skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could the solution to this be some type of exam/testing process similar to a bar exam that lawyers are obliged to pass before becoming a lawyer?

By this I mean an applicant funded testing (not educating) process operated by a respected institution that can be used as a heuristic for competency.
There is a world of difference between being Satoshi level of anonymous and being an open book for anyone on planet earth to try to SWAT.
The speed of light is a hard limit on improving the performance of onion sites. Having your requests routed through six (edit: random) servers is always going to be slow.
Not optimized code is not code with "beginners mistakes". It is simply code that need optimisation.
Thanks for checking the actual text. Yeah, sounds like exaggeration and fear mongering

This looks like it would be as dangerous as standard whois
If we cannot keep people who are supposed to protect us accountable (even via a trusted third party like internal affairs [1]) we as society have a problem. And we do have a problem: a problem of trust, at the very least.

I'd like to think they do get caught, and I'd also like to think most cops in society can be trusted. There's dirty (and I use that word liberally) cops everywhere in the world, yes, also in The Netherlands, but the rotten apples are in a minority.

Mind you, my original quote was: "Police wont't generally use something like this as it would interfere with bodycam which includes a microphone." I said generally; I was already aware -in a world-wide context- some dirty cops might do such, or that I could think of exceptional situations where such might be warranted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_affairs_(law_enforcem...
Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet
I wouldn't be surprised if most people didn't notice that their MacBook was hibernating. Apple tries to hide it by showing you the login screen immediately, but that period where you can't interact is the device resuming from hibernation. It's a similar trick to what they do on iOS. When you open up an application that was suspended, it shows an image while reloading the saved state to make it seem like the app never closed. (As documented here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio... )
I agree this is clickbat trash, but the only thing that doesnt make this a scandal is the sad fact that we implicitly accept the extra-political power (and cruelty) of US intelligence agencies at large.

If it wasnt a scandal, why did it take FOIA request to reveal the measures the FBI were applying to a huge American citizen cultural figure?
That is an incredibly disjointly written article. Something is set up, then next sentence has nothing to do with it. Sentence structure, word choice, just weird.

Seems like (bad) machine written.
I haven't tried it. I tried using an RDP client once but it wasn't a good experience. Now that I know this exists I might give it a try.
What is the test required for?
This is absolutely astonishing. The colorization isn't great, but you can tell it will get much, much better as the algorithms improve.

The stabilization, however, is ... well, astonishing. There is zero visible judder except in a very few places.
This is a highly overlooked point. In these massive developer organizations, you're able to focus more and more on the core of your profession and have to deal less and less with catchall technical tasks. The scope of work is very different and you can't expect the skillsets working in a startup to be applicable to those in tech giants and vice versa.

Tech has an issue where only a handful of titles try to cover a massive diversity of actual skillsets. I'm not entirely sure if this is good or bad but it at least leads to significant confusion when assessing someone's abilities. Not all SEs are the same in terms of their focuses, there are lots of flavors in reality.
It sounds reasonable to anyone who doesn't work with macro data to say that "a few billionaires" cannot have a measurable effect.

There are approximately one million physicians earning an average income of about $300k. That accounts for approximately 7% of $3.8 trillion spent on healthcare.

Another way to look at it. The total assets of individuals earning over $540k increased by over 30% from $27.58T to $36.23T from 2020q2 to 2021q2. That is, the net worth of just the 1% of highest earners in the country increased by an amount equivalent to 28 years of physicians' salaries in a single year.

Political discourse on the distribution of wealth in the US does seem intent on convincing people who make a few hundred thousand dollars that they feel economic stress because they are propping up the truly destitute, and convincing the destitute that they feel economic stress because professionals are making $300k or $400k. Actual data relating to the percentage share of wealth in the United States[1] spanning 1989q3 to 2021q2 by income percentiles show that people in the 60th up to the 99th percentiles have hardly changed their percentage ownership of assets in the country, but everyone below the 60th percentile in income has lost ground, and that wealth ownership has been almost exclusively been acquired by those in the top percentile.

80-99th: 43.6 -> 43.6
60-80th: 16.7 -> 15.4
40-60th: 12.3 -> 7.2
20-40th: 7.4 -> 4.0
0-20th: 2.9 -> 2.7
99-100 : 17.2 -> 27.0

Note that these data begin in 1989, which was already the first year in the post-WWII period that the gini ratio exceeded 0.4 following economic policies intended to shift wealth away from lower earners (it is 0.458 in 2020, and was most equitable in 1968 at 0.348). (Table F-4 [2])

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
Your traffic is certainly going over more than six links to get to you today, the only difference is clearnet traffic direction is organized for efficiency. TOR has inefficiency baked into the design for the purpose of privacy.
Snip-snap/snip-snap! Do you know the effect 4 account deletions has on a person?
I certainly hope that there are technological improvements that we can take advantage of that have occurred in the past decades (in manufacturing, modeling of pressure vessels and chemical processes, etc).

Mass to mars is incredibly expensive, it's worth spending the time and money to optimize whatever equipment you are sending there.
Austria has a public registry of addresses of all people living in the country.
Takes seconds to resume and saves a lot of battery since the machine is truly powered off.
The de-noising and super-resolution looks quite good to me. It's the colorization that's super unstable and looks ugly. If they'd just left it B&W it would IMHO be more impressive.
New wave of strikes will test worker power
I have a lot of rare stuff. Demos, live albums (grateful Dead, dmb), live captures of daft punk at Coachella, underground hip hop mixtapes, CDrips of local punk and Ska bands from the 90s

Fingerprint matching barfs on all this stuff.
What it ignores is that to perform the maximum number of launches permitted under this new license will consume around 1% of the methane this would produce. This equipment will be be used, at most, a few hours every month, but he's producing numbers under the assumption that it would be running 24/7.
Diablo Canyon was commissioned in 1985 with a planned decommission date of 2015. 36 years is on the upper end for how long nuclear power plants last. The alternative is to buy/import electrical power. Of course, the power grid needs upgrading.

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/29402043133.pdf
A transparent attempt at padding the article. It is written like a modern recipe article with a teaser, 10 pages of filler, then the reveal at the end.
> inserting n items into a HashSet or HashMap is to initialize the structure with a capacity of n.

That's actually a bug in HashMap (either the implementation or the spec). If you ask a structure to reserve space for n elements, that means it should should reserve enough space to actually store n elements (so n/0.55 in this case). If the method actually does mean to set the internal, implementation-detail capacity rather than the real capacity, then the specification is buggy, because that's largely useless unless you're relying on implementation details (as demonstrated).
I don’t think you understand what morality is. People can believe they are highly moral while killing “evil” outsiders (by their moral code). Religious organisations that declare themselves to be highly moral and follow the moral codes of a bible have historically had zero problems killing, burning and torturing people with different moral believes. Morality is a set of rules that a group of people (or an individual) choose to follow. There is no “universal” or “given by nature” morality. However morality is extremely useful in helping groups of people corporate and fight external groups. That’s why different moral codes from different culture/religions tends to be similar because they all help groups to collaborate and survive threats from external groups.
I understand it is specifically about _space launch_ capability. No other state can launch as efficiently as spaceX. And private citizens get tangible benefits from it, such as internet in remote areas
This code should use OptionalLong instead of Optional.of() which doesn't have primitive overloads and caused wrapping of the long into a Long and extra heap indirections. It still probably can't beat Rust, but what's presented is probably not optimal.
It’s put up to share, man.

You’re writing this comment of yours and posting it publicly. Are you so incredibly proud of it? It’s riddled with typos and wouldn’t get you a passing grade in middle school.

That’s what I would say if I were being overly critical of someone sharing their opinion. It really doesn’t need this degree of hyperbolic value judgment. If it’s such rubbish it will easily be outcompeted for attention.
I don't think this will work on PCG.

"pcg32, which has state-space size of 2^127 (2^64 period × 2^63 streams) and produces 32-bit outputs."

https://www.pcg-random.org/predictability.html

That said, The PCG author does not recommend to use it for cryptography.

"Although it is less trivial to predict than many mainstream generators, that does not mean it should be considered crypographically secure. Exactly how hard it is to break different members of the PCG family is unknown at this time."

https://www.pcg-random.org/other-rngs.html
The original medium contains information collected at the time, with the technology available at the time. As such, it represents a time capsule that includes much more context than we can possibly realize; especially analog filmstock and audio. "Upscaling" and "autocolorizing" is injecting inferred (and often wrong) context from today using today's technology and context, tainting, corrupting (IMHO), and again, IMHO, ruining what the original artifact represents.

In our current technological, digital zeitgeist, everything that seems like higher and better resolution is universally better and must absolutely replace what was there before. But this is just a shifting fad, unrecognizable to the people who were alive then, and probably unrecognizable to people in the future.

Preserve, conserve, protect and pass on. Don't corrupt and "better" these things.
CSS for Beginners
Let me turn it around: in what world would you find it acceptable for a paid professional to take 8 months before they stop being a liability? Especially in today's jobhop heavy environment?

Humans learn incredibly fast when motivated, so yes, I am quite skeptical when someone throws such a vague statement as if we should just accept the problems lie with juniors and not any of the many things a company could be doing wrong. In your case, "so much technology and processes", I'm already skeptical an individual needs to know that much to be productive in a junior role, for a few contexts only.
TIL about "bog butter" and half a dozen other culinary terms that I've never heard of. Maybe for good reasons we don't make these food anymore? (banbidh, old curds, real curds, bainne clabair, sowens, flummery, etc)
It feels a little sneer-clubby to complain about people in this way online, but FFS, they really are obliged to understand their profession.

* Anything about Tether, other than "it's the largest stablecoin."

* That the primary users of their product in China are engaged in capital flight, rather than entrepreneurial speculation.

* That the people yelling 'To the moon' on Twitter and Discord are excited about making easy money, not about developing projects on their platform. And that the swag and meme competitions they were running were doing little to nothing to advance them with the audience their product actually needed to court.
>As a former educator I'm going to say it's because when it comes to the skills companies are looking for on average children of upper-middle class people are better if for no other reason than they've generally had much more money spent on their education and training, to the tune of over a million dollars compared to lower class peers.

This is funny to me, because in most debates about the function and efficacy of public schools, I'm assured by the other side that money isn't the issue.
Replace www.reddit.com with old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com.

Not sure if it works with NSFW, but they've recently taken to app-blocking everything and it fixes at least that.
My argument was that I (for one) doesn’t worship Jesus Christ, the Buddha, Ra the sun god, humans, myself or anything else. So the argument that we all worship something is false. Dietrich might have been worshipping a god or humans but that is besides the point.
In fairness, Java 17 has just been released; it's possible new custom patches will be introduced in future Corretto patch releases.

Still, the fact that Corretto 11 had so few backports is encouraging.
Are there any famous Americans that haven't interacted with the national intelligence apparatus? I'm starting to wonder if American's deep distrust of the government is actually because Americans have been manipulated. If it turns out that basically every American that made it into a big city has been manipulated, tricked, or met and attempted to build trust with false personas that are facade to government operations then that should be both shocking and revealing.
> We don't need to change CompSci, what we need is a proper "software engineering" trade school that focuses on actual day to day software development (including soft skills and dealing with project management, etc).

There are plenty of "software engineering" degrees that do focus more on these areas than traditional computer science. As an industry we look down on them and quiz textbook knowledge of algorithms to keep them out. This is something that needs to change or it turns it into a self fulfilling prophecy that these courses get seen as second rate (because the good candidates know they're making getting their first job harder by selecting such a course).
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you! Note: article is from 2020.
Yeah but to be a good programmer, it helps a lot to have a real CS education. "Hunger" and "wanting it more" is no substitute for understanding CS fundamentals
The Puerto Rico Ports Authority is actually currently evaluating proposals received in response to an RFI for developing a spaceport in the site of the old Roosevelt Roads US Naval Air Base in Ceiba, on the eastern tip of the island.

https://newsismybusiness.com/11-firms-interested-in-developi...
Mailing addresses that are not your physical address may be a decent workaround, but should that even be necessary?
Have you disclosed the issues publicly?
>To my knowledge, these patents provide no value to the company or society beyond being a negotiating tool if another company tries to sue them for infringing a patent.

Now, I am as leery of patents as a metric as anyone here, but
I wonder if your context is software or “tech” patents. I am probably in the minority but I do regularly read patents in order to teach myself the basics of esoteric subfields e.g cutting edge (not bleeding edge) industrial chemistry. Ok, as an interested layman (and therefore a reasonable constituent of “the society” of which you speak) I might be wrong about how cutting edge it is, but I usually feel enlightened after one of these forays. Probably not the intention of the patent writers..

EDIT: I try to read the latest papers too, but I find that patents help to provide the missing context

EDIT: this contemporaneous HN thread provides another example of the usefulness of patents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28889591
Any argument why that is not the case? I am honestly interested in hearing any arguments against.
It could still happen, but I am doubtful. The public option appeals to me because it also erases all the advertising and spying incentives these guys have.
I haven't had an active subscription for a while (when iTunes was the desktop app instead of Music being the desktop app) but I distinctly remember being able to set metadata in the Info panel on a song or multiple at once that prevented fingerprint matching.
> Most of these things were once said about sites that used SSL.

in the sense that every possible thing has been said about everything, sure. and to a slightly greater extent maybe they were said about trying to SSL-ify _everything_.

but "gee maybe shouldn't SSL-ify sites handling sensitive data" has never been a serious talking point.
His Twitter handle is Cassandra and it’s really appropriate: he’s stuck between wanting to warn people and the backlash of being the party pooper to the all-time-high party.
Fun Irish fact: pubs in Ireland are closed on St Patrick's Day.

There's also a variety of delicious, regional potato based products that, until very recently, you won't have found anywhere else but in Ireland. The way boxty is made for instance, is crazy to me.
Yes, and it would be better if this sort of inefficiency isn’t directly incentivized by legislation.
The article drops this in, "At the time the United States was neck-deep in the Red Scare, and communism was like atheism to the US government and the FBI." without comment, as if everyone just knows that atheism is the worst thing ever.
I wonder if the publicity works well against work via tax evasion. Anyone can combine whatever you do with your ID. If you earn a lot of money black on the side (e.g. via drugs dealing), while your income is public and you got this expensive car, then its not just suspicious. Anyone can look you up, figure out you're a sham, and report you.
Having read the whole blog post series I agree.

I can't figure out what the issue actually is meant to be here: the strongest argument is that the emissions SpaceX will have from the Starbase site itself will be higher then are being reported because the assumptions about the facility they're building are not accurate.

This might be significant, although it's certainly an argument I have a hard time worrying about in Texas, for this one facility, unless it would actually have a deleterious local impact (or be unmitigateable) - but it is a reasonable point of concern and a good use of public comment - though as noted in the series, the NEPA process is more about documentation then prevention. SpaceX can it seems, just update the numbers now and say "yeah so anyway it'll be that".

Where I'm much less clear is the argument about the gas wells or the gas pipeline - which are presented separately but seem to be necessarily together in order to link them as an issue associated with the Starbase site's operations itself, and I'm really not able to connect the dots here: it's implicitly obvious that Starbase is going to use some quantity of hydrocarbons to operate, but I'm not clear - once the site itself is accounted for - why its a problem that the pipeline and wells they'll necessarily build not being initially included matter?

Is the NEPA process somehow going to grant approval to construct fracking wells that will not be on the Starbase site, or approval for the pipeline construction? The pipeline argument in particular seems to be the weakest because if the existing decommissioned pipeline (who's run length I imagine SpaceX intend to use) was denied, based on the map coloring as presented in the post there's very obviously another path which doesn't cross any shaded regions...through which another pipeline already runs. If it does that seems like a problem, but I'm having a tough time figuring out how the FAA approving rocket launches would in any jurisidiction translate automatically into "and so we also are totally approved for this subsidiary company's fracked natural gas well many miles away and a pipeline".

There seems to be a weird implicit assumption that the FAA approving what it has would somehow approve it with every other agency - which, can it? Does it? As things stand "we're going to build a 250MW gas power plant" maybe shouldn't happen on the site seems to be my takeaway, but since they haven't built it yet and since it's existence doesn't seem to of major impact beyond land-clearing and emissions, surely whether it could be built is one question compared to whether SpaceX can get approval to do everything else they'd need to run it? At the moment they've launched zero rockets, but it seems like they'll be able to launch some without any of this and everything else is a question for the future - and surely the point of other regulatory processes particularly if it's not happening on the site itself?
The 00's called, they want their encoding problem back. (Not being dismissive, I'm just amazed that the default setup can still break nowadays). I remember dealing with this stuff back in 2004, a page that helped me understand why ö became Ã¶ was Jeppe's Unicode Page:

http://www.jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html

17 years later and the website is still there...
> If you're not using a registrar subject to the EU rules I'm not sure why you'd bother to object to the rules in the first place.

Because we don't want this horseradish inspiring other governments?
What’s wrong with e-mail?
I think it’s important to make a distinction between non-developers who can reduce developer productivity and those who can’t. Which is why I mentioned managers. But other than that yep good point.
> I think microservice architectures are almost always the result of ignoring systems thinking lessons.

Pretty much. The current hope is This Time It's Different, because of various self-discovery service registries, observability approaches, more orchestration, and so on. We've arguably made some progress; FAANG's wouldn't be be able to operate at their scale if something hadn't been accomplished on that front.

But I'd wager there is a lot more systems thinking that goes on in those architectures than is being let on in public.

Management is not a substitute for leadership. Throwing together components is not a substitute for systems thinking.

There are no silver bullets, whocoodanode?

It is curiously ironic to me that we're traveling around to a similar kind of (yet still different) environment as mainframes, with well-published interfaces, inscrutable non-realtime chargeback style billing, vendor lock-in, lots of scrutiny upon fine-grained transaction monitoring, and so on. Somewhere over in a well-earned retirement, probably sits some white-beard, chuckling to themselves as they down another plate of chicken wings and quaff a fizzy umbrella drink.
The future is more likely to be payment processing becoming a utility and government regulated so you can't just cut someone off without going through some official process like you would to cut off power or water.