skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key is finding the "right" people and proving to them you can be useful. That opens doors to all kinds of opportunities.

I had subscribed to a local newpaper and an article showed up where a govt official was complaining about how most of the historic local budget data was still in paper or pdfs. I found the pdfs and converted them to csv and excel files. Found the contact info of the guy complaining and sent him the data. He was so happy about that, he put me on a mailing list where there were a bunch of serious people talking about local issues. That was the big door opener for me.
Anonymous strikes again, this time with a well known web registration company with a decade of data. This is a blatant example how poor security management leads to the hardship of thousands if not millions of regular people. Now their private details have a risk of being public and fully open to scrutiny. And its not just some simple data breach they allegedly stole domain purchases and transfers, account credentials of pretty much all their clients. Unacceptable. Embarrassing. They should be held accountable for all this if it comes out to be true.
In a sense that is also an indication that it might be dying.
I also feel very strongly about this. Many moons ago I literally got paid half of what a friend of mine got paid for exactly the same position, responsibilities, and output, and yes, I can gauge the output, as it was a position for which this is quite rigidly defined. Just because he said a different amount than I that he was willing to work for during negotiations.

From that point on I have consistently refused to 'name my amount'. Literally, I would say something like: "A company like yours must have a defined salary scale for the given position, why don't we start from there, and see how it aligns with my expectations?". If they push on, it goes something like: "So, are you saying that salaries at your organization are ad-hoc, and you're looking for the cheapest person who can fill the role?". In which case, I'm really not interested anymore.
Yeah, eat less for months or years. Slightly harder than getting an injection.
There are quite a few things to think about here:
1) When do we agree science has actually reached a conclusion about something? Facebook is quite a new phenomenon. Social studies research is notoriously difficult to replicate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
While it's pretty clear social media has drawbacks, I am not convinced they are materially worse for kids than Netflix or pop culture.
2) Why do we only think about the kids? If we say that social media is more harmful than good - why not ban it altogether? There's this sense that after 18 years old we are all responsible autonomous creatures worthy of maximum freedom but I think that's not based on anything.
3) What happens if we decide to hold everything in our lives to the same yardstick of how good it is to our mental health? I mean social media shouldn't be the exception right? Is watching a violent sadistic show like Games of Thrones good for our mental health? Or watching T.V in general for more than 1 hour a day? How about using Twitter? Or the internet in general? Owning a smartphone? Looking at your smartphone for more than 30 minutes a day? The list of things in our modern lives that have a questionable effect on our mental well-being is enormous.
It feels like the Government pay system.

Opening up salary information means that everything about salary needs to be equal, fair and objective. Basically the review system will become pass fail.

Reviews will become bland and meaningless, raises will be standard based on the job classification, anything else wouldn’t be objective. If everyone isn’t treated exactly the same there will lawsuits galore.

Bonuses will also go away, because it’s impossible to give each person unique goals and expectations and fairly assess each person and their custom goals, against everyone else at that same level. Lawyers will have a field day.

Time in level determines promotions, not skill, not knowledge, time in level. Time in level is used because it’s the only objective system that works, anything else is too subjective and will open employers to lawsuits

If you you can’t move up the ranks based on skills and effort why bother trying to exceed?

This salary transparency system will be used by corporate America to suppress wages even further.
I think Plan B is living with the threat of the disease. It should focus on developing treatment options for the most acute cases. Children without vaccination will probably develop a solid immunity and resistance, the flu is estimated to be more deadly to children than Covid.
Anyone can claim to be part of Anonymous, that's kind of the point. It's not an official group with representatives or any kind of official viewpoints. All you need to do is say you're part of Anonymous and that's it, no 'larping' required.
we tried using 0.10 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.11 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.13 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.15 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.17 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.16 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.18 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.20 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.14 mL, it didn't work
we tried using 0.12 mL, it worked so we published

Do you want to know the ones that "didn't work" existed? Or are you happy with just the one that "worked" being written up in isolation?
Steve Ballmer quitting as CEO increased Microsoft's market cap by over a billion dollars. If someone can be worth a negative billion I see no reason a different person can't be worth a billion. What you are worth and what you get paid aren't the same, obviously. That depends on outside options, how much beter you are than the next best, replacability, productivity. But while large companies do not revolve around a single person one person leaving can be worth more or less arbitatry amounts. Notch made a billion dollars prety much single handed.
> In principle h need not be defined for empty inputs

It actually need. Since the definition given earlier requires that h (x ++ y) = h x ⊙ h y for any x and y, in particular we can always take x or y (or both) to be empty. For the definition to make sense, h of an empty list must be defined. Otherwise one get a non-empty list homomophism.

The above nicely demonstrates the pitfalls of using definitions based on binary operations instead of (finitary-)variadic operations: <https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/biased+definition>
Chicken or egg?
RCTs, by definition, can cause harm to either arm of the trial (depending on whether the intervention is harmful or beneficial). We routinely accept that as the cost of advancing knowledge and avoiding interventions that would do more harm than good.
Four Tweaks That Make My Life with Zoom More Comfortable
I am on Zoom calls every day for 4-5 hours. Over the past year, I felt that I didn't like the process of creating, conducting and ending a video call and found how to fix it:
1. When starting a call, you need to make a couple of extra clicks to get a link to the conference. It is treated like this - in the settings, put a checkmark "Copy invitation link at the start of the conference" and voila, the link is immediately in the buffer;
2. Regularly someone from the participants needs to show the screen, and by default this is prohibited without the permission of the organizer. In the settings, we look for this and allow the screen to be shared with everyone and always;
3. When exiting the config, by default, Zoom asks for confirmation that I really want to leave it. In the settings, uncheck the box "Ask me to confirm before I leave the conference";
4. Allow all or certain contacts to enter the conference without confirmation - without my consent. If there is a link, then it can enter. I click less, and the interlocutor does not expect "in the waiting room."

Saves clicks and tens of seconds. Cumulatively, it will hardly take an hour in a year, but it's so nice not to waste yourself on nothing

Do you use Zoom? Tell us about your hacks and best practices.
$15 less in the pocket is at least $5 less in the pocket.
Some ant species farm fungi in their nests and milk aphids.
Daily Notes / #16
I would assume given any hosting provider, that most content would not be deemed "violent" or "extremist". But of course, it depends on your interpretation.

For example, some people consider radical servers from the anarchist scene to be hosting violent/extremist material, while i personally consider governments and big corporations to be pretty violent and extremist themselves in how they ruthlessly dominate the world.

Actions and speech are not neutral. It's all a matter of (political) perspective.
"ucspi-vsock UCSPI-1996 implementation for Linux AF_VSOCK sockets 6 months"

https://spectrum-os.org/git/

Neat!

I still use djb's ucspi all the time.

(stunnel or haproxy to add TLS support)

https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
Five Critical Skills You Need to Have as a Web Application Penetration Tester
Interesting, I guess I can always sideload apps on Android TV as well. But we're back to ease of use... I can do that, but my customers not.

Getting updates on sideloaded apps is also a lot of work.

Maybe I just read too many horror stories about people getting their apps pulled or updates delayed
> In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Rivos Inc, a new high performance RISC V startup which includes many senior Apple engineers. The brain drain continues and impacts will be more apparent as time moves on.

Seems very shocking, a recent turn-over of about 100 engineers. I’m gonna assume these were all related to the CPU architecture teams.

Makes one wonder why these people left. Did they feel it was too hard to make progress with ARM? Was pay bad and didn’t Apple want to increase compensation? Perhaps a bad work/life balance?

What was interesting is that Apple was recently looking for a RISC V engineer in a job posting and who knows … perhaps looking for multiple. Would Apple be looking to change architecture to RISC V in the future? Maybe Apple is also worried by a possible acquisition of ARM by Nvidea of course.
Yup. Security is a lot of time an after-thought and a burden to quiet a few companies since security is something that is not of immediate value. Last spring we had a speaker from northrup-grunman who talked about the need to push for a DevSecOps strategy.
You're welcome, no problem; we're just discussing here.

BLAS/LAPACK is very optimized and it's recommended to compile on (or for) target for best performance, however they're developed for a very long time, and somewhat old-fashioned in terms of ergonomics and internal flow.

OTOH, Eigen is very modern, very easy to optimize (just pass -O3, and relevant -march -mtune to gcc), and you're screaming at 98% speed of BLAS/LAPACK.

I've used it extensively in my Ph.D., and TensorFlow is also using Eigen. It's very easy and practical to use, and it's very very fast. It makes abusing (ehrm making full use of) your processor easy and strangely enjoyable.

Some older benchmarks and current performance monitoring pages can be found at https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark
TL;DR:

>In 2020, the federal government collected $3.42 trillion in revenue.

>In 2020, the federal government spent $6.55 trillion.

One wonders why they bother with the effort of collecting taxes.

They should just borrow the entire budget and let everyone get on with their lives.

They'd save money in the long run: no more IRS budget.
I guess I have the opposite experience.

I do well in German and Swiss German, so I can sometimes parse other Germaninc influenced languages, but it is a matter of luck which words are used.
Isn't this a security hole if an app can change Windows behaviour without prompts?
I wouldn't support this borderline nutjob. Making employees watching a video of christchurch shooting and saying it was fake? Yeah, no. He has a lot of ties to extremist right wing too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster#Views
> (you can't say anything until you've defined your prior, which requires deep domain knowledge)

Well, you can use a non-informative prior. And that's the correct choice when you genuinely don't have a better option. But you should always be able to justify that, and that in turn requires deep domain knowledge....which leads me to....

> The whole problem we're facing is that it requires too much domain knowledge and detailed analysis to dismiss results that are actually just noise.

....this is in no way a "problem" that needs fixing, by allowing shortcuts that can easily be hacked. Rather, it's a factual statement about the difficulty of drawing correct conclusions, in low Signal-to-Noise-Ratio domains. Whether you use p-values or not, and whether you use Bayesian methodology or not, you cannot get around the need to understand the data you're working with. Bad p-values are worse than none, since you have no knowledge of what error rate they actually achieve in the long-run.

> Bayesianism has no substitute for that

Yes it does. It's called Bayes factors. But as I said above, I completely disagree with your view of what a p-value is for.
Computer Science and Psychology? How does that work?
I'd seriously use something like that if it was stronger, tamper proof and would shock me whenever I'm browsing Reddit (and a blacklist of other garbage just in case).
That is because there is culture of not eating vegetables. Cucumber tastes good, is quite watery and does not have to be huge.
Operation Tinfoil. Thanks for the link, love that!
Somebody probably put in a regexp with .mov$ , however for regexps the dot (.) matches everything (and $ matches end) so the i in asimov is eaten regardless and then the rest of the match succeeds.
There’s a whole list of lies from the pst 19 months.

- There is no pandemic”

- “Masks don’t work”

- “Border closures are racist”

- “3 weeks to stop the spread”

- “The virus definitely didn’t come from a lab”

- “Antibodies only last 3 months”

- “There will be no vaccine passports”

- “We’re not manipulating COVID data”

- “Vaccines are 100% safe”

- “Lockdowns are for your own safety”

- “Don’t take drugs meant for horses”

- “Measures are guided by science”

- “We’re all in this together”

- “If you get vaccinated you’ll get your freedom back”
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We've had subscription media for a while now and it's shown that that business model has it's glaring weaknesses as well, especially when it comes to ideological pandering
In Sweden anyways, it's completely open.
fun fact, we still have it in Romania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C4%83cint%C4%83

It's called the same and it's delicious :D
I don't actually follow what you said here, but to be clear pedantry is a focus on arbitrary precision or something close to.

My argument isn't that, there is no level of imprecision where I'd be satisfied. I went straight to the substance which is the examples listed are acceptable in ways that a vaccine mandate is not.

It is perfectly reasonable to expect proof that someone is who they say they are when picking up a parcel or borrowing a book in their own name. It isn't like it is information that they aren't implicitly volunteering as part of the transaction. Ditto ID for a hotel stay to an extent, the normal case for a hotel stay is you have already identified yourself to the hotel.

There is a fair comparison when it comes to drivers licenses (I echo Mr Mouse's argument there). But 25% relevant examples is not a good batting average. And it isn't pedantry to point that out, it is routine argumentativeness. The complaint against vaccine passports is people are being forced to reveal information about themselves that they may not want to. I don't want to have to start registering information about myself with the government to have a pub lunch; the risk for those systems to go bad is off the charts high.
This is also close enough to GraphQL that it could replace it.

The only syntactic difference I see with GraphQL is the lack of parenthesis around arguments and the existence of anonymous arguments.
Another option is to study the market, interview at multiple places, and give a high but realistic amount. This way you will get ~highest possible offer
Yes, that would be preferred, I think. Write a new job title with defined expectations, so that other people in the organization would know and understand why this person is paid more, and what it is that they should strive for if they want to reach the same level.

Otherwise it just reeks of favoritism.
Very good experiences with their product.
On Gitlab CI if you run your runners in kubernetes you can assume a Kubernetes Service Account which then will get you access through the same mechanism

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-fine-gra...
My favourite example of this is.. Robocop!

https://dejareviewer.com/2014/04/29/cinematic-chiasmus-roboc...
> This means no checking for OpenBSD specifically but instead feature sniffing for their presence.

Indeed it sniffs for any functions named pledge() and unveil() that exist in any library loaded into the process… and then assumes that, if they exist, they have not only the same purpose but also the exact same signatures as the corresponding functions from OpenBSD. ctypes cannot validate function signatures, so if they have different signatures, you get undefined behavior. I wouldn’t recommend this approach.
I don't agree with assuming he is trolling.
'Massive' transatlantic data cable landed on beach in Bude
Oops, you're right - I completely messed up the numbers. 10% is way too much, even for CFR. Still, 1-2% death rates is a huge number.
It is an interesting idea to use an animal to counter climate change.

Are there any organisms that are carbon negative or cause a net decrease in some energy balance?

I imagine some sort of bird with white/reflective feathers that would shade the east a bit. Maybe we could alter an algea so that instead of getting red/green color blooms there would be a white/reflective bloom so large portions of the ocean would reflect light instead.
Solar+battery would work just fine. There’s no dark side of the moon, just longer days and nights.
Yeah, best language for the task...but the parent was talking about not using a dependency just because it is written in C or C++
Well, no, but generally it’s something applied after decompression to decrease perceivable compression artifacts.
> Will they respect my Parental Control settings about no purchases too? Will they integrate with the "ask to buy" -setting built in to iOS?

If they didn't, that would presumably be noted in user reviews and media comparisons, so they'd get lower ratings and people would know to avoid them. Or take that downside, if they see some other upside to the particular service that they feel compensates for the downside.

You know, like a market-based economy -- "capitalism" -- is supposed to work.
Presumably, also the reason we have those fake queue lines at airports (not sure the correct word is for it).
Its supposed to me altitude right? not attitude which is a (emotional) disposition towards something. a google search reveils no alternative meaning yet its written wrong 17 times.
Not withholding the tax is not enough. Both the employee and the employer have to lie to the government for this to work, and for an employer this means they need to falsify their financial records, because the tax agency can demand to see them. Also, anonymous transactions already exist, so cryptocurrency doesn't make this type of fraud easier or more likely.
I believe your prediction of behavior to be wrong and careless and it also may highlight why public healthcare never got too far in the US.
I may be uninformed on this topic, but i believe this line to be tongue-in-cheek (like much of the announcement). How best to announce something for a very informal/anonymous collective?
Why I Left Academia
Perhaps the sub-clause is redundant there?

'The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".'
After that whole search engine scandal with Kiwi Browser, a lot of people don't trust it anymore. I believe it also majorly lagged behind Chromium versions.
The piece contains examples of the maximum segment sum, such as “mssp [3,-1,2] = 3”. Am I missing something? Shouldn’t the answer be 4?
Why can't politics be fun? Also, do you remember a time when Anonymous wasn't about politics? I clearly remember some strong political positions against the Church of Scientology, against the surveillance apparatus, etc..
To take this further. Most science is a slave to grant funding. Grant funders like certain things and most of them are not biostatisticians.

That is not to say that hypercapitalism is the problem here. I think any competitive system even under socialism would have the exact same problem. Basically there are too many voices, and the ones winning are often cheating with bad statistics.
In that case the change of major version loses its meaning. They could use 69 and 70.
>Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch.

Maybe not the best example. Apparently, Newton took loads of notes, and also created handwritten indexes and contents lists, alphabetical, by topic.

https://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/how-isaac-newton-remembered...
> The "lazy PhD" bit there really undermines your entire point. Have you seen what it takes to get a PhD?

It depends on the field, but however much effort it takes to get a PhD it's at best a weak proxy for how much value a particular employee provides to the business.

> and you will see your people take off

Yes, you'll see your best employees take off to an employer where they are paid better than their time-serving colleagues.
The part of the discussion is not just about pay, it is also about company culture. I really don't want to work at a place willing to haggle and fill the position with the cheapest eligible person.
When you distribute patches for a vulnerability it basically makes no difference whether the source for those patches is available - people are quickly going to figure out what the vuln is. This is a patch rollout problem and nothing else.
> If you're putting that much away even after those inflated expenses (are you seriously paying $50/working day for your commute?) you're in no position to complain about your tax rates.

Ahh the classic “well you aren’t poor so you don’t get to complain”.

Can we not aspire to have a middle class in this country?
Or the impact itself amplifying the erruption(s) and impacts.

The seismic ground shock would have been felt around the world. At the antipodes, depending on the model chosen, there might have been from 4--30m of vertical displacement.

http://www.geologyinmotion.com/2011/10/chicxulub-impact-what...

AFAIU, this would have been nearer Australia than India, though I'm not certain, and the Indian plate and Deccan Traps could plausibly have been within or near the enhanced antipodal seismic zone.
What matters is where you do business.
From [1] attitude, in the context of spacecraft, means:

> Attitude is part of the description of how an object is placed in the space it occupies. Attitude and position fully describe how an object is placed in space.

So, basically, its relative orientation and rotation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control
Ask some of my friends that are otherwise healthy and they'll say quite the opposite.

(Full disclosure: I'm vaccinated and disagree wildly with them, but they are still my friends and these are very capable engineers/programmers, they just don't trust authorities in this case.)
The entire Romantic era was a diss of the Enlightenment. Norm wasn’t “a bit crazy”, he was educated.