skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Choose your own adventure, coronavirus edition.

You have coronavirus symptoms. During the middle of a surge in cases, the government has announced that all coronavirus restrictions have ended and everybody can go back to normal. The vast majority of older and vulnerable people have been fully vaccinated.

Do you:

A: get a test and risk having to isolate

B: not get a test and live your life like normal as the government said you should
0. Accept that for NAT on home gateway you really don't need wirespeed at minimal MTU, as the majority of your data transfers will be over TCP at max MSS/MTU.

1. Get a Xeon D box (like a Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F, TDP 45W).

2. Install any Linux distribution on it and just use iptables/nftables. It's good enough.

3. You now have a normal Linux box with normal userspace networking, feel free to also run some more services on it without having to deal with DPDK getting in your way.

DPDK is nice and all if you absolutely need to scream through tiny packets at multi-dozen-gigabit speeds, but you almost certainly don't need it at home for Netflix and seeding Ubuntu ISOs.
That's really reasonable. Thanks for the perspective!
Not that easy with our labor laws
I was using the self checkout the other day and scanned some item and put it in my bag. A store employee came over and told me it didn't scan. Hmmm? I looked at the screen and yes, the item was listed on there. She checked some handheld she was using and it wasn't showing up on _her_ list. So she could somehow see what I was scanning and apparently was watching to make sure I wasn't stealing anything? It was kindof odd.
Google Discover (or feed) not working or crashing after recent update?
Wait, seriously? That's an absurd screening question.
nice idea. thanks
> the small minority of gamers who actually cheat

The small minority of gamers who cheat impact the experience for a much larger number of customers who don't. So each cheater might cause dozens of lost subscriptions. (Contrast to software piracy, where each pirated copy only represents a probability between 0 and 1 of a lost sale.)
I don't do interviews in my current job (mostly because the pandemic really did a number on hiring) but in my previous job the only coding question I asked was what I thought was a fairly simple string problem. They could assume ascii, use any language they wanted, and make any other assumptions to simplify the problem.

My then-co-workers liked to ask harder algorithmic questions but I wanted to give the candidates a little bit of a break with something easier.

It didn't always work, but at least I tried.
Curiously enough, it did still receive updates for roughly half a year after the official support end, though.
There are some countries, which reward their athletes handsomely, either financially or via some form of compensation through benefits. However, you will generally find that they don't have a comprehensive program or a support network in place, and the historically low medal count might have a role to play. There are also detractors, who don't agree with the practice of paying for medals.

https://old.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/orije1/check_out_...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/tokyo-olympics-how-much-athl...

https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/miscellaneous/d...
I didn't really realise it until I was on the other end, but if you don't get any feedback you can totally ask for it and there's a decent chance you'll get some.

But I agree, it's usually pretty obvious if you just weren't good enough, or you had a bad day, or they just didn't like you for some random reason.
The staggered school return times you mention could be one factor (as could better weather resulting in outdoor socialising instead of indoor). The effect when schools return (~2 weeks from now in Scotland) might be muted however as hundreds of thousands more vaccinations will have been done in the parent-age population. In Scotland, for example, over 90% of adults have received the first dose, and 72% the second (implying that ~18% are in the waiting period for the 2nd). Perhaps we should expect to see a spike in cases in children, but not so much among their parents.
+1

If the military, with their training, has trouble calibrating force when interacting with civilians.

And if police, with their less but still substantial training, have trouble.

... Then we probably don't want security guards, with even less training, commonly using force.

That some of them are ex-military or ex-police is immaterial, because there sure as hell isn't time made in their schedule to keep up to date.
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Don't get me wrong, such applications obviously profit from better 3D support in Wine but Proton won't make an impact on how well microsoft office or adobe cc products run in general.
Why would a client need to know of such things? If the player can't / shouldn't know of something, then the client shouldn't either.

There are some interesting repercussions of this train of thought though. Take an enemy hiding in brush in an FPS game. The player would have line of sight to their hiding spot, and current games (I think) just leave it to the player's eyeballs' ability to see them through the brush. That's kinda cool in that it raises the skill ceiling and it's obviously immersive.

However, there's a whole host of reasons it's bad. First, there's the aim bots and other cheating it allows for. Second, what if the player has bad eyesight? So there's an accessibility issue there. Third, you get people doing a... lighter form of cheating where they turn their graphics settings down to the lowest setting (sometimes even editing INI files to lower them down below what is possible via the GUI) that would lower foliage quality, making it easier to see the enemy. Probably some other things too.

There are perhaps many interesting ways to fix this. D&D has their own way with random chance, but I can see players of skill-based scoffing at this, and I don't blame them. But I feel the current approach is lazy game design, and perhaps something interesting could be thought up.
The drop actually started before freedom day. There's usually about a 2 week period between "cause" and "effect" in terms of cases anyway.

It's much more likely to have peaked because of Euro finals on 11th July and school holidays starting on 15th July
The reason VR headsets don't work on Mac isn't because Valve decided to not support them... VR headsets typically plug into the HDMI port of "the latest greatest graphics card", which isn't really "a thing" on Apple computers (until maybe extremely recently--like less than two years ago--on the Mac Pro, and I am not even sure about that), and before you say it is because nVIDIA is simply not bothering to support Mac, I'm pretty sure it is because Apple doesn't really provide sufficient hardware ports or driver extension points for them (and then probably will get pissy about how they have lost control over color balance or something as their software probably only works "perfectly" with their hardware, etc.)
The ME is unstable by design. Why dance around the subject? The US supports anti-democratic dictatorships in the countries it controls.

Guess what comes with unpopular regimes? Perpetual instability due to oppressed populations. In the countries that are not controlled the US supports any group willing to fight the government — sometimes with arms and other times with endless cash to fight the government within the framework of democracy. You think either of those actions support stability?
At the same time as Moderna and Pfizer increase prices by 25%: https://www.ft.com/content/d415a01e-d065-44a9-bad4-f9235aa04...

I think the vaccines are a good idea if you are in the risk categories, and if you havn't already had COVID.

The problem is that these vaccines are being pushed on everybody, even those with natural immunity, and its becoming increasingly confrontational. The biggest winners seem to be Big Pharma, who are already forecasting huge sales and profit increases from their vaccines businesses.

It will be vaccine shots now, and booster shots a year later, forever, until the public opposition is sufficient.

Pandemrix, designed for the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak, was found to have a 1 in 18,400 risk of Narcolepsy for children and adolescents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

By contrast the risk of COVID hospitalisation for an otherwise healthy 19 year old male is 1 in 5,882 and 1 in 500,000 for death:

https://qcovid.org/Calculation

These vaccine injuries are only found years later.

I'm a COVID survivor and it took a few months to recover and would prefer to have been vaccinated. But its not correct to force me to get the vaccination now, and incur the risk of vaccine injury, when the risk profile is so different due to my natural immunity.

It seems like natural immunity is being overlooked because if it was acknowledged, it means fewer vaccine sales.
This is and has always been kind of the point of Unix-like OSs. Blackberry had a workable Android 2 runtime on top of QNX.

You can (at least could) run a Debian on top of a FreeBSD kernel. I run a lot of Linux code on MacOS too.
Sun started sponsoring "WORDY" in 1990, and his bike ran FORTH, of course:

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Shades of "software dongles"
> full OS reboots

while it's theoretically possible for this to be caused by software, it seems more likely considering the other issues you've listed that there are some hardware issues here. linux drivers exercise the hardware differently from windows, and usually more efficiently. if your hardware is weak (particularly PSU), it can fail during intense loads. see: people blaming prime95 for crashing their computer.
Pentagon Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence to “See Days in Advance”
I’ve used Google’s software. I’m not sure they’re all that great.

Someone just released a product that offloads Chrome to the cloud. Gmail has a very long loading screen. Hangouts was replaced by something like 4 incompatible apps. Android phones are significantly less power efficient than iPhones. YouTube copyright notices are trivial to game. Etc
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Creator of sqlalchemy here, I came from the perl DBI and JDBC worlds prior to starting python. We have pep 249, but it's generally a very loose spec, projects that implement it basically choose how much they want to follow or not follow it, and then with the introduction of asyncio people are walking away from the whole thing as the spec has not evolved pretty much at all for many years. At the top is that there is no actual library in which these drivers all need to bind towards as is the case with DBI and JDBC.

All of that said the reality is that databases are so different in how they define client interactions you're going to have these problems with either approach. The transparency of Python allows it to be ultimately easier to work through these issues, though I've always wished there was a better pep249 story.
Except that the measurement error is very clearly fat-tailed, and the std.div. is clearly much larger than one std.div of competence of the population.

Place the bar high enough and you will get more and more people far into the tail, and less and less people that actually fit your bar.
> Guess what seemingly everyone in media/politics avoid?

We discussed the other day as well. We clearly live in different realities which might explain why we couldn't come to an agreement.

For the reference here is what my reality looks like:

Around here there are exactly two major outlets that I am aware of that is pro Israel: "MIFF - Med Israel For Fred" (With Israel For Peace) and the conservative newspaper document.no.

The rest of known media outlets are more or less deeply anti-Israeli:

Public broadcaster NRK is probably the biggest hatemongerer (publishing "funny" skits about "jewish swines", telling that Israeli soldiers "shoots at everything that moves", having a radio host saying on air (yes, on air) that he hope the vaccine doesn't work on them and they die from COVID etc.)

On the other side you have vg.no who will always end their pieces about Israelis bombing something with a sentence or two to balance it somewhat: "The Israeli attack happened after n hundred rockets had been fired over the border the last 24 hours."

The rest falls somewhere in the middle: not calling Israelis Jewish Swines like NRK but simultaneously only reporting whenever Israel strikes back, completely ignoring why.
Surely it is a fault of Israel – and also the EU? Just because our lot do it too, that doesn't stop it being a problem.
The ONS regularly tests a random selection of people. Their results typically trail the daily infection numbers by two weeks.

Notably, the most recent ONS samples demonstrated a sharp rise in cases. The suggestion is that cases are actually surging, but most are now either asymptomatic or at least very mild, and thus not reported.

I guess we'll find out shortly whether that's the case.
When we were in high school we played around with IE5 web applications made with .hta files that were basically Electron apps 15 years before Electron.

And we used to screw with replacing the HTML of folders on shared drives in middle school with secret games and other stuff (the actual folder listing was some ActiveX you dropped into the page), until some folder war broke out and the sysadmins banned it.
Doesn't all of that stuff have great Wine ratings?
I make no hypothesis, simply note the order in which things happened (in England at least) as requested by the parent.
One of the main reasons the physical calculators still exist is for schools where students use them during tests. Allowing people to have phones or any internet connected device during a test is a recipe for massive cheating.

Schools would have to get into the constant cat and mouse game any parental control software maker gets into to have a chance to stop it and that fight usually goes to the students rather than the adults trying to lock the device down.
Then specific countries should have been specified. Many/Most Asian countries don't do so and many Western countries do.
If that's true it's at least is a change from the "no poaching" agreements that used to exist.
> In Europe where I live, I know nobody who buys anything with a credit card

Renting a car or making a hotel reservation without a credit card can be quite painful, even in Europe.

With a credit card the deposit is held on your card but the money never moves, with debit the money is gone from your account.
I read this and think it's well written. I see it's published in The Intelligencer, which is apparently an offshoot of NYMagazine. I'm not particularly familiar with either, but I hadn't realized that news-type things would be discussed in them.

Does anyone here have anything to say about their quality or their relevance to people who don't live in NY?
Outlook is a progressive webapp now, so that makes some sense.
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You have remote kill and upgrade in your mobile phone, did you get rid of your phone?
This is a nice write up on your product build. I expected a shil for AWS or React, but I was pleasantly disappointed.
Thanks for sharing!
Well they do pay a bit more than 15 dollars an hour. Hard to not feel good about that.
You must have run some really heavy stuff on AWS for it to cost that much, if you are taking advantage of serverless services (not just running idle containers or servers that cost by the hour).
It has to be a coincidence. It happened almost the exact day, maybe even a little earlier.

It should take about a week to start seeing the effect of a change in policy. From incubation time to testing to results. Usually, we count two weeks to be sure.
That boolean assignment operator was addressed. Whether or not C++ has them (it doesn't) is exactly the point of that code snippet.

They do exist in other languages. ES has it in exactly that form. Java has it in the |= form, not to be confused with the bitwise OR of the same form.

Whether or not these short-circuit is not all that interesting for most boolean logic. (Though it can be useful to know if these are used as hacky error-handling and default-setting. It depends on how you read "something" whether or not that's going on here.)
As a consumer I have no interest in a power tool with BT (de)activation built in. I will not buy from them.
Indeed, but I think that was the point. It's entirely possible to hold irrational beliefs in one area without them affecting your work in another area.

Whether you think it's at odds or not, in practice many great scientists have been devoutly religious. For example Newton.
Agreed. I feel Lisps and SmallTalk are dynamic done right. I think the other language features that you use also influence the value from dynamic or static types. For OOP style, static types are a huge asset for refactoring and laying our architecture. On the other hand, immutable data and stateless functions (as idiomatic in clojure) make them less necessary, and also work great together with interactive development.
Anti-semitism, including of the extremely violent variety, did not start with WWII. The Balfour Declaration was a response to Jews wanting to get the hell out of a Europe that hated them and liked to go kill them every so often.
Not the author, but most clojure projects use leiningen to build and distribute projects (https://leiningen.org/)

This seems to be the case for the author's open-source work (https://github.com/nanit/kubernetes-custom-hpa/blob/master/a...)
> Because it might not terminate in a reasonable time?

Yes. The publishers are in business for their readers, not their authors, even though those audiences often overlap. If putting a hardship on their authors will help their readers, even in a notional sense—"because of the restrictions we put on TeX documents, the people we need to hire to deal with TeX only have to have basic skills, and so we are better able to concentrate resources elsewhere in the workflow"—then they will. (I'm not defending this choice, just reporting on it. A recent dealing with IMRN made it horrifyingly clear how little their TeXnical staff understands about the most basic TeX.)

> Being Turing-complete doesn't mean being an attack vector: when reasonably sandboxed, the LaTeX code is still confined to producing an output document, not exfiltrating your secret data or holding you to ransom.

Everything is an attack vector, and Turing complete things are even more so. Plenty of people have thought that they have reasonably sandboxed things and found out later that they hadn't. TeX is an incredibly reliable piece of software, and I'm sure great strides have been made in making it also a secure piece of software, but the security features have received much less battle testing and so should be trusted less.
My brother used to make C programs and trade them to other kids for $5. He had one for Algebra 2, Physics, and Pre-Calc. Teachers started wiping calculators before tests, but didn’t remove the binary programs he made. Became a big deal.
That one of my rules I always give to junior devs. Just read the docs again for what you are doing. You may perfectly 'know' them but sometimes there is an extra 'oh if you are doing this do this other thing too'. Or worse the call is similar to some other call but does something slightly weird. Does not come up often but has caught me out a few times. Never hurts to re-read it. You mostly can get away with it but sometimes...

A more human anecdote for example I have movies I know I have seen dozens of times. Yet my recall of what happened in them is not as good as it used to be as the last time I watched them was a few years ago.
the Jews were a people group, there is no such as 'Indian', there is nothing to resurrect since it never existed in the first place.
I noticed Milwaukee mentioned in this thread as one of the vendors involved - yes, they can do this too (https://onekey.milwaukeetool.com/Connected-Tools) - this sounds like an extension of the same idea.
SREs are usually higher, up to about 180k last I checked, with the market getting really hot in the past 12 months, I would not be surprised if that number's passed the 200k mark now.

250k for non-contracting is indeed impressive. I'm guessing a trading firm, in that case, they are outliers, curious if they have presence in Brissie though.
I had a similar experience interviewing years ago for Google, although I can't remember the algorithm they wanted me to implement.
If the Canadian maximum is 2years, then that i would be a felony by US standards.

Canadian law also has subtle differences such as hybrid offenses whereby prosecutors can decide whether to charge as a felony or misdemeanor, for exactly the same crime/facts. Such a concept would be entirely unconstitutional under US law. So direct comparisons between the countries re possible punishments are complicated.
I have the same observations as you from Norway. From what I hear from those who have been here longer than me it has been like this since the 60ies or 70ies so it is not a new thing either.
> I took great pride in the fact that my questions were unique. I designed them myself, about 30

... Is this part of the process? Questions made up by random person? That sounds absolutely ridiculous if you want any sort of consistency.
I purchased 2 Pi4s to run various small self-host services on. I've lost two SD cards in the course of about 6 months, and I've generally had stability problems with both of them, the hangs seem mostly tied to SD card and USB controller issues from what I can tell. I think my highest uptime is about 4 weeks. I'm not sure if it's heat or power related, or just bad SD cards, or general instability of the 4.

Regardless, I'm done monkeying with Pi 4s, and I'm moving to cost comparable PC Thin Clients for my self-hosting needs.

Never had any issues with several Pi3s over the years. They just don't have the oomph anymore for my needs.
The Euro finals were on 11th July and for a lot of schools the holidays started on the 15th July
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It shouldn't be a trick question, but an open one. “What can you see wrong in this code?, there are a few things, we don't expect you to see them all”. For non-junior starters it is effectively a simulated code review — can this candidate spot problems before they get committed further into the pipeline (and hopefully avoid them in their own code).
That's interesting. Do you have a source?
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