skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen one that asks the last 3 digits of your phone number. Not sure how useful that one is but it could probably positively ID someone with a reasonably unique name.

My feed has become littered with these things because my friends are replying to them. Which encourages me (or, rather, the hypothetical FB user) to reply to my friend(s).
Simula looks like how ptoper open VR should be. If (and/or when) they can pull it of is still a question though.
Hint: In China officials control capitalists more or less, while in the US it's probably a different story.

You guys really need to substitute "state" with "elites", then it's pretty much the same story globally. You have to learn to unlearn the trick that they feed you (OH the state is evil but private is good).
"Born in Kiev in the old Russian Empire, into "an old Ukrainian Cossack family which was part of the intellectual elite in pre-revolutionary Russia", Kistiakowsky fled his homeland during the Russian Civil War.

He made his way to Germany, where he earned his PhD in physical chemistry under the supervision of Max Bodenstein at the University of Berlin.

He emigrated to the United States in 1926, where he joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1930, and became a citizen in 1933.

During World War II, Kistiakowsky was the head of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) section responsible for the development of explosives, and the technical director of the Explosives Research Laboratory (ERL), where he oversaw the development of new explosives, including RDX and HMX.

He was involved in research into the hydrodynamic theory of explosions, and the development of shaped charges. In October 1943, he was brought into the Manhattan Project as a consultant.

He was soon placed in charge of X Division, which was responsible for the development of the explosive lenses necessary for an implosion-type nuclear weapon. In July 1945, he watched the first atomic explosion in the Trinity test. A few weeks later, another implosion-type weapon (Fat Man) was dropped on Nagasaki. From 1962 to 1965, Kistiakowsky chaired the National Academy of Sciences's Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), and was its vice president from 1965 to 1973.

He severed his connections with the government in protest against the war in Vietnam, and became active in an antiwar organization, the Council for a Livable World, becoming its chairman in 1977."
Most technical managers (like myself) come from a development background. I personally have a very strong fear of not having the technical chops to demand specific behaviours & actions; of being illegitimate. My group's staff developer was very close to taking the job that I now have, but decided he wanted to be a technical leader. I do all the stuff that gives him the time to do that.
Compete on standards adherence? Look at how many features are either only partially supported or totally unsupported on Safari vs. other browsers: https://caniuse.com/?compare=firefox+94,chrome+97,safari+15,...
It's currently fixed distance, until the varifocal tech improves. That distance is about 1.3m/4'3".

You can change the effective stereographic distance though, so things look like they're pretty far away (or super close, if that's your thing), and the movement parallax, and eye convergence agree - but the resolving power is still the same for all objects in the visual field.
Happy to run into people who recognize how delightful it is. I've seen so much variety if the videos on my fyp page (how to start a locomotive, how to move between high voltage transmission lines, woodworking tips, etc.. It's a amazing. I thoroughly enjoy Tiktok and don't feel like I've wasted time even after scrolling through it for an hour.
The base model Bolt MSRP is within $1k of the entry level Model 3. The reason you are seeing such cheap bolt prices is because they have to heavily discount them to compete. Even without the 10k fsd option the base model Tesla autopilot and safety features are better than anything you could buy from Chevy at any price. They are competing for the same market Tesla is just dominating so hard it looks like two different price segments.
There are decent ad blockers available for iOS. But they have to be integrated into the OS and not the browser.

Frankly, I don’t want a fully functional Firefox or Chrome to be available on iOS, because those browsers are essentially an OS all to themselves. And iOS is bad enough on its own, I don’t want someone else to force me to allow an entire ‘nother OS that I have to have on my device.

If you want real-deal Firefox and Chrome on your handheld device, then you need Android or other Linux-based platform. And you will pay the price for choosing such a heavyweight option with such anemic processors.

Personally, I prefer to have a relatively lightweight OS that is jealously guarded, with an App Store that is much more carefully curated, on high speed and powerful processors, and which can remain relevant and fairly current for at least five years or more.

You can either have your cake, or eat it, but you cannot do both. Choose one.
> They lose the most critical part of life they must be earning and saving to harness the power of compounding to become financially secure.

That probably tells more about your country than about doing a PhD. In where I came from, financial security was something you had by default if you had some social capital, useful skills, determination, and a degree. You had to be particularly unlucky to lose it after that. Financial security only became a relevant concern after I moved to the US.
Have you found any good resources/write-ups on the best practices for this sort of thing?
Something like 13% of private-sector US workers are unionized... choosing to unionize is not some kind of default position. It's pretty rare.

And not every employer is pushing hard to prevent it from happening. Most employees just aren't that unhappy and would prefer to work under their own contract w/o answer into another intermediary that gets a cut of their money.
Good idea. Poison the data. The new castle wall is the forward facing phone camera.
I believe that's the fault of some institutions called Ivy League in the US. They want people to believe that they only do "brilliant" work, and many students really fall for it.
The fact that "Our Choice" is also definitely true though made me laugh a second time.
Absolutely. Unfortunately, harsh reality doesn't get clicks or fill teaching positions at awful wages.
"To invest" sounds great, but I'll believe it when I see it. For a long time now, American car makes have treated EVs like a second-class product compared to their gas models. Even if these plants go up on time, I don't think Ford is going to elevate the EV to parity with their gas models.

It's hard to say for certain of course, but I believe part of Tesla's success is due to their commitment to the idea of the electric vehicle. With Tesla, I know I'm getting the best car Tesla can make because all Tesla makes is EVs. With Ford or GM or Toyota, I don't get that same impression. If I buy a Volt or an e-Mustang, I feel like I'm buying an inferior product.

If Ford wants to win in this space, they need to change that perception.
A lot of the ideas and heuristics for one-on-ones came from “high output management” which was published in 1983.

I’ve been doing this tech stuff a long time. Companies I worked at started doing regular 1 on 1s before regular use of instant messaging. More importantly, the heuristics most use for 1 on 1s clearly came before use of instant messaging and digital collaboration tools.
What you include as a first-class element in your languages, versus what is packed away in a library, will affect what developers do with your language.

For instance, Numpy provides array-language [1] capabilities to Python, but because it isn't a first-class element in the language Python is not thought of as an array language, and using it as one would be a bit clunky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming
Facebook isn't "cartoon villain" evil, it's "paperclip maximizer" evil.
More detail here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

The results of the statutory enquiry are due in fall 2022, many years after this started.
OP here - fortunately my meeting load isn't as absurd as some place, since this company figured out "remote work" long before COVID forced it upon people who don't know how to go 10 minutes without a meeting.

I join most of my Hangouts and Zooms as an avatar, using a virtual webcam from within the software. If it's personal, sensitive, or requires more professionalism, I'll still "resurface" and use a regular webcam - but it's a special occasion.
Just want to mention that notwithstanding clause doesn’t apply to mobility rights for what it’s worth. Section 1 of the charter also allows a lot of latitude.
>30 minutes for a weekly 1 on 1 is pretty long, almost certainly a waste of time.

30 minutes for a weekly 1 on 1 is borderline too short, IMO. It depends on the person, but 1on1s are by far the most valuable and productive meetings that I have, and they often stretch longer than 30 minutes if possible.

>There's nothing after these 1 on 1s along the lines of "Planning time block for resources requested by Team Member B and E" or "Escalation call with Director B to handle sticking point M" or "Handling requirements conflict with product manager C over feature Q"

I count several meetings on their calendar that seem like exactly these things. Some of these things might even be covered during the 1 on 1s which you think are a waste of time.

>It sounds like this guy is is a highly paid sounding board.

Sounding boards are incredibly valuable and useful. We have people at my company that are literally just 40-hour-a-week sounding boards that probably haven't actually "done anything" in years, and they are some of the most critical people in the entire company.
For some codebases I think tests breaking at every change is the expected behavior.

In a way it gives an approximation of the dependency graph of the code worked on, and acts as a reminder of the other functionalities that one might not have intended to touch.
I've always wondered about building a test-sensitivity metric to complement coverage (and thus make coverage more useful):

- Pick a random line of code (skip comments and whitespace if you can)

- Delete/modify it in some way

- Run the test suite and see if it passes

Do this thousands of times on a codebase, then report on the test suite failure rate accross all of the random changes, broken down by file etc.

You could track it all in a long running database and focus each test on lines which have recently changed to make it less expensive.

I've never actually done this, but I'd guess that you could get a good sense of which files have good tests, and (combined with traditional coverage data) which files have bad tests vs just no tests.
Firefox had amazing support for mobile plugins. I haven’t checked in a while though.

I assume Apple doesn’t permit this so you’re kinda limited with an iDevice. (he says from his iPhone)
This is from the same person that reported iOS vulnerabilities recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28637276

Thanks for all the work.
"Mocking" is such a weird thing to me and I don't think it serves a good purpose. It's the kind of thing that would only arise if you assume a-priori that 100% test coverage is a non-negotiable must.

If you have a function A that calls B to get some data (by doing I/O) then process it using C, then the 100% cov rule would force you to mock B when you test A. But then what is the value of this test? What guarantees is it giving you? You are basically testing the internals of A, you are testing the implementation details. You are testing that calling A is the same as calling B and passing the result to C.
Have read on this site that the charging experience is great at Tesla at quite poor everywhere else.
I think you and the GP are both right (and wrong). On-boarding via a monthly 1:1 is most definitely not going to work, but this should probably be a team responsibility anyways. As a manager I do pay closer attention during this period but the new hire's buddy is the contact point, our process & documentation is the guide and team leads and senior devs do all the pairing and presenting.

You're definitely right about the advocating and facilitating IMO; equivalent to a code smell is managers who do regular coding in their daily work. It's a great way to build empathy but it's not your job.
I think the “problem” is that iPad’s hardware / sw quality is so high it makes seemingly similar tech products seem overpriced or shabby or both.

I feel the same way about the kindle oasis. Amazon seems to care less than nothing about that whole product line, it is so neglected.
Delightful article !
I’ve seen the DUI question in my feed in the past week, along with several other examples from the article.
Is there a sweet extension that completely blocks all pop-ups for a given domain? Certain webpages hide all kinds of ads and when you click UI buttons it triggers an ad-click. I would like to straight block all of them.

Does such a thing exist?
This is known as mutation testing[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
Some especially corectness-concerned or compatibility-concerned people use mutation testing, which changes each line of code and fails the test run if no tests fail as a result of a change.
This idea goes back to "sparse distributed memory" developed by NASA research in the 80s. It's a content-addressable memory where content hashes are encoded & decoded by neural network and similar items are in proximity to each other in the embedding space, and similarity measured via Hamming distance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory
Will be interesting to see how this plays out in other countries such as South Africa which has Huawei infrastructure and Huawei 5g routers in homes.
Not only does it not come with a ccs adapter you can not even buy one from Tesla.
Yes, see here: https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers

The experience at Morning Star (the company referred to in that link) is oft-quoted, but rarely replicated.
$4.49 in Australia
I don't work in civilian software development, but I do work in a setting with clearly defined, regular meetings/briefings. In our org, information frequently DOESN'T get to the relevant parties organically. There are representatives from every functional section; bringing every last team member in would be pointless and unsupportable due to space constraints anyway. The briefing is directed to the Commanding General (or whoever is receiving the brief in his stead, like a VP-equivalent in corporate terms). Our briefs are an opportunity to give the senior decision-maker 1) a snapshot of exactly what is going on right now 2) demonstrates to the decision-maker that the staff understands his/her mental image of the organization's direction/goals 3) forum for directed tasks/information requests from the senior leader to either Subject Matter Experts or the people who know them.
Coverage is:

- a negative signal (“low” coverage = no coverage)

- not a positive signal (“high” coverage only means code paths were reached)

- doesn’t mean your tests are thorough

- doesn’t mean your tests are correct

- most importantly for my current work, doesn’t mean you even have an accurate number (istanbul reports 100% coverage if it doesn’t instrument anything; nested languages aren’t instrumented at all, good luck finding out coverage of an XSL transform in JS)

- (still relevant to my work) a good way of conveying safety of small, methodical refactors that can be eyeballed along with incremental changes to see they’re logically equivalent
Mark is ruining it for every upcoming nerd.

It's almost like he's working on being disliked?

Maybe it's his a way of get back at the world for being invisible on so many levels, until financial success?
They mention attempting it in the post. It didn't go anywhere one time, as it was a minor, and the other they don't have anything to tie the attack to a person. This is a pretty common problem for small games/services that experience outsized problems like this. It's incredibly time consuming to deal with and legal action typically costs money. If you want to go after someone and you think you know who it is you need a lawyer and you need to get a case into discovery so you can get a lawyer subpoena power to contact ISPs and such. Even if you have their real IP-- reporting to police, or ISP can result in no action, even if you put in a lot of work.
> Following his guilty plea, his attorney Brian Klein said in a statement that Griffith is “sincerely remorseful.”

Has anyone ever been charged with perjury for lying about "sincere remorse"?

If not, it shouldn't be allowed as evidence in court. Remorse is between you and yourself. Atonement is what matters to society.
And what do you do when it's the devs that don't honor their IPO? Protest outside their events IRL, attack the chain, and force them to change their name... LOL

NEM is now Symbol... Still just a bunch of crooks.
It was an anecdote about how complicated the US system is. Other countries figured out decades ago that adding competition to healthcare does not bring down the price or lead to better life expectancy.

It is not complicated.

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...
For example duckduckgo produce nothing useful when you search Chinese keywords. DDG maybe good at doing English searches but Google obviously have much more resources.
PRayGround: GPU ray tracing framework using Nvidia OptiX 7
really cool blog
It’s open source. You can even build it yourself it you want to
A TODO file in Git.

Seriously, though, having your software enforce too much prescriptive workflow on you is dramatically worse than having it enforce too little. Historically it was common for every software team to write their own bug tracker for this reason.
"I don't think it's for political purposes because that is much easier to figure out without these oblique questions."

Personally, I cannot imagine a better way to build an in-depth profile of millions of voters.
That’s just self-defeating, because to draw these conclusions you have to artificially limit the scope of what your examining to a really contrived level. If your goal is to have a successful career, then you really don’t need to succeed at any particular task on any particular day, you need to succeed over time.

If you want to get a new job, perhaps it’s luck if you get the one particular job that you wanted to get, at the one particular company you wanted to work for. But if your goal is to get a certain type of job offer within some reasonable timeframe, that likely doesn’t come down to luck very much at all.

There are some career paths where luck plays a much greater role. Like if you want to be a famous musician, or the president. But for most careers, this isn’t highly relevant.

The chance of success for anything is always less that 100%, so you can frame every event that will ever occur as the result of luck if you want to. But if your goal is to achieve a more general level of success over the course of many years, then you can absolutely devise a strategy for doing that.
I'm not sure if I would call the system actively irrational. It's extremely well-measured, as scientists are good at measuring things.

The academic job market is hyper-efficient and gets close to a Pareto distribution very quickly. I agree that economics programs don't do a good enough job teaching about the implications of systems which distribute outcomes according to a Pareto distribution (which are many).
A significant portion of modern truck owners buy trucks for the image and to make themselves feel powerful, not because they actually require the capabilities of a truck.
Will the rest of the world embrace the internet model of China with time?
I see some worrying signs of things going toward the internet isolation. Some countries embrace the model of China. Russia is one step from testing the "Deep packet inspection". Google filters the results per region, which is not a big deal, but could be really annoying sometimes.
And some countries take advantage of COVID to streighten the control over the people, like Australia. What are your thoughs?
I was wondering when you’d get here!
Imagine FB, Twitter, and YouTube don't exist.

Do you believe whatever became the popular social media network would be any less toxic? Businesses respond to incentives.

20 years ago, Dick Cheney and friends burned trillions of dollars to ruin the lives of millions of people on wars for profit. Their main propaganda tool was The New York Times and Fox News. They didn't need FB to do it. And that's just one example.
I rarely get anything from my 1:1 which is one hour every two weeks.

Most reasons for the call could be replaced just by emailing agenda items to me, and allowing me to respond with any issues, then based on that and what is on the agenda we could decide to have a call but most of the time we wouldn't. And if we did to get past something in particular, it would be like 10 minutes not 60.

My manager is not technical though and can't really coach me about much. It seems strange that 1:1 time would be used to coach and develop technical staff -- what do you mean by this exactly? Some kind of training?
The F-series has traditionally had very strong commercial sales, even compared to other pickup trucks.
AMP is also used in other places e.g. any external links in Twitter when visited on mobile (IIRC)
Keep in mind that the system is also slightly different overseas.

In many non-European, non American countries, a PhD is three years after your undergraduate (with honors year, 4 year undergraduate instead of the normal three).

Very different equation.
This is not what I was referring to, no.

When operating a database at huge scale surprising things happen, because everything that can happen will happen. So operators are interested in ensuring the database behaves well in these extreme circumstances. This isn’t specifically about horizontal scalability, though that is a necessary component.

To your point about vertical scalability, no doubt Scylla performs better here. However the details of your mentioned comparison are perhaps misleading, as Cassandra can happily exploit more than 16vCPUs before its performance materially plateaus.

While it’s true that the JVM imposes some restrictions, they do not translate to a difference in performance on the order of that claimed in this post. JVMs have also been NUMA-aware for some time. The main explanatory factor is relative investment and focus.
$3 is an absolute steal. Shut up and take my money!
It’s the T-1000 of corporations.

http://www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/colbert-report-roasts...
It’s almost like every device you buy these days have you create an online account to use it.
Unfortunatly like a lot of things in video games it's a lot in-house r&d, public doc for those kind of problems is non existent.

The idea from my original post is that your gameserver should allow traffic only if the player is authenticated.
my glasses fit in the hp reverb g2, very snug though, i can get you caliper measurements if you care
Agreed. But in those cases where I don't like DDG results, I like how I can add "!g" to the end of my search and it redirects the search to Google.
As many times as speech-to-text on a phone has garbled my message, it gives me the shivers to think about controlling my car with voice commands. "NO! I only said inverse, not reverse!"
US really need to think hard on why Huawei gets ahead in 5G. And how can they make US telecoms more innovative. I think they should introduce more competitions.