skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To borrow an old saying, "Nobody ever gets fired for choosing IBM."

I don't know how frequently data collection happens with security questions, but I view security questions more as just a consequence of bureaucratic inertia and how development works. Imperfect security practices by developers persist because security is hard, many developers have no real formal training in it, and you follow along with what other developers have done and what you've seen in the wild because you have no other option to avoid making a fool of yourself. You're not going to get fired as a developer if you copy your bank's security practices: but you might if you try and innovate and get things wrong.

Think about something like complex password rules for websites. I can imagine that at one time there was a reasonable justification for that practice to emerge (training masses of people who never used computers before to choose complex passwords rather than just using a birthdate or simple word) but nowadays they're just a user-annoyance that decreases the security of passwords because it limits the number of possible character combinations. This practice seems to persist for no reason other than dumb bureaucratic inertia. Everybody does it: so that's the way it is. And since banks and big companies do it, this is the dumb practice that's going to persist for a while.
No one is giving you 4 years of paychecks on day 1. But they do grant 4 years of equity that is appreciating while you’re waiting for it to vest. That’s the difference. Cash is worse.
I have a strong feeling that current hospital cases are mostly delta ( there is a delay between both normally, since delta averages 8,5 days in hospitalization)

Even when new cases could be Omicron.

Either way, we will know soon.
Movie theaters, shops, sports leagues, boy scouts, etc were also closed.
I’ve mostly seen nuclear and GMO being promoted as a way to earn money by the promoter, their employer or their friends. Nuclear or GMO to improve the world is certainly an option but undoubtedly looks different than privatizing the profits and socializing the risks. And I’m convinced it would also be treated differently in the public debate (to an extent anyway) if approached in a different way.
History is littered with silver bullets. Automobiles solved the problem of knee deep horse manure in New York City once and for all. The Haeber-Bosch process quadrupled the productivity of agricultural land. Vaccines played a key role in eradicating smallpox. Etc.

There are problems with all these technologies, and great depth to each of the challenges they address, but just as coal was a revolution over wood, and natural gas over coal, so too can imperfect solar, wind, or nuclear be over natural gas. Or perhaps GMOs will help us reverse some of the sins of today’s mono crops.
I know IMEC as I was thinking going there at some point.

Both IMEC, and SUNY are heavily graduate research oriented. There are some undergrad opportunities there, but one's chances to get there are probably less than getting into MIT.

The "death valley" in between graduation, first employment, and a first real substantial job in semi industry is super-duper real, and acute problem. It's a problem in Asia, and 10x of than in US.
Can Wine nowadays run CAD software like Inventor, etc?
This looks like the weekend reporting artefact - you can see that Delta cases are lower at the weekend. You can actually see the same effect show itself as a small slowdown in the growth of the Omicron series, but since it’s a rapidly climbing figure it’s a bit harder to make out.
Chewing Gum Could Reduce the Spread of Covid-19 by Cutting the Virus in Saliva
If your clips are only 10-20 seconds, do you really need a Vimeo/etc? What do you need that a basic file CDN can't get you?
https://youtu.be/WM8bTdBs-cw?t=306
Which apparently had brilliant error messages:

https://mipmip.org/tidbits/compiler-errors.html
The Java authors were quite open about their absolute preference for Lisp, and their distaste for OO.

That Gosling did not fully understand features cribbed from other languages is evident from how broken the Java version of those features are.
this seems to be roughly the division i have seen at most companies.

Sometimes, automation and tooling are written by seperate teams, or are done by teams of different disciplines of operations/engineering.

I have almost never seen a network and system groups NOT being seperate. Mind you this is in DC/ISP's environment, where the complexity of networks is usually the mainstay or a heavy dependency of the business.
Dhall or other typed languages like Cue definitely help a lot. It seems to me that the only acceptable amount of YAML you could have in deployment config is for a setup small enough that it doesn't warrant using Kubernetes, so any use case where Kubernetes is a good fit quickly becomes a major pain to maintain.

That said, you wrote:

> drop k8s like its hot [...] We have phased it out everywhere we could.

Could you elaborate on what you've replaced Kubernetes with, and for what kind of deployment?
No, a moderately successful paper has 1-10 k citations, and usually 0-1 reproductions. Extremely successful papers have 10-40 k citations and 1-3 reproductions. They largely dont matter at all.

Its mostly because extraordinary claims receive more attention, and thus is found by the group for whom the result supported their prior beliefs. They will use it whenever they need to support such.
This is also why such studies tend to keep getting cited as evidence long after a long line of failures to replicate have been published. As the result is non-replicable, there also wont be a newer, improved version of the publication, meaning all cites go to the original.
> Not dried unprocessed corn, I'm talking corn flour baked/fried into a chips-like snack, like we do potatoes. Bet you never heard of it.

You've never heard of tortilla chips? Or the brand name Doritos?
My take on this is that if you live in a country where there was widespread use of less effective vaccines, where resources are limited for booster doses, and there is very limited access to treatments which we now know reduce disease severity after infection (sotrovimab probably still works for Omicron infections and paxlovid almost certainly does), then Omicron is going to be bad.

Unfortunately a lot of the world which isn't Europe and North America seems to fit into this category.
Especially since IT departments see Windows as the “budget” option for worker drones who don’t need much other than a web browser and Office.

The other side benefit is that Macs are way harder to manage and so IT depts don’t actually bother and you get admin access and told to turn on FileVault instead of the nightmare that is opinionated GPOs.

So when it comes to my option of a MacBook Pro or the cheapest functional Dell Latitude bought in bulk I’m gonna suddenly care a whole lot about testing in Safari.

Apple set themselves up really well as an escape hatch from overbearing IT, not surprised people with the opportunity take it. Devs get the treatments that was previously reserved only for the C suites.
Can stop doing rather than need to stop doing. Suppose the crime rate drops dramatically, you could be less cautious or keep doing the same things.
Of course there are. You can just buy put options, and if the market goes down, you can exercise or sell them, which limits your downside risk.
I cant find the part about "faster than AI" in the research paper. It's very difficult to compare. Do you use a single computer or a cluster? Do you compare wall clock time, or energy consumption, or weigh of the processor, or ...?
> If someone who has these relatively mainstream views feels unrepresented in the mainstream political discourse, something is wrong with the discourse.

Or that individual is really determined to believe that their relatively mainstream views are radical and individual
Not really, given that Democrats control California 100% and attacks on early Algebra were the result.

Neither major party is the coalition I'm talking about. It doesn't exist yet. But I can dream.
the --tree feature is incredibly slow
I don’t know - yeah technically correlation doesn’t imply causation. But they are correlated…
From my very limited understanding, feedback is done by releasing chemicals. Not sure if hormone is the proper word but that's what comes to mind. Perhaps someone else here knows more about it.
I disagree, DevOps people are writing code and "code" (YAML, HCL, JSON) that's used to provision infrastructure. When developers push to master it'll build and deploy. They're still deploying, they're just getting help with running the stuff. Can we really expect everyone to understand how solid infrastructure should be built? I don't think every JS frontend dev should have this know-how, yet their code is deployed on S3 behind Cloudfront (or whatever in front of whatever, static file hosting feels like kind of a solved problem).
The real MVP. Thanks!
I'm curious how you developed the "very cute headless" Minecraft client. Did you use the Forge build tools? How did you go about ripping out the rendering/keyboard stuff?
I assume that you are makin ga joke or a reference to something becuase this number is absurd. That's a bag of chips per person.
I get the sense they weren't talking about what most people mean when they say "steep entry" in a Rust context (i.e. the language itself), but specifically its support and documentation for the embedded case
In your place I wouldn't accept that. If the client has such requirements they should be shipping their hardware to you.
that I'm a free thinking, rational person?
In this case, it's neither good nor bad news because there is insufficient data. Per the article:

So far, the data are scarce and incomplete

The rest of the article consists of anecdotes that could point in either direction. If you want good news, check out the piece from WaPo from a few days ago [0]

Just keep in mind the scarce and incomplete factor. Give it another 2-3 weeks and we'll know more. Meanwhile it's probably not a good time to stop whatever precautions you have already been taking.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa...
> unlike the lawbreakers who interfered with nuclear weapons research, animal cruelty practices, and abortion clinics

Or set government buildings on fire in response to George Floyd's death (which the police officer found responsible for was later sentenced to decades in prison for). Or who did the exact same thing the Jan 6 "insurrectionists" did to shut down Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.
Found the visualizer they used for the videos here - https://spikestream.corticallabs.com

Very cool WebGL implementation. I hope they release the dataset so that we can visualize all the games and maybe do our own analysis on them.
I think that the op is missing a side.

The article is about dev -> ops.

The other side is ops->dev. I.e. since infrastructure is software, ops become dev (and not just dev become ops).
This was discussed recently: California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29324551 (25 days ago)
"The essay is about how anti-human it is to force truly independent thinkers into a box where they're allowed to freely make technical contributions but have to steer clear of sociocultural landmines."

Ok, that is a reasonable distillation. And you just said it in one sentence. Why does it take Scott 20 pages?
I am so glad I am not the only one who did this. I was messing around with the phone wires because my sister was hogging the phone and I had important business on a MUD. I found if I put a large resistor across two of the wires (I can't remember which now) the call quality would degrade enough that she would stop and I could get back on the internet.
SimulaVR Update: Technical Overview
the issue with yaml is that is breaks down under real life complexities in larger/complexer environments.
> He's completely corrupt by WV coal and other corporate interests

Or is he just representing the interests of the people of WV, as he is supposed to? Remember, his job is to represent WV, not to fall in line with Democrat party policy.

And according to a poll in November: "Nearly 74 percent of [West Virginia] voters also said Manchin should oppose the president’s Build Back Better plan."

https://wvmetronews.com/2021/11/15/wv-voters-slam-biden-appr...
The article clarifies that "human" includes the whole homo genus (well, not explicitly, but it at least mentions other species in homo as being human) within the same paragraph you quoted from.
It's important to note the severity of omicron seems to vary a lot from country to country. Omicron in South Africa seems to be much less severe than in other countries.

Also if you do wanna take the hot take of omicron spreading and displacing other variants, then it's still very important to get the booster shot. The vaccine has a much bigger effect on those variants than on omicron. In Norway at a party of 120 fully vaccinated people, 80 of them got infected with omicron. So no matter what, it's still important to get your boosters!
CNApy – An integrated environment for metabolic network analysis
CNApy is a desktop application for metabolic network analysis. It is a relative young project that aims to provide an integrated environment inspired by tools like CellNetAnalyser (CNA) and DD-DeCaf. In fact it started as a modernization of the CNA UI that allows to use functions from the CNA toolbox. CNApy is implemented in Python and uses Qt for the UI. Under the hood it uses COBRApy to implement the core model.

The project has matured a lot and in the future we would love this project to be sustained on the basis of a broader community.

Anyone that wants to get involved in the project, please let us know! We are looking for all kinds of contributions.

Links:

- [Project page on GitHub](https://github.com/cnapy-org/CNApy)

- [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/cnapy-org/CNApy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....)
Dupe from 12hours ago[0] (113pts, 29comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29612750
Well, regulations don’t work 100% of the time either.
Inflation in the Housing Market
Just say no. Low ballers are scum and cannot be tolerated.
That I agree with. Their collection methodology was clearly inadequate. They should have been more careful who they mailed, even though they did try to be careful it wasn't enough.
If a single person leaking a debate question (a person who then got immediately fired once exposed) is enough to call the Democrats corrupt, then I think that was a standard doomed to fail.
The one system I've seen work is when each medium team (of say, 20-36 people) has a "devops team" of say 4-6 people that is responsible for all the infrastructure stuff, while the rest of the people can focus on product work. It's just that keeping track of infrastructure is much more efficient as a full-time job rather than a 10%-time job.

It's important to do the org engineering right so that the infrastructure people and developers feel responsible for each-other and work well together - ideally both teams should be able to open PRs against each other's code if needed and get help any time.

If the org engineering isn't done right, devs write code that pages the ops and the ops don't respond to devs quickly enough for things to work well ("traditional ops").
I thought of "Johnny Got His Gun" too. That's the film they use the footage from in the video of Metallica's song "One".
Where I live (NL) you don't even need to buy a whole phone, anonymous prepaid sim cards don't require any ID to purchase.
Ask HN: How do you know if an idea is good?
As in, i think i just had a great idea for a project that could consume my life, how do i tell if i’m right?
june 2020 had the lowest ever prices. no one was complaining.

in reality these high prices are due to a combination of factors:

- countries reopened after covid at the same time across the planet leading to pressure from asia to europe

- norway’s gas infrastructure works

- cold winter and spring followed by a very hot summer which increased energy demand for heating and AC

- lack of wind in northern Europe meaning burning more coal and gas

- fire at a Russian gas processing plant in August reducing output from Russia to Europe. thus Russia couldn’t fulfil anything more than long-term contracts (no spot)

- Russia’s Putin also has an interest to put pressure on Europeans in order to fast track Nord Stream 2.

- Putin also wants Europeans to rely less on the free market and more on long term contracts, since those disincentivise investments in energy efficiency, diversification, the transition to cleaner energy sources. EU initiatives have also made Europe less susceptible to market manipulation by Gazprom than it used to be. these are big no-no’s for the Kremlin
1) This is not a stable job. Most startups fail. By joining a startup, you are buying into a high-risk/high-reward scenario.

2) If your offer to go work for them is not high-reward, odds are it is a bad offer. Be sure your compensation in the case of success has the potential to change your life. If it doesn't, go find a more stable job.

3) Most startups are led by people with limited experience, advised by investors with their own agendas. Their leaders tend to be young, ambitious, and smart. But not experienced. Sometimes this is terrific, and they do things in new ways and kick ass. Other times they are utter fools who drive the company into the ground.

4) VCs fund startups to make money. They do not care about you. They barely care about the company. They care about whether or not they are getting money. This forces startups to make high risk choices pushing for fast growth, not safe choices pushing for a stable company.

Overall, just be sure you know what you are getting into. Startups can be amazing experiences, with tons of learning, and good compensation. They also can be toxic pushes to burnout and bankruptcy. They are gambles. If you know this and go in with open eyes, then enjoy the ride.
Unfortunately his values are only mainstream on technical forums where everyone leans libertarian.
Financial Repression
There is a company working on biologically inspired neural chips called Rain Neuromorphics. https://rain.ai
Then there you have it. I have a project, written by me around 150k lines. Has DevExpress components, ReportBuilder components and the whole build is around 2M lines in total in around 30k files, with full dependencies (I have sources for all). Takes 25 seconds, and is inside a virtual machine - as my philosophy is "each project inside their own VM".

Also the link I gave you for video, that's a full rebuild. The guy does a cleanup first, getting rid of existing builded components/modules and then does a full rebuild.
Many people take longer to die of COVID than has elapsed since the first Omicron variant was discovered. We simply don’t know at this point, and won’t for probably 2 months.

Extrapolating from hospitalization rates and limited sample sizes is mostly just guesswork. It’s probably not much worse, but beyond that is up in the air.
Yes, Forgegradle was used. Frankly, not much interesting here, just a whole lot of work going through all the Minecraft code, and using Java reflection where possible and JVM bytecode injection otherwise. There's a lot of access transforming, using theUnsafe to allocate classes without calling their constructors, etc. As a random example that I remember, one of the last things to patch was that we had it working, but when you got kicked from the server, it would crash. This is because it would try to create a currentScreen GUI for the "disconnected from server" message, which for some reason was long enough that it was considering whether to wrap the text to the next line, which needed something like a font size, or maybe the window width, which crashed since there is no window or font.
we currently do this at our company.

compiled code gets (autodeployed) with SFTP in some cases even.

deployment has become massively complex because of the need to keep production and test environments roughly the same. Deployment to production should not be complex and basically boils down to the following:

- think about method of getting the binaries installed on the system in a secure way.
- think about sending some state back that the binary has been installed succesfully.

- add node/member/app/whathaveyou to the production membership pool/loadbalancer/BGP Route reflector/whathaveyou.
Username is barneygale. You do the parsing.
Yeah, I think the difference is that I was

a) Learning K8s and Helm Concepts (both different things)

b) Reading/Debugging K8s and Helm YAML (both different things)

c) Ending up at Helm Chart Configs (another config)

d) Figuring out how to set all this to helm me deploy the solution I needed and customize it acc to my needs

...all within the span of a few weeks.

So by the time I got to some GitHub repos which were using Jsonnet, I was basically done. I'm sure it has its uses and given enough time and experience, I can see how to utilize it more effectively.
I'd be very surprised if biological brains couldn't do better than fancy gradient descent, which is what the current standard seems to be for artificial neuronal networks.
I can already envision HFT traders putting human brains into boxes which are then colocated at the exchanges and everyone thinks it's okay.
> but the world is full of incorrectly designed applications.

No it's not. This particular kind of incorrectly-designed application cannot be prevalent if the kind of hardware it requires to function at all is still new and rare.
health outcomes vary widely by location. South Africa seems to be particularly less severe than in other places (suggesting population and environmental factors may play a big role). The fact is that in other countries death rates are still rising so there's a lot of unknowns and the science says this could be really bad
You can use something like Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com which supports encryption/decryption on the fly to Google Drive
Aosta Valley Autonomus Region
We rationalist types already know that you think Gould is better, but that doesn't raise our opinion of you :P The guy has lied too many times (Google it, the takedowns abound). Back to the drawing board, I'm afraid.
That doesn't technically mean misinformation although but it does imply major room for improvement in methodology. If I roll a d20 and get a 7 and you roll it and get 13 that doesn't make the prior study inaccurate. The sizes are too low or not properly defined.

But the combination of publish-or-perish and grant seeking pushing sensationalism isn't good for honesty let alone accuracy or precision.
Probability Theory
fewer then what in what population?
Forest data for 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020
I knew nothing about the author of the text, and read it with interest, but the fact that he didn't mention Franklin was certainly a surprise and warning sign. To anyone who studied the issue, it's clear that Franklin should be credited at least equally with Crick&Watson.
Ivermectin acts on glutamate chloride ion channels. It is not a protease inhibitor. And even if it were (which it is not), something that inhibits one protease doesn't work on other proteases. We can't use HIV protease inhibitors to fight covid, for example.
The science says destroying the global economy with lockdowns is bad too.

Do we make all policy on the basis of one variable, or do we look at the multivariate system holistically? Majority of countries are doing the former, which is not "following the science" but cherry picking a subset of the science that reinforces your view.

I can assure you everybody on earth catching covid would be less severe and painful than the GFC was for global population. Which is pretty easily borne out by the data (the science).

A second global lockdown would have pretty similar results to the GFC, given that ammo for stimulus is spent.