skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is, the infection rates, etc. are not comparable. Taken in aggragate and on a long enough time line just about anything can look dangerous. Sans, evidently, preventable diseases. Then we sweep those aside, even before Covid.

Again, all that's being suggested is more transparency and honesty, and less hyperbole and statistical fueled manipulation. That is all.
> Insurance rates are being increased based on these profiles

Let's be honest here, rich people get better insurance rates. Not because of some nefarious scheme to impoverish the poor, but because they claim less (which is the primary driver of insurance cost).

Additionally, many (if not all) insurance companies use things like your home address as a factor in pricing, which again benefits people living in rich(er) areas.

Firstly, I don't think that your web data would be particularly predictive for insurance, without substantial modelling/dimensionality reduction and secondly, such modelling/DR is gonna be a very difficult sell to regulators, who typically demand a fully explained model for premium calculation.

Secondly, much of this is illegal in the EU, you should probably elect representatives who'll ban this for you.
It's as same as advertisement industry: one can be hanging billboards or one can be a SWE at Google/FB yet being in the same industry. Games industry is just as different.
How many developers have you seen to do that?

Removing code is twice harder than writing it. Sometimes even more than twice, not only technically, but politically.
>Maybe published package versions should be immutable.

Still won't help you if the leftpad dev wanted to send a message/protest could have put a small update that would do something bad.

The problem is when you are not the idiot that installs leftpad but you need to install some other package like some GUI or testing framework and those "smart" devs decided to depend on leftpad directly or indirectly because some stupid philosophy. I have inherited a project with such kind of idiotic dependencies , inlcuding small stupid shit or packages with incorrect package.json that depend on things they do not actually depend or things they should not .
Similarly confused, I use profiles heavily every day

It may be due to my workflow; I simply hit a key combination to either open my personal profile or the one for work, for example.

Nothing fancy... The -P option for Firefox along with the usual key bindings for my window manager
Is it easy? Yes and no. Adding together integers is easy. Running a loop is easy.

There are tremendous differences between programming technologies. Because the word “language” can distract you here.

What you say in French and German and English will be pretty much the same.

But many programming “languages” practically have very different runtimes, idioms, guarantees, caveats. For example in some all your data is immutable. Or take a look at the concurrency model of Elixir/Erlang/Go “processes” vs Java Threads).

Erlang has a preemptive scheduler for those “processes”. Try doing that in vanilla JS.

It’s not just syntax. Syntax is the surface difference but it doesn’t end there.

This is not to nitpick the posted website which is a great first step but it won’t tell you the whole story.

Another example is closures. Some languages don’t have them at all. Some languages allow modifying closed over variables. Some treat them as immutable constants (but still accessible to read).

Those are huge semantic differences with profound implications to how you approach problems and write code.

When comparing Programming technologies always think in terms of: how does it represent data, how does it move/share data between entities, how does it handle errors, what guarantees does it have.

Finally an inseparable part of any programming technology is the standard library, and nowadays the whole third party ecosystem of packages.

When thinking about what is different about say Python and Erlang I’d argue the least significant of that is syntax.

You won’t build machine learning models in Erlang and you won’t build highly-available, fault-tolerant, billion-user chat applications in Python.

And trust me not because of how the for loop looks.
Peregrine Update – The Python-like language that's as fast as C
They already de-google the entire codebase. You can see which parts are removed here https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... and they keep up quite well.
Xeyes!
Recognizing the signs is probably one of the simpler tasks, yes.
But for example the StVO (traffic law: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/BJNR036710013.h... ) in Germany says:

"Das Ende einer streckenbezogenen Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkung oder eines Überholverbots ist nicht gekennzeichnet, wenn das Verbot nur für eine kurze Strecke gilt und auf einem Zusatzzeichen die Länge des Verbots angegeben ist. Es ist auch nicht gekennzeichnet, wenn das Verbotszeichen zusammen mit einem Gefahrzeichen angebracht ist und sich aus der Örtlichkeit zweifelsfrei ergibt, von wo an die angezeigte Gefahr nicht mehr besteht. Sonst ist es gekennzeichnet durch die Zeichen 278 bis 282."

The translation of this is: If a speed limit is combined with another sign indicating a reason for the speed limit (e.g. construction work, dangerous curve, train crossing...) the speed limit automatically ends without any additional sign.

So basically the AI has to understand why the speed limit is there and decide when it has passed the dangerous part of the road.

When starting to drive the car has to recognize if it is inside the city (50km/h or 30km/h limit depending on location), outside the city (100 km/h) or on the autobahn (no limit). This is simply impossible without having a map. You could save the state from the previous drive. But what happens if the car gets towed from the autobahn into a city. Will drive through the city without any speed limit?

I don't think this is simple at all.
I have a BlueSCSI for booting my Macintosh SE. It boots in seconds, which was definitely not the case when I had 20MB of spinning rust.

Also, Finder in System 6.0.8 supports 2GB volumes just fine — but shows it as “59,592K in disk 2,009,792K available.” Didn’t even implement the M suffix!
Wait isn't that quote attributed to Oscar Wilde?
Look to Turkey for a failure of that model.

Although I should say that I am always convinced by those who say that that particular coup was staged by Erdogan as a pretext.
firefox -P [profile name] -no-remote

EDIT: or, to bring up the profile manager:

firefox -P -no-remote
What is this? Who are these people and why does anyone care about their conversation?

Wow, downvotes for asking a legitimate question about a pointless, contextless discussion between randos. What a lovely and welcoming community you have here.
> you know that the best can happen that the result of your work is going to make people spend time on video games instead of doing something better.

You could say the same thing about any hobby activity. Playing games isn't inherently bad just like drinking alcohol isn't inherently bad, its how much you let it consume your life (and in my personal opinion and experience, if you binge something its usually to fill some hole in your life, eg loneliness, and removing the thing to binge doesn't solve it and will simply get replaced with something else. The underlying issue needs to be addressed)
No, it's not correct to state that they have any right to the domain name. Anybody can sue anybody for anything, but they have no prospect of winning ownership of the domain name. Domain name conflicts like this are adjudicated by WIPO who would never grant the domain name in this situation: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/
Thanks, Ken!
DCEVM
Really! You'd think some advanced civilization would have to be organized in order to develop interstellar travel.

Then again this could be clear evidence for just how alien (inhuman) they are. We don't even understand their thinking process!
Are there any frameworks for avoiding premature optimisation? I'm looking for some content to share with some new teams.
Managers control the money. They hire, they fire, the approve or disapprove promotions. That's _fundamentally_ more power than writing code. It would be nice to be able to ignore this, but things like paying for housing, paying for kids' education, etc means you can't really just put that aside.

If you want to stay in a technical track, you need to offset your natural disadvantage here. You can't _just_ be writing code, you need to make sure you're actively -- and visibly! -- adding a lot of value as a tech lead. Even if you're not formally managing people, you're going to be coaching and mentoring engineers, because being able to tie your org's goals into a technical vision is the easy part -- the hard part is turning that vision into code that will be mostly written by not-you. And that's all people skills, involving people who do not report to you. IOW, there's still a lot of "management" work if you want to stay in the technical track.

I recently did a stint in the management track but have gone back to the technical one because I get a lot out of technical work and found I need that to sustain me and give me energy. I found I can do the management part, and didn't even mind most of it, but it wasn't sustaining me -- an important consideration since, while I've been working for a while, I have a long while to work yet. But it did help clarify where I need to grow if I'm committed to staying "technical".
Bitmap Brothers had such unique art style! G.O.D.S.!
Why do you think it’s inhumane?…
The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Online Communities (2006)
If you haven't registered the trademark, does holding the domain have any legal merit?
Sorry, yes, it's a bug inside log4j, and it's handled even in a parameter.

But the underlying bug is because log4j uses the equivalent of printf(userData).
interviewer: [...] buy these NFTs for $50, um, and so like when you think about the concept of digital scarcity and things that are, and, you know, that can't be copied...

Keanu: that are easily reproduced? [laugh]

interviewer: well, but they're not the same
Lions have cubs, not kittens.
I really didn’t say everything I said.
-- Yogi Berra
How tech advances. In 2017, Kasparov said that the best computers were at 3200, and he was 2850.
I think it's just unrealistic expectations about what learning is like, how long it takes, and what you do to learn.

In part, perhaps it's from the educational system which curiously enough isn't geared particularly well toward learning. It used to be geared toward the needs of teaching (which is not the same as learning), but lately it's been geared toward passing standardized tests. Someone going through such a system might be excused for thinking that the way you learn something is by cramming facts until you can repeat them once and then forgetting the whole thing because that test isn't coming back.
Gamers themselves do not understand the dichotomy of game development. All changes good or bad are at the behest of the "game devs". Everyone gets lumped into a single category. If you're making a game engine like Sony did for GOW, I don't think you're a content producer, you're a hardcore engineer milking every bit of the playstation so that artists and content producers can make there visions a reality. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that devs get a bad rep in gaming based on decisions they're likely not making themselves or may even be against making.
The most familiar attribution, original or not, would have been Yogi Berra.
Except the extension can still do loads of evil things... It's a bit like banning one type of gun, and saying "see, gun violence is now solved".
ArcaneGAN: Convert your portrait into Arcane style
> * My comments are not ambiguously worded. They are made concise so my point can't be missed*

"It is impossible to speak in such a way that it cannot be misinterpreted." -- Karl Popper
I don't normally complain about this, but that result has been at least four times on the front page in the last two weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514642

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208141

Finding mathematical patterns and relations by fitting expressive functions has actually been a common technique in experimental mathematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_mathematics) for a while.

In the last few years, neural networks in particular have been used a lot in areas of math related to string theory, where one tries to find structures on certain topological spaces that preserve or generate symmetries of the resulting physics. Here's a review that might be interesting:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06317

Unfortunately, none of these mathematicians have the marketing prowess of a multi-billion dollar company...
I have had a .com since 2003. A SF startup made a INC after my name and got the .org. They called me at my work and I just said I have business plans for domain. They trademark the name, but have not bothered me.
--Benjamin Franklin
--Abraham Lincoln
--Mark Twain
--Albert Einstein
...
They might be using scare tactics hoping you'll hand over the domain name without question. But I wonder if they have a case.

My suggestion would be to either A) ignore and see if they go away, and/or B) have a domain name lawyer send a reply showing you won't roll over. That's usually enough for parties like these to back down.

If you need a lawyer recommendation send me DM me on Twitter (@marckohlbrugge). More than happy to help.

FWIW, some people might mention a procedure called 'UDRP' which is typically used by TM owners to quickly and cheaply get a TM-infringing domain name. However, one of the requirements for a successful UDRP case is that the TM needs to have been issued BEFORE the domain name was registered. Which is not the case here. So a UDRP approach would fail for them.

The other way for them would indeed be to sue and try to claim TM infringement in court. I don't have much experience with TM law, so I'm not sure what your odds of winning are. But there might even be a way to get their TM invalidated.

TL;DR: Talk to a lawyer.

P.S.
If they have money for lawyers, they might also have money to buy your domain name. I wouldn't propose a purchase until you've talked to a lawyer (as it could hurt your case), but it's something to consider for later on.
I've never done this, but you might consider getting an experienced interviewer to do a mock interview with you (of the same sort you've breezed through before). It might be a coincidence that you have been rejected multiple times, or it might be some small behavioral thing that someone could tell you about.

Alternatively, you can say "screw this," and I wouldn't blame you.
you are making a very good point!

i have not considered this work-hobby aspect before. the gaming industry is not that different from other artistic fields. music and anime comes to mind because that's the other two i know about.

the work conditions inside anime studios is awful. nothing you would want for anybody. and despite that fact, people kept choosing to do that kind of work. people with responsibilities too, families, kids, etc.

they deliberately choose these awful work conditions.
Ugh, guess it's time to switch back to Brave.
IMHO, we coders tend to estimate complexity of a system by trying to sum up complexities of systems parts. This is just plainly wrong.
In principle I don't mind ads, but I do mind the cross-domain tracking. If sites served ads from their own domains, I'd keep them. I consider it up to web site owners to figure out how to make money from their site if that's what they want to do. Until they and the ad providers come up with an acceptable and practical way of doing that, I am willing to look at their content as long as they're willing to serve it to me.

Then there are also the ads that are annoying: those with moving parts or sound. I will always block those.
Interestingly, at Google the situation with Kasparov and rooms was :

(1) Big rooms were very, very hard to reserve, and staff was constantly making them unavailable to us. Besides that, the window of time when the author is coming is usually very narrow.

(2) Googlers could watch from their desks, so you didn't have to go in person

(3) Even if you did go in person, you wouldn't get a free book (to get it autographed). In the early days, they did give out free books

(4) And besides that you didn't get a free book, you couldn't buy one, either, because Books, Inc. stopped coming with a box of books to sell. They weren't making enough money that way.

The net of 2, 3, 4 was that in-person attendance was less valuable.

(5) Very, very few celebrities could fill up Charlie's, the big cafeteria, that holds 400. I don't think he could.

(5) I got a room that holds 100 people for Kasparov, one of the larger ones available

(6) He complained that the room was too small
There's no platform code for macOS yet. (It's a goal of the project to not use cross-platform abstractions)
Workers Need Homes, So Why Isn’t Our Zoning Keeping Up with Job Growth?
I used Firefox for months. It is noticeably slower than Chrome on macOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29521618
Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, or Albert Einstein maybe.
Is there any chance that when asked to contact a service, your locked down machines first issue a DNS lookup to determine where to try to connect to, before the connection attempt gets blocked by your aggressive whitelisting?

If so, there might still be a DNS exfiltration vulnerability even on your tightly controlled setup.
I agree, "alt tab" with "tab support" would be nice.

But it's equally nice to use Firefox, turn off tabs, and let the window manager do it's magic (uh.. with a little help form alttab if youre on osx;)
The snide remarks against Americans are essential for my point; Even if the media had those interests and ability to coordinate, their efforts are directed at an audience, and that audience needs to care for anything further to happen. And unless you find oil or Muslims in El Sal, they don’t and won’t.
I wonder how much being a top performer matter in game development when there is a glut in supply.
Don't they say the original pacman had no 'goal'? And that GTA was basically pacman where instead you drive a car aimlessly? I think there is a good market for brainless, exploratory games and IMO those are the best :) congrats on the launch
That ASR-33 Teletype comes in handy if your PDP-11 doesn't have a boot ROM: toggle the first stage bootloader into the panel, load your tape into the reader, and let 'er rip.
Considering the sky-high costs of these kinds of shipbuilding programs, why haven't they yet devised an unmanned scraper/cleaner system for flat surfaces above the waterline ?
So far people have been showing off RCE "hello world" for both minecraft clients and servers on twitter.

In terms of actual threat this exploit could be easily abused to rapidly spread ransomware, cryptominer malware, botnet slave code, and other nasties extremely easily.

You could (devs on twitter have been playing with this) build a script that connects to random servers listed on Shodan and send a message with a payload in it. This payload then executes on both the clients and the server infecting them. Then those clients can have their credentials and server lists used to infect other servers and clients. Considering how many Minecraft servers are just thrown up on old windows machines by people with little to no IT knowledge, I can see this getting out of hand very quickly.
> In Germany a speed limit doesn't mean it's always reasonable to drive at maximum speed.

I didn't want to imply this. I was just talking about the task of finding the speed limit. Getting from there to a reasonable speed to drive at is a different issue and much more complicated, yes ;)
It's definitely feasible, you basically just end up with something very similar to a military bunker. The structure ends up being mostly underground and the entrance or above ground areas are mostly made of reinforced concrete with heavy steel doors, no windows, etc.

It's also possible to make tornado proof residential homes, but they're expensive and not very appealing: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tornado-proof-homes-oklahoma_...
Easy - give him 4 mil in equity.

On the other hand if the company doesn’t have good prospects, then indeed there is nothing you can do.
You should generally not believe uncorroborated accusations by random people on Twitter leveled immediately after their target is in the news. This could be true, but there are also clear incentives to make it up or exaggerate it for clicks; if you don't know this person, how can you evaluate their/his credibility?

This tweet in particular seems very vulnerable to the same kind of distortion as in the original submission, where innocuous things from people you've resolved not to trust start being casted as threats.
I always found amusing reading The Pirate Bay email responses to lawyers from Dreamworks, EA, Apple, etc.
get a crowdfunding campaign to fight the evil corp on the courts

get in touch with lawyers dealing with IP/trademarks

you can have a brief talk w/ them to discuss options before making any decision :)
>My question is: how do people keep up?

Why keep up? Priorities.

>So far I have been doing a very bad job at keeping in touch with these communities. I feel like I lack the time and energy required.

Let me put it this way: Long ago, back when tigers used to smoke [I'm not Korean, but this is awesome], there was a student who liked getting laid a lot. Though his grades suffered and he failed a lot in college because he was distracted. He didn't have money so he didn't have mobility and logistics and got laid less and less frequently and his grades suffered more and more.

At some point, he decided to focus on studying. He was on the ball, thus he had more time, thus he was able to work, thus he was able to get logistics down, thus he was able to get laid at a ridiculous frequency and practice time-management to take care of business. When he let go of all but one thing, he had that thing down which saved time and paradoxically and ironically allowed him to do the other things he was trying to do.

Get one thing down. That is the advice I give to people who want to do it all and have their attention fragmented and fail to do them all. Sometimes, allocating 10% of your time to ten things gets you 0% return on investment on all things.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, as they say. Sequential works: until you can do one thing and get it down pat, don't do something else. Only add later.
What's going on with this person? It looks like she really exists, her LinkedIn shows a solid network and the links seem to check out, and the Twitter account exists since 2009. But everything about her presence online seems fabricated, is she paying a service to generate these for her? What's the game, does this give her clout in the insurance industry somehow?

The generated tweets are nonsense but seem to be fairly high quality nonsense. And the replies to Paul's reply were surreal, a bunch of them were just people having fun but a bunch looked like they were auto generated as well.

I feel at some point big machine learning networks will interact with humans so much through Twitter and other networks that eventually they will learn how to sway and manipulate people. I think it's one of the ultimate weapons a super power could create using machine learning. Of course looking at this it seems they'd likely get stuck just talking nonsense to their competitors.