skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply said, inferring from those answers, the longer a virus is in a host, the more dice rolls. So the worse a partial vaccine works, the more dice rolls, but less for someone not vaccinated. On Delta, numbers are still coming in afaik (I did read something in the range of 36-high eighties for a breakthrough case in another article today, but again more data is needed)
It's name is Chamberlin Rock. It wasn't given the other name, it was called it one time in a journal article in 1920.
Two factors: Religion/culture and corruption

https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22

PS: I grew up there
>> does not necessarily mean that mixedCase has problems with emotional intelligence

Don't you think they do, though? I mean... not even recognizing the dry humor and hyperbole with which this article was written and taking it literally?

Or maybe it is me having the stroke.
Agree! As should whether they have a driver’s license, are trained in practicing medicine, are licensed to work on the electric in my home… These are all personal traits that are nobody’s business but the person themselves!
Google for: friction ux
Funny enough this is an area we can exert personal responsibility.
Someone who is a bad manager and a bully may actually be a fine architect and not a bully, once they are no longer in a position of power over people.

Not a guarantee, but in my experience changing the formal power dynamic can have very unexpected (both positive and negative) effects
Did you just compare asking if something looks good to having them write up an assessment of Russian political history?

Yeah I’ll go ahead and ask my dog walker to write me an analysis of the potential outcomes if Britain had joined against the US during the Trent affair. If they refuse I’ll fire them and write horrible reviews about them because obviously they don’t take their job seriously /s

You’ve got to be kidding or seriously biased here.
> subordinates must show their dominance

That's how to get fired. If the boss says "do it" and you say "no" and you each hold your ground, eventually it gets to "do it or you're fired." (In a few companies it might be "do it or you're fired" vs "stop asking or I'll transfer" but it's rarely "stop asking or boss is fired.") A good boss won't let it to that, but that power over another—to hire, promote, and terminate—is what fundamentally defines the hierarchy.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt as to who was toxic at those jobs that ended badly, it still sounds like you're significantly more assertive than most workers. I do agree that people should stand up for themselves regardless of their position in the hierarchy. There's no excuse for mistreatment, and especially these days, consider how someone who's mistreating you may mistreat someone who's more vulnerable.
We're defending him because the accusations against him are egregiously exaggerated, and without proof. I'm against screaming, but infrequent/involuntary screaming by a very senior exec does happen, and in my opinion, cannot be called abusive.

In fact, I would be upset if I had a sheep for an exec. I want a exec who is kind, and who can lead and is firm. Not screaming, but almost there.
The Long Term Behaviour of Leveraged ETFs [pdf]
I would argue that google did a pretty good job of that for information on websites. Sci-hub is specifically focused on academic papers.
Yes, although I did not mention them specifically, loops and conditionals were removed to make PDF a tamer format. However that isn’t really enough. PDF doesn’t do line wrapping, so most programs create paragraphs by positioning individual lines of text on the page. There’s nothing stopping you from positioning individual words instead, or individual characters. Indeed, that may be necessary in order to achieve certain effects such as full justification of paragraphs, hand–tuned kerning, or mathematical notation. The individual lines, words, or characters do not even need to be in the correct order within the PDF. This means that in order for a converter to reconstruct the original paragraph it must position each piece of text correctly and then derive the original linear arrangement of characters from their positions on the page.
Canadair CL-415 Aerial Firefighter
If I was the British intelligence services, this is exactly what I’d do. Recruit bright, middle class students from Oxford, fast track their career through the NGO sector (where results don’t matter), build up their public profile with press coverage, then deploy them to the private sector and hope that they will end up inside one of the multinationals that are more powerful and influential than most countries. I mean I’m just idly musing here but something definitely seems off about his bio.
Exactly right, and that's why this innovation popped up in Kazakhstan and not Cambridge, Massachusetts. There was a person who could have easily created SciHub in Boston and because of US judicial philosophies he is dead.

I think this is going to become a trend going forwards -- IP (broadly interpreted) is a crippling disadvantage, and it's an asymmetric disadvantage some countries levy on themselves, and some don't. I predict that we're going to be continuously blindsinded by this -- by crazy-useful tech inventions thought up by clever people, not in the USA but in the developing world, in part because of the stifling effects of IP (and in part because genius doesn't follow national borders, and software needs no industrial base).
> he has literally zero technical credentials

> Looks like a standard issue corporate climber who demands work from his subordinates that he himself cannot deliver.

The people I've seen like this had machine learning PHDs and lots of publications, while some of the most productive had no such pedigree. I'd be careful judging based on "technical credentials".
Capitulating to the lowest common denominator is a recipe for disaster. The self-anointed who feign outrage over an inanimate object are just chasing power.
I think it’s pretty straightforward. When we’re young we often see friends, at our early jobs, who are good workers but get promoted and become mean + stop working as hard. Some people just aren’t good at managing other people but are still skilled at their trade.
Careful, preprints are not peer reviewed. I had to change significant parts of papers in the peer reviewing process in almost all my papers, and also required changes when I'm reviewing.

More often than not, the reviewer requires additional checks and tone down some claims, so a paper preprinted as "we ended world famines" ends up as "our soy requires 5% less water than the second best".

What is infuriating is that Biorxiv is free and stores forever, but the final publisher gets more than $1,500 for the same service. And we have to do 98% of the edition (I've been required to change the font of a graph) so they can just feed your .docx into a program and it spits the Pdf ready.
Shallow, unqualified naming is part of the issue here. Look up, for instance, anything with the "Oracle" name. Not that I care for the company, but it makes no sense that oracle and oracledb are taken by 3rd parties. What would make more sense is to permit qualified names associated with an organization or user name. Jtsummers/oracledb would at least not be (easily) confused with an official Oracle product. It's less difficult (though still far from easy) to handle name squatting on organization/corporate names as qualifiers for packages than to try and prevent name squatting on package names.

Having a single level for naming is just asking for trouble. Between valid name collisions and invalid name squatting, it becomes a much harder problem than necessary.
Reading between the lines this is a political move.

Users hate IT security. IT security like all professions has become blame shifting not about security and made the problem worse.

Password complexity rules don't matter in practice. This keeps users the most happy and is close enough.

OT:If you are a hacker and care about TLA, passphrases seem the best but you need more than 3 words and you need something random in the mix. This is if they have your encrypted hard disk for instance or wallet.
Oh that's not too bad, mine looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/7weijF7 with a sampling rate of 1Hz, without smoothing.

As another poster pointed out, with automatic background calibration and opening the windows daily it doesn't get too out of whack.

Out of curiosity, do you have any more details on how you built yours, I'm curious to see how you have done things differently from mine. :-)
Not if it puts my life at risk.
> Only if js is blocked do they need to resort to those ridiculous multi-level games they make you play.

In all fairness, i usually do that.
You can tell the architect with no power over you to, politely, go fuck themselves. You can not do this to your manager.
Nah. These accusations are exaggerated and without proof. Put yourself in his shoes. Would you like random internet people to accuse you with dramatized statements
and/or exaggerations?
It's a culture war thing... HN believes that capabilities tend to be zero-sum, and any character flaws are evidence of genius in other regards. The "brilliant but eccentric scientist" cliché, more or less.

There's also an unwillingness to either consider the concept of "bullying" as real, because it's not easily quantified and/or defined in such a way that you could spot it in a single-page flowchart. Or a learnt defense to immediately show solidarity with any bully so as to avoid being targeted.

There might be hints of what's sometimes referred to as "toxic masculinity" in there, as well. This exec's mistake, resulting in less than overwhelming support here, was not to get accused of sexual harassment.
Right. Just like driving drunk is my choice. It doesn’t affect anyone else.
Okay, now you're going to make me qualify it based on the object's magnitude. Let's try this. If the earth lost its atmosphere today, you would not suddenly see things tonight that you wouldn't normally have seen before.*

*If you live some place with so much humidity/heat that the air was always working against to you seeing things clearly that now are suddenly clear, maybe you'll see more. However, other places on the planet still saw them. Kind of like living in a large city with horrible light pollution. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not visible elsewhere.
> A bright lad with a few years experience

A few years experience specifically working with iOS. That doesn't say anything about how much existing experience he has in the security space.

Here's a Java critical patch update from 2017 that references someone of the same name (probably him):

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2017.html
Phraseology and the “Fourteenth Colony”
The one that the receiver is the most sensitive to. The fact that sunlight comprises many wavelengths is the reason why single-junction cells have comparatively low efficiency.
People want to get attention for helping society. This looks like a good option because no one is going to say they really need the rock to stay.
One of my favourite loopholes of all time, just legally and technically. It was illegal to export "munitions" of which computer hardware such as floppy disks with bit patterns encoding strong encryption software, along with ROMs, and ASIC microcode, and the like, could be considered munitions. This is a reasonable enough interpretation of that law, even with the US First Amendment.

But in no way is a book a munition. So the PGP source code was published on paper and mailed to Canadians, but also some in Europe (I believe?), in any case, to countries which do not have such laws applying to encryption software. The reams were OCR'd and typed in, and then put online, where they could be freely downloaded from elsewhere in the world. I believe this is part of why the OpenBSD project was and still is based in Canada.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885238
That is pretty much what I thought of when I thought about this question.

On a technological level I think that is pretty sound.

I think however that introduces a bunch of potential social issues in the aftermath:

- If people would get a piece of paper after the vote that shows their random ID and their vote they would have to immediately notify a person working at the voting booth to correct it
- If for whatever reason they find out that the official record afterwards shows they vote for someone else, is there gonna be a process to correct it?
- If there is, that could open the door for people forging random voting slips in order to swing votes retroactively
- If there is a somewhat airtight system that prevents forging it could create a real market for buying votes. If someone wanted to buy a vote nowadays it is pretty hard to verify that the people actually voted for their candidate. Now all the bought voters would need to do is send in or send a picture of their random ID.

You can probably address all of these problems but I'm not sure it will be more economical than paper ballots in the end.
I said that because nuclear weapons are restricted when anyone wants to build anything nuclear in space it gets put on the back burner because no one wants to piss of other countries (who are understandably afraid of it being a covert weapon.)

I didn’t create a strawman, you did by claiming I did and then arguing against that. You did by claiming it’s talked about in the “space community,” whatever that means, when we’re talking about actual space infrastructure in the implementation phase.
Sorry, that's not what I meant but I can see how it could be interpreted that way. So let me rephrase.

I intended the word "underdeveloped" not as a value judgment, just a practical sense -- in the same way my own baseball skills are underdeveloped i.e. nonexistent. If you replace it with "less developed" that might be clearer. I meant it just in the context of the goal of someone trying to understand and relate to the article.

My main point being that it's not something you're born with or not, but that you can choose to develop. That the potential is there. But you're under no obligation to, it absolutely is a choice/preference.
Just to poll the crowd, what do you prefer to happen?
So, if someone calls twitter by a racial slur once in the 1920s someone will come and take it away?

You don't say...
Nope. It’s pretty light in color, basically a light gray.
Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
Yes. We are only putting it off at the moment and it’s hampering progress. If we could put nukes in space it would remove the stigma of using nuclear energy. And other countries could build their defenses so they aren’t as worried. We should build a more realistic treaty that doesn’t hamper progress.
From a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28064615
I used to donate to a lot of "tech/free/open-source" related and free speech non-profits to the amount of about $5,000 per year but this past year I ended up paring down my choices and only donating to Archive.org, Archive.is, FSF and Sci-Hub. I still feel like Sci-Hub is the least robust of the orgs and I feel like they need most of the help. I also use it at least once a day.

My only child, a 5 year old girl, has a fairly rare degenerative disease and I've been reading the latest research on it and have been using this knowledge to inform her physician about possible treatments. She ended up in a promising drug study because I kept on top of this field and ended up talking to researchers about it. In a large part, this is thanks to Sci-Hub.

Nothing in this world is free. If you depend on some "free" or non-profit service that you use often, consider donating to them. You'd be amazed how far even $10 goes when put in good hands.
I Never Expected to Start This
Perhaps https://ml4code.github.io/tags.html#benchmark
> screaming by a very senior exec is common place and cannot be called abusive

It is possible that what's been acceptable for a long time is no longer okay. At the very least, I'd say tantrum are unprofessional; After all, if the exec is losing their shit over something minor, how can I trust them to keep a level head if things really get challenging? But maybe some people respond better to the stick than to the carrot, or to a reasoned explanation of why the cart needs to go to market.
If you're Jeff Bezos, you brag about how large your windows are. Windows are very necessary as a selling point for Blue Origin, but since their ship can barely get out of atmo, they're still benefiting Earth's shield. We'll see how Bezos feels about those windows when/if he gets a judge to tell NASA to fund BO to build a moon mission (bwahaahahaa)
I also don’t have a feel for what people prefer to happen?

I don't really understand people attempting to tie prosperity to morality.
Machine Learning on Source Code
Report show that vaccine may provide broader defense though:

https://www.nih.gov/how-immunity-generated-covid-19-vaccines...
Yes, and for obvious reasons.
The color of fibre optic cabling jackets typically signifies the type of mode/distance it supports, unlike CAT5/6 where it's insignificant.
https://www.thefoa.org/tech/ColCodes.htm
Some of the captcha photos remind me of Studio Ghibli's animation films, in a positive way. The films linger on random objects in landscapes, from a variety of perspectives, for longer than feels "natural". Something about the effect is mesmerizing.

When I finished Whisper of the Heart, I remembered thinking that Kondo had made the suburbs of Tokyo look beautiful. It seemed that he'd done so simply by depicting them, by showing them as worth looking at.
I've started wondering if people cry when they have no other way to express what they're feeling. It's not limited to just feeling sad for instance. And crying seems to happen more often when people (especially children) are confused by their own emotions.
> I'm against screaming, but infrequent/involuntary screaming by a very senior exec is common place.

What?! I've worked with executives most of my career. Screaming was definitely not common place. I can only recall 2 examples, and neither lasted long or had any business being in a position of power. And what even is "involuntary screaming"? Has the executive just broken their leg or something? If so OK. But if they're just yelling at an employee about work, it's not "involuntary".

> cannot be called abusive.

It can. I'm calling it abusive to scream at an employee.

> In fact, I would be upset if I had a sheep for an exec. I want a exec who is kind, and who can lead and is firm. Not screaming, but almost there.

I don't want an exec whose almost screaming. I want an exec who is in control. Screaming is the antithesis of that.
If they're without proof, how do you know they're exaggerated and dramatized? Were you there? Do you have the proof to the contrary?
Going by this logic wouldn't Google be that job for him? The purpose of that organization is to capture mindshare, and no other priority.
Sarcasm aside, I do remember reading and talking to formally homeless folks saying that they would commonly have gym memberships for this very reason.

Second to that at least in the city I live in, many barbershops and dry cleaners offer free service to homeless who are going to be interviewed.
I think the difference is one of expectations. I get the strong impression that the author of the article is accustomed to images "meaning" something and being presented by photographers who are trying to "say" something.

Fashionable urban types dress up to attend gallery showings at which a bored-looking hipster photographer is displaying his framed images of grainy, empty street scenes of nothing in particular taken from odd angles. Each photo of nothing is a deeply meaningful expression of nihilistic enlightenment or a tour-de-force denunciation of capitalism or materialism or whatever, and if you're sophisticated enough, you can buy one for $10,000.

Hilariously, these captcha images that are just random shots in random directions look just like deliberate dreary, sophisticated, urban expressions of nihilism. But only if you are accustomed to assuming that photos "mean" something, so a photo of nothing must be expressing something: nihilism.

But if you walked down the street and saw most of those scenes, you wouldn't think about it at all. Equivalent, meaningless scenes are around you most of the time, indoors and out. And if you don't unconsciously assume that an image is trying to say something, an image of nothing won't feel depressing at all.
I never said "asking". I meant a small report. And this, only a single time. Absolutely no problem in my book.

Are you really comparing a "dog walker" to somebody who creates IP (nothing against dog walkers).
yikes, thank you
SyGuS competition (SyGuS-Comp)[1] is a widely-used collection of such problems, but of course there will always be problem domains that are not well-represented by standard benchmarks.

1. https://sygus.org/
Oops. I broke it. I tried their demo, and got this as a response:

"Demo
Friendly Captcha in action
The form was unable to submit. Please contact the site administrator."

Demo Hell 101. Make sure the demo shows the product working.
This was on the front page very briefly before disappearing completely. It’s a shame that the mods are presumably biased against conversations like this when similar conversations about anti-female sentiments in tech are tolerated, if not encouraged.
>It would simply never happen that a woman be required to "explain her side" of having been raped and tortured to an HR worker.

Is this satire? If not, I'm not judging what happened to this guy - haven't finished reading. But he leads with this.
If you want to work to a job description, go join the plumbers union.
You might also be able to get away with cheaper cameras
In net terms, you're probably right. But at least the energy used for cryptocurrency is being used toward something that might benefit many (commerce, hoarding, what-have-you), vs against something that might result in the arrest of few.

The economics I'm thinking of are along the lines of cryptocurrency energy usage per participant, vs image scanning energy per caught perpetrator. The number of caught perpetrators via this method over time will approach zero, but we'll keep using energy to enforce it forever.

All this does is remove technology from the problem of child abuse, it doesn't stop child abuse.
Is this a common thing outside Silicon Valley? The US?

Having worked almost ny entire professional life outside of the States I have never, not once, heard of this happening. And it would absolutely not be tolerated in any professional organisation that I’ve been part of.

Or have I just been lucky not to have come across this type of behaviour?