skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the existence of leetcode interviews, where tech companies ignore your background as much as possible, and want to see the skills upfront, is a condemnation of education.

It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job.

The only reason academia hasnt been completely uprooted, is:

1. Some sects of society use academic prestige as a product. i.e. this harvard educated mckinsey consultant will optimize your business! Or, this harvard educated financier will invest your money carefully!

2. There's no way to have some leetcode like test for most jobs.

3. There used to be more signal in academic credentials, and older sects of society still believe those signals exist. Its the same with doctors, older generations treat doctors like infallible royalty, younger are much more skeptical

theres a huge caveat that some top people in the world do end up at top academic institutions. its just they keep mixing in these political appointees, agendas, etc
The Russian government is bypassing sanctions with crypto.
That depends on the project. Anyway, it’s irrelevant, because you can do it either way in either language.
I mean, the validity of the social sciences methods were, in quite a few cases, questionable. The reproducibility of such studies led to something of a crisis of their own, did they not?

https://www.wired.com/story/social-science-reproducibility/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/replication-crisis
I'm into cars.

And I have this dream of owning and driving around this very particular supercar. I've been slowly saving up, and within a few years I'll probably be able to outright buy it. And I plan to keep it for about 15 years atleast.

This car is neither electric nor self-drive capable.

Should I abandon that dream because I might not be allowed to drive around for too long?

And yes, I do understand and agree that in the long run, autonomous cars are probably going to be safer overall. Like, I'm not opposed to it.

(Please don't lecture me on why buying a car outright (instead of leasing) is financially stupid, or why buying cars with internal combustion engines or high CO2 emissions is a crime, or how my conscience allows me to buy a fancy car when there are a million other problems in this world).
Hmm. I don't think so. Not consciously, at least. The site feels a bit familiar, and I would probably click on a link to it if I stumbled on it elsewhere, so I may have at least seen it.
> Earth is in a peculiar position such that the delta V of getting to orbit will also get you to anywhere else in the solar system fairly quickly.

Tangent:

One of my favorite answers to the Fermi paradox (not mutually exclusive with others) is that much of the life in the universe is stuck at the bottom of huge gravity wells ("super Earths") that make space flight immensely difficult and expensive, making the development of a space industry far less likely.

It's a variant of the rare Earth hypothesis. Not only might Earth be rare for its stability and long-lived biosphere but also for the fact that it's large enough to hold onto a thick atmosphere and water but not so large that you can't get off it with relatively benign (compared to higher energy alternatives) chemical propellants. Increases in the mass of Earth would make space launch exponentially not linearly harder.

Getting anything non-trivial off a super-Earth would probably require nuclear or hybrid (e.g. LANTR) rockets, which are problematic for ground launch in a biosphere. They'd also be a lot more costly.
Hi fellow beek.

> Bees are livestock, not programs.

And, having two top-bar hives is not the same as having six apiaries each with hundreds of hives.
How does functional integration interfere with robustness?
Yeah, the $30 plan doesn't meet my needs for the same reasons. I don't mind paying $50 though so it's not a problem.

I'm really happy with fastmail. Anything sent to anything@anything.mydomain goes in my inbox, and I can apply filtering based on those. It also lets me generate @fastmail.com emails if I don't want to expose my domain. It also scrapes my ~5 old gmail addresses and copies those emails into my inbox. It's awesome.
Writefreely[1] supports ActivityPub, and are already planning to look at some of the ideas you have.

[1]: https://writefreely.org/
am interested, elaborate
Try out Fedora! There's Fedora Rawhide if you want rolling release.

I have been using Rawhide (+ mainline, non rc or git, kernel) on my work machine for the past 6 months without issue.

If you have to compile a lot of kmods it can be a pain as everything is transitioning to GCC12 but the kernels are still built with GCC11. A container can take care of that though.
Why did people lose faith in the institutions? Because the institutions deserve it.

Academic findings only have so much scope. It's nuanced and the news reporters, kindergarten teachers, and scientists themselves often overclaim the impact of the findings. All of the short term incentives reward overclaiming over nuance and no one should be surprised that the zeitgeist is where it is.
It doesn't say the age of the gorilla!
Or the MS update that nuked people's Documents folder?
He can countersue.
> 4. Spectre attacks make single address space operating systems more complex.

I will say, unequivocally, that Spectre actually makes process isolation in single address space operating systems impossible on modern hardware. There is too much speculation and too many leaks, and it's not just branches. We wrote a whole paper about it a few years back.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
Hey, what’s an IP Address? Explain IP addresses like I'm 5
1. If I need a browser to access them, that's very similar to "can't access them". Do you expect my programs to start browser sessions to access files? Will my file manager have to connect to that silly web server?

2. I can't effectively OCR them for many non-English language (at least - unless it's made some advances in OCR for some languages for which it's lacking). Also, if I do OCR anything, I then need to correct the mistakes, which takes a h-u-g-e amount of time even when the OCR works relatively well.
The argument is that there isn't two people, there is just one who was arrested.

Kreb's original source for the march article was the fake whistleblower extorting ubiquiti. He had just gotten raided by the FBI. Which is why the tweets are being mentioned.
I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The Ronin Hack - a full breakdown
This post is a fairly good model for the kind of communication that firms should have about cryptocurrencies, blockchains, etc. It's a good counterpoint to this one

https://terminusdb.com/blog/were-we-wrong-about-web3/
I'm terrible at reading usernames so didn't even realize it was you responding!

I read and reacted a bit to your thoughts on the previous GitHub issue around local feed in the app when someone posted it below. I can see the reasoning, even if I don't necessarily agree/it wasn't my use case.

Good luck with the project! I'm impressed with it regardless.
My dual apologies for both misunderstanding and putting words your mouth.

Thanks for the reply. This is very interesting.
OMG. I just realized that the next logical step in that process is:

- Got acquired by Cisco.

Heaven help us.
> These days, closing down communications focuses on the enemy’s internet capabilities.

It's mostly pictures of cats and memes.
Too much low-quality content, caused by "publish or perish" and funding that doesn't care about quality of results.
E-Cloud: Large-Scale CDN Using KubeEdge – Cloud Native Computing Foundation
From what I understand a lot of the long-form "blogging-style" content in Chinese is found on Zhihu, which is commonly referred to as the Quora of China (although from my limited experience with it it seems a lot better in multiple ways).

I do get the impression that the Chinese internet is very centralized. As the author pointed out the practice of having your own site or independent niche forum/community is rare. Almost all content/people/communities exist in Weibo, BiliBili, Zhihu or WeChat.
Looks like skeps that were made taller?
Shall we also go to Afghanistan and talk to the hungry afghans about how they are able to receive USDC stablecoins and exchange it for their currency so they can eat and not starve to death? [0]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2022/01/19/crypto-afghanistan-sanct...
Nice demonstration. IIRC the Slint core is a runtime with a graphical backend which can be varied. I assume their UI markup compiler (IIRC) still runs non-self-hosted.

---

Now includes BSOD!

> We used our Slint blue color as a background. Any resemblance with crash screens that you may have seen in other operating systems is purely coincidental.
COM and Windows Runtime (WinRT) provide standardized ABIs across multiple languages. With the WinRT language projections, it's just like writing 'normal' code.
"Ubiquiti sucks" started for me when a switch firmware update enabled some loop detection that couldn't be turned off, and completely broke my Google WiFi setup. Support tried, but ultimately the solution was to connect Google WiFi to a dumb switch.

Then around a year later an update bricked 4 of my 5 cameras, and support was completely useless.

You know, and then they had this huge security issue.

Sure, Krebs reported the security issue, but "ubiquiti sucks" sentiment has largely been Ubiquiti's doing IMHO.
How L.A. Got Hooked on Adderall
"If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them here!"
MBP M1, 12.2, Siri enabled (though I haven't actually used it)

> du -hs ~/Library/Trial
2.6M /Users/___/Library/Trial

> find ~/Library/Trial | wc -l
160
There is a term for this, the "Streisand effect."

It turns out, there can be such a thing as bad publicity. And like all forms of publicity, there are ways of putting it into a positive feedback loop. (Positive in the sense that you get more of it, perhaps from your perspective it is a positive development, perhaps not).
"Typing"? Typing where? What's the integration with file managers like? And what's the API for file lookup via that "index"?
Game Contained in SVG
> It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job.

Unfortunately I have worked with people with a master’s in computer science from an american university who couldn’t write a coherent sentence in English. Let alone write code or design a system.

I’ve also interviewed people with illustrious careers who just weren’t a fit for the role they applied to.

Credentialing is in poor shape in our industry.
If you were Krebs, would you defend, countersue, or seek “settlement” or some combination?
Do you have a website to create such ´artwork´?

I find all these comments with the same typographic difficulty and I just want to work faster.

Can you help?

Ron.
Zlib data compressor fixes 17-year-old security bug – patch, errrm, now
Thanks for the reminder. I noticed this on Chrome on Android myself recently, but I didn't have the energy to pull on the thread at the time.
Nothing in this article indicates that some unique factor of crypto enables it to save lives. It does say that donations have allowed them to purchase life-protecting and life-saving supplies but how are crypto donations unique. I can speculate, but I shouldn’t have to with an article titled as such.
Self Reliance
That's nice and all but it doesn't really help countries like Egypt that import over 60% of the wheat they consume.[1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/russia-ukraine-crisis-poses-a-se...
Supersized Goldfish Could Become Superinvaders
One method of making a chip 'tougher' is to physically increase the size of the semiconductor elements (e.g. transistors, FETs). This would seem incompatible with highly-integrated ICs.
What impact does humans having beehives have on wild/natural colonies?

When there are only so many flowers to go around, keeping bees might just be a disguised way to destroy natural bees.
Can we please have Claymoremorphism?
Autonomous driving is going to be an absolutely huge driver (lol) of consolidating wealth into fewer states, imo.

It will be in a states best interest to create a tax structure around autonomous vehicles from other states performing services within its borders. Possibly a defensively high tax rate in order to promote in-state ownership of in-state autonomous vehicles.
> I mean, UNIX time is quite clearly and unambiguously defined as the number of seconds that passed since January 1st 1970.

It's not though. Unix time is not monotonic. It goes backwards sometimes.
It seems to basically be a SLAPP suit.
> the complaint is pointing out that since they were the same person, this writing is intentionally misleading

I disagree (with the complaint, not with you). For one, if Sharp _was_ an employee in March and not at the time of writing, it is accurate to write it as-is, is it not?

The ad makes a couple of statements of fact, which parse true by my reckoning regardless of whether or not that person is one and the same.

I'm interested to see what comes of this, it feels to me like desperate swinging looking for something to make contact with.

Having filled my home, and recommended to many colleagues Ubiquiti gear, I have been nothing but disappointed with their output of late, so much so that I recently began switching away from their gear, there is _something_ going on within Ubiquiti and it smells off.
This article does a good job outlining why these systems can't just be replaced with a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino: Durability. At one point I was interested in replacing the ECU in my old '88 Suburban. The ECU is probably the only "real" bit of electronics in the whole vehicle. And yet after almost 35 years it's still doing fine. The Arduino based ECU I was looking into, as it turns out, is a great hobby project, but not so good for reliability due to the harsh conditions.

Still, I think electronics in modern vehicles are completely over the top, but then again... I drive a 30+ year old Suburban. I'm prone to thinking that way :D
At the end there is some text "sinusoidal characteristic". This is a control system, and (unlike the system of a bicycle) with increased speeds it will go unstable, the oscillations will continue to increase uncontrolled. This is why faster trains are an engineering accomplishment worth displaying. They require flatter cones which then require straighter track built to higher specifications.
The discrete components are designed, tested and verified after a long stint and their specs are frozen. It's a bit like space hardware. You verify an older CPU design can work reliably in space, and certify that processor. Then, you use the same foundation for a decade or so.

It's same with automotive industry. You have a well defined and certified stack from Delco, Bosch, Delphi, etc. and you can trust that hardware. Integration makes you return back to square one.

I remember Toyota tried unifying some control units into a single box, and 5-6 years considered realistic if not a little optimistic.
Baby’s First AWS Deployment
Music improves wellbeing and quality of life, research suggests
Discord has a discovery problem. Your in channels you get invited to or made aware of, and most of those channels are echo chambers where the people running the channel are obsessed with getting you to post in them (even if its complete nonsense)

There are some quality discord channels, but how do you learn about or get invited to them in the first place?
This part stuck out me:

"It’s a truism that you always want to hire folks with very high standards, but I’ve seen a staggering number of folks fail in an organization primarily because they want to hold others to a higher standard than their organization’s management is willing to enforce"

Throughout the article the author talks about underperformers but whose standards are they underperforming by? The company/management's or the authors? If the "underperformers" are in fact performing adequately by management's standards, just not by the author's then it is in fact a relationship problem because it's the author forcing their view of performance on others. If they want to have higher standards for themselves fair enough, but other people didn't sign up or agree to those standards. You can encourage them to do so but it's completely unreasonable to expect them to meet your standards (rather than the companies) and then complain to their manager when they don't.

I'm not saying this is the case in all of these situations. But author openly states they're a workaholic who has higher standards for those around them than the organization does. And that's very much a problem of their own creation, not a problem caused by those around them.
I admire and support people willing to die for democracy and freedom, but I have serious doubts there is any overlap between those heroes and these armchair warriors telling other people to risk their lives.
I think what makes/made IRC great is not any of those things, but the people that use it. Most people don't use a platform for the platform itself, but for the people that use it.
The book ("Disrupted") was a real laugh. After reading it, I wouldn't want to work there.
Overcast Podcast Player Redesign
It would be fun to try and make a scheme based Kernel/OS. My reasoning is that older revised reports document a much smaller Scheme language than r6rs and r7rs so would be easier to implement in asm. Then once you have a working Scheme you can build on top of it
There is absolutely a way to have leecode type tests for most jobs. We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ. Academics act mostly as a signal in some industries where you just back into IQ ineffectively by creating certain filters for pedigree.

instead of IQ test -> competence signal

you have:

SAT/ACT = IQ Test -> university acceptance criteria -> degree/credentials -> competence signal
If the shortfall in exported wheat is ~1% of global production, and farmers in other countries (India, USA) already are planting more to make up for it, what is preventing Egypt and others from importing from those other countries to replace Ukraine/Russian exports?

What am I missing?
Right. And it targets python 2.x. And ... I don't see a Source tab on the sourceforge page?

That said... Shut up and take my money. The second example on http://revj.sourceforge.net/example.html matches recurring problems I have at $work so perfectly that I simply must use this tool--or something like it.

...How does it pick the center table?! How would I pick the center table, if I were drawing a diagram like this by hand? Maybe I don't need to use the tool, and only need to internalize the operative concepts. The tool documentation links to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_schema Hm.
I suppose this could be useful for (mark-and-sweep) garbage collectors.
It's just like Slack, but for people without jobs. /s
Postgres Container Apps (beta)
Even if academic qualifications lose their value, there is still value in the actual education provided by academia. If I want to learn a topic really well, especially a more theoretical rather than applied topic, going to do a 3 year degree on the topic at university is a pretty good starting point.
The academic system requires a minimum degree of good faith conduct. That honor system effectively does not exist in modern western soft sciences, because ideologues abuse the trust to push their woke agendas with (deliberately?) sloppy science, and the peer review process, thoroughly infiltrated, is unwilling to cast a sufficiently critical eye either for fear of reprisal or out of complicitness. The result of this hijacking is a rigid dogma which manifests as a pseudoscientific justification for the reverse racism that is tearing through western society. That's all before the other deep, systemic issues like perverse incentives and the related replication crisis touched upon in the article.

This article is a nice overview of the modern moral panic gripping academia and spilling over into everything else. At this point laypeople are right to question academia as it's once noble purpose has been totally coopted by ascientific progressive politiking.
Thanks for the pointer! I still don't understand 100%. The link states that tasks are parallelized automatically. At the same time, Dagger AIUI is intended to run on top of existing build servers like Jenkins, Circle CI or Github Actions. But then I would assume that some sort of integration between Dagger and the build server needs to be in place so that tasks are parallelized on multiple worker machines (rather than all running in parallel on a single machine). If everything is running inside of a single CircleCI job, that job doesn't have enough cores to run all the e2e tests in parallel.

I guess my question is how this integration works in practice and what kind of complexity it generates.
Not cool [0].

It's funny how CMSes tend to offer "clean URL" configurations (meaning that everything after the origin is 100% controlled by the CMS user) for requests served dynamically (database queries) but requests served statically (public files on disk) often end up containing implementation-specific junk (e.g., "/sites/" in the case of Drupal). The magic that makes clean dynamic URLs (rewrite everything that isn't a file to the boot script) should be expanded to make clean file URLs. Serving files would then need help from a script+db, but so what, that already happens for private files.

Obviously embedded assets that need to be fast (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.) can't have a slow db query in the way. I'm only talking about files that are a first-class destination in the browser's address bar, like PDFs, and anything where the disposition is that it lands in your Downloads folder. Stuff that might be a search result or otherwise linked-to.

[0] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
https://archive.ph/cnqTW
Yeah coding is funny, because the code has to work. Theres no getting around it, and most resources for understanding how to get things to work are available on the internet.
I like it.

I got most everything right until it asked about the moon compared to some huge number of elephants and again with tyranosaurus rexes. I picked moon both times and was wrong. I felt like those are mathematics questions that don't test your sense of scale as much as the rest because there's just no real-life experience.
I don't know if I was just lucky but I also did a lot of them (where's a counter?) and had all of them right.

I think the game should try to pick answers that are closer to each other. Perhaps even have an inconsistent difficulty so some questions are easier than others.
The appearance of corruption can't be differentiated from corruption itself - this should be embraced as a maxim and applied everywhere.
C library bindings can be used directly in Rust, and there are facilities to improve interfacing with C++ as well.
I don't think a lot of people are paying attention to the replication crisis and similar problems in academia. Instead their own ideas about legitimacy are emotional.

The US has a focus on "input legitimacy" which is partially "we do it the way they show in Schoolhouse Rock", and partially about the way politician's communication styles make people feel.

The Chinese model based on "output legitimacy" (do institutions demonstrate competence in action) has its own problems (what if things go wrong that we can't control) but should be at least partially emulated in the West. (The flip side of "what if things go wrong" is a reflexive habit of making excuses, sometimes even before they're needed.)

If Ukraine survives, for instance, winning the war will make the Ukraine be perceived as one of the most legitimate in the world as opposed to an illegitimate cesspool of corruption. It is astonishing how 2014 was a wake up call for Ukraine to build up its military competence and how Ukraine responded to that.