skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. But have you put it up against the AI Turing test? :) https://gumgum.com/guides/artificial
It's possible water without chlorine is beneficial too. Doesn't Paris use ozone and/or UVC instead?

I also wonder about fluoride's benefits if we use toothpaste and mouthwash that has it. For example, I know people on well water or city water without it that don't have teeth issues.
Social Chemistry 101: Learning to reason about social and moral norms
I think when something is built by several people, catering to outside interests, you end up with more churn, bloat, inconsistency, instability, etc. But your specific need has a better chance if being addressed. When something (like Elm) is built in a silo, you end up with less churn, bloat, instability, inconsistency. We forget how we got these nice things, and when we want something NOW we get cranky about the development model. So, as a developer with 20+ years of experience I can say that EVERYTHING (tools, languages, paradigms) is shitty in some ways, and I vastly prefer the ways that Elm and ecosystem are shitty.
Honestly I constantly see dates argued about and people state various formats that are still confusing. 4-2-2 of any variety can be confused. Why not 2-3-4 or 4-3-2 (DD-MMM-YYYY or YYYY-MMM-DD)? I’ve never understood why that isn’t more widely used.
Meh. Author probably messed up some important deadline or emailed (or got emailed) some crappy CSV file and then threw a temper tantrum and decided to write this.

Every single one of their points are extremely subjective and very wrong. If you have an excel sheet full of equations and colorful cells and then to decide to export it as CSV and open it in Notepad, you really can't complain that that CSV is bad. I mean it's obvious that to each format a set of strengths and a set of weaknesses, and also obviously what could be a strength to someone is a weakness to someone else. The fact that CSV is so simple to parse (almost every modern language can very easily read/write a CSV) makes it a fantastic data transfer format for every single usecase I had (this doesn't mean that other formats are less important of course). Sure you'll lose your Google Sheet or Excel metadata, but this is NOT what CSV is for.

What I find fascinating though is that the author decided it's a good idea to make a blanket statement like "Time to retire?" just because they themselves have an issue with SOME use case. I mean the idea that having your personal needs not met to justify arguing that we should ALL stop using CSV is so very bizarre to me, like it's way beyond selfish.
Go big or go home, as they say...
I think an ideal solution would be csv with json metadata elements as the header. If a program supports the header, then you get the metadata. If not, no big deal, you just get an ugly header.
Early in my career I thought an estimate should be my guess of the most-likely completion time. Trouble was, if I got those estimates right, it meant I was late half the time, and management hated that. And they kinda had a point. They were making promises to customers. They looked bad if we were late.

So after a few years I started giving estimates that I was at least 90% likely to meet. And, as you say, I committed to them. In the minority of cases when I ended up on the bad tail of the bell curve, I worked extra to meet my commitment. Management was much happier.

In compensation for those occasional bursts of extra work, on average I had some free time. I used that time to learn stuff, or clean up code, or automate some of my work. That made my work easier, allowing me to shorten my estimates while still maintaining the 90% rule.
In no way was I saying that there is no sexism or misogyny going outside of Afghanistan, but trying to compare being held back in your career with being unable to leave your home without a male relative is making light of the plight that the women are now subject to under the Taliban.

I certainly can't speak for your own situation or whatever you have endured, but my response was to your "Don't blame Islam"...and that is exactly what the Taliban is using to control women in this aspect so your comment doesn't make any sense to me. Women had been making progress in Afghanistan for the last 20 years because of the progress of separating Islam from the law...were they 100% equals of men, obviously not...but hundreds of times better than what they are going to be now.
Although I love Postman and I want to see it succeed, I'm a little stumped when it comes to how this company can scale given its niche.
Odd that Wikipedia describes this as a “separatist” movement, when there was no apparent plan to separate from either the state or federal governments. Anyone able to explain that?
Social media algorithms are still failing to counter misleading content
You should use power query to load csvs into excel that way you can control the parsing of columns.
Consider what you're saying about auditing machines. That if a nefarious person has access to them, that it renders them untrustable.

Also consider what you are saying about the ballots, that if a bad person gets access to them post facto, that that is bad.

Neither of those things should be true in a well functioning election system. If the machines are vulnerable to a bad person touching them, then scrap them all.

If the ballots can be tied to voters (as is the accusation in AZ), then the system is broken. MUCH work has been put into to preventing that from being possible. If it is possible, then the election is flawed.
I use Bitwig Studio. It has that polished feel of Jetbrains products and has very good MIDI production tools among other things. Of course the downside it's not free and rather expensive, but it's linux native. All the VSTs that I need work through wine/yabridge flawlessly - Ample Guitars, Pianoteq. Even the crappy Kontakt works, but I don't use it much. Backend audio server is JACK2 with Pulseaudio sink.

Ardour is probably most popular DAW on linux and it's OSS/free, but I found Bitwig better for my use, mainly due to MIDI functionality.
That’s APTAMERS btw for anyone reading
> CSV is not a compact format

That's only true if you're trying to send all your data in a single, monolithic CSV.

If you're sending multiple CSVs, you're capable of representing data as well as a relational data store. Which is to say, you're representing your data using a system of data normalization specifically designed to minimalize data duplication. A single CSV represents a single table, and in most cases with intelligent delimiter selection you can represent an entire data set with no more than one character spent between fields or records.

Yes, you do have situations where you're storing losing data density due to using plain text strings, but that's not a limitation particularly unique to CSV for data serialization formats. Additionally, it is a problem that can largely be mitigated by simple text compression. Furthermore, once you switch to a non-text representation, you're limiting yourself to whatever that data representation is. It's easy to represent an arbitrary precision decimal number in plain text. It's hard to find a binary representation that universally represents the same data regardless of the system on the other end. Again, that's not a problem unique to CSVs.

If you're working with an API, object by object, then JSON is certainly going to be better, yes, because you can use the application's object representation. If you're working with bulk data of many disparate, unrelated, complex objects, however, or where you're transferring and entire system, you're not going to do much better than CSV.
Also it's way more difficult to parse than CSV. I'm not saying that CSV is better (or worse), just that to each it's job! Wtf is this about retiring a format because it doesn't fit someone's expectation!
> They don’t hinder anyone from forking and removing this limitation, allowing any package author to run native code on your machine.

That has arisen a few times here. Yes, they actually do actively discourage forking (to the point of threatening “excommunication” from the community).
I think you can get a job in most fields fairly easily without references if your resume is good. I don't think it's possible to get a job without references in academia.
Yes, there are efforts like that already, like MoltenVK and gfx-rs portability. But they are still workarounds to Apple's refusal to cooperate. I.e. they are lock-in breaking tools.

It should have been the opposite way - Metal should have been implemented on top of Vulkan.
>If someone sends CSAM using Federal Express, is FedEx legally liable for "possessing and distributing" that material?

Yes:

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2014/07/18/fedex-indicted...

That was for drugs but conceptually the same for CSAM.
State Department Asks Taliban to Form “Inclusive and Representative” Government
> staffed with below-average IQ people

Just as an FYI, this comment comes off as incredibly arrogant to anyone who’s going to read it.
The quote doesn’t; the article does. Three paragraphs earlier than the quote:

> This will ring true to anyone who follows the current media discussion around online propaganda. “Misinformation” and “disinformation” are used casually and interchangeably to refer to an enormous range of content, ranging from well-worn scams to viral news aggregation; from foreign-intelligence operations to trolling; from opposition research to harassment. In their crudest use, the terms are simply jargon for “things I disagree with.” Attempts to define “disinformation” broadly enough as to rinse it of political perspective or ideology leave us in territory so abstract as to be absurd.

There are also long sections - too long to quote - arguing that “fake news” appears to have basically negligible impact.

I don’t mean to drag into a long back-and-forth; I am just perplexed because we both seem well-intentioned but come away with nearly opposite impressions of the article.
This was not the German executive but it's legislative. There is a huge difference here.
pkgsrc support is worked on by a dev: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/9268

I also gave a go at cross-compiling pkgsrc for SerenityOS. Will resume if I find some free time in the future.
Evidence - This started happening in the 1990s (latest) before tools like git and npm was a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
I'd add:

4) Changes to the replacement format should be human-readable in a diff
It's not being stolen as much as its a rational response to poor public policy, so it needs to be addressed at the policy level.
This is just a thought. I don't know if you're aware of Github pages (probably) but regarding docs/hosting a basic UI with tabbed sections to present a chunked form of the README.
CSV files are great but only if things like dates are parsed correctly. Always validate, validate and validate again, that's the critical thing dealing with CSV files.
That's what scares me; the pigs feeding at the trough of "endless war" aren't going to get less hungry, and they're not going to take kindly to the idea of missing a meal.

No matter how many stupid looks they show on TV and how much "complete surprise" they proclaim, there's people been making a living off this war for a while and they saw the writing on the wall.

Do we expect they've packed up and gone home to a quiet retirement? Or is the next chapter of "how much shit can we waste" already on railcars?
No, China can't just Gitmo an American journalist on American soil.

But now China can send some legal pornography (eg closeup pussy pictures), disturbed to match a CSAM hit, to a journalist they don't like and get them in jail.

Why can't China do this before? Because previously, they'd still need to tip off authorities, which has an attribution trail and credibility barrier. Now, they can just use Pegasus to plant these images and then watch as Apple turns them into the Feds. Zero links to the attacker.
> if it is in any way toxic

That's its whole purpose. Just look at the name "antibiotic"...
For some reason I read the title as Mac Address on Investing and Tech.
I do feel bad for the man, but he's not just a "Swedish guy."
Yeah I'd bet that it's just a "haven't justified this work yet" kinda thing. We just run Firecracker VMs ourselves.
This is data from the Knowledge Graph, which is not "owned" by Google. The KG is not Google data, it's shared data amongst several search engines.

The claiming is an option given to entities as a courtesy. If they claim the Knowledge Panel (KP), they are trusted a bit more to make changes to the data that appears there.
Based on what I have read in English novels of the 19th century (like Sherlock Holmes), I'd assume "six and thirty" was common in English as well.
Building PlanetScale with PlanetScale
Except that won't open in Excel
There's no real disagreement there unless your claiming that the "transnational security elite" have no interests in other commodities.

The history of the United Fruit Company, the CIA and the term "banana republic" are worth looking into if you're unfamiliar.
gradually start tightening the noose on the free tier. enterprises would be forced to pay.
> Older steel mill jobs were absolutely hellish. The struggles at modern Amazon jobs have been greatly exaggerated or cherry-picked in the news.

This might be true but the comparison is profoundly misleading.

We should instead contrast the improvement in quality of working life with the improvement of other jobs and society in general.

Humanity (and US especially) has amassed an incredible amount of wealth, knowledge and technology in the last decades.

Switching from employment to "gigs" is as huge step backward and the quality of life is dropping for many people.
Ok so your fear is someone will target your grandparents with child porn?

If this was such a major problem why has no-one been targeted like this in the last decade when everyone else was scanning for it?
>> But I completely and whole heartedly support any audits, lawsuits, investigations, whatever that anybody wants to do. I say audit and go through discovery as many times as people want.

> Also consider what you are saying about the ballots, that if a bad person gets access to them post facto, that that is bad.

seems that 1 bad actor can taint the ballots for future discovery.

also, unlimited discovery just leads to a Gish Gallop. looking for traces of bamboo, kinetic artifacts, routers, etc.
CSV parsing is not as bad as it sounds and can be a decent fizzbuzzy interview question.

The real problem with CSV is the lack of vision of data formats in general. Inside your programming language you need to say that you want to read a CSV? You need to import a different library and change both the parse code and your consumption code to instead do JSON? You need to change everything to use futures in order to stream the results? Are you out of your damn mind?

So now that disk space is so cheap it would make sense for any file format to just begin with a single few-kilobytes line that defines the parser for the coming file. Could be sandboxed, WASM-y or something, could be made printable of course... Sure, it might not be possible to get the full SQLite library in there but you could at least make it free to switch between JSON and BSON and CSV without having to recompile the software or force someone to design modular file input systems. Somehow the only flexible containers that hold different data structures are video container formats that do not care about what codec you used. They "get it"— can the rest of us?
Part of Messi's signing to psg on fee paid in fan tokens
Incorrect. A Chinese state actor can't just go around imprisoning journalists they don't like in America, but they can now do this through planting child porngoraphy via remote malware (Pegasus) and watch their enemies get arrested by the US Feds.
Gentrification is a racist term that reduces market forces on housing down to "white middle class people need to stop moving into previously lower class areas."
Also very biased towards big companies, at least for my region.
Usually, if something really bizarre like this happens inside the cabin, the plane will divert to the nearest airport. Unless they're in the middle of flying over a large ocean, it's unlikely to be hours.
When a pedo gets released from prison, in some jurisdictions they are required to have scanning software installed on their devices. Apple makes every customer a suspected pedo.
If you are comfortable with being treated this way, whatever floats your boat. Not everyone fancy receiving the same treatment as criminal on parole.
By this argument UTF8 can't exist. And yet here it is.

PS: I never said 100% forward/backward compatible with all variant at the same time and without any noticeable artifact. I meant compatible in a non blocking way.
That line is definitely a harsh way to put it, but as someone that has a similar feeling, my interpretation is as follows:

Many people in the industry have a very glorified view of FAANGs, and in particular one of the reasons that many people want to work at a FAANG is because of the idea of working and learning from the most impressive people in your field. If you've ever heard the saying "if you feel like you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room", I think that is a saying that these types of people ascribe to.

The problem is that oftentimes someone joins a FAANG and that glorified view is shattered. The reality is that the people at a FAANG are not necessarily geniuses (there are geniuses at FAANG, as there are at any company, but they are far and few between compared to the 'average' FAANG engineer). I work at a FAANG (look at my name and you can guess which one) and I would certainly say that it is very frustrating to me that my career has felt like it has effectively stalled ever since joining, because everyone on my team is just as clueless as I am and I do not find any of my direct or extended teammates particularly impressive or inspiring.

When this happens, the "shattering" reality that your new job isn't some wonderland and is full of all the same issues of your old companies can make you quite frustrated and dissapointed, and it's quite easy to place that blame on your coworkers or the tools they use. I don't think it's disdain as much as it is disappointment, and OP probably feels like they were sold a false bill of goods. I know I certainly relate to that a lot.
> I was the "below-average IQ person,"

I had a rule after my time working a peer equivalent to FAANG: if I consistently find myself the obviously smartest person in the room, I should go else where. There has been so much joy working in an environment where there are people who are more experienced, skilled, and/or talented than me.

At my current startup, which has been just amazingly successful, our engineering team hires a lot of people who are a lot like how you sound: no dummy and also emotionally intelligent/mature. It's been such a wonderful experience. I never have to hear any silly debates over the nuances of some irrelevant issues so some people can proof their intelligence. People know what the company's business is and just worry about that. Most of the times we work a 9 to 5 (10 to 6 because of Bay Area traffic) and go home. It's taught me a lot about startups and what it takes to succeed. Having the smartest people around working for you is one possible path but there are other very viable alternatives. I've also worked at companies with lots of former FAANG engineers, several Ph.D., and 3 full CS professors that burned that down ignominiously.
but trying to compare being held back in your career with being unable to leave your home without a male relative

Maybe you didn't hear me. Let me say it again:

I was homeless for years while racking up karma here left and right. I hit the leaderboard the first time about a month after I got back into housing, mostly because I paid off my student loan not because my income went up a lot.

I remain dirt poor and I'm currently broke and don't expect to eat today.

This is a survival issue for me.

I'm not expecting charity and I don't need much more earned income. But I can't seem to arrange it, no matter what I do.
I'm all for restraining any passenger that behaves that way, with or without duct tape.

I'm mostly curious about whether there's a real risk or not of a passenger breaking a window without tools.
lol you people and your whataboutism. Taking down a plane and putting a plane full of people in a dangerous situation is not equivalent to riding a bike without a helmet. How ridiculous
It always depends on the context.

You can hire a senior IC who specializes in one thing only and that one thing is what keeps your business running -- doesn't matter if they don't progress further faster.

Or you can hire someone inexperienced and spend X years training them until the intercept. But how long is X? There's a lot of risk to take on here.
> Drug companies have long resisted any investigation of the impact of their drugs once they have exited the first patient.

Not even drugs necessarily. The theory is out there that a hidden but significant influence on society is large-scale male consumption of estrogen via contamination from women's urine.
I don't think chlorine in water is considered a medication. Chlorine in water is added with the intention of disinfecting the water, for human health reasons, but that disinfection happens before the water is consumed. The chlorine is treating the water, not the humans who drink the water.
What about the human reviewers at Apple? Those need to confirm matches, and they obviously look at the photos to do so. Apple can’t claim ignorance.

Also, it has to be two requesting governments.
It's not true at all. You're assuming state actors are in the same jurisdiction. This isn't always the case - think an oppressive authoritian regime wanting to get an American journalist arrested for child pornography.

It's always possible before, but client-side CSAM detection and alerting has weaponised this.

Previously, you always had to somehow alert an unfriendly jurisdiction. Now, you just use malware like Pegasus to drop CSAM, whether real or disturbed from legal porn, and watch as Apple tips off the Feds on your enemies.
It turns out the question isn't "what provides the best education for kids (at home/in person)", it's "what provides the most convenience for parents".

You could have parental-supervised online learning be 5x as good as in-person, but society demands we send kids to school to get them out of the house so a parent can work. We pay lip service to the actual education of the child.

No real point except pulling the veil from our revealed preferences.
> a gay government, a gay civil service.

It was a light hearted attempt to separate the official State from their little community. It wouldn't work in the U.S. You'd probably have to buy an island uncolonized by the British or the U.S to do that properly
Apple doesn't end to end encrypt iCloud Photo uploads -- they do transfer and store them encrypted, but they still have a key to view them if they want to.
The valuation is eye-popping, does anyone have a reasonable explanation of how that could be sustained?
Yup. False flags have a long and well-documented history.
IMO a huge missing piece is references. That part isn’t a new idea, it’s been part of hiring forever. A good reference from a past manager would mean a lot more to me than a 60 min coding challenge from leet code.
I might make this change. Are you using any kind of app for 2FA like Google Authenticator?