skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, it just goes to show that you cannot take on faith or even the evidence provided by the currently speaking government official (whoever that might be at whatever time).

It's a sad position to take, but we have definitely been misled/lied to by gov't officials.

Why is this particular incident any more legit/not-fake than the totally legit/not-fake WMD evidence?
Quasar has similar functionality: https://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
The author has definitely read “Ultralearning”; I highly recommend this to anyone interested in this sort of topic on metalearning.
Is the warby parker allbirds upspoken whiteboarding tech bro finally on the out?
Maybe it's the work from home thing making the performance less possible, or the allure of performing less interesting over a zoom.. but as a consultant I'm seeing a lot less of my the type described in the title. I hope it was only a decade and a half long phase, but I can't be sure.

Are we to see this type of pain in the ass come back out of hibernation soon, writing garbage code and speaking too loudly and frequently about it?
Looks good and it sounds psychologically appealing but this seems like exactly the opposite of what people who want something from you would want.

The description says that people only care about what you've done, but if they're faced with a super long list of things someone has done they'll quickly switch to "did you do that thing we agreed yet?" (which translates into a question about your ToDo list and not you're Done list). If you direct then to your Done with the "if it's not on there I didn't do it yet"-mentality they'll likely lose patience with you as a colleague!

This isn't to say that underlining achievement isn't a good thing, it's just not the only thing and generally it shouldn't be the main thing either if you're focused on future progress.
they just waiting for the regulatory approval
Really great piece - a few highlights for those who TDLR;

> Where, in short, are the flying cars? Where are the force fields, tractor beams, teleportation pods, antigravity sleds, tricorders, immortality drugs, colonies on Mars, and all the other technological wonders any child growing up in the mid-to-late twentieth century assumed would exist by now?

> Even in the seventies and eighties, in fact, sober sources such as National Geographic and the Smithsonian were informing children of imminent space stations and expeditions to Mars.

> Common sense suggests that if you want to maximize scientific creativity, you find some bright people, give them the resources they need to pursue whatever idea comes into their heads, and then leave them alone.

> But if you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell those same people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

> A number of engineers are sitting together in a room, bouncing ideas off each other. Out of the discussion emerges a new concept that seems promising.

> Then some laptop-wielding person in the corner, having performed a quick Google search, announces that this “new” idea is, in fact, an old one; it—or at least something vaguely similar—has already been tried. Either it failed, or it succeeded. If it failed, then no manager who wants to keep his or her job will approve spending money trying to revive it. If it succeeded, then it’s patented and entry to the market is presumed to be unattainable, since the first people who thought of it will have “first-mover advantage” and will have created “barriers to entry.”

> About one conclusion we can feel especially confident: it will not happen within the framework of contemporary corporate capitalism—or any form of capitalism. To begin setting up domes on Mars, let alone to develop the means to figure out if there are alien civilizations to contact, we’re going to have to figure out a different economic system.
Honestly this confused me at first read through. If I'm understanding it right, the book costs 7?
The job application process varies immensely by position and profession. For a junior developer there are hundreds of new listing each day but hundreds of qualified people applying, so the company has all the power and your comment would be true in that context. For a very qualified senior dev, there are dozens of positions posted each day where the company is truly set back until the role is filled, with only a handful of qualified people applying, so the senior dev has a lot of power.

In another profession like say a specialized electrical engineer, there may be only a few positions posted a month and a handful of qualified people so both the engineer and the company would be desperate that they could together be a fit.

This story was about an anecdotal experience where the power dynamic was fairly equal
Well - not true for all industries. In some, there’s a lot of competition for candidates.
I caught the tail end. So I got to be a junior dev without stock options and watch everyone who was a far worse coder get rich. But you can easily argue we are all still riding the crest of a tech wave.
I figured it did.
Recreational Mathematics: A Road Trip That Crosses State Boarders Exactly Once
The "cannot unsee" remark is a good one. I feel the same way about Perlin noise. Once you learn to recognize it, you see it everywhere. Personally, I find it looks really artificial in an unpleasant way. I don't know why it's so popular in games. Maybe just name recognition?

Personally, I think value noise (with multiple octaves) is underrated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_noise
I see this like a personal project, so I don't mind some local bias. I thing it's a good post.

HOA: I can translate it to the monthly payment in my building to pay for the cleaning, electricity for the lift, and other stuff.

House vs Apartment: I think it's confusing. It's correct for the personal case of the OP, but it's confusing for everyone else.

Mortgage interest <= 10%: In pesos? :) Most mortgages here are now in a fake money "UVA" that somewhat tracks the inflation. So if the interest is 5% in UVAs and the annual inflation is 40%, the actual interest is 45% (approximately, read the fine print before signing).
What a fancy way to wreck a nice beach.
In game dev, that one copy might cause a frame drop. Even if amortized over time the frame rate would be slightly higher, the occasional dip might make it unplayable.

Of course, arrays have better cache locality, but they didn't ask about that.

They were probably looking for a linked list with a small array in each node, which gives more constant write performance and less cache misses on read.
We understand that the intelligence agencies can and do monitor a number of people associated with hostile foreign governments. For example, this is believed to be how "Tucker Carlson got surveilled by the CIA" -- he is believed to have contacted a surveilled Russian agent to discuss interviews with the Russian president.

This is called "incidental collection" and it's a touchy subject for sure.

But this subject is different than the DoJ directly surveilling journalists who leak, which is a problem, and governments surveilling their own citizens directly, not incidentally.

We can and should hold our government(s) to a standard of effective fire-walling of acceptable intelligence gathering and holding them accountable when they go beyond to surveil citizens directly, or indirectly through spying agreements.

We can make sure that the people who surveil Chinese or Russian "diplomats" are totally different than the people who execute search warrants against our citizens, and expect there to be zero crossover there.
I'm hoping web assembly eventually completely replaces javascript. It would be amazing if we could theoretically compile any language down to be browser compatible.
This is probably the most accurate take on Modi I've seen on any forum, even one as high-quality as HN. It's almost incredible how the blatant corruption of Congress is forgotten; they were even using Cambridge Analytica (which probably added more fuel to the media trend [0]).

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/whistleblo...
> So the only way to justify future updates is to shoehorn in some adtech along with the security patches.

I'd say it's the exact opposite: the way to justify adtech, i.e. the thing they actually wanted from the start, is by playing up the importance of automated updates to security. Note how devices tend to stop being updated the moment their market share is projected to dwindle.
I'm actually kind of skeptical that anywhere exists with no toxic mushrooms. I know in my region there are many. Probably 100+ and at least 5-10 very common ones.
Everything you said would be true if today's accusations were a pretext for armed conflict, but I don't believe we've reached that level of escalation. Do you?

Accordingly, I don't find comparison to prior wars helpful for discussion. Obviously opinions here may differ...
And you should be wary! Prefer instead a bounded thread pool with a bounded queue of tasks waiting for service, and also decide explicitly what should happen when the queue fills up or wait times become too high (whatever "too high" means for the application).
> Take security a lot more serious than they currently do.

That statement doesn't mean much. How do you know they're not taking it seriously enough and still struggling with the enormity of the problem regardless? You could always claim any entity isn't taking security serious enough.

The alternative explanation makes a lot more sense: security is extremely difficult at Apple's scale, serving a billion consumers with complex and essentially always-connected electronic devices (not to mention their huge services business now). Devices that also happen to be one of the single most important attack points that there is.
No unfortunately that may not work. Even if you revert all updates, the old launcher now has the ad. It appears they are doing this from their service side somehow. I removed all updates and disabled updates, but it didn't work. Mine required side-loading a launcher.
FWIW, I own both a Shield Pro and an Apple TV. I use my Apple TV most of the time. I find it a much nicer interface. The only time I use the Shield is with Plex for watching Blu-rays that I've ripped because it supports pass-through of Dolby TrueHD and the Apple TV does not.
I sympathize with your sentiment, but dishonesty in that case is relevant to credibility in this one.

What, besides credibility of the institutions making the allegations, are these allegations' "own merits"?

Agreed that a reflexive "they lie!" position isn't useful, but... trust doesn't seem like a reasonable default either. In the same vein, it would be naive to trust the Chinese NBS to report unflattering economic statistics honestly. Why? Because of past/recent dishonesty.

Whether it's true or not, I don't think the purpose of this announcement is to inform us. It's part of power games with China, laying public groundwork for updating the NATO mission, new departments/funding/laws/etc... That's not a general paranoia. I get this impression from the NATO statement itself.

from P4:

China’s growing influence and international policies can present challenges that we need to address together as an Alliance. We will engage China with a view to defending the security interests of the Alliance. We are increasingly confronted by cyber, hybrid, and other asymmetric threats, including disinformation campaigns, and by the malicious use of ever-more sophisticated emerging and disruptive technologies. Rapid advances in the space domain are affecting our security. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the erosion of the arms control architecture also undermine our collective security.

Promising to engage China, followed by nonspecific cyber, WMD & space threats.

Here is where I might be paranoid, cynical or whatnot. Is defense against cyberattacks the actual goal, or is cyberwarfare just another long term raison d'etre?
(Disclosure: I'm a maintainer of https://skulpt.org, another Python-in-the-browser runtime, as well as a Python web framework/dev environment that uses it, https://anvil.works)

The short answer is that basically all the current Python-in-the-browser implementations (and there are a few!) predate widespread support of WASM. But even once WASM is a thing, you get a choice between:

1. Compile a full Python environment to WASM (via Emscripten), and load it in the browser. This is what Pyodide does - it lets you use a boatload of existing libraries, but you have to download and bytecode-compile the world to do it. On my machine Pyodide takes 10+ seconds to load. (PyPy.js, which predated WASM, was even worse!) The upside is that you can run more or less anything from the existing ecosystem. This tradeoff is great for Pyodide's use case (notebooks in the browser) - long load times are OK, but you really want those numerical libraries.

2. Ship a lightweight, JS-based runtime. This is what Brython and Skulpt do. You'll pay in performance (compilation overhead, interpretation, and the overhead of preserving Python rather than JS semantics for things like attribute lookup), but your payload will be much smaller (Skulpt is ~250kb on the wire), and you'll be interactive much faster. We chose Skulpt for the client side of our full-stack Python-in-the browser platform, Anvil (https://anvil.works). Unfortunately, you'll be amazed how many Python libraries don't work in this environment. Most "normal" Python code is pretty straightforward, but dig into any big library and you'll find a native dependency really fast. (Skulpt's original 'datetime' implementation was ported from PyPy, and even that depended on native code. In PyPy, the interpreter written in nearly pure Python!) In something like Anvil, this is no biggie, because you can call server-side code with one function call, but it could be a nasty surprise in a traditional app.

3. Compile "not quite Python" to JS (this is what Transcrypt does). This more or less transliterates Python code to the nearest Javascript equivalent. This produces really compact, JIT-friendly JS code, but it will bite you the moment you rely on Python semantics that aren't there in JS. Worse, you're now neither fish nor fowl: If you have a question, you can't consult StackOverflow for Javascript answers, but half the Python answers won't work for you.

(To my knowledge, nobody has yet attempted the "WASM + lightweight runtime" approach. We've occasionally discussed it, but it would be hard to retrofit to an existing project, because you'd want to move a-lot-but-not-all of the runtime into WASM to avoid being hammered by the JS-WASM bridge, and building a Python runtime from scratch is a heavy lift...all for a performance boost you might just get from generating faster JS.)

Before the pandemic, a colleague of mine wrote an in-depth comparison of six popular Python-in-the-browser implementations, with sample code and a discussion of their trade-offs, with a lot more detail than I can fit into this comment: https://anvil.works/blog/python-in-the-browser-talk
espionage != cyber warfare

> attack crippled thousands of computers around the world
They're interesting to adults, too! Simple enough that it feels like you should be able to blurt out the answer, I'm more than twice the maximum recommended age and a professional engineer, but (at least for me) it takes some thought. The top recommended three:

> 1. Masha was seven kopecks short to buy a first reading book, and Mishalacked one kopeck. They combined their money to buy one book to share, but even then they did not have enough. How much did the book cost?

> 3. A brick weighs one pound and half the brick. How many pounds does the brick weigh?

> 13. Two volumes of Pushkin, the first and the second, are side-by-side on a bookshelf. The pages of each volume are 2 cm thick, and the cover – front and back each – is 2 mm. A bookworm has gnawed through (perpendicular to the pages) from the first page of volume 1 to the last page of volume 2. How long is the bookworm’s track?

I do take objection to the answer to question 13 - the author seems particularly set on one way of loading the bookshelves as correct.
> sqlitebrowser.org

Everyone at my company loves your tool. Please keep up the great work!
UDF is the "secret" multiplatform FS there. Even under OpenBSD you can use udftools and write pretty fast to any external USB storage.
> In WB, Basu was ordering hit jobs on the opposition, and his own fellow commies weekly

Source please. I say this in spite of being severely critical of Basu.
> He (and most national leaders, elected or otherwise) works at too high a level to talk about academic theories in general conversation. You don't think he and the people working in his government studied economics, history, and politics? They just made Singapore prosperous by getting everyone to work harder and study more?

There is a difference between people with judgment governing with the advice of academics, and putting academic theories directly into action. A good example during pandemic were governors who listened to doctors but applied their own judgment after listening to other stakeholders, and those who outsourced decision making to credentialed experts.
by that logic, of course they can't. The statement that they can is categorical
Does pi-hole resolve this?
AWS ain't a law agency. They just decided to boot this organization out of their infra. Fair enough. AWS simply decided they don't want to benefit financially from this organization's operations.
Like Japan in 1940s, Xi’s China Now Has to Choose Between 3 Strategic Options
My point was things seem to be going the opposite of what you're wanting. More and more things seem to be contracted out to different companies. Warfare/mercinaries is a big area, however, jails are another.
Try UDF.
Fun fact, one of the primary loom devs wrote quasar.
Are you quite certain that a (linux, nptl) thread costs more memory than a goroutine? You've implied that but it's not obviously true.
Ah! That sounds like a job for an NTSB-type analysis, because most human WTFs are built on a series of improbable events.

Maybe their glasses were fogged? Maybe the afternoon light was at the right angle to hide the 'gills' enough that their check failed? Maybe they had a time-efficient shortcut that finally found an edge case they hadn't planned for?
Ethereum London: how MEV and the new fee mechanism interact
Substack as the New Sidegig for Authors
TLDR; Young people aren't getting vaccines and its forcing Britain to take more compulsory action.

> Boris Johnson said once all adults have been given the chance to get both jabs by September they will be forced to show proof they are fully vaccinated to enter mass events.

> New figures show that 35 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds have not had one vaccine yet – a far higher rate than any other age group.

> Nightclubs reopened last night at 12.01am, however Covid vaccine passports are only optional at this point.
I wonder if there's an issue in translation. How could they "combine" their money if Masha had nothing to begin with? But if we assume quantities of money can be non-integers, then the problem is underconstrained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Sarcophagus: A Community Driven Project; the Dead Man's Switch
Since the founding of the Sarcophagus Ambassador Community, alot has been accomplished. Sarcophagus has been mostly community driven. Here are SOME of the recent developments with the project.

Now listed on Metamask, CoinMarketCap, Coingecko, Zapper, Zerion, and 1Inch
Holder count has doubled
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Current(todays) $SARCO Earning Available
Stablecoin Staking Payout: %11 APY
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Coinlist Seed Program
$3 Million Funding Round in Process
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Archeologist and Embalmer grants are still to planned.

Tons more info available at - sarcophagus.io

Ambassador Community Central - https://sarcophagus.community
Dr. Scott Gottlieb says US ‘vastly underestimating’ level of Covid delta spread
Thank you both for the comments. I believe I remember early on there were some comparisons to kdb+/q. I think there is some pretty great potential with an offering like this (an in-memory database integrated with the language, coupled with solid static storage) from the Julia community going forward. I can envision some use cases in genomics/transcriptomics.
The correct thing to do for YouTube is to pay for the ad-free Premium version ( which also supports "content creators" more).

A lot of people say they'd pay if they were given the option to remove ads, yet surprisingly few people opt to do it for YouTube ( which you can even share with friends and family up to 5 accounts, so it can be a decent deal). Why?
I had a couple of these and dropped them months ago for Kodi boxes as I sought to remove user-hostile proprietary products from my life.

Extra happy with this choice now.
Containers as a Service on AWS
They may have a different answer, but the explanation I've gotten for one-on-one interviews is that it prevents the "grilled by a panel" kind of feeling. (I wouldn't know since I've never been in a panel interview.)
I'd love to try one of those. Three-ring binders are a chore because the holes are so easy to tear with daily use. Sure, they sell stickers that you put over the teared holes to repair them, but why not redesign the binders in the first place?
Hint: It's much easier if you don't know linear algebra.
Would any of his advice prevented this?

The user can go change the launcher.
Ultra comfortable reusable P100 equivalent respirators with a low profile, consumer friendly form factor and a pre-purchase companion app for picking optimally fitting size and shape using front facing phone sensors. Maybe also track metrics like usage, ambient air pollution and exhaled gas mix on premium models.
I used to use the One Drive app to backup my photos on my iDevices. The biggest pain was the first upload taking forever and it was not automatic. My use case was a secondary back up so it didn’t bother me.
Biden blasts social media after Facebook stonewalls admin over vaccine misinfo
I tackled the premise. I think addressing the premise is the logical place to dismantle an argument.
It's not great to have to double your memory usage while you reallocate your array. On more limited devices (see games consoles or mobile devices) you'll end up fragmenting your memory pretty quickly if you do that too often and the next time you try to increase your array you may not have a contiguous enough block to allocate the larger array.

There's also the cost of copying objects especially if you don't know if the objects you're copying from your original array to the resized array have an overloaded copy constructor. Why copy these objects and incur that cost if you can choose a datastructure that meets their requirements without this behaviour.

If you're holding pointers to these elements elsewhere re-allocating invalids those, and yes you probably shouldn't do that but games generally are trying to get the most performance from fixed hardware so shortcuts this will be taken, its a least something to talk about in the interview.

I can see why they were confused by your answer as its really not suited to the constraints of games and the systems they run on.
Two phase power hookup in US has 220volts between the different phases.
Privacy and security are related, but distinct. Apple has been pushing privacy, but we're talking about security here. Typically the tradeoffs around increasing security have to do with user experience, something Apple typically does not like to compromise on.
Windows works fine with flash drives without a partition table but can have issues with hard drives without one.
Not that it's Apple's fault that YouTube has ads. But Apple don't seem to allow any alternative YouTube clients on the store.
And a "ring binder" sounds like something else.
I agree, what they were doing before being destroyed was a huge waste.