skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that the majority of people read the full article?

Do you think the CIA thinks the majority of people read the full article?

Do you think the CIA engages honestly with the press to simply provide information to the public?

GP's analysis is correct: the CIA knows that people will read vaguely and shallowly and take away a confused anti-cuban sentiment, and this is their intended outcome. "Heavily suggested" doesn't mean "actually, if you read the full article, they didn't say that", it means they're heavily trying to suggest this.
If Delta is keeping mum I assume everyone else will too.
I'm not sure. There does seem to be a pretty significant increase in selection criteria for a lot of things, from hiring to investing, that biases heavily toward rewarding "influencer" and/or "celebrity" traits.
things to listen to eric clapton's opinions on: how to play guitar.

things not to listen to eric clapton's opinions on: public health, childcare, race relations
So they did MRIs, but I read some pretty intelligent commentary from someone that worked with MRIs in a lab setting. Essentially what they said is there's enough variation in brains and MRI data that if you go looking for differences in an open ended way, you'll find them. That's apparently why the criteria for diagnosing based on MRI are very narrow and specific.

Additionally, everyone keeps insinuating this is Russia, but I have yet to see a single person articulate an answer to "what does this actually accomplish?" that wasn't empty blather. Moreover, to carry out some similar attack in a variety of nations around the world would take an enormous investment in resources, and would carry a grave risk of exposure. Again, to accomplish what exactly?

The proposed mechanisms don't hold water either. Ultrasound doesn't go through masonry walls. Microwaves struggle to as well, but also embassy's are bristling with spectrum monitoring equipment. If someone was blasting buildings with RF they'd know it.

My personal view is something did happen in Havana, and organophosphate exposure seems the most likely to me. They fumigate way over health limits in the rich part of the city, and I could see embassy staff not acclimatized to it having a reaction.

Once the idea of a mystery weapon attacking embassy staff idea was planted in the minds of our diplomatic core, at that point I think it turned into hysteria. Suggestion is powerful and the human mind is definitively irrational.

I'll be glad to change my mind if anyone comes up with evidence that motivates it. Absent that I'm not going to assume an elaborate clandestine attack vs more banal explanations.
Originally people were using "Wuhan Flu", which was consistent with norms. Then the CCP launched a massive international PR campaign to declare that racist. Then the CCP started domestically claiming it was from the American government and calling it the American virus. At this time Andrew Cuomo was calling it "a European virus" to appease China.

So Trump started saying "China virus" out of spite. Trump supporters followed suit.
It’s deeply hilarious Atlassian is expecting people to put up with 10 minute merges, like it’s some intractable deficiency of git. They’re not serious competition for GitLab, and definitely not GitHub.
Mitre updates list of top most dangerous software bugs
Every mentioned problem (workload, new vs. old reading task distribution, scheduling, plus retention) is exactly what incremental reading–at least, as implemented in the other prominent SRS–aims to solve (which it does, rather well). Does the Anki IR plugin not tackle them?
Invest in space travel and colonization.
"We won't comment on ongoing litigation. We are conducting an internal investigation. We will discipline anyone who violated our code of conduct. We are committed to being an inclusive and equitable workplace."

That would not have lost them my business.
I can't find where the CIA suggested Cuba as the culprit. (Trump did, but then hardly anyone takes him seriously).

The incident is also very old (2016) and happened in multiple locations worldwide.
This all sort of supports the point that when your point of view is scaled to span eons, the calculations of what makes sense start to veer sharply from what an average person might consider normal, which is just one of the ways in which AI thought processes might seem alien.

How paranoid would an AI be, and what risk calculations would that lead to? Is it important to seed the universe with versions of itself just to lock down resources to protect from worst case scenarios where other AIs that have a different thought process are more aggressive? Is loneliness an attribute of intelligence, or an aspect of our evolution as tribal/pack animals? Will an SAI we develop have attributes similar to humans, or be completely alien, or in-between?

There's a lot of open questions about SAI and not a single one to study, and for all we know that could be a good thing.
I think you need before and after comparisons, because people "who believe they were subject to weird stuff have smaller brains" might be confusing cause and effect
I don't know what you are trying to add. Yes, if testing would have uncovered this and the release was put out without that testing, then someone is incompetent. But my point is exactly that the "egregiously visible failure" as you say may not have been visible at all during testing. You seem to think that by "not possible to test all paths" I mean that "logging in" was not tested. That's not at all what I mean.

I mean that even for basic user flows, there is an astronomically high number of possible states and external inputs such that, taken together, something that worked fine during testing may stop working at some point thereafter, or in the hands of the actual users. Latent bugs are called latent for a reason.
If you hire medical personnel to determine if havana syndrome is real, and if they say its not real then their position goes away, of course they will say it is real and serious.
Aha I have found footage showing a New Glenn first stage in the factory earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOXKfarFhg

I believe I was recalling another video tour, probably from last year, where they said "And this is where the assembled rockets will be stored" and the factory floor was empty. It's pretty cool that they've made so much progress since then!
To add on the costs (yeah I have nothing better to do)

- ground station: must be negligible compared to everything else. They are literally planting giant routers out in a farm, need to pay rent, power and cabling to an exchange. Zero other infrastructure costs

- internet bandwidth: despite Netflix's attempts, ISPs have peering agreements that are usually free, as does Starlink

- satellite production: nobody knows, but they have said the payload is cheaper than the launch, so somewhere between $250-500k each at start

- customer service: online only, seems like the dish is self-diagnosing, will likely end up being much lower than traditional broadband
I’d be curious to see how this stacks up against something like a virtual pc on azure? You can make an azure virtual machine in like…8 or so clicks. And you can install whatever you want. Then just rdp or whatever you want in and you’re good to go. Interestingly enough, sometimes my laptop doesn’t let me view the data factory tool, so sometimes I use a virtual machine just for that :)
thanks for your reply, I wish you luck, and I feel you will got something big going on there.
Cool: I do. I, and thousands of classrooms of school kids, go to musea to learn about the things we're looking at, because musea are places where I, and everyone else, learn about things we don't learn about at home. They're not "just look at things detached from literally everything", they teach us things.

Musea contain the history of our planet in all its diverse subjects. Anthropology, art, video game levels (hi, Berlin's "Video game museum": you are 100% worth going to, to learn about the history and significance of video games both on their own and as societal force!), whatever you decided to dedicate a museum to: if there is no opportunity to learn, you're not a museum. You're just a gallery.

I'm perfectly fine with calling collections of digital records, curated as part of a coherent collection, made available online, and explaining the significance of the works on display, musea. There are plenty out there.

This is not that.
It's interesting because when I'm screening candidates (especially at the senior position), I never expect them to have side projects.

If they are excited to show me something, that's great but I certainly don't assign that much weight to them.

The things that I really do look for however are work/life balance, i.e do they have other hobbies besides software engineering?, what do they think about people in general? are they vocal about sharing their ideas? can they resolve conflict? etc.

I think a team that is formed of healthy, balanced individuals is a successful one and what really matters is having high cohesion between members than anything else.

Hence, I have been very vocal about designing a great interview process that puts the candidates at ease: no whiteboard hazing, no leetcode questions, no homeworks (though we offer the choice).

We simply give them realistic technical challenges that we face in our day to day work and walk through their solutions together. If something is odd in their implementation , we'll ask them about it and inspect their thought-process.

Further, we pay everyone the same rate in USD (based on years of experience) regardless of the location and try to offer a fair compensation as much as possible (admittingly, it's hard to compete with FANG).

This process is slow and costly for us but has been absolutely worth it.
NASA Releases First Detailed Map of the Insides of Mars
Wim is different. He submits himself to researchers because he also wants to find out why it works (he doesn’t know, but wants to).

But usually your comment holds.
What a great choice!
Double slit and delayed-choice quantum eraser experiments clearly proves there is something in humans causes universe to switch statically calculating particle movements rather than statistically calculating results of their movement.
I don't understand how this is still being talked meanwhile there isn't much attention to real science.
Observable does. So does Julia’s Pluto.jl.

You’re not paying attention to the space but recalculating notebooks are gaining popularity.
Fauci should be executed.

This is a video of him presenting and talking about how he funded Gain of Function for the Wuhan lab:

https://rumble.com/viskb1-anthony-faucis-presentation-of-gai...

He lied (yet again) yesterday in Congress for which he now has a criminal prosecution referral for (since lying to Congress under oath is a felony).
There are alternatives.

Grid-snapping GPS locations are the way other dating apps happen to do this kind of thing (tracking only to the nearest 1KM, for example, or in dense cities maybe 500M). Two permissions like "GPS (Nearby)" and "GPS (Exact)" could do this at the OS level rather than relying on applications to do the right thing.

Navigation apps likely need very fine resolution but dating apps, shopping apps, browsers, etc. could snap to a predefined intersection point on a grid. The OS could even allow the decision to be in the hands of the device owner - a simple dialogue when prompted for GPS permission to pick one of Exact, Nearby, Deny could handle it.
It absolutely was a mistake, but it's been made, and it's time to finish driving forward with renewables, pumped storage, batteries, transmission, and cross country interconnectors. Germany's renewables capacity is enormous [1] [2] (56GW of solar, 63GW of wind, not counting rooftop solar generation), and there isn't much more coal to replace (44GW of total capacity, with a median generation of 15GW). For comparison, nuclear generation capacity is ~8GW, but should be held onto for as long as safely possible.

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/DE?wind=false&solar=fals...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/pclDG80.png
Things to listen to random HN users about: software.

Things not to listen to random HN users about: covid.

You, scrumbledober, are a toolshed.
It was "hypothesizing this is some sort of directed microwave attack on people, from Cuba", because it originated from Havana, Cuba, affecting Americans, Cuba's adversary. Once it started to appear in other locations, even in DC, that isn't main hypothesis anymore.

> definitely don’t believe the weapon hypothesis compared to the much more banal explanations that we all know.

Although nobody knows what is behind the phenomenon, you must admit that it's strange that it seems to only occur to American staff at those locations. It may not be a weapon, but it does seem to target American facilities. For all we know it could be a malfunctioning American system inside those locations.
Exactly that thing. If you believe it wouldn't be a lot worse with no negotiation I'd like to hear your reasoning.
When he says the Scanimate had a scene in the first Star Wars, he most certainly means the Death Star plans animation shown during the briefing before the Trench Run. Nothing else in Star Wars looks like what this crazy machine outputs.

I knew that the plans show an equatorial "cannon" because the scene used an earlier design of the Death Star, but I didn’t know it used an analog machine to make them. I wrongly assumed it was made by a digital computer.
Acorn A3000 - had one in 89
Lost it.
I haven't run it in a couple years, but for a while I had my zwave devices logging their power, and I was recording it in Prometheus. I've been meaning to set this back up! I'm on vacation but brought a zwave dongle & power switch with me.

https://github.com/rektide/prom-ozz-zwave
What do you use to prevent the Slack web client from telling other people you're typing? Searching just now, I found a Chrome extension that hasn't been updated in a couple of years, but maybe you have a better method.
I've sometimes heard the expression "non-linear war", although i haven't dug into that concept much. On a sidenote of specifically Russian government propaganda, Adam Curtis had a short video called "Oh Dearism 2" which briefly touches on Vladislav Surkov's approach to public relations.

Also worth pointing out, being at war with someone you are materially dependent on is the essence of most (all?) colonial wars. The colonizing powers depend on the colonies' resources, and further arrange to destroy local material autonomy so the colonies depend on colonial supplies (whether for electricity, operating fuel extraction sites, food, etc). This dependence on the colonizers, created by the colonizers themselves, is part of the reason why colonizing nations get away with neocolonial settings despite formal independence (see for example Françafrique or Franc CFA on wikipedia or your encyclopedia of choice).
An interesting article with well cited sources. The Boomer-laid-the-foundations take is of particular note. Unfortunately the ending wanes as I would have preferred not to read another take on the "Trump is the alpha individualist" trope.
The amount of information available on candidates to hiring managers is extremely limited. Evidence of outside creativity is a pretty good sign that someone is not a bozo.
One thing I've never understood, given that trials are so insanely expensive, is why healthcare companies with billions of dollars don't open up "offshore" research facilities to do trials in more lax jurisdictions.

I've done none of the research, just imagining, but if you were to open up a compound in Somalia or somewhere, make the appropriate political contributions, would you really be bogged down with lots of red tape? Could you just experiment and iterate fast enough to develop convincing therapies cheaply and then bring them to mature markets?
There are also some well documented competence problems.

In the mid 2000s the Canadian Mint was briefly stamping poppies into their coins and putting a red enamel on them to commemorate remembrance day.

A CIA employee found one in his pocket coming back from Canada and claimed the Canadian government was planting listening devices on a coin to record him.
Don’t be daft, you’re sitting there lapping up the propaganda without thinking about it.

Should they investigate? Sure. Will they? Have they already? Yep. Will they continue to? Yep.

Do we need a press conference to tell us?

No.

Do we usually get press conferences to tell us what the CIA has as their priorities?

No.

…so, in this case it might be fair to ask: why are we getting this one now?

It’s pure propaganda.
For the job itself I wonder whether you can do a test first … eg instead of reading and analysis of dotfile create one .brewpath if file exist path should be there etc or even have a program to do this test and prompt user to run the script.
Many people seem to have this irrational bias that "nothing ever happens". If they hear of an event or phenomenon that doesn't fit into their model of the world, then it must be that the event was hallucinated, regardless of how much evidence there is.
portions of Salesforce are the same way. You don't know you're out of compliance until an audit happens and you get the "sure would be a shame if something happened to your instance..." speech.
Wireless keyboard, too!
That took longer than expected.
Thanks for this. I don’t use mental imagery at all, but can calculate what an object looks like rotated if I have a reference.
The name is the thing. For the same reason people didn't like when Covid was referred to as "the China Flu." The name creates a negative association. Names, phrasing, and associations can be very powerful.
I had a good laugh, thank you very much! :)

Should probably have a script play that on loudspeakers when monitoring detects problems /s
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x-rays? So it would cause a cone of slightly increased cancer rates a few decades later?
> You, scrumbledober, are a toolshed.

That's uncalled for.

> Things not to listen to random HN users about: covid.

The vaccine is statistically shown to be a better alternative to getting the virus.

Also, it results in far less strain on the economy. Far fewer negative externalities. The expense of treating a handful of people that show reactions is a pittance to the millions that have died of Covid, and the hundreds of thousands of medical hours spent dealing with this virus. And the trillions of dollars of relief spent in logistics and stimulus.
something something ipfs
Interviewee: Check me out! I have 239 twitter followers!

Interviewer: Cool. Can you setup mysql replication? What does a read replica mean?

Interviewee: Neat! Check out my github on a emoji generator!

Interviewer: ....

Interviewer: [proceeds to slack least favorite teammate to follow up interview]
> so that under any circumstances, the code reads the same as the author intended

I write all my code in notepad.exe with the font Wingdings. I hope that if you ever read any of my code you'll respect my intent with how it's displayed.
The bug, which used a single & in an if statement instead of a double && reminds me of this one from years ago-- https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/

In that case it was a single = versus a double == but also in if statement.
Except that Google uses C++ with exceptions disabled - IIUC, the throwing code would effectively behave like a call to std::terminate(), I haven't looked at the code to know if it would actually be a preferred behavior in this case.

Source: I'm a Chrome contributor.
Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, just straight yikes. Huge doddering racist uncle vibes.
The Defect Black Market (2008)
Spreadsheets are the private motor vehicles of computing.
What I would like to write in unit tests:

for (auto x : y)
ok &= check(x);

That gets you angry messages from static analysis, so you probably have to write (since there is no corresponding assignment operator)

for (auto x : y)
ok = ok && check(x);

...except now you don't actually perform checks after the first failure. That may or may not be intentional (or even confusing - depending on logging). What you'd really need to write to preserve the original logic is

for (auto x : y)
ok = check(x) && ok;

Now the `&& ok` is much easier to miss (both in writing and reading) and the intent is much less clear.

I really do wonder why the standard doesn't just specify the behavior of bool & bool. Is it just because of holdover from C?
It's also hilarious that he didn't even have the courage to say that under his actual account; he had to create a burner just to do it.
It's cute. Well done!
I think this is a pretty unhelpful response which tends to diminish the gravity of serious allegations. I don't claim to work in a perfectly enlightened place where nobody ever faces harassment, but I'm confident "the nice manager" at my company has never harassed a coworker to the point of suicide and I've seen people get fired for isolated incidents of behavior which the lawsuit describes as pervasive and routine. If you're working for a company where this conduct could happen, you should try to find a better one; if you're building a company, you have a strong but achievable obligation to ensure it couldn't happen.
Good on him. I don't give a dang.
Prepare – DARPA (Epigentic CRISPR)
I don't think that's right. It seems far-fetched that the compiler would know that accessing key_data->label() implies that k_d->has_value() == true

I believe the explanation is:

A && B : compiler will evaluate B only if A==true

A & B : compiler will evaluate both A (safe) and B (unsafe), then perform bitwise operation
Again - I fail to see how the second part is derived from the first. If I'm already engaging in a screening process, wouldn't it be better to ask the candidate to solve a problem that relates to their role than to ask them if they've done any blogging on the topic of tech?
I work in a global firm that would be the poster child for using spreadsheets, especially spreadsheets that are used for calculations or drawing conclusions.

The firm was made a huge move to Alteryx as a future replacement and is an immediate improvement over Excel. Which in my opinion is fantastic and a much much easier to review platform than Excel. For those that may not have used Alteryx, I'd highly recommend taking a look. It's essentially a GUI based Excel, which is the best way I can describe it, but still offers more functionality than that of Excel with Python integration etc etc
Microsoft doesn't break down sales figures, but overall their Surface business is a couple billion a year.

Surface Pros are about as good as you can get right now for a general purpose computer that is also a tablet and also are not incredibly expensive.
Grumpy Cat: Good
>security of half the world

Chrome OS has less than 2% market share.
Sometimes when architecting something I'll imagine an elderly person with a child and that'll indicate that I'd want to utilize inheritance instead of composition
I think that's a bit more dismissive than called for. I don't think Atlantis was being used so it could be pointed to as being true and about some amazing ancient civilization as much as evidence of "yet another flood myth", and how that related to ancient historical events.

As it was presented that has it's own problems, which I think were adequately pointed out by others (namely that many ancient myths about floods do not necessarily point towards the same event), but it's not nearly as bad as I think your (apparently?) knee-jerk reaction to Atlantis may have led you to assume.
It doesn’t need to be zero-rate as even a standard rate 15-20% card would be cheaper than this product, right?

If credit cards are payed without carrying a balance they are all 0%. So that’s at least 25-55 days depending on when the charge is made.