skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never even worked at Google, but if my team is working towards something and our announcement is pre-empted, yeah, I'm going to be upset. I would never wish anyone dead over it, but I would definitely be pissed at them.

There's a lot of work that goes into those announcements. It's not just advertising the product that is the goal, it's presenting it their way.

Similarly, when someone is telling a joke and someone else tells the punchline, they get upset about it. According to your logic, they shouldn't. The joke was told, and the audience heard it. But I've yet to meet anyone who wouldn't be upset about someone else telling the punchline to their joke.

They were not brainwashed. You were incredibly insensitive to their feelings.
> … a desire to demonstrate dynamically sized binary trees…

Cart before horse — the binary trees are justified by a desire to demonstrate memory allocation.

http://hboehm.info/gc/gc_bench/
> "I can prove it to you - I bet when you saw this you thought it was going to be about passwords"

> His entire first point is about passwords.

No, the entire first point is about how vague the term "hash function" is. Passwords don't get discussed (modulo a single aside) until much later in the post.
Google: Cops ask for a lot of location data and we comply
The labor shortage in tech doesn't exist. I know of so many very good engineers that were rejected by massive corporations that have gone on to do great things.

Google and other big employers will even brag publicly about how they reject the majority of great candidates because they are more afraid of false positives than false negatives. But then they'll turn right around and tell the government and universities that there is a tech talent shortage.
Cookies don't track you nearly as well. What happens if you delete a cookie? Fingerprinting isn't a universal solution either as iDevices all look extremely similar to each other. As to IP addresses, they only work if you connect from your home WiFi. Not every phone has that set up. Often they use carrier grade NAT so you only have a few IPs to work with.

Last, customers of their data love being able to search/correlate by phone number, not by some pseudonymous identifier that might not be present in some other dataset.

I think this crackdown might in fact be a reaction to attempts by institutions like Apple to ensure better privacy. If fingerprinting isn't giving them the data, they ask for it directly at the threat of restricting access.
The biggest downside I see is that it makes language much harder for young children. It’s rare to see someone under 6 be able to whistle.
> It seems more likely that they chose to leave the existing ambiguity in place than that they deliberately engineered it.

Once the same thing has been happening for a long time, and you keep designing it that way, it becomes deliberate engineering.
To be fair, phishing is just the path of least resistance due to overall security improvements getting rid of other low-hanging fruit. If security became worse overall, phishing would fall a bit more out of favor.
Sure but they're also juicy extra revenue streams for the manufacturers from ads and behavior/watch data even without the neigh conspiratorial spying people speculate about.
You really need to define 'famgolopy' every time you use it. It's not in urbandictionary and the only search results on the topic link back to these threads.

It's too much of a neologism to trust that people understand what you mean from context.
This is a really cynical and oversimplified take in my opinion.

Our centralized financial systems have a lot of regulation for outsiders, but the rules selectively apply to those with power and capital. If the Panama Papers/FinCEN leaks have shown me anything its that our financial systems are not sufficiently policing themselves.

Having all transactions on open source ledgers is a good start. With zero knowledge proofs I’m fairly confident we can design auxiliary systems that can obfuscate senders/receivers/amounts while also allowing for fraud detection by the community as a whole - with slashing style incentives we won’t have to worry as much about regulatory capture and similar things.
This comment assumes that Apple does a lot of heavy lifting to exonerate individuals who are found with CSAM beyond just reporting them to law enforcement.

Of course metadata could exonerate someone who is a victim in a case like this. The question is will it ever see the light of day?
It does work on Firefox Android but the extension is not part of the default set. You need to use a version of Firefox that supports Custom Add-on Collections like a Nightly build or the F-Droid Fennec build. Once you've got this installed you need to enable the debug menu by tapping the Firefox logo on the 'About Firefox' screen five times (see [1] for more info), add the Firefox ID and repo name for a repo with the required extension in the 'Custom Add-on collection' section and install the extension the normal way. Luckily the author of PrivacyRedirect has created just such a repo [2] which you can you to install the extension without the need for a Firefox ID (which I do not have and do not want, I'm still waiting for an easy way to run a Firefox auth/sync server on my own hardware) or having to create such a repo yourself.

Once installed you'll quickly find out the 'More options' page - on which you can configure which servers are used for redirection - does not appear. Fortunately the actual URL is entered in the location bar, it just doesn't open the page. Simply press the button, then close the 'Settings' page using the arrow on the top-left of the screen, then select the location bar (which should now contain a moz-extension: URL) and press enter on the keyboard.

The extension works fine, at least for me, on Firefox Developer Nightly on Android.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

[2] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/issues/140#...
For PASETO, the quick guide to library support is https://paseto.io
I don't think that's likely at all. It seems like it would be far easier to find women who are willing to take their clothes off for money (something that has been relatively easy to find for centuries) than it would be to hack hundreds of devices in order to steal such pictures - if they happen to exist.
The author links to FRED data that measure a 5% drop in workforce participation in the 55+ cohort. This is at least some evidence that older workers are taking it easy so far. (See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ if you have not heard of FRED before.)
This sounds like it’s going to paint a target for necklacing on the back of anyone who’s found to be a Samsung employee.
That does seem bizarre. Was there some special reason for them introducing almost markdown but-not-quite as a feature?
Yeah it's not perfect, they shove everything into that TV & Video section[1] and then in there I sometimes I have to look for the app I want in another sub-screen. I want to just create a folder on the home screen with my streaming apps on it. I'm probably going to get another Apple TV in the end. But even with all of those annoyances I am still much happier using the PS4 than the built-in Roku.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBJxPkUUh4 <-- If anyone is curious, this is what PS4 does to your streaming apps and there's no way out of it. You are forced to go into this section to find the streaming app you want to use
A Board Game About Birds Became a Surprise Blockbuster
> Interesting that perceived sides and the not content of the message should carry such weight. A person with differing views and conclusions on some issue can still convey information, and I do not immediately see much relationship between uncertainty in the Bohr apocrypha and ulterior motives(? beliefs?) of the philosopher who relayed it.

Except we're talking about Zizek! This is not Michel Foucault ("Everything I say is just a toolbox, you can use what you like, discard what you don't"). He does not share your rather postmodern outlook on discourse and language, if he did, if his work was meant to accede to any notion of "Oh, words and statements are free-floating, unbound to their context, meaning is indeterminate, there are only different perspectives", etc, his whole platform would fall apart; he intends the opposite of what you're talking about with his speech. He literally defines the work that he does as partisan without ambiguity. There are pages spent in his books and multiple reminders given at his in-person lectures on this point that anything such is an objection to his platform.

It's either fidelity to his meaning, which, to be clear, is not some smarmy, one-off that misapplies his example to make a silly point about not continuing to wear masks (which, by the way, is a perfectly quantifiable question rather than a 'merely ideological' one), or the information conveyed means nothing at all. You either get that he deploys examples like these, and he has a billion over the course of work (it just so happened this one had language useful to grandparent's intended meaning), to illustrate his interpretation of commodity fetishism, the basis for his critique of ideology, or you've rendered all of his meaning bankrupt. So, yes, in his case, its either/or, and that's by design!
I'm so confused that you got downvoted.

It should be obvious that they paid the money because they profit from it. It should also be obvious that they would want that profit whether or not you're supposed to use it.
It's a shame about the downvotes, because that's a perfect example of loaded language which imposes a conceptual frame for both speaker and listener.

It's not an abstract point. It has very real consequences because it's supposed to - and does - trigger expected emotions and behaviours.

PR consultants, politicians, lawyers, ad copy writers, and others who use rhetoric professionally use this kind of loading very deliberately.
It is free, but with conditions. I dislike EA doing this as a publicity stunt while they’re essentially keeping people at their mercy if they use these patents. I guess I would prefer it if they said “conditionally free”.
I think it has to do with people struggling to find meaning in the absence of inherited religion or any other guiding philosophy. The forces of capitalism and democracy have stripped away many communal traditions, but people still have a need for some kind of meaning, so it's not surprising they might turn to a philosophy that is highly individualistic and doesn't require an organized church.
Interesting, I'll give this a shot. thanks for the tip!
I might be wrong on this, but I don't believe this is a replacement for Spark. Rather this is similar to the Spark SQL execution engine.

I don't believe there is any focus on providing a distributed execution environment, rather platforms like Spark and Flink could integrate DataFusion as an implementation and expose the API for Apache Arrow operations.
It's usually the MBAs and PR people at those companies, not the engineers, that use that term.
Hm. I'm an Oregonian, and I'm afraid I'm going to be forced into a being a conscientious objector.

It's like the pressure keeps on being ratcheted up until you break, to one side or another. They force you to be a 'loony reactionary' or a 'subservient lapdog', driving out any possibility to remain moderate.
If you are not familiar, DB-engines.com keeps a listing of who the major players are in the database world.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

MongoDB is ranked #5 on the list at present; Cassandra comes in at #11. (And Scylla, which they moved to most of their workload from Cassandra, is currently #88.)

DB-engines also have specific rankings for what are known as 'NoSQL wide column stores' — which is what Cassandra and Scylla are classed as:

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/wide+column+store

Note that MongoDB is a different class of NoSQL entirely. It is a "document store" — MongoDB is the most popular document store.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/document+store

But what this means is that even though both MongoDB, Cassandra and Scylla are all "NoSQL" making this move for Discord required significant data modeling and migration.

(Note that the difference between Cassandra and Scylla is far narrower. Both use the same data model and Cassandra Query Language (CQL).

Hope that helps give you some orientation in the NoSQL database field.
Why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach
Is 0-based like C, but on libraries that reimplements the Lua libraries, it's 1-based as Lua, because the language aims Lua compatibility.

Due to this, the string and "sequence" libraries (which works as a Lua-like vector), and the table library in the future, are 1-based.
Signal is open-source in the "look at it, but don't even try to tun it" way. I'd rather support a protocol that supports federation and encourages alternative clients.
Who are these people who want to own a thistle, yet alone pay for one?

Cultural and aesthetical reasons. Same as cacti.

There is a category in landscaping for plants that are strongly geometrical, tall and bold. They are called architectural plants and are a important design element to provide interest out seasons. A good design takes care of color and tone but also will include texture and tactile appealing. Some thistles are native, undemanding and can be really beautiful in winter covered in ice. They have often interesting patterns in leaves and flowers. The indigo flowers of the artichoke in top of a silvery foliage are really spectacular.

And thistles attract lots of interesting insects.

The problem is not that they are thistles, is that they aren't native and in this case also poisonous.
There are buy side and sell side. And the financial world and regulation make them more like two separate entity. When the world simply known them as one called GS.
The old rate limit errors were false flags caused by a bug in the API token parser. Nitter instances have yet to run into a real rate limit.
I think the key thing people need to realize from the SAE definition [1] of the levels is that they represent designs of the system rather than abilities of the system. I could slap a camera on my dashboard, tell the car to go when it sees green pixels in the top half of its field of view and stop when it sees red pixels. Then I could get out the car and turn it on, and for the 5 seconds it took for that car to kill a pedestrian and crash into a tree, that would be level 5 self driving.

So when people talk about a particular company "achieving" level 4 or level 5, I don't know what they mean. Maybe they mean achieving it "safely" which is murky, since any system can crash. Maybe they mean achieving it legally on public roads, in which case, it's a legal achievement (although depending on what regulatory hoops they had to go through, maybe they had to make technical achievements as well).

[1] : https://web.archive.org/web/20161120142825/http://www.sae.or...
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266650
Looks similar to Terra: https://terralang.org/
Why not ZFS or ZoL (https://zfsonlinux.org/)?

B/c it’s not built into the kernel, or some other reason?
Fromthe mouth of CockraochDB's CTO: ‶So if we were starting at this point in time, I would take a hard look at Rust, and I imagine that we would pick it instead of C++.″
This was also a common technique used in Runescape back in the day. Takes me back. The much more innocent version was all chatting "Press alt q q for free gold" in Warcraft 3. Alt+q+q was the keyboard shortcut to abandon the match, which I learned the hard way.
Companies regularly NAT many thousands of users behind a single public IP. Additionally non-profits, schools, and others often provide WiFi for their guests/students using a supposedly residential internet account or their ISP doesn't segment basic business IPs from residentials.

In any case flagging multiple accounts logging in from a single public IP is not as useful a signal as you might think.
This isn't actually true, the "Instance has been rate limited" error was a false flag. It turned out to be a bug in the API token parser, found and fixed by a contributor. Nitter instances have yet to run into a real rate limit.
Anecdotally my company removed take home exams for employees below senior.

Seniors still need to do it. But they didn't reduce a coding round for seniors. So continue to struggle with hiring
> I’ll stick with xfs

Why not ZFS or ZoL (https://zfsonlinux.org/)?

B/c it’s not built into the kernel, or some other reason?
I think for the most part you're right. When companies start hiring people who have adjacent skills (instead of exact skills) and a growth mindset then you'll know they're really facing a shortage of talent. In the 80s & 90s there was much less nit-pickiness on the part of companies trying to find people with some exact exhaustive list of skills that must be complete in order for the candidate to even be considered - there was a an acceptance of the idea that people could learn on the job and grow into it. Hiring decisions were made a lot more quickly back then in my experience. It seems like they realized that it was better to get someone on the team and get them started towards getting up-to-speed than to wait around 6+ months or more trying to find some kind of exact perfect match.
This is pretty unlike what I've ever seen at a company of any kind, and not what I've seen us do at Mux (oblig: we're hiring remotely--email's in my profile!).

ETA: Like a take-home test or whatever, that happens--I personally elect not to do them, but they do--but a psych test or whatnot creeps me out a lot.

There are plenty of companies out there who recognize that a developer's time is valuable, and while if you're very early in your career maybe you have to bite the bullet and put up with some garbage, there's value in dumping those sorts of orgs out of your inbox once you're safe to do so.
1) Yes, there are people that can do this.

2) But this isn't an interview situation. This was "system design questions" as in how to solve a problem as a company using the whole team (4 backend engineers at that time).
It remains true in the military. Refusal to jump on a chute you have packed will cause you to lose your rigger qualifications.
> Stuff like this[1] ought to have some impact on the "real world" results, right?

The real world results, as measured, showed a 0.3% false positive rate. If your [1] has a measurable effect, it's included in that 0.3%.

> > false positives have a linear cost.

> That's a strong assumption. Assuming constant testing happens in an environment of quarantining of the person who tested positive and their contacts and possibly their contacts (which is the goal of the whole trace & quarantine fever of 2020), it is hard to argue that the costs of false positives do is linear in the number of false positives.

It's not hard at all. It literally follows from the problem setup. If one person has 4 contacts, and each of those contacts has 4 more, and you quarantine all of them, then that's 17 people quarantined from a single positive test. That "17" is a linear constant. There's no feedback mechanism: one positive test leads to 17 quarantines only, and you're done. It's linear. It might have a higher constant factor than you personally think is justified, but that's a very different question.
This is my sense. Most companies are just bad at hiring, so they hire a bunch of bad engineers and then go "there's a shortage of good engineers!" No, you're just bad at attracting and selecting a good distribution.
I think we can at least agree that there is no formal definition of "scraping".

That said, I had a look around and the definitions I could find tended to support my interpretation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping - "Newer forms of web scraping involve monitoring data feeds from web servers. For example, JSON is commonly used as a transport storage mechanism between the client and the web server."

https://towardsdatascience.com/web-scraping-basics-82f8b5acd... - "There are 2 different approaches for web scraping depending on how does website structure their contents." (HTML scraping and API access)

https://realpython.com/beautiful-soup-web-scraper-python/ - "Web scraping is the process of gathering information from the Internet. Even copying and pasting the lyrics of your favorite song is a form of web scraping! However, the words “web scraping” usually refer to a process that involves automation"

The more formal dictionaries (Merriam Webster and suchlike) don't seem to have formed an opinion on this one yet!
I am not able to figure out if this article is parody or in a serious tone.
> The only "legitimate business" anybody's done with crypto is buying lots of it and hoping the value keeps going up.

Yes, and HN kept telling everyone for years not to do that. And the value kept going up.

I wish I had a bitcoin for every "don't buy bitcoin" article that hit HN frontpage...
I don't think it would be appropriate for me to say very specifically, but I suspect about double what a software engineer with the same amount of experience would earn.
It would help if discord would stop threatening to ban people for using third party clients.
Apple itself is currently obsoleting IP-based account theft heuristics with their iCloud VPN, so they might have stopped relying on it internally already :)
That sounds like a recipe for keeping this permanent pandemic even more permanent than it already is.
Of course. They are members of the clubs.
I don't know the details of this, but it does seem to make sense - it may be prohibited to fire an employee for requesting better working conditions, but if an employee refuses to serve a particular customer because they don't like them, that would seem to me a quite reasonable reason for termination. Labor law legitimately protects many parts of employee-employer relationships, but the employer's choice of which customers to serve is not one of them, as long as the service is otherwise legal to perform and does not put the employees at personal risk (e.g. from a specific customer that's abusive to your employees).

How would/should a restaurant react if some waiters team up and argue to other waiters "we shouldn't serve those bloody [insert your favorite group] bastards in this restaurant, they're immoral and evil" ? Would/should their managers have the right to intervene and prevent that? IMHO such requests simply are not a legitimate demand that should be protected under labor law - for those aspects, the employer can set the policy and if you disagree with the employer's policy, you can quit or be fired even in countries/states where otherwise they can't fire you just because.
Librewolf is there
Qutebrowser pretty good too
I don't think this is just boomers or just service / hospitality workers.

I think that there has been a fundemental shift in how many people view / think about work and how it relates to society. I doubt we'll have a good grasp of what that shift consists of until years from now.
This just means cyber security advanced so much that the simpliest way to accomplish the goal is abusing human nature.

(IMHO human was always the weakest part in the security chain and this will not change looking at social engineering)
Excellent points. Artifact is indeed a tricky problem for EKGs, and the ziopatch is a great device. Generally, multiple leads are needed (ideally 6 or 12 leads) to accurately measure repolarization of the heart.
Yep. Just got my new job a few weeks ago and this was what the past few months of my life were like.

Interestingly, we recognize there is a massive shortage of senior talent and are adjusting our recruiting strategy accordingly.
I habe the zpool "data" with the zfs Volumes like this

data/media/video/movies
data/media/video/series

I set sharenfs with read write access for

data/media/video

Which gives me access via nfa to all the subvolumes.