skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A colleague of mine had a physics degree and decided to become an electrician. Took very little time to learn.

That's not to condescend on electricians, they clearly have a useful skill. And being able to certify a house pays a good few hundred pounds a day, nothing to sniff at.

But if you're used to looking at physical models, learning a few conventions and adding another model won't be terribly difficult.

I think a lot of people are actually better off doing that kind of work. There's a tangible output that is much easier to connect to purposefulness than if your job is mainly in the ideas realm. A cousin of mine that I grew up with is a carpenter and seems to cheerful all the time, now that he knows what his thing is. I grew up with him and it wasn't always so.
The thing which I think gets missed out of these discussions is the notion of community. We're such horrific individualists in the West that we seem to see nature and nurture as distinct, which of course they aren't. The nurture of a child is a product of the combined abilities (from nature and nurture) of the people in their family and community. There is no "I"; our DNA and mores are all part of a greater whole.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437734
>Even if the doubters aren't able to exit without taking a loss, the risks of the cryptocurrency losing value should still provide a strong incentive for good management by those who hold a lot of it.

Note that the same argument can be used to demonstrate that monarchy works - i.e. kings have no incentive to mismanage their country, as they'd be crippling their own finances.
> What is the problem with binary logging?

For me, it's less that it's binary and more that it's some bespoke format specific to journald instead of, say, an SQLite database or something else similarly widely-used and well-known.
> I think people certainly use the phrase "toxic femininity", but such examples are from the long-tail.

Forbes and Psychology Today are long-tail low-relevance now?

> What isn't said, is that the expectation to become a competent man who is tries to support his family can also be a positive example of masculinity

Something along these lines is said in many substantial discussions of masculinity (including the one I pointed to in GP). You want other examples?

https://umatter.princeton.edu/respect-matters/healthy-mascul...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2mzxeViCko

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/examples-of-positive-m...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/becoming-...

Nobody is attacking competence as toxic, or support of family as toxic.

What is actually critiqued is a normalization of social violence, commenting on bullying or assault with "oh, boys will be boys," dismissal of feelings with "walk it off," the idea that real men don't go to therapy or turn to people for emotional help, etc etc.

One can only think of that as a general attack on masculinity if... that's what you think masculinity is. Which sounds bona fide toxic to me.
If you were aware there's an ongoing scam, I hope you reported him to the relevant authorities.
Out of curiosity, why shouldn't one run low voltage wires through same holes as AC wires ?
is there a way to modularize the web standard so that some browsers can just focus on delivering a great user experiece?instead of implementing a ton of these wacky features developers came up with?
> Neither will our government retire and move to Florida. Our government is not saving up for the days when it collects no taxes. There is no clicking tock that says it's time for government liabilities to shrink to nothing

I think there are plenty of people around here who would be very satisfied if the government of the US did exactly that, as long as it didn't try to claim Medicare.
You’re right. This book contains what US high schoolers learn in “Algebra 2.”
I did mean Analysis, sorry. Too late to edit now I suspect.
My company is only hiring black engineers or women. You have no chance if you are a white man and don’t have an in.
You don't have to take that deal. You are free to register those domains at Dreamhost or anywhere else.
> The mini and maxi aren't really the real thing.

The Maxi can fool most people (I find the C64 profile keycaps with PET-like Microgramma labels a bit incongruous for the VIC-20 themed one I have, and the non-locking Caps Lock key is a dead giveaway it's not a real unit). The composite video output (color distortion, scanlines, etc) is well simulated on a modern screen, if you want to - I prefer to run it on 1x1 pixel mode. Someday someone will sell a monitor based on a flexible screen that pretends it's a Trinitron tube, but that day isn't today (I'd buy it without thinking once).

The emulation is close enough, however, and I wouldn't let my 9yo daughter's friends play with a Sacred Relic the way they can with the Maxi. The physical keyboard is very important to maintain the illusion - the VIC-20/64/128 use a TTY layout (" on top of 2) - and using it with a PC keyboard is a jarring experience.

I just wish the it could also emulate PET's and the C128 (not that I like the 128 that much - it's a kludge - but the completeness would be cool). The compute power in that little thing is more than enough.
I do wonder what’s gained by this. There are plenty of physics professors (perhaps even most) that didn’t do calculus until college or at least senior year of high school, what’s the advantage?
Swap on HDD: Does placement matter?
Proper standardization is awesome. De facto, corp-owned standarization not so much.
Quite honestly, in a team that's stressed and run down to the line, checking for that particular classification in a model that has hundreds of classification targets can be really tricky.

Say you have 1000 classification targets. You have to produce a model that checks, for each target, the odds of it being classified as one of other 999.

You have to check, specifically, for "adult male as primate" out of a million potential combinations. And apply secondary business rules or optimizations to prevent that classifications.

So yes it's possible, but it's not cheap, simple or easy.

Facebook just decided to shove the model out the door and not worry about the consequences.

Quality engineering work, costs money and time. Facebook didn't spend it.
Use GIFs or emojis, but not both
Hide the answers by default, yo. It's so easy to do with an e-book, come onnnnnn
What could be more devastating to a line of inquiry than derision and scorn? easy! a collective yawn!
Women didn't and don't need well paying jobs to start a family.

What "equal right" do you mean, that "equaled opportunities in the labor market and education"?

Also you seem to miss on the fact that men get worse grades in school (which some say is because of discrimination), which makes it harder for them to enter university.
College is certainly a paywall. In the US at least.
This is why I think Mastodon et all should store their account data and user identity details clientside. That's how to ensure it's easy to switch services without losing your existing network by default.
All of this can be on a "Tap to view" basis for the first media received.

Right now, iMessage processes everything in the background upon receiving.

That enables zero click, instantly delete message attacks. The only trace you have is a random imessage sound, or vibrate, with no corresponding notification.

Can be tuned to send at 4am when most people have do not disturb on.
> Now hackers point all the ones visible to NYC at NYC.

What you just did there is called moving the goalposts.

The discussion up to that sentence was about constraints imposed by orbital geometry. You claimed incorrectly that the "limited" space available in geostationary orbit would allow "up to about half a dozen giant ground-station for half a dozen giant beams", concluded that it would therefore be necessary to use LEO instead (it's not), and (again incorrectly) jumped to the conclusion that this would necessarily imply multiple beams on the same target.

Neither you nor anybody else said anything about sabotage.

> This is a safely limit, and it never has anything to do with the volume of the orbit.

Actually you just threw away your original argument and made up a whole new one.

> How do you guarantee this does not happen?

I don't. I also don't guarantee that terrorists won't fly airliners into skyscrapers or put a nuclear device in a container and ship it to New York's harbor. Yet we keep building skyscrapers, flying airliners and shipping containers across the world, despite the obvious risks, because the advantages of doing so outweigh those risks.

The specific risk in question is not even all that hard to mitigate, especially when you're dealing with large stations in geostationary orbit, each targeting a limited set of fixed locations (which would be dedicated receiver arrays, not cities). You put fail-safes on station which are hardwired to track antenna orientation and shut down the beam if it strays from its target. Now all your hypothetical hackers can do is interrupt the beam until you regain control, which is irritating but nothing new:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_power_grid_hack
To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?
what do you mean by saying "everything"? just SQL Server?
For anyone interested in this kind of thing, I am designing a board to hold two Raspberry Pi CM4 modules connected to a gigabit switch with 3 extra RJ45 jacks.

My hope is to make a somewhat minimal board for CM4 clustering. Eventually I will make a version with 4 CM4s and a single RJ45 jack, but I started with two CM4s and three jacks so I could test the ethernet switch independently of a CM4. And it turns out this board has some interesting uses too. I will break out both PCIe ports for the CM4s, so this board could have two intel wifi adapters plus three ethernet ports. It seems like that would make it a useful general purpose network thing. For example you could put a long range parabolic antenna on one wifi adapter and an omni antenna on the other and make it into a remote network access point (like a Ubiquiti Nanobeam connected to an AP). It should support VLANs etc as I will connect to the management interface on the switch via SPI or I2C.

However it is one of many projects I am working on, so I can't give a firm completion date. Microchip tells me they will ship me the ICs I need in a month, so it would be nice to have layout done by then. But we'll see.

Fork or star it on github to follow along.
https://github.com/tlalexander/rpi-cm4-switch-board

Also if you have other thoughts about the design please share!
The Koha Code: A Biological Theory of Memory
TLDR:

- The paper argues for the existence of a code within dendritic spines.

- The paper describes a biological mechanism for how information is processed within neurons.

- The paper describes a biological mechanism for how neurons within competitive circuits can learn to become pattern detectors.
I agree that college should be for education and not 'to get a job'. But until the cost of college in the US comes back down to reality, it's going to fail the cost-benefit analysis.
Again with the strawmanning crap.

Humanity has been a work in progress for hundreds of thousands of years yet only in the last 100-200 years has there been any progress at all on widespread sexist and racist societal practices... so why is your prerogative to downplay and disregard the voices of women, non-whites, the poor, and other groups that traditionally have not been heard? Is it possible that you're just another asshole cog that exists solely to normalize the status quo?
Yeah, bit I am willing to pay more taxes if it benefits my environment. Because this is what I think it means to be part of a society. They made it possible for me to choose more or less free of economic pressure what I want to study, so me supporting them is only good and fair.

I mean, what is the goal of a good live? Extract as many resources from your surroundings as possible, kicking your competition down and then die in an slightly above average house? I want to live a good live and leave my environment in a better shape than I entered it in, because the two are not a contradiction.
LSD is obviously associated with hippies; and hippiedom is and always has been conservative and conformist.

Hippies have always judged others by their appearance and attire; short hair is square. "Never trust anyone over 30".

Being uptight and tripping don't go particularly well together; so it's assumed that uptight people don't trip much. I suspect that's largely true; but not all authoritarian conservatives are uptight.

Many left-wing socialists are socially very conservative, and opposed to any psychedelics stronger than pot. Being a liberal trip-head is not cognate with being left-wing. The old hippie "free love" ethic was pretty sexist and paternalistic.

The hippie ethic is an individualist ethic. I'm not sure what "liberalism" means nowadays; USAians seem to use the word to mean something like "socialism", except that the word "socialism" has been a swear-word in US politics ever since I was a child. Perhaps we could contrast "individualism" with "collectivism", instead of putting all the weight on the word "socialism"?
I wonder how much sense it would make for there to be some (simple) function you can tweak a number on to set a balance between the latency and lifetime of your message?

For example the lifetime of your message (counting from when it shows up) could be 2 times the latency of it, e.g. a message with a latency of 1 day would exist for 2 days.
iMessage is one of few apps that have broad permissions to execute code in response to notifications.

For other apps like Telegram; the server can send a predefined notification message.

For iMessage, when you get something even from someone outside your contacts, its daemon invokes specific code to handle the message, and its attachments.

Whilst this doesn't help if someone opens the app, it
does at least change this from a zero click attack, to a one click attack.

(This is also another example of Apple not following its own app store rules. It has privileged access to frameworks.)
I have always found the university ranking game to be screwed up.

Are the best Universities good because they have the best teaching, or are they just selecting the best people, who would be successfull no matter what?

The universities are penalised in rankings when a student fails to pass, but they are not penalised if they are so selective that the student never got a chance to study in the first place. This breeds an elitist system that does not let students rise to the challenge. Thats also one of the reasons why european universities do worse in rabking than UK ones - it's common there to start with a huge class, but only small part will co plete the course. In UK its harder to get in, but vast majorty seems to pass.

If universities worked like a normal business does, you'd expect that the best universities would grow, expand, and eventually there would an Oxford in every major city, with oxford teaching methods. But that's not how it works. But people still keep trying to appply 'free market theory' to education, when it obviously works very differently.

Lastly there is perpetual conflict between research and teaching - many professors want to do research and don't like teaching, many post graduate teaching assistants are folks that, no matter how briliant, were afraid of the job market, etc.
What does your job description say? What are your company reviews on Glassdoor? What does the whisper network say about what it's like to work as a woman in tech at your company?

Using a low estimate of 15% of CS degrees going to women, you'd get 750 women applying.

What are you doing to get so many women to give your company an immediate rejection and apply somewhere else?
Ever considered they might have picked that photo deliberately to give you a certain idea about the problem?
> It'd be interesting to know why Microsoft abandoned this initiative.

There were technical issues. They simply never managed to get the system performant enough to be use as a FS replacement. There also were tons of issues with the concept itself, like proper tooling for visualising the stored objects to the user and a compatibility layer for legacy software.

It seems as if parts of it was merged into MS SQL server products [0].

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/winfs/
Take-Two Sues Creators of GTA Reverse-Engineering Project Re3
Problems with plugins (apps) after Confluence upgrade due to plugin cache
Fair enough. Though cynically speaking the people just above the social housing limit are probably a more interesting part of the electorate than the poor.
Ah good point, I didn't see that. And yes, I saw they were released after only 2 years of their ten-year sentence.

I totally agree they should have refused the orders. But the people who gave the orders are more accountable in my opinion.
I can't tell if you think it's a good thing or not. I'm personally impressed; I bet it hardly uses any memory!
Israeli experts analyze mRNA Covid vaccines long-term effects
Mathematicians have definitions of all those things. And if you are working in something like the quaternions so do all the previous you mentioned (real numbers, complex numbers) because they are subsets of the well defined quaternions.

I agree in a sense there is no agreed-upon simple non-formal definition which encapsulates all of those together but I think that's unfair to try to do since hyperreals, quaternions, etc are extreme extensions which aren't used in most ordinary mathematics.

That is like saying that physicists have no precise definition of "distance" because there is Euclidean distance, Geodesic distance, Hyperbolic distance, Hamming distance, Levenshtein distance etc etc etc

You can go down the same rabbit hole I guess and say "yeah! true! distance has no definition either!" but I don't find that very helpful. At this point you are just saying nothing can be defined, at which point the phrase "we have no precise definition of X" has no meaning as it is true for all X.
> gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

Yes, this is why top schools are designed to segregate out stupid people - positive eugenics.
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Exactly. Any time this topic comes up the people who are arguing for no SSH the ones never operated a production environment successfully and they are busy chasing ghosts.
Technically Windows licences, too, but maybe they migrated to Linux with their switch to .NET (Core).
Would this board be capable of switching AVB (IEEE 1722.1 specifically)? Existing switches are ridiculously priced, and this might be a great solution paired with some open source code for (home) music studios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging
Poker changed my thinking when I was 18 in a very powerful way [1]: always look for +EV [2] opportunities in life and do your best to minimize variance. It started out small, but now I view everything through that lens. Too bad I didn't see "picking out a college degree" that way, it would've saved a lot of time (and pain).

IMO this is fundamentally different than how most of my fellow CS classmates tend to think. A programmer thinks in quite a deterministic and non-probability based fashion. Almost all of them hated statistics because of it since it requires to put that probabilistic hat on. Not all of them, but most tend to.

Because of this type of thinking I have taken crazy long shot decisions. Why? In many situations there is nothing to lose and a lot to gain. I'd always then hear: "yea but it won't work, you're not gonna make it." Well, if I take long shot chances like that every day then the law of large numbers will be on my side. "Yea that's all nice and theoretical but it will never work!"

Have I told you about that time where I got on an exclusive party bus by offering to buy them a keg of beer (since I noticed they were out) while the entry ticket was $100? "But that's just lucky!"

Have I told you about a time where the corona dip happened and I did a value investment play into solid brick and mortar companies? "But that's just lucky!"

Have I told you about a time where I lost my bus ticket (to another country) and asked the bus driver to pick me up anyway just believing my story? "But that's just lucky in an unlucky situation!"

Have I told you about a time where I dated this model for a while? "Dude, you're just incredibly lucky."

Have I told you about all the times where things didn't pan out? "No" Well, that's because I forget them but I do remember that a lot more didn't pan out. But again, law of large numbers :)

"Yea, that's nice theory."

I just gave you 4 examples of it!

"Yea, but you're just lucky."

I'm not, my volume is high. The only luck I have is despite giving you a rational and empirical argument that someone like you (a CS student) still won't believe me. How is that luck? The competition on these type of long shots is incredibly low which increase my odds.

[1] And I never even became a professional! When I got to a semi pro level (consistently beating $.25/$.50 stakes) I found it unethical to continue. Back then my reasoning was: why would I not contribute anything to society while I can learn programming instead and actually build something for society? So I became a programmer instead.

[2] Positive expected value
>Because they're constrained by Windows

How? didn't they migrate to .NET Core?
One issue I see is that flipping back and forth between chapters reloads images from different URLs which means they're uncachable. I guess that's somehow related to the mangadex@home thing, but if the URLs were generated in a more deterministic manner (keyed on some client ID + the chapter being loaded) then the browser could avoid redundant traffic.
To architecting a high traffic site =)...
Extinct Tasmanian tiger brought to life in colour footage
> I don't think the CCP would be so petty to come after you abroad for something like this.

Maybe you don't know about LIHKG posters being attacked in the UK [1]. The CCP has teams of operatives working overseas specifically for this purpose [2]. If they will physically attack you for writing a few posts on a forum, you should certainly expect to be murdered by "car accident" while raising funds for a $100 million film.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Lau

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt
Would sure be a shame if the only way to fix this was to delete all copies of Atlassian software from every computer worldwide
any source for AppAnnie employing this method? Also user has to explicitly give apps permissions to monitor, it's not that simple.
Perhaps the American malaise is linked to many policies, as loads of countries do not have these trends with fiat currencies
The Psychology of Persuasion – using people's mental shortcuts
> lack of warmongering we got since the late 20th century

Srsly? Where have you been hiding? Where is this place where wars are not being fought?