skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty awesome read, and the approach is pretty flexible.

I've written simple code using the AST-visitor approach to enforce some common-standards on code within our company. Simple things like ensuring that when we use Troposphere to generate AWS cloudformation templates we always setup some specific values. (For example I wrote a checker to ensure that every time an ECR instance is created we must enable ScanOnPush, or every time we declare a security-group we must have a comment "[cloudformation] ..." with it - so that manual edits stand out.)
Existing nuclear has its place. Shutting down existing plants is incredibly stupid. Building new plants is way too slow and way too expensive. Unless we get some magic new tech. I'm glad Bill Gates is putting money into researching that, but in the mean time we have to work with what we have. The book I linked (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify) has a good road map including nuclear.

To solar-ify the US, we'd need 40,000 square miles of land for panels, and one square mile for batteries. In a country with 3.6M square miles, that's not a ridiculous amount of land. We use far more than that for parking lots. And of course we'd use a mix rather than just solar, so we'll need even less land.
I think it’s an unfair comparison. Of course the average actuary wouldn’t even come close to the average days scientist when it comes to data science skills.

Just like the average doctor wouldn’t, the average lawyer wouldn’t, and the average banker wouldn’t.

The problems they solve require very different skills. The problems I solve on a day to day basis have no need for data science. There are certain areas in my company where we use data science heavily, but in the areas we do need to use it we just use actual data scientists.

The SOA, in my opinion, is going down the wrong path. Actuaries shouldn’t be trying to compete with data scientists. It has such little relevance to the work of most actuaries and in my opinion it’s just a way for the SOA to try and increase their revenues by jumping on a bandwagon.

I agree with you “hit and miss” observation though.

The exams are a barrier, but they’re not perfect. Plenty of mediocre people slip through the net. My company has roughly 100 actuaries. There are maybe 10-15 people that I’d consider very good at their job. The rest are just “meh”. I suspect this is the same in most fields though. Most companies now seem to have some sort of “data science” function. Unless the company is a tech or “data is the product” company, those data science functions don’t seem to contain the brightest data scientists. A friend of mine is a data science lead at retail company, and he’d be the first to admit he’s fairly mediocre. Most of their challenging work is outsourced to a specialist consultancy and their in house staff barely do any actual “science”.
But HTTP is client/server whereas e-mail is server/server (or client/server/server/client). Small independent server operators are at the mercy of the large companies as those can just stop processing their e-mails (which they already often do). That's different for HTTP (though gatekeeping happens there too via discoverability and other mechanisms).
I've considered various permanent locations and the digital nomad thing also appeals to me.

Another interesting development along with the rise of remote work is the rollout of starlink and the plummetting cost of solar.

I think in a few years you'll be able to work from just about anywhere on planet earth.
Considered and rejected, which was great because it made us realize what is good and what [little] is bad about where we live once that was decoupled from work.

Once the kids are off to college, I can imagine we might move around some or split our time, but for now remote allowed us to be consciously happy about our choice of residence.
Do you have an email address to message at?
I think they should support both and not automatically redirect from http to https.

The comment just above you:

> Admittedly a small problem, but for microcontrollers that don't support https and just want to get some publically available data like weather-- it is an issue. So lots of hobbiest projects are basically turned off because of this.
Hi, I had questions about finding a company in France, would you be able to answer any? I’ve my email in my account if you are.
Yes, the alternative to rewriting is changing the size and recompiling. OpenBSD somehow managed to pull it off.
If someone from SpaceX is reading (after 5pm, of course), can we get a more nitty-gritty of what's going on software-wise on your end? I'd love to see what control and embedded wizardry you guys are up to.
My 8-second take: I imagine candles weren't all that standardized, and obviously a candelabra can only hold one size. If this was used to hold candles it has the advantage of being small, versatile (12 diameters), but the pins will ensure each face is flat with respect to the ground below it (even on rocks etc, you can rotate to find a stable surface). The candle holder theory accounts for the different sizes, because you don't need it to match identically just close enough for whatever candles you usually use/are around your location. Thoughts from any archeologists?

Edit: I'm late to the party, this article lists the candle theory but dismisses it without presenting any evidence why - https://www.legendsandchronicles.com/ancient-artifacts/the-r...
EDIT: I meant this as a critique of the landing page. I don't understand if it's intentionally stealth or if it's hard to find the relevant information (I'm browsing from a phone)
Frankly, time doesn't work that way...
if i am atm (CET) and i make an appointment for sometime in summer 2022 (CEST), then i don't expect the hair salon to make the appointment in CET.
That was already pointed out, so I was confused by the comment chain. Of course reduce and reuse should be the priority, but the comment chain seemed to imply that recycling isn’t perfect, so it shouldn’t be done, as the person you responded to explicitly suggested in their other comment.
I don't know of any embedded systems still using glibc.

Dietlibc, uclibc (used by openwrt and the other consumer router replacement firmwares), musl libc, and bionic (since Android is technically an embedded Linux, so should be mentioned as well) dominate the embedded Linux space.
> In my experience, this fact was the #1 reason why some peers dropped out of PhD programs. They joined expecting a continuation of undergraduate education, which consists largely of recapitulating what appears in the secondary literature. Instead, what they got in graduate school was the expectation that they would be producing the primary literature. That's a very different game.

Hit the nail on the head. I would like to add one point though - it's not just the unanswered questions, one sometimes doesn't even know which questions are unanswered.

Typically, up until a Ph.D - you are given a question and then asked for an answer which more often than not exists. Suddenly, in a Ph.D - not only do you not know the answer, you don't know the question too. The craft to come up with an important question, create a well-defined scope and then answer the question from different perspectives is the heart of a Ph.D program. The true skill is the ability to "learn to learn". The transferrable skill is to probe around for questions which are important, define them and then go ahead to answer them.
T-Mobile had another data breach
3 hours, some overbuilding and a good grid to get to 99.99% reliability (under an hour of blackouts).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
Having been to both places, what didn’t you like about Scottsdale?
The question was about whether actuarial credentials should be positive signals in an application to a data science job. And my answer is: all else being equal, having more credentials is arguably good. However, all else is not equal. Having invested in actuarial credentials is a fairly strong signal of very limited computational/programming skills which are critical to a data science career. So the net signaling value of actuarial credentials in data science is actually negative.

I'm well aware that data science is as awash with mediocrity as any other field, but not being able to function outside of Excel makes you mostly useless as a data scientist, not merely mediocre.

I also agree with you that actuaries should not compete with data scientists, and should mostly stick to product, actuarial finance, reserving, etc. unless they desperately want to do data science, in which case they should switch to data science.

> in my opinion it’s just a way for the SOA to try and increase their revenues by jumping on a bandwagon.

It's worth noting that this is exactly what you'd predict if you buy my original thesis about the exams.
All password services that allow for transfer between devices or emergency backups store the passwords in a recoverable format (encrypted rather than hashed) on their servers. This concern is not unique to Chrome's password storage.

> Who guarantees that there are no leaks at Google?

The same guarantee that all cloud services offer for non-e2e-encrypted content. If you are concerned about this, you must not use any password manager that stores passwords outside of your machine.

> Who guarantees that some malicious browser plugin (there have been MANY) has never figured out how to access my passwords

Even if your passwords are stored locally rather than on a cloud service, a malicious browser plugin can inspect your behavior as you fill in a password. Nothing will protect your credentials from a malicious browser plugin.

> Paranoid, much?

Probably. But self hosted systems exist if you want to use one.
If that's what he wanted to get across, he could have just stated that both he and John Madden were both on line to get a sandwich somewhere. That actually would have been somewhat endearing. There's absolutely no reason to bring up the part about cutting in line -- let alone making that the focus of the story -- unless he wanted to portray John Madden as some kind of jerk (which, as all of today's tributes have demonstrated, is the polar opposite of what he actually was).

Yes, a person who feels that's necessary to do, on the day the man died, is mighty bitter about something.
On the contrary, I'd say I haven't yet heard of a problem that web3 and blockchain can solve better than other technologies.

There are a lot of problems for which you can create solutions that involve web3 and blockchain but that doesn't mean that technology is necessary nor sufficient to solve those problems, nor that it is the best solution (or a good solution, at least).

Web3 and blockchain do solve a number of problems in the specific scenario that you want to collaborate within domains controlled by the blockchain with individuals you actively distrust, though. With the obvious caveats that you have to trust the blockchain itself (which both in PoS and PoW means trusting people with sufficient wealth to control large portions of the infrastructure) and that everything you want to do has to be within domains controlled by the blockchain (whether the actual problems within that domain benefit from this or not).

So in a sense the question becomes how much you are willing to sacrifice to be able to solve that class of problems instead of redefining the problem so it doesn't require a blockchain.
No features updates. We implemented basic security updates.
> So many PhDs waft around not doing a whole lot, and so land up being on the program forever. This only benefits the uni and is detrimental to the student. I noticed in the first month of my PhD that most people did a lot more work at the end than the beginning - so I flipped it, worked consistently from day one and got done in just under 3 years.

Amen. PhD is a marathon. Other degrees may be a 100m or 400m race but PhD is about consistency.
The book I linked includes a realistic model incorporating existing hydro, significant rooftop solar, et cetera. It requires a 20% overbuild.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify
There are better ways to use hydrogen than burning it in boilers. Check out the hydrogen ladder https://mobile.twitter.com/mliebreich/status/142690073731398...

While storing electricity is very hard at grid scale at the moment, another approach to solve the intermittency problem is using interconnectors. By connecting to other grids using uncorrelated energy sources, we can balance energy supply and demand across space rather than across time with storage.
https://socialupvote.com
That could be what the southeast Asian gold versions are! They don’t have the workmanship of the originals.
Let’s hope that email remains a “simple” protocol (envelopes are plaintext with some encoding, transmission is simple enough to do over Telnet) instead of something more complicated whose standards are drafted and maintained by the FAANG cabal.
Following up - I'm currently visiting my parents in eastern Tennessee and asked to see their electric bills. They're all-electric and they averaged 3x the consumption that I do. But their electricity bill is 2x lower. I almost cried.
What does 2022 have in store for cybersecurity and cloud security specialists?
I appreciate that they might not be able to share but I was hoping for a bit more source code and technical details given where this is posted.
I use Scribe to get around the paywall: https://scribe.rip/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-bigg...

Follow up question: if you give bad investment advice (or any unlicensed financial advise at all) you can be prosecuted by on or the other government organisation. Why don't we do the same for bad food / health / psychology advise ?
AFAICT there’s no better secure IM protocol than Signal’s.
Would you like to opensource this?
> Businesses that spend less money on taxes can spend more money on expenses...

Does that actually happen? Small businesses, sure. My cousin's restaurant directly ploughs that money back into the business.

But it seems large corporations mostly do executive bonuses and stock buybacks.

I guess my pendant comes down to my objection over treating all "business" as the same, morally and economically. As though megacorps are same as my cousin's restaurant, my uncle's farm.

Whereas I favor excessive generosity for small and young businesses (and farmers), anything less than levying repeated radical cashectomies against large firms is a moral disaster and economic selfown.
Northvolt becomes first in Europe to produce battery cell
Yes, those are both solved problems. The blades do not in fact "break a lot" in the first place, and manufacturers can recycle old blades at the end of their lifespan into materials for new blades. See for example https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/end-wi..., which you could easily have found with a single google search.
https://archive.fo/axzOJ and so sad.

I love watching the landscape roll past the train window.
Thanks for this - I've learned something new today. I did not realise timezone updates were so frequent.

I do find that having the timestamp at hand makes math easier in a lot of the use cases I've come across. I wonder if there is an easy hybrid solution where you can capture timezone info, timestamp info and have it adjust without a full DB update, even if timezone offsets change. Maybe a mapping table of some kind, with versioned timezone codes.
I had a light bulb moment a few years ago when I saw a seagull come in with the wind, turn against it and land perfectly at the top of a pole.

Since then everything AI is still impressive to me but it just doesn't feel very advanced.

Within a skull smaller than my fist, these birds have routines for repowering, communication, duplicating themselves, attack and defense.

That is advanced.
You’re close! The best theory I’ve seen handles all the specific features and variations found, and believes it’s a calendar (used with a stick/cone).
I think you misread the root comment, it suggests a new function call that no one will use. Apple made that mistake, then they just switched the size and dealt with the fallout.
It spreads in France too I believe and it's the first time I heard it's a hoax.
Title seems to be misleading.

The NHS app can locally record which venues you visit when you use it for that purpose.

The venues you visit might be used to infer social, political opinions , etc.

But the app doesn't collect that information as far as I can see.
They're not running a dependency-ridden NodeJS backend with MongoDB and random cloud services? How are they even able to get to space?
I'm in a similar situation, but I'm don't sympathize.

I don't support the "doing their best" philosophy. Everybody does their best; at the very least, in the sense that actions are rationalized as the best in the moment.

The website deals with this theme at least twice. One point is [here](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/dysfunction...), under "Disfunctional beliefs":

- If I put up with a certain level of mistreatment from my own parents, then you should put up with the same level of mistreatment from me.

The real difference between parents is those who are willing to sacrifice themselves and change, and those who don't. Theraphy can help a lot, and I bet that all the abusive parents actively refuse it precisely because they don't want that change.
Of course there are ways to make it work. I'm just assuming the vast majority of devs are not aware of this issue and mostly everyone's just solving their time problems by throwing NTP at it. Lots of things will break.
Hong Kong is over. It is quickly becoming a real-estate grab for mainland Chinese. It won't be long before this incredibly rich and deeply unique culture will die off. It really is quite sad. I don't think there is anything that can be done. These people can fight for their rights, but they won't get any help and it will only ruin their lives. Western media will praise these fighters of justice, but will not do anything to help.
“ I would be more worried of my computer getting hacked and my wallet too.” You said this statement. This debate is devolving.

You are confusing NFTs with things built on top of them like market places.

I give it two years ish and I’ll come back and you will own a handful of various NFTs. Look forward to coming back to this.
They're really fun – thanks for sharing the names of some others.

Although I'm not "new" I hadn't encountered OverTheWire before. The first one is indeed a gentle introduction, but I think the difficulty does then increase. I got through all of leviathan using radare2 (which, frankly, I feel like I am still scratching the surface of) and reading the passwords out of registers. After finishing it, I googled for others' solutions, and found very creative -- and totally different -- solutions to the same puzzles, almost none of which involved something like gdb or r2 at all.

They very much feel like the traditional "book of Christmas puzzles", but for the HN audience that likes solving them interactively.
All life is conscious, but is all consciousness alive?
Interesting that they are doing updates at only 10 and 50Hz. I had kinda assumed they'd be looking at much higher frequencies for telemetry especially for things like the rocket motor metrics
How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News (2013)
But the problem isn't really changing the OS to return a 64bit value where it used to return 32, the problem is all the applications that assumed it would be 32.

By "pulling it off" you mean, they changed it and planes didn't crash around them?
Only after bad press.
> Email is our only reliable communication method between different organizations.

For certain definitions of “reliable”!

(though reliably available at least which can't be said for anything else, no matter how reliable in other senses)
Exactly. And freedom of speech is very important in a democracy, and unwanted in a dictatorship.
Worth remembering that:

I. P(A and B) = P(A) P(B) {when independent}
II. P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) {when mutually exclusive}

But in general:

III. P(A and B) = P(A) P(B|A)
IIII. P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)

The only way that I and II can both be true is that either P(A) = 0 or P(B) = 0. This does not imply though that A and B are mutual exclusive and independent, but it is a necessary condition. The conclusion is that if you're using both I and II, you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
And hella impressive compared to any nuclear project!
Yep, I'm positive that it's HDCP 2.2, but I don't think I should post a link here for obvious reasons. I also don't remember which one it was, but it was a switch capable of 4k60 (HDMI 2.0).

There was a forum where a guy had some sort HDMI analyzer on both ends and confirmed it.
I'm quietly confident that it will. Much in life seems to follow the movement of a pendulum.

I appreciate how the tide turned, but societies appetite changes over time; and the fact is, open protocols are not anti-profit, or anti-business.
Not to take anything from cryptocurrencies but... Is there some proof-of-stake chain which copies, for free or nearly free (nearly free as in, for only the price of a normal transaction on that chain), all the "valuable" NFTs from Ethereum? For example something where everybody could have has many "yacht apes" (or whatever they're called)? I'd like myself a copy of everything, but without paying anything for it (I'm not talking about the copies where you still have to send valuable ETHs to get a cheaper price: I'm talking 100% free stuff). I know I could do it myself, but that's not the question: my question is if it already exist. I think it'd only be fair game. Pirate's life, aye!
Eating later will cause reflux which will eventually cause you serious problems later in life. Initially reflux is noticeable, but after a while you will have it without any pain or spasms, and that is very bad.

The worst end result is cancer, and this is one of the worst forms of it to have.
The Netherlands is fantastic!

My partner and I are based nominally half in London and half in Amsterdam. He's Dutch so we've had a house right in the centre of Amsterdam for years.

At the start of last year, we rented a wonderful office there. Even though I'm only there half the time, it feels like a wonderful getaway, perfectly set up for tech-oriented careers.

What makes it so special:

* It's on a canal, facing an island with beautiful 17th century warehouses.

* The office is three minutes walk from home, and accessible only by foot.

* It's also huge, 90m2, with a main room (with our two desks, a lunch table, a couch/relaxed sitting area, and a gym/yoga area) a meeting room, a kitchen and a toilet.

* I keep my bikes and kayak there. Most mornings at 6:30am, I do an hour long bike ride, through parks, with just four traffic lights.

* Plus it's only ten minutes' walk from Amsterdam Central Station.

All the advantages of being in the middle of a real city. But it feels like the countryside.