skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd call it a loophole, it's still illegal to hurt people or damage property, but certainly there is evidence to suggest bugaloo boys and white nationalists are doing exactly that, by infiltrating peaceful protests.

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/far-right-boogaloo-boy-kill...
https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/mitchell-carlson-umbrella-man...
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/boogaloo-b...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/boogaloo-bois-member-charged...
https://www.complex.com/life/2020/07/white-supremacists-infi...
1 or 2.
The 4x faster came from our first attempt - writing a complete CI (UI + infrastructure). The performance improvements mainly came from good hardware, a more aggressive cache on dependencies, and a docker layer cache.

The 2x improvements is referring to our latest product BuildJet for GitHub Actions, which is a plug-in runner for your existing GitHub Action pipeline.

I hope that clarified it.
What a legend.
> Aren't migrations good on some aspects such as force engineers to stop using insecure libraries?

Sure, but how many times have you deployed an update that you were sure was security? Most libs I work with are 90+% features or ease-of-use releases, the security is hand wavy to do with dependencies, or a very rare "oops".
What's even stranger is that there is an open source project under Apache for Flex. One that even has not only the blessing of Adobe but the support of the company. Their answer has been write an app in Flex and get in compiled to JS. No need for Flash! Several developers using it happily in the Lansing area.

http://flex.apache.org/
I think this meteor came in a glancing angle and broke up at high altitude. If it were to come straight down it would have burnt up, or done a lot more damage.

The terminal velocity of a baseball is ~95mph, a brick is ~150mph, so the meteorite must have been slowed down to around this speed before it hit the roof. It also would have had 4 min of freefall Canadian airblast to cool it off.
We'll never know for sure. Which is too bad, because the plan of "Let's comb remote caves for hundreds of dangerous pathogens, bring them to a lab in the middle of a 10M metropolis, then perform gain-of-function research on them" is as nutty as it sounds.
Hmm... maybe for just the compare pages then? I'll chat with James about it to see what we can do.

(I'm one of the site creators)
It sounds a lot like the screen events Firebase reports (a library by Google for analytics, among other things)

It allows you to know which screens a user views, but not the data on the screen. A pseudo-example would be like "User opened LoginScreen/LoginActivity at yyyy-mm-dd and stayed on that screen for X seconds"

Not an actual screenshot of said screen
validate the insane over criminalization

I think you misread the GP. He's not defending the system, just describing it, and how the OP was lucky that the people in charge were unusual and open-minded. He's warning others that the risk/reward implied by the OP's experience is misleading.

I suspect that most commenters on this site applaud the kids adventurousness and style. A great hack! But we are uniquely aware of how rare it is that anyone with authority, school administrators or law enforcement, would show any leniency or self-restraint in these cases. On balance, the instinct seems to go for the jugular, dehumanize the kid as a criminal hacker, and ruin his life. No-one is saying that's good, or reasonable. It's just how it is.
I’d guess it was probably a combination of a quick roll-out, and also concern that people wouldn’t know what to do with them hence a lot of the text is emphasised. (I could also imagine there was mostly testing in “laboratory” conditions, scanning codes displayed on screens, but hard to say.)
VR controllers can get occluded from tracking cameras. Quest Pro supposed to have cameras on each controllers as well, but I think there could be some ideal tracking method out there.
I don't know. There's been randomized controlled experiments showing that providing information on popularity distorts choice to favor those who are already popular, so it's not just that people refer the more popular options.

What you say is true, but it's complicated because most viewers are not the average viewer, by definition, so providing them with the average viewer preference could lead to most viewers being less satisfied.

I do think there's some kind of feedback loop that plays into this system. I don't think it's unique to social networks or new but I do think the process of matching any kind of consumer with content will run into this. It's more of a regression to the mean problem in prediction (which is maybe what you're saying I suppose).

I have this weird experience when I try to go to YouTube in a temporary container in Firefox without realizing it, and I'm served what the average visitor would see. It's so different from my usual homepage it's like a different world.

Even so, I seem to run into these local minima in recommendations where I end up getting recommended the same stuff over and over and over again. Eventually I'll learn about some content from someplace else and it breaks out of that local minima and starts spinning new recommendations, but it's like I know there's other stuff out there I'd like, but it's not getting to me because the recommendation system only has information on things it's collected information on, which means things that have been viewed, which means more popular content.

That's not even getting into issues like bands and artists being "rediscovered" decades after they were producing most of their music.

Sometimes I feel as if these discussions devolve into this tug between "less popular is less popular because it's lower quality" versus "less popular is less popular because it doesn't get visibility" when the truth is in between. I suspect there's a lot of content out there that could get more exposure but doesn't because there's no match with the right audience, but if you're not really appealing to many people you'll never get anywhere. But then again, people change, and what's popular changes, and changes differently among different people...

I think it's a really complicated issue involving feedback loops, discovery, information, and so forth. It's not just like finding some static gold needle in the haystack, it's like if the perception of what a gold needle is changes from person to person, and from time to time for the same person, and seeing another needle also changes that perception.

How this maps onto the distribution of reimbursement? Not sure, but I suspect there's a disconnect between some ideal optimum situation and what's out there.
Experimenting with my money is not something I'd appreciate.

Then again, perhaps it's just me.
I was at my own community college 2 years ago, and they had those Smart TVs showing news and weather everywhere, as well as custom images uploaded by the clubs on campus.

It was supposed to be that a club could log into them, make, and submit a graphic to display on the TVs, but the school would have to review them before they would be displayed.

However, I would later find out, a software update had messed up the roles system and so that club username/password which was in a public document actually had the ability to post things immediately on the TVs, without review. I found this out when I made a Math Club poster, hit the button, and it was immediately live without a check.

I just reported it and it was fixed the next day. My instructor said that could have been really really bad considering some more unscrupulous college kids who would have (not naming names) probably gotten a kick out of throwing pr0n on them...
Also there is an NFT for the Mona Lisa
Back when that was the debate, Trump was pushing FDA to "accelerate" approval i.e. do it before the studies analysis was done. Now we know how those studies went, but at that point nobody did yet (and they might have revealed e.g. a lack of efficiency), so yes, if FDA did issue an approval back then then they should have been treated as corrupt for breaching their own process in a way that can impact the safety; and that is why the concern was (IMHO reasonably) raised by various Democrat leaders. Heck, Trump was on record asking officials to alter election results, of course he could also try to overrule FDA if he chose to and wasn't loudly opposed.
> alive, secure, and adware free

But not open-source. Follow the rules, people.
I think he could have saved even more space in his final pass by uppercasing the business names:

HTTPS://S.NSW.GOV.AU/C/121321/Test+NSW+Government+QR+code (binary mode)

HTTPS://S.NSW.GOV.AU/C/121321/TEST+NSW+GOVERNMENT+QR+CODE (alphanumeric mode)

He ruled out full alphanumeric mode early on, prior to ditching Base64, but it's sensible to reconsider it by the time you reduce the URL this far. He goes on to allude to simplifying or even dropping the business names to save more space at the cost of lost functionality, but just uppercasing them seems benign to me.

It's a nice write-up all the same.
Yes.

And then there's the unrealistic demands from companies that didn't even understand what DevOps was supposed to be, and are misunderstanding SRE even more. Many companies still treats this the same way they did "ops".
I don't think this is a "why" question.

Apparently it did have the right energy to crash through the roof but not damage the pillow.
Image Captioning with TensorFlow and Keras
> That's not giving other developers much credit for critical thinking.

Au contraire, I think it's you who is not giving tech evangelists and marketers enough credit in their skills at persuading people to adopt bad ideas.

If you compare different programming communities, they have very different best practices.

Things one community swears are necessary to making good software, another community views as irrelevant or harmful.

Programming is littered with examples of people getting overly attached to some dubious principle and then running as far with it as they possibly can. Some of those examples have become dominant frameworks!
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Nope, not on these scales.

Say you have a 32 byte hash, that's 2^(328) possible values, right? Now say your input is 128 bytes, that means that (on average) each 32 byte hash maps to 2^(968) values.

"Natural looking" data will occur an astronomical number of times in a search space that large - which is, again, only 96 bytes larger than your hash.
Kids have been jumping fences for millennia.

That said, I did know a kid that had charges pressed against him when I was in school so things weren’t necessarily innocent back then either. He was admittedly an idiot and borderline malicious though.
TS !== crazy OOP.
For some reason, there are people who just want to use Java style OOP in TS. Nest.js is one library heavily promoting that. I can't digest such codebases, they are the definition of over-engineering to me.
Fortunately, out of dozens of medium to big TS projects I worked on, only one used that style. In all the other projects there were very few if any classes.
Ohio.gov Geoblocked for Anyone Outside USA
I, somehow, seem to be more comfortable working on a couch than from any desks. I seem to be able to prolong my state of flow for better durations on it. Does any of you too feel so? or is it just me?
Ohioan living overseas hoping to access any of your state's services? Lt. Governor Jon Husted and Innovate Ohio think that's too much trouble.

Innovate Ohio's website (https://innovateohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/innovate/home -- also geoblocked) claims their key User Experience goal "ensures that state resources and information are accessible to every Ohioan."

Edit: Attempts to e-mail state senators / representatives bounced.
Searching for any recipe shows the same paperclip-maximizing-gone-amok do-not-want SEO trap: I don't care about some made-up story about how this ratatouille makes you think of summers at grandma's garden. That's all empty word-calories best left for the writers at pixar. Something truly revolutionary would be if google ranked recipe sites by higher recipe-to-fluff ratios.

Thanks for developing all the stuff at weatherspark. It's one of my favorite practical examples of compact visualization done right.
DEFINITELY Unity3d, possibly Unreal. compared to the amazong UI Blender has, it's just unbearable to work in Unity.
Patriarchal? Are you sure you don't mean paternal?

> why you think they're qualified in any way to do this nudging? Why do you think the outcomes they want are going to be good for you personally?

I think publicly sanctioned (ie. elected) rulers should craft policy that alters people's behavior in positive ways.

This is the underpinning of representative democracy, we trust our representatives to make more thoughtful decisions on issues than we do ourselves, because they have more time to think on it and it is their full-time job. If we don't trust them to do that, we don't vote for them.

Of course, that can break down - if for instance, the primary thing deciding elections is a bunch of idiots voting based on TV ads.

But the problem there is with the representative process, not with the concept of "nudging."

> Why do you think the outcomes they want are going to be good for you personally?

I don't always want outcomes that are good for me personally, I want outcomes that I consider to be good and just.

I don't think we always get that, but I think "nudging" can certainly be a tool to realize those outcomes.
No, they're 100% correct.
The goal of a meaningfully-lead life is not to lengthen it as much as possible.

The goal of the government is not to minimize the number of deaths at any cost.
To your point #4:

Do you really think that developers shouldn't be paid what they're worth? Or that developers should hold down their worth so that you can pay them that much less?
that's correct, the monorepo stopped being served by perforce many years ago (the efforts to keep it scaling were heroic). Instead, google made something which appears to be API-compatible with perforce (so the tooling continued to work) but is backed by Google technologies with the source hosted in the datacenters (which is kind of a circular situation).
Coinbase has relied on referral marketing for their platform for a while[1], and I can't help but draw parallels to how referral marketing is relied upon by MLMs.

[1] https://www.fintechmarketinghub.com/post/coinbase-the-power-...
Thinking strategically about the most reliable systems in our organization today, email is probably at the top of the list. I feel like there is a semi-auto magic thing email is still missing for a lot of businesses. Many things can be managed within the latency constraints of email. All of the hardest & most complex things almost certainly can be. For instance, on-boarding a new employee could be totally driven by some back-end service that simply sends & interprets emails all day to ensure that all of the required activities are executed.

Now I am wondering if I can rewrite our B2B product interface to just be email. The more I think about this the more it starts to make a ridiculous amount of sense...

User=>Server (Email 1):
Subject: Get Workflow List
Server=>User (Email 2):
Subject: Workflow List [hash code]
Body: <all workflows by name and id>
User=>Server (Email 3):
Subject: Start Workflow #21
Server=>User (Email 4):
Subject: Workflow #12345532
Body: <First page of onboarding questions the user needs to fill out>
User=>Server (Email 4 - reply):
Subject: Re: Workflow #12345532
Body: <First page of questions with responses>
Server=>User (Email 4 - reply):
Subject: Workflow #12345532
Body: <Second page of questions, or error regarding first page responses>
...
Server=>User (Email 4 - reply):
Subject: Workflow #12345532 [COMPLETED]
Body: <Completion summary with whatever final artifacts attached>

I know our users would totally reject this proposal if it were made to be the only way to interact with our product, but if it were an additional way to interact, they might grow accustomed over time.

Think about the technical advantages of the above. If you keep it plaintext, anyone with a computer made within the last 3 decades could access your business system unconditionally. Developer productivity is likely excellent. I can't imagine you would be able to get very distracted with plain text emails.
I think the most intriguing aspect of this report is the dog somehow sensed this meteorite was on its way.

"she awoke to the sound of her dog barking, giving her a moment's notice before a rock from outer space hurtled into her bedroom."
That was an earlier break; this article is about https://sha-mbles.github.io/
On Slow Writing
While old VB was fun for whacking together things it's not really stuff one would want to maintain in the long haul.

Right now I'm sometimes spending time maintaining something for a DCOM based semi-monstrosity and that does suck even if I've managed to clean out some old warts, luckily I'm also doing some more modern .NET stuff and that isn't too bad at all actually.
Is that build tag necessary? I should check out what it does, because I've been deploying Go functions to custom runtimes without it. Does it skip some kind of "determine if Go-specific RPC or custom runtime" check?

EDIT: I found it. Thanks for the tip! https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/1f782848d89c02bf80...
Apple planning to launch switch style console and Apple TV redesign
> The goal of the government is not to minimize the number of deaths at any cost.

Maybe not at any cost, but yeah I think there should be a pretty strong presumption towards improving people's welfare and not killing them.
>> But you can't train on all possible cat pictures.

I wanted to make a joke here that, sure you can, all you need is an infinite number of cat pictures and infinite time and compute, but actually you don't need that. Neural nets can do better at identifying cats in images than anything that has gone before and that has to be said.

The problem is that this better performance degrades precipitiously with any distance from the standard benchmark datasets that may contain cats. In the real world, with its infinite variation of not only cats but also cat poses, environments, lighting conditions, etc etc, it's a much worse deal and as I say in another comment, good luck knowing how well SOTA approaches do at it - we'll never know.
academics in soft-sciences sometimes use opaque wording to create a shield from low-brow or emotional opposition to the statements.. I think that after watching a trained academic give a talk on the theory behind a particular museum installation.. Since it is highly subjective what to focus on in something like a museum show that is publicized, it seemed to me that the academic was signalling to an "in crowd" of other trained academics, while giving the straight-arm to those who were not

> A pervasive ontology of sameness, rooted in notions of essential humanity and nascent sensitivity to cultural relativism soon developed

what I read in that is, the destruction was so obvious, that the participants on both sides had to retreat to some feelings of humanity, and found similarity that way
Perhaps another piece fell nearby just before this one.
you mean 3? (i just edited option 3)
The workflow is generally reversed in South Korea: the visitor shows a generated QR code to the merchant's camera for the check-in. (There are also multiple fallbacks available.) The QR code is, to my knowledge, a very short living JWT credential and looks like this: (I've redacted pretty much every nonce for the obvious reason)

003|eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIwMTIzNDU2Nzg5YWJjZGVmMDEyMzQ1Njc4OWFiY2RlZiIsImVucCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3NzLmNvb3YuaW8vMDEyMzQ1Njc4OUFiQ2RFZkdoSWoiLCJpc3MiOiJBQ01FIiwiZXhwIjoxNjAwMDAwMDAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoiMDAzIn0.AEwfg3OC34g07x_xVWekdUumxPTqbrRFvQkOVV_TQT4

That got encoded into a fairly large QR code---61 by 61 modules (version 11, error correction level L)---and it is always painful to get it recognized, mainly because every merchant's device is different and some devices and/or apps are particularly less responsive.

It is very noticable that there is a lot of redundancy here: the format of JWT payload will be very regular, always having `sub`, `enp`, `iss`, `exp` and `version` (fixed to `003`) fields in a verbose base64 format for example. It makes a fun challenge to optimize this into something much smaller.
> and we shouldn't engage in censorship of factual information because "people are dying".

It's not 'censorship of factual information' for a private service to choose to put health warnings against or delete fact free claims of HCQ as a miracle cure. Indeed "healthy living" supplement hucksters are ridiculed and kicked off platforms on a regular basis, even when some of the claims they make about "healthy living" have a tenuous connection to fact.

We don't change the parameters of science to pretend that people insisting that a pandemic isn't a threat because self-administering a moderately dangerous drug is effective prophlaxis are presenting "factual information" because the people doing so are supporters of politicians rather than pill vendors.

All of which is tangential to my original point which is that "HCQ is a miracle cure" became a meme entirely divorced from the tentative (and probably manipulated) evidence of therapeutic benefit well before attempts to shut it down or the Surgisphere "study", so I can't imagine why more blame is apportioned to them than the public figures making evidence-free claims about it from the very beginning.
> Roof don't look substantial enough to slow something that size and dare say density enough for it to be finally stopped by a pillow

Why not? It was in free fall. Wouldn't a rock be similarly stopped?

> given the speeds and also the temps

What speeds? It would have slowed down to terminal velocity way before reaching the ground.

What temps? It should be pretty cold by then. The glowing red hot meteorite on the ground is a Hollywood invention.

> Makes me wonder - how hard is it to fake a meteorite?

Depends on who you want to fool. Researchers with access to equipment? No chance. News organizations? May not be that difficult.

> Then the aspect that it would still be hot

Nope. Not that hot. There's a debate on whether or not it will even be warm. Probably cool to the touch.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/75-our-sol...
> assigning more RAM to your Lambda than it actually may need [...] increases the assigned CPU shares

"serverless" indeed
>Would the rock have had enough force to kill her if she had slept on that side of the bed that night?

Can a lump of iron kill you if it fell on your head from the ceiling? Yes, it can.
> I thought google hasn't use perforce for years but something called piper[1].

Yes, but for I guess the author wanted to keep things simple for outsiders.

Piper is supposedly not much different than Perforce. Forgetting implementation details is just a centralized version control system that holds a monorepo and everyone* just test and build from trunk/master/head.
why tho? given that there are more efficient ways to produce light and heat and there are drop in replacements for incandescents?

Do you just prefer blackbody spectrums?
https://archive.is/uF6sU