skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-topic: What browser/OS are you using? I ask because you have em-dashes and fancy quotes.
Oh I get it. I was a government dev too and sometimes (I went through 3 managers in a year once) we had non-technical management too.
An individual or handful of people make a proposal, the Working Group looks at the proposal, maybe it gets revised (this is version 2). Working Groups themselves do not, on the whole, produce documents like this.

There is no ISO magic ensuring working groups are all-knowing. There's an excellent chance that no members of WG14 have a deep in-depth knowledge of GCC, or that members who did they weren't particularly interested in that part of this paper (e.g. they were already staunchly for or against, remember ISO Working Groups are democratic, a proposal does not need consensus, so a working group member who thinks your idea is inherently good or bad might just skim the introduction, and move on)
I did know about this, but I can't get any terminal to respect the modifier key switch (including Apple's own). The modifier key confusion is now following me into Windows and Linux. I deeply hate MacOS.
For only one example, Buckeye, Arizona was accused of misreporting crime statistics to make it the safest place in Arizona for a while [0]. I'm sure this happens to some extent throughout many jurisdictions, and the idea of the LAPD reporting favorable statistics doesn't seem far fetched at all.

[0] https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/are-buc...
Why does Intel, a company known for its extensive price discrimination (see ECC memory support, hardware virtualization, FPU support in the 90s) still put ME in all of its consumer CPUs when it’s only useful for the enterprise market?
Faker.js is now a community controlled project
This. Some people in the comments below mention how it saves them money and energy. $27 is not even my coffee budget for a month.

The only thing I agree with is we need more of the "integrated" washer-driers, or an automatic way to transfer clothes from one to the other. I would pay good money to save myself the effort of bending and moving wet (heavy) cold clothes, and instead have the convenience of having everything ready when I wake up.
If it's a national security matter then they should definitely be using the official channels.
> If they wanted remote login, email, and file transfer, and those applications were up and running in a year or three, and solved an immediate purpose/problem, that existed before the first network link was running, then what is it that is abstract or tautological?

Those are very small parts of the value proposition of networking today. Similarly, cryptocurrency delivered a feature on its first day: decentralized digital scarcity. You may not find this feature useful today, but some people do, and most people did not find remote login useful for quite a while after networking was invented.

The fact that the utility of decentralized digital scarcity is not world changing yet is not surprising. Remote login wasn't world changing in 1979 (10 years after ARPANet launched) either. It took quite a while for these things to find their modern use cases, and permeate the culture.
It's an alternative to try...finally or RAII.
The normal pathway for dealing with a business that cheats you is to file a chargeback with your credit card. However, with Google, I suppose you have to risk having your Google Account shuttered in retaliation and essentially ruining services such as email you might have with them and causing a significant stress on your life.

Not a good look there from a "Do no evil" perspective, Google.
I registered several important accounts with @icloud.com email, because I was sure that I would never switch to Android besides the fact that the email looked cool (what a stupid reason in retrospect).

I deeply regret using the @icloud.com address for anything serious, because you would be unable to receive or send emails as soon as your iCloud storage subscription expires, provided that you use a larger quantity of data than is allowed in the free-tier iCloud. This is what actually happened to me a few weeks ago. I forgot updating my credit card number on the Apple account, thereby making it impossible to renew the iCloud storage subscription, resulting in the inbox full of emails "Your iCloud storage is full" -- these are what replaced the emails that have been sent to the @icloud.com address after the subscription expired. In addition, I did not receive these emails even after I renewed the subscription. To this day I do not know what these emails were about.
Thanks for that link! That six-step design process appears to be a formalization of what I've learned to do subconsciously from years of experience. I've been struggling with mentoring junior colleagues wrt the software design process, and I'll be trying that six-step approach as part of my mentoring.
They should ask for a cover letter.

I agree that a hoop is needed - I recently posted a job on LinkedIn which has some kind of "click to apply" functionality, and it was clear that most of the applicants were just lazy clickers that probably hadn't even read the posting. On the other hand, if you make people jump through pointless procedural hoops, you're screening for people who are ok doing that.

Ask for a cover letter, you get people who actually want the job and hear from them why they are interested.
Haha, you definitely got me. Thanks for clarifying!

> Not sure if that’s what they tell you in books: “make sure to win at genetics” lol.

Nobody ever will. As Jenifer Lopez was singing:

"Life can be cruel in a way that I can't explain
And I don't think that I could face it all again"

Most people, after they move past the critical mass phase and start amassing money / assets / other-forms-of-wealth and insure themselves to be never poor ever again, will NEVER admit the role of luck, genetics, connections, rich family etc.

It is how it is. I wish them well and I am happy they made it. But I grew tired of the memes and delusions that many of them often spit out.

I actually knew a couple: a former elite prostitute/escort and her former pimp. They made a ton of money by pimping her to rich guys, she managed to get extra payments from them, gained some connections, arranged partner businesses with some of them, did a lot of money (probably shady but happily I never inquired further and I really don't care) and at one point she started acting as if she was such a shrewd clever businessman and that her success was all but preordained and the was sooooo smart that she almost made it sound as if she planned it from childhood. I kid you not, she was extremely full of herself and was looking down on literally anybody who is below the social ladder than her.

She was so hilariously out of touch that I couldn't help but laugh out loud at one point, which predictably led to losing the acquaintance. I don't regret it, I don't need such people in my life.

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So yeah, I am aware hyperthymiacs exist, I am only saying everything has a limit. One notable example is a guy who finally broke at 68-70. I seriously have no clue how was he healthy and ambitious literally from 14 years old all the way to 70 while almost never sleeping more than 4-5 hours. But they are genetic flukes as you said. I still believe we the regular humans can achieve a lot with 16-17 waking hours.
I like the term "not-for-profit" rather than "nonprofit" as I think it more accurately captures that the while the primary goal is not profit (unlike a traditional corporation), it does not mean that they don't make money. Pedantic, perhaps.
But $2 per week per household, if we assume 2 adults and 2 kids, makes about $27.30 per capita per annum, which is about $9 billion dollars per year for the whole of the US - thats a lot of money being spent drying clothes.
Not fully abandoned, mainframes and microcomputers use database like filesystems.
If people dislike receiving that email so much that they report it as spam, it's spam.

Maybe if enough scummy companies have to mess about getting de-blacklisted, they might reevaluate whether their emails serve their customers, themselves, or, more likely, neither the company nor the customer but rather someone in between who is using some artificial metric (maybe "clients reached", "tracking pixels delivered", whatever) to angle for a pay rise.
if you can recall the author/title i’d love to look at it! i’m curious how the story deals with the disjointed sensory input in the “revived” agent. e.g. does Grandma experience sight/sound/touch/feel? if not, how does she cope with sudden full-body paralysis/numbness/loss-of-familiar-senses? did she agree to this, or know it was going to happen? and so on.

i remember one subplot to a Cory Doctorow book focused on a lab that was trying to develop a self-aware machine and the barrier there was that the machine would commit suicide as soon as it understood the broader context of its being. sort of makes me wonder that in order to achieve the sorts of AI you’re talking about, we need not just map the brain but also understand (or bruteforce) enough of it to avoid agent crises. the barrier to that could be larger than just developing a wholly new neural network (idk).
Do they? Growing up in New England we had a rack like the one in the article (first time I've heard them described as "European") and a clothesline and we still used an electric dryer. Depending on the size of your family, it's a lot of work to hang everyone's clothes to dry.
So the UK is getting rid of https now?
> It's not a matter of optimization, absolutely no compiler will zero-initialize unless you explicitely ask for it

Oh man I'm about to ruin your day. Behold the horror:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29765961/default-value-a...
I don't like this type of racks, there are much better taller racks that hold more clothes and are sturdier for almost the same money. These small ones tend to break if you put heavy blankets on it.
The point for those paying, or those collecting?
I know several people who eat way less than me and are as fat as ticks. The simple fact that calories in calories out does not explain obesity has been cracking over the head of doctors for decades and doctors have resisted addressing it. It’s like a person ignoring being cracked over the head with an oar — sometimes you wonder how they are able to do it. The drooling idiots… I think you could argue they are responsible for killing people at this point. The negligence is astounding.
I don't, but isn't this what people buy fabric conditioner for?
Original idea: fire all the administrators and use the money they were paid for year after year to tackle a problem they did not resolve to said homeless, just the same way: 1 cheque every 2 weeks :)
If I am not mistaken if you follow that route your OS won't receive updates. At least thats what was been said, if thats no longer the case then its really good news for older PCs too.
pretty much everything. Connectome != functional understanding of the brain. We have had c elegans ( worm) and more recently fly connectomes for years. we are still struggling to understand basic logic encodings in those animal models. Imho we lack a foundational understanding of the logic encoding mechanisms in the brain. Many neuroscientists/ computer scientists are working on this problem, but to my knowledge we are still not there.
The GUI is not an integral part of macOS and iOS is proof of that. Apple’s phone GUI is an entirely different UI, as is the Apple TV and the Apple Watch, all running on top of a Unix.
I've just started marking these as spam. Not worth my time to go through their unsubscribe flow so they can try to trick me into not actually unsubscribing
Volcanic Winter
The vaccine might not produce antibodies so thay won't allow antibody testing (or the antibodies could disappear too quickly compared to natural immunity).

I think antibody testing might have been a good solution for those hesitant to inject a vaccine (because of no data for long term effects/ vaccine technology) but that would offer a way out for those that to not wish to vaccinate and that is also not allowed.
Considering that it has to be able to handle about 100 new sockets per second, one socket requires about 1 kB ... 2048 kB (?) of memory depending of the size of the buffers and how the congestion window is implemented[1], I'd say that it would need at least dozens of megabytes of memory and fast I/O. Maybe more depending of the size of the content in the server.

Also not all TCP/IP stacks close the socket properly, so the socket cannot just be removed from the memory immediately after sending the page. There will always be sockets that are just waiting for a timeout.

[1]my 486 server does not have any TCP congestion control at all - it just sends one TCP frame and waits for ACK before sending the next frame.
For the past eight months, a proof-of-concept (PoC) has been underway. In that time, this PoC has taken down nearly 1,500 websites.

After the first hundred or so takedowns, it was determined that there would be no easy and effective method.

Eradicating Giveaway Scams — No Easy And Effective Method Found

https://bitcointech.medium.com/eradicating-giveaway-scams-no...
A strong strategy seems to be to always aim at the steepest possible angle.
I came to the same thought immediately upon reading the article. Like a memory leak, but with calories instead of bytes.
If making a new email address is all it takes to get free stuff then your trial model is broken. If your service stores data, a time-limited trial with no export option is usually enough. If it's more or less stateless, then you need to limit other things as well. Would you be willing to share what the SAAS is? Outside of content providers (streaming, etc.) I've never really seen any reason to abuse trials.

Besides, the whole idea of a "disposable email blacklist" is ridiculous. Are you going to block Gmail? Gmail addresses take like 1 minute to make. If not, you've already lost the battle, so do us all a favor and stop this blacklist nonsense.
Will it make a difference? It’s broken either way. Most people tasked with looking at resumes are just guessing or heavily biased. Automating the process will favor those who know how to game the system.

Linked in recommendations are a scam.

There is no easy solution. I suggest agencies setup and optimize a way to get a lot of people in vet and get the people out that don’t work out. For most companies this is a world of pain because they are not setup for it. We hire folks as 1099, give them a few tasks and within a week or two know if they will work out. Not perfect but better than waiting 6mo.
Many homes here warm the house only using electrical radiators. And it can get very cold in the winter.

Not exactly the smartest way to heat a house, still widely used here.
That’s LinkedIn.
I am reading “Hard Drive” about Bill Gates and Microsoft and it goes into detail about how Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote this version of BASIC.
You don't get all that much choice in hospitals. In an emergency, you go to the nearest. Otherwise, you go to the one your insurance/doctor are affiliated with.

Sure, some places have two (or more) hospitals in the region, but often there's only one and the choice is just go or don't go. It is one of those areas, like utilities, where it really is _not_ a free market.
Thank goodness that iCloud temporary emails are on the same domain! They wouldn't dare block all iCloud users right?
Because not all people seeking jobs know how to write XML or JSON.
Pretty sure this was written by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff (sp?)
>They already have it, and they call it a header file

Some languages already use that for the purpose, but it's an ill fit. It's meant for the internal parser of the language, so you need to parse C code (even if it's just the header file syntax). And it wasn't created with FFI in mind, in the first place.

What I propose is a file intended for others wanting to FFI, and thus trivial to parse (could be a schema for a format with ubiquitus parsers, like XML, JSON, YAML, TOML, and co).

That would have the benefit of:

(1) being cross-language (every language that exposes functions with C calling conventions could produce such a file to allow others to interface with it.

(2) being trivial to parse and integrate with ffi facilities of different languages (e.g. ctypes)

(3) being extensible beyond the C-header files give (e.g. metadata about usage, or valid int ranges, even function documentation, etc).
You're confusing several different things, which is excusable for a person not living in the US, but still very misleading.

What is overwhelmingly driving US's incarceration rate is War on Drugs. US has some insane policies - depending on the state, but it's a large contributor to the overall figure - regarding drug-related crimes. Legalization of some drugs, like in California, helps a bit - but given an insane amount of regulation and taxation the legal business is beset by, the illegal route is still very attractive and profitable.

The other side is the proliferation of "woke" prosecutors and local managers, refusing to prosecute crimes like petty theft (in SF, theft below $900 is in essence legal), property destruction, simple assault, etc. That is compounded by extremely permissive policies towards public homelessness and establishing homeless camps on any public property, often even burdening the adjacent private property with tolerating and supporting them. All this creates a very fertile ground for certain type of crime - there's a bunch of people that aren't very connected to social norms at the best of times, but also they know they'd never suffer any consequences for robbing a store or breaking into a car, or punching someone on the street. And there's organized crime, which knows these people can be exploited as foot soldiers in a criminal enterprise of stealing high-value items and reselling them in ad-hoc markets, or online - which is never being prosecuted, because people who are supposed to stop this are ideologically bound to address "societal roots of the crime" - which never happens - instead of going for the criminals.

So yes, you can have both high incarceration rates and extremely lax prosecution for certain crimes - at the same time. Worst of the both worlds.
For $20/hour do _you_ want to be on the news for having shot someone over toilet paper?
Looks like your company praises doing useless, repetitive tasks. I’m pretty sure I do not want to apply there. Maybe if it was somewhere that actually prioritizes efficiency and meaningful work, you’d have a better way to do it.
I think the answer is in the action.

It's easier for techy types to gaff at the risk of highway robbery for a good reason.

Tech seeks to alleviate human labor via automation or semi-automation.

I think people are trying to take the same shortcuts to reduce the friction of human labor. Thievery is a foundational American ideal, romanticized in some sense.

The question most US citizens have been asking is "when do I get mine?".

I think they're finding their own answers.
So allow open lies and open hate?
Because small to medium business that are not in tech doesn't care.
Impact. At a smaller but rapidly growing company, you could end up personally implementing or leading a significant chunk of the product. At FAANG you are likely to be working on a small, not very exciting corner of something.

Focus. One of the FAANG culture diseases is to do a lot of engineering work of dubious to negative value. Doing NIH versions of popular open source projects or migrating and replacing stuff that works fine with stuff that works at best a little worse. When engineering time is more scarce, you’re more likely to be doing something important.
Devel is a lot better. It has a wizard to get you started that is excellent and loads of other stuff.

Disable the dynamic DNS options for DHCP on the DNS resolver to avoid problems with Python modules in the DNS resolver (unbound).

Untick the box for leaving config behind and uninstall pfb not devel. Install pfb devel.

Go to Firewall -> pfblockerng-devel and you will be presented with a wizard. Take the defaults but do indicate your WANS and LANS when they are asked for. You'll get a great basic PRI1 ruleset setup and DNS blocking too, out of the box. I recommend adding "TOR/Tor Project Bulk Exit List" - block inbound on WAN as soon as you work out how to do it.

There is a vast amount of built in rule set links. Give them a go.

If you want easy then go for block on inbound and/or outbound on all rules but if you need some flexibility then go for aliases and make your own rules.
> prisoners smuggle cell phones in their butt

As a current prisoner, I'm not sure this guy had it right. It's usually the guards that supply cellphones and they just bring them in pockets or bags. Or nuns. I had a nun smuggle in a C# book with accompanying CD-ROM.

Drugs often travel in your "prison pocket", but I've never heard of anyone jamming a cellphone up there.

Luckily, before I went to jail, I had been given this book, the knowledge of which proved useful inside:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Anything-Michael-Connor/dp/0...

There are usually dozens of places to hide things that don't involve your anus.
As a hiring manager you’d be inclined to disagree.

If resumes could be standardized and easily searchable for information it would help find candidates much more accurately and quickly without having to read.

Even better would be if there was a verification standard where you could get a blue checkmark on your resume meaning all the information is accurate and not made up bullshit, then you could limit searches only to verified resumes and do less investigation or third party background checking.

It pushes industries forward.
>given half of America is currently infected

Point of order: the ideal test of a vaccine is:

Given uninfected || infected but early
When disease runs course
Then
Side effects minimized/non-existent
Symptoms and severity of disease minimized.

The worst time to test a vaccine is when everyone is in the "Oh snap, infected" situation, as it allows for teasing out of long cycle problems (like say unintentional sterilization or birth defects inducement) before introducing it to the majority of the population.

Life hardly ever is that accommodating however.
Sure, it doesn't have to be sidecar (though as a sidecar you could add it next to existing binaries where you don't have upstream access as well and might be signed so you can't alter them).
My summary (from someone who is not in the field but likes backpropagation):

The core idea behind this type of approach ("parametric encoding") is that you learn a scene as some spatial data + a (small) neural network. For example, a 128^3 grid of data values and a 10k parameter model. In the forward pass you feed whatever data is at the voxel(s) in question to the network, and the backward pass updates both the network and the same voxel(s).

The innovation in this paper is in how the spatial data is represented. Prior work includes dense grids, multi-resolution grids and octrees to name some - but all of them are either GPU-unfriendly or waste parameters on empty space. They figured that they can just hash the coordinates and use them directly as an index into a data array (edit: A multi-resolution stack of data arrays - sorry for not getting this right initially), with hash collisions left to the network to figure out (it's gonna figure out whether there's a collision on fine layer through info from the coarser ones, I guess).

(Relatively) few parameters + GPU-friendly data structure = fast training. Tempted to try and implement this myself...