skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swedish research misconduct agency swamped with cases in first year
This isn't true; the law you're probably thinking of merely reclassified felonies as misdemeanors. And even if it were true that damages < $1000 weren't prosecuted they'd still show up in crime statistics. Even even if that weren't the case, you wouldn't see a steady decrease in property crime every year -- you'd see a sudden dropoff in 2014.

Nice try, though!
Anyone know the lifetime of the threads or tire? How often will they have to be replaced? So if it's the same it's not really much of a improvement. Just for the luxury of being "airfree". There will be some negative aspects or tradeoffs to be made with the tire? Companies are in it to make money and surely they won't make a new time that is 100x lasting than the current because that will be a losing proposition in their view.
When speaking about him in English, why do we say "Da Vinci" instead of "of Vinci"?
:D I have to remember this one. Someone should write an accompanying article:

"Awesome or hilarious poses to choose from on your decent towards massive and permanent deceleration".
Marketing: "We need to speed up our site!"

Developer works hard to optimize images, gaining a few hundred KBs.

Marketing: "Now go ahead and add these few dozen analytics scripts."
In my experience historians don't assume that, but when journalists write up a discovery that pushes the earliest-known date back they like to write it up as if they had.
Definitely I've behaved selfishly and with an agenda. However it is not with a particular outcome in mind except to see a discussion happen among an excellent group of people under excellent moderation. I'm deeply concerned that I have wrong information and am begging to be skewered with the truth. I do think others wanted to see the discussion had as well, so while its selfish on my part its not without broader appeal. This forum is amazing and I thank you so much for your patient moderation.
Call it "logical quotation" vs "typesetter's quotation".

The American/British dividing line is extremely hazy, and only really cements the typesetter's quotations in the minds of Americans.
And would I have a $400K+ TC if I left? No. (Mind you - I'm at $400K now but I expect $500-700K in the next few years)

People act like these jobs and high earnings just follow you wherever you move - they don't.
Possibly.

You could also pay a salary and adjust it based on productivity. In theory, that's something like how raises and bonuses are supposed to work.
I'd tend towards willhinsa and yes, I'd rather switch the question and exclamation marks around in rplst8's examples.
Technically, "I refute it thus" and "I refute it thus." are both valid quotations of a source that contains, in its entirety, "I refute it thus."
In latin, æ or ae was a (di)graph for the /ae/ diphthong. In English, it is typically pronounced using the /i/ phoneme, which isn't a diphthong. I have heard it pronounced as /ai/ dipthong, but only rarely.

In English, I'm pretty sure the ae digraph is always pronounced as /i/, so calling it a dipthong would probably confuse most people.
Meeting people online before you know them offline is always a risk. People are good at misrepresenting themselves online (either on purpose or by accident).
I think orientation does matter, and that a water entry might be more survivable with a vertical entry. Think about diving from a high-dive versus a belly flop. At terminal, you’re still likely to break legs or die from entry in a vertical position, but the surface area hitting the water is a lot less if you’re feet first, plus you’d have shoes on, etc. Check out the world record cliff jump https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32e3od

Terminal in stand-up is indeed much higher than terminal in the flat position. A perfect stand-up / head-down is around 180mph typically, while flat is around 120mph, give or take depending on body shape & density. But it takes time to accelerate, long enough that I think if you stood up quickly you’d still be around the flat-position velocity. The maximum you can theoretically accelerate is about 22 mph/s, but you’re starting from terminal with tons of drag, so I think it would take 5-10 seconds to reach 180mph, and you can go from flat to stand-up in 1-2 seconds.
I don't understand what you mean, that's not censorship. To use an analogy, when you tell everyone you don't like Star Wars, your friends will likely decide to only talk to you about Westworld and not talk to you about what happens in The Mandalorian. Censorship would be if someone was actively trying to stop everyone from talking about Star Wars, which is not what is happening. I would advise against using that word without clear proof of it, as it's misused quite often. Also I don't understand why you were previously encouraging spam filtering but now seem to be against any kind of filtering?

>trying to decide what's true for any possible statement

Any possible statement that happens on their platform, yes. That's generally how it works when you have a company and I don't see how Facebook is doing anything out of the ordinary here -- any company can fire employees/customers for lying. If they know there are lies being posted on their site, it's perfectly reasonable to delete them. In fact I wish they would take more effort to delete more lies and falsehoods, the website is unusable when everybody is caught up in discussing a lie and doesn't want to hear the truth.

>To try and decide what's true for the entire space of arbitrary questions about politics or science is thus arrogance on a galactic scale.

I really can't agree. In general, we know what's true for politics: it's what the elections and the courts decide, at least in the US anyway. By design those are the authoritative sources. There is no authoritative source for science but with that you can verify the accuracy of any statement by testing it yourself and reproducing (or not reproducing) the results, that's the whole point. I don't see why it would be arrogant of a company to do this, as it's what a company is supposed to be doing in order for the system to work.
> Your employer doesn't want you to discuss pay with your fellow workers, because if you did you would realize how badly you are being ripped off.

Strangely, the US tends to pay more than any other country for the work, which is why those who live in other countries would rather move to the US and its non-transparent pay system.

Pay transparency creates commodization of jobs which will only lead to the pay dropping rather than rising. Opaque pricing is great for sellers and the sellers in every market. In the job market the sellers are employees, not employers.
> there is no law against executing someone else’s idea

Are you sure about that? Obviously, you mean outside of the patent framework and the concept of infringement, so never mind that.

There is law against executing someone else's idea which is public, and over which they have no patent.

What if the idea isn't public? Not that it applies in this case, but I think there is such a thing as breaking into an organization and stealing trade secrets: ideas that are not known outside of that organization, and are (consequently) not patented.
I think you are talking about "maxim" price though right. A car has a sticker price of 10K on the showroom floor, but nobody pays that. You negotiate down from there.

I think it would fine for companies to advertise a sticker price for a job, but nobody expects to actually earn that, you negotiate up from there.
> I think another factor is that they’re trying to quickly turn a massive ship that has, for years, self-selected users intent on heading in the direction of outrage and toxicity.

But are they actually trying to turn? They say they are but all evidence points to them maintaining the status quo because fear and outrage boost engagement and engagement is king.
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Anyone still on Java 8 can just stay there. If they cared about whatever it is they would have upgraded years ago.
Conversely, also very easy for a company to attract more talented labor by advertising higher compensation than their competitors.

I don't get the "it's a person's own responsibility" bit. Why should it be someone's responsibility to divine their true value via time-consuming interviews, rather than simply comparing what companies are willing to pay?
Google tells me it does; I checked before posting my original comment. Can you find anything that says otherwise?
> This would be a failed assignment in an entry level uni programming course

This wouldn't be an assignment in an entry level uni course.

"Write an agent running on a machine capable of providing remote command execution, authentication and that must report OS metrics externally". Next week's lab : "Recursion".
Swapping exposure is only productive if you have many guardrails outside of the system that absolutely constrain what actions players inside the system are allowed to do. Otherwise, and this has been borne out it in reality, you end up with very distorted incentives.

This is covered today by what we call fraud (whether that be insurance fraud or market manipulation fraud), which tries to set bounds on what acceptable behavior is so that you can try to eliminate pathological edge cases. I don't see how this would be handled if everything at a top-level is handled through prediction markets.
Treatment of gastric phytobezoars with Coca-Cola given orally: a case report
The NSA breaks so many laws for so long they might as we be their own country. To call them out of control is an understatement of unparalleled power.
The New LaunchDarkly
So far about 2% of the US population had already been hospitalized with COVID-19 as of May 2021. The total is even higher now.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Does an instructor who trains someone who goes on to commit murder using the techniques they taught become legally culpable for the murder?

If your company offers some service - consulting to set up their infrastructure, or helping them navigate AWS - necessary to the running of the company, and that company goes on to commit a crime are you at fault? They couldn't have done it with out you, after all.
Thanks. Now I also get a better understanding of why .patch for MRs or .keys for user names as file extension work on both Rails platforms. I always found these file extension hacks very useful for quick access and automation.

Examples:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70427....

https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi.keys
Especially Greek and Roman history. Some of what is “known” is based on as little as a word or two carved into some stone monument… other things are based on thousands upon thousands of written works that survived antiquity (in some cases we know more about Rome 2000 years ago than we do anywhere else until the renaissance)

There is this transition between scant evidence and near modern levels of familiarity in a rather short time.
The Replication Crisis
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My son has two middle names (one for each grandfather), but he's still very much a minor and so not in very many "systems" yet.

(Although probably a lot more than I know about.)
It's not like I'd make friends on FB itself. For example, there'd be an impromptu meeting of random strangers in town for whatever event and you'd make friends through that. This was only a few years ago.

Or some woman randomly posted that she was going to the movies in like half an hour and would anybody be interested in joining? We became friends from that and ended up doing a lot of things together, and I know I never would've met her otherwise because of how our lives didn't overlap at all before meeting her.

FB can enable a lot of cool meetings with new people that I haven't been able to find anywhere else.

FB is, in the end, a tool. It's what you make of it. If your circle of contacts is tied up in conspiracy Trumpian bullshit, then sure, FB is a cesspool. But I was a part of plenty of special interest groups filled with incredibly friendly and helpful people. It's like a completely different world.
Can confirm. Use it often both on Chrome and Firefox.

I love the idea of reply, but is it targeting the wrong people to get the post leverage out of it? Print statements generally don't need to be used for debugging if you know how to use a debugger. Which really isn't difficult if you spend maybe half an hour learning it's features.
Isn’t the reason for this regulation? My understanding is that there are some actions that a bank employee can only take if they hold a “Vice President” title, leading to the title structure being organized in a way such that many people end up with that title.
OpenJdk builds are GPLv2 with class path exception.

Oracle JDK builds are also now free:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license
Facebook is also specifically used in countries to rally violence against ethnic minorities. As in literally assisting genocide. Looking at it with rose colored glasses is missing a lot of the point.

In addition, Arab spring isn’t even a positive example. What have the aftermaths of that been?
Because of this the top answer to one of my questions is actually a comment. I ask how to do something. The top answer starts by asking "does it matter?", argues about the necessity of doing it and concludes that yeah I totally can do it if I really really want to. Without specifying how. Moderators agreed it wasn't an answer but left it there as a "frame challenge".

This copy paste metric may be valid on stackoverflow itself but other stackexchange sites are different. Many have nothing to do with code.
Can someone bake this down to a sentence? I think I understand what they are saying since I have been faced with using these metrics and in having been tempted to use average response times I recognized that average is not a good baseline since it moves in relation to the outliers (which are usually the problem requests and there can be many or few).

How do you calculate these percentiles and use them as a trigger for alerts?
> there is no upper bound

This is essentially saying that you're not happy unless you're being paid the maximum the company is willing to pay, now and in the future rather than choosing to be happy with an amount that fits your own needs. This means your happiness changes based on the circumstances of an external entity, rather than changing based on your own circumstances, which seems strange.
If they hadn't leveled out and stopped descending, in a few more seconds they would have impacted the Pacific Ocean.
Embrio-real-time, agent based programming for Arduino
Strictly ethically speaking, yes they would be at fault
The punishment seems pretty insignificant here. I am surprised the DoJ isn't pursuing prison time.
I think the problem is they are really good for writing proxies like nginx, linkerd, haproxy, that everyone uses, so you have these really high profile, high performance siren songs. But they have a crucial design advantage- it is a tight loop making a small number of decisions before punting the work off to the OS.

Then people start trying to apply coroutines to a bunch of arbitrarily complicated and unbounded business logic things and everything blows up.
Let's say you are a gun instructor. You take your student out to the street, hand them a sniper rifle and point at their victim. You walk them through the process of pulling the trigger and how to make sure they get their target.

The judge isn't going to let that slide. In both cases, you are an accessory.
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> Unrealised gains have always been a tax avoidance measure, if you swim with the sharks don't complain about getting bitten.

Are you asserting that everyone who has held assets long-term is "swimming with the sharks" and thus deserves to have sudden unexpected taxes applied to their historical investments?

> Honestly it's time to eliminate the whole concept of "realization". Even secondary-market shares are liquid enough to value reasonably reliably, or we could bring back in-kind taxation.

You'd have to figure out how to deal with illiquid assets. If property values in my neighborhood go up will I be forced to sell or refinance my house to pay the tax bill? If I manage to pay the taxes while holding on to the house, and later the value goes back down, and I don't have other gains to offset, do I get a refund?
I've linked to it elsewhere in these comments, but this tries to describe in broad terms why any given x86* computer may not be able to meet your latency goals:

https://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/the-right-c...

There's a wide variety of reasons, all of which can interact. It's one of the few good arguments for buying Apple hardware, where this is not an issue.

Over the years I've been working on pro-audio/music creation on Linux (22+ years), I've had a couple of systems that could perform reliably at 64 samples/buffer. My current, based on a Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, can get down to 256 but not 128 or 64.
I recall those days and hard to fathom today why this was such a big deal. Was really hard to do anything like this back in those days.
The problem I've run into with mrjars is that they tend to break libraries that do a bunch of classpath scanning. Mrjars add some stuff to the classpath that the older tools didn't understand and would choke on.

It's one of those things I would personally argue is a naughty hack that should be avoided if at all possible, but it's also something that's historically been ubiquitous within the Java ecosystem. It's frequently how convention-over-configuration dependency injection (as found in Spring Boot or Jersey) tends to be done, for example.
> Do you have reason to believe that's not what they did?

None at all, no, and I did not mean to assert that they didn't. I was not saying anything about the program itself, only responding to the claim that permissions had to be requested for optional features (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28538104):

> Then why did it even ask for full system access? Did it? IMHO developers of the apps which ask for any permissions besides those technically necessary for performing the actual function the user installs the app for should be warned once and then banned for years.

which was a response to a question about why the permissions were requested if they were not necessary (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28538036):

> Then why did it even ask for full system access? Did it? IMHO developers of the apps which ask for any permissions besides those technically necessary for performing the actual function the user installs the app for should be warned once and then banned for years.

Since the permissions become necessary when the user chooses to use the optional features, I took kevingadd to be claiming that the permissions had to be requested whether or not the optional features were used.
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Time_of_Useful_Conscious...

You have 30-60 seconds at 35k. At 18k you'll feel it but you'll be down long before it's serious. (Although if it was unpressurized for the climb I wonder how much of the time you used up that way.)

Real world data--a guy punched at such altitudes and lost his oxygen in the process. Blacked out, came to on the way down. Amazing survival--he was supersonic at the time and punched without blowing the canopy.
Why? The codes mean things, 418 specifically is a joke, but the entire 4xx range are client errors, i.e. a differently formed request would've succeeded.

A perhaps-reasonable suggestion could be to use a 5xx range code that isn't specified. E.g. 555, or 567.

(But I'm not sure how it would ever not simply be a 500 - server thought it couldn't happen, it could and did, that's just a plain and simple error isn't it?)
Although there are lots of contributors to OpenJDK (which is where Java SE is built), Oracle continues to show up and do a large part of the work. This work is then used to build many distributions, including Oracle's JDK's. So the answer is yes these improvements will show up in most distributions.

But anybody who wants to use a JDK built by Oracle can choose between the Oracle OpenJDK build [1] with the GPLv2 w/ classpath exception license, and now have the option to use the OracleJDK free of charge in production with a one year overlap between LTS's [2].

[1] https://jdk.java.net/
[2] https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license
It sounds to me like the UAE made a decision to stop paying vast sums of money to the NSO group and started throwing money at trying to develop their own similar domestic capability.

From a purely pragmatic perspective of a UAE royal family member worried about domestic dissent I can see why they would do that, not that I agree with it in the slightest.
I'm a huge fan of "The Righteous Mind" and think it is almost horrifically relevant for our times. Recommended to all.
> switch to making people manually seek out what they want to get updates on

Twitter lists have been my go-to solution for a while now. Yes, I still get spammed by 'promoted tweets' but it's a small price to pay for keeping tabs on my interests and also: the interests of others (which is the concerning one). Keeping tabs on the very people you most despise. What is the saying: `Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer`? I do that all day on Twitter.
A graph of this - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_PYKjSWYAEIyWG?format=png&name=...
All of them are wonderful shots, but I especially liked the 16th place image:
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2021-photomicrogra...
I meant to say Rails.

Note to self: Never say Ruby when you mean Rails on HN
That podcast is great. I just found it a couple weeks ago, and I've listened to a few already.
Presenting that table without an applicable denominator is misleading. The N on the table is a count of adverse events, not of people or does. The reported events occurred at a rate of between ~5 and ~70 per million doses administered for the highlighted age groups. Higher than background risk? Yes. High risk? No.
Oracle itself still sells and supports software that runs client-side as Java applets in IE (the "server" that comes with it is an old HP desktop).

If you ever peek at the software some industries are running, you may find yourself extremely surprised. A lot of it is incredibly specific, and truly terrible.
OP, the link does not work at the bottom of your post to subscribe to your mailing list.

EDIT: Might have been my ad blocker blocking the Substack email subscription iframe embed. Mea culpa. Chrome 93 with uBlock Origin. Might use an href to https://ayokunle.substack.com/ for "here" in the "please subscribe here" sentence in case the iframe isn't loading for some.
Ask HN: SDE Interviews getting more difficult?
Hey HN, I’ve been on the interview grind for a couple of months now. Made it to four final rounds, and no offers. This in huge contrast to my last job hunt experience two years ago when I had multiple offers in hand after just three final round interviews.

Has anyone else noticed interviews getting harder? And I don’t just mean leetcode, but most final rounds now are longer (more interviews overall), and require multiple systems design and plenty of leetcode M/H. I just finished (and failed) a set of 8(!) interviews for a senior SDE position.

Maybe this is just because I’m now aiming for a higher tier of pay or experience (senior roles vs. non-senior) and need to seriously up my game, but grinding all of the leetcode and systems design, looking up companies, asking relevant questions, had really started weighing down on my personal time outside of work (~40hrs/wk). Wondering what others feel.
La Haine? Subtle, I like it.
This is a good reason to always read the comments before clicking on an article.
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