skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as a new hack (against the human body), really, like in the original MIT sense.
Russia says they've been working on "psychotronic weapons" that sound very similar to Havana Syndrome[1]. Nobody in the mainstream media believes this is real though. Since the consensus seems to be that it's not real, they will never ever get to the bottom of it, at least officially. BTW, this all started after a whole bunch of mysterious deaths of Russian diplomats.[2]. What I think is going on here is that there's some spy war that involves weapons that the people conducting it would rather the public didn't know about, so they are dancing around the issue and act like they wish people would stop asking about it.

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/science/cosmic-log/reality-check-rus...

[2]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-diplo...
But that software is clearly stuff you don't want and aren't interested in since it breaks Apple's restrictions so what's the problem? Just learn to live without it just like you've learned to live without emulators, IDEs, etc. in the App Store already.

Users that want the choice can choose. Devs that want the choice can choose. You can stay in your walled garden. And considering the uptake of alternate app stores on Android this seems like FUD to me.
How is this for title + first verse:

ガヤ暴禽 （がやぼうきん、Gayabōkin）

見ぐれだ。にょばトーブが、

みずんがでごろぐーんと。

ボロゴーンが見ま目ま、

奪い狩るネズモン。

Gayabōkin

Migureda. Nyobatōbu ga,

mizunga de gorogūn-to.

Borogōn ga mimamema,

ubaigaru nezumon.

Title explanation:

- jabbering is ガヤガヤ, so I took half of that.

- bōkin is a play on mōkin (猛禽) which refers to a fierce bird of pray. I replaced mō (猛) which refers to severity, extremity, ferocity with bō (暴): violence, force, to create a new word.

Other notes:

見ぐれ (migure) is supposed to evoke twilight by association with みる (miru, seeing) and 夕暮れ (yugure): twilight. So that gives us the counterpart for "brillig".

にょば (nyoba) is a onomatopoeia similar to nyoronyoro: wrigg.

みずんが (mizunga) is a portmanteau of mizu + unga (water + canal). That gives us a made-up word that evokes some kind of wetland setting corresponding to "wabe".

ごろぐーんと(gorogūn-to) an invention that hopefully evokes gorogoro: heavily rolling. This is our "gyre and gimble".

ボロゴーン (borogōn) is inspired by borogove.

見ま目ま (mimamema) is our "mimsy". 目眩 (memai) means dizzy.

ネズモン (nezumon) is from nezumi: mouse. This gives us "mome rath".

奪い狩る (ubaigaru) is a made-up compound nouned verb: 奪う (ubau) is to snatch, steal. 狩る is "to hunt". E.g. 魔女狩り (majogari): witch hunt. This is our "outgrabe" candidate.
I had a Kaypro when I was a technical writer at Amiga. Quite an amazing machine for its time. With it and WordStar, I got a lot of writing done!
CS degree is not required for most software engineering jobs. (Even less likely for entry ones) I certainly hope that most of them are not CS grads.
According to them, the satellites have a maximum life span in orbit of 5 years. They can launch 60 satellites at a time, at a cost of 50M$ per launch. So they need to spend ~1.4 billion dollars every five years just to keep the constellation at its current size, ignoring the cost of the satellites, ground stations etc. If they have 500k customers, that means that each customer must pay ~50$/month just to pay for the cost of keeping the satellites in orbit.

Add ground station costs, internet bandwidth, satellite production, dish production, customer service, personnel costs, R&D and you'll quickly see that the current prices are much below what is required to be profitable. Even if they have 5M customers (very hard to do in 5 years time), I wouldn't be hopeful for their prospects of not going under.

Of course, they may well survive on government handouts.

Edit to add: the bottom 45% who don't currently have access to high speed internet are unlikely to afford even a 300$ dish and an expensive data plan. The price of current plans is one of the main reasons why they don't have access in the first place.
>It's disturbing that our intelligence apparatus seems unable to accept the obvious conclusion that Havana Syndrome is mass hysteria

They are intentionally ignoring the possibility. The major report released by the government claiming microwave attacks was the most likely stated that a psychogenic cause fit all available evidence but they lacked the psychiatric evaluations to call it the cause.
Medical conditions can make life too unpleasant without being terminal.
There's pretty clear reconstructions for abstract terms in PIE. And there were certainly copula verbs to indicate existence. PIE was not cavemen grunting. The fact that we can reconstruct it so well from languages spanning two continents indicates it was both stable and well-featured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_copula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary
Also the c++ bindings are very mature.

This was surprising for my old tech lead who was sheepish on moving away from MySQL.

He would later refer to the MySQL bindings as “brain dead”
If your box has avx512, this paper has a neat vectorized double precision reciprocal: http://www.ecs.umass.edu/arith-2018/pdf/arith25_18.pdf

I’ve not tried it yet but I like all the new math instructions.
I feel like snapd must be hindering the uptake of microK8s, surely? Canonical is pushing it hard, but snapd is a hard no.

Every time I see it mentioned, I check to see if they ditched snapd yet, alas, today is not the that day.
The US has diplomatic and economic relationships with plenty of oppressive regimes around the world, not sure why Cuba should be an exception. Aside from some 60-year-old egg on their face related to failed coup attempts, that is (though in this case, bacon may be the better breakfast food analogy).
The US does extradite to other countries depending on treaties. Recently there was two to Japan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/business/carlos-ghosn-esc...
Which of "Rust, Haskell (core Haskell), OCaml, and SML" is able to parametrize types on values, à la template<auto> ?
'at pm' isn't clear. gMail?
Says someone who will never create an easy, made-in-the-garage invention.

Attitude is everything
He did get it, but didn't Biden initially question whether these vaccines would be safe?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-coronavi...
SemVer is a relatively recent proposal that the vast majority of software does not follow. Calling the three parts of a three-part version “major”, “minor” and “patch” is a SemVer thing, not a universal standard.
The NSA also uses MySQL for their project XKEYSTORE (digital surveillance)
> not to mention private data concerns

You can set a sync password to encrypt all chrome sync data before uploading it to Google. This will prevent sites like https://passwords.google.com from working because Google can't see your data.
Add the name/IP to your local hosts file. It all works great then. Until the server changes IPs, anyways.

I did this with a website I liked which had let the domain expire. It worked for quite some time, until the VPS/whatever expired too. Good thing the Internet Archive is a thing.
I would love to see some user-related features a la Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Displaying the total number of times I've upvoted someone, a flair which I could put next to their user name, and, sad but true, being able to put a user in the block bin.

If I had those features I'd use this app in preference to the site.
???

That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting with their people and ATVI people and already decided that ATVI is going to face a fine to be paid to its female complainant former employees, the next three years of lawsuit is a ceremony enacting that.
I'm old enough to have seen this happen in real time and continue to be puzzled and amused by it.

I think the author is trying way too had to make this trend sound more important than it is, and I think the connection to the election of Donald Trump is a real stretch.

But a few areas where we can clearly see how US society as become more child-like (not childish) over the past 50 years. (and BTW, I'm not saying any of this is bad)

1) Starbucks - at some point our morning cup of coffee has turned into a milkshake.

2) Sports memorabilia - signed balls and playing cards used to be kid stuff.

3) The Punisher & Police - adults trying to show how tough they are by displaying their favorite comic book character

4) The end of suit and tie business culture - no comment needed, and thank God for this one!

Note: I've left out video gaming off the list. It seems like a good fit at first, but the medium just too new. We can't say it's something people people used to stop doing once they grew up. The fisrt generation of gamers never really stopped
pgloader is great.

Sadly for me when I tried to make a PoC of Postgres for our eCommerce platform I found that we had violated our constraints and lost data.

That was the day I went from MySQL agnostic to MySQL hating.

It largely doesn’t matter that the defaults could be configured to be more strict. We live in a world where people are trying to avoid hiring sysadmin and that database was set up by a developer. It should not have been a default.
We want to be helpful for all teams at any stage - so we are always willing to reevaluate our pricing to be accurate to the value we provide.

It may seem expensive, but with the products we serve, typically a few users for our customer would cover the cost of hotglue.
Having Mitchell comment that my RFC was good was a huge highlight of my tenure there. He deserves all of the success he's earned.
That is because the shooter was a border patrol agent and they get qualified immunity.
One commercial van comes by and delivers packages to 20 residents vs 20 people drive 2-4ton vehicles to the store and back.

Due to scaling laws the delivery truck maybe does similar road damage, but you've saved fuel and lots of valuable time, better for the climate, and less contribution to traffic.

Are passenger busses ok? They are in a pretty similar place.
Exactly. I don't care that Bill Clinton cheated on his wife, they may have an arrangement for all I know. I care that he used his position as the most powerful man on the planet to sleep with a young intern. As a counterpoint JFK and Marilyn Monroe doesn't bother me at all, the power balance was much closer in that case and she was more than capable of navigating those waters.
Japan just convicted two people that helped Ghosn escape to Lebanon. They were extradited from US.
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> they can see my workings

How? Do they check that every cell in a column actually has the same formula? Do they check data format everywhere?

Python script is something that is possible to be actually reviewed, and results - reproduced, and "formula's" there are actually readable.

But for some stupid reason excel files are still shared over email.
Hopefully he'll have some time to learn YAML now /s
Given the CIA's well-documented history of openly lying to the public (Colin Powell comes to mind), I don't consider a 26-year member of the CIA to be a particularly reliable source.

I'm not denying that this could all be true. Even if it's true, the timing of this press release with everything else going on about Cuba in the news is a very obvious strategic play. This is old news, why release a new statement about it right now of all times?

Any intelligence service worth their salt (I can't get away from the salt theme today) would obviously use media statements as part of their strategy. It stands to reason that anything the CIA says or does in the public sphere is well-planned and has intention behind it that we can only guess at.
Better than being a self-important navel-gazing privacy nerd.
One use case that I'm really excited about considering this for is testing! I'm currently working on a project that uses a very straightforward C style and for the mainline processing we don't see a lot of duplication problems and aren't using macros much at all. However, as we try hard to get high unit test coverage I often find myself doing "macro magic" in my tests to remove boilerplate, and I'm excited to try out this tool to make our tests more awesome.
I mean really the objective is to show that you put in an effort that was good enough for the state inspector. Most places that check ID don’t care if it’s actually fake just that an effort was made
There is no sway and if so by who? I think you may be nitpicking. Don’t forget the Cuban thaw under Obama. Instead of following the media, follow actual policy. I have no doubt Biden will follow suit with Obama’s policy on Cuba.
Some gamers started harassing a developer because they didn't like her game. It intensified after her ex boyfriend accused her of cheating on him with a journalist and several other people. Some gamers imagined she had sex with that journalist and others for positive reviews. The ex boyfriend said even he didn't mean to accuse her of that.[1]

And those gamers connected the conflict of interest allegations to social issues right away. Gamergate's name was inspired by a video that said journalism's decline began with writing about things like sexual harassment and representation.[2]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-you-never-wanted-to-kn...

[2] 2:26 in https://archive.org/details/InternetAristocratQuinnspiracyTh...
That’s pretty scary, isn’t it?
This is a pretty weak argument. The default state of matter is entropy: if "quantum supremacy" entails being less predictable than a traditional computer, of course it will win. But it's also competing with a vast amount of pseudorandom values that can be polled at will to create a more plausible, usable random number. If this is actually the current state of QC then consider me a little scared.
Has this ever happened in another software company? I can think of Sergei Brin, but did he really produce after exiting CEO? Or David Filo of Yahoo with the same comment.
Maybe you and the people you know are very used to computer modern? Complaints I hear often compare it to the fonts (and typesetting in general) of people’s preferred printers from before computer typography, so a particular typeface provided by monotype and set by a particular press.

I think a modern typeface (that is, one with contrast between thin and thick strokes among other things) is more acceptable on computers now that high-dpi displays are more common, but the resolution still isn’t perfect and that style isn’t so fashionable in most cases today.

Personally I dislike the shape of the lower case Roman t (the curl at the bottom is way too long and comes too high) and I dislike the italic u and v (as I can’t tell them apart). I think the serifs on the capital T come too low as well.

The wide array of mathematical symbols in latex don’t always go with the font and they can fail to go together well but that is a separate problem (many fonts won’t include them and the symbols weren’t all designed together.)
I think it's become very politically incorrect/insensitive to suggest psychosomnia in the 21st century.

See: many (but certainly not all) long covid reports.
> heavily suggested to be an attack perpetrated by Cuba

Every article I read has suggested Russia may be likely, but only as an early suggestion, and they only used "Havana" because that's where the initial incident took place.

This is why reading articles is important.

Much like the people who can't get over the simple "UK strain" or "South Korean variant" of COVID merely because it was initially identified in those countries.
That was one of the most talked about hypotheses at the time of the Cuba incident.
One person's useless impulse buy is another person's useful tool. Context is everything.

What I found surprising is that apparently there are people who are afraid of Marie Kondo? So weird. It's not like she's forcing anyone to do anything (or even listen to her advice).
Between-group differences in grey matter are not brain damage.
I remember looking at this in the manual as a kid and thinking the archer was about to have a bad time.
If there's more entropy in their post, then we may have circumvented quantum supremacy after all!
For a crime they committed in Japan.
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That's not nice to say.
>Do I not know the latest API design principles yet or why are the examples for a de facto industry standard so lousy?

Swagger/OpenAPI is not really a standard, it's just a way to document an API. JsonAPI [1] is an example of a standard.

I only have a few years of API development under my belt, but something I have learned is that consumers of APIs really don't care about any of the points you listed. No one really cares if your API does not strictly follow ReST principles. They care that it works, that it's fast, and that it's well documented, in that order. Sure, using all the different HTTP verbs feels nice as a developer, but you know what is much simpler for everyone? GET for all reads and POST for all writes.

To be clear, I am not saying that you should give up on following best practices in your APIs. What I am saying is that you should design your APIs to meet your clients' needs, not to satisfy "principles of good API design."

[1]: https://jsonapi.org
Years ago I read an article about Ray Kurzweil where the journalist referred to "a Ray processor". A mishearing of "Array processor" I suppose.
I've been a user of their products for years, and really like them but never knew the last name Hashimoto seems to be why the name of the company is what it is. <Mind Blown>
That link doesn't say anything contrary to what I said, and indeed includes a link to a twitter thread saying that Bitkeeper may very well be the origin of the 'master' terminology in git.
>'Havana Syndrome' Mystery

So we're back to naming based on geography again?
Great question! Instead of dealing with race conditions like this, we encourage users to use our webhooks to create a workflow.

For example, if I wanted to sync my user's sales data and then relate it to the invoices from the accounting data, I could kick off a sync for the sales, and save that data into what we call a snapshot. From there, I would get a webhook when the sales data was ready, at which point I could start the sync of the accounting data.

Yes, we can handle large backfill jobs (ie. all the data up to the present), and then we incrementally sync new data.

Hopefully that answers your questions – happy to clarify.
I mean I bet most accounts probably don’t care even if hijacked
I studied mechanical engineering myself, so I hear you.

That being said, software development and civil engineering are very different in terms of risk management. There are strict regulations around what you do and if you play by the rules, you have minimum to no risk. Even if dozens of people die under a collapsing building you are not accountable if everything you had done was by the book.

Software development, on the other hand, is more like wild west. There are minimal regulations, only best practices. One developer can never know if the end product is free of any errors.

Pilots are a completely different story. The OP was talking about "causing company X to lose Y dollars", not human lives.
My vague understanding is that federal prosecutors are the extremely conservative ones, but state are more likely to prosecute - for instance because the AG is elected and wants to be seen doing something.
This looks amazing, probably features like discoverability and recommendation of creators is in the list?

If I follow n of these people, this person x would be a good creator to follow? Something like that. I realized I don’t know so many of the creators at all.
Maybe they can solve Gulf War Syndrome next.
This related article was on the front page earlier today but seems to have been flagged off:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27921934
The total aggregate bandwidth Starlink will have when their entire constellation of satellites is deployed and the number of satellites that will be visible at a given location at a given time place an upper limit on the number of customers they can have even with overselling bandwidth.

In the US their plans are to be able to support something like 5 million customers. That's less than 5% of the number of customers Comcast has.

It really is by design meant for people in areas that do not have terrestrial broadband.
That's still dumping a "bad" on the poor old algorithm though, which has done nothing wrong simply by existing and doing what it is programmed to do. Algorithms aren't bad, it's the programmers who write them and the managers who decide they should be written who are bad when things like this happen.
If you're going for "each line of code should do exactly one thing", you'd probably prefer that as

if(foo) {
if(foo->bar) {
//whatever
}
}

separating out the null check and the actual conditional. More lines of code and more nesting, yes, but, if you're trying to strictly adhere to a one thing/one line principle, you probably don't care.

Short-circuit 'or' is a little harder to avoid (if you specifically want the short-circuit behavior), since you'd have to duplicate the code in the body of the if. But that doesn't come up as often IME.
I wholeheartedly agree -- a Zoom video call is no time to fiddle with your phone.
Still, labeling and name calling is rather the exception and as you too observed, gets flagged quickly as such. My point was that some accounts seem to be created for the sole goal of name calling. Oh well, I'm happy they're only a few.
Well done. A very graceful and transparent announcement.

I decided to leave senior leadership and return to IC engineering work last year. I was met with shock and, frankly, negative feedback from my peers. It has been a difficult transition, and it's easy to miss the benefits of leadership, but I knew engineering was the right place for me.

It was difficult to do this as a veritable nobody, I can't even imagine the difficulty of the decision for Mitchell. I wish him luck and continued success.
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Yeah nobody thought remote viewing was a thing until it was said to be real, and Russia was experimenting with it I think before the U.S. did according to a documentary I passively watched.

EDIT modified said to be real.
No, since MySQL 8 doesn't ever claim to use SemVer. They have an explicitly stated policy of including features in point releases. Why would it be "pretty scary" that a non-SemVer software doesn't use SemVer?

SemVer is an arbitrary versioning scheme, not a universal standard. It's the operator's responsibility to understand the versioning scheme prior to upgrading.
How come you don't offer ad-hoc consulting?
Except in cases where the constraints may be violated and it just inserts the next nearest thing.

Or the times where the transaction isolation just abruptly ends and commits your transaction midway; leaving no chance of a rollback.

Or when you alter a column to a new type and the cast doesn’t work in a few cases and just leaves corrupted garbage on every row.

Or when the replication misses a few transactions and your replica now looks different to your primary.

(These aren’t hypothetical, these are things I’ve seen)
Your email isn't clear, at "pm"?

I'm assuming you mean protonmail, but I wouldn't expect others to properly infer.

I wish you luck in your hunt for work!
I think you are overreacting.

Even if you were right (which I don't agree is the case) you need to understand the examples are not there to teach you good API design.

The Pet Store is a Hello World of APIs and the point of this example is to replicate an example that is already known to people from other frameworks/libraries.

The point is to show OpenAPI on an example that is, hopefully, already familiar to the user.

It is as if you were arguing how Hello World! should be capitalized or whether there should be a comma in it or not.