skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> aren't about if people "trust their own children".

The trust their own children but isn't about CSAM itself. Its about a previous comment I made where a parent made a claim about airtagging their kids so they knew where they are. I pointed out the hypocrisy of buying an iphone for better privacy while blatantly denying their own kids that same privilege. It should be in my comment histroy.
This is naive. There is a significant portion of the population that are not going to cooperated with health safety protocols unless there is a real chance of them going to jail or getting a fine.

We're talking wearing a mask and saving lives.
If you're using Google Translate, when it says "tulip" it's referring to an RCA-type connector.
This is a great concept for a near-future sci-fi short story, though.
>> The web uses files extensively.

> Not these days.

> Almost all web content is dynamically generated from one kind of indexed data store or another.

Which are generated from files.

>> Any page is a file.

> This isn’t true. But even if it were, I doubt you’d convince rektide that this would meet his definition of ‘files’.

You are correct here, but every web page is generated from a file or bunch of files.

And there is still static websites.
Interop with C is pretty decent, but if you want to make a C++ hosted Clojure dialect I'm all for it! The more the merrier!
Yep, exactly, all the home users know what a sata toaster is and a ddrescue and a rsync hardlink script. No problem!
A "blink", or the iterative strategy of a skilled manipulator/abuser/groomer?

Push to the level of their target's discomfort, then back off – without respecting the "no!", pretending to hear only "not now".

Come back later from a superficially-different angle, when the victim's defenses are down.

Couch the next attempt, or the next, or the next, in some combination of feigned sweetness ("but I waited & changed things for you"), or esteem-attacks ("you're so nasty you deserve this"), or inevitability ("this is going to happen whether you like it or not, so stop fighting").
A few notes:

1) R6RS isn't really all that "batteries included", though it has some really basic features like hash tables that weren't in R5RS (but were in most Schemes anyway). The emphasis was on portability and safety. All R6RS implementations, if they don't have bugs, behave the same as all the rest at least as far as the standard extends, and the standard defines pretty closely what arguments are accepted, what values are returned, and what exceptions are signaled (the last was controversial even within the closed R6RS committee).

What wasn't considered was interoperability with common practice in other Schemes. In pursuit of this, R7RS favors interoperability over portability: the standard is less constraining, which makes it easier to integrate with existing Schemes. So R6RS hashtables (things that can be hashted, eh?) are incompatible at the procedure name level and some of the semantics with almost everybody else's hash tables. R7RS-large made them as compatible as possible. (Granted, we took more time to think about it.) R7RS-large also favors big-enough-ism over minimalism within each library, though it won't have as many libraries as people from other languages might like.

2) The current plan for R7RS-large will provide many parts of R6RS (a little bit R7RS-ified in some cases), provided they are voted in by the R7RS-large working group.

3) The rename of PLT Scheme to Racket had nothing to do with RnRS. PLT supported R6RS before and supports it R6RS today, though its use is not particularly encouraged by the Racketeers, who want you to use their own main dialect of Scheme, also called Racket. The change had more to do with PLT's multilingual capabilities: it supports many dialects of Scheme plus completely non-Scheme languages like Python and Algol 60, and it would be straightforward, if tedious, to provide Fortran, Cobol, and even C. In addition, PLT had no real link with the various university programming-language theory groups any more.

On participating in the Working Group:

Any Schemer can join the Working Group at any time: subscribe to scheme-reports-wg2@googlegroups.com and listen for CFVs. (If you have never voted before on anything Scheme-related, send a message after you subscribe giving your name, a little bit about yourself, and a bit more about your interest in Scheme. This is primarily to discourage sockpuppets.) There are long spells of inactivity followed by intense discussion when a new ballot comes up. All discussions and votes are public. Behind-the-scenes work is also done in public using the SRFI process at srfi.schemers.org, which produces specs and sample
Except the "Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" mentality doesn't really qualify as logical, just desperate. And the growing body of evidence showing that post-COVID infection immunity is stronger than that of the vaccinated provides just another example of how trying the desperation method along with a one-size-fits all mentality of "Everyone just do it" is lacking all kinds of logical support. More and more we are seeing that once we had a decent understanding of what the comorbidity risk factors were we should have encouraged them to take precautions instead of forcing basically the entire country/world.
Thanks! I edited my comment to add notes on that too. At a population level even a small portion of the population wearing masks reducing overall spread is very good to see. Even for surgical masks.
The idiocy is intentional and is manufactured by rightist media (and others) hoping to win the bloc of anti-mask "freedom" stance voters.
I like how Putin describes his impression of the powers of the US President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykvrGpCW6E&ab_channel=Russi...
You’re not wrong. It’s more like you have an opportunity to get inside information on a company when you are interviewing. If the company sounds like it’s just plodding along and they’re on a series Q down round, maybe that’s less valuable than a startup that is about to blow up in the good way with a still modest valuation. You probably can’t tell if something is a diamond or a polished turd, but sometimes you can smell an actual turd. All stock options are a lottery ticket, but maybe you can pick the lottery ticket with the best odds compared when comparing them to the other options.
Hmm... this is getting more serious with potential ramifications many years down the line.
It can also be lucrative if business wanes. Companies with near monopoly power already printing money regardless so they don't bother. But a lot of once-great companies turn to monetizing patents.

Some of the most successful patent trolls buy portfolios from companies that were actually engaged in the field at the time.
I would say that the author is onto something here. There is obviously pain present. I have used Jira in various weird scenarios, most recently I have created a setup for accounting operations to track client work and repetitive tasks with some automation also. It forced Jira a little bit but at the end people are using it and appreciating it. The thing is that you just need to spend some time thinking about it from the user perspective. Having something flexible with unrestricted hierarchy and smart linking with some possibility of automation would be grand.
My apologies Dang – consider me educated for next time.
I think it is a bit cheeky of them. They promoted the usage of masks and distancing in 600 villages totalling 350,000 people and observed the results (mask wearing plus distancing) in mosques (by sampling, not by checking each individual).
Project managers can add a lot of value by zooming out and finding dependencies that would slow things down. The less obvious ones, especially chained ones.
Not just yet. May I ask which country you reside in to get an idea of your frame of reference? Is it a country which is in the process of making vaccination mandatory, either directly or through a vaccine passport which will be needed to participate in society?

Also, what are those weird ideas about vaccines I am supposed to have? I see nothing weird in what I described in the previous posts, just a summation of data from what I assume to be reputable sources. Wherein lies the weirdness?
Seems quite reasonable to wear a (K)N95 instead of a surgical mask. Slightly less comfortable, but yes, affordable for most.
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because compliance was voluntary... the study merely had leaders in the community wear masks and provided free masks to those that wanted them plus education and reminders; it wasn't a compulsory thing so this is mainly a lower bound on effectiveness.

> Providing free masks, informing people about the importance of covering both the mouth and nose, reminding people in-person when they were unmasked in public, and role-modeling by community leaders tripled regular mask usage compared with control villages that received no interventions, the researchers found.
How is copyright the same as credit?
It happened to me too a few years back. A posting cropped up with the company hiring for two positions right above mine to fill out direction needs, I was a technical lead already. I wanted the position, because I was already filling the role they were hiring for.

I was shut down right when I inquired, and told that the company wanted some outside talent. Wow okay, even though my performance reviews were dazzling. So they hired two guys who had zero familiarity with the industry and zero familiarity with our stack. One had to be fired because he was insane and did nothing all day but try to be some motivational speaker in a technical role. I liked the other guy, but it was another person I had to explain stuff to when he had preconceived notions that were incorrect. He was cool, but HR/execs really screwed up the positioning.

There was a later time when they were going to have a leadership vacuum. I decided it best to quit at that time because they were going to ask me to help by advancing _only_ when they needed me as a backup. However, when I asked them to advance, they just said not interested. So too bad, had a better offer to advance elsewhere and their interest in me was clear.
I'll add to that:
https://www.amazon.com/OnLive-Game-System-Internet/dp/B0057L...

I honestly thought they nailed it back then. And then they released the android app. Had a great time playing Rage over 3G on a budget HTC phone. The phone was slotted into gamepad adapter thingie.
Interesting perspective. I see it as a forum as each post has a url and topics are threaded. How does it look like IRC to you?
Surely the sender is also likely to get reported if they email the image with the perceptual hash collision. Lots of companies run these scans. E.g. if you send the image via gmail it will most likely be scanned by Google.
I don't get this mindset at all. Temporarily masking up at pretty much zero impact to the user vs. upgrading all building's HVAC system.
Better link: https://birdsite.xanny.family/Jabaluck/status/14331294449405...
They're probably not dumb enough to think that they're so much better than their adversaries that they can do this stuff and it's fine anymore given how badly they've just been exposed in public.

Not saying that will change behaviour but it's hard even for the massively delusional to continue to really believe they can walk on water when they find themselves under it.
Some initial feedback: Your homepage demo launches with someone entering Task #1. Task #1 isn't the problem, the problem is Task #5509 opened yesterday child of Task #803 opened two years ago and subsequently deferred by people who no longer work at the company who pointed to a planned technology project that has since been cancelled.

Everyone does Task #1 fantastically. Task #1 is easy, it's greenfield by definition.

How does your solution scale to Task #5509 when things have gone pear-shaped and there are legacy considerations that demand consideration?
Does anyone have a link to a specific text or advertisement written and promoted by Purdue Pharma that is uncontrovertibly false?

I'm curious.
Amen ravenstine. "A tool that stays out of your team’s way" is quite literally the tagline of the Trello-for-devs product I'm working on (Constructor, https://constructor.dev/).

As to the article, I agree with a lot of the author's points. The author talks about lack of features for collaboration. and I agree. What's wrong with the comment systems in Trello or Jira? I think it's that they don't model how people actually collaborate, which often goes something like this: (1) I have a question for someone else on the team, (2) that person answers or passes it to someone else who can, (3) repeat until I've got the answer, (4) reflect the answer somewhere (designs, description, etc.), (5) consider the matter resolved. Many of these might be going on in parallel, and the back-and-forth is often asynchronous. A single comment stream just doesn't lend itself to this kind of collaboration. Neither does Slack where, as the author says, requests for follow-up easily get lost.

The extreme flexibility of the "circles" is interesting. On the one hand, it's nice to give control over to the users and let them model whatever use case they have. On the other, a tool that's too open-ended may overwhelm users with options when they should really be focusing on dev. (Of course, that could be solved with intelligent default templates, or something along those lines.) I'm curious to read others thoughts about that.
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Yeah, as far as I've observed, this is one of the key reasons for consistent short (1-2yr) durations working at companies in the tech industry. You get a raise by getting hired at a new company. Personally for me, each time taking a job at a new employer has resulted in far greater compensation increases than if I had stayed at the same place and waited for a bonus/raise.
It's still an MDI app under the covers (not that that's any excuse).
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Blaming the owners of Oxycodone for oxycodone overdoses due to overmedication fraudulently prompted by said owners seems to me overly just. Fair. Honest. Exact. Correct.

You name it.
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I suffered from the same until I discovered Gnome tweaks' "Emacs input" setting, which makes every text field behave like a Bash readline prompt with emacs keybindings!
A/K/A Woozle's epistemic paradox.

This answers common rejections of greater moderation or individual action against greater manipulation of online and social media.

Free speech absolutists often wish to have their cake and eat it too: claiming both that free speech is a critical and fundamental right and that online speech is inconsequential. A consistent worldview cannot simultaneously assert both positions. If free speech is critical, then online speech is consequential. And manipulation or distortion of such speech is then a social and public concern.

The other tired argument is the "Just delete your Facebook" (or Reddit, or Twitter, or Instagram, or TikTok). However, those who've never used these platforms can be profoundly impacted by what takes place on them. Possibly for the better, often the worse: the Arab Spring ("the Twitter Revolution"), Myanmar genocide, Hong Kong democracy movement, Brexit misinformation campaigns, and the January 6 insurrection, would be four specific cases in point.

"Build it and they will come" has its dark side.
Thanks for the kind words!

A bunker would be great for a person to quarantine themselves off from covid too!

Don't leave quarantine ever! Stay home, stay safe, and keep granny safe!
Could you share a link for $1 N95's? That's better than I've seen. I've already moved to this approach myself, it's an increase in cost that I'll gladly take for increased protection. Just waiting for government and businesses in the US to catch up.

It was definitely hard to find the good stuff at first - and I was much more reclusive as a result too - but yeah, things have changed.

I wish people wouldn't respond to changes in policy/advice as evidence of "lying" before, as much of it has just been learning more. (Though the "we're gonna tell people they're ineffective because we want to reserve them for professionals" thing was a huge unforced error, IMO.)
Atlassian cancelled their self hosted server version of confluence and jira forcing many to their cloud product so I seriously hope it's not also vulnerable. Atlassian products are quite bloated, kinda nail biting having so much corporate secret info in such a product.
https://www.openmediavault.org
can't they just put their wallet address on their bio?
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I know it's easy to get cynical about "sampling" when you see a stream of studies sampling populations of millions with n = 12 and getting p values just barely considered "significant", but that's not the fault of "sampling". That's just... gathering no data, basically, or if you prefer, going through the motions of gathering data without actually doing it.
How will that help? The fentanyl in street ‘heroin’ is manufactured in China (and maybe Mexico) and smuggled into the US, it isn’t fentanyl from Roche or Lilly being diverted to the black market.
That "K" means that my ears hurt after 2 hours though.

Going for full N95 means that the strap goes all the way around my head and is way more comfortable for extended use (ex: airplane rides or whatnot)
Ya, it even supports multi-core programming, so I bet for some use case it can outperform Python by parallelizing.
It's even more fun in public institutions, e.g. universities, where a higher amount of perfunctory humouring of external candidates is required in order to create a somewhat more convincing appearance of an equitable search.
Not quite, the stop/arrêt thing is because of a law that says our official language is French so everything HAS to be in French. If a product's packaging does not have a French side it simply cannot be sold in Quebec unless it has an exception of sorts.
An easy example is the idea that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen.
There's Obama birtherism, the Seth Rich thing, attributing all sorts of nonsense to Antifa. Coverage of COVID has been awful and very misleading from the start.
> And in fact I've never stated that the "model" contained the whole source dataset.

Apologies for seeming rude, but I feel that the abstract is disingenuous (I'm assuming you're the author of the article).

The abstract states:

> we provide a ... decompiler that reconstruct the source dataset from the cryptic matrices that constitute the software executed by them.

But that's not what's happening here. Instead, what's happening is (correct me if I'm wrong) the decompiler uses the gradient information along with the network itself (which is very close to the penultimate network) to reconstruct the input. If we consider for instance, MSE loss, that reconstruction appears trivial given all the information available. As I said before, this reconstruction (while interesting) does not show copyright violation, because the training process information is not available once the network is deployed. Obviously the model contains information about its training set. If it didn't, it would be useless.

I'm not saying there aren't obvious copyright issues, and I'm also not saying that the approach to recover the training set is not interesting. I'm just saying that the overall copyright argument has a major gap (and there are more direct alternative arguments).
I've been doing so for years. Much less bloatware. I do run other operating systems, including Windows 10, as VMs.
Presumably
I guess it's seen to be a little gauche to whittle the list down beyond a certain point, i.e. the Fortune 3.
There’s almost definitely a lot of unexplored science in fungus that would have massive benefits for us. They are responsible for so much direct benefit, from beer to penicillin. They are a very critical part of our ecosystem.

I am a vegan, and have probably thought more about human interaction with other earth species than the average techie. While there is memory and stimulus-response there’s simply nothing we’ve found in nature that implies as much intelligence as a central nervous system.

Fungus seems to occupy an interesting niche where they can travel spores to various organisms that they can form fantastic symbiotic relationships with. It’s fascinating, but I’m not convinced it’s near mammal level intelligence.
This just happened to me. Recruiter reached out, asked for my resume because he had a job that looked good. I gave it to him, and 2 days later he called back saying that while they liked me, they were going with an internal candidate. Why bother with the whole charade if you're going to go with an internal person anyways?
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I have done both application development and ops. In my current job, I am doing both.

There is a big difference between the mindset of what makes a good application developer and what makes a good ops person.

Application developers, by and large, have a sort of "sandbox" within which features are developed. This sandbox results from working with abstractions, each with some kind of guarantee. For example, most application developers assume that what you write into memory will be what you get out. That is, hardware is abstracted. The idea that the memory chips themselves can have defects or can sometimes fail, even if one gets error-correcting memory chips, is a violation of guarantees. Memory that just works is taken for granted. Another example is assuming that the system clock is monotonic.

This extends to things like networks, storage, operating characteristics, and so forth. Very few application developers get into that nitty gritty, let along all the plumbing and interactions among different systems.

I've seen application developers get incredibly frustrated and angry when those underlying guarantees are violated in some ways. I've been like that when I put on my application developer "hat". The main reason is that the developer is holding as much of the state and logic as they can, and they do this by excluding things through abstractions. They want their tooling and platform to just work so they can focus on writing good software.

The thing is that, for a good ops person, all those nitty gritty and plumbing is the focus of their jobs. It takes a very different mindset to troubleshoot: you start looking at those "guarantees" and find out what they are actually doing.

I once interviewed at a place which has this amazing way of figuring out if someone has the mindset and tenacity to be a good ops person. It was not writing algorithims on a white board. It was a deceptively simple task of installing a piece of software. And even though there are documentation for installing that software, there are not documentation for installing that software for every single environment and requirements and its interaction with other systems. When adding in a time crunch, and the scrutiny of an observer, that simulates a pretty typical day pretty well. You have to have enough emotional intelligence to keep working through it until it works. Documentation is always sparse and can't be guaranteed to be correct. Runbook? Good idea, but there is no way even meticulously crafted runbook for one component is going to be able to describe how systems interact with each other. Someone, somewhere has to figure that out. (Well, they don't have to. We can just let the system fail).

And sometimes, as an ops person, you have to open that "black box" and read code. Just like sometimes, an application developer needs to pop open the abstraction layer and pull out netcat or sysdig.

In the end, I'm not lamenting that DevOps blurs who owns what. Maybe this is because I've mostly worked on small, early-stage startup teams. Complexity has to live somewhere. I like working on the teams where people talk to each other to figure things out.