skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In particular, it took me a long time to a realise that for a lot of people communications is parsed by treating a series of requests or pieces of information as a FIFO. If you're lucky, it's fairly deep, but for some people it can only hold 1 or 2 entries at the time.

But when it's an e-mail or other interaction that they understand as "conversational", these people tend to not start acting on the output until the end.

So ask for 3 things, and chances are only the last one will still be in the queue by the time they've read your whole message. The rest will have just popped out of their mind and no longer exist in their world until they're prompted to re-read your message.

For people who act like that, seemingly the only way around it short of drip-feeding them questions one at a time that I've found is to present them with a document attachment and only one request: "Please follow the procedure in the attached document." And make them sign off. And provide a checklist if they're particularly difficult.

You basically need to make it clear that the list is not conversation. You can find people who are pathologically unable to process a list of instructions in an e-mail who are at the same time completely OCD about processing lists of instructions in a document, because they context-switch completely.

Of course in this context of "sabotage" this can be exploited to: Mercilessly attach all information in a bunch of separate documents, and add checklists and signoffs to everything. Especially to unimportant stuff.
It occurred to me today that, somewhat ironically, JNDI+LDAP calls appear (at least to me on first sight) to be prime examples of expressions that would be difficult for a JIT optimizer to analyze for side-effects, given that this is a mechanism for making remote calls. If I am mistaken in so thinking, I would be genuinely interested in learning about how it is done.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that these sort of expressions are inherently insecure - that would depend, I think, on whether they involve user input in a way that allows an attacker to take control of the call. A hard-coded JNDI lookup from the arguments list of a log4j call might be inefficient, but no less secure than if made anywhere else.
> Wealthy individuals can, and do, use lower-power technology.

Surprisingly true. I've seen quite a few fairly wealthy people use some janky Android phones. Their reasons to use them can be best summarized as personal preferences, but the fact remains.
I've heard it as MAGMA recently
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If you have to ask here, you won't find it.
We can say with fairly high confidence that the natural immunity rate is fairly low due to the infection rate of the unvaccinated vs. the vaccinated. If any significant portion of the unvaccinated had natural immunity, then the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated would close since natural immunity actually confers more protection.
> But the Baltic republic points to its long history of standing up to bullying foreigners, including Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

Not sure about that. Against Soviet Union surely, but Nazis not at all.
It's surprising to read all of the "chill out and enjoy it" comments in response to someone who is saying they have lost all motivation in life.

Get yourself a good therapist. You're worth it.

ps - All the people telling you to not tell your family and friends? They are right.
I'm afraid none in the West. Speaking, and writing Taiwanese Chinese is something really needed to get onto the cutting edge of device fabrication.

An average US college will tell you about VLSI, logic, teach you Cadence, and designing something on the level of 8051, and process engineering enough to work on something from 350-180nm era with aluminium interconnect.

The problem is this is hardly enough to make you employable. And without employment in few serious semi companies left standing today, you will never see modern chip manufacturing.

Semi industry has really high entry barriers, and it has really poor remuneration. The industry largely coasting on greying cadres from eighties-nineties in the West, and very cheap PhDs in Asia.
> require 100 lines of code to just display a static page

I suggest you don't make comment about things you've never used. To have a hello world static page in nextjs you just need a single file with a single line. To have a database set up it takes... 15 mins too. You are pulling 100 lines of code out of your arse.
is that not the same link twice?
There is a simple solution. If most of western world allowed Taiwan embassies China would have to relent. They can't afford having entire western world stand against them.

Unfortunately, that would require western nations to agree on something.
So where somebody produced both male and female gametes what sex re they? Both simultaneously? Are infertile people sexless? Seems like according to this framework you would need to include neuter and perhaps intersex. Is a woman who had ovarian cancer no longer female?

I’ve also heard “sex reassignment surgery” being called “gender affirmation surgery” in recent times. I simply don’t hear people making arguments along the lines you’re talking about because “gender” is generally emphasized instead of “sex”.
> It has a more dangerous risk profile than the previously accepted vaccines

Is there compelling research that shows this is actually true? There is elevated risk of heart inflammation, but in my understanding that is not an unprecedented vaccine side effect. I haven’t seen an in depth comparison to established vaccines though

As for neurological side effects, I just read this a morning this large study from uk comparing risks between the conventional platform ChadOx, the BioNTech mRNA platform, and actual coronavirus infection. The two vaccine platforms seen at least on par with each other, and both favorable to infection

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01556-7
> I've yet to meet a lawyer who won't do a cursory evaluation of your case for free.

You don't get out much, do you?

I've known tons of lawyers that won't look at their watch and tell you the time, unless they get a tenner from it. To be fair, they are used to folks trying to extract highly valuable services from them, for free, so it's sort of a defense mechanism.

I have (and have had) many friends that are lawyers. A few will help me out with quick consults for free. I even have one chap that has gone beyond that, and I'm grateful. I'm quite aware of the value of their services, and always offer (and am willing) to pay; even if they decline to invoice me.
Way before @noamraph put it up on in pypi it was internally available in our company. To my knowledge he didn't yet make it 30 years ago, but if he did then probably at least not for Python!
If you want a base salary that high, move into Product Management or Sales/Sales Engineering. Maybe Data Analytics/Engineering if you're really good at math and find the right company.

Or, as others have said, start your own company.
I’m also a bash expert but I disagree with your point.

Bash was good enough when being a sysadmin meant your structured data was largely just flat lists of plain text. However the industry moved away from that model years ago. And these days it’s more pronounced than ever with myself spending more time in YAML, JSON and tables thanks to modern DevOps tooling than I have done in the 2 decades of experience I had prior.

Sure, jq is amazing. But if I’m having to reach for jq in nearly every pipeline then one has to question why the shell can’t just understand JSON natively itself. And why should I have to learn a different tool with their own formatting language for working with YAML, CSV, XML, S-expressions and so on. Why can’t I use the same shell primitives regardless of the underlying data format is?

This is why I switched away from bash. I’m enough of an expert in bash to use it for DevOps everyday but I’m also pragmatic enough to realise that other shells actually do offer quality of life improvements. This doesn’t mean those shells have to be fully fledged programming languages - I’m really not suggesting that we should be using shell scripting for anything complicated. The problem is the stuff that isn’t complicated has evolved to become complicated in bash because the nature of our work has shifted away from what bash did well.

But each to their own. I wouldn’t want to impose my workflow on others anymore than I’d want others to lecture me about theirs. I just wanted to offer a counterpoint from someone who is also a seasoned sysadmin (and more recently “DevOps”).
> The foundation for all decisions is and always has been values. Values are opinions based on feelings.

That line of reasoning would lead you to conclude that everything is feeling.

But you give examples of things that can eventually be quantified as well. I don't see how some of those objective functions are qualitatively different from the rest.
That's what I'm thinking. If you're not European, it basically boils down to the realpolitik of whether your home country would render you up to European judgement or other private businesses you deal with would choose not to deal with you because you don't bother to say whether or not you comply with the GDPR.
They can. The western world can’t afford to be without China’s manufacturing, though.
If you are not going to have the insurance for long, then just skip the middleman and buy a bond index fund or treasuries yourself. There is no need for this type of insurance product to exist…since it already exists for cheaper.
$150 per hour is $300,000 per year including two weeks vacation per year.

I have a side client that I met 11 years ago that I charge $150 per hour for remote development. They feel lucky to get that rate! Most people around us charge $200 per hour but since I work full time for someone else and can’t always be available I give them that discounted rate.

I don’t think they’re hard to find at all for consulting. Being a full time employee for $250k, I agree with you that those are more rare. In my experience you have to possess an in-demand specialty for that or get into management.
> If one is dumb enough to use C style arrays instead of C++ bounded checked ones, yes that is a problem, again just like C arrays defined in CGO.

I'm talking about defining a 'const int[]' in C and having it appear as an 'int[]' in Java. I think that's even less likely to happen if you define a const std::vector.

Actually I've never even seen someone define constant data in C++ using a vector, but this fits my experience of C++ developers telling me I'm stupid when I do the only thing I've ever seen anyone actually write.
These days? If anything, these methods are increasingly mitigated by new functionality from your friendly global technology giant such as dns-over-https.
Because they're human and you shouldn't pretend to assume you know their motives or circumstances.

Should I decide all those in religious minorities deserve whatever comes to them because they choose not to follow the major religion?

Should I decide obese people deserve no support or care because they 'choose' an unhealthy diet?

Let's not turn into horrible human beings just because we feel righteous. Righteousness has a habit of causing horrendous suffering.
After being forced into evangelical Christianity at a young age, no 2 books were more eye-opening and life-changing for me than:

Letter To A Christian Nation - Sam Harris
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

The moment you realize you've been lied to your whole life is horrific and liberating ... it's hard to describe. Took many years to "let go" but i don't think it would have been possible without these 2 books for me.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Lithuania...
If you include other succesfull open source projects, like Blender, the pattern is no longer there ...
What exactly is sales engineering? I have never understood this term or what the work these people do is. To be fair I haven't spent much time looking into it but any insight you have is appreciated
The most straight forward way to go about this is applying for jobs with real leadership responsibility, and having the experience to confidently interview for such a position.

If you join a company in a position to impact the productivity of the entire engineering org, then getting $250k base and full-time remote is reality.

Getting an IC position at those comp levels is far more difficult.
I get your main point, but I do not agree. Pointing out that you are wrong with the spare facts is just easier than arguing about wether professional tests or DIY are better suited to slow down the pandemic. Since there’s no one stopping you from faking the DIY test result, while there’s at least one other person involved in forging an official test, I personally think it’s very reasonable to not include DIY tests into „2G+“.
2 weeks vacation per year is pitiful. Do people really get on and are happy with only that? I get 5 weeks ( minimum legal in France), i use it to the max and it's okay, but sometimes insufficient.
That's because there's no monetary reason for the phone company to listen in but Facebook is all about listening and recording.
Because our hospitals are over capacity - specifically well over 100% nurse to patient capacity - the guard members will likely be helping with all of the non-medical work nurses would normally do in non pandemic times. Stuff like cleanup, re-supply of rooms and supply closets, maybe some check in work that sort of thing.
There were certainly resisters and collaborators with both the Soviets and the Germans.
You fired a crap employee putting out bad work.

If I’m working multiple jobs yet still finishing my work and probably even doing better than some of the employees working for the company exclusively, I doubt you would be so quick to fire me.

It’s no ones fucking business how many jobs I work. Focus on results. This is the remote work equivalent of on-site managers who want to see asses in chairs.
China pretending to be the victim of Lithuanian bullying really is a farce more ridiculous than usual.
Europeans were quick to scorn Mr Trump’s policies but the reality is that China has been unfair in its trade practices. Also, losing liberty in Hong Kong was sad but it will be much worse if free Taiwan is crushed by CCP ambition. The West should have alot of introspection about which battles are the right ones to choose.
How will history judge the current leadership of the West if they abandon Taiwan?
When young, I was asked to take over reporting for a couple weeks while someone went on vacation. It was a full time position that required 7 solid hours a day of work.

I had the position fully automated by the time person got back.
Thankfully they took it well and they got more interesting assignments.

2 weeks of my time saved several years of salary for company. I did this many times.
Sorry, not assumption then. Same point though, I could take a different example number for a wildly different result.

And so, if Africa is doing well because of prior infection, why the hell are we madly rushing to vaccination (that continues to fail at each mutation) if actually getting infected is giving the desired longer term outcome (and there doesn't appear to be reports of widespread mass mortality in Africa to date, at the least no worse than other nations)?
You better support it with some good source.
I signed up for a newsletter called Modern Different that curates products. It's easier to believe the motivation while it's small.

Also asking on reddit on the appropriate subreddit is pretty helpful.
Ask HN: Why aren't companies offering worldwide remote internships?
Alright, sorry for sounding needy, but let's just go with it. I'm currently CS undergrad in India and interning at a remote company.

While looking for remote internships for summer '22 in the Americas and Europe, it frustrates me to see how many good fitting opportunities (for me) are just not available because they are remote but only in the region/timezone, or require visa authorization.

Are companies out there even offering worldwide remote internships? If they are, what's the best way to find them?

Cheers y'all.
> Otherwise, the caller must allocate memory for the return value and pass a pointer to it as the first argument. The remaining arguments are then shifted one argument to the right.

I think the issue is that it isnt _fully_ documented anywhere. The MS docs do partially describe it, but it omits details about how this should be handled in the case of C++ member functions (which are the COM methods in question). C++ member functions always receive the hidden 'this' pointer as the first argument in Microsoft's x64 calling convention, which directly conflicts with this document stating the returned struct would be a "pointer to it as the first argument".

You can see this in some of the godbolt links in the linked issue. Ultimately, some COM functions that take no arguments actually end up taking two hidden parameters in rcx and rdx (this pointer, and the return struct pointer respectively)
In my opinion it is crucial to include in a readme:

- what I can do with a software

- which problem(s) it solves

- which use cases it works particularily good for

- how it achieves that

I had a look at that readme and I don't know what the tool does
Entrepreneur Raised $140M to Fix the Financial Industry for Regular Americans
I'm sorry, but this is a top rated 'dumb' post of they day.
Would it be fair to assume you dont actually work in finance, and therefor are posting about a topic you know very little about?

If you did work in finance, you would know that you are required to attest that you will not do things like this.

The attestation is very clear, and a legal contract you signed.

Posting "dont know, dont understand, dont care" doesnt work. The attestation was signed, you said you understood it and agreed to adhere to the rules.

Ignorance of the law has never been a valid excuse, the superior courts of almost every country in the world have ruled this way.

your anecdotal experience isn't relevant, the attestation is.
Yeah, the ops side of microservices is important.

More granular scaling. Scaling up instances of 8, 16, 32GB or even larger instances is much more expensive than 1,2,4GB instances. In addition, monoliths tend to load slower since there's more code being loaded (so you can't scale up in sub minute times)

Obviously there's lazy loading, caching, and other things to speed up application boot but loading more code is still slower
As a counterpoint, take a look at the GOPAC memo from 1990 titled "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control". Newt Gingrich made it a fundamental part of the Republican campaign playbook, and it's entire purpose was to use emotionally loaded terms to short circuit reason and control voters through their emotional responses instead.

It's an initiative that began years earlier, but this memo with it's cynical and hypocritical title may be the biggest smoking gun.

https://connectionslab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/inform...

(This particular source is 1996, but the memo appeared as early as 1990.)
> I don’t think they’re hard to find at all for consulting.

You said you found your $150/hr 11 years ago. How many other $150/hr clients have you met since then? What makes you say that it’s easy to find them?

I think it’s easy to say that consulting is easy when you’ve had a single, long-term client that pays well. In practice, it’s much harder to find these clients when starting from 0, unless you have such luck to find the dream client right out of the gate.
Also one of the root problems with politics. 2035 emissions targets are the next government's problem. Rehabilitative policing pays off in 20 years, retributive buys voters now.
The parent poster provided sources for all of their claims. It’s unclear to me what they said that was untrue. Care to elaborate?
What specs does your computer/device have?
I didn't say that vaccines were supposed to transmission pre-Delta, did I? Just that overall vaccines were, and are, more effective against Alpha and whatnot. And even then it wasn't really expected to stop transmissions to 100%.

Still the question remains to be answered: What are our alternatives, assuming we don't want overloaded health systems? Because just doing nothing wpuld be disaster.
Yes, and that's the problem.

The West will not go, and die without one xmass season, and a new Iphone 99.

But Western elites all holding stocks of companies valued in trillions will do.

I requires a healthy conversation in society about this. It will come to a time when people will have to decide what to do with these people.

Potential adversaries now do things which just 15 years ago would've meant a real hot war with the whole Western world by leveraging their financial influence on Western elites, and a threat of bankrupting them.
Nope.. but it keep nagging every now an then
I use NDI a lot, but with a phone as webcam, or from obs to obs, scan converter, audio stream between devices like ipad/iphone/Android to desktop... But it is demanding to encode this way. HDMI capture does only use bandwidth over the USB or pcie bus, while ndi uses cpu or gpu.
You are deeply, profoundly misguided on this. The regulations on communications in finance, and what kinds of communications are covered by these restrictions and which aren’t, are clear and well understood in the industry.
I think you might be right - it’s worth a try!
You mean, “impossible to get running correctly anywhere”?

(The problem with running Java apps is that they are tied to a range of versions of JRE, like, for instance, version 8 or earlier.)
You have hardware devices for ndi, but they ain't cheap!
It has been two years at this point, it is a shame on those in charge that the hospitals aren't up to handling the issue now.

I wish it was a criminal matter, but unfortunately it isn't the case.
If they take my package, never deliver it, and claim they delivered it, that's theft of tangible property, punishable by state law (and federal, if they messed with interstate commerce).

There is no such "theft of information" for failing to route a data packet, nor should there be for obvious reasons.

Better analogy would be if a newspaper took money to run my ad but never ran it. Also theft, or at least try-able in civil court for failure to render service.

... But if they take a message from me, for free, on the understanding they'll route it and never route it? Much, much grayer legally. I have to prove harm and that they had a legal duty they abrogated. Neither are obvious regarding Facebook DMs.
Building a multi-layer neural network from scratch in Go
I wasn't using WhatsApp much anyway, so I just deleted my account. My primary IM services are Telegram and VKontakte.

Instagram though... Can't imagine getting off of it anytime soon.
> Are all JPM employees supposed to just cut off communication with their European friends? Never talk to anyone from a country worried about spying and thus using encrypted messaging?

What has "don't use Whatsapp for business communication, ever!" to do with "cut off communication with their friends"?!
Can you self teach yourself into these positions or do they filter for a degree?
If you buy something from a shop, everything related to that transaction is known to the shop partners.
If you talk to an automated machine over phone, everything you say will be recorded.
This seems similar, all you say to the business will be logged by Facebook. But not because you use WhatsApp, but because the business choosed Facebook to "help" with all its transactions. If you talk to a business via telegram/Twitter/matrix/etc, and the business uses a Facebook backend, all you say can be recorded and used by Facebook.

By business I'm referring to WhatsApp business accounts.
Still refusing. Can't drop it because my old relatives still use it
A Course of Mathematical Analysis (Vols 1 and 2)