skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run my list in the opposite order. Prices are generally just as good and I prefer to support those I trust first. Actually before I get to amazon I will search for small specialized vendors that might be more expensive but the staff actually knows something about their product, and so the web recommendations are good (they will of course recommend what they sell over an equally good brand they don't, but they are selling the good brands)
Does it really matter enough to correct people? Call it fang, faang, fang+, mang, maang, maaan, top tier companies... They all mean the same thing.
> But those are more like idioms of the language, not "subroutines".

Actually a lot of mechanical manual work we do are subroutines.

Examples

1. Make an omlette (params like: which kitchen or ingredients are derived from context)

2. Change engine oil

3. Take blood sample
What gives you a positive opinion of the CDC? By their own admission they have lied to the public multiple times.

That's not something that is indicative of good leadership, even if supposedly done for benevolent reasons.
Yes, but that method is much more than “a method”, as I explain in my other reply.

Thanks though!
Why would you write "2400%" unless you were trying to mislead people?

It's like saying I traveled 1,609,344 millimeters because it sounds like more distance than saying than I traveled 1 mile.
"These sharks have an estimated lifespan of 400 years and they spend their time swimming around looking for mates."

I will not complain about my own 50 year search, then.
Taiwan is not Ukraine: Stop linking their fates
Speeding up the iteration cycle with Offline Replay Experimentation
The case against masks is quite trivial and generalizable across most industries.

Today, a teacher now has two realistic options:

a) self-isolate indefinitely, either teaching remotely or quitting their job

b) contract coronavirus at some point

Given that, masks are an irrelevance. A teacher who is clinically vulnerable and unwilling to roll the dice is left only with the option to quit their job, regardless of whether masks are used, or windows are left open, or whatever else.

Coronavirus is too contagious for any sort of avoidance strategy to actually work. It's not like, say, cooking chicken, in which you can basically solve food poisoning.
The disastrous scenario painted by the title is one about the "out of control rocket on a collision course with the Moon" not the Moon being hit by the 10 billionth piece of space metal. The non-disaster being it's not a broken out of control rocket doomed to explosive failure, it's a spent stage (i.e. planned boring small hunk of metal) which inherently isn't controlled in the first place.

As for the Moon, it'll be fine and we regularly crash spent spacecraft into it. Remember it has nearly the surface area of Asia and is constantly bombarded by (much larger) space rocks for the same reason this spent stage was pulled in, we'd be strained to notice the results of the impact even if given the exact coordinates beforehand and it'd look no more special than the rest of the moon. If our human presence/activities on the Moon has been your concern while an interesting it's still not what The Guardian is talking about anyways and not a defense of their use of the clickbait title.
Interesting process - Is the 20 hour mini-project paid? And if 2 people pass that milestone, are they both hired? Or could you do OK on the project but still not get the offer because the other person did better?
> The re-framing by financial institutions of them being defrauded as "identity theft" and pushing this responsibility onto their customers.

as with so many other things, elite impunity is the fundamental problem.

for the banks to be putting their own failures of due diligence on consumers’ heads is as an outrage and an absurdity. it shouldn’t even be possible.

if they screw up, they should face the consequences of their incompetence. but they don’t. after the Equifax breach, the CEO retired with $90M.

$90M for presiding over a corporation whose entire business model is an exemption from defamation law, screwing it up, blaming someone else down the line, and exposing millions to so-called “identity theft” —- in other words, millions of people now have an uncompensated permanent commitment to doing due diligence for countless banks, car dealerships, and even Walmarts throughout the country.

> collectively not treating it seriously and essentially letting it happen

the modus operandi for the whole problem space
is there anywhere in the world where smokers don't behave like this? It's certainly the case in Canada
Oh I actually wasn't aware of the. Yes I agree.. I can see how it avoids arguments a bit, but it'd be really useful in situations like this where one wants to single out certain voices. Seems otherwise they get drowned out by the masses of posts
Surely mistakes have been made (proving that they are human) and we should always be ready to reassess something as important as a pandemic response but this seems ungenerous. The multitude of factors that make up the disease and how our bodies respond, along with externalities, is hugely complex. Trying to come up with a single unified response that is understandable by most people makes it harder. Lastly, the political situation just exasperated everything.

Imagine trying to design a national Kubernetes process that everyone would install in their home. ;)
> Deep understanding of the mathematics behind a given problem space can help you later in the applications.

The commenter isn't against that - he makes this clear in other comments.

He's arguing that Gauss Jordan doesn't give deep understanding.
I will point out that in Canada, many of our telecoms were run by privately operated, publicly owned organizations (Crown Corporations) that operated at arms length. Until they were sold for pennies on the dollar by governments looking to score a quick win for "fiscal responsibility" and "small government", these organizations operated with a high degree of public scrutiny, and had the goal of offering low cost, reliable services.

By most accounts the quality of service in relation to the price has been awful in most places in Canada, and the few places that still have Crown Corp delivered telecoms are among the happiest customers in that sector.

This same scenario has played out across multiple sectors including oil & gas, electricity and hydroelectric services, and here in BC, transportation services (BC Ferries).

Everyone likes to take a dump on public run services, but practically speaking, they have more oversight and accountability than privately run services.
I really agree with your comments; especially number 1. Often I can't use some black box implementation of an solver (or other algorithm for that matter) without some modifications. Numerical stability is a big one but also just performance. Sometimes the mathematically correct way of doing something is not always the best in practice. Short cuts and approximations can provide huge benefits. It is difficult to make those modifications without understanding the inner workings of the original method.
You're comparing two different types of situation: the first is a direct casual relationship: if you get infected with the COVID-19 virus, you are less likely to infect others and are an order of magnitude less likely to die from it if you've been vaccinated — and that's a non-hypothetical situation with how widespread it is and the strain this has placed on the healthcare system, impacting patients with completely unrelated needs.

In contrast, the link between GMOs and food insecurity is nowhere near that simple. If you are starving because you are a member of an ethnic group which is not in power, GMOs won't do a thing. If you are starving because you don't own your farmland and the owner charges too much in rent, GMOs won't change that dynamic. If you are starving because you lack adequate water or have contaminated farmland, GMOs may or may not help enough to make a difference. If you are starving because insects or fungus destroy your crops, GMOs might help if you can afford the seeds but not if, say, they help by letting the crops survive if you spread pesticides which you can't afford. If you are starving because your lack of access to birth control means that you (as was common throughout human history) have more children than your farmland can feed, GMOs probably won't help enough to change your life. If you are starving because other economic conditions force you to sell too much of your crop to pay for other things like shelter, clothing, medicine, etc. GMOs won't really help, either. If you have any of these problems and the company which made the GMOs won't sell you seeds at an affordable price, well, guess what?

That's not saying that GMOs don't have a useful place — as you might note, I described them as necessary for the impacts of climate change on agriculture — but unlike COVID there isn't a single problem and it's not something which can be fixed with a cheap, infrequent action. The problems GMOs help with are only part of a complex set of overlapping problems and they don't solve anything as much as they help manage it — American farmers jumped on Roundup-resistant crops for obvious reasons but it wasn't a game changer for them because the benefits are partially canceled by the ongoing cost of buying seed and pesticides.
There are a number of services out there that can help you find CFPs (calls for presentations).

* https://cfpland.com
* https://techdailycfp.com
* https://confs.tech/cfp

I'll warn you it can quickly get overwhelming (at least it is for me) so a few tips:

* have criteria for conferences (audience, size, location)
* you can submit a talk without having written it. In fact, it's better if you haven't in some ways because you can tweak it. Just give yourself plenty of time if you do this.
* you'll be rejected from lots of conferences
* meetups are usually happy to have you. I wrote about this here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3418 and this can be a great way to polish talks.
* think about adjacent talks, so you can re-use components. I have talked a lot about various aspects of OAuth/JWTs and shamelessly reuse portions of them
* spend some time thinking about how to sell the talk to busy conference attendees. Again, consider the larger context. No one wants to hear about 'how to implement OAuth with <my product>' but 'how to use OAuth to protect your APIs' is more exciting. 'How OAuth saved my bacon and made me a hero' is even better.
Ancient Greece had the ballista as early as 400 BC so this also wouldn't have seemed that magic or mysterious to them as well.
I considered that too; in this instance, I had 7 minutes to complete the "challenge". That wasn't enough time to copy over the test cases and get things configured properly for that. Still terrible that we have to even try to work around these terrible interfaces.
Interstellar light house?
Uhh, this is a model minority myth.

https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/article/the-model-minori...
Pepsi?
They're very likely to be causing myocarditis through the same mechanism involving the spike protein, which means your scenario is unlikely. Myocarditis prevalence among college athletes who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection (even asymptomatic) is so high that some conferences require comprehensive cardiac testing before they can return to play. https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/general-cardiology/hear...

Exercising while infected is known to increase risk. If you get the vaccine, you will be told not to exert yourself for some time after. If you get infected, you might have no idea that you should stop exercising unless and until you're symptomatic. https://www.bvhealthsystem.org/expert-health-articles/covid-...
You can read that sentence in Sir Humphrey Appleby's voice for top comedic effect.

Jim Hacker would have probably replied "So you're telling me they are not playing against each other, except when they are playing against each other...?"
I think you would do better to apply for fully remote companies based in the US and avoid faang+ companies. Lot's of start ups and mid sized companies who are growing their eng team will pay you 100K+ regardless of where you are located if you can code well.

Look for anyone who had 50 million plus in funding. Look at every YCombinator graduate. Look at crunchbase. There are lots of remote job boards.
My father in law, a quite intelligent person with a non-technical background, asked me a really good question re: electric appliances and vehicles.

He was holding off on getting an electric car, because he didn't understand how it could possibly be more efficient and cost-effective to use gas appliances in the home, but suddenly it's more efficient and cost-effective to use electric motors in cars.

Of course the problem is that generating heat with electricity is probably easiest done by spark-gapping to start a fire, and letting the fire generate heat, whereas generating motion with electromagnetism is quite easy compared to harnessing explosions to transfer to movement.

At any rate, I'd say let's replace cars first, then come after home appliances. They're relatively efficient at their job.
I may be missing something, but I don't see any sort statistical accounting for vaccination rates in any of this article's referenced studies. The authors explicitly use this to dismiss studies that saw mask effectiveness, but then go on to offer similarly deficient studies as evidence arguing against masks in schools.
This is a really cool approach, definitely did not think of trying this! If you'd prefer to play without the crowdsourced data, I spent a couple hours on the following dictionary search algo yesterday which can typically solve puzzles in 3-4 guesses: https://github.com/rgkimball/wordlebot
Some people keep the LUKS2 volume header in a separate file that's encrypted (e.g., with gpg). Would someone still be able to attack a cold volume using this vulnerability in that case?
It's not very empathetic that's right but it's still true. People have to stop building their livelihoods or passion projects on these platforms, if they want to have any control over them at least.
That is really impressive! Are the Proxmox tape utilities separate from Proxmox itself? I have a Synology NAS that I'd like to back up to tape. I actually have a tape library, but I haven't seen anything that looks like a simple solution for this until now.
Complexity slows down future potential competition.
Mighty (YC S19) Is Hiring a Windows Software Engineer
Based on the use cases section, it doesn't seem like this is Supabase specific, but rather postgres specific. Do I have that right? Leveraging Supabase for marketing is a good idea.
Tortoises (and greenland sharks) are cold-blooded, living life in the slow lane, which makes things much easier. Hummingbirds OTOH, have an insane longevity metabolism pairing. My bet is that bats, parrots and naked mole rats probably have more to teach us about longevity than tortoises.
Did you write RETURN TO SENDER on the envelope and stick it back in the mailbox?
This is the HN I’m here for. Brilliant.
Regarding lifestyle, I think if it were objectively a lifestyle upgrade then everyone would seek to do it. I am a contractor myself, and see it as an upgrade, but I've come to realise a lot of people's lifestyles don't come from their work. Having to find new work multiple times a year, putting effort into keeping up with tech, doing bookkeeping etc is hassle most people can't be bothered with.

Horses for courses.

Edit:grammar
I did it anyway: http://blogs.intellique.com/tech/2022/01/27#TapeCLI
That is until the bank happens to be 100% online.. they can’t verify your identity so they close your account and you can’t access your account nor contact the bank because you don’t have an account so you try to create an account to inquiry about your other account and they tell you you already have an account so they can’t open you an account and now you’re stuck with no way to contact the bank and no funds and noone able to help you. This is an extremely common scenario with banks in Germany.
Manitoba has some of the highest cig prices in the world. I think the cheapest packs of smokes you can get is around $16? (i don't smoke but some friends do)
Rogan will defend himself; the CNN Dr. looked like an ass on the show.

But in fairness, even then, Rogan attacked his employer and not the individual.
Aren't some toponyms different from language to language though? What English speakers know as "Japan" is "Nihon" in Japanese.
The geek elite? What is this, 1990?
I mix in society, wear masks everywhere, and have yet to contract coronavirus.
As someone mentioned on a different thread, a printing press would make a massive difference. The wine presses of 1022 were people standing on grapes in a box, so that could be significantly improved too.

Significant steam power (so not that ancient Greek toy) might prove too difficult for the engineering of the era, but a pressure cooker might be possible as it’s allowed to leak.

Screw cutting lathes, and in particular the guided toolpaths to make the output reliable and consistent, would be a big deal.

Might be able to bootstrap enough magnets and wires for basic electricity, at which point you can make much better compasses — the Chinese were the first to go beyond lodestones and that was about 1000 years ago — and electricity makes electroplating possible and some acids (e.g. hydrochloric) and alkalis (e.g. sodium hydroxide) basically trivial.

Float glass would radically increase the size and quality of individual windows panes. Knowing that lead oxide reduces the melting point would make manufacture much easier.

Wikipedia’s list of medieval technology has some interesting surprises: apparently wheelbarrows are only about 850 years old, hourglasses and segmented arch bridges only about 680 years old.
After pulling several desktops from a metal dumpster:

1. Windows, auto-login (!): Complete records for a real-estate company.
2. Windows, auto-login (!): A family computer with pictures, etc.
3. Windows, auto-login (!): A shared church computer. One user liked pr0n.

Wiped them all, installed Linux, and sold them for $60 each.
Agreed and thank you for the memory jogging link:
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/story-2010/

Martha Lane Fox, bless her.

And the brilliant Tom Loosemoore, also behind
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

https://www.writetothem.com/

https://www.fixmystreet.com/

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
Ah yeah, I guess I missed Nahoa! They're in my subs list and worth a place on the list.
Plenty of other industries could come up with barely-related-to-your-day-job stealth-IQ/how-bad-do-you-want-this test, but don't.
Whether this article means to it makes the case for requiring vaccination instead, which, yeah we should do that.
This ought to be a fun flamewar
If you like this, you might like ZuluPad - http://zulupad.gersic.com/zulupad.html
+1 for Francis Maude because he definitely grokked it.

Martha Lane Fox also deserves mention for: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directgov-2010-an...

They all tore up the rulebook. The rule being: Government can’t do computers. Outsource to favourite big consultancy. Twenty years were wasted on that nonsense approach.

Some of the greatest resistance comes from the big departments who are actively hostile to many of the changes required to work in this way. There’s a lot to be said for a round of golf at The Belfry with the splendid chaps from the IT consultancy your department spends £2bn a year with.

Golf days:
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...
When I was a kid, I knew a kid who lived on a sailboat with his parents for a while and sailed around. It's definitely a possible thing to have a traveling lifestyle with young children!
They're not services any old business can apply for, the service is aimed at other government/public sector organisation.
Dr. explains why they're hesitant to write vaccine medical exemptions
I have a 2U sized LTO2 robot that might have collapsed from stuffs on top by now, but it seemed to have a standard 5" bay drive inside with a passthrough adapter marshaling the drive and the loader mechanism. I wonder if a more recent drive can just be dropped into those libraries or if they need firmware supports.
That statement is still true if you split by those who have had Covid and those who haven't. In both groups, those who have been vaccinated are less likely to get symptomatic covid.
Id.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn't use powerful facial recognition
Genuinely curious: How does real analysis apply to robotics?
If you know someone always starts with SLATE it makes it easier...
Ironically, they offer four different sizes, while I yet haven't found FFP2 masks in more than in one size.
There are no US federal criminal laws against slander and libel. Those are civil issues and don't represent a limit on free speech.
I always wonder: why just drop a link like this in? Are you trying to let people know there are previous entries with comment threads that they might be interested in, or are you trying to shame folks for not knowing it got posted in the past? Or even something else altogether?
Let's make computer science more inclusive
For some reason that comment brings back memories of writing Basic on an Apple II when I was kid, where it only had “hlin” and “vlin” commands - only axis-aligned lines, no function for diagonal lines.

Yeah the API counts as a hood, I would say modern GPUs and CPUs have multiple hoods… multiple API layers… hoods under hoods. It’s hoods all the way down. :P

An interesting generalization of Bresenham is the DDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_differential_analyzer_...
Even as a pure maths student, I've rarely found it useful to have to carry out complicated computations in exam settings. Integrations methods I can even understand up to a point as it is useful for pattern matching – but I had to actually carry out the simplex method on paper in one exam, and worse, I had to memorise several variants of it with different pivoting strategies. Of course, I barely remember how that algorithm works by now.

I guess one reason why such computations are asked for in exams, though, is because it gives people something concrete to study so that if they prepare well, they can score some points. If you only have "applied knowledge" exams, they get harder. And somehow, society wants to perpetuate the notion that you can achieve anything if you put in enough effort (no matter whether that effort is actually valuable).

In an ideal world, we could instead maybe give students a high level description of the algorithm, have them carry it out explicitly on extremely simple input just to see it once, and then maybe ask them to implement the algorithm in a computer program. Sadly, at least for pure maths students, the coding skills are typically low even when there are explicit CS requirements, don't know what it's like for engineering students.
If you are into alternative history, Eric Flint does an optimistic, entertaining and lighthearted take on both Ancient Rome and the 17th century.

The first book from the 17th century series, 1632, is downloadable for free from Baen books.