skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s what you think it is, and it happens to more than just mice. I toured a bioengineering lab where they were actively severing the spines of chimpanzees to perform fiber rerouting experiments. I think the normal citizen never thinks much if at all about this kind of thing because they’re never exposed to it. A few researchers have opened up to me personally about their personal psychological trauma caused by involvement with animal experimentation. A couple PhD candidates I know changed fields entirely. One to ecology and another to environmental engineering. I personally moved forward with bioinformatics.

Edit: that isn’t to say that this result isn’t exciting for human welfare. We’ll see if it translates…
How to prepare to be a startup founder
Well, you either have a explicit hierarchy of people working on something, and then the people who are a part of the "top layer" can sometimes start to look down on the ones who belong to the layer below, seeing them as less knowledgeable or not producing useful output. Sometimes that leads to people starting to close down into their current layer, and forms "us-vs-them" groups. Or, you have a implicit hierarchy and basically the same thing happen but the layers don't have names.
That made me laugh because I understand the feeling.

Homebrew is very, very good at the things Nix is worst at.

But Nix is also excellent at the things Homebrew is worst at.

The new CLI that comes (disabled by default because it's still 'experimental') with the most recent major Nix release (2.4) goes a long way toward learning from the UX of tools like Homebrew. Hopefully changes like that will help more people get to the good parts before the UX warts turn them off.
Another good question is whether mice are a good analogue for humans as far as spinal injuries
This is why I'm making a distinction between pain and suffering. Pain is physiological, insects have the neurological capacity for it. Whether that translates to "anguish" in a conscious sense, that is unclear. So too would it be for lobster and crab. The problem is it's not possible to have an accurate gauge of consciousness, capacity for which. We ballpark either a lot or a little, you can't really say there's "nil". So how much does it take before it matters? Really we just intuitively approach insects differently.
I hope they are talking about hashed passwords. There is no reason why in 2021 passwords can be recovered in clear text, even in a legacy code base...
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They are actually likely to be paid more. Starting salary, at some of these companies, is crazy[0].

“Senior people are more expensive!” Is a red herring. I was actually told, by recruiters, that I was asking too much, because of my age (I was asking for less than starting salary at most companies).

For myself, I had my retirement set. I was looking for work that interested me, and would have been happy with half of what people with far less experience would have demanded. I just needed to keep the lights on, and have insurance. I wanted to solve difficult problems, and work on a team. That's what I have been doing my entire adult life.

It’s about what is euphemistically called “cultural fit.”

i.e. “young,” in most cases. Look at most "all hands" photos of a lot of tech companies. Smiling young faces abound. There may be one or two greyhairs, but, in my experience, a bit of digging, reveals them to be very high up on the food chain.

In big corporations, with highly-structured process, that’s actually understandable.

In smaller companies, it’s likely corrosive to innovation and flexibility, but everyone wants to set themselves up to copy “the big kids.”

Maybe VCs also feed that. I don’t have experience, working with VCs, but I do know they have outsize influence in the startups they support.

[0] https://www.monkeyuser.com/2020/new-hire/
This statement is inscrutably generic. Are there examples of behavior which went unaccounted? Or, what prompted this?

Also, is it common for projects to have mod teams? This is new to me.
There’s More Than One Way to Make Stablecoins Safe
It worked for me. I quit my job due to problems after a management switcheroo that shafted me, planned on applying for jobs - I specifically wanted something in FinTech, that used Elixir - and applied for four jobs, plus one "why the hell not" application I did at Facebook. If I didn't get a job, my plan was to do Recurse Center until february and then try again with a wider search. I got into RC, did not get the Facebook interview (it was a miserable experience, where they had me whiteboard over coderpad -- code running was disable, WTF seriously, what's the point? might as well code over google docs), and then I got a job at a fintech that uses Elixir. I didn't even get a tech question in my interview.

This probably won't work for everyone. I have a LOT of public bona fides as an elixir developer (I have six libraries on the public elixir repository that I pinned to the top of my github), elixir companies are hiring a LOT, and as an elixir dev, you don't have to compete as much with the market of lemons among programmers. I also had no debt, and about seven months of drawdown.
Oh so you are looking for something more like static analysis / fuzzing of your code? I don't have an answer but I know that one exists and is likely in one of the links / articles on packetstorm security [1]. There are some open source static analysis tools but I have not used them. There is also a small list on OWASP. [2] You should also ask what the best open source tools are on stackexchange, but search around and lurk a bit before asking. [3]

If you are concerned about your intellectual property leaking out, I would avoid any clouds that claim to do this for you unless you enter into a notarized contract with them that puts skin in the game for them if they leak your code.

[1] - https://packetstormsecurity.com/

[2] - https://owasp.org/www-community/Source_Code_Analysis_Tools

[3] - https://security.stackexchange.com/
so we just have to inject stem cells into the area where there are a lot of damaged nerve cells without nuclei and have these cells fuse with the damaged remnants. Just throw some PEG in there with the stem cells?
The current to move your seat likely does not change much while you are in it, and the occupancy sensor could help account for that.

In the case of automatic car windows everything from ambient temps to battery voltage is used to detect if there's an obstacle present.

And I think what makes it kind of unacceptable is you can get off the shelf modules that integrate anti-pinch features:

https://www.continental-automotive.com/en-gl/Passenger-Cars/...

It wreaks of NIH syndrome or just trying to shave off some cost.

A quick search shows Teslas even have rear seat occupancy sensors, so that alone should disable the movement if there's a person detected in the back.
Would love the hear some App Ideas! News, maps, Geo-Tweets..
Bought one a month ago, I'm very happy with it. I wish they would include more features, but apparently they want to keep it simple.
This is what humans do.
0-width characters should get a deprecation warning in Language 2.0, along with silent letters and ones that change pronunciation based on the characters surrounding them.
Using Vue without using Vue – meet Ovee.js
We've built another framework on top of Vue's reactivity. Ovee.js is a component framework designed to work with server-side rendered markup (kinda like Hotwire, but with bindings in JS). Here's our few words about building stuff with Vue modules.
Biometrics are great for authentication but terrible for authorization. Anything sensitive should require both. There's nothing wrong with a fingerprint and a password or a fingerprint and an RFID card as an authorization/authentication pair; you just have to keep these things in mind.

I've fallen to the laziness of using fingerprints on my devices as well, but they still require a password to decrypt the contents of the storage device on boot. For many, if not most, threat models, this is perfectly fine.

I lock my phone to prevent people with messing with my contacts and scrolling through my messages. It's an inconvenience to bypass that requires preparation. A motivated attacker would just as easily spy over my shoulder if I were to use a password, either on my phone or on my laptop.

I look at these mechanisms like the lock on a teenager's bedroom door. Those things aren't impenetrable and anyone with just a little lockpicking experience or access to some automated tools can open them in a minute. Unlike the locks on our front doors, built to keep intruders that don't want to risk physical damage to our windows out, they're a message: please don't violate my privacy. Violating that privacy is made moderately difficult by the mechanism itself, but it's hardly impossible.

Unless you carry a password-protected authentication and key management token with you at all times, you're at risk of having your system broken into. Most of us don't need to worry about those kinds of things.
What is the core of a language? Is it the specification? (excluding the standard library?) Is it the compiler frontend or the backend? Or both?
From the website[0]:

> Managing the overall direction of Rust, subteam leadership, and any cross-cutting issues

This sounds to be more of an "executive team", but I am also unfamiliar with Rust development, so I don't know how accurate that is in practice.

0: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core
We're doing something very similar on macOS and iOS. The only rough edge I'm finding with this setup is integrating with Core Data feels a bit clunky/verbose.
The first explanation of lisp that resonated with me was explaining it as "a better XML" https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
I don't think you understand the precarious position many workers in the US are in. We have few labor protection laws and few social safety nets. Accordingly, may people are in desperate straits and stealing one's catalytic converter could indeed have very serious ramifications for the victims life, including losing one's job and subsequently their home.

I think we have largely done this to ourselves, and catalytic converter theft is the result of the unforgiving social and economic climate. That said, stand your ground laws and castle doctrines do not result in lots of murdered criminals. Despite people's theoretical support in this thread of shooting people who are robbing them, it does not happen much and most of these people value human life far more than their support indicates.
We have always had too much launch capacity. You will notice that every program estimates prices based on how many launches occur a year, with the price going down the more launches there are. Large launch vehicles are less expensive per mass to orbit than small ones. There are huge economies of scale.

It isn't that SpaceX has a lot of launch capacity and so fills it with Starlink satellites. SpaceX has a lot of launch capacity because they're launching so many Starlink satellites. They only make large launch vehicles and they can only hit the prices they do if the launch regularly. If they stop manufacturing their own demand the price will rise precipitously.

SpaceX is currently subsidized by investor money. The steady state remains to be seen.

One of the reasons the Saturn V was discontinued was that there was no need for such a large vehicle. It was cheap per unit mass to orbit but there was not enough demand to justify it.
>Why is freemium even a thing? Would you imagine a music CD where a paid unique key is required to decrypt the 5 last tracks?

Have you heard of... radio? ie. "you can listen to these songs for free, but it has ads and the rotation is random. alternatively you can buy the CD and listen to the same song any time you want without ads".

>In principle, everything should be free for everyone because everything belongs to everyone. But even if you don't agree with this principle (why?),

If everything belongs to everyone, it leads to a tragedy of the commons situation where everyone does the bare minimum, because there's no reward for doing more.
I've been looking into Nix a lot lately (but have yet to take the leap - I'll probably start with devshell)

But a couple of projects have come up lately that piqued my interest wrt syntax and alteratives (Since I am not sure about Scheme anymore than Nix (as a langauge) :-)

* https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble
* https://nickel-lang.org/
This is a pretty common story these days. I don’t know if you feel like you have leverage or if you’re perhaps too worried they’d call your bluff. But go tell them you want a salary adjustment. Make your case, and ask for like $5 or whatever extra you feel is right. Also, OT doesn’t have to be paid at 1.5x, that’s just the minimum. They can require OT, but you get to decide at what rate. So if base salary isn’t flexible, you can extract more from the situation this way. Or, use it as a way to avoid being scheduled for OT.

The state of the world being what it is, I see a lot of movement happening at your wage level. It’s a good time to get more and set the limits you’re comfortable with. I feel like many folks have never felt they have the power to negotiate and in this market, you do.

Anyways, I had no advice on your original question but thought starting with improving your current situation to accelerate the education track would help. Unfortunately, most well paying careers do require a degree and you’ll hit that obstacle throughout your life. So, if you do pivot careers, still get the degree. Because next time when you change employers it will still be a basic screening thing that will hold you back.
Is this a dirty trick by the amazon folks to harm the core team?
Hanging out in hostels is a good way to find these loopholes

but I'm sure internet forums can help too
Better promotion for nl doesn't exist
The overall infection fatality rate is 0.6%, not 2%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I had the same experience. The other part is without a team you have to do every single low level task, which takes a lot of time you didn't really think about before.
Author here. For me it's well spent, since this is my daily desktop driver. I can't comment on (C) or (A), though I agree (B) is a problem. But while RISC-V has a "future" (or at least a more distributed one) I see no system currently or in the near future that's anywhere in the same performance ballpark. The architecture has a lot of potential but it feels to me like it remains unrealized. OpenPOWER exists today in competitive specifications and notwithstanding supply chain issues, you can get one (I have three).
Any positive non-PCR test in the Nordic countries would be confirmed with a new PCR test before reaching the official statistics.
I should have been more detailed.

Postgres works really well in single node configurations as long as you read up a bit on the weirdness around vacuuming. Usually you don't have to worry unless you are running write-heavy loads at large scale.

HA Postgres is where things get frustrating and hairy. It's 2021. I should be able to set up a master-master multi-node database by running a second node and telling it where the first node is, and then you're done. Master with read-only backup should be similarly easy. If I shut down the "lead" node a backup should become leader automatically. I should be able to set this up in a day and not worry that it will fail to fail over properly in a real scenario because there are algorithms now like Raft consensus that are provably correct (provided you meet their requirements).

IMHO this kind of easy clustering is a table stakes feature for anything billing itself as an "enterprise capable" database.

The fact that HA Postgres requires me to think in 2021 is what makes me hate the thing. As near as I can tell this problem exists to make me buy managed HA Postgres at 1000% markup over compute/storage.

I can't complain too much because it's free and it is very good for the things it does well. It's just puzzling to me that there is no canonical turn-key solution for this after so many years of so many people requiring it.

Implementing Raft is far far easier than a lot of the other stuff that has been implemented in Postgres.
Why are we reading this on the SEC site and not the GoDaddy site? I did a quick search and can't find a disclosure on their site. If it's there, it's not easy to find.

Security incidents are going to happen. This particular incident looks to be avoidable (static passwords!). What we should judge the company on is their response and transparency. GoDaddy disclosed, but a new customer on the site wouldn't find this. They also used phrases like "affects our Legacy WordPress Platform" probably to attempt to shift a little blame from the current team or minimize the fall out.

When you have a security incident, be transparent, own it, and deal with it. We can tell when you are trying to sweep it under the rug and hide, and that's bad. This is an opportunity for an org to show that they put customers first and shine.
YMMV, but this worked for me. Find an industry you want to work in. Find a small but quickly growing company in that industry. Email the CEO, try to make yourself look as relevant as you can to that company and ask to get coffee. Come prepared with a pitch of what you can do for them.

If you reach out to CEOs directly, you skip HR, so you skip profile screens. Reaching out to medium-large company CEOs doesn't work because they have assistants/are too busy.
This makes me sad.

As someone who's used Rust but isn't fully familiar with the community, what would the expected roles of these moderators have been? Is it just forum moderation or are there other components?
Speaking of Portia spiders: If you haven't read Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning novel "Children of Time", you're in for a treat. Highly recomended.
They explicitly say they are not saying:

> In this message, we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond unaccountability. We've chosen to maintain discretion and confidentiality. We
recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof)
claiming to illuminate the situation.

With the earlier bit about the Core Team not having to adhere to the Code of Conduct, it could mean something awful has happened and a Rust Core Member is above justice or pressuring the mod team’s investigation?
Non-mainstream languages tend to find their way to HN. Take a look at my favorite list, I favorite every PL posted here that I come across (over 250 so far)
> In this message, we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond
unaccountability. We've chosen to maintain discretion and confidentiality. We
recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise
extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof)
claiming to illuminate the situation.

Isn't that a kind of scorched earth statement? I read it as "we will be discreet and don't believe anything anybody tells you in the future...instead assume all your worst fears are true".
Just out of curiosity, what about running the e-commerce site was a drag?
Enjoy your echo chamber.
No. But I acknowledge I may have an "uncommon" way of handling a pen, with a really closed angle between the pen and the paper. Of course my writing is totally garbage.
Hasn't "too much capacity" existed since the moon missions? It was too expensive , but most other missions did not need those huge rockets. It wasn't utilized either. Remains to be seen if spaceX's capacity will be utilized.
That's not what flagging is for?
> Highly OO abstracted code can be very hard to reason about too.

Definitely. Coming up with all the right design patterns and abstractions can feel quite clever and satisfying. But when someone else needs to debug that code, having to jump through layers and layers of object, interfaces, factories, etc to find out what a method call is actually doing is a pain.
It's good when talking one on one. I talk "through" them when they attempt to cut me off. It happened once that the other person got angry, and told me I interrupted them. When I recounted the conversation and how I had actually started first, they were stunned. It was a wonderful feeling
I honestly have no idea what the parent is referring to. My HHKB feels solid, and I prefer it to the other mechanical keyboards that I've tried.

It is not loud due to the o-rings.
It looks like they've decided to keep the reasons secret and unaccountable.
What I've heard, and no idea if this is true, but I think my experience backs it up somewhat I just have no hard proof of it.

If you see a company advertising heavily on social media sites, and Remarkable is everywhere for me on social media sites, they're basically throwing all their money at advertising and all other areas of their business are getting the short end and suffering.

With the recent news they're moving subscription for their various services I think it's clear Remarkable is likely to die in a couple years.
also a factor to consider is population density which is 10x lower than Germany
Alternately, there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306
Nix is really nice for polyglot development environments on macOS, because the fact that Docker requires full machine virtualization makes it very heavyweight. Nix gets to be a lot faster and simpler. (And you can use it to generate Docker images and full fat VMs if you still want that option.)
I don't believe anybody on the moderation team works at Amazon[1]. But I could be wrong.

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation
Was in a rough spot a year ago so I took 3 months off. Found myself with a better company, less stress, and more interesting work.

We're pretty lucky a lot of us are able to do that.
> What they can’t do is make you remember a code/password which you have “forgotten.”

But they can lock you up for not supplying it.
Should you trust the Web3 Hype?
Remember (on an iPhone) you can squeeze the power button and one of the volume keys for a few seconds. This disables biometric authentication until a passcode is entered.

This can protect you against this "attack vector".
I think the lawlessness in San Francisco is more the poster child for what happens when we treat people as disposable.
There's a strong "Mars settlement is impossible" sentiment going on, which is different.

I am all for exploring space. I just loathe the fact that we have billionaires with no technical training calling the shots.

(Well, maybe not "exploring". There isn't much to see! I'm very much for using space.)
Are these people on the moderator team employed by amazon?
TBF most of the places where starship will go have already been explored. I think spaceX's plan is more about exploitation
Nice map. Really surprising in some cases. That the US consumes more alcohol than Russia and Europe in general seems to have some trouble here.
I've wondered for a while how you would do that.

One approach is scale-dependent (divide the area into a grid of square kilometers, sort by population, pick the square kilometer where the median person lives.) but you would get different answers if you picked different scales.

The median of "How far away is your nearest neighbor?" seems parameter free at first but it is absurd if you live in an apartment. (e.g. ignores all the space around your apartment.) I guess you could look for the median (or other decile) of "What is radius in which N people live?" where N might be 100-10,000 but then you're back to having a spectrum instead of a single number again.

Maybe you can't avoid that.