skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flipside is also unfortunately true. When I first interviewed, I drank the hn koolaid and began with the talking, figuring that the resume screen and a quick chat world filter out the fakers.

5 candidates who could talk but could barely write a line of code later, three technical screen was then the first layer.

I'm not talking difficult leetcode style problems either, my initial questions were barely a step a above fizzbuzz.
Ghostscript zero-day allows full server compromises
IEC 60335 and IEC 62368 state that the voltage across the capacitors must be below 34 V in 1 second after the input power is removed. Modern electronics are remarkably safe and I have never heard of anyone being shocked by power supply capacitors in the last decade. Of course cheap electronics sometimes aren't standards compliant and bleed resistors can conceivably fail hence the advice to wait a bit longer if you want real piece of mind and don't mind waiting.
Child abuse is just one thing. There are people who don't have the capability to give proper physical and mental care, they don't even know anything, just wanted a cute thing because they don't have anything else to do. Then there genetical disease. Many just wanted a boy, so they play gamble and give birth to 3 girls. These kids are here for someone's selfish wish, may live miserable life in 3rd world countries. Bring someone to life, but don't let anyone escape unless going through huge suffering whole life.

Car kills many, doesn't stopped that from banning cars completely. Yes do it carefully, but no. Even people who live alone, doesn't have anything valuable, are not able to die with dignity. Must suffer.
None of those UI libs work on Android or iOS.
The best thing about these comments is trying to guess whether they are about to complain the BBC is too left wing or too right wing.
I was told by a working political consultant, that insurance industry lobbiests basically control Sacramento.

They poured a lot of money into political coffiers when CA decided to go to demanding auto insurance at DMV. (Before auto insurance was required, but not demanded. So basically if you wanted to chance it, you could drive witout insurance.)

Thus guy told me the Insurance induesty gives politicians the most amount of money, behind unions.

Why is the insurance industry so concerned with state bills?

I think we all know the answer. And I'm at odds at what the Insurance Commissioner does all day? I guess a VPS to Pornhub?
I think there is another angle of this that a "good hire" that is missed because of ridiculous interview practices could potentially be an exceptionally great hire over time. If anything, FAANG companies are probably an ideal environment for people to deepen skills.

I think, based on comments here and elsewhere, FAANG companies always have job postings up and are always interviewing simply to vacuum talent up from competition and to project the image of an ever expanding company that is hard to get into. I wouldn't like to be forced into interviewing candidates for essentially generic job postings where the majority of outcomes for candidates is negative. How depressing.
Hmm, you're right, I didn't see that part. It seems their original plans[0] have changed...

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-initial-previ...
Modules is arguably another failure.

The main goal of modules is to improve compilation times, but if you already have a modularized code base, and are using PCH, then modules don't improve compile-time, at all.

Migrating from PCH to modules is quite a lot of work, for minimal added value, and a lot of disappointment.
"Post-vaccination CAE rate was highest in young boys aged 12-15 following dose two. For boys 12-17 without medical comorbidities, the likelihood of post vaccination dose two
CAE is 162.2 and 94.0/million respectively. This incidence exceeds their expected 120-day COVID-19 hospitalization rate at both moderate (August 21, 2021 rates) and high COVID-19
hospitalization incidence. Further research into the severity and long-term sequelae of postvaccination CAE is warranted."
Have you done pure MDMA? Like actually tested it before hand to make sure? It’s an extremely different experience to alcohol or other psychedelics. Your description sounds more like the cut E that is mostly just speed or other drugs.
Are there any solid statistics on what “users” demand? This keeps being thrown around: “users want, demand and need native desktop applications”.

Who are these users? Under what circumstances do they “want” such things?
The Kenyans who are helping the world to cheat
The Air Force Is (Almost) Ready to Unveil Its Secret New Space Weapon
Cherry picking failed predictions from popular magazines does in no way counter decades of peer reviewed climate science
Mitigating Malware and Ransomware Attacks
I'm honestly happy I see "Insecure Design" into the list. With all the buzzwordy Agileness people often forget that (at least) high level design is important and brings a lot of value if done early on.
I don't have any reference, but I heard once that someone looked at the jokes they told about Hitler, and was able trace more than half of them back to the Romans.
https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository... contains details for configuring it on a repository basis. Looks like you can require it for new github accounts XOR first time contributors XOR all forks.

It's also configurable at the organisation and enterprise level, if those are relvent to anyone.

Organization settings: https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-organizati...
Enterprise settings: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, Google, etc. all broke certain regulations or had regulations thrust upon them after the fact. Since technology companies move much faster than bureaucracy's ever can, I suspect the ask for forgiveness instead of permission is going to be an increasing theme in starting revolutionary industry's.

The internet is a place that transcends locality but governments are still trying in vain to regulate them as if they were part of their jurisdiction. Certain regulation made in the globalist economy we find ourselves in, will determine which industries are cultivated within that locality.h emore obscure and burdensome the regulation, the more you will drive entrepreneurs elsewhere.
There is often confusion between wind chill, and actual temps.

But the parent is not inaccurate, for they did not mention "each year". Even 10 minutes North of Ottawa, I saw -42C, real, not just windchill, for a week, about a decade ago.
Chrome has stellar engineering work done on it. It'd bet it's in the top 10 of the most optimized pieces of software ever. It's because of this work that modern web applications are even possible.

The consequence - perhaps unintended - is that the web application practices all settled around extremely wasteful but "fast enough" patterns. It takes extra work and going against the grain to make web applications performant, and rarely anyone bothers.
This sounds essential. I'm glad there is scientific work in this area.
Absolutely yes. Energy is captured by solar panels. They make a shade, obviously, and what is in their shade does not get heated by the sun.

If you were to use 100% of solar panel energy to heat up something else the overall balance would be 0.

Contrarily, nuclear fission/fusion that releases energy from its fuel, ultimately heating up the planet.
What Satellite Attack Weapon Might the US Reveal Soon?
WhatsApp seems to scan my messages for personalized ads
They had wide social acceptance each time there was a new vaccine, going back to the first vaccines (which, btw had not-insignificant mortality rate). In five years when there are no long-term side-effects the antivaxxers will die down again.
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"Technologies like objective C, C sharp, Azure or swift are designed so you can not escape the company platform. So easy to get in, so hard to move your code to other platforms once you have been programming for years on them."

FYI, Swift is available on Linux and Windows along with a significant chunk of its core libraries (e.g. https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation) and app frameworks such as Vapor (used for writing web apps and APIs).
I did this when I was a teenager - with CRT monitors. Higher voltages and I had the fun of refocusing the tube and fixing the colour registration while it was on, reaching around the back while I looked at my test pattern.

I learnt a lot about computing hardware and software on that Pentium box: 166 MMX (overclocked to 200MHz), 16MB RAM (later 64MB), running Debian and my resurrected 15” LG CRT. Oh, and a 56kbps modem.
In an experimental setting, I was once given a screwdriver to feel the field around an MRI machine. They asked me to be very careful of course, because loosing the grip would indded have ment the machine would need to be shut down...
I recently watched a great "explainer" video on why that scene was even funnier at a deeper level if you had been classically educated in Latin (as John Cleese was):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH6gjxTTgE
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People growing up indoctrinated in a religion are way more prone to having problem with meaning of life.

They grow up having meaning of life, and all the rules to follow to get to the better place. You don't think you just follow.

When you break out of shackles of religion you are faced with reality, you are responsible for finding the meaning, you are responsible for creating rules for your life and to follow them.

Its my pet peeve when I hear 'atheists are just lazy and left the religion because its easier'. When its the opposite. A godless person that understands that concept of god (more precisely any god that people claim exists and talked to them via various means) doesn't make sense, is burdened with all complexity of life without mental shortcuts religion provides.

All that said, de-converting into atheistism doesn't automatically translate into lifelong misery.
I worked on an identity provider platform and this was always such a huge problem. Many application developers treat authentication as an all or nothing proposition: either a user is authenticated or they are not, but the reality is that authorization is truly hard part and often completely overlooked. This is especially true in Oauth2/OIDC schemes where JWT bearer tokens are issues. At that point you are delegating token validation and access control out to all clients. Even if you are using opaque tokens to prevent basic token verification issues, you still just end up doing the token validation for the client. They still are responsible for access controls on specific resources.
Best Practices in Cloud Applications – Azure Architecture Center
That's pretty interesting.

If you look at google images it's actually pretty common to protect government owned buildings and even redwoods - https://www.google.com/search?q=Foil+bushfire+wrapping++hous...

I would not think it's worthwhile for owner occupier. That would be the more normal defences of clearing regularly, and sprinklers and back-up power etc.

As we move back to living in the wild as people become richer and with remote working this tech will become more popular.
Ragnar Locker vows to leak data if victim contacts the police
Whoever uses junk capacitors to save some cents would never ever spend more money to add a socket. That is not the problem, shitty parts are.

Good capacitors do exist, but they're getting less common with time; actually you're more likely to find good electrolytic caps in a 30 years old radio than in a 5 years old one. Today some manufacturers are cutting corners everywhere and parts quality tanked.
> Yes, the insurance company expects to, on average, get more money from insuring my house than the cost of any damage to it.

> This is why I don't buy insurance or extended warranty for anything I can pay to replace.

Yes, yet you're forgetting that this is only possible for privileged knowledge workers, as well as capitalists. That group of knowledge workers, specifically, is only a tiny percent of the working class overall (all those who are paid in wages, and who do not own capital such as land, machines or intellectual property, etc.), especially when you include both the working class in the global north as well as the global south.

For a lot of 'non -knowledge worker' working class people this threshold of affordability, for being able to buy a replacement when something breaks etc., is much much lower. They are forced to live paycheck to paycheck, and do not have the financial security available for emergencies.

Add to this equation the parasitic American credit card industry, and the toxic culture of excessive credit card spending they have created (which is reinforced and perversely rewarded by the US' shoddy credit rating system, no less) and your hypothetical scenario starts to crumble under the weight of the reality of the capitalist exploitation that the US working class has to deal with in the US today.

In other words, yes, you might be able to replace your iGadgets because you're cash flow positive due to your privileged position and ability to withstand the manipulation described above, yet many really cannot, by no fault of their own.

I am excited for the open protocol, cooperative, insurance/saving pools/mutual credit funds that are emerging; such as what is used in Enspiral circles (CoBudget.co) [1] and elsewhere, which allow small groups of people to build financial resiliency together without the ultra-financialized, rentierist capitalist insurance industry in the middle.

Another exciting alternative/example/experiment is the unemployment insurance circles in the Netherlands, called Broodfonds (translates to 'Bread-fund').

[1] https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/grow-your-own-economy-in-a...
I unfortunately did tons of ecstasy between 18 and 30. I was obsessed with for a few years. At one point it was once a week. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Once you've experienced pounding house music, mdma and flashing lights it feels like everything else is just meh. The comedowns became so bad I seriously couldn't think of anything I'd like to do less now. About 4 years ago I took it at a festival I didn't enjoy it at all. I hadn't done it in about 5 years. I just felt confused and anxious. My wife used to love doing it too. I can see how it helps people open up. I also think it's given some pretty bad short term memory issues. Other heavy users I know say the same thing.

About ten years ago I met an old friend whose life had gone to complete shit, he was obviously very paranoid and worried, bizarrely asked me and my other friend had we been laughing at him when all three of us shared a joke. He was a very very heavey user at one point. Prior to all this he was bright and out going. Now just wreck.

Anyway, it's a seriously potent drug with some serious long term effects (imo)
Scientists Are Creating Vaccines for Type 1 Diabetes
Moderna seems to be also developing an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) vaccine [1]. It might not only prevent from some lymphomas and other oncologal diseases, but might also help the people who suffer from the EBV subset of the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) or similar post-viral disorder.

It is very exciting, yet it will probably take a decade until these inventions will become available in the market. Medicine is painfully slow.

[1] https://investors.modernatx.com/static-files/834b6509-553f-4...
When I see Chromebooks being mentioned, I always think about "One Tablet Per Child" charity from Person of Interest show.

(Slight spoiler for season 4)

Giving every child in the country a free tablet with Internet access, loaded with quality educational software sounds like a great good, but is it so good if it also comes loaded with surveillance equipment and is controlled by a malicious AI attempting to control human society?

(Chromebooks aren't free and Google isn't an evil general AI, but it is a multinational adtech corporation, which is as close as you can get to amoral GAI in the real world today.)
Yep, drugs can be dangerous, it cannot be understated enough. I've experienced both sides of the coin. For me, the profound thing that drugs has done is to provide a standard form of measurement within my own subjective experience. I now rate every euphoric thing as 10% mdma-intense, 50% mdma-intense and so on. What blew my mind is that I have experienced certain sober euphoric experiences that were much more intense than mdma (e.g. doing a meditation retreat and during that retreat I sometimes found myself mindfully in the zone, that was much more intense).

The same goes for the existentialism part when it comes to psychedelics. I have a new perspective on having children while not having had children myself. But the whole idea of that they are little reflections of you and your girlfriend bundled up in one which makes huge emotional impact on you, that makes a lot more sense now.

Or another one: sometimes I act like I'm on mdma (while I'm sober and reasonable enough), those days are a blast!

How drugs screwed me over: 6 months to a year of almost losing touch with reality (constantly needing to stay rational, so that I wouldn't lose myself) or being a bit too paranoid for a few months (just a bit). Or wanting to jump out of the window while on shrooms (I had countermeasures in place, never thought I needed them).

So yea it's dangerous stuff. You can learn something amazing from them, but you can also learn a lot from intense exercise drills (if you treat them like a drug-like experience), or meditation, or dancing, or singing, or falling in love, or making friends, or talking with friends.

Goodluck and have fun with life :)
You animal, you!
Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas
I pay £30 a month to insure an £X00k bill if my house develops a catastrophic problem. That’s +ve EV regardless of the numbers because the risk avoidance has “value”.
What's the therapeutic dose in mg?
When it comes to predicting something like the impact of a new technology or the success of a startup, I'd argue it's worse.

At least a wild guess doesn't pretend to be anything more than hope and speculation.
This morning, not long after reading most of this thread, I went to empty my Bosch dishwasher. It's just shy of a year old, and was a huge upgrade from the 25 year old Maytag it replaced. I keep being concerned about the filter, and hadn't checked it in a few months, and the only thing in there was a dozen or so dog hairs.

Really surprised me because dishes get scraped and dog-licked, but there's definitely plenty of solids that go into the wash. Seems like the detergent (basic Powerball solid things) and hot water are doing what it's supposed to.

The main complaints I read about it were how slow it is. At ~2:45 for a cycle that is a while, but it doesn't really matter. If I start it after a meal it's done well before I'm getting ready for the next. Run it overnight, done by morning.

As opposed to my old dishwasher which was ~45 minutes and noisy and sounded super powerful, I think the long wash cycle is key to modern dishwashers. I believe they basically soak/flood everything over time, letting them chemicals do their job, and the less force means it's quieter. Couple that with a bunch of insulation and the result is something more efficient that works well, at the (completely acceptable) expense of time.
I struggled with this as well, and ended up making the lexer itself have a lifetime which is that of the full String read from a file, so that every token (and AST node) has the lifetime of the parsed file. I keep their indexes as well so that I can show error messages like rustc itself does (with code snippets and all) which would be hard to do if I didn't have the full source code text available.

Hope that helps.
Is there a hi-res version of the "2017 vs the 2021" image? I'd like to share it with my colleagues.

[Edit] Same goes for the other images such as the Venn Diagram.
Certainly not clarity of written communication.
This also represents that Windows and Mac OS are no longer the only operating systems. Chrome and Firefox are closely equivalent. And Chrome is the leader with its dominance on Android and Desktop systems.

iOS is the only threat left and if any of the anti-trust measures against Apple are able to break Apple’s grip on the iOS enough to let Chrome or an equivalent browser act as an OS equivalent to what Chrome could do on Android, we could see a very different app ecosystem in the next decade.
How comes this affects the rest of the world even heavier than it does the USA then? Weed and shrooms get legalized/decriminzlized all over the States, MDMA and ketamine therapies are available, ADHD patients have their adderall, even opioids are used so widely it has became a serious problem, yet in most of the countries all these are criminalized heavily and carrying even a tiny dose with you aboard a plane is unthinkable.
What do bleed resistors drain towards if the ground wire has been unplugged by unplugging the monitor?
I'd take that statement with a grain of salt. If there's something that COVID has taught me is that in reality exponential curves almost always turn into sigmoids wherever there are limiting factors. The key here is where the curve starts flattening.

The same goes for infinite growth. In the close future it sure looks infinite, but I'd say it's infinitely hard too to predict what will happen in say a 100 years (a fourth of the time before we hit the heat death wall predicted here).
How would you test it? I'm curious
I'm working on a project where I may need to open and repair an old device that probably contains some high-voltage capacitors. Would it be relatively safe to do this if I was wearing rubber gloves + shoes, and used a multimeter to check for voltages, and a large resistor to discharge any capacitors? What kind of bleed resistor is typically used, e.g. for old TVs?
I feel old; I came here for a guide to repair a "VGA monitor" and instead got a flat panel.
I believe there are some hints that towing certain ideological lines is more important for a successful submission in some academic journals than the merit of the paper itself.

For the reasons explained in the article and plain monetary interests.
In Poland we have a saying "jeżeli Bóg pozwoli". "If god allows" which funyly shows that deep down people "understand" (as their pre-monotheistic ancestors "understood") that the God is the malevolent being that messes up your plans and ultimately kills you.
I have become interested in woodworking and have built some picture frames, shelves, shop furniture and have other projects in mind.

I do enjoy heading out into the garage, turning on some music on and just doing stuff with my hands. Your thoughts here about your father are enlightening because the experience of just doing something is what I enjoy. I need to focus less on the outcomes and more about spending time because I enjoy it.

There are a lot of online narratives (maybe more so in hacker forums like this) about how so-and-so started making a thing and now they quit their day job and do that professionally. Or in woodworking there are a lot of YT channels where the potential of replacing day job is there.

My goal should be focused on happiness being in the shop and if some usable piece of woodworking is the output that is a bonus.
I think comparison functions are a prime "use case" for this kind of error because it will pass the type check easily and comparison is often somewhat symmetric, so you will do a lot of copy and paste. Only unit or property tests could catch this (and a compiler warning, of course). The example here is of course extreme, but I bet you will find something like this quite often, especially in OO code like Java.
IMO, the rise of microservice, SPA, mobile apps or api based apps also contribute to this. It's far easier (and more easily detected / spotted) to restrict access from monolith, server side rendering based web applications.