skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an appropriate time to complain that every Apple product comes pre-installed with 172 trusted root certificates [0], and to perhaps reflect on the absurdity of this situation. Why is it necessary for me to trust 172 different entities (not even as a collective, but individually!), and is my only defense against a MITM the hope that Certificate Transparency will catch any violations after they already happened?

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213080
NZ had two very strong lockdowns (starting March 2020 and August 2021), with an intervening period of zero covid. Whether one would consider them “Draconian”, I’m not sure, but it certainly wasn’t life as normal
Very interesting, thanks for pointing out :-)
Do we really though? Does an international society really exist? Personally, I don't feel much of an obligation to people a hundred miles away, much less people on the other side of the Earth, in a whole different country
I'm more interested in the 14th century shipping containers.
Why This API Handyman Joined Postman
But those aren't really "telescopes", are they? :)
https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services...
There are about 120 million households in the US. Lets assume that approximately 100 million are parental households with children (either still dependents or grown and independent).

We're talking at least 1-2 million families that could be affected by paternity fraud in the US alone. That has the potential to be massively disruptive if exposed to these 1-2 million families.
> The Internet was totally open for Russians until 2 weeks ago.

It was not. Roskomsvoboda was created to track blocking lists in 2012.

It's been 10 years since internet started to be blocked in Russia.
Being a non-native speaker I had to look it up. Wikipedia says it's optional in British English but American English encourage, and sometimes mandate the use of it. If you look at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hello_World_Brian_Ke..., which the author uses in their post - the comma's there. So why the inconsistency?
Hmm, I can see this becoming an interesting interview question - a sort of "why are manhole covers round" squared
The Mesa Drivers Matrix
It’s interesting to see the vivid colors that they evolved to develop. Could it be they were mimicking poisonous spiders? To prevent predators from eating them.
> tools

That term is a bit too broad. It does make a difference if said tool is a hammer or a pincer.

Specifically they are FILTERS. And, extremely aggressive filters at that. For each 10 listings on the front page several millions of pages will not get an equal mention.

Lots of people think that they are somehow "magnets" that will "pull out" the proverbial "needle" from the stack, but it is not so.
The quoted sentence is an informal description of "positive density", and you can find the definition of density at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_density, or you can take a look at the first page of the source material at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03726.pdf. In fact, the theorem proved works for a stronger notion called "positive upper density"; the definition of "upper density" is also in the linked Wikipedia page.
Three is not all.
I didn’t say international society. I meant the one you live in. Which is presumably the US.
As a Windows user with an AMD 5700XT, a $400 GPU, I'm still locked out of the wonderful world of accelerated Blender. AMD has been straight up negligent in their software support for a long time. It sucks that you basically have to buy a super power hungry, super expensive GPU from a company that refuses to do anything open source if you want to be able to do anything but play games on your GPU.
Then we should put sanctions up for a referendum before they're enacted.
Wow, thank you for explaining this!! I was wondering how weekends that were "not yet available for online booking" were already nearly fully booked when I looked on the booking site. Very irritating that people do this... With that out of the way, I'll go ahead and start doing this myself, if that's the price of admission
Recently read a book called "There is no antimemetics division", pretty good book!

It's based on that SCP.
I'm pretty sure they do this on their own now. I set up "notify me" for a site and got tons of emails as sites became available.
The sanctions will stop when Russia halts its invasion. It's not like this is a one-sided affair. Russia has decided its invasion is worth more than sanctions on its own people.

No country owes it to any other country to trade with them. Any country absolutely has the right to revoke its willingness to trade with other countries on a case by case basis. Any country or organization that sanctions Russia is doing the right thing, too; all decent people in the world should be using all non-violent means at the minimum to make war so costly for aggressors that war becomes near-impossible. If anything, Russia is not sanctioned enough currently.

Edit: Don't forget that there are > 2 million Ukrainian refugees currently who have been forced to flee their country. Those that continue to live in Ukraine are having their homes and infrastructure bombed or disconnected. The suffering of the Russian people due to these sanctions pales in comparison to the suffering that the Russian government/military is directly inflicting on Ukrainians. Those sanctions will be lifted as soon as Russia stops inflicting harm on Ukrainians.
So you're basically arguing for NFTs?
MDA Is Sharing Satellite Imagery with Kyiv
Delegating this decision making to elected leaders is the entire premise of democracy.
SpaceX Starlink deployment in Ukraine – one week later
An algorithmic question is a coding problem that focuses on problem solving, and may include questions/constraints related to time & space optimization.

The test should never rely on rote learning (e.g. implement Dijkstra's algorithm from memory) or require a "magic" solution (e.g. Project Euler)
At the end of the day - most of what makes a company valuable (or even functional) is the people who are working there.

Sometimes novel IP has value, and sometimes the company has assets that are worth something, but this is relatively rare for software companies.

If you are relatively popular with your current users, your brand may also have some worth, and quite a few companies are happy to scoop up a brand, hollow it out, and retire it a few years later once it's no longer associated with anything worth while.

Otherwise... The company dies, because it was not profitable enough, and this is both normal and expected.
tl;dr: Japan, as the Asian Tiger economy most distant from the rising China, is viscerally experiencing the inadequacies of neoliberal policies. They know they will become the "sick man of Asia", isolated and weak, if they keep the current trajectory -- a massive reversal from just 50 years ago.
The first Soviet Republic to secede from the USSR (and before that the first to declare it's law superior to that of the Union, driving the process forward before that), leading to it's collapse, was Russia.

Even more ironically, Putin blamed tyranny by Soviet leaders (most specifically, Lenin and Stalin) for the existence of Ukraine on what is rightfully Russian land with people who are really Russian.
The article is well worth a read in its entirety. I'm a millennial so it's all well before "my time" but wow.

Honestly - and this may sound weird - the biggest thing that struck me about this was that there were so many established respectable companies actually doing innovative stuff with operating systems and graphical environments. It feels like the gap back then between deep technical work and customers was so much smaller. Must've been an amazing time to be in the industry.
I guess it depends on your motivation. When I was dabbling with 3D in 2000, all the major player at the time were way worse but I did manage because I was motivated. 20 year later, I can't even animate basic things like a ball :D

Still, give you some clear goal about what you want. Blender can do nearly everything related to 3D, compositing and even some special effect. And then search a YouTube tutorial on this subject — it probably exist!
The only reason those alternate languages have buy in is because of the Java ecosystem, if Java fades aways those languages would likely fade away too.

You really think AWS is going to be offering Clojure SDKs?

Remains to be seem for Kotlin but the others haven't grow enough to develop a big ecosystem of their own.
It’s always in my best interest to tell my manager that I don’t want to get promoted.

If I don’t tell him and they surprise me with a promotion, that’s not a great outcome. I know I’m a horrible people manager (did that for one horrible year). But I’m pretty good with managing projects.

If I do tell him and he forces it on me anyway or I can tell that’s not what he wants to hear, I need to know that and be prepared to change jobs.

But then again, I enjoy coming in fixing a problem, training, and “putting myself out of a job”. That isn’t exactly the model of someone who is interested in career progression at one job…
A Summary of APT41 Targeting U.S. State Governments
Paywall free:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fsc...
As posted in another comment that's basically what https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix supports along with easily reconstructing former revisions of a JSON document (or any node therein), sophisticated secondary (also versioned) indexes, querying with JSONiq and optimizations at query compile time as for joins and aggregates....

In our case we opted for three types of secondary user-defined indexes (besides the main document trie index to find unique, stable nodes by their 64bit ID), namely

1. field indexes

2. path indexes

3. content-and-structure indexes which index paths and their typed values

Furthermore a path summary keeps track of all distinct paths in the JSON resource.
Further, if those rates are similar across time and roughly evenly distributed among populations, it means that carefully-researched family tree your aunt (or whoever) has spent so much time working on gets unreliable (as far as biological parentage) fast, the more generations you go back. "Look, I'm distantly related to [famous person]!" Well... maybe.
The U.S. didn't bomb indiscriminately, or to expand borders, or use false pretenses to try to justify it, or in contravention to international law. Putin has done all of those things. And not just right now but in 2014 when Obama was president. I think history will take a dim view of Obama's, and the world's, decision to just let Crimea go as if sometimes a war of aggression to expand borders is not a crime at all, let alone "the supreme international crime".
> This assumes that experience is more important than skills.

No, it doesn't.

It just means that the word "senior" measures experience, not skills, and is frequently misused.

It's fine to prefer a super skilled junior, and smart companies do that all the time. But that doesn't somehow make them senior, and failing to understand the distinction is a significant problem for hiring.

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> An extremely smart and motivated programmer with 3 years of experience is going to be far above a programmer with average intelligence who phones it in.

My experience in industry and my personal viewpoint is that actually lazy programmers tend to be the best. They don't over-engineer things, and they write their tests, because they know it's better to spend an hour now than five hours next month.

My experience is that smart and motivated people tend to fall on the Knuth side, and not the McIlroy side, of More Shell Less Egg, and this is not what I personally want.

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/

Anyway, this is all irrelevant in my opinion. We can hem and haw until the cows come home about who's going to be a good programmer, what styles we prefer, what candidates we prefer, and who knows, maybe one of us will get lucky and say something correct one day. Most people never do. :)

In the meantime, these words formally refer to years of experience, and if you want to focus on their skillset, then read their list of skills, instead. The standard resume has not just an explicit list of skills but also how they were used in previous jobs, and this doesn't come up this way at all outside of hiring. It's a concreted matter; you can look it up in HR textbooks, and in government jobs it's a matter of law.

Similarly, their education isn't about their skillset, but it's important, and it should be on the resume. (Originally that said "phone number" in the hope of being funny, but it came off as sarcastic.)

Yes, skills are very probably the most important thing you can find on a resume about a person you're going to hire, and almost the most important thing about them in general (behind honesty and workplace toxicity.) But also other things are important too, and not every single thing on the resume needs to be about skill level.

When I want to know years' experience, there are other reasons I want to know that, beyond their skillset. It'll have a lot to do with whether they know how to document, how to gather requirements, how to write plans, how to contact stakeholders, how to push back against bad decisions, how to communicate schedule slips, how to make themselves available.

Yes, skills matter a lot, but also, the stuff under years of experience do too, and there needs to be a way to communicate that.

If I had the magic staff-reader wand, and two candidates, and it said "super skilled junior" and "average senior," there are actually times where I would prefer the latter. Not a ton of them, but also not zero.

Don't co-opt everything towards skills, or you'll blind yourself towards other important topics.
The big twist is that we end up nuking ourselves to get rid of the giant sky spiders.
Russian propaganda is that this war is because of the west's Russia-phobia and hatred.
Gotcha, thx!
It's filtering for what it thinks the user is looking for (at least that's what's advertised) not what they want the user to be looking for.
I wrote a tiny program to help test the tire pressure sensors on my car. You can receive signals from these sensors using a cheap SDR dongle and a program called rtl_433. However, out of the box the process is bit messy and requires tweaking and interpretation. So I wrote a bash script that wraps rtl_433, guides you through the process in an easy-to-understand way and summarizes the results.

A program like this is not full automation, but it greatly reduces the cognitive overhead of doing this task. Now when I suspect a sensor is bad, I can just pull out the script without having to get back up to speed on how to orchestrate the component programs and interpret the results. It's like having a well-designed jig for a woodworking task, hanging on the wall for later use.

Writing tiny programs like this is really satisfying because the scope is small enough that I can carefully consider all decisions. I spent a lot of time reading through guides and code samples, considering dependencies vs pure bash, understanding shellcheck warnings, and making the code conform to a style guide. All not strictly necessary to achieve the goal, but I learned a lot and take satisfaction in a small, but refined result.
Cracking the Code interview-style questions are what we are currently using. I'm not sure if that's where they originated, but that's the style of question. I think the key at my current gig is that engineers who interview regularly do the interview challenges. This ensures that the questions are reasonable to ask, and that effective guidance can be given to candidates.

For those without large engineering staff, HackerRank is good, in my experience. I use it for practice. I've had bad experience with leetcode, we used it at another place I worked and some of the crowd sourced questions were wrong.
I thought it said the size of a child's hand.
Thank you, that was a thought-provoking link.

It seems that certain kinds of economic integration such as supply-chain interdependence offer more leverage, while other kinds of integration such as buying oil and gas offer less.
It looks like almost all trendy “privacy” apps require a phone number: Signal, Protonmail…
Ever tried Noodler's Bulletproof inks?

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Noodler-s-Fountain-Pen-Inks-A-C...
AWS exams are absolutely cheatable, there are numerous exam dumps on udemy. You can have a high schooler collect all 9 certs without a single hour of commercial experience.
> Conversely, the ink can reappear when temperatures reach below -10°C/14°F.

If they accidentally left it in a cold car, the mismarking will come back. Needs to be fairly cold though. Or a freezer.
The article you're linking to is also partisan propaganda.
The government is not some magic money source. Saying the government should pay for something is saying the everyone should share the cost.

By mandating that taxis are available we are saying that the cost of off peek taxis should be paid by people that use taxis. If I never go to a town big enough to have a taxi service, or if I drive my own car everywhere, then I never share the cost for subsidising off peek taxis.

Which is more fair, everyone pays or only taxi uses pay?
Oh, I like this. Thanks.
On the bright side, this spider eats those stink bugs that nothing else will touch. We will of course need something to eat the spiders
NBD if you have clone bay though.
Ah, but they're just cute little things.
> they are about to force the entire playerbase of Minecraft to give a phone number by pushing them to Microsoft accounts starting a day or two from now

Insisting on phone numbers would be a breach of the GDPR. Having entered into a contract a business cannot then demand additional personal information as a condition of fulfilling the contract.
Looks similar to a banana spider, the webs nearly alike too.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Golden_silk_orb-weaver
But... Cant you noch the relay?
War is a interaction between nations as a hole. Just like Russia as a uniform entity attacks and supplies this war (via taxes, e.g.), Ukraine as a whole is the victim of the attack. It is the responsibility of the average Russian joe to ensure he has a non-war-warmongering government. If the fails that responsibility, he will have to suffer the consequences. Even With or without any sanctions, just as the natural course due to the nature of war.

Keep things in perspective: No body wants to send the average internet user to la Hague. That's the place for Putin and those who fly the air raids. This is just making this average day a bit worse for the sake of stifling Russias ability to sustain this attack.

All of this will stop the moment the invasion stops. Russian Joes wants it to stop? Fine, go complain at those who choose to continue the war. There is a direct cause-and-effect relation there.
> In proportion as a man is thinking scientifically when he makes a statement, he knows the statement is the answer to a question and he knows what the question is.

Interesting way of looking at communication!

I might be able to apply this to technical writing (my line of work). Sometimes you write some content and it feels out of place or awkward. Perhaps asking "what question is this statement an answer to?" might clarify what to do with the content.

I also find it effective to sometimes literally start each paragraph with the question that the paragraph is answering. It helps keep the writing focused.
And imagine the country being supplied with electricity was constantly using it to disrupt the electrical supplies of its neighbors for political and economic benefit.

Decades of Russia shitting all over the internet, both as a state and egging its citizens and organized crime to do so privately, has finally come home to roost.
Money becomes worthless, housing market crashes again
I pruned trees in Kununurra, Northern Australia, and there was a spider in each tree we’d cut (500/day). Harmless or not, they tend to climb once they’re on you, so those of us who are afraid of spiders would just let them climb and shook our hats while proceeding to the next tree. Yes, climb across the face. The leader didn’t bother, so spiders would fight on his hat.

Awesome experience, but a few people harmed during the summer, mostly because of the tools (and one by bees, one by green caterpillars, one by dehydration after going to work by 40°C after a night drinking - so basically all their faults as long as you value yourself). Said boss had prison experience. I tend to believe Gen Y misses the year of military service and tend to replace it with similar experiences, and the gap year in Australia is toughening for the office monkey and the nerds we were. 100% would do it again.
Great synth! Huge sound possibilities and the visual aspect is great for visual learners who are learning synths for the first time!

I love seeing this stuff posted here.

Does anyone have any other similar plugins for synths/effects. I know that Valhalla does amazing work and there is VCV or whatever but I remember there being a bit of community issues with that one.
U.S. $13.6B Aid package for Ukraine
Currently using pipewire on Ubuntu 21.10 via the ppa (which is linked in another comment here).

Experience has been flawless until now. Its truly an outstanding piece of software that "just works" and gets out of your way. I am really, really happy to use it, it has simplified so many things in my day to day life.

Before, using pulseaudio, connecting my bluetooth headset and getting any application to work with it was a serious pain, now it is a matter of turning the headset on and boom, connected, all audio switches automagically over to the headset.
All I could find is that we know they eat brown marmorated stink bugs[0].

"Joro spiders also appear to be able to capture and feed on at least one insect that other local spiders are not: adult brown marmorated stink bugs, an invasive pest that can infest houses and damage crops."

[0] https://news.uga.edu/joro-spiders-are-here-to-stay/
Arch patches Redis, although not for lua. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/package...
When I read The Road I found the lack of punctuation distracting rather than mesmerizing. I was using an e-reader and my initial thought was, "Is this right? Maybe they OCRed this and only glanced at the output." I had heard that the book was good from a few different sources, but none mentioned the unusual style. I Googled it to find out that this was, in fact, how it was supposed to be, and continued.

I am used to reading text with punctuation marks. When I enjoy a book, I forget that I am reading words on a page, and it feels like I'm seeing the story play out in my mind. The syntax of The Road constantly took me out of that feeling. It served only to remind me that I was reading a book by a dude who thinks adhering to the conventions of written English is beneath him.

The book was fine. I would have liked it a little more if it was punctuated normally, but of course, different strokes for different folks.

I would compare it to adjective order. You might say that the Goodyear Blimp is a big old blue polyester balloon. Never that it's a polyester old blue big balloon. It sounds wrong the second way. If I were a novelist searching for a gimmick, I could intentionally disregard standard adjective order and arrange the adjectives in another order every time I described something. It would give my writing a unique flavor. But it wouldn't make me any more descriptive, just annoying to read, because every time you hit a description your brain would throw an exception and then catch it going "oh, he's doing this again..."
Yeah, agreed. Would be cool to have multiple CAD kernels using the same markup language, then you can easily version control and use it for interchange.