skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"insert a Russian book at one end and come out with an English book at the other," Doctor Dostert predicted that "five, perhaps three years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process in important functional areas of several languages may well be an accomplished fact."[1]

-IBM Press Release 1954 regarding the 701 translator

Predicting the problem will be solved in a few short years is the easy part. Execution to realize those predictions is much harder.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator....
mRNA vaccines are not altering your genes and are not generally viewed as "gene therapy".
Per Myers-Briggs, I am an extrovert.

People exhaust me though because I feel an obligation to engage them. A subconscious need to interact with someone walking by. And I pick up on every single noise that occurs around me wondering if someone needs help or would benefit from a bit of information I have that they need.

And yet I've learned even if I have information they are seeking, they often don't want or appreciate me sharing the information if it comes off slightly wrong, so I have to tip toe through the process of delivering them the information in a way that doesn't come off as patronizing, only supportive and at the same time belittling myself or making the situation seem like it was only luck that I was exposed to this information so as to not seem like a know-it-all. It's exhausting.

This is barely scratching the surface of why I dislike full time office work. And yet I need at least part time office work. I feel lost and out of touch without it.

edit: and wow apparently I'm not the only one.
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Hahahaha, this reminds me of the one time all my co-workers fought against sth together :)

In my previous work place, it happened that they were using Ofbiz as a framework. If they were using it solely for marketing sites and co, there would've been no problem but they were building complex APIs on top of Ofbiz.

All developers fought against it. Functionalities you could easily implement on Java (or Spring boot), required knowledge of the inner workings of Ofbiz. Not to talk of the bloat that comes with it all :(
How long before people use it to pass interview leetcode-level questions.
It’s time to fix software security. And it’s gonna be hard.

First, there is no unbreakable software. Second, software is written by average people vs above-the-average people who are hacking it. Mission impossible.
> Data from one study shows that of more than 3,000 adults ages 18 to 34 who contracted COVID-19 and became sick enough to require hospital care, 21% ended up in intensive care, 10% were placed on a breathing machine and 2.7% died.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

"Overall, 1187 (36.8%) had obesity, 789 (24.5%) morbid obesity, 588 (18.2%) diabetes, and 519 (16.1%) hypertension"

"Morbid obesity, hypertension, and diabetes were common and associated with greater risks of adverse events. Young adults with more than 1 of these conditions faced risks comparable with those observed in middle-aged adults without them."

It might be an idiotic question and I'm not trying to offend anyone, but about 42% US citizens are obese, could it be the reason why the US has so many deceased and patients in intensive care ?
>(for example one of the spectacle is about the christians persecutions in Rome, where the christians are the good guide, and the romans are the bad guys).

A not bad alternative view on the subject.

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Catherine Nixey
Are we still talking about tracking and sharing of user data? Because from I can tell, outside of very specific pii situations, it is largely unregulated today.
Which leads us back to trip planning. How often do people really plan trips? For the typical working adult, probably once or twice a year if you're lucky. In fact, Americans are notorious for shirking vacation, clocking the lowest rates of vacation on the planet. Twice a year just doesn't cut it.

This is something I've thought about before. European friends I've met put a lot more thought into destination "discovery" than Americans do. From my own observation, Americans just want to go to places they've been to before(for example that yearly trip to Cancun or Miami) or to a place that theyve been invited to for a specific purpose ("my friend's wedding in Vegas"). In those cases most of the planning is already decided for you, and you only think of where you'll stay and what you'll do when you get there. Only a very small set of would-be nomads or people on backpacking trips seem to be interested in frequently planning new place discovery.

Before Covid though I did start to see more aspirational trip planning come up in casual conversations based on places they'd seen on social media. For example in the years before covid Bali was really well known among Europeans, but wasnt on many Americans' radar until they started seeing instagrammars photographing beautiful locations. Most talks were of the "would be nice" variety. These are my own anecdotes from talking to people of course, the only evidence I can think of is that there were no direct flights from mainland America to Indonesia like there were for Thailand, Australia, and Singapore. I wonder if there's a way for a social media savvy would-be trip planning startup to target people who follow and interact with travel "influencers" with messaging like "here's how you can make it to X, on $50/daily spend, within a time constraint of 2-3 weeks" I personally was inspired by a guest blog post on Tim Ferriss site many years ago.

https://tim.blog/2013/08/05/cheap-travel-in-paris-new-york-h...

Note: Im thinking in 2019 or 202X post-pandemic terms. Covid is a whole new level of trip planning complexity and ethics that merits its own discussion. You definitely cant go to Bali as a tourist at all right now.
This really isn’t hard to understand.

In the past, some substances were thought to be safe, but turned out not to be. The “it’s safe” period of time was longer than a year.

Ergo it is reasonable to assume that we can’t know all of the side effects of current novel vaccines. It doesn’t mean there will be any, but it doesn’t mean there won’t be either.

That’s how science works.
Mostly because of the placebo effect ie most people think lie detectors work and it makes you uncomfortable and stressed to have a device strapped to you while someone with authority asks serious questions.
>The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advic...
Doesn't every distro now come with Flatpak by default? For many browsers like Chromium and Firefox, it's the best way I think.
And by normalizing Electron we get even more of the same, instead of convincing people to learn better tools for the job. It's a race to the bottom.
never caught covid when I took care of my mom when she had it last year and I worked as a cashier at Walmart during last year's Sturgis Rally and tourism season, and I somehow survived this year's Rally and tourism season as well... I'm going to be just fine, but I appreciate the "concern" nonetheless.
Most people will gladly hand over this information to insurance companies in exchange for lower premiums.
My biggest problem was that I sat parallel to the hallway that held the only bathrooms. So doors would swing open and closed and people would walk by in my peripheral. I never learned to ignore this and would often glance which would feel rude. I also felt uncomfortable leaving my desk for a 30min afternoon walk while my director could see my empty desk and everyone else putting in their 10 hours.
This doesn't really solve anything.

It can equally easily be recording exactly all of that data into some encrypted format on the SD card, which then gets uploaded to the manufacturer when opened with the proprietary application necessary to view the data.

The only difference is the choice over exactly when the data is uploaded, which in the US with its insurance system, results in no choice at all.
True. Watching that movie was a mistake. I just felt bad the entire time. Just felt like absolute ass. There is something to be said about art that just makes you feel awful the entire time.
It works for Google as they make basically all the money in online travel. Like, really, Google makes so much money out of travel, it's worth it for them to invest huge amounts on getting people to plan/book travel on their platform, because it just means more money for them.

The biggest players in online travel, Booking Holdings (Fmr Priceline Group) and Expedia combined spent $11B on Google advertising in 2019, which was about half their reported revenues that year.

The point of the blog post – that travel planning apps can't get user retention – doesn't apply to Google, as most people use Google every day anyway, so they already have the retention, and it's easy for them to funnel people into their travel section when they see a user entering travel searches into the main search box.
There is still one that is active in my local area, at least.
> I honestly don't get it. Why do people who don't write in python mind that I write in python?

Marketability of skills tied to particular technology (e.g., specific progranming language) is directly tied to the relative demand for the technology. They don't care if you program in Python, they care if decision makers choose Python for companies. A whole lot of the debate over the merits of technologies isn't really about technical merit, its about people promoting their own employability.
Fuel in the fuselage reduces usable interior space, meaning the fuselage has to be bigger for the same cargo capacity. As do the beams for multiple wings. Multiple wings along the fuselage put the after wings in the disturbed airflow from the forward wings.

Many of the advantages they list would also apply to conventional designs, including fully-composite construction. The only advantage of multiple wings I can see is that the horizontal stabilizers on most planes generate downforce, which a multiple wing system could avoid. On the other hand, canard designs also avoid that and it seems the gains aren't so important as to get them adopted.
That additional footage is cheap too when measured against the costs of the salary of the additional employees you need.

In fact, offices are cheaper because you don’t need to over staff by %100 and incur all that communications overhead.
Attacks on SolarWinds Serv-U SW were possible due to the lack of ASLR mitigation
> I don't understand why there isn't a wide, bipartisan push to remove the FDA from our lives.

Don't understand, or feel contempt based on ideology without understanding? Even if you disagree with how the FDA has handled COVID vaccines - largely in the face of pressure and infiltration by an administration sharply opposed to any regulatory mission - there are many other things that it does. Would you forego all FDA oversight of food, drugs (not just vaccines), medical devices, and radiation-emitting products? Throw that all into the courts, which can never address a harm until after the fact and even in those cases is even less equipped to handle the issues under FDA's mandate?

People who've done at least minimal diligence can certainly disagree with some of the things FDA does. There's plenty of room for that, but "fail to understand" why others don't share your spitting hatred of the agency as a whole? Sorry, but that's not even a position that deserves to be taken seriously.
Well Firefox users are used to having to install a browser on their Desktop OS. It's usually the first thing I do on any OS and typically the last time I use the bundled browser. Chrome users have a similar experience (unless you are on Android or ChromeOS of course). Otherwise most of us would be using Edge and Safari instead.

I actually played a little with arch recently in a VM. It's actually a quite nice distribution. With arch the whole point seems to be not getting locked into any kind of opinionated defaults for whatever. The gnome desktop I installed comes with a thing simply called Web, which appears to be some Gnome Webkit derivative. I also played with Manjaro, which is a lot simpler to setup. I wouldn't get to hung up on default apps on either of those two platforms. If you install them, you kind of should know what you are doing and what you like.
Worse, it doesn't even seem realistic. Far more likely you'll have anarchy and those with the resources to do so will create social hierarchies.
At least a few are and that is enough to find the above.
I've been fully remote for six years, and intend never to work in an office again. I'm not sure what's dismal about it?

I'm sure you've heard all the arguments for it, but apropos this thread, I feel less like corporate chattel and more like a valued team member. I'm not hurried into stockade-like work environments, cowering under the whims of the bosses, jostling shoulders in a cramped desk corral; I'm working in a space of my own design and in an environment that I control.
No, it’s basic medical knowledge.

You seem to have very little understanding of how medicine works.
Do people have the right to lower their own insurance premiums in exchange for voluntarily giving up their data?
No we have laws to limit that, so why not have laws that limit where Typhoid Mary and Covid Christ can participate in society. They aren't putting them in jail they're simply giving the choice to get a jab or lose their current job or eating in a crowded restaurant. They are free to still start their own business and remain vaccine free.
I don't see why most common types of insurance aren't offered by governments. The government has the largest pool of cash and it's not like insurance has much room for innovation. Most types of innovation in insurance is about figuring out ways to not pay out insurance claims. Ie 'innovation' by an insurance company means a worse product for the customers.
In my case I actually did take it apart. The LCD screen smashed to the point of unusability and I attempted to repair it (alternative was to send it away for weeks for expensive repairs). While inside, I tried to disconnect the cellular modem, but it wouldn't function like that. I didn't actually look for a microphone (I'm not that paranoid), but I'm reasonably confident there isn't one.
My Bosch fridge claimed it would notify if the door stayed open. I read that to me I’d get a native push notification after a time threshold I can set. That would be a very useful feature.

Oh how foolish I was.

No, it’s an app that requires a whole mess of registration.

They better not email me a report card like this guy.
where I live this is already the norm, thankfully
Just don't keep ready-to-eat food in the house. I'm sure he won't be raiding the fridge to munch on a raw cauliflower.
Freelancing as a student is underrated
I really feel it should be a much tighter number like 20 employees.
It's comments like this that make me realize that not everyone has an utilitarian mindset. I'd be happy to share my weekend project if someone expressed interest, even if it wasn't perfect. Just don't expect me to support it.
Congress to compel infrastructure operators to report cyberattacks
Valleys and cliffs hidden beneath the North Sea
Looking at this brings back memories of my Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate capstone project. We were tasked with putting together a conceptual design of an airliner-type aircraft. Inevitably some of the projects end up going for "innovative" configuration born out of lack of experience and understanding for WHY the tube+wing design has completely dominated the airliner market since the 1940s. The feedback from industry experts ends up being a great learning experience, which is why it makes for an excellent school project. Not sure about a viable engineering company though....

Few things:

> the patent-pending ‘SE200′ concept features a lightweight tri-wing layout to enhance lift over drag

Weird statement. Generating lift is the extremely easy. You don't need 3 wings to do this. Doing so while minimizing drag as much as possible is what's hard, as more lift results in more drag. Looking at all that extra wing surface tells me the parasite drag is going way up. You'd be much better off placing that same surface to extend the wing length, which would reduce tip vorticity drag.

Also having three-wings in a horizontal line like this is going to dramatically reduce the effectiveness of the rear wings. Wings produce downwash in the airstream that negatively impacts performance of any surface downstream. This is why canard designs have to be designed VERY carefully. So right away the "will minimize drag" claim is pure fantasy.

> Fuel is stored on top of the fuselage in self-sealing bladders, and not in the wings.

This really reminds me of something an undergraduate would put in their capstone project borne out of their lack of knowledge. Fuel stored in the wing is a good thing, as it alleviates bending stress due to lift and helps dampen aero-elastic phenomena. Also, this way the fuel mass (which changes during flight) doesn't significantly move the center of gravity, thus changing the stability and control characteristics of the aircraft, and not creating more trim drag.

Just a first pass analysis to distract me from work. I hope some more people here can pick this apart more. With a bit more time, I'd like to examine the stall characteristics on this vehicle (which I imagine are just atrocious) .
Ha! In an older flat I had a "lock" button on the stove. Touch button, of course. And for some reason, it would always register an inadvertent touch.

Of course, once locked, the buttons wouldn't work, but the lock light wasn't obvious enough.
actually, science and logic do not work in the manner of "in the past, X did Z, therefore Y will also do Z, QED"

see, in that example, you made up a rule that anything you want will cause Z, but there's no actual scientific basis for the rule

you have to actually prove Y will do Z, you can't just claim something else did Z, therefore anything can do Z
U sure?I work with physicists
AFAIK it is supported:

https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode
Leetcode interview questions will adapt to ask for the wrong answer. You'll have to write broken code to prove you can code better than the correct code AI can spit out.
First they came for Lee Sedol, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a professional game player.

Then they came for the taxi drivers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a taxi driver.

Then they came for the frontend programmers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a frontend programmer.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Honestly? Because the cigarette industry is very large and employs a lot people, particularly lobbyists.
It's a hard subject to teach yourself. I was in a similar situation to you, and after starting with various books I ultimately ended up enrolling with the Open University for a BSc in Mathematics.

Before that though, the most useful thing I did was to get the OU course books for their introductory courses (MST124 and MST125). They're written for self-study, and they're extremely comprehensive. These books filled in all the gaps and ironed out all the kinks in my fundamental mathematical knowledge. Things that used to baffle me make perfect sense now, like why the rules for non-integer exponents work the way they do.

Another book I'd recommend for someone in this situation is Measurement by Paul Lockhart. It won't exactly teach you maths, but it'll teach you what maths is, which is an important thing that most people are missing.
All jokes aside, scientists find talking duck
There's no way I'm going back to an office (from WFH). There's too many things I hate there. Many of them mentioned in this thread.
Wide-band (and ultrawide-band) microwaves were already used for such through-wall sensing. It was just a matter of time before somebody noticed that there is already wide-band microwave transceiver in everybody's home.
The boot sequence is described in section 2.2 of this document: https://starfivetech.com/uploads/hifive-unmatched-sw-referen... And some more detail here: https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/board/sifive/unleash...

The flow is something like: ZSPL -> uBoot SPL -> OpenSBI -> uBoot -> kernel

Everything is open source except (maybe?) ZSPL which I think is stored in ROM and just loads the SPL off the MMC card.
I am not looking forward to the day I have to fix or enhance legacy code written by some AI that is long gone and no one knows how anything works...
Agreed, be careful what you wish for. When I was a consultant at Red Hat I worked with a lot of customers in this boat. We had to jump through absolutely absurd hoops that made a two day job take weeks.

I'm a security pro and I rejoice in secure systems, but swinging the pendulum to the other side is bad too.
AFAIK it does yes.
Oh, absolutely, I realize that. It’s just that I learned this from Knuth so I recognized the derivation, and I thought you’d like to see it, but I see you already know about it.
Apples and oranges, and nothing is implied.

Obesity is not highly contagious. Obesity can't mutate easily.
There is a book called "Black Hat Python". The second edition targets Python 3 and because of the nature of the topic is mostly lower level programming.
A newly discovered dinosaur with shark-like teeth was the T. rex of its day
The key difference is that there are no options when you parse json. You just parse it and get some lists and maps back.

In XML you have to decide if you want DTD or schema enabled (which could provide default values, and could be a security risk) and where abs how you resolve the DTDs from etc. Do you resolve references? And many option options.

So JSON benefits not just from a simpler structure, but also from less optionality.
While this impressive but building software is about the larger understating of the environment and the intent of the users etc. Coding is just translating the solution from the developers head to the machines to execute.

This is coding using natural language. It associates natural language text with code but it understands nothing really in the way humans understand larger context.
I don't think an asshole is going to care if you're a Dr. or not. In fact, it might be used as tool to further degrade you.
I think there's something about having distractions in your peripheral vision which speaks to this.

Personal space is also a very cultural thing. People in Norway will feel a lot more uncomfortable with a person standing near to them than somewhere say like South America
I resent that consumer IoT is almost always required to connect to a cloud service.

I love the idea of an IoT house - smart lamps, smart locks, cameras, climate conrtol, etc. I only want them connected to my LAN. If I want to access any of their controls remotely, I will set up a VPN or otherwise they should provide a jump service locally, not require cloud connectivity.
The productivity estimate from focus is off, especially for employees who do more than solve immediate, light problems (you were already taken to task for essentially claiming there is no such thing as a highly productive employee.) The additional cost also isn’t typical everywhere. Going by your math, you should be recommending full offices in much of the country.

Finally would note you don’t have a monopoly on executive perspective in this thread. It’s to the credit of others that they can understand why they perhaps should eschew a traditional visual indicator of power disparity that would favor them.
Put your reading glasses on. He said "forcing people is going to create enemies".
Probably not, since IME/PSP is what allows them to perform unattended reboots, remote BIOS modification and all the other wild VPS features we take for granted these days.