skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting question that's still TBD is how well companies can operate with a significant in-office team and remote team. I think this past 18 months has proven that fully remote can work, but it may be the case that a 50/50 remote/office split is significantly harder to manage.

Anecdotally, my company had an office team and a remote team split about 50/50 before and unrelated to COVID, and it was tricky. We don't have a lot of meetings, but when we did, it was hard to have a physical group in a conference room with a remote group on a screen. We solved that by effectively going fully remote for meetings that involved remote employees - everyone who was physically in the office would connect to a video call at their individual desks. I was personally fine with it, but some people definitely prefer (and work better in) that physical conference room setting.

All of that to say, the way one person works might be a forcing factor for others, even if they don't intend for it to be. Tricky problem.
Looks like a way to purposefully create a biased (center-weighted) random number generator out of multiple calls.
Because Facebook makes the most money, and probably offered him the most.

Same reason why back in the day, a lot of people got electrical engineering degrees but went into software development or finance. The skills were transferable, and the pay was a lot higher.
I think everyone, no matter where they are in the stack, should have at least a basic idea about how their programs eventually work. How they get turned into machine code, how that machine code gets fetched and executed, how registers work, memory accesses, RAM vs. ROM, what various caches are doing, how I/O devices work including disk, how interrupts work, how syscalls work, how memory allocation is done, what the stack is, typical segments of address space: code, data, stack, heap. I've been in the field for a few decades, but this is still kind of basic second-year compsci, right?

You don't need to be an expert at bitwise operations to grok these important concepts.
> If a user feels their account has been mistakenly flagged they can file an appeal to have their account reinstated.

Oh, joy, if a robotic bureaucrat nukes my personal data, I have the option to file an appeal that will probably never be looked at.
It sounds like this is a feature of the encryption used. Apple will not have enough of the key to decrypt anything unless there are enough vouchers which match.
I take it the domain quantifiedcode is not active? It was taken over by LinuxSec.
I'm no longer a new grad, and was onboarded long before COVID. I think those same problems, lack of productivity, understanding unable to tell expectations all applied even in-person. It seems to be more of a supervisor problem than a remote work problem. And as dcolkitt said, unrealistic expectations on how fast that's supposed to take. A lot of new grads are used to an internship which is only ~10 weeks, or a 16 week semester as a timeframe when you should be able to get entirely up to speed and done producing what's needed. But that's not necessarily long enough to truly learn how a team works and what the expectations are at a lot of companies.
They had Wakefield creating antivaxxers and then they had a journalist that got to the bottom of his BS. This expose was highly publicised so people got through into their heads that antivaxx is BS.

Wakefield then ran away to US and Brits lived happily ever after ... till Brexit.

At least that's what's postulated here https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc
The Democratization of Development: Implications for Growth Teams
One thing to remember about it is how UNIX's I/O model is designed for 64kB total of memory space on simplistic mid-range (at best) computer. While trying to fit in concepts from 36bit Multics machine whose I/O primitive was equivalent of mmap().
It's unclear why this is significant. Just as it is on the right, many "grassroots" organizations on the left are funded by outside interests that are not fully "organic". For example Open Society Foundations (OSF), which was founded by billionaire George Soros, has provided funding for groups that participated in protests and riots throughout 2020 (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/riot-act/). Other groups linked to Soros/OSF also organize bail funds for those accused of criminal acts during protests, even very recently with events on the Israel/Palestine issue (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/28/radical-soros-...). This is a fairly normal practice and it's a bit tired to see news sites point fingers at whichever side they aren't biased towards.
Especially given the tech demos coming out for the next unreal. I forget the name of the system they're using for lighting or texture detail... but it's pretty friggin impressive.
"What the hell Intel... "

I don't understand any of it ...

If I wanted to add a LPT parallel port to my motherboard, I would find an appropriate add-in card with the physical port and plug it into the PCI bus and locate an appropriate driver.

Thunderbolt is just another kind of port, right ? If you buy the add-in card to get the physical port and you have a driver to drive the card ... what in the world is "enablement" and why would it be required ?
Same here, I started on 6502 assembly and you had to know a lot of that stuff just because we didn’t have cool libraries like the STL and so on. You want to sort something, well you’d better write a sort routine.
The fullstack application page isnt functional. I messaged you on Linkedin.
In this specific example, sure. You have no expectation of privacy in public and you are photographed, repeatedly.

The creep behavior is the problem. The photograph is a symptom of it.
I appreciate that Apple is trying to find technical means to reduce child porn. That's a more important problem to solve than optimizing ad click rates. But my concern is that once the tools for local image scanning exist, Apple will come under pressure from authoritarian regimes like China, Australia, and Saudi Arabia to also search for images associated with lesser crimes or even just criticism of the government. It's tough for a company to refuse. Either comply with the orders, or risk having your business shut down and your local employees punished.
As a founder of a startup building an authorization product, I can definitely say it's super appealing to build this as a service! It makes for a an easier story around monetising it.

When we were building Oso [1], we were optimising for the best thing for developers, and reached the same conclusion as you... (a) It doesn't make sense to rearchitect your app to move all the data to a separate service, and (b) it's way less complex to build it in the application. That's why we're building Oso as an open source library instead. You get to leave your application data in the application, and don't need to worry about adding an external service to the critical path.

[1]: https://www.osohq.com/
I feel the opposite. My understanding is that BE-4 is hydrogen based rocket engine which really has never been executed successfully before where raptors are methane. Blue origin is going from 0 to 1 and space x is going from n to n+1. Obviously the short term results are going to be worse than Space X but I’m not convinced their engines will be worse.

That being said obviously ULA made the wrong deal since it’s not clear they will alive long enough to benefit from interplanetary refueling.
Yeah, I am more pissed at the dismissal of metal health. Don't care much about Covid, had it, it was weak. I'd take the vaccine just to regain the freedoms. Then again I'd take anything lol, some shit I tried really sent me down some weird holes. And I would welcome death, so meh.

Oh that guy, hey! I came home and my account is banned heh. Fantastic.
> Why can't he not work at FB? Money?

IDK, I get it. Grad school sucks. Post-docs suck. Pre-tenure sucks. Post-tenure isn't any better. For that entire period of time you are working on de facto fixed term contracts. Which is extremely uncommon among salaried engineers, and those that take these sorts of contingent employment contracts are typically paid quite well. It's like 10-15 years of low pay, "will I have a job next year?" stress, and moving your family around all the time (or, more commonly, just not starting a family).

And not even for good pay. These days, even after a decade or more of experience, you're making less than your undergrads. Half as much or even less in some cases.

So, your undergrad once-peers start retiring -- or at least thinking about it -- around the time that you're finally transitioning from de facto fixed-term positions to something resembling a normal employment contract, but, again, for a third to a fifth of what you'd be making in industry at that point in your career.

So, yeah, people say fuck it and cash in on influence/engagement/reputation where they can. The only real alternative is the public sector paying researchers better, but that's never going to happen.
I assume you mean a business bank account for the banking?

Challenging, and potentially criminal.

If you have any management authority over the bank accounts owned by the business, then those accounts fall under FACTA.

Hell, if you are even just an employee, but can sign on the bank account, then you have to report it to the US authorities.

So a 'business account' doesn't get you out of the US required reporting.

Also, the implication is that you'd use this for 'day to day' banking. Using a business's funds (a business bank account) to cover personal spending is typically criminal (embezzlement).

So not a solution.

And this doesn't solve the other problems, like pension savings or other financial products.
Open Source Foundations should regularly die and be reborn in a competition of forks. While the foundation is not yet reborn, a base-staff should host a "stable" version until a new beloved, creature emerges and the foundation re-forms around it.
There is nothing easy about it.

a) Many places are still going in/out of lockdown or are schooling remotely and so their phone is the only way for them to communicate with their friends. Depriving them of social contact is incredibly unhealthy and harms their development.

b) For better or worse apps like Tiktok are a huge part of their culture and the popular dances etc are often known by everyone. Being the only child who is out of the loop can cause serious isolation.

Children are growing and making them not feel like they are part of a social group is incredibly harmful and can have permanent effects in adulthood. Giving them a phone but monitoring their activities is likely to be the least harmful approach.
Looks like that’s pretty zoomed in compared to this?
Social Security is not a pension - this is a common misconception.

The SS tax is to pay current retirees. There's a formula that states how much you'll get when you retire, but the money you're putting in now is not being saved/invested for your benefit in the future.

The short version: Money you put into SS is not your money.
Historically, Apple has come down, hard, on the side of "Your device is your device, and where that assumption is violated, we will work to protect it." They have added increasing layers of hardware security around device encryption keys, have added the various mitigations for password guessing attacks, etc.

And when the FBI said, "Hey, can you write and sign a custom bootloader for this phone to bypass that stuff?" they told the FBI to pound sand and made the hardware security features stronger so even Apple couldn't break them.

And then they bowed to China regarding iCloud and in-country servers, which clearly are accessible to the government. And then this. Whatever claims they've been making about privacy are obviously now crumbling under some external pressure.
Just because Techcrunch says it's so, does not mean it is true. My understanding of other services is they might not scan contents that are not shared. Techcrunch does not have first-hand knowledge of this topic and the other clouds are not explicitly saying they do or do not.
Because it is always always more about the team dynamics and chemistry than about you as an individual. If you’re a lone wolf and do-all guy this doesn’t mean you will be valuable in a team, well connected with your colleagues OR on the other hand, outperform several people. In the end of the day, the company size, business domain, etc. has more impact to whether you work remote or not and have to be evaluated and assessed. We allow remote but these are exceptions for those who cannot move easily.
Mathematically is the sum of six Math.random() any different than (Math.random() * 6)?
> Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else,

Only country in the world that charges taxes on money that they have no business over.
The last 5-6 times I tried to use Netflix I just ended up scrolling the catalog and abandoning when I couldn't find something I want to watch. I cancelled Netflix. You should not generalize based in your opinion.
Sun optical mice were a pain in the ass too.
If you turn that 1 year into 2 years, though, you HAVE changed things dramatically in terms of the value of what you're paying for.

So if today's new grads are telling you "I'm drowning" and two years ago they weren't... maybe you should listen.

And measured productivity is only half of it if a sizable fraction of those frustrated new grads leave much sooner than they would otherwise.

Or if "new grad" experiences also tend to match "new hire" experiences even for experienced folks...
I disagree. Would you fly with a pilot who
never learned the basics of lift and drag?

Lift and drag are applicable to every flight. Bit twiddling is not relevant to every software development effort.

But we call people professionals who build
software with no understanding of computing
fundamentals?

Broadly speaking, I'd actually agree with you here! Solid fundamentals are good and vital and a lot of developers don't have them.

I just don't think bit-twiddling is one of the particular software development fundamentals I'd deem necessary.
Commonly called "click bait"
I'm OK with it unless security is the top priority.
No I'm saying a Russian bank probably doesn't look past the deposit. But if the deposit comes from America then an American bank will ask for it back when the US govt tells it to and then the bank will do so because it's good business. So I would imagine most ransomware gangs just keep the money in bitcoin and only pull out what they need to when they need to.
Credibility matters. Denying the big problem exists in spite of an overwhelming consensus results in being distrusted and ridiculed when (perhaps rightly) playing up a small problem over the big problem in a particular space.

Likewise no one cares to listen to people who refuse to get vaccinated or do anything at all to reduce spread of a disease when those same people want to talk about whether the disease made a trip through a lab on it's way to the general population.
I don't understand. It sounds like we agree. The quote you've pulled confirms what I'm saying.

Hospital census is not what's at an all-time (or 2-year) high. SARS-CoV-2+ tests among admitted patients ("Covid-19 hospitalizations") are.
This seems like a misunderstanding of how evolution works. Viruses don't choose to be deadly or not based on some evolutionary path that they see ahead, the causation goes the other way around - viruses that were deadly in the past might not have an evolutionary path to the present.

We do not know how Sars-Cov-2 will end up - we cannot pre-emptively discount the potential of deaths just because it seems like a bad evolutionary strategy.
Don't use iCloud photos and no scanning occurs. This is a condition of the service, not of the device.
The PS3 security is completely broken at this point so that’s a moot point. You don’t need a dev kit.
Mining is reportable as ordinary income in the US.

Cryptocurrency earners have to report ordinary income taxes as well as capital gain/loss taxes.

Its not that hard, less than ideal, its also easy to immediately convert to USDC or fiat automatically, or find other deductions to reduce or eliminate the tax burden.
Well they are now reject that consent and never getting an iPhone.
Prepare Your Network for iCloud Private Relay
Apple has been pro-encryption and pro-privacy lately and is using that as their key differentiator, especially against Google.

Various governments, on the other hand, have been very anti-encryption over the past couple decades. Australia's anti-encryption law[0] is just one example but I'm sure there are many others.

This presents an ongoing threat to Apple's current strategy.

The most common arguments used by governments to justify anti-encryption legislation are child protection and anti-terrorism.

I wonder if this is a tactic by Apple to undermine that common argument and pro-actively protect their rights to employ end-to-end encryption and other privacy features.

[0] https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio...
I know. I was referring to the comment about not feeling represented.
The ones w the reflective metallic mousepad?
I was about to use Unity for a project (for a larger organization) and had considered biting the bullet and buying Unity Pro… but I didn’t want to have my work turn to ash as soon as my side project ran out of funding and the license expired. Permanent licenses that you have to buy are one thing, but… Being forced into buying a subscription service (& legally being prevented from using the “community” version) just makes me way too hesitant to want to use the Unity environment. Especially for side projects (and if you can’t use it for side projects, you will be less likely to use it for main projects). If the project has a delay (pandemics happen, could have a medical problem, etc), then I risk running out of money for subscription.

If it was just paying for maintenance, or for memory limitations, CPU count, or compilation speed, that’s one thing. But if all your work turns to ash if you don’t pay the fee… that’s just not an ecosystem I want to invest time and money in.
Starlight Could Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
You can get 6 LEON/Sparc boards for $36: https://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/navspark-mini-6pcs-pack/

Though I suppose 200k of RAM might be a barrier :)
>I distrust anyone who tries to brand a genuine privacy upgrade as "hype"

I particularly like this Apple fanboi argument - that having a third party (Apple) needlessly involved is somehow more "private" than only just the 2 primary parties being involved.

>I'm a Brit

Well I guess that explains a lot then - you're probably one of those that also voted for brexit, but now completely denies it - right?
Who's responsible when the algorithm starts targeting minorities and putting innocent people in prison?
Apple's software is quite buggy. There have been multiple instances of Unicode bugs for example, where receiving a notification or text message containing certain Unicode characters would cause a kernel panic, boot loop, or other fun stuff.

People often posted messages containing these Unicode characters in Discord groups (tagging @everyone) for the lulz, because every iPhone user in that group would get a notification containing those unicode characters and then kernel panic.

It's only a matter of time until someone finds a bunch of false positives, spams them around for the lulz, and boom people's iCloud accounts are disabled.

Even if you believe the theory is mathematically sound, the implementation need not be.
VisiData – open-source data multitool
and best regards to Crete!
There is no reason for me to get the vaccine at all. I'm not at risk of contracting covid. That's the overriding reason. It's a pharmaceutical I do not need.

That the push is being made so insanely is just another reason to avoid it--we don't know what the actual motivations are of those pushing it, but we do know it's not primarily public health, otherwise as I stated, those 120mm Americans with robust antibodies from recovering from covid infection would never be considered any different from the vaccinated.

It's not partisanship, because as far as I can tell, public health authorities have debased themselves and lost all credibility completely in the past 1.5 years, and this is across the spectrum of global health agencies. The American political parties are in union and aside from a couple dissenters are in on the insanity.

When someone or thing hides their motivations, doing what they want seems crazy to me.
yup, and the marks were painted on, so started wearing off (and thus losing mouse resolution) the second you started using it.
And who was the Attorney General exerting the muscle?
> Yet this reimposition of government mandates is entirely unjustified, because, thanks to widespread safe, free, and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, a significant COVID externality no longer exists.

WTH?

> Set aside for now the debate over whether vaccinated individuals can spread the Delta variant.

That's the whole effing point! Vaccinated people, when infected, can transmit!

Whether masks work or not is one debate. But we're not just trying to save vaccinated individuals. We're trying to stop the spread, and more variants.

Vaccinated people can and do spread the virus. "Vaccination," with the current variant(s), is not a good argument against masks.

Defense in depth.
Confluent first Earnings post-IPO (2Q2021)
You might be very well right that the colleague from Prague outclasses your Montana colleague.

Does that worry you?
Its an issue of social vs fiscal conservatism
> "developed in collaboration with child safety experts"

Prove that. Release all git commits and emails and communication and who was involved in these features. I don't see any reason they would not do that, if this was about "child safety".

My guess is a portion of these "child safety experts" will have emails ending in "nsa.gov".
Well, there's not really any slope here. Apple plans to have a target database of BAD FILES!!1! that will get your name handed to the government.

It's not subtle. No expansion to the program is necessary to violate your privacy or endanger dissidents.
> Continuous aggregation

I found this to be a very common need, so I created denorm [1] for doing this in vanilla PostgreSQL. (It also does incrementally updated joins as well.)

It's a real help to instant aggregation results for large data sets.

(I expect the performance of a native implementation like Timescale to be superior. Unfortunately, I use managed database services, like RDS.)

[1] https://github.com/rivethealth/denorm
It looks like Hungary technically taxes nonresident citizens except in almost every case where it would matter.
Don't worry, some poor traumatized souls will be tasked with reviewing visually all those positives. I hope they have good mental care.
Common Voice is not for generating speech, it's for detecting speech.

So don't worry about weird intonation as long as they correctly pronounce the sentences, that way even more people can enjoy the fruit of this labor.
BE-4 is methane too, and hydrogen has been done zillions of times before, including by Blue themselves (BE-3).
The name is certainly concerning. It's one thing to check for specific hashes. It's another entirely to do approximate hashing. Locality sensitive hashing even in its best implementations has tons of false positives.

It's also worrying that eg; someone could stealthily airdrop or iMessage a suspect photo to frame someone.
nitpicking. You don't get out of taxes, you get out of paying US taxes (on earned income, you still have to pay capital gains).

But you still have to file US taxes. As an expat, you have more forms to fill out.

AND the bigger challenges are banking. You still have to find a bank willing to open an account for you, and good luck getting more complex financial services.