skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a prod case where a server was being flooded with requests, and a downstream server kept falling over. We figured it was an attack of some sort and investigated, eventually traced it back to a computer inside our own network (we're a big computer, five floors of computers).

It had an open file share, containing some Delphi books and from which we got the computer name too. So we walked over to the Delphi team's side, and kept yelling the computer name until some dude said "Hey, that's me!"

Turns out he was running a test-case, in an infinite loop until it worked (because that's how test cases worked), and he thought he was pointed at QA, but he somehow had it set up to target Prod.

Our job was done at that point, we left the rest to management (who made sure he didn't get fired but didn't do it again).
It seems to me you should be able to take a model, and insert or modify layers without having to retrain everything in the model. I believe this is called transfer learning.

A new layer could be initialized to act as a 1:1 passthrough, then trained independently of all the existing layers, in situ. Once any gains were optimized, you could then train the whole model to realize any improvements.
I really love this, thank you. This was so much me back then ... the switch from Windows to a Mac basically was my "awakening" as a dev.
The hint suggests doing it this way. This solution is clean but it isn't very elegant.
The Nazis issued meth ("pervitin") to all branches of their armed forces, including the Luftwaffe. So this is definitely true in a historical context.
Who sorts which 20 out of 20,000 resumes go to which managers? Not the managers. Who is “the company”? That’s who is keyword searching/matching/filtering.
They allow doors to be propped open? Doesn’t this endanger the students with increased risks from active shooters?
Benefit from Learning to Say, “I Don’t Know”
Seriously, comparing by timeline like that is an unfair comparison. You should probably kick a few dollars into the zig foundation as penance for having made it publically. ;)
I... don't get the nostalgia.

Just for context, I'm 26, from a post-commie country, have been around computers since birth thanks to my dad. He wasn't technical, he just liked the new tech.

What stinks to me:
- I very much prefer 16:9/16:10 ratios (4:3 begone)

- Skeuomorphism was always very "uncanny valley" for me; I much prefer the Win95/OS 7/etc. designs than skeuomorphic ones, the current flat designs are better but way too saturated and I tend to lose my focus quickly

- I vividly remember how lost and frustrated I was when those old IDEs would launch with multitudes of windows by default - most of them were never used by anyone and everyone would just click through to the main window; being a small child I didn't know what to do or where to start and nobody around me could help - this memory kept me disinterested with programming until I literally went to a programming bootcamp after my finals.

- I really mean it! IMHO user friendliness is over the roof compared to those supposedly golden times.
I read it differently to you. I don't think he meant three seconds is long for compiling in general, but when you are unfamiliar with the code and trying to make it work, having to wait three seconds everytime you make a small change adds up to become annoying.

I think that's why he would like a `zig check` command that would give him these errors and warnings faster.
> I really doubt there are millions of us that chose to pay on Amazon with Visa Credit Cards, here in UK.

Not sure where you're coming from? Many (most?) UK retail banks use VISA for their card card network. I have VISA cards from HSBC, Barclays, MBNA, etc... In fact I didn't have anything else so I got a new AmEx when they said they were stopping accepting VISA.
Don't they have some kind of homing missiles in which they can lock in targets?
It can be a good way to make use of smaller screens (e.g. on laptops). Multiple "virtual desktops" makes it easier to manage
I've noticed the same phenomenon. I think it is, at least partly, driven by the collapse of local power structures that the local information bubbles (great phrase, btw!) enabled. Those power structures are built into our genes, and have roots that go back ages. They are fighting back, or at least our innate responses are fighting back. It's tough to run a church or a school or a family, when those under you can reveal your ignorance quickly on their phone. And so the power structures are attempting to exert their own reality. It's what Trump runs on, he pushes a reality that people want to exist, and are willing to let go of actual reality to get it. Not that the phenomenon isn't also seen in the Left, it just is less malignant (for now).
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He was going to do work in the form of a remote class.

Good online classes are very effective learning environments. His college is probably requiring him to not make it an online class, but he’s trying to make it as online as official policy allows.
https://ipfs.io/ says:

> Here's what happens when you add a file to IPFS — whether you're storing that file on your own local node or one operated by a pinning service or IPFS-enabled app.

Notice that wording: “Add a file to IPFS”.

It’s likewise fine to say, then, that you “put something on ipfs”.
Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Biz Even Scummier Than Imagined
The only eyebrow raising thing is the suggestion he already assigned random course grades. Absolutely the rest of it doesn’t offend me one bit. I hope the admin lets him teach remote though if he’d like.

Edit-but then I went to a college where this wouldn’t have batted any eyes. Graduating with even a C average would be respectable. Any other college in the surrounding area would consider that an A average student. And in his heyday one of my math professors would hand out truck driver applications to his calculus students with their graded tests because math and engineering definitely aren’t their fields.
> You’re amazed by the brand new Spotlight and Safari RSS, you like your new OS so much you want to develop apps for it.

when i was younger i had a used next slab. it had the same effect, everything was so cool you just wanted to build things for it. next thing i knew i was coming in on weekends to build a from scratch port of my then employer's product. my boss at the time was blown away.

it's no wonder to me that berners-lee wrote the first version of worldwideweb on the next, nor carmack with quake...

edit: i guess it was doom. it was a long time ago!
No idea why the other comment is dead. It's obvious the entire thing is a way for them to con some suckers into giving them what is basically a golden ticket to a life without any worries. They don't take themselves seriously. They're laughing all the way to the bank.
But there is a semantic interpretation: it's a set of true statements out of all possible statements.
A single password represents a distribution of possible bit values for each byte within it. The password itself is a distribution of characters used within the password.

In fact, the author's article makes this very point, which is why I pointed out the logical flaw in the thinking.

I'll reduce N to 6 for simplifying the author's absurd example but it can expand to any N.

If we take the argument to hold that you roll a random die of N length (6 in our case) and the upperbound represents one strong password, while all other values equate to the word "password", the flaw is in how this logic is applied.

Imagine this is our set of possible values:

password, password, password, password, password, hj5^@l2jl9GGk;Clkm(0]

It makes little difference if you look at this as either the bytes involved in the entire set, or the average of all passwords within the set, it's going to come out looking like you are secure.

This means what they're attacking is all permutations of the following set of characters:

a, C, d, h, j, k, l, m, o, p, r, s, w, G, 0, 2, 5, 9, ;, ], @, ^, (

What an attacker must know though, is the character set used within, as well as the length.
This is the logical flaw the author made in their analysis. For an attacker, the entropy of an individual string is taken as possible character permutations required to discover the true password and NOT permutations of the entire strings themselves.

If you look at the values for each string presented in our set, what an attacker has to attack is:

a, d, o, p, r, s, w

C, h, j, k, l, m, G, 0, 2, 5, 9, ;, ], @, ^, (

But in order to attack these, they need to try the full set:

a-z

a-zA-Z0-9;:[]!@#$%^&*(){}

One of these will be VASTLY easier to break.
I was at the grocery store the other day to pick up a package, bought an energy drink for 8 SEK (<1$).
In a convenience store prices are just higher to cover fees. (I guess)

I haven't paid for a beer with cash since I came home from a trip to Indonesia & Australia ~3 years ago. A normal bar-beer would set you back between 30 and 90 SEK (commonly 65) in Sweden, exchange rate is about 1$ to 9 SEK.
Well, the STD documentation page has a red banner saying it's experimental and you should consider reading the code (which worked great for me) so at least you have a warning.
Well, not the worst book to spend that much money on. If anyone hasn't seen the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJi2sfduqk
This explains Linus, as all I’ve heard is that he’s very reserved. So much so it’s hard for people to understand where he stands on issues…

/s for the newbies.
> Hmm Delphi 1 (RIP) was released in 1995. When did Cocoa/Interface Builder show up?

1988 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder
Probably many, but my understanding is that the prophets "visions" aren't really meant to be taken literally: god is supposed to be this thing outside of reason and perception (not a "thing" actually), the visions are what the prophet's human mind makes up: throne, gold, rainbows and stuff aren't what the divine _actually_ is, it's just how the prophet's human mind visualises it. Also sometimes descriptions of visions are symbolic, which means these descriptions are as far from the vision as the vision is far from "actual" god.

(History of God is an interesting book, even/especially for atheists)
UK here. Recruited lots of people for my company.

The technical details are irrelevant.

Recruitment agency sends you CV. That CV has all names, address, phone numbers and email addresses removed. This is to stop the recruiter from bypassing the expensive agency and contacting the applicant directly to save agency fees

Next, no age or DOB is displayed. That's against the equality act here.

Next, the recruitment agency pastes their logos at the top of your CV for advertising purposes

End result is that your CV looks nothing like it did when you sent it. The formatting is broken, it prints over 6+ pages. That's why they don't take PDFs, as they can't edit it.
App Stores Are Search Engines
Where is the scam?

Someone actioned a book, and some genious paid 3 million+ dollars for it.

3, 2, 1, sold.
Read The Fabulous Sources?
Remember that this is from the people that believe buying a book gives them the IP rights to the work (should have bought a Harry Potter book). They may not have thought it all the way through.

To give an idea of the storage costs associated, I dug up this old stackexchange-answer about storage costs on Ethereum [0], which estimates that it costs about 76.000 USD / GB stored. Note that this is 5 year old answer, so the price will probably have multiplied like the price of ETH since then.

Edit: Here's [1] a newer, updated price estimate that takes current prices into account : 309.9 Million / GB. LoL!

[0] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/872/what-is-the...

[1] https://proderivatives.com/blog/2019/5/10/minimizing-data-st...
Agreed; in fact I think we're already there and the only reason the human pilot hasn't shaken out of the equation is lack of a large-scale war to prove how ineffective they are. If there was such a conflict—and it somehow avoided going nuclear—who would win, the side that can make a few hundred fighters and trained pilots a year, or the side that can crank out 10,000+ drones in a month?
Rust was just some guy's project at first, much like Zig, and it started in 2006. It was barely alpha in 2012 and wasn't stable until 2015: and it had had corporate backing for six years at that point.

Patience.
NeXTStep and Project Builder (which XCode was based on) was realease in 1989

edit: WoodenChair beat me to it with the right date
Now I will be singing the damn stupid song all day. Thanks.
I suspect this is also an under considered area even in organizations with lots of attention to security. So would be good to also get more mindshare, as after we discovered some of our own CI/CD related vulnerabilities[1], it feels like most approaches we looked at had similar problems, and it took alot of research to find the rare solution that we could be confident in.

[1] - https://goteleport.com/blog/hack-via-pull-request/
That's odd, since the TP in HTTP stands for transfer protocol, but the FS in IPFS stands for file system. You'd expect to be able to store data on a file system. That's what I use my file system for anyway.
Happy to hear I was not the only one wondering what was going on with (multi)indexing for pandas data frames.

I am not sure if I am just older now but I am more and more set in my dplyr ways and it’s hard for me to adopt the python way of wrangling data frames.
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Same, this feels absolutely dreadful! "Where do I start? Why is there so much stuff screaming at me? What's my first move here? Oh shoot it, I don't want to do this anymore."
My big problem with Zig is that Andrew Kelley is promising a lot of features, but doesn't really deliver much. Zig still can't proper handle UTF-8 strings [1] in 2022, which is kind of unfortunate, because it's a `requirement`. In a `recent` interview[2], he claims that Zig is faster than C and Rust, but he refers to extremely short benchmarking that has almost no value in the real world.

At least Rust, as blamed and loved as it is, delivered a stable compiler and people started working on the ecosystem (in the first years, most packages were working only on nightly, but at least there were crates available). The ecosystem for zig is insignificant now and a stable release would help the language.

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234
[2] https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/andrew-kelley/
The solution to that is simple: do not do any tests with production secrets :)
Shoot, with the info you got I'd have least called his parents and tattled on him. If you can't put him in jail at least embarrass the shit out of him.
If you're carrying a bag of nails around for the sole purpose of "accidentally" drop on a public road to cause damage to passing vehicles...

... you're not seriously trying to argue that it shouldn't be a crime right?
If the 3DS shop is still up (I think it is), you can get a 3d version of it (different layers slightly raised, it looks pretty good but nothing too crazy).

It was also included on the NES mini.

It's also on the Switch with a subscription to their online service, as the other comment mentioned.
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Luckily we don't have gunmen running through schools in the UK.
Everything cab be standardized so resumes can be as well. LinkedIn serves as a central hub for resumes in the "West" but how long and hard you can push it? In EU there is something like Europass which serves like a central hub for EU citizens' resumes and that can be seen as standardization format for resumes at least in the EU.
Apple: Unvaxed employees will need negative Covid tests before coming to work
> I'm newbie and I still found that zig standard library still daunting to read

If you're a newbie, why are you learning an experimental language?
There's a huge difference between making something available to someone in a prolonged combat situation, or where a drop in situational awareness could get them and others killed, and needing that substance during comparatively "easy" civilian life.

Not defending that viewpoint or assertion but that's very likely the justification that would be used. Needing it for HS or college is disqualifying while choosing to use it for a particular operation is not.
I think it actually obscures the important facts about the expression by breaking up the structure which is displayed by the usual infix notation

1. It is a linear combination of a and b: there are two symmetric terms, a scaled copy of a and a scaled copy of b

2. The factors are functions of t alone which goes between 0 and 1 as t does

This isn't litigating about brackets, the traditional prefix notation also displays this structure (though less well than the infix notation IMO)

(+ (* a (- 1 t))
(* b t))
> It felt like we had defeated covid? Whaaaat? Vaccinated people WERE getting sick with Delta.

At this point, this seems intentionally obtuse. If 1 in 1000 people who are vaccinated got covid before omicron and 1 in 100 vaccinated people got omicron, there is a meaningful difference in experience.
What sort of project can a layman/non-electrical engineer do with bare chips like these?

And don't you always end up reproducing an RPi (with barebone specs for your needs) to be able of putting them to use? Like don't you need to give them power, storage, plugs and co, from which point shouldn't you just use an RPi?
macOS still has window shadows and they are still the same size (by eyeballing them). The only difference is that in dark mode the shadows are of course less visible because the contents of windows are darker.
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and Anger: Resolving FUDA at Work
There's nothing more universally deflating as a British child than being told you're going to see some ancient hill fort, letting your castle-filled imagination run wild, before arriving there after a long car journey, and just seeing a hill.
hell yeah, making a game just for fun or to learn new stuff is the best. Good luck!
We moved into a building where the drop-ceiling had pretty much every generation of cable, going back to Twinax used by IBM 5250 terminals. Previous tenants had cut the connectors off and just shoved them up there when they moved out.

Network documentation in this case? No way. The only option is to pull it all out for recycling, and start over.
Chinese researchers claim electroculture works as theorized
I am also a zig newbie. Since zig is a relatively simple language, I've found it easy enough to read and understand what is going on in the zig standard library, even if I don't understand the particular details of some language syntax. Of course experience and background is going to play in here.

The zig standard library does the following to help me:

- Logical, straightforward code, no magic incantations

- Well named variables and functions

- Comments

- Folder structure is easy to navigate

- Easy to find on github - not hidden away

Obviously your mileage may vary.
In the last ten years there has been a significant change in mainstream content from information (what) to personalities (who). A major driver has been the adoption of social media by the mainstream: Uncle Bob pawing his cell phone while on the toilet. Both closed circle SM (checking on your friends and acquaintances) and public facing SM (checking the influencers) have created a whole new, uncontrolled feeding ground to some old vices: Jaleousy and greed. Watching other people's lives and see them spending money and enjoying fineries in an (supposedly) unedited, reality-like format makes a lot of people feel that it must all be real and they should be living that live themselves. Whether it's about wealth, ideologies or any other aspect of lifestyle: Suddenly it's right there, dangled in front of them. This, coupled with the ease of packing in actionable links and buttons, creates a whole new dynamic where people get lured in by shiny things (crypto/NFS/MLM etc) only to get duped. It's a really old phenomenon, though.
The general concept is correct but there are a few issues with the article:

- Specific RGB values always depend on a selected white balance temperature. If the WB temp is the same as the object's temp it would be white, not blue. If the WB temp were higher than the object's temp it would appear red.

EDIT: the article does say sRGB which implies a 6500K wb.

- "infinitely hot" is not physically possible. The Neutron star example is fine, that temp would be around 10^12 K

At that temperature virtually all of the emission would be in gamma rays, but emission in the visible spectrum would not be zero. Blue wavelengths would be stronger than green, which would be stronger than red so the color would appear Blue for any "normal" white balance temp (like 5500 K).
You have to carefully read the code before pressing tab as it sometimes might introduce things that look the same almost but are not. But besides that it is pretty good at saving from typing the most boring drivel (functions for which should be in the language or stdlib really).
As someone who wears a kn95 mask all day I think the results of linked study should be taken with a grain of salt. The CO2 concentrations they measured with conventional masks are effectively similar to the concentrations in exhaled air, which means they may only be measuring the concentration in the stale air sitting inside the mask between each inrush of fresh air that occurs with each inhalation.

In other words, I don't care what the CO2 concentration is in my mask. I care what the average concentration is in each inhaled breath, which consists of the stale air in my mask, combined with the (presumably larger volume of) fresh air that is introduced by breathing in. I doubt the study methodology properly captured that.
You may enjoy Returnal as well. In terms of an experience you can't replicate in other mediums.
Maybe you're not slow compared to other developers. Maybe they were expecting you to work lots of extra hours?
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I would think an increasing amount don’t remember it either. I was three at the time. The earliest OS X version I remember hearing about was Tiger, and I used Leopard.
I think kde 1.0 shipped with its own window manager. Don't remember if it was already called kwin though: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/KDE_1.1....
Microsoft says it observed malware in systems belonging to Ukraine govt agencies
Eocene would be one of the great land mass formations if ever we decided to move our digital era and advancements in that time.
> comparing by time spent is an unfair comparison

Yes, and language competition is unfair. As a user, I don't care that Zig is more "cost/time effective" than Rust or Java, I care about the end result. The end result, right now, is a worse documentation than lots of other languages. That doesn't mean that the people behind Zig are bad or anything like that. That just means that when choosing between X and Zig, Zig's documentation (and lack of such documentation) will influence my choice.

I'm not sure why you would not compare by timeline, as this is probably the best predictor of where a language will be in the next years, which is important data as well.
not necessarily. BTC has UTXO (unspent transaction output), whereas ETH has proper accounts and the money is a property of the account.

so if any of these chains only want to focus on sending/storing money (or simply address the evergrowing size of the chain), then they can start purging the old transactions from the ledger.

(yes, ETH has smart contracts, but it's not impossible to imagine that ETH will start charging gas for upkeep of that data, and when the smart contract runs out of upkeep it gets deleted.)