skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the concern and is valid - it is like the No True Scotsman fallacy ... is there a "proper study".

yet all I am asking is there an RCT study on masks where they measured actual infection rates on a subpopulation randomly assigned to wear a mask? It is not a particularly unusual design, it is regularly done for vaccines and drugs. Measuring the actual effect on the people that are assigned to each group.

I believe that there is no RCT that would indicate that masks work. I have never seen one. As I said I'd be eager to read it if there was a study like that.

For example the Cohrane review on masks analyzed many studies, none indicated that masks work:

https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...

> Compared with wearing no mask, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness (9 studies; 3507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3005 people).

Yet all of a sudden CDC claims masks are super effective.
Not to get political but I always thought it was a mistake to make "modern" samba GPLv3. All it did was make all these hardware vendors either stick with the older GPLv2 stuff or... I dunno what else they can do besides write their own implementation.

Samba is too much of an "infrastructure" codebase. It should have been BSD licensed. Vendors would have strong incentives to merge changes back into the mainline... none of them want to have their own wacko implementations.
Fair enough, I don’t mean to excuse this, just making it clear that I’m not singling anyone out
> "How would you pull in data from an arbitrarily long -- maybe never-ending -- source of data in Python?"

The answer to this question is to use a generator. If you don't know this, then both people are going to wish that they had that half hour of their life back.

Is this a good question? If you want somebody with a lot of Python expertise, then knowing about generators is a good thing.

If I was interviewing a candidate, and they didn't know this, then I would just find a pleasant way to move on after a minute or two. If this is the only interviewing question, then that makes me happy, because this company has a flawed process, and is leaving some great talent for me to hire.

It's not a big deal if you didn't know this at the time. You might not have known what a generator was, and the person interviewing probably wasn't very good at interviewing people.
I enjoy reading immensely, but even I hardly consider it to be a replacement for online gaming with your friends.

Or, if I'm being frank, a more inherently valuable form of entertainment than gaming.
True, but the FM solution could really be low latency, unlike the digital rube goldberg machine equivalent.
Doesn't Tencent flat out own Riot? I'd be much more interested in understanding what they (Tencent) think of this.
I don’t believe the current literature points toward soy being unhealthy in any scientifically proven ways.

Fermented soy is going to be healthier, just like any fermented food is healthier than its unfermented counterpart. Kimchi is healthier than cabbage, etc
The first time I interviewed at Google I didn’t make it past the phone screen. I bombed a question about an appropriate length of a Bloom filter because I hadn’t recently been thinking about Bloom filters, and I was summarily rejected for onsites. The second time I interviewed I was asked a number of questions that I was perfectly “primed” to answer. Because those were in my brain’s cache, I was able to get through the full interview loop with a “hire” recommendation.

My focus is security, and so the second time around I got Travis Ormandy as an interviewer. I was able to impress him well enough with my IPSec foo to make it onsite. Then I got asked a question I had already been asked in another interview with another company, and I was able to knock that out of the ballpark (I mentioned I already knew that question, but the interviewer wanted me to answer it anyway). Then I got asked a question that used recursion, and because I took a graduate course on induction and recursion within the past year, that was effortless for me. Then I got asked a question that involved a kernel feature, and because I happened to recall the Linux kernel list macros and semantics (something I couldn’t repeat now over 10 years later), I really impressed that interviewer.

I ended up having a really successful part of my career at Google, even though I ended up not really writing much code when all was said and done. However what code I did write was highly impactful.

Looking back, things could have gone very differently if I had gotten a different set of interviewers and/or questions. The questions I got just happened to coincide with what was “paged in” to my “working memory,” so to speak.
True, I started sorting parts in a plumbing shop when I was 12, you still have to get certified and to get certified you take the same classes as everyone else. That's the same for doctors, and lawyers and all that shit.

This is why we don't have a base of expected knowledge in the field and why we do strange coding tests to try to guess if someone is competent.
Fixed, I get them confused. Thought it was the other way around.
this is written like its bad to "hand over code" to others. I don't like it.
Generally speaking, larger quads are less annoying than smaller ones. A big part of that is that larger props spin at lower RPM than smaller ones.

My Autel EVO II Pro is inaudible at ~80’, while the DJI Mavic Mini I had prior to it could still be heard at almost twice that altitude.
On the same topic: When An Error Is Not An exception Series: https://dev.to/vncz/series/6223
Where are they going to find strong software engineers who also have aerospace engineering qualifications?
Only if they are enforced.
Think about this when you support "sin taxes". At some point the "sin" they target is going to be something you partake in. I generally dislike any government mandate punishing an entire society because some people lack the control to limit themselves.

I understand this is aimed at someone who isn't legally an "adult" so I can give some small leeway in that case. However, I don't think this enforceable at all and it really still comes down to the parents putting in time to limit them.
I'm more excited about synthesized milk:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/entrepreneurship/csiro-brews...

I've lifted weights recreationally for 20 years and find most of the dogma and heated debate about dairy products fascinating. It's not uncommon to see a fitness enthusiast warning about the dangers of dairy while simultaneously selling nutrition supplements derived from milk as part of a multilevel marketing scheme.

At this point, I think everyone should have the dignity to believe what they want to believe. But personally, I consider all milk substitutes to be a waste of time unless someone has a specific reason (like lactose intolerance) to drink them.

Some other truths that people love to debate for some reason: yes dairy is horrible for the environment so it is best to eat it in moderation if you aren't exercising (best to get to it soon though). Yes diary is always more ethical than meat. Yes most nutrition advice post-WWII is propaganda put out to bolster certain big agriculture companies. Yes high cholesterol in the body probably has more to do with genetics and other risk factors than how much cholesterol is consumed.

The fastest way to get healthy that I know of is to go on the gallon of milk a day (GOMAD) diet and hit the gym 3 times per week for 45 minutes or less with no cardio. This is 1970s "technology" but it works.. astoundingly well. I used it in my 20s with great results.

The rest of the hype, eh, I try to tune it out. Avoid dairy to save the planet, that's great. Avoid dairy to save your health and.. your health will probably decline because it's usually something else like poor work-life balance or a sedentary lifestyle that's the culprit.
I stopped carrying my keyfob a few years ago, and just use the mechanical key - mainly because I hate how huge it is, but now I'm starting to think it was a good idea..
It could. There used to be smoking sections in airports. The barriers, typically glass but they could easily be made of plexiglass, did in fact keep the smoke inside the smoking section. This would not be a great expense. Add some cheap mics and speakers; problem solved.
> Half the time I spent gaming was spent figuring out how to get the computer to do what I wanted which lead to a life long interest in technology.

I remember the old days of "extended memory" which meant you needed slightly different configuration files for each game. That meant if you wanted to play a bunch of games, it made sense to learn how to write a bat script to config according to what you wanted to play.

You also had a terminal which gave a "computery" vibe, like you were doing something serious, because why else would the interface be so austere? Command lines are like magic incantations, and some people are just drawn to learning how they work.

Nowadays that entry route is gone, there's not much peeking below the OS desktop anymore on something like a phone or tablet. On desktop it seems like Steam just abstracts away everything else that you'd care about, though I'm not a heavy gamer anymore.
This is my question. I've been keeping my key fob in a faraday box for almost a year because I heard that keyless entry and keyless start can be pinged during a night-time drive-by when the owner is likely to be home.

Obviously not a replay attack, but still seems to be a huge vulnerability.
Yes. But this role doesn't always exist. For whoever is in power, creating suitable counter-powers may not feel like a pressing issue.
As I said, I'm not against regulating gambling systems in games just as we regulate gambling everywhere else.

Gambling is gambling and is bad, especially if you're vulnerable like a kid.

What I don't think it's right is the government telling you how much time you have to spend doing X.

We're talking about gaming hours now. But what about food? Don't eat more than 2000k calories a day or we'll punish you somehow. Don't smoke, don't drink alcohol or take any kind of drugs because it costs money to give you medical attention. Don't practice that sport because it's dangerous. Don't watch more than 2 hours a day of Netflix. And I could go on and on.
And yet finding someone competent for the job is like a needle in a hay stack.

Having a base of expected/certified knowledge would take a lot of that away.
The print edition is available at AbeBooks for about $50. The publication date is listed as 2010, FWIW.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=SearchF...
European Union recommends halting non-essential travel from the U.S.
Using CIFS (aka SMB1) is "like taking your grandmother to prom: she means well, but she can't really move anymore. Also, it's creepy and gross."

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/...
I have recently started drinking almond milk. It does feel like a rip-off because a 1 litre carton of almond milk is approximately 97% water, 2% almonds, 1% thickeners.

Companies charge what they think the market will pay and in this case, consumers (like me!) are willing to pay for almond milk even when it costs more than fresh dairy milk.

But make up your own mind: is almond milk a rip-off given the ingredients? Or a perfectly fine product? Here are the ingredients for two different unsweentened almond milk brands:

- Alpro Almond Milk - 1 litre (Alpro is a popular European brand)

Water, Almonds (2.3%), Calcium (Tri-Calcium Phosphate), Sea Salt, Stabilisers (Locust Bean Gum, Gellan Gum), Emulsifier (Lecithins (Sunflower)), Vitamins (B2, B12, E, D2)

- Asda Almond Milk - 1 litre (UK supermarket own brand)

Water, Almonds (2%), Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithins), Calcium Phosphate, Stabilisers (Gellan Gum, Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Xanthan Gum), Salt, Potassium Iodide, Vitamins (B12, D2, B2)

Prices:

- Alpro: £1.80 ($2.50, 2.10€)

- Asda: £0.85 ($1.15, 1.00€)
... so the sub discovers the active buoy 0.66 seconds sooner for every kilometer of distance between them.

I don't imagine that knowing you'll be detected 40 seconds before they know you've been detected changes the tactical situation a whole lot.
Apple switched to a proprietary implementation since a couple of versions (due to licensing IIRC), otherwise essentially yes.
Yes, there is just a massive wave of scam artists and other bad actors that cry freedom to keep their exploitative practices from being criminalized or regulated. We all see it in certain online games, certain social media practices, some NFTs/crypto ICOs, current wave of SPAC/meme stocks, and it goes on. A large portion of them are robbing less sophisticated people. It's a major question of how much protection from their own bad decisions people get (and how equitable that protection is between the rich and the poor).

I also think games and gaming communities have gotten much worse in 25 years. I wouldn't want a child I knew to get involved in most gaming communities at all, now.
No, they own a significant minority stake.
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple
Never understood this way of interviewing. I get shit now and then for helping people too much in coding exercises, but if someone has reached the point where they are obviously not going to progress why not nudge them along and see how they respond?

I've found that the ability to receive and act on guidance with a certain degree of humility is a much better signal of someone's potential than how many algorithms they've memorised.
No one thinks that showing the same ad to the same person 100 times is effective. It does, however, make more money for the ad seller for ad customers to waste spending.

Much of ad targeting is not automatic, but manually configured by advertisers in one way or another. Many of these users manually configure their ads poorly. If I tell the system "show this ad to everyone in this geography with no restriction on frequency" the only 'smart' targeting is the stuff that restricts it to users that appear to be in that geography. Everything else is the 'dumb' method specified by the user.

I think also the purely automated methods are not necessarily incented to provide better targeting for the ad buyer. Their incentive is to spend all the budget and to try to get the user to refill the budget. For large sectors of this spending, there isn't that much sensitivity to waste so long as the people responsible for wasting the money don't lose their jobs. You wouldn't believe it just as an ordinary smart person but people do waste billions of dollars a year on this stuff. The 'smarts' of the system is dedicated to parting fools from their money repeatedly while giving them enough justification with 'greedy' attribution metrics to keep filling up the budget.
Hiring Juniors is a positive externality that the company does not see a penny of. They only see a penny of that externality if they don't give a raise, and that Junior chooses to stick around anyway. You get to exploit that he made friends or is stuck in your part of the city due to a lease or otherwise makes a poor financial decision.

It's interesting that the worse the interview process, the less the Junior will want to go through it, the more the company benefits. You make your process painful so your competitors make their process painful so both of you hold onto your Juniors for more time.

If you can fix the externality problem this goes away, but that's not easy.
I was in a very similar position. I didn't grow up in SV either and I went to an elementary school with 400 students over 7 grades and a high school with 700 students over 5-9 grades).

It's probably because I'm younger than you but nowadays there are a lot more people like us thanks to the internet than there were before.
Last year all of my photos and presets had disappeared after updating the Lightroom app. That was 2+ years of edits that are just gone, lost, unrecoverable.

I do photography as a hobby so I never saw a need for backing up photos and I never paid for the subscription (which would include cloud storage) because I didn’t use any of the tools that came along with the subscription.
If the horror of WW1 (machine guns, mustard gas, etc) was the result of scientific advancement and modern thought, then breaking expectations and conjuring nonsense was the dada movements response- humanity needed a mental reset.

I hadn't heard specifically of the clinically insane's artwork as being so important to the transition from dada to surrealism, though there wasn't really always a good way to tell the two apart.
Their download link does not work.
All of my similarly aged parents- most of whom are huge gamers and nerds- have instituted some effective policies:

- Strictly limited screen time, replaced with time spent reading, playing with physical toys like LEGO and playing outside actively. Devices are physically removed from the kid's environment when screen time is over.

- Kids do not get full access to the entire content library. Approved videos and games only. Most have entirely removed the YouTube app from the kid devices in favor of Disney Plus and education-focused apps. Some have kids playing more retro games rather than current games.

The kids will complain and throw tantrums, but they're toddlers, they do that anyway. And eventually they come around. Especially if their friends (children and aunties/uncles) participate with them as well.
We chose the unsweetened Ripple as the milk of choice for our children once they moved past formula. The nutrition profile is excellent and lacks what I would consider negative carbohydrates [1]. The only thing I could find negative about the product was that it contains sunflower oils, which ingested in mass quantities can cause GI irritation and other negative side effects. An of course, they lack an organic variety.

[1] https://www.instacart.com/products/3313587-ripple-pea-milk-n...
just don't run/load the module then?

i for one am super excited that i have a much lighter weight option available. for example, on my/my parents openwrt wifi routers to expose files with, in a way that other computers in the house can use.

my fear of security holes is pretty weak. this will be exposed inside the firewall only (at least at first). and i trust that by promoting & moving such a thing into the kernel, we'll have a very involved active community trying to make sure things are safe. we'll notice & catch exploits quickly once they start to be used. the message here of fear & uncertainty does not resound with me. quite the opposite. sunlight is not perfect but it has proven to be a progressive & very adaptive means to disinfect & secure within cybersecurity.

edit: wow, -2, some strong disagreement! not sure what ya'll are so afraid of!! why so conservative? doesn't this seem like progress?
I think it's important to realize that children dont have the cognitive ability to resist certain things. Gambling skinner boxes are those things.

I would be completely oky with my kid binging on the latest Mario or Mario Kart. I would love to see them playing an RPG.

I dont want them playing Fortnite and other skinner box style games. They have teams designed to addict kids.

This probably sounds silly but i would be ok with a kid being "addicted" to something because its fun and enjoyable. But being addicted because a team of scientists designed it be maximally dopamine inducing doesnt seem ok to me. Maybe there is no difference at the end of the day.

But it feels like the kind of games that Nintendo puts out and the kind of games that EA puts out are VERY different.
Software Engineering is not in demand.

What is in demand is cheap labor that can churn out low-quality web applications, label them MVP, and use them to convince investors to pour in money to hire more cheap labor.

The biggest tell that this is true is hiring for a specific library/framework/platform.

If you wanted a software engineer, you wouldn't care what particular thing they have worked with most recently. Maybe you would care about the general category of work, but mostly you would care more about practical experience and past achievements/results.
> he basis of the USA system of law is completely different from even other European courts, let alone non-Western systems of law.

This suggests that it's meaningful to divide legal systems into “Western” vs. “Non-western”.

The most meaningful divide is rather “civil law” vs. “common law”. Japanese civil law is probably closer to any continental European civil law than any of them are to say the U.K.'s or U.S.A.'s common law.
By your logic, Western ethics are superior to all others, Islam and Jainism should be a banned religions, we should be an entirely heterogeneous cultures mixing with one another with zero cohesion, and that the evolutionary means of mankind on an industrial scale is not prone to survival of the fittest because we're no longer the same animals we were 100k years ago.

I love how you're painting me as some sort of pro genocide person simply because I imply that events in motion are something we shouldn't stop just because we believe we're morally superior. Mind your own damn business for once. We're not the fucking world police. Western ideology is not a religion we're supposed to impose on others. Islam is as fucking barbaric as religion gets on a grand scale yet evolutionary the religion has made people successful. So who the hell are we to tell people they can't participate? What cause we have a higher sense of value on the human being? Human life is not valuable just because you have consciousness. You're another blip on the unknown radar that can easily be gone in a moments notice. Everybody every day lives a dice roll of luck and opportunity. Every now and then people lose. Thinking we hold the keys to moral superiority is not going to change that. Is a life as a slave for a shitty lord somehow better than death by genocide? I don't think so. Yet here we are, in areas of the middle east where this is common.
Part of it, is it seems that once you are in web dev, its hard to leave. So you try to make it interesting as best as you can, with "latest frameworks". I personally find all of of web dev to be monotonous
I'd be curious to hear peoples thoughts if they would subject themselves to this sort of professional board and licensing for software. There's clearly a pre-determined set of information and skills that are fundamental enough to be tested, but it is also fairly creative and subjective at the end of the day.
Not for any single reason. There's the law of the excluded middle, a principle from logic. There is evolutionary thinking. There are anecdotal accounts of transexuals of the difference in sex drive. There's the physical size and strength differential. There is the historical thing of protecting women. I take all of these into account and try to form some sort of guess of what is likely.
In theory you need CAP_SETUID and maybe a few other to run it with less privileges. That can also be done theoretically with another user than root if you can hack things appropriately. In practice the hacking part is hard.
I am going to put in the Drive soundtrack and click around a bit more.
You missed the point. The collision covered in this article occurred relatively close to port, not during an open ocean patrol.

A ballistic missile submarine's position isn't completely random, but they do move around somewhat randomly to reduce the risk of detection. They intentionally avoid repeating movement patterns or lingering in the same spot. And this also reduces the risk from spies on land. If a spy sees the patrol orders he'll only know a large general area but won't precisely know the submarine's position at any time.
gatling has basic Samba support and is really minimal.

If you start it without arguments it will just serve the current directory