skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the federal government cant hire "competent engineers" is kind of odd to me.

Federal government can pay enough to get software engineers. FAANG salaries are an outlier. They could easily target some midwestern state, put the headquarters for federal software agency there, find a feeder school, and get employees fed to an agency making a comfortable 6 figures in a low cost of living area. Will there be some attrition? Sure. But plenty will stay cause thats where family is, and where they have their house, and thats where there kids go to school and etc.

I can guarantee you that the contractors they hire from Accenture and IBM are using devs that arent making FAANG salaries. Its kind of a meme how bad some of the government contractors are, its pretty well known you can just be a body that sits at a desk if you can get a security clearance and make easy money just manually running an SQL script once a week on some of these government contracts.

The real reason nothing gets fixed is because the federal workers get free salaries and benefits packages that far outstrip their value that oversee these projects, and the contracting firms get easy money.
The os will drop program text if it encounters memory pressure even if swap is disabled. Anything that isn’t anonymous memory is fair game and it does it for even well behaved programs on the system.
> For example, when I travel for sales meetings, I regularly invite prospects, customers, and investors to come to a game with me

Personally, I would hate to receive such an invitation. Of course I could politely turn it down, and if it comes from a vendor, it's easy to do so. But for a partner or such, ugh.
It goes back to the American Civil War and the opposition of the slave states to the federal government limiting slavery.

You could argue that it goes back to the American Revolution and "no taxation without representation", but to a first order approximation the factions today who are most ideologically anti-government are the successors of the Confederacy.
Hey, I’m an ex-Square that is part of founding engineering team at Column. My team will be monitoring this thread and we’ll be happy to answer any questions! Especially those about ACH, I’m sure you have plenty and we know it through-out!
A simple C# object to HTML (also nuget package) – inspired by LINQpads Dump()
I tried going mostly carb free AND limiting my eating to a 4 hour window each day. Note that this is not the same as the 8 hour window in the article. For me it worked fantastically well. Down 10 lbs in 2 weeks. Like many such efforts, sticking to it is the hard part.

IMHO most diets can work. The one that works for you is the one you can stick to.
Some are. Look at the similarities between UIs in these movies and today’s Space X shuttle navigation UI:

https://www.shanemielke.com/work/spacex/crew-dragon-displays...
I don't know what could be wrong. I haven't done anything weird to it. I remember this exact problem from at least 6 years ago, on many different computers. I thought this was just how it was.
> But a colleague of mine says hunger will drop my metabolic rate and I should avoid it by eating regularly.

That's bullshit though. Humans never lived with abundance of food around them until very recently. Your body is made to help you sustain hunger for hours and hours.
Better article here:

https://www.theinfographicsshow.com/musk-starship-starlink-c...

> "Jamming attacks are common threats to wireless communications and happen when a hostile device creates radio signals that disrupt communications by decreasing the Signal-to-Inference-plus-Noise ratio (SINR)."

> "Possible ways that a software update can help bypass a jamming attack is if the jamming device is targeting a particular frequency. The software can implement FHSS or DSSS, Frequency Hopping / Spreading Sequences of frequencies for anti-jamming purposes. However, FHSS or DSSS, frequency distribution type of protection against jamming is flawed. It is ‘limited by a common assumption that the jammer can jam only part of the communication channels or has a limited transmit power.'"

That article points to this report, which discusses all kinds of novel ways to defeat such attacks, like using counter-jamming as a means of delivering bits between sender and receiver, bit synchronization schemes, and others:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1051122.pdf
As someone who recently left a security job at a very prestigious and well known organization.. The person you're replying to isn't wrong. Certifications only prove that you took the time to memorize a set of concepts.

> CISSP is much more consistent and predictable and known than random sampling of leetcode questions

Even the CISSP is just a test of memorization - The ISC2 cert prep book is 10 miles long, but only about 5 feet deep (if that makes any sense).

Being a good security engineer comes with experience and knowledge of basic scams such as caller ID spoofing (something I did to my friends as a bored 6th grader). Being a good security engineer is having a keen eye for small changes and being skeptical about EVERYTHING.

Any security engineer worth their salt would never discuss anything containing PII on an inbound phone call.
What? You believe 50% of residential buildings in Ukraine have been destroyed?
> But I try to never say "yes" or "no" when they ask if something is right, I respond with "That is correct" or "That is not correct". That may be me being too paranoid of people editing the conversation to make it look like I agreed to something I didn't.

It's not overly paranoid. https://www.ag.state.mn.us/consumer/Publications/CanYouHearM...

> The details of this scam vary, but it always begins with a call, usually from a telephone number that appears to be local. When the person answers the call, the scam artist tries to get the person to say “yes”—most often by asking, “Can you hear me?,” “Is this the lady of the house?,” or a similar question. By responding “yes,” people notify robo-callers that their number is an active telephone number that can be sold to other telemarketers for a higher price. This then leads to more unwanted calls.

> In some cases, the caller may record the person saying “yes.” Scam artists may be able to use a recorded “yes” to claim that the person authorized charges to his or her credit card or account.

Used to be used a whole bunch for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramming_(fraud) back in the days when you could subscribe to things via your phone bill.
This is my MO for unknown numbers these days (which I only answer when I have a reasonable expectation of getting a call from a new contact). Automated systems will just disconnect when they think they got a dead line. Humans will go, "uh, hello?"
There is much doubt about the correlation of CISSP certificate holders and good security engineers.
Well, the trick is that the confidence intervals overlap, and do so pretty heavily. So, while on average they may have lost more, their test group size was either quite small or had high variability such that it could come down to randomness that one group lost more than the other.

At the end of the study they had 61 in calorie restricted and 57 in intermittent fasting. So, not huge groups. And looking at their confidence range knowing their numbers, it likely means on both sides multiple people lost 7kg on both sides.

I didn't see a way to download that study to get the raw data, which would also be helpful, as I think it would also be useful to look at % body fat loss, etc.
How is it that programmers are still discovering state-of-the-art algorithms?

I just assumed Einstein-tier people had discovered all the optimal ways to do things by now.

Do you have a process for coming up with these improved algorithms, or does it just start from a passing thought in your mind?
I think Greenwald's characterization of the letter's contents is a bit disingenuous. The letter makes the claim that recently proposed legislation that would enforce non-discriminatory access would do so in a way that would include foreign adversaries.

Greenwald takes that and elevates the claim to, "Any attempts to restrict Big Tech's monopolistic power would therefore undermine the U.S. fight against Moscow."

The letter makes no such claim. This amounts to a straw man.

Greenwald goes on to rail at the signees for the letter claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation, but while the NYT recently apparently confirmed the genuine nature of Biden's laptop, that letter was still well-founded at the time. A thing can be genuine and have the hallmarks of developed disinformation.

I think Greenwald is being intellectually dishonest.
> Duh? The reasonable mechanism of action for IF is that it's a tool to consume less calories.

That's not the only reasonable mechanism.

Even with the same calorie intake, there are other suggested mechanisms. For example altering glucose metabolism, shift from lipid synthesis to the using of of fat and other effects related to breaking body weight homeostasis.
In 2000 I wrote a script that helped somebody register 1500 domains.
For peopled areas, chickens do an amazing job clearing the ticks. They mainly need somewhere to sleep safely at night and can take care of themselves in groups during the day.
I suspect a key word in the phrase GP was reacting to is "ultra". Is it some level of privilege to have parents lend you an outdoor shed's worth of space for your startup while you go $30K into credit card debt? Sure. Is that "ultra-privileged"? I don't think so.
The fastest tool for querying JSON files is *not* written in Python (revised)
While I always suspected this result to be true, there are many extraordinary claims about the importance of fasting with scientistic explanations (I've seen claims that it works because of different insulin levels, ketosis, blood sugar effects etc.).

So, this study at least puts some of these ideas to rest (if it can be replicated of course, which is not necessarily a given in nutrition "science").
CI and CD are different things: you can use CI without CD, e.g. when you have manual process of deployment (if CD is continuous deployment) or long waterfall-like development cycles (if CD is continuous delivery).

In highly secure environments CD may not be possible at all, because of formal processes of verification and manual processes of deployment (e.g. I once worked in a project, where deployment process involved copying build artifacts from CI server to an authorized flash drive and papers signed by customer).
That is a false argument. Usually US military solves their military targets quite effectively. The failing parts are usually tied to the flawed logic in the political goals they are activated to accomplish. I say this as a foreigner observing them for 50 years. The US military cannot compensate for flawed US political goals, eg bombing some democracy into appearing. And they dont set those goals.
E.g. the balkan conflict in the 90s was not handled until the US bombed the serbs, and it worked.
Hey, OctoSQL[0] author here.

This is an updated benchmark originally posted a week ago[1] and is a bit of an update to the assertion made at that time.

It now includes clickhouse-local, which is very very fast, as well as a new release of OctoSQL where I tackled some low hanging fruits to get a huge boost in performance (happy to expand in case somebody's interested). Both resulted in substantial changes to the overall picture painted by the benchmarks.

[0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31004563
"Yes, yes. I meant PRACTICAL algorithm experience."
>Although I can understand the need to fight money laundering

I fucking can't. It's the banks themselves laundering on the large scale and they just pay a fine that's less than what they make doing it. If little people wanted to launder money they've got cash and crypto. All this does is fuck normal people over. If I hadn't moved somewhere I make more than twice the median salary working remote I would have been homeless after Truist did something similar to me.

As to fighting "money laundering." That's completely fucking retarded. Make the actual crime illegal and go after criminals. Put them in jail if you need to. The idea that no one can have privacy (or even functioning banking, bitcoin works better than this) because some people are poorly behaved is completely braindead.
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How many times are life scientists going to rediscover the first law of thermodynamics before we can stop having this conversation?
Good points. There's probably no way for any contemporary design to capture that historical contextual element of brutalism (or modernism in general), that was a stance particular to that period of time, you can't have that same stance toward the past/future now with an extra 100 years of past behind us and what has happened in it...

(And of course it should be said that both Italian and German fascist architecture could also be big into modernism, and a "concept of the future that is fearless", and even in some ways "lacks nostalgia". Fascism is nothing if not contradictory.)

I still think there's something notable about the "draw attention to it being a computer screen" that is notable about the designs in OP -- that OP doesn't actually discuss much -- whether or not we call it "brutalism". Interestingly though, I also want to say it kind of wants to draw attention to it's artificiality in a way that seems very contrary to brutalism. Perhaps since the computer screen is such an artificial "simulacrum" kind of environment in the first place, to draw attention to it's true nature is to promote a kind of artificiality, when to draw attention to the true nature of a physical building was in the 20th century thought of as a dismissal of artifice.

Anyway, this is maybe getting pretty far afield, but interesting stuff!
Yes - that is really good.
I've often answered calls from unknown numbers with "This is Security" in my most formal voice. Nowadays, I don't answer unknown numbers at all.
A transparent webm probably would have worked for your use case. Or if you were willing to rebuild the animation, it looks simple enough for SVG.
They were managing this by having a strict diet as well. In the study both groups were on calorie counting, just one also had a time window as well.
Its literally about working class Egyptians getting easier access to music production and consumption because of cassette tapes. Had it been about Ableton it would really have been misleading as it would have had nothing to do with class tensions and control over cultural activity.
A corollary to Sturgeon's Law: 90% of any given field is shit at their job. I've met a lot of "Security Engineers" and I can assure you the pattern holds.

Then again, even the other 10% of any given field that is actually good at what they do still fucks up occasionally, so maybe we needn't judge too harshly.
> We can't pay as much on gov dime

It's just taxes, we definitely could.

The fact that we don't has a lot more to do with government culture and a post-Reagan idea that the government should be a thin and highly reactive operation than the money not being there.
It doesn't. to me.
At least you're honest in your nihilism.

I prefer to live in a world where people at least try to navigate grey areas.
I don't think that's the reason. It's simply that with an essentially clean room platform, Apple has the opportunity to harden the security. While with the existing Intel platform, people are used to doing certain things that Apple didn't want to break.

Apple still sells models with Intel CPUs. People who buy them presumably don't want their existing workflow to break, and are willing to buy an old generation of CPU to get that.
Yes, and I love the minimal pricing of both. Just paying for real compute time; even calling an API pauses the pricing while it waits for a response.
Cheech & Chong: "and I only know 4 chords!"

Its amazing how sparse a representation of a song can be recognizable (and enjoyable!) The mapping of musical meaning is due for a new look; the way we talk and write about sound needs to be rationalized before we can progress further in understanding why and how it works.
Great point about muscle memory, I found it fascinating to learn Spencerian as it kind of distills the essence of writing to a surprisingly low number of forms (7 or 8 I think?), a kind of local optimum for Latin-based cursive. The hardest thing for me to learn about it, with which I still struggle, is keeping the arm posture correct and using the upper, rather than lower, part of the arm for control.

I also found it really interesting to discover that the prescribed 52 degree writing angle for Spencerian is almost exactly what you get matching the diagonal on an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper (I'm surprised that's not more widely known!). Thus, rather than a difficult and seemingly arbitrary requirement, it's a super easy way of attaining consistency by simply rotating the page so its diagonal goes straight away from the writer. (If you're using US Letter paper, anyway)
OTA a satellite like a gansta.
This is a real problem in my current place (huge monorepo, 100+ devs, 100+ merges per day).

Like others said, "merge queue" is the solution. GitHub's one has been in beta for many months now.

There are also dedicated companies doing this like
https://mergify.com/

But there's several tricky aspects like "what if I want some commit to jump in front of queue?", compliance etc.

Due to the multitude of requirements and off-the-shelf solutions being somehow limited, infra folks in my place are considering building a custom solution :)
I asked a similar question and it mentioned crimea so it could be this.
I started doing this a few months ago, and the number of spam calls I've gotten from certain area codes that used to call me without fail at least three times a day has dropped considerably.
I saw this before. It shows that a lot of behavior may be just mechanics. It explains the left in any case. :P
I do not see a problem with you taking over the domain. The respectful thing to do is to permanently erase the previous owners files without reading them.

There is no need for you to memorialize the deceased owner. In fact, I think it would be disrespectful to do so.

When my wife was dying, she explicitly asked me to permanently delete her emails. I did this with great sadness, but I did not read them out of respect for her wishes.
> In the US, you can't sell as "new" anything that has even a single "used" part in it.

Do you have a source to back up this claim?
This study was merely a step in validating and adding credibility to "yeah, calories in-calories out is still the most important factor in determining weight and other health markers." The complexity of the human body shouldn't be turn into something trivial, as your comment suggests. There's a lot of people that studied/studies how the complex web of neurons impact health and well-being, and they added value to the literature. Let's not trivialize the exploration and appreciation into how complex the human body is.
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> Junior folks bring ...

... arrogance, hunger for prestige and one-upmanship which leads to fixation on irrelevant outcomes, laziness in learning "old things", and rejection of instructions.

But old folks can also do these things.
Eric Reinholdt has some worksheets for practicing architectural handwriting available for pay what you want: https://30x40.gumroad.com/l/VUsKl
You can likewise argue that all the world is a bunch of polynomials or whatever based on Taylor series. It's not particularly informative.
What's weird is, this is the sort of thing that many (not all) average people know because it materially happens to them. It doesn't even rise to the level of elementary professional knowledge that you'd expect of all but only of professionals.
It only does that by installing a bunch of pre-compiled shared libraries

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/
Mining Secrets
Many areas are without power, and most of those same areas are without cell service.

Look at a live twitter geolocation heatmap and it becomes pretty clear which areas are 'offline'.
Like most science reporting, the headline is a bit over-the-top, but the article is pretty straightforward. You need to consider here the control/counter-factual -- [time fasting + restricted calories] vs [restricted calories]. And both groups lost on average a decent amount of weight, it was just about the same weight on average.

Personally I do fasting as a mechanism to restrict calories (I would definitely snack more at night). It is ok if it doesn't have other metabolism benefits.

I will say I think the certainty in the interviewed scientists is a wee bit strong for my taste. There is obviously quite a bit of potential treatment heterogeneity in the population (i.e. some things work for some people and not for for others, behavioral interventions are hard).

This looks like a high quality small N for a decent followup, but you can't really look variance in treatment effects for only a few hundred observations. So definitely does not invalidate any personal experimentation someone has done and shown to be effective for themselves.
I'm skeptical of the benefits claimed for non-diabetics: the 15% difference in median survival time between metformin-using diabetics and control "non-diabetics" may just indicate undiagnosed diabetes in the control population. The abstract doesn't say how the controls were selected, whether they were verified to not have diabetes or were simply people with no diabetes diagnosis.
Conversely, my neighborhood on Cape Cod is absolutely overrun by bunnies, to the point where we could probably use a few cats to keep things in balance.

Things used to be more reasonable, but as more people started living here full time, it seems the foxes were pushed back out of the immediate neighborhood.

Disturbingly, our dogs have a knack for finding nests and tossing around the baby bunnies, apparently without any intention to kill and eat them. They sound EXACTLY like squeak toys.
Well, today is one day... :) You didn't hint at the reason for saying that, but please don't hesitate to apply if you're at all interested.[1]

It would make more sense to say "financial data organization", which then makes it a bit more obvious why we'd have a whole lot of employees (6,500+) in Engineering compared to a typical "financial organization" making money primarily by participating in the public/private markets.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/
If your card is stolen and you become a victim of fraud, and they manage to take money from your account, and your bank already knows its fraud, there's no urgency on your end.

You'll get your money back. I'd go as far as saying that if the bank genuinely wants you to decide fast, it's not to protect you. It's to protect itself. Shenanigans about "do it fast or they'll take more" are bullshit always. The bank is on the hook, not you. So never do things in a rush, take your time to verify yourself that money indeed disappeared. There. is. no. urgency.

Sense of urgency is one of the best ways to make people do bad decisions. Salespeople use it, scammers use it. Nobody who is trying to be helpful will come with a story "that needs to be fixed now!!!".

If you still want to be safe, and you use a debit card, have 2 accounts. One with the bulk of your money without a card associated with it. One with the card associated with it and no more than whatever you spend in a week. If you use a credit card, it totally doesn't matter, it's the banks money, not yours that they'd steal.

So whenever you find yourself in a situation where someone wants you to decide something fast that you didn't know about and isn't a direct threat to your life, don't do it. Think about it first.

It's impossible to keep up with all the scams, but if you stop to think and never take rash decisions you don't have to. Slow is safe.