skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes it sound like there is only one kind of quota in the world. Speaking as a woman who worked in tech for many years, I saw a ton of mediocre dudes get promoted and a ton of super-talented women stay at the bottom rung. I also had workplaces where all the leadership just happened to be caucasian males from the same tight-knit religion.

Somehow, promoting folks who are culturally just like you (in spite of mediocre ability) is considered a meritocracy, while hiring folks who DON'T look like you is considered a lower-quality diversity hire?

And, speaking of hiring just by resumes, I attended Harvard and we had something even lower status than the waitlist -- the "z list." That was the just-squeaking-in applicants who came from wealthy / connected families, but who wouldn't have gotten in otherwise. I knew one of them; he was not the brightest. But later on, he'd have Harvard on his resume and might outperform another applicant on a blind application. When you dig into it, the so-called meritocracy is often just a machine for consolidating privilege among the already privileged.
What is your definition of mandate?

Im also anti-mandate but certain job should require you to wash your hands with soap and be vaccinated to keep your job (teacher, nurse, doctor ..) but nobody is forcing you to choose those jobs.
today I learned the name of RWIS cameras.

I actually used one recently. My wife was caught in a traffic jam due to an accident/car fire. I was able to actually find a visual of her car on the highway from my laptop. She had our baby in the car who was screaming and I was able to narrate what was happening with the accident - which gave her enough time to change a diaper while stopped and then get safely back in the driver seat before traffic started moving.
Brilliant and they have "Mr. Plow", so clearly some Simpsons fans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Plow
What's the differences from rancher?
I mean it's not like they were flying passengers regardless.
Like 15% effective, after 2 jabs, for me personally?
His research field is software engineering. Which is one of those fields where all the exciting and fun advancements happen in the industry, and the academic research is often quite boring and slow.

Not to mention in terms of making money, you would be far better off in the industry than spending 6 years in hopes of getting a tenure.
That's only true in the same sense that you "can't separate" the existence of hardware stores from murders.

People still get killed by hammers today.
Found this instagram post hack. Good pre made content for only like $5
> figure out how to reduce your child's risk of dying in a car crash

Most parents already do some form of this. Car seats, booster seats, researching crash test data....
I completely agree with this. I recently started a new role that requires me to run 2 separate VDIs. The latency is incredibly frustrating. How people have been working like this for years I do not know. Beyond the latency the resource allocation is far too low. Things just take so much longer to run and Microsoft Teams grinds to a halt if anything else is happening.

Ive been told when my managed device arrives I will no longer need to use either VDI, but if that's not the case I am very seriously considering moving onto another role despite being only ~2 months in.
I believe the theory that Google is optimizing for ad revenue. Sites without ads get ranked lower. The biggest example I can think of is Wikipedia. When I search a proper noun with a Wikipedia article, I almost want to go look at that article. Recently, I feel like I really have to dig for it.
Yes. A myriad of methods falling into two main categories:

1. Robust build and deployment processes. Locked-down build servers, proxied/cached package registries, locked dependencies, automated dependency upgrades, tests, rollbacks, etc. Pretty much exactly what you need to mitigate unexpected breaking changes in dependencies, regardless of whether they're security risks or not.

2. Comprehensive dependency inventory. List of all your dependencies, where they're used, what vulnerabilities they're affected by, various other metadata, automated threat-hunting, manual review and annotation.

Trust but verify. No need for developers to fill out forms, wait on your (context-free) approval, resort to implementing worse versions of things themselves because they don't want to jump through hoops, etc.
For some companies existing for a couple years, sure. For others, they just gave a person with an idea a 1.66m company (93% of a suddenly worth 1.785m idea).
Python has probably the worst most miss designed package manager out there.

I mean it doesn't even really have support for proper package versioning, instead it just magically hacks the environment. Which happens to work, but is also kinda a nightmare.

I have no idea why python programmers still mostly accept that as a viable solution.
Agree to disagree, to me this seems like the euphemism treadmill paired with academic/professional lingo seeping into the public. Still, I'm not going to presume that someone knows more or has a more valid opinion on something because they use a fancy new acronym. And I severely doubt that anyone's mind will be swayed by an acronym either. Fortunately on both of these issues, I doubt many people need to be convinced.
Ok, we've switched to that from https://mymodernmet.com/carl-stormer-hidden-camera-photograp... above. Thanks!
How do you find one that won’t get you into a huge costly mess with the irs?
Thank you for the more detailed thought! I wasn't sure how tall it would have to be to be a 'skyscraper', but a 5 over 1 seems like a useful building in Davis.
I'd like to switch, but after testing Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint (prior to the merger) with SIMs in my unlocked iPhone, none of them had reliable coverage at my house. T-Mobile was the only provider that gave me a good signal. I'm in city limits, so it's not what I expected, but I guess the problem is very localized.
This is the one I am talking about : https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/516

Same issue is discussed here : https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1192

(I cannot find my own ticket which was a dupe of these ones)

The first mention of it is 2.5 years old.

For my non tech friend this was so annoying (whatever she tried that stuck message was still there) that she wanted a solution fast. I gave up after a few tries to solve this. (Like the classic : uninstall / reinstall) And I decided she didn't have to suffer this, just because I have ideals about software philosophy. Thanks god, Signal exists and my friends were okay to trust me on this one more time :)

I really hope to come back to Matrix one day ! (We really enjoyed it for nearly a year before this bug came up)
> Here’s a real-world example I used recently

gci -rec | ? name -match zabb | ? Extension -eq .deb | % Name

Of course it could be replaced with

gci -rec | ? name -match zabb.+\.deb$ | % name

And you can filter on any property (a little excerpt):

Mode : --r--
BaseName : zabbix-release_5.0-1+bionic_all
Length : 4240
DirectoryName : /home/appliance
FullName : /home/appliance/zabbix-release_5.0-1+bionic_all.deb
Extension : .deb
Name : zabbix-release_5.0-1+bionic_all.deb
CreationTime : 5/11/2020 12:07:35 PM

> ps -ef | grep VBoxHeadless | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

Get-Process apach* | Stop-Process -Force

But 'pOwErShEll iS sO vErBoSe'

> Find Files Ending With…

gci / -re | ? name -match \.deb$

Would take longer, sure, but still the same Get-ChildItem cmdlet, no need to remember another two utilities

> $ env | grep -w PATH | tr ':' '\n'

PS /home> ( env ) -match '^PATH' -replace ':',"`n"
PATH=/opt/microsoft/powershell/7
/home/appliance/bin
/home/appliance/.local/bin
[stripped]

Again, just built-in functions, no external utilities

As usual - there is a ton of useful and nice QOL utils in *nix world, but it always feels like scratching left ear with the right hand.
T shaped person here. Abandoned PhD due to politics and abusive environment- much happier doing devops work and living a life of learning.
Indeed some utter gems and nice list here: https://www.motortrend.com/news/scotland-gritter-snowplows-n...
Yeah who would expect cmd+c cmd+x to copy and cut? Only a noob that's who!
I spent some time live-streaming a (now dead) project this year. I live-streamed almost all the dev and created an archive indexed by commit (https://ctzn.network/dev-vlog). Here are some other non-technical tips:

- Don’t livestream everything like I did. You’ll burn out. But do pick a regular schedule like once a week and stick to it. You’ll eventually get regulars and that’s fun.

- Use a service like Placeit and create video bumps. I had bumps for the intro/exit and for new commits. It adds a lot of fun and energy.

- Stream on Twitch and then publish the recording on YouTube, if you can. Even better if you can publish focused or editing clips on YT. I streamed entirely on YT, which works fine, but the vast majority of viewers were after-the-fact.

- Get used to coding out loud.

- Zoom everything, especially your code, terminal, and dev tools. It’s a rotten way to work but people won’t be able to see otherwise. (Most people aren’t watching full screen.)

- For that matter, most people aren’t watching the full time. They tune in and out. I liked to start the stream with Excalidraw where I would map out the days work.

- Turn on Do Not Disturb and move any sensitive windows to another monitor. I had someone try to send a Twitter reset code with the goal of getting me to show the code on the video.
> Only a tiny slice of humans are a position to think that way—for example, people who have family wealth (or maybe an elite educational credential) to fall back on, or who have already managed to break into the fundraising scene (or maybe a FAANG job) and have gotten used to comparing themselves to all the $multimillion deals they keep hearing about.

> We also hope that this deal will encourage more founders of any age and from every demographic group and geographic location to take the leap into the startup world.

It's interesting you brought up this point specifically. My impression was that YC tended overwhelmingly to fund the more elite demographics.

What % of YC investments go to founders who either worked at "a FAANG job" or graduated from Harvard, MIT or Stanford? What percentage of people (from the US and globally) have that background?
In this case, we have a clear, bad actor. MS has a good reason to intervene on their own platform.
There is literally a clickable addendum leading you right to a sentence that spells out what it means by "Most Favored Nation." Or maybe you just prefer to spell out HTTP every time you're in code review.
Can you elaborate how the Pinkerington's opening fire on union strikers, isn't Mafia racketeering and criminal behavior?

Anti-union behavior has been FAR more corrupt than unionizing.

The history bears this out. CEO's and Owners have a lot more to lose, and a lot more to fight with than workers who have nothing and are begging for the scraps they do get.
I meant mostly in general.

For this particular case obviously previous packages didn't show it clearly enough. And yes, if you give thousands of 3rd party devs (or anybody snatching their credentials) direct access to your build machines or production systems, you should absolutely expect some of them to be unstable in all kinds of ways.

Insider problem is hard enough to guard against when you know the people involved.
Sorry, "pigs are smarter than dogs" is gonna need a Citation Needed. I don't doubt some pigs are smarter than some dogs, and maybe they are comparable on average, but I'd put money on any of the working breed dogs over pigs.

("smarter" being general intelligence, reasoning, working memory, and inference. There might be some specific tasks pigs excel at, but that is different than measuring "smarts")
I assume you're vegan then.
Where the Top VC Funds Are Investing in Crypto/Web3
The difference is intent. If someone makes a mistake, even if deleting all their code, that's a bug. If they intentionally make a change with no other purpose than breaking your stuff, that's an attack. The scale and whether they're successful doesn't matter.

> attack (plural attacks)
> An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
Honestly, I didn’t like the movie but after reading your comment and realizing you’re completely right…I like it better now. Thanks for that.
That is a very good point that I didn't think of when I went there. You're definitely right, I don't know where they would've built that big of a building closer to the core. Thank you!
I see systems with various system-level vulnerabilities all the time for work, and try to assist my clients (internal project teams) in prioritizing fixes. Besides the usual CVSS scores, I try to focus first on what is being used or exposed. Network services, file-input processes come to mind. Vulns not in this list should also be fixed when found, but my thought is centered on what might be primarily exploitable.

This leads to some thoughts on statically-compiled applications; while they might have some vulnerable dependency, I suspect that it's harder when the attacker is limited to the app's "baked-in" functionality that defines how those dependencies get used.

Edit: Also, I should note that while I would greatly prefer, and do advise, that they base their environments on minimal OS distributions, this seems rare. The base system patching would be much easier to manage if it started from some BSD-like minimal state, or Alpine Linux, and included only what it needs. Instead, any infrastructure vulnerability assessment leads the teams to chasing down numerous patches in things they have, but never use.
Language elegance is not the reason Node is chosen over Ruby. Async and performance is. If I want my app to call a couple of services without using a ton of memory Node is the better option.
I just tried that search, all of the results look relevant and I definitely don't get any of the results you are getting.

I wonder if you have some malware that is hijacking the results? I once had some malware (chrome extension) that was corrupting my search results. It was surprisingly difficult to remove (given that it was a chrome extension...).
Ask HN: How do you store large amounts of structured data?
I'm looking to save large amounts of structured data - think coupons, recipes, ads, prices, etc. I'd like to be able to not have to worry about hard drives, so one thought was to save this in Github. However, the value proposition behind putting this in a SQL server is higher.

Have you stored large amounts of data before, how did you end up saving it?
> If this person was living on $300,000 a year in the industry, do they really want to come here and work for me as a doctoral student for $62,000

Damn $62k as a PhD student? I thought it was more like half that. It wasn’t too long away I was only making a bit more than that in a failed industry career.

I’m thinking about doing one (not in CS though) and this does seem like a helpful blog, though I’ll have to complete undergrad first, which is it’s own beast a non traditional student (I’m convinced the university system doesn’t give a damn about non traditional students outside very specific demographics)
True, its more like an artist assigned numbers to all their works and sold the right to put your name on a website next to that number. Maybe for some artists that means something like getting a shoutout on their Patreon but totally worthless in abstract.
You alone? Probably not. Then again the impact of a single person is pretty limited, and you can't compare the emissions of an entire system (ie. the airport) to a single person. A quick search says this

>The best-performing 60-watt equivalent LED bulbs available today consume 85 percent less energy than their incandescent counterparts. [...] Lighting accounts for 15 percent of global electricity consumption and 5 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions

https://www.energy.gov/articles/rise-and-shine-lighting-worl...

I'm not going to do any math here, but based on those numbers it seems plausible that the whole world switching to LED lamps will offset all the "flights had been flown empty to keep slots" in the world.
You don't need to hook it up the brain. Transplanted hearts are generally not innervated.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/39/20/1799/290050...

As a result, they do not correctly respond to higher demand by beating faster, but this is a deficiency that is considered acceptable. Heart transplant recipients aren't routinely running marathons.
Incidentally, I noticed very recently (in the last month or so) that searches in google maps (at least on mobile) are also starting to return completely irrelevant results. Something is seriously wrong at google.
Your comment gave me flashbacks to Chris Morris's satire Four Lions :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
You seem to be missing the part where my taking the vaccine helps others.

Has this been quantified or is it just hand-waving? Because it's very obvious transmission is widely occurring regardless.

I've already explained how the vaccine does not help me. Was not needed.

We know short term risks exist from vaccination, we know people have died, we know that it is rare to have very serious side effects (like death). What about long term risks? More hand waving claims of "unlikely"?

The end of your post is a long way of saying "well you are dumb". Ok, whatever. If you don't want to accept rationality or have different views of human agency, it's not my business.

I've clarified my position on these vaccines. I'm glad they exist, I recommend vulnerable people take them. I don't need them and won't be taking them. Unless it can be clearly shown it would be of great benefit to others (we've already established minimal risk for myself). And that somehow taking the vaccines with immunity from previous infection already existing is needed to do that.
They are not significantly thermally insulated and are full of toxic materials. In no way is it a good idea.
>you REALLY CAN do what you want! Real freedom; just be useful.

exactly. high-level ICs at FAANG set their own schedules/roadmaps and salaries as long as they pushing expanding the forefront of an area that brings value. the truth is academia is a shelter for a lot of people who can't do useful things.
I predict people taking famous people's profile pics and classifying them as NCII.

Or perhaps suppressing a news story by submitting the generated thumbnail images for various platforms on desktop and mobile.

Seems ripe for abuse to me, though the goal is laudable.
I agree. Central bank policy should be analyzed the same way as other feedback contollers.

It's popularly believed that furnaces provide heat, but in fact, furnace activity closely correlates with low temperatures, and indeed furnaces are actually off entirely during the hottest times of the year.
>But to claim something is "abomination" based on your own personal recoil from it isn't very useful as a moral framework.

I said that something could possibly be an abomination, that being a human being with pig guts installed in place of their human guts. Is that my own personal recoil? I don't know 100% it seems to me that there's room to discuss how a "chimeric" transplant could symbolically be that. My entire purpose for mentioning it as such was ultimately to point to how a non materialist viewpoint _could_ point away from taking the operation even where strict religious dietary laws are not at play.

>What's the "due time", though?

Determined on a very personal level, not something I can prescribe here and now. I've done my best in these comments to point to the sort of meanings that may help me decide that for myself, but the responders don't seem to be terribly pleased with them.

>What you seem to be saying is that it comes down to some mix between a reflexive judgment and cold utilitarianism.

No, those are just some of the tools I have, the ones accessible to me right now.
You're not crazy, but my guess is that the author has chosen the after to more closely mimic the stage for a performance, which they were missing once everyone went home.
> it works better than any bureaucratic system ever has.

And there we go! While there's definitely cases where basically supply and demand trumps any other allocation system, in this case it will just kill competition and some will just hyperbole their expectations to win. Look at the UK's defunct rail franchising system where pure money play was used (they somehow always fails because they overbid).
I'm pretty sure you've enjoyed meat before going vegan. Now you enjoy lecturing others.

As far as the language used is concerned humans get the same "cement brick" treatment in scientific papers. How would it help using a compassionate language? It would be just a distraction from the subject.
On the 1918 Sedition Act

> It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years.[2] The act also allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those same standards for punishable speech or opinion. It applied only to times "when the United States is in war." The U.S. was in a declared state of war at the time of passage, the First World War.[3] The law was repealed on December 13, 1920.[4]

Holy moly! Land of the free indeed.
When you get into the Z domain don't forget to do your long division of the polynomials.
Sorry, it was naive of me to call it a vaccine, it’s just what it was referred to, or RSV shot. There are vaccines for RSV in the works though, hopefully give people better access to preventive medicine
Pretty sure pinning only pins the direct dependency. And most libraries do not "pin" their own dependencies, because it's more work to maintain. Security & bugs fixes that would otherwise be resolved via minor patches must be manually addressed. It also helps with resolving shared dependencies.

NPM is highly optimized to make sharing code as easily as possible, but that comes at a heavy price.
Yes but Node's built-in async will scale a lot better especially if you're calling 3rd party services.
> Behavior and professionalism should be a class day 1 in any university. Students do not know what that is, and therefore they don't understand how to conduct themselves on this discord.

> Sadly universities are wholey occupied in politically aligning themselves blue with focusing on progressive topics before the basics.

I fail to see the cause and effect here. Care to elaborate?
Somewhat unrelated question that I could probably Google, but I figured it's more interesting to hear your take.

Why do people on old pictures look like they're from a completely different era? They look like they're from the 1800s. Is it the camera, the clothing or did they actually look slightly different from us? Or perhaps it's just an illusion?

Realistically I wouldn't expect humans' appearance to change that much in 100 years?
The same people who support this agency also set taxes.
Modelled what JWST might look like in space using Unity
I mean, plenty of people also have a problem with that. I'm not sure a discussion on the ethics of a thing should end just because a similar thing is more widespread.
> Your quote is from the end of a sentence that began with someone explaining that they were triple-vaxed. Seems like the perfect study to help them make decisions.

The quote was the whole sentence. And the following sentences implied they meant everyone. The clarification was important.