skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was fact based they would have provided those facts. They didn’t. It’s also highly irrational to suggest the government is paying people to sit at home, since they are not.

The comment was correctly flagged dead for being flamebait.
There's such a thing as a plant patent which gives you a legal monopoly on clones of a plant you bred. It's mostly only useful for plants like apples, where the ones grown from seed tend to be awful. They might treat a fungus like a plant legally, but again it would only cover clones.
How I miss buffering...

As crappy as RealPlayer became, it was impressive what it was shoving down POTS twisted pairs.
Right, but I don't think GitLab can enforce the right to come to the Netherlands. Presumably if the Dutch security services have a reason to stop someone coming in there's nothing that GitLab can do about that.
Any scripts could run headed or headless, the name doesn’t make sense because of that. Headless is a runtime argument passed to the chromedriver, not a property of the test script itself.
Won't there be a lot of constellations up there, possibly soon-ish? I can't imagine SpaceX will remain the only ones who can do this for very long. They are very innovative, but once they figure out how to make those cheap launches a boring process, I guess espionage will take care of transferring that knowledge elsewhere.

When it becomes clear what such a constellation can do, no doubt it will become a strategic asset – no way the Chinese will be content to just buy access from a US company.

Militaries will be very interested – put cheap-ish sensing capabilities on those birds, or decent ones on some, and you get a pretty decent global surveillance network on top of very useful infrastructure and low-latency, possibly even quite covert global communication infra that can't be taken out with existing tech.

And maybe some of those constellations will use higher orbits and care less about the night sky, and that's it for spotting the Milky Way without a computer processing out the bright flashes. That's not a happy thought.
It's a different version of rigorous to what a normal software industry interpretation would be.

It's about controlled processes, highly auditable, very sharply optimised focused managing the medical (and medico-legal) risk at the expense of every other type of problem.

Generic software specialists I think actually aren't very good at it and take a while to acclimatise to it.
"do you drink alcohol or smoke weed? If so, how often?"

Maybe one glass of wine every year or two.

I've gone many, many years without smoking weed, and smoked a bit of it when it became effectively legal for medical purposes, but never became a regular user.

Curiously, it was a deeply emotional experience on cannabis edibles that made me seek and get therapy after intending to but not doing it for more than a decade.

Cannabis also helped with my creativity (hadn't made art in more than a decade as well until starting to smoke cannabis), and allowed me to cry after keeping my feelings in for many years as well.

I view cannabis as potentially very healing and sacred, but it has to be used with respect and intention to get the full benefit.

If you're habitually smoking it just to get fucked up and watch cartoons you're probably going to miss out and may suffer negative effects in the long run.

Not that there's anything wrong with having fun with it -- food can taste much better, music can sound better, sex while high is great -- but it's easy to slip in to dependency and abuse with it if that's all you ever do on it.

"at the end of the day it didn’t really change my life or personality. I don’t regret having those experiences but the hype around psychedelics is totally overblown. Shrooms won’t magically fix you"

But did you use psychedelics with intention and in a therapeutic context? Did you work on integrating the insights you got during the trips in to your ordinary life after the trip?

A lot of people are disappointed that psychedelics don't magically fix them, but that's because most of them expect the psychedelics to do all the work, while what psychedelics mostly do is just show you what you have to do yourself. If you yourself do nothing about what you've learned then nothing will get done.

One thing I want to add, though, is that psychedelics can also offer (usually temporary) relief from the darkness and despair of some mental illness like depression. During or in the afterglow of a psychedelic experience the world can appear fresh and new, one can appreciate beauty, find forgiveness for yourself and others, melt or open a heart that's been frozen for decades. It can (at least temporarily) turn darkness and despair in to light and hope.

As fleeting as such a life preserver might be to someone in the depths of depression, it might be enough for them to finally seek help or have the energy and hope to start doing the work to change their life around as they no longer see it as hopeless and themselves as doomed. It's not a panacea, and there are no guarantees that this will happen, but when it happens -- even for a brief time -- it's amazing.
As others here have already noted, this analogy is wrong. But I think people here haven't given a convincing example of a system that behaves differently due to entanglement than it would if the behaviour were simply conditionally random (the ball example behaves identically if the balls are entangled or otherwise just classically random).
The issue in finding a good example is that the effect of entanglement is rather subtle and hard to interpret intuitively.

Here is an example that may make it more obvious:

There exists a game that can be played cooperatively between two players that share two random bits. It is possible to win this game only 75% of the time if the bits are not entangled. If the bits are entangled there is a strategy for winning the game about 85% of the time.
The details of the game and a good explanation can be found here:
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2464

Basically, there is a game that involves sharing two bits, if they are entangled, it can be won 85% of the time. If they are not entangled but otherwise random (like the red and blue ball example), it can be won only 75% of the time.
I'd like to see that overlaid with military spending at the same scale. Probably wouldn't mean that much anymore, then.

Ah, well, not overlaid, not to scale, but nonetheless:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/guides/tipsheet-pentagon-...

tl;dr

Military & Security Spending

In fiscal year 2015, Pentagon and related spending will total $598 billion, accounting for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending. That's roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.

Peanuts!
Colloquially, the kind of results you'd expect if someone told you they're a streamer. If you wanted to be more precise then median would work, as would the mode.
The general theme I'm seeing in this thread is that vipassana is not for beginners, not a panacea, and not representative of buddhism/meditation/mindfulness as a whole. There are multiple people downthread comparing intensive vipassana retreats to diving head first into high impact sports.

The problems that the OP experienced appear to be directly related to this dynamic (doing a 10 day retreat a mere two years into meditative experience, and characterizing his practice as gateway drugs), whereas several comments are pointing out the importance of the eightfold path (a system aptly named after eight pillars of conduct) as a prerequisite, or suggesting less "hardcore" east asian traditions.

On a more fundamental level, I'm actually surprised nobody brought up yet the basic fact that sitting on your ass for 12+ hours per day for days on end gets physically painful. Just google "vipassana back pain".

My takeaway would be: don't assume all meditation techniques are the same. Vipassana retreats in particular strike me as quite extreme commitments.
Interesting that in one recent article NSO claimed they had no control or information about who their customers targeted with their software and in this article they insist Macron was definitely not a target of any of their customers...
Ask HN: It's a “Not Hire” after 10m of interview. What do I do?
I work for a big startup in LATAM and I'm running interviews for Engineering Manager positions. It turns out to be very difficult to find good candidates because we are looks for a good mix of very strong technical background, good experience dealing with stakeholders and managing teams. This is not very common and we end up with candidates that are either very rusty with their technical skills and mostly working as "Project Managers" or very technical and have almost no existing experience dealing with stakeholders and teams.

A lot of times, I found myself thinking "This person is far from what we are looking for" after asking 2 questions or just hearing the first 5m of what they are doing right now. I thought several times to stop the interviews to avoid both wasting our time and his/her expectations.
But I always felt if I do that I'm going to be a bad person and had a bad image. So, I always keep going with the interview trying to find questions to ask, even if I know the answer is not that important for the role, or far from my expectations or just don't care about the answer. I just, try to keep them engage with the feeling that I getting what I'm looking for, when in reality is completely the opposite.
I also don't feel good about this approach. Any advice? I'm a horrible person?

PD1: For sure, we need to improve our pipeline and what candidates are we hunting. It's far from flawless.

PD2: It never happened that I change my mind after finishing the interview.
It’s not as great a trade off as it might seem you are pushing the externalities of bad diet on to later in life
Yes, this can be caught by a static analyzer and it is sad that Linux doesn't use it. I wonder, is it because the code quality is low and there would be too many warnings?
> Do FTP servers usually just open up everything to any host?

Typically they do not allow anonymous access by default, but do not discriminate by host.

> That's not the way I've used them. Don't they usually default to sharing one directory and nothing else?

That's a good default, but historically speaking you had to chroot them to get that behavior. Nowadays you could use Docker.

> [Writing to files] is kinda what file system permissions are there for, and it is usually pretty configurable in the server, right?

Running a server that includes code to write to files is unnecessary for serving up web pages, and it's more likely to accidentally result in the server writing to files than running a server that doesn't. You're more likely to misconfigure a server that's pretty configurable than one that isn't. Filesystem permissions are generally far looser than you want for anonymous access over the internet; I don't want random strangers to read my /etc/passwd or see which versions of what Python modules I have installed, much less create files in /tmp. Filesystem permissions are only usable in the first place (for uploading files) if the FTP server has the authority to set its user ID to the user ID of the authenticated FTP user, which means it needs to run as root until after they've authenticated. Also it means I need to add my FTP users to my real /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

> is this relevant to something that asks if FTP is needed over HTTP on the protocol level?

My point with the two-kilobyte secure (?) HTTP server is that FTP is a bad protocol. The reason browsers should continue to support FTP is not that FTP possesses some kind of unparalleled technical excellence, the way NNTP and IRC could be argued to; it's that FTP, however janky it may be, is still useful, and providing better access to existing FTP repositories is one of the main reasons the WWW was created in the first place.

> If this was a priority then I'm guessing that over the last decade or so getting ftps or sftp working in the browser would have been worked on.

There's relatively little advantage to ftps or sftp over unencrypted FTP for anonymous access—you aren't sending the FTP server any files or credentials, just the names of files you want—and no advantage for backward compatibility, since the existing FTP servers you want backward compatibility with aren't running ftps/sftp.
Pretty sure Jesus wasn't the last person to preach tolerance and love.
Yeah, I hadn’t run any updates when I tried it out, so it was running whatever it was shipped with in mid-May.
> Employers should be responsible for workplace safety and pay for it.

In the US, employers are responsible for workplace safety and there are serious repercussions for violations like this. Some small businesses rely on employees being too fearful to report incidents, but that’s not unique to the US.

Worker’s compensation would have covered the injury mentioned above, and any employer interfering with that would face serious consequences up to and including loss of business license and closure of the restaurant.
> victim

This is what I am talking about with the entitlement society - zero responsibility assigned to the person for their poor decisions.
> You think one pathetic patent would stand up against a FAANG’s warchest, if they really wanted to implement it?

You can sell your patent to a troll that can stand up against FAANG.
From the abstract:

"We propose this hypothesis based on two recent bodies of published reports – (1) those that provide evidence for the spread of antibiotics into the American food chain, and (2) those that examine the relationship between the gut microbiota and body physiology. The livestock use of antimicrobial agents has sharply increased in the US over the same 20-year period of the obesity epidemic, especially with the expansion of intensified livestock production, such as the concentrated animal feeding operations. Observational and experimental studies support the idea that changes in the intestinal microbiota exert a profound effect on body physiology. We propose that chronic exposures to low-residue antimicrobial drugs in food could disrupt the equilibrium state of intestinal microbiota and cause dysbiosis that can contribute to changes in body physiology."
>I think some businesses are going out of businesses because they stubbornly refuse to raise their wages

I'm skeptical that a business would choose to go out of business rather that give raises. Have you considered that margins are tighter than you think? I know small businesses like that.
Correct, you're still subject to regular immigration laws and such; some parts of it are just made easier.
Bear in mind that the world is entering a state of environmental collapse, and that automation, AI and globalism are going to render many millions of people without work in the near future. The disparity between rich and poor is only going to widen, and the middle is going to disappear.

By the time this materializes, only the rich will be able to afford it, because only the rich will have $10k free to spend on anything. Everyone else will be gigging in the wasteland for autonomous corporations, up to their knees in radioactive iodine, for subsistence wages in femtobitcoins.
Those workers never had a choice. If it "works perfectly" then why do workers that do have a choice consistently choose to work in establishments where tipping is the norm? That's not a very convincing argument.

The bottom line is that it is the workers making the choice you disagree with, in pursuit of their own self-interest. It would be one thing if choosing one policy over the other was revenue-neutral to the restaurants and workers, but empirically that is not the case.
That's a difference in implementation. You don't typically think about the virtual DOM when writing react.
Healthcare should not be tied to employment. Basic retirement is already provided by Social Security. We can also improve the ability of people to afford room and board by lowering the cost of them, for example by letting people build more housing. Without increasing the supply, providing an ever-increasing amount of money to pay for something will only raise its price.
I tried to upload an image to test it, but it just kept showing a loading spinner.
This fix to me reduces the performance for nothing. In Linux (or most general on any UNIX system that I saw) a path should not be longer (total) than PATH_MAX, that is typically defined to 4096 bytes. What is the point on allocating something statically at this point?

And yes, I know that really that is only a limit of the system call path lenght, and in theory you can work with longer paths (by changing the current directory to a path and then opening a file from there), because filesystems does (stupidly in my opinion) support it.

But in reality, how many applications will break? Does it make sense to support them?

Also the code in question seems to be dealing with a filename more than a path. A file name shouldn't be longer than NAME_MAX, and that is an hard limit of many (possibly all?) filesystems, as far as I know. So why?

It would be simpler and more optimized to just truncate the name at PATH_MAX. Avoid the overflow and the crash but give an error. Why hard limits are considered that bad? We waste time supporting edge cases that no one would really use in a real system (no way someone needs a path longer than 4096 bytes...), for what? In Windows the limit is 260 characters, and nobody seems to be bothered by that, only in Windows 10 you can increase that.
Thank you for writing this. It resonated deeply with me, I spent 2 years in the SFBA and left in the end because I had this nagging feeling that something wasn't right but could not verbalise as clearly as you have. Your blog post has given me some sort of catharsis.

Much like there are some people in this society/world that we will have personality clashes with regardless I believe there are cities in this world that we will have the same personality clashes with. It grates, it wears you down and after a while you have to leave. I often feel affinity or antipathy within minutes of leaving the airport of a particular city. The SFBA was a 'wtf have I done by moving here, ok I'll give it a couple of years to warm to it' and although there was lots to love I never connected on a deep level. It's a subjective personal thing for which there is no wherefore.
Netherlands has the the highly skilled migrant visa. Another option besides the Blue Card.

https://ind.nl/en/work/working_in_the_Netherlands/Pages/High...
Can someone share a secure node-red-at-home use case.
Intel had a project called Larrabee where they put a lot of small but general purpose x86 cores on a GPU card. I've heard that it was a flop because certain GPU operations weren't fast enough on those little cores - you still needed some hardware acceleration. It wasn't a total failure though, Intel managed to pivot it from a GPU project into a moderately successful datacenter product, the Xeon Phi. Of course, time has passed and maybe it's worth revisiting the idea again.

The biggest barrier for anyone making a purchasable GPU is the current patent minefield dominated by Nvidia, Imagination, and others.
At the risk of being too self referential, what about this idea? why isn’t there a place like product hunt/GitHub where ideas could get hashed out and vetted in a community? Does anything like this exist already?
If Macron is involved then the shenanigan is definitely for a good cause.

The trampling of our rights is a small price to pay for safety from the covid demon.
So they are releasing a prototype that might be competitive with a 7-8 year old Model S? And probably aren't doing it at a profit?

I mean, it is SOMETHING, so that does mean there is some BEV group somewhere in Toyota, but it just seems Toyota is asleep at the switch and going to lose their dominant market position. This Prius does little to allay fears by shareholders.
The court is already overburdened as we speak.

My opinion on the matter is that plea bargain is a hack to work around a slow legal system. If it weren't for the slowness of the legal system, we would not need plea bargain.

Also, since there's no verdict by a judge, I find it not rather undemocratic.

Lower courts and court cost are also ways to put less stress on the legal system, but they can be balanced.
A good interest rate in Mexico is 9%, with the most common form of mortgage being around 12%
I can't wait to see how this will workout considering that a typically restaurant business runs on tiny margins. My prediction is quality is going to tank at most of our favorite places to eat (it actually already has). We'll have experienced pre-COVID service workers chasing better pay and benefits while restaurant businesses continue to hire and train those with no prior experience and continue paying same wages. In about a year or two we'll forget about all of this.
It sounds like you need an interview before the bigger interview. If the questions aren’t too in-depth, I’d say have a timed shorter talk with the candidate to weed out any you don’t think would be a good fit. Think of it as a coding exercise before coming onsite. I imagine this will save you time in the long run.
More recently they’ve made it work without JavaScript. I disable JavaScript by default for various reasons (but more about performance than privacy), and I’ve actually stopped enabling JavaScript for Discourse because I prefer its functionality that way.
And, you know, the Dutch East India Company being the largest multinational in world history.
Psychedelics should be legal, and most people should stay away from them until we have high-quality research on them and someone with credentials in psychiatry or medicine instructs otherwise.

These drugs are very powerful and can make permanent and potentially severe changes to your mind. I fear that the push for legalization might be interpreted by some as either encouragement to try them or a signal that they're not as serious as they are.
This is one of those things where I don't buy any of it. The first time I heard a number connected to a Starlink constellation, the first thing I thought about was how many more dirty images are going to be in my footage.

So, yes, I happen to be an amateur amateur astrophotographer, but it was litterally the first thing I thought about. Never did I think there's some web form to fill out with this complaint. So I'm sitting here thinking that if I thought about it, surely others have as well. It's not like I'm some amazing genius that sees things others don't so let me reach out to some esoteric gov't agency that I don't even know is a thing to do.

We've also known about these issues with the much smaller number of Iridium statellites to the point there are apps/websites dedicated to tell you when you can catch an Iridium flare. We also know what the effects of GeoSync sats, Hubble, ISS, etc look like in images. This is not something new.

TL;DR: Stop victim blaming
The palpable trepidation arising from encountering the only other ampersand (that one is the Balrog)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/debunking-dows...

Dowers are not better than chance. They’re exactly the same as chance!
Or just don't put stuff that crashes in pid1
An ISO page with a list of publicly available IETF, NIST, and W3C standards would not be nearly as interesting.