skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent 5 years at Mandiant on the “proactive” team that performed penetration testing and similar services. The divestiture of the FireEye product was the best thing to happen to Mandiant since the acquisition by FireEye. The two business units were constantly at odds.

I’m genuinely surprised by this acquisition, however. Mandiant’s business model (consulting services) was successful despite the pressures and operational dissonance from the product side. When I left, they were well-poised for natural growth and to capture a larger market share of managed security services. I’m sure there is a model for success under Google, but I doubt many of the employees below the C-level wanted to go this direction.
>That's more to do with the space of the coefficients, I think.

I don't think that phrase is a thing in linear algebra.

I've gotten a PhD in mathematics - I know both these fields quite well. I stand by my assessment of linear algebra - I've been using pieces form it nearly daily for decades.

>Anyone familiar with those basic principles can pick up a new distribution quite easily – and can probably derive new distributions when they're needed.

And a student trying to learn where and why stats is useful should be taught a wide set of distributions so they see the nuances while they're learning. Sure, you can provide only a Gaussian, but when the student leaves completely ignorant of all the places a gaussian fails and what are some choices relevant to different situations, you can failed to teach them the fundamentals, which includes enough nuance to see when and where to apply what distribution.

>A list of distributions is not fundamental to statistics.

You may as well claim all of stats is not fundamental - just learn math principles. You can look up anything in stats and derive it yourself once given the concept if you're good at math fundamentals. Surely with enough math skills, and zero stats, you can derive all the stats knowledge needed without needing to ever see any stats in a book.

But that's a bad way to go about teaching people useful skills.

A student learning about distributions needs some examples. This book has none. You can argue all you want, but this book is crap for learning the topics the OP claimed it covers.

Find a textbook for beginning students that does not cover a multitude of distributions. Either every single author, usually writing from decades of experience, is wrong, or you are.

I think the authors have the right approach.
Crime rates have fallen historically until COVID. I think it's more likely the post WW2 and post Cold War (perceived) eras were periods of irrational exuberance culturally in the west with uncommon optimism in western lead globalism and its future (What you consider civilization I take it). The last few years were a big time reality check on the collective interest in that future.
That's the thing, so. There is no reliable historical source that Stalin planned, immediately or later, a war against Nazi-Germany. Doesn't necessary mean that this war was not inevitable, there is only one party needed to start one after all.

The USSR was caught completely flat footed, Red Army Officers even participated at balls and other social events the night before the invasion, on the other side of the soon-to-be front line. And Stalin ignored all intel pointing at an imminent invasion.
By volume. Cryptography consulting is a very lucrative niche but there is an order of magnitude less of it happening based on my wild guesses. I have run a high end boutique for 9 years and been doing infosec consulting for 15 years tho, so my guess is somewhat informed, I hope.

Even high end appsec, seceng, and legit reversing pays below crypto and IR. We just can’t charge as much for it for all but the most niche and demanding environments, which is not the bulk of what’s out there.

I am thinking averages here. I know there is high paying work in each domain, but the skills used are also highly developed, etc. If you wanted to build a high end consultancy with a lot of work IR is a great choice. I know ToB has done awesome in crypto (blockchain/contracts) space, etc. but I think IR work is a little easier to get into and build a business on without having really advanced and niche skills.
Sorry but I interview regularly for positions based in Warsaw. First Codility/Hackerrank filtering and/or take home assignment, then rounds of algorithm smartass questions alternatively about nuances from every generation of Angular framework. All these for a job with a total compensation of equivalent of max 60k USD but more likely 50-55k USD. I have no idea what they are doing but certainly they are not hiring. There will be no hiring happening there, or rather I'm your "not good enough" candidate. These cutthroat processes are for positions with total compensation well above 100k USD, your poor miserable zealots.
I wonder which combination of HTTP reverse proxy (e.g. nginx, cloud load balancer) and application server (e.g. Python WSGI server) is best at using bounded queues and signaling backpressure (e.g. HTTP 503) rather than just letting requests pile up.
https://nitter.net/Carnage4Life/status/1499714921726046213
> It does so happen that the principal author of the paper is the editor-in-chief of that journal however

So you mean to tell me that a person who does not need to fear harm to their reputation used their own science-focused business to take on the analysis of a phenomenon that is wrought with fallacious appeals to shame?

> and the publisher of the journal has been on-again-off-again the lists of predatory publishers for some years.

MDPI? I don't have time to research this thoroughly but aren't they just a multidisciplinary republisher from other journals who are ostensibly the responsible parties for ensuring proper peer review?

> MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014[13][15] but was removed in 2015 following a successful appeal[14] while applying pressure on Beall's employer.[16] Some journals published by MDPI have also been noted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Norwegian Scientific Publication Register, two major scientific bodies, for lack of rigour and possible predatory practice.[

Jeffrey Beall has an obvious anti-open-access bias, and I believe that's why the "pressure on his employer" was successful. As an open-source developer, this makes it difficult for me to judge his claims fairly; the "ivory tower of accredited scientists working in secret and retaining sole access to prestigious journals while divvying out Truth From On High" is a model that I think needs to be put to bed (even if there are some drawbacks to that). What I can say is that capitalism does not seem to mesh well with basic science research and it can result in problems such as poor peer review.
It's not that connecting speakers is hard with the new iMac (2021, sorry not 2020), but that having anything permanently plugged in will look silly:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/20/m1-imac-relocates-the-headpho...

I guess it's only meant for headphones in a pinch, and you are supposed to buy Bluetooth speakers/headphones anyway? But Apple also discontinued the big HomePod that would give the iMac some oomph.

(I often suspect that the new iMac is that primarily meant as cashier machine in clinics, boutiques etc. In that context the design is probably fantastic, but then what is the successor to the iMac G4 line? Maybe everyone just uses laptops for family computers?)
> I installed what is called a "heat pump" in the US for $2500 USD this last summer.

That sounds like a mini-split.

I'm in the US and to me a heat pump involves drilling a bore hole and installing a ground loop.

That costs anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000 depending on soil composition. Then you have the heat pump which ranges from $1,500 up to $10,000. Don't forget your home might have an older furnace, possibly gas or oil that probably needs to be replaced. Along with air handlers and any duct work. And that's only if your home is equipped with a conventional system.

For an older home equipped with radiators or baseboard heaters you're probably better off swapping out your oil or gas for electric but that comes at a cost.
Artist Jenny Holzer wrote in 1999: "Monomania is a prerequisite of success", that quote has stuck with me. Most people (myself included) get distracted and change focus easily, which I think is healthy, but being long-term obsessed probably helps your chances of being really successful in late capitalism.
I have heard that some small company buyouts are aquihires and so the workers survive or even prosper. However, based on my experience in the computer and pharma business, filling out forms, learning about unemployment and moving have been what happens. If I had to guess when faced with a new purchase, I’d say the owners do well (or at least ok), the head shed does ok, the rest of management gets it in the neck and the workers move on to other opportunities.

If I can pass one lesson to readers, don’t purchase a house of any kind unless you can change jobs easily without moving. Having a 2hr commute isn’t “easily”.
Forests are recyclable. Natural gas is not.

When you burn wood, the CO2 released into the atmosphere gets re-absorbed by the next batch of trees that you're gonna burn next year. The overall process can be carbon-neutral, neither increasing nor decreasing the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Once gas comes out of the ground, it's guaranteed to get into the atmosphere one way or another, and it's never going back down in there.
What's the alternative? It's forcing Russians into tough decisions, hitting Putin and friends where it hurts, or letting Putin get away with it.
I have been doing web work for over 20 years. Everybody claims to care about performance, training, security, and so forth. The only thing that really matters in practice is comfort. Until developers are willing to abandon certain areas of comfort things like performance are only given lip service. In doesn’t matter what they want if they are actively working in opposition. This is performance is a massive incompatibility to hiring.
The US also has cheaper 87 octane gas. All gas in Europe is the US equivalent of "premium" 93+ octane.
Exactly.

On a similar note:
"The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident."

From: IEAE - Ten years after Chernobyl (https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...)
> Were Nazi's eating lead for breakfast or something?

German here. The root cause for Nazism was not just a widespread acceptance of antisemitism, but especially the economic hardships following WW1 that gave rise to populism. A poor and desperate population is always liable to fall for a skilled demagogue.
It shouldn't be hard to create a component that does what you want

<Comment>some comment</Comment>
NONE of this seems to require the war we've seen so far...

He can kick out media folks for any reason he likes.

His war makes his military look weak / strengthened his opponent's resolve.

>Putin is not trying very hard to conquer Ukraine. His expensive weaponry is being held back – he is invading on the cheap with expendable conscripts and lots of shelling from close range.

I find this hard to buy into at this point.

I think more likely he is going to war with what he really has available.
I don’t agree with Thiel on a lot of things, but in this instance I do.

When someone says “I’m very competitive,” I hear that they want to live inside boxes created by other people.
Ask HN: Professional Replacement for Adobe CC?
I'm over 7 years Adobe CC subscriber (All apps) and I'm looking for proper alternative from various reasons.

1. Price. My income is very unstable last year and it will probably not change with current inflation, energetic craziness and refugee crisis in my country.
2. I really want to leave Windows and stay completely on Linux.
3. Especially for photo-catalogue I don't want be limited by one software in future.

Honestly I have no problem to work with Adobe products. They are really good, stable since 2018, dynamic link is very useful and I'm used to work with. But... They do not have competition. I'm regularly use Photoshop (advanced photo editing, drawing), Premiere (video production), After Effects (basic animations, motion graphic), InDesign (print work), Lightroom Classic (pro photo editing and management), Audition (audio editing for video and podcasts) and occasionally Illustrator (vector graphic).

Please, are there any professionals, that switched from Adobe and share experience from professional production? Thanks.
How many btu? How many sq feet or meters are you trying to heat or cool? Are you in the U.S.? What brand? $2500 seems low or for a small living space.

copied from the web (so you know it's true.)
"30 BTU of heating output per 1 sq ft of living space.
For every sq ft of living space, you need about 30 BTU of heating output. That means, for example, that for a 1,000 sq ft home, you would require a 30,000 BTU heat pump (that's a 2.5-ton heat pump)."

Cost from 2021 (so it's more now with shortages and inflation.) For $2500 USD you are under 2 tons.

https://www.avsheatingandair.com/hvac-cost/heat-pump-install...
I'm surprised nobody mentioned nushell already https://www.nushell.sh/book/dataframes.html

I guess supporting high perf dataframes in a shell will make those big data platforms irrelevant for most use cases.
It depends on the situation. I had all of mine out this past weekend (in the US) and, because they were fully grown in, all they had to do was some local anaesthetic (about 8 shots around various parts of the mouth), wait 15 minutes, and loosen/pull them all. Total procedure was less than 30 minute and no painkillers prescribed after the fact.
Another consideration is that much of this assumes we have zero anti-missle capability. With the Iron Dome knocking artillery shells fired from 3 miles away out of the air I think that's a bad assumption to make.
Sure he was, he was a natural-born cult leader.
> So that's about double US prices -- why is the price so high in Europe?

Mostly, high gas taxes. Gas taxes in some countries in Europe are as high as gas prices in some US states.
It makes me angry to think of how wreckless the generations before millenials were. Lead's risks and damages were well-known long before 1996. And they still didn't ban it until then.
Embedding lyrics in files is great, but still half-baked. You’re often opening up the lyrics to see what the words are in that particular moment in the song.

Apple Music took this feature one step further and actually provides a way to sync lyrics to the music. The UI is very intuitive as well. Not sure if Spotify offers this too.
That is a very surprisingly jaded take on the aid that the UK has supplied, and in my opinion incorrect. As per the details outlined here[0], the UK has supplied the following in military aid alone (see linked article for financial, and humanitarian aid).

> Trained 22,000 Ukrainian troops since 2015 as part of Operational Orbital

> Delivered 20 armoured vehicles since 2015.

> Delivered "thousands" of NLAW anti-armour weapons (~£20,000 each)

> Sale of two Sandown-class minehunters.

> £1.7bn agreement to support the acquisition of eight missile craft and one frigate.

> Deployment of RC-135W Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft to provide information on size and position of Russian forces.

> Unspecified further military aid, on 28 February 2022.

> ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) support, both standalone and in partnership with the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine...
Thank you for the extension. It works well enough for my bookmarks. Just open the bookmarks on my browser and use the "Save all tabs" feature.

I think I'm not the only one who wants an alternative to pocket. A bookmark manager that can archive the links to prevent linkrot.
Not sure what you mean… generally speaking we keep the storage servers up continuously - as you’d expect.

I see several with 80-100 day uptimes right now …
Barely into it and I find this nugget "His expensive weaponry is being held back" the SU-34's being shot down would disagree, and the tens of million dollar MRLSs being towed by farmers as well...
It's already the case. Any web page can use WebGL1/2 for general computation. As the author said:

> Using GPUs for calculations of any kind is often called General-Purpose GPU or GPGPU, and WebGL 1 is not great at this. If you wanted to process arbitrary data on the GPU, you have to encode it as a texture, decode it in a shader, do your calculations and then re-encode the result as a texture. WebGL 2 made this a lot easier with Transform Feedback
> To be clear, he was never uninvited.

That's why I wrote both what the email from RailsConf said, and how he interpreted it. But I agree that my wording about his interpretation was a bit unfortunate.
Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon, states add on top of that somewhere in the range of 18 to 67 cents, so under a dollar no matter where you are. The EU requires a minimum gas tax of $1.55 a gallon, but depending on the country goes over $2 a gallon.
Especially since they likely have 2-3 years of services contracts to burn through and don’t really have an org they directly overlay with inside Google. Enterprise security to an extent but also not.
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> He was not uninvited. He was simply asked to share the keynote with other people.

That's why I wrote both what the email from RailsConf said, and how he interpreted it. I agree though that my wording of his interpretation was a bit bad.
I would rather see a post about the new thing that someone leaving a particular coding community is choosing instead. That would be constructive and positive. What's better? That's what we need to hear.
As it's Women's History Month, and Google being Google, I'm betting there's a plan for a piece like this to be published every day this month. Boring and empty.
Stop making out of Putin 250 IQ genius. He overplayed his hand and now he is looking to get something out of it. He can't just walk out of Ukraine.

One thing that invalidates Your post is the logistics. You need tones and tones of material to push war effort and Ukraine destroyed rail connections to belarus and russia at the start of the war. Without good logistics you can't win war.

Other thing that is a "ps" invalidating point is that Putler commited 100% of his best soldiers to this war. Entire set of specnaz and russian marines are deployed.

So yeah, stop thinking like 4d chess are at play.
You must be talking about some senior positions right? No one at my large corpo earns more than 15k PLN.
> But I don't see how we're planning to meet such demand with our current power grid. Which of course in turn means that your electric bill will be in for a shock.

We are definitely going to use more electricity — that's why everyone has been planning for major upgrades — but that's part of why solar is so useful since a lot of the existing grid demand is used at times when solar is generating peak capacity (i.e. summer air conditioning), and we've seen a lot of efficiency improvements which are reclaiming some existing capacity (e.g. at the turn of the century, a desktop computer used 1kw, your lighting was 10x more wattage, your AC, fridge, etc. were far less efficient, etc.) — that doesn't solve the problem but it takes some of the sting out of it.

In the case of an EV, my house is entirely electric including a heat pump + resistive heating. Charging a Tesla Model 3 completely is somewhere around one day's usage in the winter (~20℉ outside) and since that's a 200-350 miles range you're unlikely to be doing that every day or every other day. Most importantly, that seems well within the power output a solar array can provide — since cars are idle something like 95% of the time, you have plenty of opportunity to charge them off peak or when renewables like solar or wind are producing well.

That to me doesn't seem like an intractable problem but rather something which can be done incrementally along with other desirable work such as upgrading the grid to be more resistant to things like storm conditions.
The argument being made is that (contingent on you being hired by FAANG for a given role) you are entitled to US salary solely by virtue of being born in the US, whereas you get the much worse Polish salary if you happened to be born there instead. Assuming you're at the same compensation level, your work quality should be equivalent wherever you are.

Nobody in the thread suggested that anyone is entitled to a FAANG job.
Followed you on Twitter, but can't seem to DM hmm!
Ruby on Rails vs. Laravel: Getting Started
Agreed, but the SWIFT problems shouldn't impact EU business accounts (which is what I suspect this is, based of the twitter profiles location in Tallinn).
I have a hard time believing that the dust would escape given the gravity of the moon.
I love it too, which is why I use Sass/SCSS, a gentle extension of CSS.