skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is science other than a set of theories? My quibble here is mainly definitional- I think there could be a world where engineering is post-theory; i.e. where most problems are solved by ai without anyone understanding how. Science though, is about developing an understanding of a phenomena, and science prescribes that proof of understanding should be codified into testable theories.

Also if theory is dead why are the scientists they interview in this piece obsessed with generating new theory...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe2629
In my experience, a broken HR indicates a broken organization. Yes, you can hunker down and focus on your field and move on in a while but I can’t, usually.

As to shitty interviews. I was approached by Google for a non-programmer role a few years back. Failed the coding part as I’ve not been a professional programmer for a 20 years, despite being able to write all the code that I need for my research. Was told they’d be in touch for a development program as I’d apparently aced the rest of the interview. Never heard anything. Was approached again after a while and I agreed under the condition that there was no coding interview - I knew I had failed that and was going to fail again. Was assured there’d be no coding interview. Only to have one scheduled immediately.

So an organization that manages what’s probably the largest information system on the planet cannot for the love of their life implement a simple sales lead process? Why? Because they fundamentally do not care about you.
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Have you considered the fact that some (a lot of) people don't want to do a lot of things in a text editor?
Dying of Covid seems to be pretty brutal
i have no clue what you're saying

>In real life, the ones who will do so are mostly just the ones who it hurts.

you think people grinding LC that make it through are hurt by the process?

>the insanity that's making them miserable

as far as i can tell, sloth, avarice, and greed are making devs miserable (not some bogeyman called LC).
5 movies encoded to fit on a DVD-9 will still look much better than the typical VHS. They will also sound much better. Comparing DVD to VHS will always have DVD winning, unless the content was encoded from VHS.
It seems intermittent, it worked a couple of times
Not only that, you also end up with half baked applications because there isn't a consistent development stack so applications are stuck with UNIX IPC for communication about themselves.

GNU/Linux apps will never have something like OLE 2.0 or XPC that actually works consistenly across desktops.

There is D-BUS, but not everyone cares it is there.
This is a opinion piece from 2017, shouldn't that be reflected in the title ?
The thread notes that the area had been cleaned up 30 days ago. So the litter is from very recent and regular activity.
This comment must be satire, or peek hubris. Please tell me you are joking. I hope N-gate writes a bit about this comment, or about me for not clearly knowing if this is a joke or if it's real.

If you're not kidding, you are so delusional that I don't even know where to start.

If you are kidding than to did a damn good job!
I don't really understand what is happening here. Why is the ground completely covered in packages? Do thieves just break into the passing train compartments and start throwing out packages?
Black truffles cultivated in Ireland for first time
Hollywood and HPC are don't seem to care about it.
This is exactly right. Judgement is what coders really need. Does this thing look like an n^2 algorithm? Let's fix it. Does this thing look like something that someone else has likely come across before? Let's see what they did.

You cover a lot of ground as a coder having skimmed an algorithm book. So I do actually think there's some value in DSA preparation. At the same time I'll admit I don't have any of those things memorized, I just know they are things and can pattern match aka learn when they show up.

You realize the difference when you run into an inexperienced coder, especially a smart person like a quant. They run into a problem and think it's new, and solve it naively.
I was thinking exactly the same thing :D
While we might be able to argue that alternative interview strategies could be better under some set of assumptions, the status quo is clearly not stupid. These companies are hiring thousands of people and pulling in stupid amounts of money. The system works. Could it be better? Maybe, maybe not. But it clearly does work.
In doom emacs for me it does it by default if I had the src language so
#+BEGIN_SRC json
#+END_SRC

Or
#+BEGIN_SRC ruby
#+END_SRC

And I have a pretty vanilla doom emacs config.
They open things up, take what they want, and dispose of the rest.
of course they need credentials but undergrad at decent state school is much more widely available credential than ivy+. hell FB hires high school grads into their FBU program (for the gap summer between high school and uni).

like you don't get it: go here https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=35621... and find the dropdown for school ("what university are you currently attending").
Yeah, that's exactly what they do, and they open the packages right there on the side of the tracks and take anything that's valuable inside.
I only heard of BBS twice in my youth, even if I was kind of a nerd, it was really a niche thing, wasn't it ? I wonder how BBS worked in those days.
Raspberry Pi seems to be doing just fine with them, whereas the FOOS competition is where exactly?
But why develop a desktop OS at all if your main focus is to sell computers unless you want to become like Apple and offer a bespoke hardware and OS experience ???.

Google has done that with Chromebooks successfully but they focus on the educational market where the folks using them has very little choice in the matter.
Ask HN: Orgmode for Bug/Project Tracking
I use orgmode to track my side projects and really happy with it. I cringe each time I need to deal with corporate jira afterwards. The easiness of tossing and reorganizing, I miss it badly while doing something like planning, backlog grooming.

While I understand that orgmode has some scalability problems and definitely cannot be used for big projects, even if we pretend that there are no problems adopting it for all project members. I'm still curious about using it in small projects. Is there anybody who tried that? What do you think?
This is truly one of the biggest issues when developing apps for customers. They check the app holding an iOS phone in their left hand and an Android one in their right hand, and couldn't for their own life imagine that a user is not in that situation.
The trains come to a stop from time to time. They break in to a container and throw as much as they can to the ground before the train continues.

Once the train is moving again, they go through all the packages on the ground looking for things of value.
Earth is running low on wildlife. Plants will be next
How did you get the interview? They must get a lot of junk applications, what did you write to make them actually look at you instead of direct to trash, and then decide to interview?
Fair point, but they should apply that standard uniformly. Wasn't the ice bucket challenge dangerous ? And it was literally dangerous.
Friendly reminder that O(2n) = O(n)
The trains are forced to stop at this accessible location sometimes, just outside the rail yard. They don’t stop for long, so the strategy is to hop on, cut a container open, and throw as much stuff to the ground as you can before the train starts moving again. Then you hop down and look through your spoils for items of value.

Hint: look for “lithium ion battery device inside” warning labels.
yeah, it really seems like a bug to me.
My point is that there has been a singular focus rather than talking about all of the things that can help. Obesity and losing weight is just one of those.

Several policy decisions ignore the science and have made matters worse.
Like ActixWeb?
Consider this: every DVD and Blu-Ray player is working for them. It has region encoding, and a blessed DeCSS decoder. They don't mind that.

But if you build your own Blu-Ray player and distribute the plans for others to do so as well, they'll be legally on top of you in a jiffy.

YouTube-dl is like that homemade Blu-Ray player -- it's something that's working on your behalf, not theirs.
> they can't inject ads.

They totally can, just not at a moments notice. Putting a car ad into a car video-> works. Shoutout to sponsor -> works.
Putting the scam ad of the day -> doesn't work (or needs some effort).
it was "botchamania", it's like a comedy series related to wrestling. but that channel has had a lot of issues with dcma takedowns in the past...
On that note, I just noticed this tool the EFF released for downloading APKs from the Play Store and others. Haven't tried it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/eff-threat-labs-apkeep...
https://www.cjr.org/opinion/nytimes-project-veritas-defamati...
There is NO problem with ASN.1 itself except a bit of ugliness. There are SERIOUS problems with DER/BER/CER and with all tag-length-value schemes -- this includes protobufs!

ASN.1 is just syntax and semantics. There are encoding rules that produce textual representations (GSER), XML (XER), JSON (JER), there's XDR-style encoding rules (PER and OER, but with 1-octet units instead of 4-octet units, plus efficient representation of optional fields).

In fact, you can make ASN.1 encoding rules that are based on NDR and XDR and which work for all of IDL and XDR and that subset of ASN.1 that is covered by the semantics of IDL and XDR, and you can extend that to cover all of ASN.1 if you want.

I should know these things, as I maintain an ASN.1 compiler and I intend to eventually teach it to do XDR and NDR.

Really, there's nothing about data schemas that you can express in JSON, CBOR, IDL, XDR, S-expressions, or any schema language you want, that you can't express in ASN.1, or, if there is, it's got to be a pretty niche feature and easily added to ASN.1 anyways. Even functions (RPCs) can be expressed in ASN.1 with some conventions, and routinely are, because it's really just a request/response protocol.

But every year someone invents a new thing because of how stupid, tired, and old ASN.1 is (or, rather, they perceive it to be). Or because of how complex ASN.1 is and how there's a paucity of tools, so then they: reinvent the wheel (often badly), a wheel for which instantly there is a paucity of tools.
You could say the same about humans; that we do not understand anything ourselves; that we’re mechanisms that do work. But it’s a moot point.

What I’m saying is that “reason” is an anthropocentric concept and is not a prerequisite for the production of knowledge, or even conducting science for that matter.
So the thieves just lurk around the area, waiting for trains to come to a pause, and then break open the containers, I guess the containers are not very secure? And there's minimal patrols? It just seems like extraordinary 'easy pickings'.
What's old is new again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_robbery
> The string encodings other than UTF-8 are terrible.

Well, yes, because ASN.1 predates Unicode.
That’s a lot of wild claims without any substantiation. The bar at HN surely is higher than this.
I wish I had a good answer for that question!

I use my projects a lot, so most of my feature ideas come from scratching my own itches. A few come in as feature requests from other users.

Then I file everything as issues, and keep an eye out for things where I can think I can get a lot of value for the smallest possible amount of work.

I mostly work on things where I think I can get to a working version in less than a few hours. This keeps me engaged and churns our a lot of useful stuff, but it can get in the way of the longer projects that would add more value if could dedicate the time to them!

So I'm still very much trying to figure this out. The hardest problem in tech is picking the right thing to work on next.
Sigh - Any resourced and competent police or security force should be able to catch or deter thieves that are stealing packages from the same location. Additionally, mail theft laws which include prison as a consequence should be extended to package thefts if they don't already cover them.
A 777 engine is actually far more fuel efficient than a rocket engine. Take a look at specific impulse [0] for different engine types. A rocket is optimised to be very light and to use its own oxygen supply. A normal jet engine can be heavier and use the air as an oxidizer. Much more efficient for power production in a CCGT.
Vuetify Virtual Table on GitHub, looking for contributors
there are no virtual tables that exist for vuetify, please help me contribute to this amazing project!
This fascination with primes is has, of late, seemed to be a little misplaced to me. Primes emerge as a property of the number system that you have.

The number system itself is an an approximation of the natural world where actions like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division exist. The natural world in question is, as far as we know today, what we humans observe.

Now, imagine a second world which was excellent at approximations to the extent that their entire Standard model depended on differentiation and integrations. Would they care as much about primes and try to fit everything into “beautiful” math? I don’t know the answer to this but I’ve found this thought experiment useful to put our maths in its place.
If you're asking about the risk of exposing Teleport to the Internet, part of the issue is that Teleport does a lot more than SSH.
easiest way to shortcircuit the process is to reach out to someone through linked in and ask for a referral. if you're really who you claim to be in your profile here then you shouldn't have any trouble getting an interview.
This is the key. Get out of the house.
How long before Amazon has their own containers with cameras and defense mechanisms?
Here's an even more interesting version of Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay "As We May Think", annotated by Douglas Englebart:

https://www.dougengelbart.org/archives/artifacts/annotated-A...

The MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium

https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/258/

>Influence on Doug Engelbart

>Scanned image of Doug's copy of the article

>Doug's copy of the article circa 1962 - check it out (courtesy Computer History Museum)

>Watch Doug describe his first encounter of "As We May Think"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZL-Bj_cgw

>Map of Philippine island where Doug first encountered the article.

>Because we're on the Doug Engelbart Institute website, we've added what we know about Doug's first encounter of Bush's article, and how it influenced his work, as one case example of Bush's influence on this Pioneer of the Information Age.

>In September 1945, shortly after arriving in the Phillippines to serve as a US Navy radio and radar technician, then twenty year old Doug Engelbart ran across the latest issue of Life Magazine, which included a reprint of Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think." He found the magazine in a Red Cross library located in a traditional hut on stilts on the island of Leyte. Watch Doug describe his first encounter (and in more detail here in his CHM Oral History video). Additional accounts can be found in his Stanford Oral History Interview.

>The article made a big impression on Doug at the time, but did not appear in his work until around 1959 or 1960 when he began developing his "augmentation framework." He dug up a copy of the article to study in depth (see his notes in the margins in his copy of the article at right), and described it in detail in his seminal 1962 report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (beginning at paragraph 3a4), including several quotes from Bush's article, and discussion as to potential relevance.

>While preparing said Report, Doug wrote a letter to Vannevar Bush, seeking permission to quote his article, outlining his own work, and describing his earlier encounters with Bush's 1945 article. Doug enclosed with this letter a summary description of his work titled "Program On Human Effectiveness." See also Doug's Abstract for his talk at this 1995 Bush Symposium for a brief glimpse into how his thinking evolved vis-a-vis Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think."
Thank you for sharing your experience... Mine was a bit different. I still own an iPhone 8 - my Android / CalyxOS transition is ongoing...

Usually I use the migration assistants (Android or iPhone), or iTunes on Windows - also easy: Just the Finder on MacOS.

BUT: I once customized my ringtones to play Super Mario Bros - and I liked it so much, I wanted to keep them. Getting it to work was a lot of work (creating m4r files < 30s and putting them on the phone was a nightmare of error messages and many different tools). But there was NO way of extracting these back from my iPhone. iTunes did not show the files and crashed. Same on MacOS. No App on the phone had access to the files (e.g. to send it via Mail) - so I was stuck. This way was the ONLY way to get the files back.

Like you, I did not have the correct file names, but renaming a few ringtones was acceptable.

I heard of someone extracting the photos using an App like for Wifi file transfer (starting a little webserver on your phone), but fortunately, Apple Photos worked for that in my case.
I have seen this comment a few times but basically half the desktop environments for Linux are GTK. So, using GTK does not equal “re-implementing Gnome”.

I use Cinnamon with Manjaro - it is not GNOME but it is GTK. Unity was the same. MATE is old GNOME but quite different from new GNOME — still GTK though. XFCE, LXDE, and pretty much every popular DE outside KDE and FVWM2 is based on GTK.

Choosing Rust has nothing to do with re-implementing GNOME either although I do like that choice. If nothing else, this ensures well tested Rust bindings and paves the way for devs to write other GTK apps in Rust—-perhaps even ones intended to target GNOME itself.
Thanks for sharing. This is a definitely a refreshing take on media feeds.

What is the logic for generating the feed? Is there some link hopping from article to article? Or is it based on some usage data (eg what article is more popular than usual today)? Or perhaps there is some altogether different logic?
Huh, I just had a lost Amazon package last week, shipped by UPS. It disappeared somewhere on the way from Nebraska to California.
Thanks for the link, the last time I used Gtk-rs, the book wasn't yet a thing, you can imagine how much fun I had learning those patterns on my own.

Yes, there is relm nowadays, which was yet to be born when I did my Gtkmm => Gtk-rs port.

At least I can also now point others to the book.
Pretty much

The Popperian view that everything is testable and falsifiable (given that in the real world there are limited resources and time) is counter-productive. Going by that view no medicine or treatment are scientific (since none of them work 100% of the time)

Give me models that work and have predictive power. Skip the pedantry.
> ASN.1 really demands code generation.

Nope, nyet, bzzt. Proofs by counter-example:

- OpenLDAP has a printf/scanf-like approach to BER encoding

- Heimdal has an ASN.1 compiler that generates code, yes, but also alternatively generates bytecode that gets interpreted at run-time.

> The language semantics of ASN.1 don't really map to anything well, particularly around default fields and structures that can vary.

You are ill-informed. Proof by counter-example:

- there are ASN.1 encoding rules that produce natural XML (XER) and JSON (JER)

- "default fields" are supported (the relevant keyword is `DEFAULT`, naturally)

- "structures that can vary" -- if you mean unions, it's got that (the relevant keyword is `CHOICE`), and if you mean "extensions", it's got extensibility markers (that effectively are alike a CHOICE of an octet string of unknown stuff, or else the extensions known at module compile time.
Soft on crime policies like restorative justice simply attract crime. No consequences means no deterrent. It’s not surprising this happens in LA -
George Gascon is the DA and he’s facing increasing support for his recall (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/liberal-beverly-hill...).
Rasterized ray tracing of sound in JavaScript
Best start would be to start with a word with maximum VOWELS.(PIOUS,SAUTE etc). Next guess can be based on previous yellows/greens.
> If you stick to only Apple's UI toolkit, your application will look like a low-effort webapp styled with 5 lines of CSS.

I think it's pretty clear at this point that Apple's been adding the tools to do more of the kinds of designs you see over in Electron rather than "native" looking pieces. Anybody building with solely native controls in 2022 will look out of place (unless they're trying to look system-integrated, in which case you'd go the opposite way and try to blend as much as possible - the middle ground is gone now though).

Hell, the only native things you need to use from Cocoa's standard toolbox these days:

- NSToolbar (if even)
- SFSymbols or other system images
- NSTableView styling
- Buttons, dropdowns, menus

The rest you can style however the hell you want - I would consider it the most flexible platform after HTML/CSS/JS.
> Any resourced

I thought we all rooted here to defund the police? Should we backtrack that idea?

Edit: I seem to have broken a nerve in some people here. Sorry, for being snarky. I just think that you can't reduce funding for a gov agency but also then expect it to be resourced. Just using sterile logic to make this conclusion.
The essay "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze[1] has some more great reflections on cybernetics as they have been utilized in capitalism

[1] https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuz...
Get out of my head.
Youtube-dlc works much better currently
> Additionally, mail theft laws which include prison as a consequence should be extended to package thefts if they don't already cover them.

But it is a nonviolent crime. It seems like finding some way to prevent the thefts is better.
1. When we're talking about hundreds of years, even if it was that special it would cause less total disruption.

2. It's a time zone change, and those already happen more often than leap seconds.
> We've seen this in quantum physics, where things like string theory are on the edge of testability

I mean... Quantum theory itself has actually given lots of solid predictions. They are statistical in nature, sure, but easily testable, and some can even be done at home (stuff involving polarized light filters).

String theory... Is just math that works out. I don't even know if it predicts anything. However it's certainly more complex than to allow us to say "we've seen this in quantum physics" without a PhD in the field.

Honestly, I find the article superficial. A cute but ultimately shallow idea looking for arguments to support it.
As an outsider that’s an extremely insightful and not something I’d ever learn from official documentation. Thank you for your response.
May I rephrase your statement slightly?

Humans have no nucleus, no mitochondria, no golgi apparatus. They cannot transcribe RNA or respirate or activate neurons. Every action undertaken by a human was performed by a cell (or an agglomeration of cells) within it.

Human "action" is just the emergent properties of cells. Humans can do nothing without cells.
School employee stole 3k Apple iPods earmarked for Native American kids
Why would you ask someone to do something absolutely trivial?