skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a link? i remember something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324055 Note that it is based in a retracted preprint, so it's not confirmed at all.

The idea of the paper is that they look for parts in one f the proteins of covid-19 that are not in other covirus they already know. Then they searched for these new parts in the proteins of other virus, and one of this parts "is" in HIV.

The first problem is that the fragment is too short. So there is a huge chance to find it somewhere just by luck. It's like if I edit may comment and add the word "revenge", and then someone claims I copied that word from a famous book that uses it.

The second problem, is that they didn't find exact matches, the examples they got are very short but have gasp in the middle. It's much easier to find a coincidence. It's like if I edit may comment and add the word "revenue", and then someone claims I copied that word from a famous book that uses "revenge" instead.
I have this technique for reading books when I'm not fully concentrated:

For every paragraph you read, take note of any idea, comparison or memory you had while reading it.

If nothing came, actively ask yourself: what is the author saying here? Explain this paragraph, in written form, to yourself as if you're explaining it to someone else.

In my experience, in the end of the first page I'm already fully concentrated and my brain feels warmed-up.

The written notes are important. I feel like writing forces the brain to enter a "rational, active mode", instead of the "low energy, low attention, low reasoning" day to day mode.

This, obviously, is not a data-driven, scientifically informed method. Is just my personal experience.
Yeah, that was my point..
Because the government would like to know what sort of news you're reading. For the protection of children.
Half expecting "It's dark here. You're about to be eaten by a grue."
I can second this; I run it as a screen saver and it can really be mesmerizing
> ample time to replace noncompliant systems.

I think the point here is this is completely out of left field as far as what anyone has insisted would be non-compliant with GDPR... If you had done a compliance audit the day GDPR passed, I highly doubt this shortcoming would have even made the footnotes.

"Overly broad and interpretable law with rabid defenders is stretched to painful limits just as critics predicted" is the real story.
The problem is that when you are renting from Hertz you are probably new to the area and don't know where you are going and if there are any charging stations nearby.
From the reviews I've seen so far, seems like Apples "Relative Perfomance Points" benchmarks were as misleading as expected for the GPU. The M1 Max is more like a 3060 in performance not a 3080.
Looks like the URL should be https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-ang...

There's en extra 'en/' in the submission URL
Sure, I agree. The point is that if the total corpus of Rust code is too isolated into too small islands, then the boundary effects of each island may eat up a lot of the benefit.

I still think the project is really cool and worthwhile.
The QUIC API OpenSSL will not provide
We had a company-wide change where if you organize a one hour meeting in Outlook, it would actually schedule 45 mins. A well intended change allowing people small breaks, to stretch their legs, go to the toilet, grab a drink or just give their minds a break.

Guess what the response was of the managerial class: alright, so to have a TRUE 1 hour meeting, I just schedule 75 mins?

Way to miss the point. In my view, the costs of sending a meeting invite is just too low. There is no barrier at all to start useless and inefficient meetings whilst the human and productivity cost is enormous.
I think this is more correlated to maturity than size. It's just that size is highly correlated to maturity.

I've been in large companies where I was the admin/owner of their AWS account. And I've worked at companies with 200 people where I have to submit tickets to get anything created in AWS. The major difference was how mature the product was.
Stock up ~5% at ~$252, which is still down ~7% from the pre-announcement share price of ~$271
I looked at it this way. The thing most engineers, hero's or not, want to work on is new projects and to build products customers enjoy. The last thing they want to work on is maintenance. In my last personally owned company, small as we were, the engineering team and I documented how things worked as part of what we did every day. We found that by having the inner workings documented so that anyone in the team could effect a repair or update a piece of code freed us to work on new products and services. Just having the system continually documented freed our minds and kept us mostly happy (everyone has a challenge from time to time) and productive.

The documentation, not that it really matters, was done in a MoinMoin wiki. It was written by engineers, for engineers. We didn't stop marketing or sales or anyone else from reading it, but the target audience was the engineering and operation staff thus no one had to over-explain the vocabulary of our architecture.
If the bank still relies on legacy software and IT standards, well it's just its fault. They cannot expect people with diacritics or other non-ASCII characters in their name just to spell it incorrectly because their systems do not support Unicode in the twenty-twenties.

Maybe their IT team had other priorities than replacing EBCDIC with Unicode (or whatever they find more appropriate for their systems), but this is an indicator of poor interest in technological progress by the bank itself. It reminds me some banks that gave millions to Microsoft to keep ATMs running Windows XP after its end of life.

Edit: I elaborated a bit more and I realized that it might be more difficult than just replace the character encoding standard to a more modern one. For example, the name of the account owner likely needs to match exactly the holder name on the credit card associated with the account, and I'm not sure if diacritics can be embossed correctly on the card.
> That Mao said he was fighting for 'freedom for all'

Marxist-leninists and maoists typically don't claim that, at all. They advocate for a "dictatorship of the proletariat", which is what led to the fork of the First International between the anarchists and the marxists. You may be interested to read some anarchist critiques such as Emma Goldman's "There is no communism in Russia" or "Trotsky protests too much".

> No, they failed because they were never quests for freedom in the first place.

That's what the new powers-that-be (eg. Lenin/Mao) have rewritten history to be, claiming the quest for freedom was a petit-bourgeois concern and it was all about building a strong "Workers State". However, most revolutions historically had some libertarian (in a left-wing understanding of the concept) tendencies and were very horizontal in nature. You may be interested for example to read about the Russian revolution, which initially was a direct democracy experiment (based on local assemblies called soviet), before a well-organized minority party (the Bolsheviks) seized power and massacred every dissenting voice (which took a few years).

> I am saying that [communes] are culty and have authoritarian tendencies way beyond what we have in regular societies

That's not my experience with self-organized communities at all. If anything, there's a lot more room for personal autonomy, and a much greater tolerance for individual quirks. Most squats and communes i've lived in or visited over the years were populated mostly by people our society explicitly rejects for failing to adhere to norms (neuro-atypical, trans, people of color, anarchists..). Therefore we tend to have more empathy and openness about everyone's weirdness.

> In regular society, you're generally free to be whatever kind of fool you want on your own land.

I'm tempted to agree, but i have to point out first that this is only true to the extent that you are recognized by the State as owner of "your own land", which requires considerable resources/wealth most people don't have. A commune is based on an anarchist understanding of property where you own your house because you inhabit it (usage-based property), not because a piece of paper says so.

Of course the state can revoke property titles at any time via expropriation schemes (see also: NDDL ZAD). And even if you own the land, specific regulations may apply to prevent you from leading your life however you see fit. For example in France, it's illegal to live on DIY housing with cut-off from the electricity grid; it's also illegal to be visibly naked from someone else's property or from public space; etc.

Moreover, living alone as an individual owner has its quirks. You're free to live however you want, but you still greatly depend on other people for basic resources, services and maintenance. A community usually has the same upsides as individual living, but also has a greater share of skills and resources to face issues and find solutions without relying on the capitalist system (greater autonomy).
Came here to read stories of cricket fans getting into fisticuff over T20. But no --this was not that. Disappointed. ;-)
EU Parliament Calls for Bans on AI-Based Biometric Recognition in Public Spaces
Thats not the scenario the scenario in the example was walking up to the staff and asking "I would like X" and then instead of selling you X they ask why you want X and would you not prefer Y?

Very annoying, I want X thats why I asked for it, I dunno if I want Y because I didn't spent time researching it like I did X. I want X not an argument there are lots of other place I can buy X if you are going to be difficult about it.
Yes, the void causing what we experience as gravity.
I have the exact same problem with my European passport. maximum name length, that is total first+middle+surname must be less than 30 characters.

Officially I am not who I am.
used to play some Nethack when didn't felt much like working. quite indistinguishable
Is this for those people who really want to post online but hate doing it on windows or Mac? I cannot see how this could be useful except as maybe a backup machine that I can use to burn a kubntu disk/usb for my real machines.
Imo anything with less than 32gb RAM and a real video card is useless for anything other than consuming junk and that's why I have a smart phone, my smart phone with 16gb ram and a real video card....
Intelligent Investor Part 4
Every Sunday I publish excerpts from Benjamin Graham's book "The Wise Investor." What problems do active investors face? Read the news.
While inefficient, the system did create complex things that worked more or less as advertized - which is quite far from the the claim that the system could not make anything real or worthwhile. It's just not a very good system.
Indeed, the role, if not the entire existence, of the war media of which FB is now a part is predicated upon the inherently hazardous (to socialists overseas, but ultimately to domestic patriots as well) military-political system we've allowed to fester in USA.
An other interesting read about How BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) works: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
The beauty of being the first in the market. All the manufacturers with the shiny new EVs will have a higher marketing cost because Tesla is able to get the free PR and the best co-promotional deals like this one.
You can't buy out a Tesla lease because they are using those lease returns to stock their self-driving fleet. And until this changes then Tesla's plan is still in play.
Yes, in C++, a pair of member variables is a complex conponent. That is my point.
> In EU, sales and support are outsourced (to Digital River Ireland Ltd).

AMD happens to use this company for orders on their own site as well. If anyone wants to see how bad an e-commerce experience can be, I suggest they try to order something from AMD.com

It used to be even worse, but it seems they at least figured out that billing and shipping addresses can differ, and instead of ignoring most of the EU countries, they now ignore only about half of them.

The AMD subreddit also had a few threads about this.
Fyi brain teaser questions have been banned at Google for many years.
Wow, every paper linked to in this leans left. Fascinating. Someone is out for blood.
> The big problem, though, is that we’re constricted by the supply of public domain translations. We simply can’t typically offer much more than Garnett

Certainly! If your reading is constrained to public domain works, you have basically no other option. I've read many books in translation and before I learned about the Constance Garnett controversy, I paid little to no attention to who translated the work that I'm reading.

I guess I'm trying to spread the word that the translation matters almost as much as the original work itself, and it may be worth doing research on various translations before picking one to read. And although the original works are still as great as ever, it seems to me that the translating profession has really come a long way since the 1800s. As a result I tend usually to look at more recent translations first.

> they’re usually worse to read from a purely side-by-side English view, even if they’re more authentically Russian.

I don't think I understand what you mean by this.
Lol, my naive mind thought it was about India vs Pakistan cricket match.
That’s literally what you were just accused of doing. Demanding a source that supports your claim by negating his. The left controls the internet, and has for a while. Hence the right starts new sites where the left doesn’t have control.
Easy to forget when Hillary lost, ppl within FB were totally shocked and suprised. What type of weapon is that then, if they have no clue what is about to unfold inspite of all that data?
I could be wrong but I don't think he was saying "point-to-point communication" in the technical aspect of the term (i.e. peer-to-peer). Rather, just making the point that they're not storing tons of data on their server that has to be polled on demand by an unknown amount of clients forever. Even if there's a server between the users, once they receive a message and pass it onto whoever necessary, their job is done and they don't need to worry about that data any more.
"Not good enough, but used everywhere so nothing we can do" is the worst enemy of good, even worse than perfectionism.
Nice! Already doing projects like this at that age, i'm sure you have a great future ahead of you!
Counter-point: https://www.commentary.org/articles/gary-morson/the-pevearsi...
> Parachutes have a minimum altitude.

If you have the money, zero/zero ballistic parachutes have been a reliable thing for more than half a century.

For ultralight sized aircraft, they cost about 1/5 the cost of a new airframe.

Generally they don't provide much survivability IMHO. Most ultralight deaths seem to boil down to CFIT and similar "happened too fast too close to ground" incidents with a side dish of refusal to do maintenance, and you know they're not going to maintain their airframe parachute or how its attached or how to engage it if they refuse to maintain their engine... But they are available and in special cases they might be useful.
The whole time I was looking at this machine, I was unimpressed. That was, until I saw the price. Under $500 brand new for this machine looks fantastic. Hell, under 2 lbs and under $500 would've made this a no brainer for me when I was in university. Kind of a shame I don't need a new machine at the moment, this looks like some real bang for the buck, if you like new machines.

I'm sure used machines are still better bang for buck, but this is really cool to see.
The review doesn't even mention continued absence of USB-A. Am I weird that I still need USB-A adapters all the time? Most of the new MBP is about solving problems people actually have instead of the ones Apple wishes they had.
This reminded on another "lost in translation" article from The New Yorker on Albert Camus and The Stranger:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lost-in-translat...

And the article you cite is by David Remnick who was instrumental on spreading Iraq war lies at the New Yorker. Should we trust him now?

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

"A lot of the people who made those mistakes are still occupying prominent positions, their credibility undamaged thanks to a new legend best articulated by New Yorker editor David Remnick, who later scoffed, “Nobody got that story completely right.”

Nobody except the record number of people who marched against the war on February 15, 2003 — conservative estimates placed it between six and ten million worldwide (I marched in D.C.). Every one of those people was way ahead of Remnick."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...
Sorry OP, but I have to disagree. That link at the bottom is only visible if you scroll down for a few seconds. I scrolled around the site for a while and never saw it. If you want to give "complete credit", then I would recommend replacing the text in the header, from this:

<!-- Checkout live matches, recent matches and upcoming matches at one place. Built by Pankaj Tanwar. -->

to this:

<!-- Checkout live matches, recent matches and upcoming matches at one place. CricCode is a port made by Pankaj Tanwar, based on RemoteOK's VS Code site, which was built by Pieterhg. -->

where "Remote OK's VS Code Site" links directly to their VS Code site (not their "Show HN"): https://remoteok.io/vscode
The article mentions does mention them (emphasis mine):

> A large flat-panel display and TV with *two spherical satellite loudspeakers*, for home entertainment, and video-conference.
They're really reaching on the last couple of points there. We know that spillover happens all the time (Ebola, influenza, HIV, etc), so if somebody ran a model saying that it's very unlikely, all that we can take from that is that we're exposed even more often than we think.
>Hertz just declared itself bankrupt a year ago, now they have 4bn cash to spare?

where did you get 4B from? presumably $40k per car multiplied by 100k cars? The cars are probably financed, so they don't really need the entire $40k upfront. Using the tesla leasing calculator https://www.tesla.com/support/tesla-leasing, a $40k model 3 only costs $19,299 for the first 36 months.

>Also, they raise 1.65bn [1],

the source you linked says the 1.65B is from coronavirus relief. It doesn't preclude them from raising more through other channels, eg debt/equity.
The more you know about artists and teachers the more human and flawed you realize they are. I’ve been learning to stop putting people on a pedestal and appreciate their contributions without concern of their personalities. This has become critical for me with regard to church leaders.

Edit: I say this fully aware of how much grace I need if things were flipped
Thankfully we are a Republic and not subject to mob rule.
Its a story to pump stock and it worked for them but i cant say the same for pension funds guys
Can you describe the mindset of being able to afford a Civic, and then deciding not to buy a Camry?
> The vast majority of the time, cache misses slow down algorithms. That's a perfectly reasonable generalisation and I don't really understand why you think it's untrue.

I don't say it is untrue. But not every use case lends itself to CPU cache optimization. Your access patterns might just happen to be arbitrary or fragmented from a layout perspective.

I would argue that this is a very common case, especially for IO bound applications that operate on tiny pieces of data and have deeply nested dispatch rules that each query some section of memory that you don't know it will query in advance.

Or in other words: The clearer your computation pipeline can be, the more you can benefit from CPU cache optimization.

> Re: change records, I believe Braid uses a historical record of absolute states, not a series of diffs. The state at a particular time is recreated from a minimal representation (a couple of arrays). That's much more efficient than throwing multiple iterations of the state in a HAMT.

You caught my interest, I will have to study this. I can't really imagine how it works from your explanation (my bad, not yours). I assumed when you said "change records" it meant that it would be suboptimal to access an arbitrary state (linear as opposed to constant).
With the right outlook, it was the single most profitable piece of luck one could have to balance all the other not so great things from communism.
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A complete vehicle is 92 000 USD and is delivered to you as a partially (50%) assembled kit for home completion...
If you look at Anandtech[0], you can get a clearer picture. In synthetic, isolated benchmarks, the GPU could have similar hardware performance to an RTX 3080 mobile. However... once you throw in the lack of games compiled for ARM and designed to run on Metal, most of that potential is wasted.

Having never owned an Apple product, these sound like excellent machines, but I still want to be able to play the games on my expensive, powerful hardware. So I'd like to see what they can do if they are targeted. The M1 from last year didn't seem to change anything. It'll be interesting to see if this does. Will increasing market share and consumer demand be enough to push some more development of games for these machines?

At least in theory the hardware is there now for reasonable gaming performance.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
A bunch of great answers.

I've been in offensive security for ~10 years now and am a staff at one of these billion dollar SV tech companies now.

If you want to do pentesting (though i prefer the team offensive security) my advice is to learn the basics of web app security with something like portswigger's course https://portswigger.net/web-security.

Since most tech is really API's and web apps this course would be able to get you productive and probably a jr level skillset. OSCP is also good but I find network hacks are not as applicable today thanks to the cloud, though the thinking process and creative puzzle solving could be worth it.

I would particpate in as many CTF type challenges as possible (http://www.xssgame.com) then apply to jobs. Make it clear you are a junior but good at Burp and web testing.

Good luck!
What I don't understand when I hear stories like these is why the hell not just use someone else's solution? Surely neighboring Québec had this sorted out ages ago – why not just duplicated whatever they did? Problem solved in no time.

Going further, I wonder why for example the EU doesn't try to get schemes going that facilitate the copying of IT solutions between member states. Why does every country have to reinvent the wheel?
I would like to see some benchmarks on that. I like the V8 engine, it is also a marvelous engineering feet, but it is simply not made for the workloads that the JVM can routinely handle, like heap size up to terabytes. It’s not an accident that serious server applications usually run on top of the JVM.

Also, a JIT compiler written in Java running on top the JVM interpreting (though in a clever way) javascript can match the speed of V8, just saying. Look up TruffleJS!
> NEVER EVER LIE IN AN INTERVIEW!!!

In my experience, this is bad advice. I would refine it by saying "never lie about work history, experience, or knowledge in an interview". I am forced to lie about things like how much I give a damn about your company, my ambitions, and how much I think I'm worth by the conventions of interview culture. I think of it as a lying skills assessment.