skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes you wonder, how badly are the secret fighter jet programs intended to compete with the F-35 or similar stealth planes actually going?

The MIG-25's capabilities were famously misinterpreted by western intelligence, resulting in the creation of the F-15 Eagle. Undoubtedly similar confusions resulted in the F-22 program through the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...
A weather satellite accidentally caught Betelgeuse dimming
Only about a dozen states ban employer questions about arrest records outright. More states have no restrictions on it at all. Another set of states bans asking about expunged or sealed records, but anything else is fair game.

Among the ones who have partial bans they range from "No, unless you run a bank and the arrest was for alleged fraud or bank robbery" to "Basically yes, unless it's a really old arrest and the salary is below a threshold."
All credit card fraud is not created equal. He didn't steal any physical goods, nor did he steal anyone's credit card. He stole some hours of internet connection, which probably didn't cost the ISP that much. Not saying it is totally fine, but it really isn't that bad.
The other scenario is the person "sitting it out" is being viewed as an ally/play piece of someone else who IS playing the game. Other people may even be saying they represent your interests in the games they are playing because you aren't speaking up for yourself.

If you aren't using your political capital, other people will use it for you.

How often have you heard "X person agrees with me about this" at the office?
Indeed, a similar "secure" crush confession on an MIT facebook group was exploited in this way, by brute forcing every name in the student directory.
Database software often will create automatic indexes based on the queries it gets. Even SQLite has this:

https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html#autoindex

If your db is read-mostly, manually adding a bunch of indexes based on a statistical analysis of actual queries might be useful. If you have a lot of writes it becomes a tricky balancing act because every index has the potential to slow down writes while speeding up reads.
ag, comm plus plus military use
I don't know the precise answer, but from the article the sensor sets the coldest point in its graph range to 0 and calculates everything else from that. Given that the sensor is probably the most expensive part of this system, I bet that the FPGA or CPU that's running it is struggling to keep up with scanning 10,000 points 7 times a second to find the reference low to calculate everything else from.
If you're worried you might have narcissitic tendencies, don't worry too much: a real narcissist would never entertain such a notion.

this is literally not true, research indicates narcissists know they are narcissistic

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beautiful-minds/2011...

http://www.simine.com/docs/Carlson_et_al_JPSP_2011a.pdf
Biden just canceled $5.8B in student loans. More borrowers could see relief soon
It looks like this is not for an interview at Google but something more generic. You can question what Google knows about the interview-in-general, but that's a different story...

I hope people who built this were more aware of the various reputations the Google interview process has had, and made it clear it's not for covering the peculiarity.

(A Google employee, knows nothing about this.)
Oh sure, I agree in general. Though I think I'd have a hard time going back to WebOS now. The memory is likely better than the reality.
Well it's not always bad. I've seen it happen before and they are now happily married :) (Though being a couple at work is kinda weird).
Hmm yes, really sad situation here, I hope people change
https://caniuse.com/?search=speech%20recognition

It should definitely be messaged in the UI, but firefox unfortunately wouldn't support this webapp at the moment.
What's the evidence that bacteria smeared around on an otherwise visibly "clean" kitchen counter, or dust kicked up from your carpet (which is largely human skin cells anyway) is actually harmful or "unsafe"?

A relative of mine is a 70 year old widower. He's a huge slob and after his wife died 10 years ago, he really doesn't bother to ever clean his house or his kitchen. It's not depression, he's just never been a particularly neat or clean person and simply doesn't care beyond an extremely minimal level. He is in great health and never gets sick, whether from food poisoning or anything else.
> We’ve built so much sprawl that it’s difficult to make an efficient transport system that makes the types of trips that people now want to make.

Yeah, the American desire to have a large grassy lawn surrounding their house means density is far too low to make public transit viable.
"The 2017 Wichita swatting occurred on December 28, 2017, in Wichita, Kansas, United States. The incident began as an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill, regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII. During the dispute, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted, and Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was occupied by an uninvolved person, Andrew Finch. Viner then asked Tyler Barriss to make the required fraudulent call to initiate the swatting. Wichita Police responded to the address, and as Finch was exiting his house, police officer Justin Rapp fatally shot him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
Outside of America, maybe, but most people in America live close to a gas station or a highway intersection.

My income quote comes from a gas station in a backwater town in the deep woods of Alabama, and I'm not a great guitarist or something amazing worth throwing money at.
Thanks. I learned it from an Udemy course [0]. Took just a couple of weeks to pick up. Regarding overlays, Sketchbook supports the idea of layers. I simply put different elements in the illustration in different layers. Sketchbook gives me PSD files that can be imported in GIMP. I then export many PNG files by progressively selecting more layers in GIMP. These PNG files go into Beamer like this:

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics<2>[width=0.35\textwidth]{images/shop/1.png}%
\includegraphics<3>[width=0.35\textwidth]{images/shop/2.png}%
\end{figure}

The % sign is important and it maintains the correct positioning of the images.

[0] https://www.udemy.com/course/drawing-for-trainers-leaders-an...
Okay fair enough :) but some people on HN blame entire people or religion as if they are the perpetrators. Like it’s affecting my mental health, can’t stop thinking of people blaming my religion for it. I am sad
It's difficult to believe this was going to continue on wards as SRAM bought Hammerhead, it was only a matter of time before Shimano decided not to support a competitor product.
Granted, maybe I'm better at keeping up w/ my cables than most people, but it's not like my mechanically shifted bikes are ever bad at shifting....and "charged every few weeks" is a big "aside"...unless they make a battery that can be charged in about the same time it takes to pump up my tires, it's an extra cognitive load to keep track of the charge vs. just hopping on the bike and riding.
Twitter says waiting period for Elon Musk’s deal has expired
Which leads to the next unavoidable step which is sharp reductions in meat consumption.
So much nostalgia. Good music in those games as well
> to Google it's an unsolved problem?

It's an unsolved problem for anyone.

> Why can I identify spam at a glance, with greater than 90% accuracy

I don't think you understand how terrible even 99.998% accuracy is at their scale.

> They probably have the worlds largest and highest paid staff of ML experts, and they resort to auto-flagging based on IP address?

You think they aren't using them for this? IP addresses very likely go into their model as well, when determining something is spam.

> Fix it.

They are and adversaries are breaking them again.
Solar and wind keep getting cheaper as the field becomes smarter
If you have these skills, a vague passion, and some time/cycles -- its your best interest to:

1. More learning

2. Seek out a local group aligned with your passions that can benefit from your skills See #1.

3. Contract work.

4. Side Hustle project per your passions, or whats gleaned from #1

5. Create a new thing, with your skills, and your passion, what can be built around such - where you require minimal inputs to output MVP/A Thing/etc

6. And finally - or even #0 --> build portfolio New Job.
If you would like some side-project ideas just for portfolios sake, based on the zero I know of your backend cap[abilities, Id be happy to provide some starter ideas - which are needed, but may not result in revenue - but can showcase your skills.
I got asked once about a time I disagreed with my manager. I talked about a time we differed on how to approach a problem, I made my case, but they asserted to do it their way. Since they were my manager, I did, and it worked well enough.

This did not play well during an interview. But idk, am I supposed to pretend I persuaded my boss to my side? Sometimes you gotta do what your boss asks even if you're not super jazzed about it.
I wonder how many systems actually track DKIM signatures over time, beyond just checking at the moment of email receipt.
I'm curious, what's eXoWin's size? I'd guess there are a lot of CD games included.
Ah! Perfect occasion to quote from the paragon of pacifism and morality.

“The ideal bhangi of my conception would be a Brahmin par-excellence, possibly even excel him. It is possible to envisage-the existence of a Bhangi without a Brahmin. But without the former the latter could not be, It is the Bhangi who enables society to live. A Bhangi does for society what a mother does for her baby. A mother washes her baby of the dirt and insures his health. Even so the Bhangi protects and safeguards the health of that entire community by maintaining sanitation for it. The Brahmin’s duty is to look after the sanitation of the soul, the Bhangi’s that of the body of society. But there is a difference in practice ; the Brahmin generally does not live up to his duty, the bhangi does willy-nilly no doubt.

But that is not all. My ideal bhangi would know the quality of night-soil and urine. He would keep a close watch on these and give a timely warning to the individual concerned. Thus, he will give a timely notice of the results of his examination of the excreta. That presupposes a scientific knowledge of the requirements of his profession. He would likewise be an authority on the subject of disposal of night-soil in small villages as well as big cities and his advice and guidance in the matter would be sought for and freely given to society.

It goes without saying that he would have the usual learning necessary for reaching the standard here laid down for his profession. Such an ideal bhangi while deriving his livelihood from his occupation, would approach it only as a sacred duty. In other words he would not dream of amassing wealth out of it. He would consider himself responsible for the proper removal and disposal of all the dirt and night-soil within the area which he serves and regard the maintenance of healthy and sanitary condition within the same as the summum bonum of his existence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

More: https://scribe.rip/@dalitdiva/why-it-is-time-to-dump-gandhi-...
Ask HN: What happens to the global financial system if the USA has a coup?
What do you think will happen to the global financial system if the United States has an actual coup in 2024?

I am curious what smart people think (hopefully someone with an economics background who studies this type of thing when they happen to other countries).

Background: It looks likely that far-right secretaries of state and governors will be elected in 2022 and in position to disrupt the 2024 presidential election. I hope this is unlikely but given the power they wield it also is "possible".

My main questions are:

What happens to the dollar as a reserve currency? How quick if there are changes would you anticipate those being made?

How does this impact the American and global economy the next month / year from your POV?
Enrolled! Went through the detailed lesson plan and you have done a great job structuring the course. I am looking forward to doing it over the weekend.

One suggestion: Instead of naming all the Jupyter notebooks "coding_exercise.ipynb", maybe name them differently? That way, they won't overwrite the previous download.
This is how ML training goes. My longest run was 2 months before it collapsed.
> Aside from all of the additional accounting/reporting/etc. burdens placed on publicly-traded companies, there are no differences in legal requirements between publicly-traded and privately-held companies.

Not sure why you mention this when everyone in the comments here insists that publicly-traded and privately-held companies are both included under "private company" in this discussion.

> The USPS can't refuse to deliver a postcard because they don't like what it says, for example.

Well, it actually must refuse if the receiver doesn't like it what it says. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_v._United_States_Post_Of... "the sender does not have a constitutional right to send unwanted material into someone's home"
150 plants in 15 years. There will definitely be at least one meltdown.

>China’s Climate Goals Hinge on a $440 Billion Nuclear Buildout

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...
I usually ask them to answer the questions back to me to see if it inspires a memory, and to give me some time to think about what mine was.

Edit: I say something along the lines of "Oof you put me on the spot now haha. What was one of yours? Maybe something comes back to me when I hear you"

I think people generally ask that in hopes to break the ice or to connect with the other person. So, either they will answer and it might nudge a memory (if they prepared/remember) or they'll blank as well and you'll have a laugh over the question and move on.

It's an interview, not an interogation! I know your livelihood depends on it, but being natural/relaxed helps your odds IMO; as it's less likely you'll get flustered or tilted. I realise this is easier said than done as I'm also plagued with anxieties and phobias, but I never saw interviewing as a stressful situation. At best, you get a job, at worst you forget about eachother in a few days lol.
You don’t need full synchronization if you’re not going cross threads. RefCell and the like don’t use atomic operations or barriers or anything fancy like that.
We do not have a monorepo, and you can practically watch the gears turn when we mention any process change that involves changing the CI scripts. And this part may be projection, but I am nearly certain I see people subconsciously avoiding solutions that involve systemic CI changes.

I got tired of making clerical errors or helping others fix theirs and went through and moved a bunch of configuration out of our CI configs into source control. So for my projects making changes is easier, but I still bump into mature projects that still have the old patterns because nobody even wanted to edit the configs one last time.
Fair point, but if you check the subreddit there are lots of similar anecdotes and the general sentiment of the commenters is that it is a common issue. I understand it isn't empirical data, but I don't know that that data exists outside of Tesla and I wouldn't really trust any data coming from them.
True, only has happened during the pandemic period
DroidGuard: A Deep Dive into SafetyNet
from your link:

"Renner stresses that although the algorithm derived the formulae, a human eye is needed to interpret the equations and understand how they relate to the movement of planets around the Sun."
I think this is the first time I've understood zero-knowledge communication.
I feel like Go was built with primary design considerations that are often not considered publicly and often at odds with what programmers want out of a language. I saw one of the first public talks from the creators at Google I/O and they stressed two things: compilation speed and new developers coming up to speed quickly. From what they said, Google had a few C++ projects with multi-hour compilation times that, when profiled, showed about 90% of the time was spent reading header files. So a core Go philosophy was single-pass compilation to cut down compile times as much as possible. Similarly they stressed that the focus on simplicity meant there wasn’t as much variation in style of Go code and new programmers—even those unfamiliar with Go—could quickly come up to speed and contribute to a project.

Viewed through this lens, the resistance on the part of the creators to changes that compromise these values even a little bit makes sense. Generics take time to get used to and any code base that makes extensive use of them will take longer to get up to speed in, even if it enables you to move faster later on.

That talk has really shaped how I look at Go. I think it solves problems that Google has (really large projects built by teams that have a ton of turnover) really well. But as with a lot of things that emerge from Google, it’s a solution to a problem that not too many other companies face. The ones that do will get an awesome tool that’s proven to work. But the ones for whom it’s 90% of what they need are going to get a lot of pushback getting that last 10% accepted because it already does almost exactly what Google needs it to do and any departure from that will be, in their minds, counterproductive.
It seems like an alternative might be to use induction to warm a small heat exchange device, then blow air through it so that extremely hot air similar to a gas flame comes out. Probably some engineering would be needed, but not that much. There are already serious problems with water vapor condensation from burning natural gas so this could potentially be a superior alternative with more opportunities for controlling the heat output.
Tangentially related, but we stepped on a rake by forwarding spam and malware emails to abuse@outlook.com.

These morons got our poor mail server blacklisted in some super-exotic way that required several days of escalations to sort out. Moreover, they did it more than once, several months apart, each time causing a week of non-deliverability problems, and it took us a damn long while to add 1 and 1 to see why it was happening. Stopped reporting the abuse to them after that and all is good now.
> But it doesn't have to be that way

Sure, if you want spam. Don't like it, get people to deploy DKIM, then the domains will be used for reputation purposes.

What the root comment says is BS, the industry uses these methods for a very real and practical reasons.
what are the potential abuse cases for recording your transactions on a public ledger?
Unavoidable Pyramids
You'd want to use asymmetric public key cryptography so that Bob could hash his message with Alice's public key, and it could only be decrypted with Alice's private key.
Putin’s war is just beginning
The UK has a Carbon tax of sorts, surprise surprise it worked.
I really don't understand how a company could distrust their employees as much as this to have a process and people in place to do all this crap. If they trust them that little, why are they even in business?

I can understand some industries might need it for some compliance thing. Law enforcement perhaps. But really some of the things that MS are tagging are completely arbitrary. Just the way you might want to leave, this is not something that could ever be associated with any kind of governmental compliance. It is simply not wrongdoing at all nor any indication of it.

I work closely with our insider threat team and they don't do anything preventative like this. They just investigate when allegations have been raised, and even then they are really hands-off in terms of internal comms. They have to get special permission to access that, showing proof of the allegations. They behave like the police would, get explicit permissions (akin to a warrant in law enforcement).

The process you describe is more akin to what an intelligence organisation would do, with dragnet surveillance. Totally not acceptable in a business environment IMO.
Putting sugar and other types of sweeteners together means it's a badly designed study
"Barriss, identifying himself as "Brian", claimed that he was at the residence at 1033 West McCormick Street, had fatally shot his father, and was holding family members at gunpoint. He asked if police were coming to the house, saying he had already poured gasoline all over the house and was threatening to set it on fire."

^ THAT is why the police shot. Not because someone had registered a domain name called "imakechildporn.com". They need a credible and imminent threat of violence. You can't just roll up on someone who might be hosting a "illegal website" and use that as a pretext to shoot first ask questions later.
That's certainly the conclusion I was expecting to read, yet the study found that sweetened coffee drinkers also had a lower mortality rate than the general population (albeit slightly less of an effect than with the unsweetened group).
Fair questions! Long before my time, but just before the shutdown, the community scraped the catalog metadata -- its been available in a well-known IPK since at least 2012. Because of how apps were built for webOS, and the amazing community around it, lots of sources are on GitHub or SourceForge. Many of the IPKs similarly came from community archives. Most of the media and SDK material came from the Wayback Machine, although some is still available on HP's servers. In the end, I drew from multiple sources, then had to write tools to compile it all together into a usable fashion.

I did reach out to some of the big name publishers, but was generally ignored. Because the content is for archival purposes, and there are some provisions for this in US copyright law, I decided to take the approach of removing content upon request, rather than trying to get affirmative responses from people who are either unreachable, or uninterested. To date, I've had one (very polite) take-down request, which I responded to immediately, and removed their content entirely from the archive. Today's post blew up a little more than I expected, so I may get more -- I'll respond to each appropriately.

Everything I've published is on GitHub or archive.org, and while I don't have as much spare time for it now, I'll do my best to keep it curated and within fair use. If you'd like to add some of your content to the archive (or have some of your content removed) I've posted my email a couple of times in this thread, or you can find it on the website.
No thanks, if you could leave me alone on linkedin that would be nice too. I don't want to take a phone quiz or jump through your hoops, you're just not that impressive to me.
Ultegra and Dura Ace DI2 is expensive. Vs. the cost of Campagnolo Veloce/Athena/Potenza or even Chorus. And ironically, you could get Campy easier during the pandemic than anything Shimano....
That's not necessary.

> Tencent’s online censorship team is led by the CCP’s Deputy Party Secretary.

https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/07/30/how-the-chinese-gover...
>Using a two-wave, multisource survey design and collecting primary data from 118 business units of a headhunting company in China

>>The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.

hoo-boy.
Shimano is notoriously anti consumer. I use 2x8 speed brifters. They actually work better than modern ones imo, because you can go into any gear from either front cog with no issue (supposedly this is a no no on larger gearsets). However, the rubber hoods are wearing apart because they are 20 years old, shimano stopped selling the parts, and no one makes a third party replacement. People on forums resort to buying new brifters and casting aside these perfectly good 2x8s that just have some worn rubber on them. I am getting by with some wraps of tape but its certainly not pretty looking.