skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe part of it comes from disenchantment with religion, then subconsciously seeking for science to replace it: fit the same mindways and fill the same existential hole that previously caused religion to arise.

Our minds demand an explanation for what this thing that we all are in is and why, but the only part of science that could bear an explanatory burden comparable to that of a religion is philosophy. Philosophy is sidelined, however, considered by the STEM masses to be hand-wavy and wishy-washy and not “hard science”, and so hard science becomes misappropriated to some degree.

Thus a STEM-minded person, in a hypothetical discussion with a Christian, unknowingly starts to pit “hard science” against religion (which naturally causes strong pushback, as the religious person is now dealing with someone effectively testing their faith or something) and ridicules distrust in science (forgetting that a model offered by science fundamentally cannot be complete, can be wrong at any level, can have competing models, etc.—the STEM person could in fact do better by distrusting it a little more themselves).

Now amplify this all over mass media and social media.

> I would like to learn more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist#19th_century
As always, the answer is "benchmark it". It might be 3 seconds for 50 lines, but also 3 seconds for 5k lines, since the heavy stuff has been compiled once.

Benchmark it, otherwise it's sadly not useful
We all should run a Tor node then to outnumber the bad guys
Even if I did believe that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered, which I am open-minded about but unconvinced by the evidence for, making an international incident out of it in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century is a terrible idea.

Imagine you are the US president:

If you believe it was engineered and escaped due to human error, then making a scene risks China cutting off supplies of PPE and essential biotech, of which they are by far the world's largest supplier, leading to much higher mortality in the US.

If you believe it was engineered and was spread deliberately (use of a biological WMD!), then making a scene also risks escalating to a war with China, a nuclear-armed power with a highly dangerous military.

Personally I still think it's too early to be re-examining these questions. The west still relies heavily on Chinese manufacturing to fight COVID. Maybe in 2024?
How was memorizing going ? For me it's real bad. Things just don't stick in my mind (I've never experienced that before).
Nine out of ten times an article is just the excuse to start a conversation about any given subject. Speaking for myself, at least half of the times I don't even bother reading the article and jump directly to the comment section because I care what hners have to say.
I guess you could limit it with a colour palette and that way give yourself an option to bring special colour palette images in the future, for special events or occasions.
This again? It’s been pretty thoroughly debunked:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...

(Courtesy of quietbritishjim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16037465)
If they ban YouTube channels that have been shown to be spreading “misinformation” then we should also ban private news organizations when they are caught spreading politically motivated misinformation.

They are no different except that people in general know to be skeptical of YouTube videos, while trusting reporting of mainstream media to be truthful.

Every single time mainstream media has reported on an incident that I myself was very familiar with they have ALWAYS misreported it.
Two Years Is Long Enough
When did you start noticing this? I'm 39 and dont feel this at all. I have less motivation and energy for lots of things. But that stems from a jadedness and pickiness. It's different to what you describe. I feel my mental faculties are as strong as ever, and my gut feel is that they're not declining anytime soon.
In addition it is probably not a bad idea to block all traffic on wlo1 / eth0, except that to the mullvad server ip's, through some ufw rules. If you forget to configure the namespace for some applications then, it is highly unlikely the app has internet access (ie, it would need its own mullvad/vpn implementation included).
It seems to me, that once a company reaches a tipping point of more than 50% non-engineers in upper management, it's the demise of the company as an engineering company, and it will slowly drift in the direction of being a technology holding company only.
Not all Europeans use a drying rack indoors. In the Netherlands only the poor do this. It takes a long time and doesn't even save any energy as the water from your clothes makes your entire house humid and feel cold in the winter.
Just trying it out and the simplicity and user friendliness is great. Thank you for such a nice piece of software, we'll give it a try and use it in our company.

Is there a way or do you plan to add page translations? Some of our contributors do not speak English and I wonder what is the best approach to have pages translated, apart from creating a copy of a page and keeping all copies in sync.
> Let's skip omicron for now.

Are you talking about omicron now or original Wuhan virus?

Omicron stays mainly in upper respiratory parts. It does not go deep into lungs and body as other variants. That makes it less lethal, not because it is somehow milder. Normal cold is also quite lethal, once it spreads through body, but it never gets a chance.

I am happy to accept theory it stayed in single host for several months, and gained a few mutations. But that does not explain its DNA code. You do not get this type of mutations without spread in massive population. And there are no random bit flips, that should accumulate over several months.

> But that will prove exactly nothing to anybody who believes in lab leak origin.

This is not a religion, there is no "believe". Lab leak (or artificial synthesis) is just a theory that explains origin of virus very well. Dismissing it without investigation would be unscientific.
Thanks - this is a very good point and looks hopeful for the OP. To the OP I suggest to confirm this with a lawyer; if it's indeed not criminal and the worst outcome of a lie is termination and a civil lawsuit (which requires proving damages) it might be worth betting on it.
The Humanities Can't Save Big Tech from Itself
I remember listening to a podcast with the Braintree founder and he had mentioned how they worked with the other payment providers out there to create some shared, common standards. This type of competition / co-opetition does happen from time to time (also see Lyft and Uber also co-lobbying governments together).

No idea how this would work for this industry though
By watching student's 25 years younger passing exams without actually studying them (if I'd do that, I'd bascally failed; I've tested that approach :-))
But do those cameras and lightbulbs come with a industry standard specification for occupancy sensing.

Occupancy sensing and other surveilence have no place in a wireless communications specification.
Are you in reach of London? If so, look at start-ups in London, there's a lot of demand for experienced devs, a lot, and while you might find ageism in some of them, in many others being an outlier or oddball is a positive advantage, really depends on the culture of the particular place. I speak as an old-git senior dev working in start-ups in London (and really rather enjoying it).
Stop blaming the Russians, they can only exploit the rot if it's already there. It reminds me of Germans blaming everything on the Nazis after WW2 conveniently forgetting they voted for them and cheered them on.
So these "factcheckers" are literally the media aka the propaganda machine. I wonder if that's the future we want, a future only politically correct opinions are accepted, otherwise you're called a liar and you lose social points. It doesn't sound like democracy, but who knows.
This is a super interesting question, given that the generator model is trained to fool the discriminator, which is also an AI.
> If COVID-19 stayed in the patient's body for a long time

Related article (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/recent-ebola-outbrea...):
“Recent Ebola outbreak emerged from someone infected 5 years earlier”

In that case the lack of mutations is how they estimated the lengthy dormant period.
>There is no privacy!

I think this is a good message. In the same vein, there's no security either. All you can do is make your and your adversaries' life harder, and balance the different tradeoffs.
Naur's classic essay (and maybe my favorite essay in all of software engineering) "Programming as theory building" [0 ] comes to mind. If the theory of the program is lost then it's quite hard to continue work no matter what the language used.

Based on your description it might as well have been scrapped regardless of the programming language used?

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
While I agree with the overall point, these are different environments.

React normally operates in a DOM. It's templates are translated into javascript, and that javascript manipulates the DOM. PHP templates are just outputting strings.
I don't understand this. When I think of security people, I immediately think of articles where they describe how they made a timing attack which caused a race condition, which allowed them to overwrite the stack, and do arbitrary code execution via return-oriented-programming.

I'm reminded that these people exist and can routinely do stuff like this (or even more insane), and even though I've considered myself knowledgeable about this stuff, It makes me feel like the monkey looking at the monolith in 2001.

How do these folks become security experts?
I have had this problem for years, and I am clearly not alone - see https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/151885/why-does-...
It's not a contest. They're both fundamental requirements. Mom doesn't like one of them best.
JudasGoat was already taken ...
That's my question too. I expect that the larger companies can afford to require qualifications for entry or promotion but for most of us, there is an insane demand for developers and I can choose to learn more about things that I find difficult.

I thought about a master (my UG degree was electrical engineering) but I was wondering if it was just an ego thing that would take loads of time, cost loads of money and not really make any difference.
Conspiracy theory at its best. Self-amplifying narrative. Congratulation.
The standard you probably want is IO-Link, or close to it.
It was meant to bring a bit of smarts to the standard 3-wire sensors and basic actuation pins, with 100% backwards compatibility.

So you have a standard analog temperature sensor that outputs 4-20ma on its pins. With IO-Link, it still does that, but if you hook it up to an io-link master, you can just read the temperature directly in C/F on the same pins.
Or adjust the calibration. Or …

It's not a perfect match, mind you, but i think it's pretty close.
"dockerized insanity" made me chuckle.

usually docker has resulted in a lot less debugging "works on my machine" issues, because unless you have patched your kernel in a really messy way it is impossible to not reproduce issues when testing in docker.

hell, I moved a startup-ish company single handedly from uploading PHP scripts to a "development server" (VM on a scuffy proxmox box in the closet) where they didn't even know if all the code was current and constantly stepped on each other's toes to a docker-compose.yaml, a Dockerfile and an A4 cheat sheet on how to use it (including resetting the database and such) in a week or so. it's an amazing tool to ensure consistency.
Components are too small to solder or weld a wire to by hand.
Did you notice though that the lab leak in mainstream media was stated as being conclusively not a lab leak - not even potentially? That's what I saw, only relatively recently did the tune change.
"An engineer can do for a dime, what any idiot can do for a dollar"
- Someone else

[edit] Achshually "An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two"
- Arthur C. Wellington
Where do you see this? The article doesn't mention channels at all.
I need this, room occupancy is still not a cleanly solved problem for home automation. Most methods relies on BLE or phone wifi but that sucks in many ways.

This is awesome!
C# 5.0 introduced async/await in mid-2013 (late 2012 depending on how you count it), and F# had it before that in its version 2.0 (~2007). It's a pretty old "trend".
If I was an employer considering to hire an ex-convict who was jailed for fraud, my main worry would be that they would pull some stupid shit again. Especially with code there seem to be many opportunities (adding backdoors, access to sensitive databases...).

Lying in the application process would do little to alleviate that worry. Sure the, employer would have to find out first. But is it really the first thing an ex-convict looking for a job should do?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220112002320/https://www.theat...
> Because it's a swedish company?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. If online privacy is as important to them as they say, they could have easily registered their company (or a subsidiary) in a different EU member state.

> They'd have to provide government access if there is a lawsuit that demands it.

IANAL but I am not entirely sure this is true in the EU. Either way, my question was "Why are the servers located in Sweden?" Whether or not this due to the company owning the servers being in Sweden is irrelevant.
Do universities in Germany offer MS only in German language? I am looking for online masters in English.
I wonder how many more trees are going to grow on the defrosted land. Siberia is basically one enormous birch forest already [0]. I assume that as the land warms that treeline is going to advance north.

[0] I rode the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Ulan Bator, and it was days of the exact same scenery: birch trees lining the railway, with the occasional breathtaking scene that was just often enough to keep me staring at trees most of the trip.
Psy-ops are a crucial weapon in the war against disinformation
They must have combinator for regex so you can escape to it if needed.
I do agree with you we should require specificity as a pillar to integrity but it seems like a long way to there.
I love the reaction you get when you tell people there was literally something created & called “Pandemic Playbook” which was devised because they were expecting a pandemic in the next decade or two.

& what happened to the Pandemic Playbook created by the 44th presidential administration? It was completely discarded by the 45th presidential administration.

What proceeded to happen during the 45th presidential administration? A somewhat predicted pandemic. It’s too bad they didn’t have a playbook that told them step by step how to properly handle it…
> I'm almost 50 years old.

I started my master's at 50 and finished it 2 1/2 years later.

> Your brain has slowed down by a factor of at least 2.

My brain has never been better. I had decades of experience to lean on, and was an unofficial TA in most classes. It was fun and challenging, and only one course gave me any problems due to my lifelong math disability (I love it, it hates me).
To run adequately, Java most likely needs a better collector than Go in the first place because Go has sparser object graphs. A triangle with three XYZ points would be four contiguous objects in Java (if implemented as a class with three fields of another class) but only one in Go. On the other hand, Go needs to handle interior pointers. So the requirements for the collectors may not necessarily be the same.
Can we stop with the anti-vax crap?

I haven't met a single person who is hesitant of traditional vaccines.

The anti-vaxxer crowd is still as small as it once was, loonies in Oregon and other places that cause an occasional Measles outbreak.

Being hesitant of unknown longterm effects of mRNA vaccines is reasonable and is not "anti-science" or "anti-vax".

But yes, lying about what you think caused millions of deaths
because you're scared of the support the CCP has is pretty high up there on the fucked up meter.

Maybe Facebook and Twitter will let us talk about it now.
IMO, this is a problem inherent to electoralism. The types of leaders that are best at winning elections tend not to be very good at actually leading. That is why we need to start gradually moving away from this outmodded version of pseudo-democracy. I believe the future of democracy lies in the combination of of deliberative citizens assemblies (such as those that have been taking place in Ireland) and deliberative, consensus-seeking online platforms (such as the vTaiwan project). Elections still have their place, but they should not be the primary mechanism by which we conduct democracy.
A valid point, but from my view there are two scenarios:

1. You have a known security bug in one of your dependencies that is discovered.

If it is a serious bug you need to check if you are affected and make sure to use the right version and remove the faulty version from your registries. In this case any private npm registry will happily allow you to manually upload the correct version.

If your "security" is that you rely on your dependencies to be automatically updated when you happen to rebuild your product then sure this will increase your exposure time.

If it is not serious then it does not matter.

2. Somebody has uploaded something malicious (with some very high profile cases of late)

Then this might save you. Given that the community finds the malicious code before your delay period runs out.
Maybe they could license the Great Firewall from China, they have many years of experience with that kind of thing.

While they are at it, they could look into other fancy tech from China, for example video surveillance that checks if people conform to Corona rules.

After all, why not - China seems to be so successful, what could go wrong?
Send dissent back to kitchens.
The law is a little vague. It says that someone convicted of money laundering may be disqualified for acting as a company director (ish). I assume that would be part of sentencing, or it may be a decision made by Companies House (or whoever vets that). Certainly ex-prisoners can start business in general.

A bigger issue may be things that require credit checks, like business loans, bank accounts, insurance, etc.

Some good advice here: https://unlock.org.uk/advice/things-think-becoming-self-empl...
“They have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2. CBDA and CBGA are produced by the hemp plant as precursors to CBD and CBG, which are familiar to many consumers. However, they are different from the acids and are not contained in hemp products.”

^ this is the important part I think, we probably need some development in extraction and isolation but the weed industry seems to move pretty fast when new and interesting cannabinoids have been discovered in the past.
Oh, I see what you are saying....

More things for, like, adults?
It's not that unique to C++. It's a property of useful things that have been successful for a long time.
Nothing goes wrong in China, comrade.
I don't see where it is not ethical.

At any point you can decide to pursue or stop maintaining the code and anyone can decide to fork and take over. It is just naive to think you will always find fun in working on it or pretend you might make a living out of it unless you have a strong business plan.
did you use dummit and foote? I took undergrad algebra like 10 years ago and was thinking of trying to work through that book.
There is no evidence of anything remotely like "a conspiracy of silence". The Telegraph article quotes parts of emails between people discussing the possibility of a lab leak and the possible outcomes of a public discussion of the possibility of a lab leak. At no point is anyone saying "we must keep this under wrap" or something along those lines. You have to squint very hard to find an insinuation that the discussion of a lab origin has to be silenced.

As indeed it was not. The few people who thought a lab leak was likely have been very public about their opinion and nobody has attempted to stop them. We've all heard the one about the furin cleavage cite (even if about 0.005% of those who repeat it know what the hell a furin cleavage cite is). Hence why the internet bursts at the seams with discussions about lab leaks and conspiracies to cover them up.
Exactly. People here seem to be trying to apply the logic of a global capitalist system to a feudal one and assuming they work the same
>code you wrote for free

>for free

How much open source code is actually written by hobbyists working for free? Most of the Linux code is written by paid engineers employed by big tech companies.
There is a sort of this thing for demand response - ie. the electricity company urgently needs to reduce load and are willing to pay you for it. Of course, the appliance manufacturers have to provide a way for electricity companies that use different communication protocols to have this control.

Enter AS/NZS 4755 which uses a RJ-45 connector - if you pull the DRM1 pin to ground, the device turns off.
Hi, interesting post. I don't think ageism is an issue - if you can get work done (and show it), you'll be hired. I'd suggest diving into a problem that interests you. I'm playing around with Companies House and Land Registry data at the moment. That's going to be an area you are well familiar with. Perhaps get in touch with some of the people working on OpenData stuff - Anna Powell-Smith might know someone who needs a data wrangler - https://twitter.com/darkgreener

I have a friend in a somewhat similar position - a highly educated, disbarred UK lawyer who did few years in prison. Drop me an email if you want me to put you in touch - me@alexmuir.com
In my first job, I remember I had a boss once who said to me, we don't really get bug reports anymore for our component, despite the fact that they are still pouring in for the product. There had been a half year long initiative to improve software quality for my team, supported by the broader organization. It didn't save the company though. But we reached a point where we fixed most/all of the bugs. We added automated tests for corner cases. So things got really quiet. Hard to believe. As an engineer, it was incredibly satisfying.

That phase of my career was very rare. Yes, I have gotten periods of time where I get to pay down technical debt, but mostly the bosses/employers just want me and my colleagues to move on as fast as possible to start the next project. They don't care how many bugs are filed against the old project, and we'll just squeeze in the critical ones.

The go-go-go attitude is what wears me down and makes me want out of the industry. I want to feel like I finished something. Not perfection, but finished you know? That there isn't a mountain of bugs I never even looked at?

I don't think this is something new however.
>When I got my first real programming job at the small startup, they hired me as an inexperienced junior frontend engineer who would be willing to learn fast, and the classes helped show that I was serious about learning more. This helped me transition away from doing some development work at the tiny non-tech company to being a Real Engineer at a real (albeit small) tech company.

How does someone go from junior experience to a job at Google? Are they really hiring "normal" devs that haven't gone to the big schools?
Clones of popular 'Wordle' game flooded App Store, incl. one charging $30/year
It's very scary shit. We could soon have no privacy at all in our own homes because of other people's WiFi networks. If the output is strong enough, all you have to do is connect to/crack someone's WiFi and use it to get a layout of all their neighbor's places.
AFAIK they have mostly resolved the 'phantom braking' issue now.