skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure actually reading the PCLOB report is very informative. I certainly don't have the context to understand it fully, and of course a lot of it is blacked out. Reading these sorts of disosures and putting them into context requires a LOT of domain knowledge that I don't have.

Wyden being pissed about it is a decent sign that it's something to be worried about though, he's spent a lot of time on this stuff.
I compared it to gold first. Other currencies are additional datapoints:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XAU&to=BRL&view=5Y
I got a weird feeling from the article in which the author seems to know quite a bit about numpy (citing a few parts of the source even!) but then it uses python loops all around!

Just like you, I'm not really following the domain calculations, so maybe there's a reason that code can't be properly vectorized. But as others have commented, I'm a bit at a loss why the author didn't try numba or Cython.
People have been debating that since the sixties —- predating “identity politics” by several decades.
comp sci is not programming- it's mathematics that is useful for computing. It's also not a science...
Any live demos to play with? Good work.
As a part of a defense-in-depth strategy, sure. Where we get in trouble is when it's the only layer.
Dropping updates for 3 year old phones isn’t something I would call “good”
My standard advice is to use a job title that fits your ability. If you don't, it's going to be a bad fit.

That said, if you're looking for a new job and are still a junior, you're probably switching far too quickly.

My plan was to switch at 3 years experience, at which point I'd drop the junior title for sure. I ended up staying longer (because they increased my pay very well the first 3 years, and then started screwing me over) and my second job was "lead developer", which I still have 11 years later. I'm sure I could get more money if I switched, but I like my job and my company and my coworkers, so it's been hard to find anything I want more, no matter the money.

In short, no, if you switch jobs, you shouldn't call yourself a junior, one way or another.
(8+8+8)*100
It does not appear to be enabled in the kernel by default:

> While the module can be found in most major distributions, it must be
loaded in order to be exploited.
I love how HN sometimes behaves as if the entire world is one or two small corners of the US.
Junior is fine for a year or two. Lots of people start that way so if your career really is just starting it’s ok to be junior, intern, or associate to get in the door. Then try to get a title change / promotion when you can by asking what their expectations are. Usually it’s pretty fast at that level so it should easy for them to speak to.
they are already doing it.

The issue is not your feed, that's what Facebook wants you to believe, you agreed to share that data with other FB users. the issue is they transfer personal data of EU citizens to the US to process them and sell them or use them to improve their adv war machine. Or give it to their US government.
Replace the commute with a 20 minute walk, you can still listen to music and podcasts, and it's healthier for you and the environment, and it still serves as separation between work and home.
And nothing other than murdering thousands of civilians with an atomic bomb could change that?
I assume the most interesting requirements are about data residency. And that probably 1) can be avoided by just making sure EU data is stored in the EU, US data in the US, and looking up a foreign region profile (which is rare) would need to a a pure API proxy request which is not allowed to store anything in the local region and probably has some kind of per-request authorization to do this.

I certainly have not spent any time to look into the actual legislation - so don't take this as "everything would be fine" - but I feel a solution could be found that governments would be ok with if FB would be willing to spend the engineering effort.
Better phrasing might be that Joe Biden stated he thinks an invasion is imminent, and that the US would not intervene to protect US citizens still in Ukraine.
Might read something from the zero unvaccinated deaths, though.
How would that take down Twitter?
Satisfactory is smaller scale (resource patches far apart, most of the build being about transport and linking a few buildings together, power being harder to achieve, and overall feels resource constrained) and Factorio feels like a blank canvas to paint factory on.
And how do you know that?
> is literally part of the game unfortunately

I strongly disagree with this framing. There is no "game". There are just the actions of the individual players. Yes, in some sense, lying is part of the "game" in that some players will do it.

But extending that to saying "it's part of the game" implies that all players must use those moves, which is absolutely false. It also implies that you are morally excused from doing so because you didn't choose to lie, you were just obliged to by the rules of the "game".

A core concept behind something being a "game" is that it exists in a morally isolated sandbox. You can't be a good or bad person based on which legal moves you make in a game of chess. The whole point is to create an environment where you are able to play freely largely unencumbered by the social consequences of your moves.

Hiring is the exact opposite of a game. Every move has significant stakes, moral implications, and long term consequences on the entire field.

I have never lied on a resume and I would massively lose respect for anyone who did. They are doing something wrong and they should feel bad for it. The fact that other people do it doesn't excuse the act any more than the existence of litterers makes it OK to throw your trash out the window.
id rather have someone with one year repeated 5 times than someone with just one year. Those aren't equivalent
My experiences with exterior varnish (terrible) and oil (marginal at best) would suggest that design is very important.

Eves to protect cladding are essential and if you get a lot of wind and sun, very wide eves.

A combo of UV and rain just punishes wood, and oil/varnish doesn’t handle it well.

Paint fares a lot better.
60% seems quite high, given that the CDC director says that the vaccines cannot prevent transmission anymore, but I haven't seen any confirmed numbers for Omicron transmission so far.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-director-covid-...
We're Launching This Weekend (With a Lower Price) - SimulaVR
https://archive.is/wwGZS
I'm late to the party, but I'll add mine:

1. A scripting language, designed to be embedded in other programs, emphasis on web templating. C++20, Flex, Bison, Unicode, Unit Tests, Doxygen, Github, Docker compilation, and a YouTube series over its development and explaining how everything fits together. I'm almost done with my 1st draft of the language (6k lines of code, 3k lines of comments), after which I'll begin recording.

2. I record hymns in congregational style, as the traditional pianists used to play for church services. I'm focusing on public-domain hymns, re-typesetting them using Lilypond, and including the choral music as an overlay with an overhead shot of my hands playing. I don't care if I make money. I believe that this playing technique (improvisation based on 4-part vocal music) must be preserved, and I'm trying to do so.

3. I am planning on recording an instructional course (available for free) to teach how to play in the evangelistic church pianist style. Using my approach, I have had adult students go from "never touched a piano or read music" to "can play a hymn for church with the big, full sound of the evangelistic style" in 3 months. Again, I believe that this style needs to be preserved, and I've seen a lot of the existing materials (and even bought them myself to evaluate, to the tune of thousands of $$$ spent), and I'm greatly disappointed in what is available. I teach technique and theory (I have a BMus in piano performance from a state university), and I really don't care to teach classical piano. I would rather teach church musicians.
Hey! As the author of the gist, just wanted to clear up what seem to be a few misconceptions:

- This isn't GPT-3, it's the recently-released open-source and open-weights model from EleutherAI, GPT-NeoX-20B. GPT-3 is much larger (175 billion parameters vs NeoX's 20 billion).

- It's well-known that language models don't tend to be good at math by default (Gwern, among others, pointed this out back in June 2020). It seems likely that this is at least in part because of how these models currently tokenize their input (they don't represent numbers by their individual digits, but by tokens representing commonly-occurring character sequences): https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#bpes . Someone also pointed me to this paper which looks at number representations (though it uses somewhat older models like BERT): https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07940

- Despite the tokenization, it performs (IMO) surprisingly well at getting close to the true value, particularly for the start and end digits and the overall magnitude. You can see this by looking at the tokenization (indicated by brackets) of its guess vs the correct answer for 28531*8065 (I asked multiple times to get an idea of how consistent it is – it's not deterministic because I ran this with temperature = 0.1, which will use random sampling to get the most likely tokens):

[What][ is][ 285][31][ *][ 80][65][?][\n][22][77][05][315]
Correct: [\n][23][010][25][15]
[What][ is][ 285][31][ *][ 80][65][?][\n][22][95][01][115]
Correct: [\n][23][010][25][15]
[What][ is][ 285][31][ *][ 80][65][?][\n][22][38][95][015]
Correct: [\n][23][010][25][15]
[What][ is][ 285][31][ *][ 80][65][?][\n][22][99][25][015]
Correct: [\n][23][010][25][15]
[What][ is][ 285][31][ *][ 80][65][?][\n][22][99][17][115]
Correct: [\n][23][010][25][15]

You can see that it manages to find things that are numerically close, even when no individual token is actually correct. And it compensates for different-length tokens, always picking tokens that end up with the correct total number of digits.

- Please don't use this as a calculator :) The goal in doing this was to figure out what it knows about arithmetic and see if I can understand what algorithms it might have invented for doing arithmetic, not to show that it's good or bad at math (we have calculators for that, they work fine).
This reminds me a little bit of the "bullet journal" technique [0]. It will make a great gift for my very todolist-oriented spouse!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_journal
Ask your boss to give you access to his medical records.
Having sunk vastly too many hours into Factorio, and recently just about 'completing' Satisfactory, I think Factorio is the far richer factory game.

Satisfactory's unexpected joy is in exploration, such as finding all the alternative recipes. However mid game starts to be a bit of a drag, and late game is borderline miserable (the Smart! mod helps tremendously but I'm talking vanilla-only experience here). In particular in satisfactory you never out-tech problems. You never get tools to help you start abstracting away details like you do in Factorio with construction bots, beacons, modules, and substations.

Satisfactory makes me want to design & build pretty or well laid out factories. But since it doesn't give me any tools to help with that, I end up with just floating slabs in the sky of endlessly repeated simple connections.

Factorio feels far more rewarding when you come up with clever layouts for things, as you can then copy/paste it. Or design it to be modular for later expansion. There's the metagame there if making things tileable for rapid expansion later on. Satisfactory largely doesn't have that. It's too painful to expand anything, so it's all one & done stuff
Predicting the Present
> While I certainly don't approve of these practices, I'm also not saying that these companies are only evil. I view that they serve a very strong need in some corners of the system, like a coding bootcamp for the less fortunate.

Absolutely not. I was in college for CS/CE, dropped out during an economic crisis, joined the military, and had to work my way through technician, network engineer, systems engineer, DevOps, SRE, and finally I am a very senior SWE. That was over a decade long journey and has made quite an impact on how I've lived my life.

I didn't lie to get jobs or interviews, I didn't embellish. Instead I had to research what was being done with my resume, I had to work with third-party recruiters, I had to write letters to hiring managers to get interviews. The people that are the subject of this article had the privilege to go to and finish college, that is your free pass. You don't get to cheat the job market just because you think you deserve it.

If you can't tell, I'm incredibly frustrated reading this post.

Edit: I do feel for people who have a lack of opportunity. I was there, I lived it, I felt it. That said, it's certainly not the only emotion I connect with when reading this story.
I can accept that, but at least captchas offer an alternative, like listening to audio. With the phone number, if they've decided my number is VoIP, then I have no recourse except to borrow or steal someone's phone. It's a terrible system and they probably have no metrics on how many legit customers they are losing because of it.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Can Crack Your iPhone
What do you mean, "can't leave"? Of course they can spin off another company registered outside the US and turn the old one into a subsidiary.
Leaving Whatsapp is hard because everyone is using it. But suppose whatsapp becomes unavailable for whatever reason, people will turn to other apps within hours (actually within a hour). In fact many people already have Telegram/Signal on their phone (although not using it).

As for instagram, things are a bit different. But the way I see it, 1- general population isn't using it. 2- This is not a necessary tool like whatsapp. Something else will fill the void but it will take some considerable time.
I misread the point they were trying to make, I took the 5 std to be a sign they were pulling from general population IQ. On second reading it’s clear that is not their intended point.

In any case the resulting intermediate distribution from selection criteria bias would be a Chi distribution (I think - it has been a while.) 5 standard deviations on a normal distribution is 175 IQ or top 1/700K which is insane.

A few additional biases, Physics majors have higher average IQs, and not everyone smart enough to do the math has the desire or the opportunity.

The point I was making is that IQ score has been normalized, when imagining the intermediate distribution of IQ it would make more sense to look at composite probabilities of factors that led to the IQ score and consider the probability that those same factors lead to a sufficient innate ability in math.
Skycoin Founder Claims in Suit He Was Extorted, Kidnapped
https://archive.is/qZQwV
Sleeping pills may be better than getting no sleep at all, but cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi) may be a better treatment approach than medication [0]. A problem with sleeping pills is that they reduce sleep quality, so you aren't as well-rested versus sleeping without them. From an interview with Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology [1]:

"The quality of sleep that you have when you’re on these drugs is not the same as normal, naturalistic sleep. They’re classified as “sedative hypnotics,” so the drugs actually just sedate you — and sedation is not sleep."

[...] "They don’t tend to increase sleep much beyond placebos. People may be fooled into thinking that they’re getting more sleep, but actually they’re not. This was not my conclusion — it was a committee of experts, who reviewed 65 separate drug placebo studies, and their conclusion was simple: There was no objective benefit of sleeping pills beyond placebo. Their summary was that the impact of sleeping pills was small, and of questionable clinical importance.

"And my third problem: They are associated with a higher risk of death and cancer.

"About that last point, in your book you do raise the possibility that it’s not sleeping pills that’s causing those things — it’s whatever is causing you to have trouble sleeping, which weakens your immune system.

"Yeah, I think that would be the counterargument, and I think it’s a very reasonable one at this stage. But I think an equally reasonable, equally tenable explanation is that they do shorten your life and increase your risk of cancer. The answer is we just don’t know which of those two things it is.”

[0] https://aims.uw.edu/nyscc/training/sites/default/files/CBTi%...

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/the-vicious-cycle-of-insomnia...
I am as certain as one can be without any capacity to prove it, that fb and meta and Mr. Zuck.. are subject of some sort of attack for the past 2 years (the intensity/frequency of critical opinion pieces went up within the last 2 years).

It's entertaining albeit unfruitful to wonder who could be behind. FB's reputation has been tarnished specially in the USA (which hints that it's an interest originating in the USA).

I'm not saying all criticisms are without merit, I'm saying that's very interesting that so many 'different' outlets have begun to directly criticize Facebook.

I like stratechery's opinion that a lot of FB's problems (legitimate concerns under scrutiny) aren't really FB's but the Internet's (given that FB is a large portion of the internet, and for certain users it's really most of the internet).

tl;dr; it sure seems like a lot of FUD about facebook these days.
My wife and I do the same. She often has to drive long distances, at night, in the winter. It's a nice way for me to both see her progress and make sure she isn't stuck somewhere.

I also struggle to send a "hey, I'm on my way message". My wife really appreciates being able to check on the map quickly.
Which is known as "Occam's Razor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor), often said in this manner:

> when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

A theory which origins can be traced as far back as ~1300.
Big Tech Sold Out on Its Promise of an Open Internet
The canonical reference is Project Daedalus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
Tools for Querying Logs with SQL
Google has to do this to comply with COPPA. They had to pay a $200m fine in '19 due to users that weren't age-checked.
It's amazing how good a totalitarian government can be at tracking and controlling the movement of their citizens. Don't get me wrong for the most part the average Chinese citizen gets a pretty good deal from the government. It's just scary how much power the government has and how little freedom the people could have should the government wish it.
Not being able to do work and play in physically different places. I'm so damn tired of sitting at my desk where I work all day, but a good portion of my personal hobbies involve sitting at that desk.
Every time I install a KDE app, it adds a bizillion little dependencies. That many dependencies on a rolling release enough for a stroke during a system update. Why do you need sooo many dependencies KDE?
This reads like a legal opinion brief. It’s all based on interpretation of existing law. Yours may be different, but about that quote specifically isolated, what exactly is wrong with it? What exactly is your position in opposition to that statement?

“… the Federal Government may violate and neglect all Canadian and International Human Rights Laws with no challenge or change to their appointed status.”

Please do not introduce your medical or legal opinion on any topic except whether the terms of this specific document, as applied to any other real or perceived injustice that you believe in, implies an earnest attempt to overthrow a legitimate functional democracy.
It was down and it keep erroring. I logged out and log back in. Now all good for me. I am in Cologne, Germany.
Considering hospitals have basically banned or obfuscated all treatments other than prevention, good questions.
I would say drop it. Personally, I see "junior" positions as a way for companies to advertise they're willing to hire people with little to no professional experience (e.g. new grads). Once hired, a "junior" probably has the same responsibilities as a "normal"/non-senior developer, just less is expected of you, so there's little reason to differentiate. You just have a bit more to learn.
> I think the end goal for the EU here is to require all communication platforms used by EU citizens to be entirely run by the EU.

I think their end goal is regulatory convergence. They don't want companies to be able to trivially circumvent laws protecting their citizens simply by operating in a different jurisdiction, which is to say, if you want to play by different rules, barriers are inevitable, or else the rules are meaningless. Over the long run, the hope is that people can converge on similar enough rules that the barriers become unnecessary.

For example, suppose a country passes an air quality law that forces companies to reduce emissions from factories. They might suspect that instead of updating their factories, companies might sell their manufacturing equipment to new companies that mysteriously pop up right across the border and happily sell finished goods back across the border. Anticipating that, the country would want to do something to prevent it. The measures they come up with might be onerous and inefficient in the short run, but in the long run, the two countries would be motivated to converge on regulatory regimes that were mutually acceptable.

(not intending to endorse or criticize this idea, just giving my best understanding of how countries approach questions like this)
> - Email is international. Phone numbers aren't.

I agree with the gist of your email, but what is this supposed to mean exactly? The whole world shares a single phone (number) system, right?
Did they pay in Tether?
Hi All, I'm the cofounder and CEO of Life360, which is the relatively new owner of Tile. Stalking hasn't been much of an issue for us, but we are in the process expanding the finding network via our 35 million+ active user base (will require opt-in consent) and we also do offer a location device for kids and pets (Jiobit) that has its own cell connection which is actually meant for finding people in real-time.

We have a number of initiatives in the works to help allay concerns. I would be curious if the community here has any suggestions. I know our very existence is controversial - so please be kind - I'm here to listen.
> what it is doing is applying a probabilistic best-fit

I think you're underselling probabalistic best-fits. Especially with all of the regularization going on in training.
Yeah that would be great is success meant "sound engineering that meets the requirements and is delivered on time without generating friction with stakeholders or adding unneeded complexity". Unfortunately on some companies that don't actually ship much of what gets engineered success means "we got to the next financing round" or "our skills got noted by upper management so we are still allowed to hang around". Bad engineers survive in the last two environments and at the same time stockpile credentials about how many years they were senior at Google or Lyft or whatever, but they really can't actually engineer anything most of the time.
Unfortunately the author passed away recently. If there is a community fork of bass that would make it easier.
>Just ask Google
I don't think that the company that made a quarter of a trillion dollars from ads in 2021 is an objective source on ad blockers.

>less money than they used to
So many things changed on the internet in the last few years; I don't see how you can reasonably attribute lower total incomes by creators specifically to ad blockers, as opposed to stronger competition or different consumer behavior.
https://archive.is/VJIbz
It's Ubuntu.

At its core it's another spin off of Ubuntu. Think more LinuxMint and less Hannah Montana.