skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading between the lines they're making a killing on OT and while the job is mind numbing these guys party it up real good when they're not on duty.

Sounds a lot like gambling auditing TBH.
Great stuff, anyone know a repo where great content like this is aggregated?
No, thanks, I prefer to stay hydrated as long as possible. People who advise to don’t drink water for 16 hours will be ignored at least.
Malice is the wrong term for it even if we accept the premise. (I do not but that is another can of worms.) Malice implies a desire to hurt people. It would be utilitarian callousness if anything, negligence if there were legal obligations shirked. There is no law against just poor customer service like being a jerk isn't illegal.
It increases adoption at the cost of everything turning to shit
So, on an article that you admit is about all medical research, you asked:

> Is this some vaccine hesitancy in disguise from BMJ?

Why, in an article that's about all of medicine, do you ask about BMJ's stance on vaccines? Why not ask about their stance on chemotherapy? Why single out vaccines? And, in the current climate, are you talking about all vaccines, or are you really talking about vaccines for one particular disease?

That question you asked is your innuendo, not my strawman. Maybe you should take that somewhere else.
You can definitely spend less when your mortgage is paid off.

But I'll admit that part of my reason for buying was to prevent the situation where I might be living on a fixed income some day, and having my rent go up every year. That seemed like a good thing to try to prevent.

Buying a house requires a high monthly payment, which remains constant over time, and one day ends. Renting requires a high monthly payment that rises over time, sometimes unpredictably, and never ends.
It looks interesting, I tried out the Python primer for a bit and decided to pre-order the CS course.

I do have to say (as explained in the comment here) that the chatbot doesn't understand your reply is a bit jarring but I think that'll work out.

The idea of generating a review notebook is pretty cool. Looking forward to try it out in the future more.
1. Do you have strong positive family ties to the area? Including in-laws.

2. Is your area where you’re currently living your querencia, your place of the heart? As contrasted against just the first place you landed after university.

3. Do you have or expect to have kids in the near future, or does your ideal potential mate want kids?

If the answer is yes to any of these three questions, lean towards house.

Overheated markets? Not your querencia? Want your family raised in a detached house in a decent area but priced out for the foreseeable future? You have a relocation decision, not a rent/buy decision.

Bonus question: Can you support two mortgages, or rent+mortgage? There are a lot of paradises where you can build a house pretty cheaply. Rent for work, and build/buy for life. There’s a Buddhist calm that comes over your life when you own your own house free and clear in a place you love.
And you all claim it's only going to get worse...unless what? Unless Congress is elected back to majority?

That's a bold assertion considering the history of corruption and spying under the Congress Dynasty.
Ask HN: Podcasts about your non-CS interest(s)
Hi there. I'm looking to expand my listening a bit beyond the usual fare. What is a podcast for a hobby or niche interest you have that isn't CS/programming/tech?

Guiding principle should be it is something you don't expect anyone else reading this will have in their feed. So let's just assume we all know about NPR and the like.
Even with successful tests and recovery, you may still have to pay the ransom, because hackers often threaten to publish or sell data.
The argument, "Everything being harder and more expensive is better", seems like an obvious troll take. Don't think I'll keep down this thread. Good luck!
I don’t think Laplace would call reasoning without data (the commenter’s avowed position) Bayesian.
With that point said, wouldn’t immutable snapshots in the cloud like what rsync.net offers be quite valuable in terms of a rollback strategy?
To start the ball rolling, I really enjoy Effectively Wild, the FanGraphs Baseball podcast.
Airbnb Manages to Do Business in China
> while conveniently ignoring the failings of basically any other country.

This is not true. Wikileaks leaked material regardless of the materials country of origin.

He never "singled out" the US, they just got the most upset out of any of the countries who had material that leaked because it was a substantial amount of data that made them look bad.
Agreed and thanks for being charitable for the Julia community. It’s an interesting thing to balance: push and market the language, navigate haters and naysayers while also deeply respecting feedback and criticisms. We can all do better.
Adoption wasn't mentioned. Things can get worse and become more popular.
It would be interesting to see a utilitarian cost-benefit analysis of the energy savings from solar heating indoors vs the impact of mining, transporting, and converting the sand into glass (taking into account the environmental impact of deplete certain areas of too much sand).
Interesting perspective, and one I imagine will have a lot of criticism. Honestly I find the perspective too interesting to start picking holes in it. I do wonder how many criticisms will come from idealised notions of intellectualism. Which is of course in direct conflict with the base assumption of this article, which is that what we believe is often tied to emotional needs.
The only thing worse than being wrong is being wrong and not knowing that you're wrong.

We really deserve an answer sheet here.

Number 7 is boys+1 right?
California to New York? I would’ve gone to a place with more nature and less concrete
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I thought the article was going to be about research that could not be reproduced, not outright fraud! We're in the sleeptech space, so now I understand why there is so much snake oil that has university names attached to the "research". I thought it was just the company that was selling the product that was a fraud, not the research institutes themselves!
There's also Codeboot: https://codeboot.org/py/ which offers a single stepper.
If Carl is uploading financial reports or payrolls for the CXO every month TWICE, then I'll just make sure I have a script that can handle that file unless the fix is easy.

If you have SLA, that's easy, ship as soon as you hit that SLA. If you don't, then onboard clients very carefully.
The household who would move every time something annoyed them in a rental does not seem likely to remodel only the kitchen and nothing else between the time they buy a house and sell it. (You have to either tradeoff kitchen remodel costs against kitchen annoyances or many remodels against many annoyances, but it seems unreasonable to tradeoff kitchen remodel against all annoyances.)
I think shining light on unethical behavior does reduce its incidence. Do you have some support for why you think the contrary?
Love discovering random Wikipedia articles! Just this week I started a newsletter about the random articles I come across:

https://randomwalk.substack.com/

Going to use this one in my next email :)
GPU-accelerated adjoint algorithmic differentiation
Andrea Matranga and the Neolithic Revolution
This has to be an age related thing right? I'm considerably younger than the author but the only times when I actually had to get up in the night for a bathroom visit were when beer was involved.
Other replies have backed into this, but the best solution is to

1. Use a COW (copy-on-write) filesystem like btrfs or ZFS

2. Set up snapshots to be taken periodically (hourly/daily) and sent to a different host or volume.

3. Monitor disk usage: if you get hit by a cryptolocker, your disk usage will approximately double as it rewrites all your files.

4. Manually backup snapshots or the full volume to offline storage every N days/weeks/months.

In case you missed it, I wrote this up a while back: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/

TL;DR: Lots of copies keeps stuff safe!
Well, that's why you pay more for PaaS than hosting it yourself, right? You can make it someone else's problem, to an extent.
The Windows SAM database is apparently accessible by non-admin users in Win 10
Sure, but the author specifically addresses the fact that he is not a big nature guy. Looks like a great decision given that's the case for him.
Indeed, for the writer to blithely assume that CA has no weather, culture, public transportation, variety, affordability, or politics ignores that the Bay Area is a tiny portion of the state, and that Silicon Valley is but a small portion of the Bay Area.
You can also enable versioning and deny all s3:DeleteObject actions via the bucket policy.

It won’t stop a root account compromise unless you’ve got a multi-account setup going (as they could edit the bucket policy).

But if you’ve not got any monitoring, they could also just remove the lock on the objects without you noticing and wait for the timeout themselves.
The Poppler library's pdftotext is remarkably effective.
IF works better when your body has weight to lose. When I’m on my heavier side I start falling into IF, but I’m probably eating a thousand calorie deficit. Which isn’t a huge deal for even a couple months when you have 40-50 pounds of body fat to burn off before you’d be considered underweight.
Heh, this feature:

• Smells like fresh coffee
You're completely right, sorry about that. I've read it now.

To add, it's not just about the ability to get the data back from the backup. The effort required to re-setup every client machine, and possibly replace all of them on short notice, is a significant obstacle.

It's also really hard to exercise without significant expenditure.
I don’t know about CA, but in Toronto there are so many “investment” condos that renters can get great deals. Renting a new condo for $2,000 per month that costs $800,000 to buy (~$4,000 per month total costs with HOA and down payment opportunity cost) is an amazing deal.
A quick skim of your comments shows that you consider yourself to be better informed than the majority of scientists in several fields. How did you become an expert in so many areas of study, and why are you having so much trouble convincing your peers of the truth?
> Elitism, arrogance, gatekeeping... could you be any more woke??

I don't care if you think I'm woke or not. What does that matter?

> In other trades these things are virtues. Growing up they were the name of the game in computing too.

Spoken like a person that has never even spent a moment of their life around a tradesperson. Find me a trade that doesn't have some form of legitimized apprenticeship. Find me a trade that doesn't have some form of certification process. Certified solutions to common problems. When necessary, permits, approvals, etc.

Software is nothing like that. "Hardcore nerds" build random unmaintainable workflows and then put other people in tough spots (note: not specific to "hardcore nerds").
>Sadly, you name a stereotype, and I promise you there's people out there that'll do their best to prove that stereotype true.

The point is that it takes more than just a few people to validate a stereotype; otherwise, I could make up any stereotype I want, and by your admission, it would be valid. But that isn't how sterotypes work.
Game Programming Patterns is one of my favorite books btw
This isn’t Instagram.

I thought for sure, “Oh, a story where a founder realizes in real time he’s not qualified to run his venture.”

I got— this.
painting the cab anti-flash white is a nice touch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-flash_white
> At a recent all-Bryan meeting, all the Bryans shared their experiences with this unconventional new routine

I might have missed the point but this is what I'll keep from this article
I'd love to see some reasons why people downvoted my completely-ontopic comment about the heavy network usage of that Reddit link with a useful suggestion for a lower-usage alternative. If you felt my attempt to promote an energy-conscious approach on a discussion about that very subject was somehow not valuable, a text response would be more useful than suppressing my message.
One time I encountered a gradient splotch near the top of my screen. It persisted no matter what application was in the foreground there, so I thought for sure my monitor had gone bad. Turned off and on, same thing. But then I thought, there's no low to where software construction can go, so even this might be a bug. Rebooted, and presto! No more gradient, monitor was fine. Must have been some Win 7 compositor bug. As I said, there's never a low.
I think cloud-based businesses are way more likely than homespun solutions to actually be able to stand up a system from backups quickly, so I'm not sure what you mean about the cloud being "our downfall." Specialization is a sign of a maturity, isn't it? A few hundred years ago you could more or less know what there was to know in multiple fields of science, but this is no longer possible.
I thought my screen was broken from that background :-)

But really, I couldn’t do the no fluids thing.
> This is why I prefer integration tests.

IMO integration tests are great for making sure that your system actually functions with all its parts together. Nothing but an integration test can do that. But unit tests serve a different role: reducing the scope of the system under test so that you can pinpoint exactly what part failed when it does fail. They help you iterate quickly in refactoring, and when something goes wrong in production (or a bug report from the field), they narrow the cone of uncertainty by eliminating from consideration the parts of the system that are working correctly. In my experience, this rapidly cuts down on the amount of wild goose chases one goes on and overall makes a team more efficient. Then once a bug in the wild is found, the system responsible for the failure gets new regression tests and unit tests. Sometimes, I wrote unit tests for units I am suspicious of as I am debugging, and even if those tests don't find a bug, I might keep them.

I worked for 6+ years on V8 and the parts of the system that were the least unit tested seemed to be home to far more production issues than others.

It also helps a lot to keep your unit tests running super fast. Under 1 second is ideal.
This reminds me a little bit of the "Metallica copyrights F and G chords" thing. Wasn't true, but the fact that it seemed plausible tells you everything you need to know.
Pandoc is a converter, not a viewer.

Typically one would view a PDF with a dedicated viewer (xpdf, zathura, kpdf, Okular, Evince, ...), or by converting to text (pdftotext).

less can be extended with hooks (lesspipe) to read a wide range of file types on the console.

Some console file managers can also translate PDFs to text (mc, ranger).
Amazon.com's Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts
> I like the metaphor of dividing yourself into multiple selves

when I was running my own business solo, I imagined that multiple selves were doing the various tasks. When the quality of the output was too low, and if there was enough money, that's when I "fired myself" from that task and hired someone else.

First thing was hiring an accountant for tax returns (the first year I was doing that alone), then I hired a graphic designer since my own designs were atrocious, etc.

It's a good mental model to have, especially for those people who naturally tend to do everything themselves.
I use Amazon S3 buckets, with the web server having an IAM user key with very limited access that only allows writes.

No reads/listing.

So if the web server gets hacked, the hacker can only write to the bucket, but has no way to know what is already there or access anything in it.
This is a "dangerous" summary. Not in the sense that I think it may cause significant harm to anyone, but that I consider it misleading for everyone reading your comment, thinking that it sums the article up accurately, and then ignoring to read it.

I'm not Polish, but I'm another European living in the Bay Area as well, and I don't think your comment reproduces what the author is trying to say, most likely through no intention of your own.

I won't repeat the same mistake by giving my own summary, but I understand too well the weirdness and isolation that suburbs and zoning laws give compared to European cities. It's totally weird, but I live in San Francisco, a dense city, and the zoning laws and "built for cars" layout[1], as well as spreading the population over California style suburbs, still make me feel more like I'm living in some backwater village. After close to a decade of living here now.

[1] I think European cities are just "lucky" that they've mostly been built when cars weren't a thing yet, and also organically grew over much longer timespans.
Well, I would say, having to urinate more frequently is a part of getting old (it seems like mainly in men), but I think the 4pm cutoff may be a bit drastic depending on what time you go to bed and wake up. Waking up at 7am, without having had water since 4pm, seems like a terrible piece of advice.
1. Couldn't you argue the same thing about brick and mortar stores that get robbed? "If they don't want to hire hardcore commandos to protect their property, maybe they deserve to get robbed/looted?"

(My point is that incompetence doesn't make it morally ok that a criminal thing happens to someone)

2. There's a risk/reward component. Nobody likes to buy insurance. Resource constrained organizations will almost always choose to invest their resources to get MORE resources, not protect against the chance that something bad will happen. A rational organization should only invest in protection when the risk is so great that it's likely to interfere with its primary business (beyond their legal/moral obligation to protect information they're trusted with).

2a. If a $2m ransomware attack hits your organization every 5 years, and it would cost you $1m/year in talent & resources to harden against this, you SHOULD let it happen because it's cheaper. Just patch the vulnerability each time it happens and try to stretch the next ransomeware attack to more than 5 years away.

3. Of course there are many irrational organizations that don't protect against ransomware for irrational reasons (e.g. due to internal politics). There's not much to say here except that at some level of management (including the CEO & board) where people are not paying attention to what's happening, and they should go hire those hardcore nerds and pay them what they need to.
It can be commonly occurring with various different health conditions
I do agree that this sounds like horrible advice to give and one that most doctors would definitely advise against.
I think people don't realize what VSCode really is: it's Microsoft's opportunity to do a "visual studio reboot". They get to start over fresh, with all the lessons they've learned over the years, without any tech (or UX) debt, and innovate rapidly without disrupting established VS customers.

Being "just an editor" was just a way to stealthily get its foot in the door. VSCode is already very much a full IDE for some languages, and the list is growing.
Reuters fact checking seems to be particularly bad lately tbh
Yes, Freenet. IPFS is basically Freenet with all the anonymity and privacy stripped out, and claiming it's some new innovation.

Freenet allows connecting only to peers, and is the same sort of p2p hash-based storage cache. It's about as old as Tor.
Ah yes, the efficiency of the free market.

Schools in California are government-run, zoned, and compulsory. A complete opposite of the free market.
You can visualize this: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/557~23912/Comparison-of-t...
I think I agree with this, although I also think a lot of people would still call this integration testing. Basically a lot of code units are implementation details and you want to be free to refactor them fearlessly without having to write double the code each time tightly unit testing each part. Much better to narrow your system to a few well defined boundaries that deliver some clear value. The code behind that interface can be as deep as you like but you don’t really need to push tests down into the depths.

As I say, some people will still think of this as integration testing just because there’s a lot of moving parts working together. But often you’re just testing fairly pure code with no external or IO dependencies so I’m happy thinking of these as unit tests still. Where those types of dependencies exist I do still mock though.
We're at the bottom of a deep gravity well. The vast majority of us are never getting out of the well - unless you're talking about after a population collapse.

Thankfully, we're based on replicators - we could colonize the galaxy by sending out only small numbers. But barring some very far-future tech, each fertile world is going to carry a large immobile population, and we're going to have to learn not to trash planets.
Very cool. But very short. And old. Anything new or interesting on the subject? I am really into all things waves.
> ... the ability of pawns to be queened was restricted while the original queen was still on the board, so as not to cause scandal by providing the king with more than one queen.

This is awesome :)
Let's assume this is true for a moment. Now what?

China have:

* crushed protest at home and moved deeper into dictatorship

* shat all over the 1 country 2 systems agreement and strangled what little democracy there was in HK

* started a mini ground war with their nuclear armed neighbour India

* launched multiple pandemics, the latest costing the world trillions in lost output and millions of deaths

* started a Genocide internally

And were not willing to do anything are we? No so much as a sanction or an embargo except for Australia, who've been left to twist in the wind.

So now China hacked some shit? Great. What are we gonna do? Nothing because no one wants to pay interest on their borrowing or 3p more for pointless plastic shit they don't need from amazon.

/Rant.
100% agree with author, 3 years ago I quit cold turkey and left sfbay for NYC. Now thinking about moving to Europe for even more developed urban lifestyle, like Amsterdam.
That's great that this system is working for this guy but I would like to offer that there are paradigms besides corporate governance structures by which you can structure and organize your personal existence
It's almost like a world wide professional word-smith company should be capable of constructing an accurate and true headline.

Otherwise why are you considering any of their other texts worth reading?
Right. If you find that you can't trust your present self to make good decisions on behalf of your future self, instead enlist your past self to put present self on a path where the decision has already been made.
I empathize with most of what he writes, but an irritatingly common pattern I notice when people criticize SV is pointing at destitute people next to wealthy people - as if proximity is the same as causality. California has more than its share of destitution, but fifty years of NIMBYs and catastrophically bad housing policy are a better candidate for blame. If you make housing expensive you shouldn't be surprised when people go unhoused and when everything becomes expensive because labor (which has to be housed) is expensive.