skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If memory serves well, they used steering, rev and so on as input to decide if the car was on a test bench. Then they turned on emissions treatment, or rather turned it up. Obviously that works on the road as well.

As a tangent, VW was part of group of German manufacturers colluding in limiting Adblue tank capacity (I'd have too look up details). in order to maximize revenue, they also extended the refill periods to match inspection intervals. Basically so the OEMs could sell dirt chepa Adblue to customers. Now the smaller tanks were insufficient to treat emissions on the road without being refilled between inspections. Instead of mounting bigger tanks, VW decided, apparently, to just turn the system of while on the road. Clearly illegal because test cycle recognition is illegal. As opposed to using technical loop holes when road operations are concerned.
Ironic comment, considering that this is a search engine to weed out sites with awful UIs. This gives us exactly what we need in a search UI - no more, no less - in a clean and intuitive way.
The company is big and moribund it cannot make its own "vape" hardware, so they're hoping to buy in some know how...

Think about that. How many of the jobs in that company are about "maintain a big company" and how many are "make and sell the product"? Is there any reason to suspect that, having bought "make a different product" as a unit, there's anybody in the "be a big company" roles that can bolt the two together?
Hi,

Interesting idea. Definitely see an overlap with eReader markets and looking at text only contents.

How does it work?

It ignores pages on which it detects frameworks for ui and ads or any javascript code at all?
Discourse overrode ctrl-f, which made me instantly hate the experience. But the rest of the UI is generally overwrought and frustrating. Old fashioned phpbb or vbulletin is so much better.
How Amazon Web Services makes money: Estimated margins by service
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console...

Even better now, with OP's CSS:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png

Now just some way to decrease the height of the tab bar, and I'm happy again.
I also recommend Venona^, it has close to a hundred pages of notes on the decoded cables plus the authors had brief access to Soviet records.

^

Haynes, John Earl & Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08462-7

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300084627/venona
A little too good even [1], they were deranked for some time...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/6x7kzr/heres-why-rap-genius-...
IP is designed to allow a certain subset of solutions to be monopolize by inventors for ~ half the life of the inventor (although most patents are abandoned after a few years). It shouldn’t, ideally, block all possible solutions.

In my experience (have applied for over 50 patents), the act of understanding and inventing around other peoples patents has very often lead to brainstorming resulting in superior solutions (this was an unforeseen advantage of good US IP law that other countries are trying to replicate).

I would note that my ventures are in the area of atoms and not bits :)
I can't get away from somewhere wanting to get a reaction from someone else, I think. It shouldn't really be that many and on a social platform though.
I love this! I've been searching random words with no aim in particular and keep finding lots of interesting tiny personal webpages. It feels like the old web
Having a criminal record has other consequences for companies in the US, like being ineligible for most government contracts.
Frozen, like having C2X around the corner?
This looks pretty good from a quick skim (it's 2007 so I probably saw it 10+ years ago, but don't remember). I did my PhD on radial basis functions, and they seem surprisingly unknown for something so useful. RBFs provide a really easy way to interpolate through scattered data of any number of dimensions. I interpolated through point data, integral data, and derivative data (but didn't use them to solve DEs like this).

They also made a good well-obfuscated "peak hello world" attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211972

That fits a multiquadric RBF (p2) (with linear terms, because it's conditionally positive definite; p5-6) to some carefully chosen data, then evaluates it (at the same points again, because I was in a hurry...) and converts to characters.
Yeah the design could use some work. The search results are not compact - I only see 1 result without scrolling, not counting the related wikipedia link that apparently has no description.

I don't particularly like that it seems to be a column constrained to 550px width, instead of being responsive and taking advantage of greater widths.

to the author of the site, if you're not really into design/css, take a look at tailwindcss, it makes it fairly easy to produce a minimal amount of css that is responsive.
I wish someone would staple down what about discourse is so off putting.

I have the same feeling using it… it’s just feels like a chore.

Yet from 1000 feet, the UI does seem like an upgrade in phpBB, and the actual functionality lists so many checkboxes that it’s a wonder it has any competition.
"Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights targets "

should read

"Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights _violations_"
> wars

I'd sadly say the US has (like any empire before it) used wars and similar methods to achieve the opposite. Not always effectively but still.

Check a lot of countries in the world peg to the dollar even when it doesn't seem economically sensible.
Remember when Japan in the 80's was forced to do technology transfers to the US, import minimum quotas of US tech and limit it's exports whilst adjusting their monetary policy to help out the US leading to a crash that preceded the lost decade?

It's not because they loved the US so much that they did such things.
I tried to address this in my comment. If if was some marginal thing where there was a chance they were close, then maybe it would make sense to have a standardized lab test.

If someone is 50kg overweight we don't need a special procedure with a sensitive scale to decide that.
History of native advertising: why brand promotion is getting more sophisticated
VW detected a test cycle and turned emissions treatment, Adblue and some other things, on. When on the road, these systems were tuned down or fully turned off.
> If you’re dismissed, you can’t work as a doctor. No one will hire a doctor without residency training. You’re completely screwed.

I thought you needed to complete residency to get a license to practice as a doctor (reimbursable by CMS). Hence, of course no employer will hire you as a doctor because they would not get paid for your work.
If that were true, then the rise of overt racism/sexism coincides with the rise of identity politics? If so, do we know which is driving the other?

I have always operated under the assumption that the amount of (latent) allophobia in a given population is pretty much constant (or rather, a sawtooth wave around a hardly-changing trendline). The reason that we don't have violent clashes every week is because society is big enough that the oppositional groups don't come into direct contact that often. It seems that social media facilitates that direct contact (and algorithms actually drive it, because engagement), so we see more of the ugliness. But I'm not convinced that more overt allophobia automatically implies that there's more allophobia in total, just that it's more readily expressed.

But I realize that this is all conjecture, because there is no way to accurately measure latent allophobia anyway. It's just my personal interpretation of complex societies.
Ok thanks for the clarification, I was under the impression that immunocompromised people couldn't take the vaccine.
How did you go about seeding your web crawler with URLs to crawl?
I learned a lot about the way the world works through consulting. It is a different perspective
Yeah, the exploration part of it doesn't reward original stuff. https://qz.com/quartzy/1349585/you-are-not-original-or-creat...
The Cloudflare Backbone
> cause a lot of anxiety (which means the results aren't representative of on-job performance)

Not that I disagree with the author in general, but surely he can't be suggesting that work doesn't cause anxiety itself?
> Soon, I started thinking about how my photos would be perceived even before taking them.

This was a bit sad. Of course, Instagram isn't the problem. The best creative people have always created work to please themselves. They do not really care about like mechanics and peak times to post.

I hope this guy eventually takes responsibility and comes to terms with some of his insecurities. There obviously was a spark that drew him to photography, but it seems he has psyched himself out along the way.
This is unbelievably impressive on a technical and ambition level for a solo, self-hosted hardware project. Kudos.
The return address is on the stack so if you push data and then return, that data is now interpreted as an address to jump to.
If you trust high level law enforcement then you don't know high level law enforcement. They wrote a suicide letter for MLK in the 60s... and 50 years later not much has changed. It's been rotten since day 1 and somehow we keep trusting them to solve their own problems.
Someone somewhere thinks it is ropey, as it is in the DNS-based blocklist(s) our office subscribes too (via CloudFlair's DNS service IIRC).
It also sounds fancier than it really is. "Dependency injection" can literally mean just passing some arguments or setting properties on a hash. The target doesn't even need to be a singleton or long-lived. Honestly, I've never found the term particularly useful. The meaning is so amorphous that it could really just be described as a form of decoupling. But it sure was great to say it during interviews early in my career!
I'll have to read up about how it works for immunocompromised people it seems.
This person is an absolute chad
now Google try immitate a document system on your computer, usually I rely on Google know what I need:(
If the FDA prematurely approved a vaccine which was later found to have serious side effects that would destroy public confidence in vaccines for generations. Be patient.
It's the result of an atomized society. Fuck everyone else, I'm going to get mine.
Modifying class static private properties
Tesla is using Lithium Iron Phosphate in Model 3s and Ys manufactured in China. It's giving buyers of the SR+ in North America the option of the LFP version if they want faster delivery.

The downside of LFP is lower energy density which means an LFP Model 3 has a slightly reduced range compared to the Lithium Ion version.

The upside is the LFP likes to be charged to 100% where as Lithium Ion prefers 90% charges.
This is the argument for UBI. Robots will displace human workers. They already are. We can either capitalize on all of this human capital by offering basic income, or we can let income + wealth inequality slowly destroy society by rendering the bottom X% (where X is modeled by an exponentially increasing function) destitute.
My wife owns a small clothing store. Even though most of what she orders is not from China directly, the people she is ordering from are getting their raw materials from China (e.g. a T-shirt printer getting the blank shirts from China, or the inks for their press), so it amounts to the same thing, and lead times are stretching out to many months more than before.

In industries that require more different inputs than clothing, the problem gets even worse, I expect. The term "complexity catastrophe" comes to mind.
Please do not use firejail. The code used to have, and probably still has, very amateurish security flaws (like trusting the USER env var) and should definitely not have SUID, especially now that linux is getting unprivileged namespacing.
Cygnus? The company from Cygwin?
Wow, thanks! So totally reverse from what I was assuming.
I had both a full day on site JS programming(css optional) and a 20hr take home reactJS exercise besides all the precious onboarding stuff, pretty crazy effort, for both parties, time is money.
For one I had to take a day off, the other i did over a weekend.

Another thing I have realized, all the jobs valued php and bit SQL more as basic knowledge for web dev than any nodeJS/MongoDB even if it's just front end, they want some back end understanding.
Had some nodeJS things that generated all the front end via express , including chat module and sign up/log in flow, but either it was overlooked or not valued, any 5 minute to do list or crud with anything front end JS seemed more important.
I suppose few dare to touch the node ecosystem and nosql databases.

And the most recent one asked me if I can do their front end in react(really overkill, no need), told them I'll do it in vanilla JS, but nope, he insisted on react and that was the end of the story. Was for a MVP and would be the sole dev for a while.

I have found in general that speaking to hr is not useful, if you get past that and a senior dev (not a manager or product owner) interviews me, it would be a good experience.
My point is, whether you can know how your work impacts the bottom line is often outside your control. Especially at larger companies, where most people work on tiny pieces.

For my part, I worked on many things, and have no idea how it impacted the bottom line most of the time. I mean, I believe I had a positive impact most of the time, but don't ask me about the magnitude of that impact. I'm a programmer, not an accountant.

Besides, I do care about having a positive impact. It's just that most of my criteria are not directly measurable in $$$. Its' more about user happiness, maintainability, reliability… and some of those priorities may even be at odds with the bottom line (lack of quality is often an externality[1]).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gIJOy0c2g&t=152s
Depends. I've seen renovations with it between the double brick wall, on the outside or the inside.
The same thing that happened to blogging about everything else.
you now know you’re not dealing with good actors here.

How about we instead attack the legal scenario that enables this fucking absurdity? People other than cops can do this.
If Firefox does anything to make itself more attractive to developers, then Mitchells puppet masters will stop giving her the vast sums of money needed to enrich herself and her social activist friends.

Better to spin out desirable features (like this) and buy in undesirable features(e.g. Pocket)
uBlock and some other adblockers might block twitter URLs, I had issue with 1Blocker app as well which I discussed with their team and is now fixed.

Firefox strict privacy setting completely blocks twitter CDN urls, no way to fix it I suppose.

Thanks for taking the extra effort, appreciated :)
That's the beautiful thing about science. It's not about the messenger(who usually isn't perfect). It's about figuring out the facts over time.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/scicheck-misinformation-ab...
Those estimates are based on modelling with assumptions to fill in missing information. Significant is the assumption of little waning immunity.

Current data trends don't look so optimistic.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/22/latest-phe-data-shows-va...
> Can you run word on an Xbox?

Not natively, but you can run pretty much any signed UWP text editor on it without any fuss. If you're willing to pay a $20 developer fee, they'll even let you load unsigned software for a real party.
Job: Assistant Professor of Information Security
It should be a requirement that every public school classroom is live streamed so the parents can watch. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy between a government employee and children.

University endowments, the crystallization of privilege, should be seized and distributed as reparations. There is very little value in these places besides the maintenance of power and economic hierarchy.
I'm developing a text-heavy site and philosophically I'm trying to view documents as just that... documents [1].

But I don't get good results for "rug pull".

- 1 https://rugpullindex.com
I've seen pay become transparent (usually by accident) a few times and I've never once seen your scenario happen. If it even did I'm not sure why it would matter.

The most normal "outrage" response I've seen is "Bob makes more than Alice even though Bob is less productive".

Usually with pay secrecy the employer is covering for the fact that Bob had more leverage when negotiating salary and even though Bob is a profitable employee that they want to keep, Alice is a very profitable employee because she's cheap.

If Alice is no longer kept in the dark, she has both additional leverage and an incentive to leave in a fit of pique, neither of which you want for your most profitable employees.
5 Tips for writing production-ready Celery tasks
It typically takes about 50 years or for everyone involved to be dead for countries to decide it's okay to declassify.
Not OP, but if I was to do this, I'd start by downloading Wikipedia and all its external links and references, and crawling from there. You should eventually reach most of the publicly visible internet.
Anti-mask people seem absolutely incapable of absorbing the simple point that wearing a mask is not to protect you, it's to protect other people from you.

The chief reason COVID is so deadly is that there is a relatively long period of time that you can infect others before you start to show symptoms yourself. Anti-mask people seem to have successfully shouted this point out of the debate.

Of course this unique state of affairs did not exist when that interview was done.

Just bad faith argument after bad faith argument.
Guns are not the way to do anything
Yeah they do a lot of individual things to bullet proof satellites because you can't repair them and they cost millions (generally, cheaper satellites are starting to be used more and more).
> Can you run word on an Xbox?

You could if Microsoft ported it to it. The only reason Word runs on ~handheld computers~ phones is because Microsoft ported it to it.
Very interesting and thanks for doing this! This is exactly what I need for a special case in an environment where changing page tables is not allowed. Static executables with AOT optimized code is preferred, for performance reasons. Thanks for doing this!

Is there a way to interface with the C API from JavaScript now? I am very familiar with QuickJS already so I know that providing functionality is very easy already, but I was wondering since you compile to machine code if it would make sense to allow doing it the other way too?

Another peculiar thing on my wishlist is the ability to have a leaky GC. That is, a GC that doesn't do anything at all. In my special environment there's a phase where the whole environment is run at the highest performance possible and then immediately dropped. What actually happens is the env is reset to an "initialized" state after processing ends.

Also, does it support Linux? I think that it does because many consoles are "based" on that these days, although perhaps that is abstracted away.
> cases can't just keep on doubling

Indeed they cannot. That's why I wrote "until you approach saturation".
Douchebags gonna douchebag.
There's no global search across all your DMs and guilds you are in either.
You really think rich people will suddenly start paying taxes because government is more efficient? I don't think that is their gripe. If that was the case thet would not be lobbying for complex tax codes which exempt yachts.
Social media on the blockchain, hmmm...
Well, there are so many examples of people getting away with what they did, to read the opposite gives a counterweight to the doubting of justice.
But in reality, that just doesn't and didn't historically happen in stock markets. Buyers didn't accurately estimate the likelihood of manipulation. The government had to step in.
Systematically getting people to hand over money when you have no intention to deliver on and have no intention to return is probably fraud.
As dev I would love search engine which would only do search to stackoverflow github issues, documentation etc.
I hate discord. Every time I jump on to get help or engage in a semi-intellectual conversation, you end up talking to the same “regulars” on the server and often times you end up with a lot of misinformation. I end up leaving because there’s also a lot of gate keeping going on.
> I doubt that there are many (any?) Epik customers who I would consider good people (there’s simply no logical reason to host with them otherwise)

This is an incredibly shortsighted / insular perspective. We live in a world where conservative orthodox Jews (e.g. Ben Shapiro) are called Nazi's and conservative Black folks (Larry Elder) are being called white supremacists, simply for being conservative. Likewise, progressives and other left leaning individuals that dare utter criticism of the left are met with the milder insult of being called conservative (e.g. Tim Pool, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Maher). People are deliberately shifting the overton window to a ridiculous degree and the scary thing is that they are getting away with it.

I can imagine a lot of regular conservatives worry about censorship and may find Epik to be a safer bet than, say, Google who blocks pro-life ads [1]. I can understand that maybe from your perspective (assuming you're left leaning) you are not aware of how hostile society has become to mainstream conservatism, but you should try to see things from the perspective of a regular conservative who sees prominent mainstream conservatives being slandered, lied about, and cancelled all around them.

Aside from that, Epik did have a few differentiating features like offering single purchase lifetime Domain ownership that I haven't seen elsewhere, which by itself could be sufficient motivation for people to host with them, without the necessarily knowing anything about potential controversy surrounding the business.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/google-blocks-ad-for-s...
QE stands for "Quantitative Easing" (I think) in case anybody else doesn't know.
That's interesting; the article did seem like something more common in Russian and other East European cultures. Maybe it's a side effect of intellectualism being more highly valued (a good thing) but then leads to these superiority contests where "good enough" is derided if it is not done in some intellectually interesting way. Which can be a disadvantage in software engineering.
Wouldn't the dethroner of Google be some new technology which is not a search engine like Google but better at solving the original task of finding information on how to solve problems?

Just like how iPad dethroned Windows PCs for average home user but not Mac because Windows had the monopoly and then an innovation destroyed MS in this space and not a competitor.

I don't think Google dethrones Yahoo and AltaVista scenario will occur again.
Margin Accounts at Brokers and Dealers hits highest-ever levels
I saw an Indian newspaper in UAE (back in 2009 I believe) with a matrimonial section where people were described as having a "wheatish complexion".
You can't even know their portfolio is their portfolio. I had a candidate send me a link to their portfolio, and when I asked them why one of the apps had someone else's contact info at the top of some files, they ghosted me.
Is github.com (the website) slow to anyone else?
or is it just me?
CVE-2016-20012 – Publickey Information leak
Thanks for the heads up! Is there anything (packaged easily for Debian) you'd recommend instead?
So, uh, is this as bad as it looks? Anyone with industry experience care to explain this to me?
Actually, I like when goods reflect their cost of production, the economy works better that way.
People don't read instructions. If you need instructions on how to use a UI (especially for something as innocuous as an online forum), then it's not intuitive enough.