference across the insulator, if I recall correctly.

Suppose you want the inside of you house to be at temperature Tin when occupied and the temperature outside is Tout.

The rate of heat flow across the boundary between inside and outside will be k|Tin-Tout|.

Imagine two identical houses.

In house #1 we keep it at a constant Tin. In house #2 we keep it at Tin while occupied but when empty we let it move toward Tout, turning on heating or cooling when it is going to be occupied again to get it back to Tin when the people return.

For each house, if we plot |Tin-Tout| over time, the total energy used over a given interval will be proportional to the area under that |Tin-Tout| curve.

For house #1, that curve is simply a horizontal straight line.

For house #2, that curve matches the curve of #1 while the house is occupied, but during the unoccupied times falls toward zero until it is time to get it back to Tin in anticipation of people returning home. It then rises back up to Tin.

The area under house #2's curve will be less than the area under house #1's curve.

Thus, in terms of energy required to produce the desired temperature curve, house #2 uses less than house #1.

There are inefficiencies in producing and applying that energy, though, and so getting a given amount of energy applied to heating or cooling the house from your heating or cooling system will take more energy, and that extra energy might depend on Tin or Tout, so it is possible that this might be a big enough effect to counter the savings from letting the unoccupied temperature move toward Tout.
Wait until they invalid any paper that doesn't have an author subscribed whatever journals they cite at the time of publication. That will be coming..
It may have been the case for some segment of the market one time, it is not the case now and I have never know it to be. So I'm not saying they were lying to him but given their ethics this is entirely possible.
Maybe the connotations that you are used to subconsciously ignoring are actually still there after all.

btw, if I find a new species of donkey, I will name it after you.
This reads like a just-so story. Apple has engaged in the same dividend & buyback game, and has also made their executives wealthier than Crassus, but no one would argue that they've lost their leadership position. In fact, you could easily argue that their relative position has improved significantly since Tim Cook's Apple started aggressively paring down the growth of their cash position that had reached near absurd levels under Jobs.

Intel made strategic errors, namely not being willing to sacrifice some control and short-term margins to dominate the mobile space.
I don't know to be honest. Realistically speaking, the bigger the company the easier it should be to hire elsewhere.

Google has legal representation pretty much everywhere in the world, yet when I see engineering positions, they are mostly "anywhere in the US".

For example, I feel like Oracle, IBM, or Accenture will be happy to hire you in a country like Slovenia, while companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are more likely to force you to relocate to a place where they've got a large office.

All of the above is my subjective perspective of course, I haven't worked for Google, MS, nor Apple.

I'd love to know which big tech companies are happy to hire a remote-only engineer and let them work from their own country.
Hardware might be related to software. The swiping from screen to screen was slow. I posted about this and people said to turn off animations. Annoyingly this was not straightforward and it didn't solve the problem. Not to mention having a unique charger meant an extra device to pack on trips.

The os annoyance was the relentless "type in your apple id password", and multiple times per week updates. A few users have spun the narrative that updates are good, but these were annoying and didn't have any front facing benefits. No widgets really sucked, it was regressive not to have my next alarm time on my home screen.

Finally Apple maps sucked, the podcast app was buggy, I'd hit play and nothing would happen. I'd then hit play a few times and nothing would happen. Then finally something would happen. I can't remember other software bugs, it's been years.

Sure these might be fixed today, but I wonder what other things are bad today. I have ad blocking and a few other non play store apps on my phone, given the App Store, I'm not sure Apple would let such apps through.
Has that been proven? It's possible it's only doing that due to a small training set
What backfills the motivation to do this is:

1) who is behind it, actually.

This isn't about dogman144 making CTO. It's BlackRock/private fund/whatever steering companies of interested towards long term, favorable outcomes, at the cost of the salaries for 20 people mole-strike team, tough NDAs, a large finder's fee at the end, and at the benefit of 0% of the negative publicity they get for doing this sort of action out in the open. No % shares reporting anymore, no PR, no protests for buying up residential real estate in bulk, and so on.

2) how much does the figurehead mole make, as this could be an excruciatingly stressful experience

Start with a fee model like 2/20 for hedge funds, and data like FireEye is getting bought out in "an all-cash transaction for $1.2 billion." At a 3% mole fee of the final transaction, thats a $36mil (edit, math :( ) payout for the mole, using FireEye numbers, putting aside 5-7 years of double-dipping Raider pay, FireEye pay. Kraft bought Cadbury for $19B. Some of the larger LBOs push $45B. There are a number of ways the incentives can work here - if this takes less time to make $3.6m than an IPO would, more surety of outcomes because you have a titan of a fund steering things, and guaranteed Partner at the fund once this is complete, and so on, the numbers likely make a bit of sense.

3) Jumping companies: also doable. Either way the mole team wants to play the long game: they really want X-company, and to do that they could do a few years of jumps. Few years at a single company, or a few years at separate companies until that "senior" mole team lands at the target company - same/same.

You nail it with this: it's a great way to get assets inside the upper echelons of a lot of major companies. And add in the above, the payouts look good too.

Is this legal, do you get on the wrong side of outside employment regs at the company, and so on? Not sure! But what's interesting to me is with remote work, this suddenly gets a whole lot more doable, an there are a lot of all-remote, pretty valuable companies (revenue, or IP access - see GitLab) out there. This puts aside all considerations of intel agencies doing this, as well.
A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years
Vary much so. With dry air, and sufficient water, humans can survive very high temperatures (including 100C! [0]). However in 100% humidity (where sweating doesn’t work), 32C is the maximum we can survive [1].

[0] https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-and-ob...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
I made my own personal search engine
I think the biggest issue here is there's not a colloquially accepted understanding of what Right to Repair is.

What you're describing, and I agree with you, is what many legal right to repair advocates are fighting for.

However you'll see many people conflate it with easy to repair and easy to get parts, or repair without voiding warranty. Which IMHO should be separate talking points, but alas, they're all jumbled up when these discussions happen.

It's also why I don't think right to repair will please most people. Because the scenarios you described are limited and outside what most people are thinking e.g home repairs of cell phones
UFO research is taboo in the scientific community, says Harvard professor
No human has ever been able to understand and build all the tools that they use. Steel was to the neolithic man what silicon is to the modern man. Throughout history, science has been more about trying to understand the mechanisms of how we utilise nature than genuinely novel ideas like relativity.

The problem is the deliberate secrecy of knowledge; holding information to oneself in order to gain an advantage over others.

You don't need to understand gravity to benefit from the gravity. Likewise, the average person doesn't need to understand integrated circuits, atomic physics, or any other high technology. The harm comes from those who hold information to themselves in order to exploit others.
I used to think so too. Around 2005 I finally accepted that Linux on the desktop is what it is and not much will change.
The package name starting with 'in.' instead of 'gov.in.' bugs me.
Not _every_ company does this – the consultancy I work at does not. We never outsource to third parties without the customer being involved, we do not hire [juniors or anyone else] for specific projects.
Common Graph Algorithms Explanation and References
Nope. Peer review is a kind of quality filter (in theory but seldom in practice), but that does nothing to solve the question of “is this a paper worthy of publishing”. That question gets resolved by the publisher/editor of the journal long before the paper makes it to peer review.
Exactly. The "mole" is a team in reality, a long term payout makes it worth it. Described it further down in another comment. Ya, this would be a huge undertaking with risks all over the place. But are there enough sociopaths at the funds who care about this area of corporate takeover and at tech companies doing shades of ethical stuff? I think there are, for sure.
It's also worth noting that Steam brings in some of the tactics of the untrustworthy world of commercial software. By requiring the installation of Steam to install games purchased through Steam, they are forcing the installation of a marketing tool. While Steam may be mostly benevolent at present and they have made enormous contributions to Linux for gamers, it doesn't change the fact that they are using their position to sell people more games when they go to launch a game. It also doesn't diminish the possibility that Steam could integrate user-hostile features at any time. (Remember, there was a time when Google was considered benevolent.)
The hilarious thing about this, and no offense to anyone, is that a lot of public code on github is terrible (even mine!). Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.
…that’s why I wrote 90% of people. Maybe it’s 80% or 70%, but it certainly is top of the line for the average user.
Security.txt receives IESG/IETF approval
The problem is - as it often is with introverts and extroverts, technical and sales, product and marketing - the latter groups make a lot more noise than the former
Isn't it harder to heat 32 degree air 1 degree than heat 70 degree air?

This was my 400 level thermo 2 class, we calculated everything, inefficiency, convection, conduction.
And yet they'll get shoehorned into our legal systems regardless. It seems like legal systems need a more adequate revising process, something to help refactor after all the shit we've shoved in over the decades
Big Picture Issues, C++ FAQ
https://archive.ph/gBPLC
No, you got it.

I’m old, so I remember “Draw Spunky.” I refer to the test, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
instead let's teach them that if they cheat, nothing adverse happens.
In another thread somebody mentioned accessibility issues. Web technologies are still embarrassingly bad at this compared to native toolkits.

The other reason is that you care about resource usage. Web apps use more battery, bandwidth, and CPU.
Ideally, yes. If AMC investors are primarily responsible people putting in money they can afford to lose out of a genuine desire to make AMC successful, this is a great story of democratizing finance.

But the top thread on /r/AMCStock right now is about how you should never ever sell your position, even if the price seems to be going down, because there will eventually be a "real squeeze" where all AMC investors will become fantastically rich. The top commenter is proud that he's choosing to invest in AMC stock rather than paying off his debts or saving for the future. So I think there's a real concern that people might be investing money they can't afford to lose, based on assurances from the "meme stock" community of guaranteed profits.
Related tangent:

I just spent a few hours evaluating WinUI 3 for a new project. There's currently no way to hook into the app exit event. Want to flush your SQLite store before you exit? Tough.
Ivermectin, HCQ have done wonders in asian countries. The fact that they are not even considered is frightening, and the studies against their use have extremely small and non-general sample sizes.
I've been having a lot of trouble sending mail to Gmail recently.

It seems that recently the IP block that my mail server's IP address is in got listed in a Spamhaus database. I checked neighboring IPs, and they're all listed in Spamhaus. Spamhaus has a very easy easy procedure for getting off the list, and I was able to get my IP address removed from their list, and https://www.mail-tester.com/ reported 10/10 score again (meaning SPF, DKIM, DMARC are all kosher).

As others have mentioned in the comments of this answer [0], removing from the Spamhaus database still doesn't fix the issue. So this indicates that Gmail doesn't update their Spamhaus database too frequently?? Or, once you're on their block list, it's very hard to get off of it.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20235665/2561579
We're kind of lucky for having so many precise SDK-, Framework- and Language documentations freely available.

Just imagine how painful it would be if you'd need some kind of subscription from some centralized companies only to find out which methods a class has and what exactly they do.

Does it feel like this to not have access to papers in the scientific community? I can't tell, because I don't read papers. All I need to know is available either freely on the web or in books.

I mean, just look at the level of detail in this PDF: https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/...
Yes, lots of old superstructure was made of wicker/wood/whatever was to hand. There will be a metal frame under it, of course, but wicker is perfectly strong enough (ever been in a hot air balloon? The baskets are usually wicker, and strong enough to hold 8 people of more).

Here's another pic of wicker usage on an old bicycle/motorbike:-

http://hazeii.net/images/2004/pioneer/p16.jpg

Very amusingly, it's possible to check the numberplate of that bike on the UK gov. website vehicle MOT page [0]. That bike was registered 31st December 1913 - so it's a mere 108 years old now.

[0] https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
Steam reviews seem to highlight documentation and development issues! It is sad, the tool seems to be fine. Reminds me of aseprite (which is more 2d): https://www.aseprite.org/
> This puts aside all considerations of intel agencies doing this, as well.

This seems more plausible.

But still, you make a good point about the size of the reward. A low probability of success might be OK if the payoff is measured in billions.

It's almost certainly illegal, but I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know the specifics.
Exxon faces heat after lobbyists' comments on climate change cause furor
I struggle with this distinction. Almost any role I'd be willing to take for enough money. If you're upfront about those expectations I believe it's fine to take _any_ interview.
Ivermectin, HCQ
+1 to this. Actual engineering just isn't that valuable to most companies. Engineering solves scale and unique problems. But existing solutions that you can purchase or get for free are usually enough for what is needed. The same is actually true in most non software engineering jobs as well. Component plumbing is what people need. Mix and match off the shelf to solve similar problem in a new location. Engineers happen to make good plumbers, but that doesn't make plumbing into engineering. Component plumbing can be very hard, and take more education/experience than an engineering degree, but that doesn't make it engineering.

Although the above may be technically correct, part of me thinks the word engineering might actually be a moving target. It isn't what it used to be, and perhaps the new definition will stick.
>performance of Web UI has improved amazingly

You didn't live with the computers' UI from the 90's and 00's, right? It looks so.
Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03832.pdf

"...In this paper, we review the current serverless architectures, abstract their
founding principles, and analyse them from the point of view of security. We
show the security shortcomings of the analysed serverless architectural paradigms,
and point to possible countermeasures..."
I don’t know why the ethics for this is clear cut or what priors that statement is built on. Technical interviews are a relatively new social development. People are saying x or y are unethical, but it would be nice to see some actual justification one way or the other.
Papers summarizing advances in deep learning
> But all the code used IS open source; this does NOT mean anyone is free to use it in e.g. commercial or differently licensed products.

That is source available, not open source.
She Advocated for Women, Then Microsoft Pushed Her Off Its Board
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This is bad take, very unlikely to get any favors from the recruiter. You are trying to show your superior position but are doing quite badly from negotiation standpoint. You are showing you are not at all interested in mutual profiting from the cooperation but rather only what you can get for yourself.

It is possible this gets overlooked or you might even get somebody impressed, especially if they are an engineer and share the sentiment, but very unlikely if it is going to be your future manager and he doesn't know anything else about you.

Here is better way if you really absolutely need to go this route:

"I am here to find out how I can help you and your business to succeed."

Everybody knows you want to profit. Here you show it may even be possible for this to be beneficial to both sides.
>But all the code used IS open source

All the code used is source-available but not necessarily open source. If you push a repository to GitHub with no license, it's not open source.

In 2015, the number of repositories with a license was around 20%: https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-...
Open source means many different things to many different people: that's why we have licenses. And that's why talking about "open source" often elides important details. When author(s) license a project under CC0/public domain, their vision of open source is dramatically different than a project licensed under AGPL3.
It's actually not an anti-pattern. CDK provides many methods (e.g. `StringParameter.valueForStringParameter`) for accessing deployed resources from other stacks, or those deployed by other tools or manually. IaC can get in the way or that, but it's not forbidden, nor discouraged.
It would be nice if you could give examples of the trade offs involved in what you consider "engineering disciplines" that you don't find in "highly abstracted web development environment". Right now your comment is nothing more than a shallow dismissal.
and in turn, if I find a new species of invisible pink unicorn, the honor shall be thine.

that is to say, neither of us will do either of these things; what are you even talking about?
I pretty much always go with a straight answer like I need to pay the rent. Also when people ask where I see myself in ten years, I always say retired. When they ask about career growth I always say I’m already at the top of my game. What you call a “convincing answer” strikes me as ceremonial dishonesty.
https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635

Seems that Github used any public repository, not just ones with open-source licenses. This could include source-available code or any other kind of "visible, but nonfree" license.
Are you sure that is how the GPL-license works? I thought you only have to provide the source if you share the code with someone else. If you are hired to write code and sign a contract that the copyright of the code belongs to the person who hired you, the owner can extend and use the GPL code closed-source. Only if the owner decides to share the code do they have to tack on a GPL compliant license.
Your gmail friend gets a link to their "secure inbox" that they can only view by providing the password you assigned them when you sent them the email. It's a shared password that you need to provide them by _some_ means. I believe the encryption and decryption is all done in the browser (yours and theirs), so tutanota never has the plain text.
As throwawayswede said, people are still using this technology and to my opinion, that is still active. There are a lot of things that are using RSS, it is not oblivious to us which why people believe it is dead.

Yes, RSS specification haven't made any improvement since 2010ish. However, the community are still using this technology. It honestly blew my mind that it is still around when I decided to go back to RSS few months ago. The community have developed various tools to make RSS amazing to use. There is RSS-Bridge (souped up RSS on steroid), RSSHub, RSS.app, Feedburner, FetchRSS, etc. RSS readers and it tools are still active and making improvement.
Monobit: Tools for working with monochrome bitmap fonts
Doesn't require it. Anticheat for multilayer could all be done server-side, by peers (started by vote), on demand or by peers on demand; all by just checking the player could do what their client claimed to do.

It's just event logging and replay.

But checking drivers and secure connections is easier.
Yeah but it feels is neither weird to be called or be paranoid in that situation. Some things that Assange has said definitely comes off as paranoid and perhaps completely off but he also has had more reasons than almost anyone to be paranoid.

When you have powerful enemies and know it you're probably not better at recognizing where they are lurking about than anyone else. So you end up lashing out at shadows. Who can blame you.
What is the “squeeze” play here? Is there a short squeeze like angle in this story, or is it simply that they’re driving up the price by hyping up demand?
Probably the funniest part is the revelation that this is what passes for "scathing critique" from the "jester" in the "googler" bubble.