skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My aunt is a schoolteacher who lives in the NE US.

Once, she had purchased candy corn along with other groceries, to take to class, but absentmindedly forgot to bring the plastic bag with the sealed bag of it inside.

When she went out to the car the next day, there was no such bag to be found, leaving her rather confused as to how she could have left it somewhere.

A few days later, when driving, she heard _something_ rolling around in the outside of the car, and after a few rounds of looking and seeing nothing visible, a few kernels of candy corn rolled along the floor where she could see.

She took the car in, they went looking around, and went "...we can definitely tell there was _something_ living in there, but whatever it is, it's gone now. We've removed the candy corn we found." (It was not a whole bag, just a few dozen kernels. No sign of the bag that bag was in either.)

Was something living in the car unnoticed before and smelled the bag, and extracted it to its home under the hood? (I've certainly observed areas with nothing but "sealed" bags of candy corn carrying the distinctive smell before.) Did something smell it from outside and find a way in?

We will never know, but it was quite an odd experience to just find candy corn rolling along the floor from nowhere.

Bonus recollection:

Somehow, my family member's car was cursed in some way, and on multiple occasions, with the car located at different homes each time, a nest of bees was discovered in the frame.

The first time, the car was parked near a house, and there were plenty of plants and naturally bees around, so that was unsurprising.

The second time, it was living at an apartment complex without much foliage around at all, or any bees noticed anywhere.

If it had been the same place, one might wonder if the first bees had returned, but it looks like that distance is usually very limited, and he had moved a good number of miles away.

A "not mine" recollection:
A certain car vendor had to have multiple recalls because it was found that spiders were invading the car, because the concentrations of gasoline vapor were high enough to attract certain spiders but not high enough to kill them, and they would sometimes weave webs that blocked key locations. (It was Mazda, if you want to look up more details.)
Hah, I just wondered how easy it would be to implement it using treesitter, thanks for the link!
Sorry. Yoke.
/Torn-Out Pages: Pope Joan and the Persistence of Myth-Making
Just tried. Colorization seems still almost instantaneous. Emacs does generally not like such a huge file though (reindenting the whole buffer is slow for example).
CVE-2021-26084: Critical Atlassian Confluence Flaw Exploited in the Wild
The problem here is not input, it’s output. Apple’s web backend is spitting out strings without escaping them to HTML, which is a real novice error at this point in the web’s evolution. Sanitising inputs in browsers would be a nightmare of never ending complication.
> I don't think I "debate" much anymore. At least, not with the intention that I assume most people have when debating: changing the other's opinion.

I don't think people go into debate to changing their "opponent"'s opinion. Debates are usually public, I think the point is to change (or form) the audience's opinion
I don't think that should be a joke.

The publication conflates being foreign with trolling. It seems they care more about the speaker than the content.

At this point, trolling as a term has lost all meaning. It basically means anything that isn't standard left-wing-lite inclusivity.
Many people are in denial about how much genes affect people’s behavior and life outcomes. This is ironic considering that “diversity” is held up as an ideal.
New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix
One of the neat things about GFA Basic was its built in support for graphics. It was almost trivially easy to plot graphs of your math homework equations. Or to plot fractals (very slowly).
I know someone who moved cities for work and was let go during the probationary period, after a couple of weeks. Just one of those "we decided to move in a different direction" type of rationalizations. Certainly I'd follow your advice but it seems like there's always a risk.
Even expecting a reference from your current manager is a reason to avoid an employer. You just stole their employee and you expect the truth?
As the list of ways to trigger and activate the chimp brain gets refined, how long before we end up with something like a Laser for society?

The echo chambers on social media and reinforcement/amplification they produce seems to be very similar to the mechanism to generate coherent light. Does analogy break somehow?

Instead of syncing waves or particles just button press and sync a bunch of humans brains.

I guess armies and religion and politics and sports have been doing that (unsuprisingly through stories) but to achieve it instantly seems very possible the way things are going.

I mean the Speed at which ppl on social media or news media or the russians (sorry russians! I just mean whoever is motivated enough) can get the herd to stampede in a partucular direction, seems to be increasing.

How long before its instant? After all, its just chemicals being activated at the end of the day.
You got a few choices:

1. Get a new job. Market is fantastic.
2. Step up and run the team for him.

I've done both in my past, both worked out well for me. My old boss still pings me from time to time for job offers, etc..
What about Deepdyve?
There is a country with over 1 billion people that sorta-kinda breaks your argument. Its leadership is staunchly anti-religion, and I heard they are quite organized.

(They are also responsible for a large number of contemporary violations of human-rights and atrocities going on in the world)
There's a non-sequitour in your depiction of an attack. Gaining 50% of hashing power is not that interesting unless you really want to prevent someone from using their Bitcoin. And you can only prevent them from using it while your attack is sustained. When someone has gained ~50% of the hashing power, they only can do a small number of attacks [1], that are only profitable under external conditions, and even then, extremely risky unless you have a lot more than 50%.

There really are no arguments for a race-to-the-bottom boundless energy spenditure. The equilibrium point is the market's appreciation of the service of securing a network of inflationless, politically neutral money, which is a pretty cool thing to have in our world of tyrannic governments.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
Science is part of culture. And what is “human culture” anyway? You seem to think it’s some fiction we all believe. This isn’t culture. Something like that would be worthless. Culture, which is related to “cult” and “cultivation”, is supposed to help you become more fully and better you and part of that is a better grasp of the truth.
I’ve always worked in “at will” states (GA, TX), and as a result have never signed an employment contract. The only one I have ever been offered just limited my rights in the form of non-compete clauses and had nothing on my side with regards to length of employment or severance or anything.
Trying to sanitize on the input side reminds me of Cisco’s fix for a vulnerability in their routers that involved disallowing requests with a user agent containing “cURL”.
> It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track

In other words, it should not be used. More concretely IIRC it only works on Chrome.
Employment is at-will in the USA. They can fire you on day one no questions asked.
> Hard rules are great for catching insults or slurs.

Bingo. Hard rules encourage brinksmanship. There's always a class of "picador" users who will poke and prod and provoke just up to the line where the rules are, then flag the response. A moderator too wrapped up in rule by technicality (or too lazy to look at context) will then come down as harshly as they can on the author of the flagged comment, and give the picador a total pass. Problem is, the picador does this again and again and again, never making a positive contribution, while their targets are often chosen precisely for their prominence. Guess which one is encouraged to continue their behavior, and which one is encouraged to go away. Has the "moderator" helped to improve discourse on the site, or helped to ruin it?
I think that viability of an "option" is assumed. It's not viable in general today. I'd be surprised if there is even a single person that has actually fully replaced their conventional workspace with a VR desktop like this.
Yeah there's definitely some YMMV. An efficient baseline does continuously yield performance benefits, even if inefficiencies are layered on top.
Dapper Labs Launches NFT Collectibles with NFL and NFL Players Association
Isn't that what he is asking?
Once you see a connection doing so, it is too late :)
Given the lack of connectivity, I imagine the security concerns there are much less serious.
emacs has been an usable and relatively fast editor built on top of a fairly slow interpreted language. In comparison JS and V8 should be significantly faster. As you say, the issue is usually the layers of layers of layers of sometimes gratuitous abstractions build on top of some applications.
I ran into one of these many years ago. Reported them as obviously fake, nothing happened.
This is what I started thinking about: what are the proper ergonomics for a VR-office, constantly rotated one's neck may not actually be good. It's like this would become like immersion in a curved display with a huge horizon for every subscreen you want, then a "window" into the real world when you completely turn around (180).
Amazon making out like bandits in France because they don't have to pay any taxes thanks to our European « friends » isn't market distortion ? Dumping isn't market distortion ?

Most French people, including myself, would agree that :

- Books aren't a mere commodity.

- Bookstores have cultural and social value, beyond their commercial nature.

- Amazon is using every possible trick in the bag to distort the market to its advantage, regardless of the damage it's causing. It's almost a caricature of a scummy company.

As a long time and recurring French book buyer, the supposed group being screwed over : Amazon can fuck off and shouldn't be able to be cheaper than state-subsidized postage rates regular book sellers use.

If regulating those clowns causes gnashing of teeth abroad, what of it ?
> Why wouldn’t this article mention the Black American content as well? Certainly this is newsworthy, given the crucial implication here:

I can think of a few reasons.

1. The linked website is focused on issues related to religion.

2. The number of people who identify as Christian in the US is likely far greater than the number of people who identify as black activists.

3. Only one of those groups helped elect a Russian asset as president of the US.
Geo would make this easier. It's in NY Mag which suggests USA but we don't have employment contracts in most at-will states.
I believe we were discussing a potential addition to the C standard. It would however be useless unless the standard also defined such things as stack layout and a closed set of operations which may consume more stack space, such as calling a function.
I see a lot of people talking about signed contracts. It's not a bad suggestion, but might not be worth as much as one thinks (in at-will states).

Most of these "contracts" are just one page documents saying the company makes the rules and can change them at any time with or without notice, that they can terminate or lay you off at any time for any reason (at-will states).
I have noticed that what we are missing in the Frontend space is some common solution for caching and reshaping data from the api. In every codebase I have worked on we just implement this ad hoc.

We have agreed upon solutions for:
Api client (fetch, axios, react query, etc.)
Ui state management (redux, mobx, xstate etc.)
Ui frameworks (vue, react etc.)

But theres an intermediate piece between the api layer and the ui state that is always implemented ad hoc. We need some common solution to caching the api data, reshaping or querying it, and managing multi api workflows (for example a synchronous process where the frontend calls multiple microservices). Most answers to this end up being something like “get ur backend team to implement better apis” but thats not realistic in many cases.
Somehow too small a fine for such a corporation against the background of the European Union being sued by the giants monopilists Apple and Google. I recently published my https://essaywritinghelp.pro/ essay on the practice of law and reviewed these lawsuits.
Russia Threatens to Block YouTube over German RT Channels
I've heard multiple times, and I don't remember exactly from where, that you can access research papers for free simply by reaching out to the authors and that many if not most of them are willing to provide said papers upon request.

If that is the case, why exactly don't researchers stick their papers literally anywhere on the internet that isn't a paywall? Is there a legal difference between sharing a paper with an individual and uploading it to a public index?

Honestly, with the current psychology of the public, I don't think this would be worse than having journals pick holding research for ransom.
> received your start date

How can you commit to a start date if you don't give notice?
Since corporations have captured government, the solution is as you say, to "burn down" the old journals and rebuild them on top of arxiv, dblp, semantic scholar, git, etc. The ACM is slowly starting to open up, but it really needs to go all in and just be free for everyone and get a lower amount of of funding from way more sources.

You can run a better journal for free than what you can get from Elsevier. Throw in forums, video conferencing and shared docs and you can build entire academic structures in the cloud. Run a journal on a subreddit, papers on arxiv, video on meet (recordings posted to youtube), code in github, computation on colab notebooks. WeWork should offer wetlab space. ;)

Ideally we would have a storage commons where data that doesn't fit into the arxiv model of papers. Something like object storage but with some built in structure.
Like the 800/400 before it, and the Amiga, this generation of computers had such great tech hidden under such layers of junk. Hidden gems all over the place in these systems. Well worth some effort to learn how they delivered such power at a time when mainstream PCs were struggling with CGA graphics.
It'll be fine now, but when the next downturn hits you'll probably regret it.

I've gotten a bunch of interesting opportunities over the years by virtue of being nice to recruiters, even when I'm not looking.
It's the year of linux on your face.

This looks like a really neat project, I think not having pictures of the headset front & centre makes it feel very vapourware though, even if it's a hacked together development unit we still want to see it. Arguably, we might even want to see that more.

I struggle to envision this in my workflow though, my experience with VR headsets suggest that for a lot of text they might not be the best choice just yet. Excited to see where this goes though!
I'm no expert, but I'll take a shot at some answers...

> 1) What is a "troll farm" and what is the criteria used for a distinction between a troll farm and merely some points of view one might disagree with? Maybe this is mentioned somewhere, but I don't see it clearly defined in the link.

It's down to intent. I'd define it as: "A troll farm is intended to manipulate opinion in some manner for political goals by (mis)representing itself as a genuine member of the community it intends to manipulate."

> 2) What is the proof that these are indeed foreigners? It would be trivial for a social media company to label domestic users they find distasteful as foreigners to more easily silence certain points of view, especially given the media's unwillingness/inability to understand nuanced technology issues.

I don't think TFA provides any proof of its claims, but points to a MIT Technology Review article [0] that claims a report "obtained by MIT Technology Review from a former Facebook employee not involved in researching it" as its source. It would be entirely reasonable to dismiss the entire article as "fake news" based on this attribution.

> 3) Heck, where is the proof that these pages are even moderately operated by actual people and are not mostly bot-generated content?

Again, no proof provided. Does that make a difference to the intent of the page, though?

> 4) We live in a global, connected world that embraces diverse points of view, right? Are eastern Europeans or others, many of whom still embrace a traditional Christian heritage, expected to not post about their point of view because somebody in San Francisco claims its a troll?

That's not what these pages do (post content in Eastern European languages intended for Eastern European audiences addressing issues faced by Eastern European christians). They're posting in English about things that are contentious for American readers.

> 5) How can a data scientist make a definitive claim that the people running these sites have "never been to church"? Maybe these social media firms are making big assumptions about people and are entirely wrong. Maybe they have entirely far too much information about people.

I didn't read that as a definitive claim, but more as an opinion expressed by one person.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210917012652/https://www.techn...
> drug tests

How common are these in tech in the US?

If they were commonplace in London I am pretty sure the candidate pool would be slashed by about 95%
Part of the XML motivation was for something simpler than SGML.

SGML has no opinions on rendering, since it's just a generic markup language. Nor does it have opinions on "what do with a hr that's a direct descendant of the table despite not being permitted", to pick the first example from the spec (it should be treated as a preceding sibling).
Compiling Haskell in the background? Sold.

Jokes aside I've tried a few virtual desktops in VR and it _seems_ promising. The text clarity is a hard one, the weight of the headset for prolonged sessions would also be difficult.

A whiteboard app that works with non-VR users w/o 3D would be nice. Something like Miro but with nice feel in VR.
The major benefit to implanting it under the skin, as we do with pacemakers, is that doing without permanent holes or tubes through the skin reduces infection risk.

Consider also the danger of having something dangling from your body that is powered by your arterial blood pressure (from a major artery, as the kidney is). A trip and fall could be instantly fatal.
The problem is that now the core is more complex, and it still won't help if someone else wants to implement a slightly different feature.
Now I am confused, Which Experts™ should I listen to.
Some places never stopped. Have a look at all the rails branching off into factories and warehouses here in Winder.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.993451,-83.7608816,484m/data...

Pan west along the rail.

A big rail company has a whole depot(?) by the airport.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9760042,-83.6717785,484m/dat...
Because you choose when your end date is, not your current employer.

It's polite to give at least two weeks notice, but to meet that social norm you just need to only agree to start dates at least 2 weeks into the future. (And if you want to give more than 2 weeks notice... well... that just means you need to shift your start date farther).
Is working full-time on open source software (if you’re good) for free or for a meagre stipend the most effective altruism there is? When you consider multiplier effects.
max(<how much time you'd like to stay at the current employer> , <your legal obligation to your current employer>) + <vacation time> + 1 week for slack
Ha, I narrowly avoided exactly this situation. Had an offer signed, then got jerked around in the background check process for a few weeks, and then finally got a "sorry, we found a more qualified candidate, so we're rescinding the offer".

Must say I was glad that I grit my teeth and refused to put in my notice at my other job. The schadenfreude and relief at having dodged a massive bullet really kicked in when I found out who was the "more qualified candidate" eight months down the line at a local DevOps days.
In a lot of States that is true, but not all.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/at-will-e...
IndexedDB technically does this rather well unless I’m crazy, what a WebWorker really needs is a “am I even online” mode, the event handlers are one thing but browsers dont convey online state very well is what I run into. If you build a PWA though you get up to a gig of caching you wouldn't get with normal frontend DOM APIs.
Maybe you don't want to be tracked sometimes, and you expect turning off your device to turn it off.
Yes, this is a problem (or the problem). If you attend or work at a University, you probably have good access. Working at Google also provided me with pretty good journal access -- I don't think the same is true for other employers though.

Now that I'm independent, it's searching the web, e-mailing the authors of the paper, and SciHub. This system would be a lot worse without SciHub. (And yes I donated; in fact I used cryptocurrency for the first time to donate)
> The "reduced latencies" really reduces down to performance, where tps was a first order proxy for performance.

Thank you so much for this comment. I have come to a similar conclusion recently -- as long as the P100 latency is acceptable (e.g. all requests are served within 1 seconds), the only thing that matters is the TPS.

Back in 2016, I stumbled upon "How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene, and it really opened my eyes, especially the part about coordinated omission from benchmark tools.

Of course, after a few days, I also learnt that Gil was behind the Azul Zing JVM with the pauseless C4 garbage collector, and thus it makes sense for him to emphasize on measuring latency correctly.

At around the same time, GCP also boasted about having "consistent single-digit millisecond latency" for its BigTable offering, with Cassandra being the obvious target to attack. I was sold.

Then came Scylla, with a focus on maintaining low tail latency while running on fewer larger machines. I tested one of the early version with cassandra-stress, and the result was worse than cassandra. But I continued to follow Scylla blog posts with great interest.

Recently, I saw https://www.p99conf.io/, and something "clicked" when I read that it was sponsored by Scylla. Suddenly the hype of P99 seems to be wearing off. The video from Gil above is still correct, but I think it is applicable more to exceptional cases, e.g.

- the JVM enters full GC and do no meaningful work for seconds/minutes

- the InnoDB engine stalls for seconds/minutes due to a million different reasons

For normal cases, I haven't found the P95/P99/P99.9 metrics to be that useful. Instead, something like PostgreSQL/MySQL slow log threshold, where anything that exceeds a soft P100 target is logged, seems to be more useful.

Back to the article. If we only concern about TPS, under the "real-life" workload with Gaussian distribution, Scylla beats Cassandra by 2X. So that's it, 2X better performance on one hand, Apache vs. AGPL on the other.

(Of course that's an oversimplification. Scylla's shard-per-core architecture also allows it to avoid some silly single-threaded bottlenecks in Cassandra, but nobody wants to talk about those.)