skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow Aggie here! I graduated with a CS degree nearly 10 years ago, but I feel like earIy on I had similar experiences to what you’ve described.

For me the landscape and huge size of different orgs at TAMU was also somewhat intimidating. I did push myself to join a couple of service oriented groups and had a great time but didn’t make close friends (which is fine). I ended up getting involved in research and became close friends with many of my lab mates. There are many great CS research labs that are welcoming to undergrads just starting if you have interests in that.

For me I also found (perhaps too late in my studies) that taking classes in other areas that interested me (social sciences, psych for me) was a great way to meet entirely different groups of people without a lot of the effort of joining an org.

I hope something in here is helpful! Although I was definitely a 2%er with respect to school spirit, I greatly enjoyed my time at A&M and hope you will too.
Doesn't that simply mean that the customer loses connectivity, just as the attacker intended, for the duration of the attack?

From the ISP's point of view, you might have prevented an overload that could have affected other customers. From the customer's point of view, their service was denied all the same. Doesn't sound like anything has improved compared to 10-20 years ago.
Ah thanks. Missed that.
The C# extension is open source, and is run in VSCodium. It's a fork that just swaps out the debugger component, which is a drop-in replacement since it's a binary download. The whole stack otherwise - OmniSharp for VSCode, OmniSharp-Roslyn bindings, and the underlying Roslyn language language services - are all OSS.
CloudFlare, AWS, GCP.
But they're just private companies which according to many means they can do whatever they want without repercussion
Incidentally, rooting an android tablet is federally illegal too.
I recall Annie Ogborn having some good resources. Here's one I just found when looking around: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/978...
20 years working at FAANG your equity should be outrageous compared to other industry SWE.
Are you talking about event hooks, like https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks ? If so, your comment is one for the record books of misunderstanding.
> The study involved 110 participants; 58 were from the general community and 52 had a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Be wary with this headline ... this study does NOT reflect the general population, at all.
Not exactly made up. Having only the lightness values to start with, The task is to define the hue and saturation. Though in theory there is no way to know for certain what they originally were, in practice certain lightness values are associated with some hues more than others. Also, saturation values tend to follow lightness values quite closely. Add to that the fact that Klimt (like most painters) employed a habitual pallet, you are half was to a good guess.
I love meeting with people from all over the world, can't wait for them to take all the jobs and turn them to shit like their country.
You are talking about the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. Cookie banners has been a thing for well over a decade.

What you probably meant is the user data banners/popups you have to click on that are new since GDPR. They are not cookie banners, they are a different thing, calling them cookie banners gives people the wrong impression.

The fact that you mix these two makes it look like you don't understand what you are talking about here. Especially since you talk as if this was the only thing GDPR changed. The cookie law is stupid, but GDPR is not.
We're slow.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Human rights also makes it much harder to do business in the EU. Your point?
If I’m understanding correctly, the playing field is “levelled” in favor of people who tend to be late for meetings because of poor time management.

Additionally, “masculine hegemons” can no longer use their arm-waving skills to win arguments.

Hard-hitting journalism from The Guardian, as usual.
Short interest refers to number of shares (vs number of people), but you've got the idea.

I hesitate to write a lot because there's always 'well, actually' clauses that sends you down a rabbit hole(or off a cliff), but simplified it's people selling shares they don't own, with an agreement to buy them later. The hope for the short seller is that the price will be cheaper in the future.
The Germans used this process during WW2 to cover a part of their fuel needs. That is enough of a "proof of concept".

So there is no doubt that it works. It was abandoned after the war only because it was more expensive than extracted petroleum.

Almost a century later after its invention, it should be possible to have better efficiencies than in the past.
That’s a whole lot of writing before you get to the “Can we trust Microsoft with open source?” question.

As interesting as all the murky politics are, I didn’t need all of the long form prose to build to that question.

In fact you could have just straight up led with the question.

And then answered it even more simply. Any of

Nope

Probably Not

Hell No

Not Even

would have worked. I’m not sure why this is such a drama or surprise to anyone.
Ay, you're not wrong. But even granting them that, they disappointingly say “The Pyright extension for VSCode ... is not guaranteed to be ... maintained long-term.”
Fair enough. Although I suspect that a bunch of new subscription services is not what most people campaigning for RSS are looking for.
Why do you put words in my mouth that we should legalize something when I said nothing of the kind? If this is how you react when someone points out flaws with a legislative approach then good luck ever getting one that isn't flawed.
I empathize with this position, but I think this situation is closer to authentic restoration (which the art world is okay with, generally speaking) than an unguided machine transformation of a human work.

(I've visited just about every Klimt exhibit in Vienna, including the one that these B&W photographs are in. I think they've done a remarkably faithful job here, down to accurately capturing the subperiod of Klimt's "gold period").
The two reactors of a Gerald R. Ford super carrier can output more than a gigawatt of power together. Seems like plenty to me.
Bungled AIDS crisis? no problem.

Lying about masks? No problem.

Lying about "Gain of Function" research? to the point of redefining the terms in a pathetic attempt to kick the can a few more days? ... no problem.

ZOMG he's been Cruel to Puppies hang him!
Good point. But there are two problems with that claim.

One is about an order a magnitude, the other about a sign.

The first one: if you burn 1kg of pure Carbon, you get 3.67 kg of CO2 and 32.8 MegaJoules [1], which is the same as 32800 kJ or, 32800/3600 kWh. That's 9.11 kWh for each 3.67 kg of CO2, or 2.4848 kWh/kg. That's quite close to 2500 kWh/ton.

They are claiming it takes them 230 kWh/ton to reverse this reaction. You can see this is an order of magnitude wrong. Let's say they meant to say 2300 kWh/ton. If you divide that by 2500 kWh/ton you get exactly 92% that they claim.

But here's the second mistake: you need to put more, not less energy to split CO2, otherwise you'd get energy for free. 2300 kWh/ton is simply impossible. You need to use more than that, and actually more than 2500 kWh/ton if you don't want to violate the first principle of thermodynamics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_combustion#Heat_of_com...
I'm sad to see Jay go, I've interacted with him in his role as bazel-go maintainer. It's clear that project wasn't getting the resources it needs.
As a former Googler myself, I understand his frustration all too well. Google used to be run like a university, a place of learning and scientific advancement. It's not anymore. Many of my former coworkers have quit. All of them tell the same story of it feeling like a big corporation.

Note that Google was a huge, profitable, publicly traded company before this happened - it was possible to be an institution and be publicly traded, but for how long? Can we build long term focused companies that are subject to the whims of the stock markets? I'm not sure. Truthfully, I think it's a social problem.
You can just Fisher-Troph coal directly to aviation fuel. Nazi Germany was forced to do this and the Allies kept bombing the plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuna_works

"A total of 6,552 (!!) bomber sorties over 20 US Eighth Air Force and 2 RAF attacks dropped 18,328 tons (!!) of bombs on Leuna ... Leuna bombing from May 12, 1944 to April 5, 1945 cost the Eighth Air Force 1,280 airmen (!!)"
I pay an electrician a slight premium for knowledge and experience that won’t burn my house down. Sure, I could look it up on YouTube but the probability that I do something wrong probably outweighs the premium I would pay for a qualified electrician.

How is this unfair?
I think the scandal could be in the "successfully slowed down" part. if you employ people to openly state your position on certain issues and represent your interests, that's ok - that has always been the justification for "good" lobbyism.

(Though enough people point out that the ability for groups to effectively "represent their interests" differs dramatically between groups)

However, the memo sounds as if they didn't simply stated their position - but also used their power to sabotage the lawmaking process itself and undercut all the usual mechanisms of democratic will formation. That's abuse of power and rightly seen as a scandal - even though google is likely far from the only one doing it.
Google killed their very nice (at the time) RSS product, Google Reader, so they could push people to Google+, their solution to compete with Facebook.
What do you think the point of the article is? The title say that the playing field is levelling, not that it has levelled. It's not binary or a target - it is a situation which is happening. The article offers both for and against the situation being played out. There's no definite conclusion in the text of the article and no disproving of a certain point.
How to Change Your Etisalat Wi-Fi Password
There's an option in one of the menus for data sharing which should restrict some of the individualized data being generated. They'll still collect data on certain aspects off vehicle operation for diagnostic/monitoring purposes though.
I have used fish for years, it is just painful to watch how other people work with old fashion shells.

I applaud this project for bringing fish goodness to more people, although I don’t quite get why people cannot just learn fish. Fish is very simple. There is not that much to learn.

Maybe it matters if your write a lot of shell scripts but for anything complicated I use Julia, Python, Go or some other more proper language.

To me shells are mainly for interactive work and really simple scripts without control flow, beyond perhaps a for loop.
If you are just getting started, take an online class. Seriously. Reading page source or inspecting the applied css on other website will be slow confusing process.

Go to lynda.com (now linkedin learning unfortunately) and take the css essential course, then build your own personal website. The videos will give you good fundamentals and your website will give you real world experience.

No amount of advice or tricks can help you when you don't know the fundamentals.
They should definitely lead with this instead of the actual title. But is doesn't sound as interesting of course.
The Devastating Power and Heartbreaking Pain of Truly Changing Minds
We've replaced the headline with a more modest sentence from the article body and added the ": study" qualifier, which is always a good idea.
conclusion which also works as a kind of abstract:

> The processes involved in changing one’s mind are unusually stark when it comes to Latter-day Saints changing their minds about their religion. This is because various social, cultural and psychological factors incentivise members to keep believing that the Church is true even as information readily available online makes a compelling argument that it isn’t. Some Latter-day Saints overcome these forces and reach the latter conclusion anyway. This is a difficult, disorienting and painful undertaking. But it is also somehow beautiful, and I suppose what I find so beautiful about it is that it is the scout, the doubter, the truth-seeker, an underdog here if there ever was one, who wins out despite it all.
> how you optimally structure your CSS for composition and reuse.

I have the most trouble with this with CSS. I'm ordinarily at keeping my programming logic well-organized and maintainable, but with CSS I do bad and feel bad about it.

Appreciated the references for some things to read on this.
What is missing here is that no other method to collect feedback and product analytics has been proposed. It is impossible to make decisions at a company the size of Microsoft without that type of information. All the larger companies are doing it for this reason. Opt-out telemetry is the easiest and cheapest way to get it. Most Linux desktops don't have to deal with the problem because they aren't that big, and the operating systems that didn't have it at all were built for a different era. You're framing this as something being about the will of the users or being "user-hostile" vs not, but that's honestly not important here, this is a very real technical problem. Overwhelmingly it seems that Windows users (and some Linux users, definitely Android users if you count those as "Linux") are fine with the current state of things.

In some places it seems that people did care, for example the GDPR is a step in the right direction, but there seems to be about zero political will to do anything like that in the United States. And even that doesn't really change the state of telemetry in Windows that much.
Is Jetbrains Rider acceptable for .NET work under Linux, or do you miss Visual Studio proper?
It's the driver fault to not detect the event and to not take control, press the brake pedal, as far as I know.

When you engage the adaptive cruise control on any car brand, you are still very much responsible to not crash in the front car.
Tesla doesn’t make money via ad targeting and sales.
You're in agreement. 1/0.5=2
I looked into this a long time ago and here’s what I realized.

1. You need to be really well capitalized. AdOps engineers work for the most lucrative business model in these companies and you need large scale to convince publishers to integrate with you. While you are building this out you are burning money so you need to convince VCs to pour millions to fight the darlings of SVs.

2. The publishers don’t have any choice and are already struggling. Not many of them are going to take a chance integrating a new platform that might make them less money so you need to have sellers ready to go. Ultimately it’s in Googles best interest that publishers struggle because it prevents them from experimenting with other exchanges.

3. Sellers are largely unsophisticated. They might have a hunch that GOOG/FB might be bordering on useless but nobody has been fired for spending 10MM on Facebook ads. Trying to get a piece of that spend so you have something to give publishers leads to a chicken and egg problem.

Ultimately, GOOG has a massive moat that lets them protect that 20%
Let's tax at 50% every private property of a few million. That would do it.
Data you store that you later want to analyse in a way that cares about the time of day.

E.g. when during the day is traffic at its worst, when is temperature highest, etc.
You're talking about carbon credits, not a carbon tax.
Catholic mass is about receiving the eucharist. You can broadcast the mass but it's watching a TV show not getting a sacrament.
Patreon provides RSS feeds for creators, that's how paywalls are done for most podcasts these days.
I agree that they probably don't have a clear plan here. I would speculate that they saw the writing on the wall that Linux and OSS had won, and they just started doing anything and everything to gain influence in that space.

And there's no company I trust less not to abuse that influence once they see the opportunity to use it in an anti-competitive way without consequences.
Jack Dorsey: Hyperinflation is going to change everything
Which attempts to get help have you tried?

Have you tried reaching out on Twitter? https://twitter.com/instagram
Part of drinking to cope is dulling the internal self critical monologue. For someone who drinks to cope this includes blocking out the very thought that they ARE drinking to cope. If you are then asked to explicitly think about the choice to drink and how that makes you feel then I would expect exactly the results that the researchers in this study got.

"Whenever a participant reported having had an alcoholic drink....At various points over the following three hours, they then rated the extent to which they felt the drink had “relieved unpleasant feelings or symptoms”, and also provided updated ratings of their levels of those various negative feelings."

I'd be interested in a study which analyzed participants focus on negative thoughts without explicitly asking them to be self aware about them.

I also wonder if this is applicable to procrastination and self deceptive actions in general. If I'm reading some "candy" novel when I should be sleeping but know that I've got to check in 15 minutes from now about how I feel about bedtime procrastination then I'm not going to enjoy the book. The whole point is to immerse myself in something that distracts me from my depression, anxiety and shame at the very process of distraction.
"AI is increasingly being applied to mission critical infrastructure like national electric grids and automated supermarket warehousing calculations during pandemics. However, there are questions about whether the maturity of the industry has caught up with the enormity of its growing deployment."

I surmise "being applied" means outcome of an ML model is used to augment the decision taken by a human. I doubt they are used to handle everything automatically for critical infra, since ML models are neither 100% accurate and fail miserably when they fail. But the insinuation is that the field has already been won by AI.
Liquid metal helps convert CO2 into battery, manufacturing resources
> After much scrambling the order came from the top to quickly remove it to unblock the evil plans.

Well otherwise it would be considered securities fraud
It's a redirection of focus. In this thread, non-parents are upset at parents because they feel crunched when we have obligations that prevent us from working certain hours. The reason that they feel crunched is not the fault of the parents; it's the fault of management. I'm arguing with the notion that this is some sort of privilege parents have, that non-parents necessarily pay the price for. If management takes this sort of interruption into account, you won't feel the crunch. If management punishes your team because of circumstances outside of your control, that's abusive. If you ostracize the teammates with those external circumstances, you're playing into a divide & conquer tactic. You'll probably end up on the receiving end of that at some point.

If you think it's important to be a team player, show some loyalty to your team and demand better of your management.
This is quite issue with any big product - open source never found widely applicable model of operating that isn't dependent on some companies.

Linux relies heavily on corporations using it.

Gecko is dead without Mozilla - if Mozilla bankrupts, no one has enough manpower to develop Gecko.

Even if code is GPL-licensed and in ongoing development, main contributor can easily force their design choices on downstream forks. If you redesign some system, downstream forks have to reimplement their changes on top of refactored code. And they don't have enough manpower for that.

Well, governance of open source is probably not solvable, like most of human relations.
Unless it is really simple stuff why not just drop temporarily into bash?

I mainly use fish for interactive work not for programming. Then I use a real programming language.
Your story underscores my belief that government is past the point of reporting in the hope of repair or reform. When the system is broken beyond rescue, at what point is it right to revolt?
I still don't get the reference. Why don't you just be clear and unambiguous?

I know that access to healthcare isn't a necessarily a given in the US. I know that kids prepare for shooters to enter their schools. I know my friends husband doesn't have the correct level of healthcare(don't know the terminology) for his bowel cancer so now the family is broke, I know what I know because I have worked with Americans for years.
I think the Blockchain might survive as an artefact but it won't be used. However it's still very new and shiny.
Hundreds of developers built tiny JavaScript games for JS13K
I'm talking catholic which explicitly and unequivocally differentiates between remote and in person. Remote mass and communion is not possible period
It’s remarkable how effectively the fossil fuel industry has gotten progressive environmentalists to believe that we can solve this problem without carbon tax.

The moment you mention how a carbon tax works (that it’s a market mechanism) progressives recoil. When evangelizing to progressives, I try to focus on “making polluters pay for the damage they are doing” (as opposed to making taxpayers bail us out) since they are more likely to be persuaded by appeals to fairness rather than efficacy.

Similarly, conservatives recoil at “tax” nomenclature, so when evangelizing to the , I refer to it as “carbon pricing” and emphasize the economic efficiency argument.

In either case, we have a long way to go, politically.
Also they were giving employees haircuts. Having been in the military and watched enough documentaries on the subject… any group that gives you a haircut is probably a cult.
That just sounds like a bug.
I have a pasture 20ft from my barn and no way would I want that as close to my house as my turf is. Mice, ground hogs, ticks, a gazillion insects, ground hornets, all sorts of weeds including poison ivy, wild animal poop you can't see because the vegetation hides it, so you step in it. You can't walk through it in summer in shorts unless it is mowed like grass. Forget walking barefoot.

What you describe is not replacing turf grass with pasture, which is what the parent described that I responded to.
Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants
One of the most useless purchases of my life.

I bought an endura pro, the ultra-nav (the red nub in the middle of the keyboard) doesn't work properly: it moves at different speeds depending on whether you're moving towards the right vs left. It drives me crazy.

The problem seems to be that it gets stopped by a key and doesn't get tilted enought to trigger pointer acceleration.

I'm supposed to erode a key somehow... To allow the lever to move a bit more, but it's a dumb solution to a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place.
I believe "scale" should probably be "growth"
>You'd kill someone to support your family? Surely not.

I mean, this is America we are talking about. There are thousands if not millions of people who have done the calculus and decided to build systems that kill people overseas everyday
I've been able to quit all the substances I used to cope; cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, after a rather depressing realization that in fact none of them made me feel better in the long run. Short term gains at the cost of long term financial physical and mental health. The model I use to think of it is that drugs steal life energy from your future and give it to you in the present. That's the devil's deal you're given.