skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see much of a downside to a light, quick exploration of a new tool and a writeup shared publicly. While this could have been a (very long) blog post, it seems like arXiv is a good place for this "report of findings".
A U.S. Recession, Are We There Yet?
Do dread things like one on ones with other engineers?

I feel like I don’t equally care about most people so managing them would be so hard.

So I’ve stayed away from management.
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers
Bruce Schneier always used the term 'snake oil' for such unfounded buzzwords and frequently did naming and shaming on his blog.

But military-grade is just a buzzword. Unlike something like MIL-SPEC there is no body that determines what is military grade. And even MIL-SPEC is not very specific, most of its standards have many components that don't apply unless the vendor specifically certifies for it.

But yeah most vendors that use such terminology demonstrate a very poor understanding of the technical principles and use their marketing buzzwords to make up for it.
“Mansplaining” is a sexist term.
You should meet my sister, she always knows better.
There is a lot to be skeptical about in this story.

I seriously doubt they have 3B unique devices, and are instead counting the same devices several times under different ids from different sources. They aren't remotely tracking 3B devices in "real-time" sourcing data in this way. And even if they were, I guarantee they don't have the technical infrastructure to land that data. The "geofencing NSA and CIA" shtick was old news a decade ago, much cleverer things were already being done.

This is marketing targeted at people that know nothing about this kind of business. There are literally dozens of mediocre companies doing the same thing with the same kinds of press releases.
One of the few topics that makes me genuinely question my Pinkerian "you can't stop progress" tendency.
> So they end up with a dictionary word with a digit on the end and have no way to know that they have not actually protected anything

a dictionary word with common letters substituted with a number, case-sensitive, and one or two punctuation.. that is "not protected anything" ? .. almost any two dictionary words put together, not even case sensitive also "not protected anything" ? the out-of-breath security analysis is bothersome and lead us to mandatory ten characters of garble and other extreme anti-user patterns.. I am looking at a stack of forty accounts with passwords as an ordinary library user.. not convinced of this expert analysis today
For what it’s worth this is addressed in the linked video at the 6 minute mark.

The presenter shows a slide with an online post saying: “cryptography marketed as military grade is often to crypto what military music is to music”

The use in the title is almost certainly self aware and tongue in cheek.
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> but consequently can only really be used for cattle feed

Spoiler: most agriculture goes to supporting industrial livestock farming.

It doesn’t change the economics. The ethanol mandate is horribly stupid.
Besides the practicality mentioned by the sibling commenters, there's also the limits part. Google/Apple Pay don't suffer from the low limits physical cards have for contactless payments ( it was 20 euros pre-pandemic here, now it's 50 or 100). Your phone having biometric auth is considered enough by banks to not have limits.
I was talking about energy demand, sunday doesn't differ that much from monday, contrary to what you think. The time of day matters much more. You can verify this yourself by looking at CISOs demand graphs.

Why does this article give false hope? It just reports on a first time ever?
To me, TODOs are the equivalent to keeping thousands of tasks in a growing backlog. It just adds noise for stuff that probably won't be addressed ever. And if it is addressed, chances are that it will be from a new task. Just forget it! If it's important, it will come back on its own.

I just don't write TODOs in my code, as I have never seen a useful TODO in a codebase... The worst being "TODO: improve this". Sounds like a way to say "I wrote shitty code, I know it, please merge it anyway", which is completely useless IMO.
Is an uncovered pool still legal in California?
"American companies more frequently break EU law because they're used to the US regulatory environment, which is so loose that in many areas it may as well not exist."

There's little doubt that this is true. Given US history from independence onward, the question is why does the US environment so often favor corporate rights and protection for corporations over that of freedoms and interests of individuals. It seems to me that the reality of US governance (its emphasis) is the reverse of what one would expect.

The only conclusion I can come to is that citizens in the US democracy have effectively considerably lower representation than do corporations through some systemic problem with their democracy. That's to say the reality is not one vote per person but effectively each citizen's vote is worth much less than that.

Why is it thus?
I like to make fat clients with service workers and depend on the server a minimal amount. Helps keep server speeds fast and utilizes all that local processor capacity so the user doesn't have to wait for network latency.

For things that require actually waiting, prefer progress bar first and basic spinner when it's not practical.
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> I am much more keen on the "ADHD as as social construct" theory than I am on the "ADHD as a medical condition" theory.

It is both a medical condition and a social construct. If you tweak one, it is not a problem anymore. The problem? No one provides anyone this choice.
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Same. I also once had a woman say the exact same thing I'd said earlier, in a meeting, and get credit for the idea (which the company adopted).

Not a big deal, I just thought it was funny to have such a stereotypical sexism-in-the-workplace thing happen to me, as a guy.
You mention «the bad stuff»; an instance is the typical of the externalities: pollution. The polluter, "juridical person", is responsible for it. «Paying taxes» in general to allow "having somebody else fix it" is not a responsibility relief - it is not the payment of a specific service.

The mentioned «programmer», "person matching individual", is responsible for his actions as well - though it is not clear how such mention of the «programmer» fits the context.

If with the original post you wanted to stress that "things are not as clear-cut as it seems (and it's best to refine one's views instead of prematurely embracing position and emotion)": I would surely agree - that's what I also noted in my earlier post.
It's completely seamless after initial setup on Arch Linux. No scripts, copying, or anything. It just works for years. I almost forgot it exists.
Most of the points you have there are far detached from material reality. I sincerely hope you remedy your knowledge and your mindset.
Those "Stop dumping water in the ocean" signs are a direct result of the Resnick's marketing efforts to grow nuts in the California desert. You may not be familiar with the Resnick name, but you are probably familiar with some of their brands.[0]

[0]https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...
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The networking industry hires a ton of tech writers to write manuals. Admittedly the quality has dropped like a rock over the last 10 years.
Well, there's NSA certified devices (Type 1, Type 2, etc) which are military grade. Something using AES correctly could be a Type 3 device.. "when appropriately keyed" :-)
People laughed at Stallman calling
mobile phones 'tracking devices',
yet he was proven correct time and time again. Even with limited data,
there are methods to reconstruct all locations and activities.
How about brokering a peace deal? Which is more important, American pride or feeding your family?
I did this. And I'm one of the more successful people in this endeavour.

I studied mechanical engineering from a Tier 3 college in India. I wanted computer science but I didn't qualify for the program because of my scores in the exam. I joined mechanical engineering and kept coding as a hobby for the first year. I abandoned it in the second year. The only thing closely related to tech that I had going for me was that I'd just started using Linux in my second year. This was 2007 and I started using Linux Mint 7 Gloria.

I completed my engineering with decent scores, but that didn't matter since I could only get a job at a motorcycle factory after some tarnished dreams of studying for my master's. I worked in a factory for 3 years and finally ended up working for a monster who made me loathe the field. I left that field and moved to an e-commerce website that needed a content writer. I had aspirations of being a published writer, having written 2 books, and I thought this was a fine way to segue into the field. I was hired as a content writer for the books team at Flipkart. I joined, and began to love my job.

I was more computer savvy than most of my peers already. The others were struggling with some work related to Google Spreadsheets and I took it upon myself to improve the process. I didn't realize what an effect that would have on me.

I learnt how to write Excel macros. But that didn't scale for the catalogue dumps we would get every 15 days. So i learnt Python after talking to a friend at IBM, and I built a smallish desktop application using PyQt4 and MySql. It was super fun and I learnt a lot.

I left the company because they wouldn't give me a chance to be a real developer, and I worked for a mechanical engineering company called GKN where I began writing small tools for mechanical engineers to use. I stayed there for 3 years and worked myself to the bone. I was in a silo since I was the only developer there. I mostly did Python and React.

I eventually moved out, and joined Visa, with a huge imposters syndrome. And as I joined Visa, I also started going to meetups and conferences. It was in this time that I discovered just how good a programmer I am.

My salary today, 10 years later, is 400x my first salary. It has grown ridiculously to say the least.

Yes it is possible. And no you do not need to pay a thing to pivot. All you need is time, and dedication.

The only things going for me were an insatiable need to learn, and an interest in computers.
As a reminder Skq1 solves world hunger however like most scientific revolutions, nobody will use it.
It multiply by two plants growth rate.

https://www.dissercat.com/content/biotekhnologicheskie-osnov...
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2095713A1/en
Ah yes downvote because key knowledge nobody knows should keep being ignored otherwise it could.. save life's? Imagine the horror!
The product website uses "military grade" all over the place in the marketing materials. Certainly not tongue-in-cheek. See https://www.encsecurity.com/solutions.php and search "military".
It would be an interesting experiment to see where along the path some of these details are lost. For example, in the experiment where they ask for a pear cut into 7 slices, and Dall-E often gives the wrong number. First check if you can train a classifier on CLIP embeddings of the caption to recover the specified number. If so, check if you can do the same for the image embedding the prior produces. Then check if you can do it for unCLIP's internal feature maps, and so on. Similar experiments could be conducted for other lost attributes like object relationships (on top, behind, etc.) or specific identities (Lincoln, Washington, etc.) .
giant human habit -> points to -> giant portion of humanity; hilarity ensues
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The MOOC nand2tetris was designed exactly for this purpose.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
IBM was selling service contracts too, which increased their incentive to make the machines last. Some businesses (and governments) would still be willing to shell out the money for that kind of quality.
[US centric] It feels like we're almost there between usps.gov and login.gov, someone at USDS just needs to make the equity and digital access case to get the funding to build out the app. The current administration has already expressed its position on federal service delivery improvements [1], and frankly, USDS/18F has a track record of crushing it. This would go hand in hand with the USPS slowly making its way to being a meatspace trust anchor/identity proofing|credentialing provider [2]; problem with your email account? Get help in person at your local USPS.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

[2] https://www.cfr.org/report/solving-identity-protection-post-...
I'm going to say two words I want you to keep in the back of your mind.

Great Lakes.
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Here’s a fun way to decide. Do Raytracing in One Weekend[1] in one of them. Then rewrite it again in the other. That should give you a good sense for which one you want to invest in.

Spoiler: I did this exercise myself. I found Rust to be more convenient in some ways. The Rayon crate made adding parallelism (threads) pretty easy. Some other crates made things pretty terminal output easier.

C++ feels more familiar to me in many ways though - I also write C fairly often. Implementing parallelism was more difficult. (I tried `pragma omp` stuff which should work similarly to Rayon, but couldn’t get it to work.) But just getting something working seems a little more straightforward.

I find myself fighting Rust somewhat often. In C/++, if you know what you’re doing, and you just want something working as a fun side project, it usually takes less dev time in my experience. Maybe that’s because I’m still learning it. Some folks will argue that the Rust compiler forces you to write better code and actually makes dev faster because it catches your mistakes. I haven’t found this to be true.

For example trying to implement simple polymorphism in Rust that was analogous to the implementations in Raytracing Weekend got ugly very fast. I ended in a weird hell of having to add annotations to everything to support generics. Again maybe I don’t understand the language enough, but adding polymorphism was a 5-minute straightforward exercise in C++, even as someone who doesn’t write it often.

I like a lot of stuff about Rust but I’m doing my hobby dev stuff in C instead nowadays, mostly for dev speed like I said, and probably would opt for using a subset of C++ for higher-level projects.

[1] https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
Pointer Compression in V8 (2020)
On the other hand, male experts are victims of mangettingcalledretarded.
Dunno if this interests you at all, but I would gladly pay for this. A minimal blogging service which handles hosting, export of data (if needed), and basic styling is something I've been looking for for awhile. All the large platforms feel way too bloated and complicated.

Just made an account and excited to try it out, but if you ever decide to charge folks, you wouldn't lose me! Also just seeing that you say some folks sponsor the project; I'll take a look at that!
As with any engineering problem, the harder you push some constraints the more you'll have to pay with others. A university-scale cafeteria could greatly reduce food waste by fetching the food off of the plates the customers are done with and putting that food back into the cafeteria for the next customers. But there's reasons that's several violations of the health code. Something has to give at some point.