skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worked for a company that was for a short time the largest private company in the world. Within two years, the SEC showed up one morning, and told all the traders to perform an orderly liquidation, because the company was insolvent.

LTCM?
> But as with all taking on debt to pay off debt, it's like wetting yourself.

Taking on debt at a lower interest rate to pay off debt at a higher interest rate is just common sense.

Taking on additional debt just to have a bucket of cash is what can potentially get you in trouble if there is no plan or resolve to use it productively.
The models climate science is based on don't say that climate change is going much faster than expected. We're at about 1.2°C right now with with a current rate of 0.18°C per decade. This last IPCC report puts us in the expected warming range between 2.4°C and 4°C by the end of the century.
Oh they don't like it when you repeatedly point out your favorite very sincere scientific facts collected by sincere scientists with the best calipers?
> The problem is, that's simply not what's happening. Boghossian isn't getting published in any large or reputable journals.

He got published in journals that are used to teach at his school.

> If I published a logically incorrect math proof in some obscure journal no one has ever heard of, I haven't "disproved math."

Yet another strawman. Nowhere in the article did the professor claim to have disproved an entire field of study.
Tell me about it. I got to lay on top of the families suitcases in the back of the station wagon on road trips. It’s so much easier to sleep like that.
I'm not sure where this thread of psychologising is coming from. It feels very peculiar.

I think you have to be pretty motivated to work on an unreleased game for a decade (and make consistent progress over that period). I think doubting the team's motivations, intrinsic or otherwise, is misplaced here.

Working on a project essentially in private for a long time can be really draining to the motivations. Being able to be a bit open about parts of it can help a lot with motivation for development.

Yes there are possible second-order effects of games getting warped depending on external factors, but I don't see any evidence of that here. The team is making progress towards making a game they want to make.
Not priced into shipping, but equally borne by all tax payers. If all tax payers benefit through transportation of food and other essentials, that’s not really an externality? The people paying are the ones who benefit?
> don’t support USB keyboards … and even if they unofficially do, the companies … deny it for some reason

Perhaps they don't want to deal with support calls for “my keyboard isn't working” or “the keyboard mapping is odd for [insert HCI device here]” or similar, and have decided that simply saying “we don't support USB keyboards” is not sufficient to ward that off.
I'm so confused-- what is the penalty in normal chess for trying to move a piece when your king would be left in check?
> It makes absolutely no sense to impose these constraints upon the field at large.

As soon as you deal with customer PII, it does make sense to mandate a) insurance and b) standards.

Just how much PII got compromised because of failure to adhere to basic IT security standards? Target got hacked because they put IoT devices on the same network as the cash registers and CC readers. Web shops are hacked every day because of software unpatched for years. Hospitals and other critical infrastructure get hacked on a weekly basis because of even more unbelievable security issues (like, once again, running unpatched software and lacking network segmentation).

And don't get me started on the utterly disgusting shit you see in smartphone BSPs. The stuff that vendors do there is just mind boggling - if I were a secret service looking for an exploit, I'd start in the horribly patched-together kernels. Or in IoT devices that are outdated the very moment they leave the factory floor.

Yes, we definitely need a lot more mandatory quality control and standards.
Your currency accounts at brokerages are regulated by FINRA. This includes your cash accounts at cryptocurrency brokerages and exchanges. Security lending, on both the lending of securities as well as the lending of cash for the purchase of securities, is also regulated by FINRA. This also extends to non-security financial instruments, such as forex and cryptocurrencies.

Neither the SEC nor FINRA has stated anything public about this at the moment, but I'm willing to bet FINRA will go to bat for this.
For pandemic flu, yes, quarantine would be reasonable. The 1918 pandemic claimed tens of millions of lives.
Wipro and Securonix team up for providing Managed Security Services
Where I grew up they had checkpoints and would sometimes scan for car bombs. One guy had a mirror he’d use to look under the car, while a couple of other guys had assault weapons strapped to their chest. That seems like enough to make someone nervous without needing a $60k kit.
He only served 5 years and is now a free man
I've never heard the rejoiner to the broken window fallacy that they just aren't breaking enough windows lol.
The cops can decide to do anything with us, yes this is a sad reality of the USA. This doesn't mean we should invite them freely to search our possessions looking for ways to get kickbacks and meet their monthly quotas. Don't give the cops any information, don't give them opportunities to flex their institutional incentives. Just be a calm, boring, silent citizen.
Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross – God's Good News
"Let's let anyone who has money ride in a plane that costs 96 million dollars without checking if they are carrying a weapon."
In general conversation, or general news articles people don't need exact units of measure because they're not acting upon that information. You use an approximation like football fields because it elicits a connotation and can help people easily grasp the scale.
Some of it is that, but engineers tend to be more pragmatic and willing to change their mind with new evidence. Plus they have real power. Google engineers can push back on this fundamentalist ideology instead of continuing to implement it.
> Buying pianos in order to lend them out is another type of investing.

But the example here is renting out a piano you already have, not obtaining a piano so you can rent it out.
Is that why Tesla autopilot works so well and hit all its milestones on time?
Most video games are created to be addictive.

On the extreme end, you got the Civ series. It's been around for 30 years now. There is literally a joke website called Civ Anonymous. "One More Turn"

FPS games like CS really feed that dopamine hit when you get a kill, especially a head shot. You think the game designers aren't thinking about how to make that kill as satisfying as possible?

Even the games of the 90s were engineered to be addictive. Tetris when you clear the blocks. Mario when you get a power up. Even Solitaire when you win the game and the cards go flying.
> The high price added a needed prentense to the technobabble.

How is a bomber supposed to know how much you payed for your high-tech dowsing rod?
Given that the vast majority of developers are not building apps that could be far more effective with AI, and utilize and org's data efficiently, we need more effort with projects like this to reduce the development barrier.
Fraud that resulted in the violent deaths of potentially hundreds of people and he only got ten years.
> his parents bought him Visual Studio 6 (C++),

Wow, ritzy! We always pirated it :) Many, many hours spent in that copy of VS6, definitely a major influence on me growing up.
Not sure why this is being downvoted?

It makes sense to me that ByteDance wants non-China banks to have skin in the game and share the risk that way.
I was in the same boat, until I started watching YouTube stars demonstrate how to use it as

- a Kanban Board (abandoned Trello)

- a Confluence replacement

Now I love it for task- and project management.

I use it in combo with Roam Research. Roam for writing, Notion for task- and project management.
I started as a hobby making fansites for my favorite musicians (join my webring!) as well as vanity sites for myself and my friends in middle and high school. Twenty years later, I’m still basically making vanity sites, but for CEOs and small businesses. I can’t believe they pay me to have this much fun moving boxes around on a screen.
I must have read that title five times and it wasn't until I looked at the comments that I realized it wasn't Norton (Antivirus).
These non-state actors are usually funded by a state though. So it is a type of proxy war.
This reads like an April's fool joke:

> The ADE 651 consists of a swivelling antenna mounted via hinge to a plastic handgrip. It requires no battery or other power source; its manufacturer claimed that it is powered solely by the user's static electricity.

> After a substance-specific "programmed substance detection card" is inserted, the device is supposed to swivel in the user's hand to point its antenna in the direction of the target substance. The cards are claimed to be designed to "tune into" the "frequency" of a particular explosive or other substance named on the card

> The cards were supposedly "programmed" or "activated" by being placed in a jar for a week along with a sample of the target substance to absorb the substance's "vapours". Initially, McCormick reportedly used his own blood to "program" the cards for detecting human tissue

> [McCormick] told The Times that ATSC had been dealing with doubters for ten years and that the device was merely being criticized because of its "primitive" appearance. He said: "We are working on a new model that has flashing lights."
The few months after 9/11 were something else when it came to flags. They were EVERYWHERE.
I completely agree with your sentiment, but it's important to be aware of the real problem.

Most people, opponents and supporters of video games alike, tend to discuss if the activity itself is harmful - does it make us desensitised to violence etc, but the real issue is what you are NOT doing when you play those games.

If a child doesn't have easy access to cheap thrills from a video game, she will start using her imagination, draw something, go to a friend, come up with some mischief.

Time is limited, and childhood is the most precious thing in the world, don't waste it.
> Mozilla making arbitrary choice between two opposing camps of political activists

And Mozilla itself has hardly been politically neutral in the past few years - if anything, I'm more immediately skeptical of anything that Mozilla asserts as true than anything a blue-check twitter account owner in Kenya does.
Which is exactly what you would do if you were part of said scheme to siphon off money, or at least paid off by its participants.
And even the risk-free rate on[1] Treasurys is being held down by tremendous Federal Reserve purchases. (The Fed doesn't buy crypto loans, or at least, won't until Goldman Sachs keeps some on their balance sheet.)

[1] at least short-term
Good to have clear priorities.
Even without modifying the world it’s an interesting idea. Basically the option to fork some random person’s world as your new one.
No, I mean there are people who are able to maintain very high output. Ie, each additional hour is a net positive.

Some people can run 100m in sub 10 seconds. It's rare. Some people can work very long hours with high productivity. It's annoying for the rest of us, but that doesn't make it false.
I’m also not confident in that. But again, if someone has put me in an “extremist detection” database I’m already in the database and the government could already query it.
Yes, I mean KSM (and its equivalents in other hypervisors).

The CPU cycles are a non-issue for the configuration on this mainframe, and it's fair to assume that, since IBM developed the silicon and IBM engineers wrote the hypervisor layer, that most of the detrimental effects of "we need this to work across multiple CPU vendors and multiple generations of the architecture" are covered.

Even x86 CPUs get improvements to cache coherency in memory dedupe scenarios with generational improvement, and intelligent NUMA topology layout helps a lot. It's also worth noting that it's a mainframe, so essentially every configuration has a large number of other processors with a couple of instructions disabled so they don't "count" as CPUs for licensing, but they still perform work. I would not be surprised in the least if there were 1+ co-processors dedicated to offloading operations exactly like "LPAR || z/VM memory dedupe"
From one extreme, everything appears to be at the other. The highest-ranked comment on this story right now is an utterly predictable concurrence with the article's claim that students are being taught to "mimic the moral certainty of ideologues" and it even quotes Milton Friedman to banish any uncertainty about where the commenter is coming from. To you it might seem like HN is dominated by wokeness. To me it seems quite otherwise. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
Very helpful list. Thank you!
> neat, tidy and super clean.

Not so much since Alien.
Wow! As someone learning guitar and music theory this was a great read. The logical breakdown of how you built this tool is very helpful.
Rotated using the terrestrial definition of 'up': https://i.imgur.com/6mPGSEf.jpeg
Again you are you writing off the 300 people on a train and the 4000 aboard a cruise ship.
> Where?

Are you familiar with any recent bomber story at all?
All he needed was some matches and a small amount of plastique.

Someone put an incendiary in his underwear. There are tons of possibilities. If you can't name 3 ways other than shoes and underwear, you might be in the group that thinks the TSA is fine.
> Also on suggesting how a 20-40h project will make me appear as an expert in embedded programming.

That was actually my real point. For many smaller companies, it will. General programming experience plus any honest signal, even small, of low-level qualification will get you attention. We get lots of generalist candidates for our embedded positions and the #1 easiest high-signal filter for us is "how do we know they're actually interested in embedded?" Pass that, and things can open up for you.
That's helpful context about Signal and interesting to read the dev team's comments. While there may be many forks of Signal, the Signal team itself won't be the one to provide interoperability.

Any insights from the early days of the development of email? Does LibreSignal fork, provide interoperability, and just take over, becoming the "email" of tomorrow?

I'm a paying ProtonMail customer. I may be incorrect but am not distracted by the criminal charges stuff as you suggest. Protonmail stated they don't log IP on their homepage. What they meant was "unless the cops ask us". So now they've changed their marketing to update this. I'm satisfied but it also exposes the need to "trust our company", and that's just not sustainable, no matter the company.
Tilings Encyclopedia
For me, it's the mix of markdown documents and Airtable-like databases. It's much more productive than the various Excel-based "trackers" and Word documents in multiple folders that my team uses at work. Being able to automatically link relevant procedures and documents to specific work items, keep track of the status of those items, and having an all encompassing, interlinked "homepage" of all the relevant information related to my job keeps my cognitive load minimal.

I've used Obsidian and Dendron for a lot of this previously, but the real killer feature of Notion, IMO, is the databases. I'd kill for a local/offline-first alternative that also has mobile support, but I have yet to find anything as easy (other than Craft, but it's Apple only and the web version is still in beta).
> A scheme to siphon off money.

The war in Afganistan was exactly that. I wouldn't put it past the US military.
Our "MASSIVE efforts" don't seem to be doing much so far: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

And that's just annual emissions, Atmospheric CO2 concentration is even worse:
https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/1914

If we go into the 2030's and we are still doing business as usual with our near-exponentially increasing global CO2 emissions then I suspect a large amount of climate damage will already be 'locked in'.
The perfect accessory to go with some fake explosives!

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/prop-bomb-explosive-f...
Preventing Data Races Using Actors in Swift
> How did I get into programming?

I was doing a chemistry degree, and suddenly being able to code was a requirement. There were no classes, no recommended material. Just 'welcome to this 6-week lab. Python experience is required'. Surprisingly while I got OK at programming that wasn't a great experience, so I stayed away for a while.

When I graduated my focus was actuary, then data science (because that was starting to take off at the time). I had a fair amount of interest but I wasn't fairly committed. I worked as a mathematical modeller for a while, that was when I started coding again.

About a year later I took an internship at a call center I'd worked at during university summer breaks. They wanted me to analyze insurance claims data to predict fraud. It failed massively but they still kept me around, but the work moved towards software engineering. I enjoyed it enough to stick around.

> What is your experience with university?

The English system sucks. My degree is Chem, I wanted to add more maths and some CS. This was impossible on both counts with the universities module system. Chem takes up so much time while theoretically you can take modules from other schools, it doesn't work in practice. It sounds like you're in UK - if you want flexibility, go to Scotland for your degree. (Kinda OT but I'd rather take maths than CS.)

Most UK science degrees expect but don't teach programming. I have data points supporting this from almost all the top 50 universities. The assumption is students are bright enough to work it out on their own time. This actually holds up to an extent, but the standard and style of scientists programming is a long way from industry.

The degree is absolutely worth it. Spending 3-4 years focusing on studying to an expert level will give you transferable skills you won't get anywhere else. This difference is eminently observable to me now, not just from my experiences but from observing colleagues.

> How did you get first paid work

Internship at an organisation I had friends high up in. I kinda lucked into this one.

> What do you do now and what do you love/hate about your job?

Lead engineer at an early startup, but leaving for a senior engineer role at a late startup. I love the problem solving aspect, and being surrounded by really interesting bright people.

I don't like the way errors compound. Programming is really hard, producing excellent code takes time, effort, and often knowledge. It's easy to make mistakes. Many mistakes don't cause observable bugs, but harm the long term maintainability of the product. Over time, these build up, meaning large projects can become maintenance nightmares. I've become a bit of a specialist in un-fucking these, but I really hate doing it.
Victorinox Fibrox Pro Chef's Knife:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008M5U1C2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

These are highly recommended for a being cheap yet good chef's knife. Mine has survived 5 years of daily dishwasher cleaning...
It reads just like a dowsing rod.
You'll always only get a rough estimate.

That's why the first week or two your weight yourself everyday, chart it and note everything you eat. If your weight doesn't change then you can start reducing calorie intake by reducing portions.
Most people in 2021 would agree that the overzealous response to 9/11 caused untold suffering and misery. At the time though, either you were with us or against us. Good or evil.

Are you sure that's the parallel you want to be drawing here? Might you have a different opinion about this event in, oh, say, a decade or two? By then of course the damage will have been done.
Most likely, it's a fraud scheme in which their customers are also involved. Easy way to steal your country's military budget while pretending to be the victim of a fraud.
> and point source carbon extraction and sequestration.

CCS at the extraction point is just propaganda to keep extracting more CO2. This is not a solution it's just an excuse to keep pumping CO2 out of the ground and into the air. The end result of CCS is just more emissions. Both because they don't capture every CO2 released during extraction and because they can't address the usage of the extracted material that will release more CO2.

We know what the solution is: renewables + storage and/or nuclear.

The solution is not to get more CO2 out of the ground.
It's arbitrary because all they do is X-ray them. X-rays can't tell you whether there are explosives in the shoe, all you can do is look for signs the shoe has been altered.

I don't think that requirement would have stopped Richard Reid. Maybe someone notices that his shoes look a little odd under the X-ray, but with sports shoes coming with weird air pockets and Heelys existing, it's not that odd.

It also slows down people moving through, making the security line a bigger target, and forces people to sit down just past security to put their shoes back on. Again, making the security line a much larger target.

We'd be better off just forcing everyone to do the hand swabs. One airport I went through had some kind of machine that purportedly could detect trace explosives coming off your clothing or skin. Those would be way better, if they work.
Fun fact: you can create binaries that can execute bit-for-bit on many platforms:

https://justine.lol/ape.html
Turned my MUD addiction into a MUD development addiction. Learned all kinds of stuff (Linux, SQL, a little PHP) while building those games. Eventually went to school, didn't do well in Comp Sci, changed majors to an unrelated degree. Graduated and found a software eng position in the same field as my degree (print) and got on the tech path after that (tech startups, Reddit, Twitter).
Reminds me of Wilhelm Reich, who believed in "orgone energy". He built these "orgone accumulators", which were boxy, small-phone-booth-looking, Faraday Cages. You'd sit in them for hours to accumulate your orgone energy and it would increase your libido. According to Wikipedia, "A professor at the University of Oregon who bought an accumulator told an FDA inspector that he knew the device was phoney, but found it helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich#Orgonomy
Unless the exposure site is identified as a low-risk one where contacts are directed to isolate until they get a negative test, no. You have to do a test when going into iso and you have to get a negative test on day 13 to leave it. There have been plenty of cases where the day 13 test is positive, even when the test at the start was negative.
I had a project in college (~2007-2008) for this! My project partner and I set up a sharded filesystem using gmail account storage, storing metadata in the title and splitting encoded chunks across emails and accounts. The storage limit per gmail acct was in GB, but the attachment limit per email was ~20mb. We spent quite a few nights figuring out bugs in our algo to stitch together major and minor chunks of string-encoded binaries.

Once the cloud storage companies launched and provided free/cheap tiers for huge storage we mostly lost the need for it.
>I dropped my jaw out of suprise, when I heard US going to declare war on Iraq — Saudis' biggest enemy.

You're being more than a little disingenuous ignoring the fact that we invaded Afghanistan specifically to go after the extremist group that was responsible for 9/11 about 2yr prior to invading Iraq, which was done for different reasons and "harboring terrorists" took a back seat to WMDs on that list of reasons.
It can be an end to itself and it often is: retaliation