skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the alternative to following the science? Following people who are not scientists and who are explicitly making things up? This sounds a lot like "most plane crashes are due to pilot error, so maybe we should give non-pilots control of the planes."
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Does anyone know if there is a publicly available list of the 50k numbers that were exploited by this software?
Sounds like something BigClive would be interested in.
I don't know the security, of course, but because of the value to some parties of a nuclear weapon or some of its components, I wonder how it could be adequately secured in a convoy on the open highway.
I mean, this is all the surmise of the person writing the article. I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that the interviewer never actually did anything wrong in the actual event described.

In terms of your idea that a single interviewer should turn you off from working for a company, possibly. Companies can be pretty big. I am skeptical that there are many medium or large companies that can prevent all negative interviewing experiences. Especially if the negative experience is, "I saw my interviewer make a facial expression that I over-analyzed and made a huge narrative about."

That said, if you want to use that as a signal that's your prerogative. My guess is that you'd mostly get false negatives from this signal but if you have many options for employment that's hardly a major problem.
The Apple TV is really good, but have you tried the Nvidia Shield (Pro)? The launcher leaves something to be desired, and just mever felt entirely optimized for the remote and device even before this ads issue, but at least in my experience applications run extremely quickly even compared to my Apple TV which is already fast. On my Shield, that's while running a webcam recorder (NVR) with two simultaneous network streams 24/7 in the background, which makes it even more impressive to me.
It probably works more often than not.
Scientists Create the World’s Toughest Self-Healing Material
Ken Kesey was responsible for starting a lot of it after he took LSD and part of CIA experiments at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital and started doing "acid tests" with music by what became the Grateful Dead. There's are some good documentaries on YouTube about this.

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

― Steve Jobs
Hayes Command Set
Presumably the power supplies could be repurposed?
Or, more simply, bubbles.
>Is that based on experience

Yeah pretty much. Ask any government worker why they're still working for the government and they'll tell you something about benefits and stability.
At least at the company I recently left, this kicks off an approval process within both the HR and accounting departments. Meanwhile an Amazon purchase (and thus an Amazon gift card) is something I could put on my card and expense, or approve someone else doing myself.

I get it doesn't make sense, but that's corporate America for you.

That said, be careful of the gift card route. Depending on the amount you can find yourself in the wrong side of the IRS that way.
This part is particularly interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#Importance_...

It's pretty incredible that such clear historical connection between weaving and computing exists.
First Death Reported in China After Monkey B Virus Infection
I keep getting more convinced that Science needs to be rebooted.

How do we start over in some sane way?
I think OP means "this is nowhere close to Vantablack", not "do not think this is actually Vantablack".
I understand the concern about being free to speak candidly, but I think it's trumped by the need for transparency to ensure that if improper gatekeeping or other unethical behavior is happening, their reputation is also on the line. Basically if you can't say it to your peers in public, don't say it at all.

This also fixes the problem of incompetent peer review, because it will be called out as such and the reviewer's reputation will suffer.
IMHO, having done a fair whack of sales and negotiation in my work, the best way to suss these things out is to hit them back with questions.

"Before I answer, can you clarify if we're talking about MVC as the term was used for Smalltalk applications or as it's used now to refer to web frameworks?"

If they look at you blankly about Smalltalk, you know what kind of answer you're supposed to give. If they smile and chuckle, you get to nerd the fuck out. :-)
Seems appropriate.
There’s a very disturbing trend wherein nowadays you own less and less of the things you pay for. Hardware and paid software shouldn’t be stuffed full of ads.

I don’t have anything against an ad supported cheaper version like Amazon did with the Kindle but trying to sneak in extra revenue on top of something you’ve already paid for is not only annoying but full on shady as heck.

Facebook/Oculus started doing similar experiments with paid apps and games on their VR platform and people aren’t happy there either.

Personally, I’m extremely worried about this becoming normal, the same way micro transactions did in games.
The problem with highway robbery is that you have very limited means of getting whatever you stole transported somewhere else.

This isn't the 18th century, anymore. A semi carrying stolen cargo can't just bushwack its way away with the loot.
If I ask for something to be done in O(1) I'm not asking for it to be fast, I'm asking for it to take the exact same amount of time every time no matter what. That might end up being slower, but so what, maybe that's what I need.

If I ask for an O(1) algorithm and you build something that is as fast as possible, faster in every case, but sometimes it's really fast and sometimes it's a little less fast but still fast -- well, then it's not O(1) and not what I asked for. It may be fast, but if it's sometimes faster than at other times it's not O(1).

Thus, I do not consider big-O to be synonymous with speed. They are different, because the best possible big-O, O(1), does not necessarily mean the fastest.
Ah, then that's different, because I've run Linux under an Armv5 device with 32+16mb of RAM with zram just fine.
Also half of Javascript and C developers, from the same set of Jetbrains studies.
Replying here because I can't to the relevant comment:

> No it’s not, it’s about trying to quantify algorithmic complexity.

And what would you say is the goal of quantifying algorithmic complexity?
Maybe it's more comparable to selling torture equipment

(If, say, Saudi Arabia tracks down a journalist because of NSO, then, what might follow thereafter)
The C++ trending projects on LibHunt also give a nice overview of the current open-source dev ecosystem https://www.libhunt.com/l/cpp/trending (disclosure: I've built LibHunt)
How does one learn how to do proper backups? Using my throwaway as I suspect my company doesn't do them (and even if they do, I don't know where they are or what to do with them as the main engineer left on my piece of software).
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> "innate to their personhood"

Religion is not innate, nationality is not innate (cf. the discriminatory "Help Wanted. No Irish Need Apply" signs of the 19th century), and while sexual preference may be innate, expression of it can be consciously restrained as demonstrated by all those people who suffered from being "being in the closet". Does not being innate mean these protected classes should not exist? Clearly not, so appealing to innateness does not rescue your argument.
Yeah, it's crazy how CWM it's crazy fast on my AMD Turion 2 but windows lag a bit upon moving/resizing them.

Implementing a wireframe mode on CWM should be dumb easy and a lot of older machines would profit from that.
Some of those are not even Grammatical

"A brick weighs one pound and half the brick. How many pounds does the brick weigh?"
Who pays closing costs when you are buying a house for the first time?
The current trend is double-extortion ransomware attacks - encrypt your copy of your data, and threaten to release it publicly as well.

[1] https://www.cybereason.com/blog/rise-of-double-extortion-shi...
> Well, maybe you own a waxing salon that does Brazilian waxes and you're Muslim and don't believe you should see or be in contact with male genitalia besides that of your husband.

Then you’d probably want to ask “What kind of genitalia do you currently possess”. Sex assigned at birth is not a reliable indicator of that, for reasons very similar to why current gender identity isn't.
The Delta Variant, the Unvaxxed, and Other Propaganda
That would be harder, yes. Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_spiral#Slope, you want a logarithmic spiral (you need a constant angle to make the problem make sense)

Luckily, arc length isn’t too gnarly for those (same Wikipedia page), but you still have one equation with two variables.

I would have to think hard about whether those give you a unique solution.

I also doubt that spiral would give you uniform coverage of the cone (and that probably, is the real requirement, not constant angles), but again, I would have to do some thinking.
Do the historians who track these things have some metric that they determine that separates 'precursors' from the game itself or is it a human "you know it when you see it" or consensus? Just curious. I imagine it's something similar to how we answer the question "Are these distinct species?" (which doesn't really have a great answer).
Again, how does what a woman who died before I or the majority of India was even born relevant to what BJP is doing NOW?

The BJP has now been in power at the center for the majority of this century. Blaming everyone else is just evading responsibility
It works until it doesn't, such as in a hardware failure.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15673/dell-hpe-updates-for-40...
At this point it’s impossible to say what the effect would have been. The states that have the above average rates are all very blue and that tracks with the current political winds of the democrats regarding vaccines. The political opinion on vaccines immediately shifted 180 degrees on Biden’s win, because there there was no need to resist Trump and vaccine hesitancy was a tactic being employed by the resisters.

Independent review may have convinced some who were hesitant but I suspect they would have been the folks independently hesitant as opposed to the “politically hesitant”. The politically hesitant would hold out until their trusted party authorities blessed the vaccines.
Find a person (vlogger, friend, teacher) whom you feel inclined to trust and just pick what they use.
You explicitly said they were hung up on the "worst case O(n)" situation, so I suspect they were concerned about the latency. Insertion into a dynamic array has a worst case of O(n) and an average case of O(1), no?
That's a good analogy. There already appear to be bacteria evolving to eat some kinds of plastic. I don't think it will take millions of years. But it will also reduce demand for plastic, because like wood and paper, it will be able to rot.

At least nature may bail us out of that mistake we made with plastic. Could you imagine if we used it for millions of years without it being able to decompose? Your analogy would become reality.
Engineers Are Creating Concrete Pavement That Wirelessly Charges Electric Cars
Indeed, but it likewise seems intuitively reasonable to think that a book costs much more than 7 cents (or 7 times whatever the atomic unit of currency is) and that over 100 times the atomic unit is more reasonable.
I doubt order of operations is important here, but nice catch, I bet that was not on purpose.
This is all solved, it just takes money and typically bringing in outside experts. Occasionally it will require changes to apps but most of the time it can be retrofit.

No it isn’t easy, but it’s also not an impossible task.
They should buy a bag of tests and some soft drinks from their company and their competitors and just publish a page where they show that: Some soft drinks might break some tests making the results worthless.

It's not a positive result (that implies the person has covid) it's that it damages the test. Like shorting the circuit of an electronic pregnancy test...
Look's like kernel::Result does just that. It is re-exported as part of the prelude.

https://rust-for-linux.github.io/docs/kernel/type.Result.htm...
I love how the error bars on the plots go only on one direction, and conveniently the opposing ones between the two curves, definitely not scammy...
> Isn't the order of operations important when talking to I/O?

Sometimes, yes. It’s hard to tell if this is one of those times without a closer look at the documentation or at least some experimentation, but because “Rust is Memory Safe(tm)” I think it is safe assume this is fine simply because it compiled, and without knowing anything about you, would recommend you assume the same, because, well, Rust. Obviously.
Setting aside the gift card bit (addressed in above comment), $13k sounds way too high. Like two orders of magnitude too high.

From irs.gov

> Whether an item or service is de minimis depends on all the facts and circumstances. In addition, if a benefit is too large to be considered de minimis, the entire value of the benefit is taxable to the employee, not just the excess over a designated de minimis amount. The IRS has ruled previously in a particular case that items with a value exceeding $100 could not be considered de minimis, even under unusual circumstances.

Which about matches with what I've seen at BigCo.

$40 box of tools as a gift? Did not show up on my paycheck.

$150 electronic device as a gift? Showed up on my paycheck.
White House Dispute Exposes Facebook Blind Spot on Misinformation
I work in ML research and I used to do experimental physics. I'd agree that specific results in papers can be hard or impossible to reproduce, but that never really bothers me because at least in my work, the specific experimental result is rarely material to why I'm interested in the paper. It's more of a demo, and like a demo, you know its orchestrated to look good. What I'm interested in is what is the mechanism behind the advance and do I think its applicable or relevant to what I'm doing. If the paper is really just a random observation of something that worked better, without a causal explanation, it's not very interesting, but I don't see those often.

Maybe health research is very different, and people are latchjng on to surprising results they find in papers, but I doubt it's a big problem in academia, much more likely in the media. If I was a doctor and saw an out of the blue study claiming a surprising result, I'd discount it accordingly. If I saw a causal explanation with evidence, I'd give it closer scrutiny and follow up if it seemed relevant to me. That is how research works in my experience.
97% of UK Businesses Use Open Source Software
Humanity is on the cusp of practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion
Terraform Remote State
> … "and listen to them?"

That's the part I've always had trouble gettin' out of most "management" types. They hire you for your expertise, and then undermine it at every opportunity to "save money" or to exert their "authoritah".
This is somewhat crude, but does meaningfully contribute to the discussion.
I had two jokes in a jokebook at my grandparents place that stumped me as a kid.

Waiter: How did you find your steak sir?
Man: I looked under a mushroom and there it was

I could only put it down to a terrible, Christmas cracker level pun on "much room".

The second was something like "What has three feet but no legs? A yard stick" with a picture of a ruler with three feet on it. I found that utterly perplexing... the joys of living in a metric country with predominantly imported imperial system based media!

Both took me probably over a decade to understand.
First 3D-printed steel bridge opens in Amsterdam
Government workers I know seem to primarily credit reasonable hours (e.g., government coders don't get 100+ hour weeks; they go home at 5) and decent management (i.e., actual professional management, not screaming morons), but certainly stability and benefits too.
My first interviewer for a Service Desk job:

Interviewer was super nervous, visibly shaking! I poured myself, and him, a glass of water and took a sip. He took a sip, and visibly calmed down.

The answer to every "Do you know XYZ?" IT product was a meek "No". But I still got the job.

Their reasoning? You can teach a nice person technical things with proven interest. It is hard to teach a technically knowledgeable person to be nice.
How do these "established and widely accepted scientific claims" explain why oil wells are filling back up?

"Established and widely accepted scientific claims" are often nothing more than political propaganda, in this case propaganda originating with Standard Oil, the Rockefellers, and the even older money that backed that empire.

Oil being non-renewable justifies overregulation by governments and price gouging by producers.

I'll leave you to do your own research.
It could just as easily have been a quote from Foucault. Not sure that makes it any less edgy though.
It's true. Time and again we hear stories of bright kids being beaten into submission by the aggressive uniformity of our school system.
Years ago I had to correct a Bridge design I was tasked with writing a program to draw out the complex curved shape.

The engineer had used 2d instead of the 3d formulae :-)
That's the world I'm hoping for, as well. I'm the lead contributor to bors-ng.

Like Steve Jobs criticizing Dropbox, I think that bors is a feature, not a product. If GitHub integrated merge trains, I would probably just call it quits and put bors-ng on feature freeze, maintaining it only enough to make sure it stays working and patched for vulnerabilities while everybody migrates off of it.

There are a few reasons for this, but mostly it's because of all the unfixable bugs and limitations that are caused because bors-ng isn't a GitHub feature.

* I can't squash PRs while still having them show up as purple in the GitHub UI. GitHub just doesn't let you do that.

* The CI configuration needs to be partially duplicated between the CI system itself and bors.toml. To fix this, bors would need to implement its own GitHub Actions workflow file parser. If implementing the CODEOWNERS file is any indication, that basically means reverse-engineering GitHub's behavior, because you can bet your life their documentation won't cover every possible corner case.

* Some pull request review features need to be duplicated between GitHub itself and bors-ng, like pre-checks and CODEOWNERS, because there's no stable API to get that information.

* Bors-ng isn't allowed to modify GitHub Workflow files [1]. They just don't let GitHub Apps do that.

* Bors-ng can't always tell whether a CI error should cause the PR to be rejected, or if it's just going to be retried later [2]. To fix this, it basically need to know incident information for the CI provider, which basically means it would have to have a hotline to their ops teams, which I don't.

[1]: This is because bors-ng is an app, rather than a machine user. It would be fixable, but fixing it would make it harder to deploy.

[2]: https://twitter.com/AstraLuma/status/1300797343135137796

These are the biggest problems I have with bors-ng right now. Some of these are theoretically solveable, if you're willing to do way more work than I am, but some of them are truly impossible for anyone but GitHub to solve, and all of them are easier for GitHub to solve than they are for anyone else because they have infrastructure powers that we don't have.

It's honestly a little demoralizing.
Ask HN: Have you stepped down as CTO and been happier?
I’m currently the CTO of a fairly rapidly growing startup. I am a decent software developer but not a great engineer. I’ve managed to scale the app pretty successfully until now but I feel like I’m am constantly stressed thinking about the next phase. I handle all things technical while the VP of engineering handles the people and process aspects of the team. Lately I have been thinking about stepping down and letting a better CTO come in and run things in the hope that I will be happier day to day. Have you done something similar to this and if so what was the outcome? Were you happier in your personal life?
1 word: Sikorsky
Maybe you are not working on the right projects or with the right people, because good unit tests are extremely valuable. At a minimum, ensuring that making a change to some existing code doesn't break existing behavior is valuable.
There are dozens of studies supporting Ivermectin for the treatment of covid 19. Finding one that is a fraud is simply part of the peer review process.

c19ivermectin.com
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just when i'm just about ready to pull the trigger and switch to iOS you tell me this..

save us pinephone
Just speculating, but is it possible that this provides a path to other, more senior federal agent gigs?
I submit the housing market of Phoenix, Arizona as an example of peak bubble. There are numerous houses on the market today that were previously sold... ~30 days ago. This feels more ludicrous than the speculative housing bubble of '07.
When it comes to software, one approach that has worked really well for me is "Build your own X". Re-implement a tool from scratch (minimal feature set, not production-quality code) and learn how it works under the hood.

I've done this myself for Git, Docker, Redis, SQLite, Shell and more - it requires patience, but I've found the approach very effective.

There's a GitHub repository with a huge list of similar tutorials that you can follow: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x.

I'm building a programming challenges platform based on this format, if you'd like to check it out: https://codecrafters.io/.
Why? yes they should be remembered for the atrocities they did … why change the name?

I’m always worried that if we engage in this type of cancelling we will end up with vilification and people will forget that Stalin and Hitler were also just people (and not evil looking demons).

The Taliban got a dedication on an Apollo mission and in one of the Rambo movies … now these things tend to be forgotten. It’s always better to remember and remind people about the potential of evil we (you and me) can do to other people. Leave the name, yet make sure that the article and every mention refers also to the R A F.