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Technologies: Python, Pytorch, Python ML stack, Spark, Postgres, Docker, Git
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My personal favorite Slashdot prank was much more private. I work in security, and this old workplace had a prank-friendly atmosphere at the time. Co-workers knew I hit up Slashdot often, and I'd made a recent, unrelated gaffe on a project.

I got a great startle when I hit up the home page, and the top story was all about my mistake! There was quite some effort put into looking exactly right, except that they'd missed using the logged-in view. It was also my prompt to learn all about arp-spoofing...
Any gov services must go through very detailed assessments. Quite often moving from "public beta" to "live" takes years - lots of data is required.

So yes, they did only just go live, they were in beta :)
After ~22 years of Emacs (in screen+mosh), I've been trying to escape
Do people even put their mobile phone up to their head enough any more that we are worried about this? I would be more worried at this point about cancer risk to my other regions......

Not really all that worried at all though - just saying
When I was a kid, we had a succession of dubious used cars, at least two of which were Ladas. They were fine cars - spare parts were easy to get and you needed them often.

One time, someone broke into one of the Ladas. No problem for us, it was hard to start even with a key and the would-be auto thief apparently couldn’t get it going. Who needs an alarm?
This is uncaring towards those working hardest on the challenges of education. Teachers more than those in most occupations are driven by care for their customers - their students. The low pay and hard work drives many of them away. Righteous parents even more.
Staring at electronic displays is generally considered unhelpful for trying to get to sleep due to both the light and rapid-attention span activities, having it under the pillow is probably equally harmless as the dozen other EMF sources around your bedroom.

Unless the lithium battery catches fire. That might be bad for you.
It sounds great, except for the "decentralized alternative" part that sounds great, but there is nothing available soon enough.
That thing looks like it has a damn nice keyboard!
Was anybody actually making the claim that increased cancer rates were due to heat? I always thought the idea was that electromagnetic fields by themselves can be genotoxic.

It doesn't seem like the causality is something very mysterious either, we know electromagnetic fields have an effect on chemistry. It's the very nature of molecules to be affected by electromagnetism, so the idea that DNA can be damaged by electromagnetic fields isn't much of a stretch...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31297205/
Unless you're really good at auditing code, why wouldn't you want to use something stronger?

Memory managed languages are generally preferred for a lot of software because it's much harder to introduce memory leaks accidentally vs in something like C.

Yes, C is fine, but if your goal is no memory leaks, you could be doing a lot better.

I don't get why anyone would die on this hill over something as important as encryption. It's like using skeleton keys for your house door, because why would you be careless enough to not know when an intruder walks in?
You don't need 10 keys! You just need 1s and 0s!

>You never need to press 10 keyboard keys at once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

Do you just hate everyone without 10 fingers? There's more than one reason to alter your keyboard setup.
Evaporation is a huge problem for these lakes. By some estimates, each lake loses 800,000 acre feet of water to evaporation annually.
Game 104: Rance: The Quest for Hikari (2013)
Add the idea that has been floated over the years into making law enforcement officers a protected class as well and it's not a large leap to see how such seemingly well-intentioned things can be abused by the state.
Radiowaves are AC by nature they are not "Steady current". You need to provide at least something backing up this extraordinary claim.

Are you claiming a heating effect or something else?
> how do you know if the inner list changed or not

This is a vital question that virtually every programming language overlooks.

If you are using a mainstream language, you do not know if they were modified.

If you use a language which has a type system to segregate mutable operations from immutable operations, then you know if they were modified.

> They work in the small, but don't truly scale.

Go even bigger then. Work with the kind of data that won't fit in memory. Put your data on disk - you can't insert into the middle of a 1GB+ file.
At least these days, a lot of things that people think are very clearly happening right in front of our eyes, half the country thinks is an absurd framing. Ginni Thomas just tried to overthrow the US government! The Democrats just stole the election! Groomer teachers are trying to turn our kids gay! Republicans are trying to erase trans kids!

You want to slap some sense into everyone around you, and break through the politeness that the bad guys are weaponizing, but it's just going to start an argument. You can carve out a space to talk shop undistracted and save the politics (as important as it may be) for later.
counter-example: CPython, NumPy, SciPy and many critical well-used open-source projects that have tiny volunteer teams and operational budgets that are minuscule compared to something like React / PyTorch
It seems to me your contradicting the original posters comment. Or am I reading that wrong?
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> they overlook the outrageous power of police unions to keep terrible people in their ranks

No, this is exactly what police unions should be doing. My problem is when elected officials and judges kiss their asses and defer to them on the subjects of public safety and civil rights.

I'm stunned by how much weight public officials and journalists give to the opinions of police about the causes of crime, the motivations of the people who commit them, and the punishments that criminals deserve. Who cares what they think about the justice system? Tell me about hitting people with sticks, directing traffic, or leaving the military with no real job prospects.

But aside from that, police are often underpaid and overworked, have to deal with workplace safety and harassment, not given anonymous channels to complain, etc. just like everybody who works. They need unions to fight for those things. Police unions are awful and racist because the police are awful and racist. The union should be working for them, not for racial justice. If you want police unions to be less racist, hire fewer racist police, and don't demand that they operate in a racist manner.

When I hear people complain about public unions, I hear people that are disapproving of unions when they're the ones in the position of employer. It's basically being pro-union except for the one at the business you own, who are clearly just outside agitators with an evil agenda making trouble and trying to destroy your family.

It's common, though. Center-left media outlets hate unions in their newsrooms as much as they love unions at e.g. Amazon.
Not sure what the joke is here.
You certainly can have a monolith database, but typically you'll find that many of the Conway benefits of services will be lost as a result.
I'm in London and I've literally never seen or heard of them.
That goes counter to the widely accepted belief in physicalism (which could be entirely misplaced)
Although the core topic relates to serverless technologies and scalabilities, I find the notes about personalisation a notable (and in some senses, risky) trend, too.
Posting no backup to your claims is not helping your argument, please enlighten my ignorance, I thought for sure we cooked food with microwave ovens.
I've been saying for a while now, there will be no more 'classic cars' starting after the mid-1990's because of the failure of electronic parts that will not be able to be replaced. The best that will happen is people using the shells to 'restomod' them into new cars that look old. Even today, it's much easier for a beginner to buy a broken 1970's car and get it running than a broken 1990's car.
If at all possible approach each as boolean.
Does Daniel Gross fit this description?
I think the important comparison there, and something I often keep in mind, is that the US is a lot more diverse racially, even with its segregation, than a lot of other countries in the world. It's a lot easier for a country that's 90% the same race to not have open and prevalent racial issues, since there will be entire cities/areas where you won't even meet someone of a different race.

It's easier to be morally upstanding about you presume you and your fellow citizens would handle a potentially racist situation when it's hypothetical and not just a fact of life.

None of this is meant to excuse any of the awful stuff in the US, but to point out that there's a lot of confounding factors. It was a lot easier for Europe to take the high ground on abolishing slavery early on when they were century old empires who could still fill their coffers by exploiting people in Asia and Africa directly instead of importing them.
A single person built an entire Unix-like OS, complete with Acid3-cleared (cont)
Currently, the Texas grid [1] averages 24.8% wind generation v. 51.0% natural gas during 2021 operations. However, although wind is somewhat fickle, diurnal patterns still make the 3-4AM hour a good bet for the strongest and highest wind-driven megawatts (MW) on the grid. Coincidentally, demand is at rock bottom then -- as much of electricity consumption, in Texas, is air-conditioner driven.

March, more than any other month, has highest winds, as well as generally low demands on the grid. For those inclined to set their cars to charge on a schedule, the peak in wind MW versus demand flips the ratio, so that, for example, these last 30 days, wind was 50.3% of the demand on the Texas grid, on average, at 4AM. Add to that, the 5,000 MW constant base-load from the four nuclear reactors, and some 64% of energy on the grid came from sources that burned no fossil fuels.

Now this is for March -- the perfect alignment of winds and loads. However, the Texas grid isn't a static thing. Wait 2-4 years, and these ratios (50%+ wind) will become more commonplace in months other than March, on account of the rapid deployment of wind farms in the Texas panhandle and coast. So, fast-forward 5-10 years, and the calculations in this article are overly conservative, at least for Texas, and other states [2], that are rapidly deploying wind, and other renewables.

So, the one metric, that the WSJ fails to account, is that many drivers are already seeking the charge times (particularly in night-heavy-renewable Texas) that are vastly superior in CO2 emissions than the average for the state, or for the nation.

1. ERCOT Factsheet https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/11/23/ERCOT%20Fact%20S...

2. USA map of grid, and equivalent MPG for EVs in each region https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/evs-clean...
We Know Why Russia’s Generals Keep Getting Killed in Ukraine (Cell Hack)
That resembles what I use in my daily paper agenda:

/ Unfinished task
X Finished task
% Canceled task
↗ Task moved to a later date
↙ Task moved to an earlier date

In effect, I can convert the ‘/’ sigil to any of the last four sigils and I can see at a glance what still needs to be done.
Most of the time, these things are resource hogs arriving way before their time to shine, either needing Moore's law to catch up the hardware, or some nerd to wrestle with the combinatorial explosion and win. Transformers can be seen as a variation on Markov chains, but the innovation of attention mechanisms means you can use hundreds of thousands of tokens and thousands of tokens in sequences without the problem space going all Buzz Lightyear on you.

https://www.zabaware.com/ultrahal/

Ultra Hal was a best in class chat bot when fixed response systems like Alice/ AIML were the standard. Ultra Hal used Markov chains and some clever pruning, but it dealt with a few hundred tokens as words and sequences only 2 or 3 tokens out. It occasionally produced novel and relevant output, like a really shitty gpt-2.

I think we may see a resurgence of expert systems soon, as gpt-3 and transformers have proved capable of automating rule creation in systems like Cyc. They've already incorporated direct lookups into static databases gpt / RETRO type models. Incorporating predicate logic inference engines seems like the logical and potent next step. GPT could serve as a personality and process engine that eliminates the flaw (tedium) in massive, tedious, human level micro-tasking systems from GOFAI.

It's worth going through all the literature all the way back to the 1956 summer of code and hunt for ideas that just didn't work yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
StyleGAN-XL: Scaling StyleGAN to Large Diverse Datasets Gradio Demo
I've helped mentor CS students and bootcamp students before (as well as junior devs and interns), and I agree. Asking for help is good, but certain types of people think that learning to program is just a matter of learning all the steps and then doing it, when in reality it requires a more meta level skill of being able to tenaciously pursue a problem until you solve it. You should be asking for help along the way, but you need to have a drive to figure out the problem yourself, regardless of what help others are or are not able to give.

Sometimes students just need a lift up and then they find that ability along the way, but it just doesn't seem to ever surface in others.
I use qjoypad (https://github.com/panzi/qjoypad) to configure each shift to a single number press. So for example shifting into 2nd gear sends a single "2" key press to Linux.

After that, I usual xbindkeys & emacs to configure more complex bindings. So for example "WindowsKey + n" is configured to go into workspace n. Or "CapsLock + 8" is binded to close the current tab I'm on.
One thing I have learnt is that anything bad reported in the so called british press that other countries do, goes on here in the uk as well.

Churchill summed it up best, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, which means people will be made examples of as and when needed.
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> Do you just hate everyone without 10 fingers? There's more than one reason to alter your keyboard setup.
No, they do not hate people with less than 10 fingers. As you typed that out, and before you pressed send, this should have been obvious to you.
This sort of comment flagrantly breaks the HN guidelines, which is very disappointing because it could have easily been reasonable. Find a more mature way to disagree.
I don’t know. Personally, I like my freedoms and I wouldn’t like to live under a system implementing social credits as in China (have they done this? I’m not sure). However, I don’t know what will work in the long-run. There’s a lot of things I don’t like about China, but it has done a lot of things right. I also know they have fairly different values to the west, allegedly, a lot more weight put in the wellbeing of the collective, even at the expense of the individual.

So I bring China not as to put UK in a worse light, but to put an example of countries implementing these sort of systems of surveillance and enforcement.
I think Putin thinks the Soviet Union was the high water mark of "his people" and would like to put the USSR back together as much as he can.
> The US almost started global thermonuclear war because the Soviet Union allied itself with Cuba

Uh, no. That was because the Soviet Union attempted to station nuclear weapons in Cuba, not simply because they formed an alliance.
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Given the day this was posted on I was half expecting it to be a proposal to add radiation sources as a standard computer component
This is a promotional piece for a new book that comes out May 17th (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08R2KNYVX)

One of the authors is known for being a YCombinator partner. The other is known for responding to every email. I'm not sure which is more impressive.
Programming Language Designers Unite
> Your rights end at death. My condolences.

Not fully: when you are alive, you can write a contract to dispose of your goods when you die - say to give something to causes, people or even animals you hold dear: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02gift.html

I wish there was such a possibility to ensure your private information is disposed of in the way you want.
Because they have a dying old leader who has achieved nothing, and he felt bad about that.
My understanding: In this scenario B and C are low-bid government contractors. C gets a bid from the FBI (that indirectly involves them in the DHS' larger game). B gets caught up because they (are built to) contract C and then do a bunch of analysis of C's data and C is set up for deniability so the (semi-anonymized) data from the FBI's contract/game gets sent to B too. B's alarm bells go off and they raise the flag to A, because that is who contracts them (and what they were built to do). A as a tiny counter-espionage bureau dealing with the alarms B sends them is where the other alarms go off and embroils them directly in DHS' larger game (probably even through some fun chain of command game up to the President and back down). (Then the retasks funnel back down to A from DHS to B to C in such a way to ensure DHS' deniability and lock A, B, and C in DHS' problems [and eventually their doom].)
Some departments open source all their work, if you're interested in browsing real apps built to GDS standards. I previously contracted at the Office of National Statistics, and it was the case there that everything was built in the open on github. For instance this django app runs all online surveys for the ONS, including the national census! https://github.com/ONSdigital/eq-survey-runner
Great! It’s only because of our stupid system that removing the need for thousands of humans to spend their lives doing unnecessary labor is a bad thing.
I think most states will fail a car with the "check engine" light on. For cars in the northeast, keeping the CEL off gets more and more expensive every winter. I had a truck that was getting a new oxygen sensor (there were 6 on the car) every year from age 8 to 12. The truck drove fine with them malfunctioning, but it couldn't pass inspection. My current Jeep, I assume is going to need about $2K every year in maintenance to get it to pass inspection. And the only reason to do the maintenance is the inspection, because it also drives fine.
Based on the severity of this tweet, the people who harass me on twitter would be getting life sentences.
Related to this, one of my stories about turning a car off.... I was a misguided youth rebuilding a Subaru that sat in a field for a long time. It had many problems, but overhauling the engine solved all of them (or so I had naively planned). I remember the first drive I took with it after getting plates on it. Right after filling the tank for the first time, I went to Taco Bell, bought a victory taco, and went to a parking lot to look over my city and eat. When I tried to shift into park, the cable snapped. Dejectedly, I sat and ate the taco with my foot on the brake, warming the ATF while I figured out what to do. Several factors stacked against me, including that I lived on a hill, didn't have a garage, the e-brake was rusted, and it was January in one of the snowiest areas in Michigan (3-4ft snow banks in most places). I knew the next time I flipped the car off would really count, because I would have to hot wire the NSS or fix the cable to get rolling again. Parking in the winter is a huge problem too: you will get towed or fined for getting in the way of snow removal. I ended up precariously "parking" the car in drive near my house with a combination of gravity and a snow bank. I set the ramps up, crossing my fingers that they were spaced correctly and that I would succeed in getting on them on the first try. It all worked out, and when I finally turned the car off, I felt pretty intellectually victorious.
That's a recent change, right? They switched inf to more generic nar?
Still wont have a mobile pressed to my ear on a call as it causes a very subtle brain fog, same goes for bluetooth devices.