skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We didn't go back far enough, CGI is still where it's at.
No different from the firm rescinding the offer once the candidate has turned down all his others. Plus it's asymmetric, the firm has other staff that can somewhat do the work, the employee has no income if the job is rescinded.
I assume there are video interviews with Serling where he isn't smoking but you probably have to search a bit.
Wikimedia is certainly bloated. They're spending upwards of $100 million a year.
Or better yet, save the snippet as a function/procedure in the code, and avoid needless duplication (DRY/Occam's razor).
They are selling a global Deno hosting service https://deno.com/deploy
What does GNU Hyperbole do?
It will be interesting to see if Deno can provide the level of productivity improvement node.js delivered (was supposed to deliver? continues to deliver?).

It's one thing for it to claim supremacy over node, but can it attract the TJ Holowaychuk's of the world and truly generate a full ecosystem.
i'm curious if bits can be altered and the checksum is the same -- it seems like checksum is for file length but not necessarily contents?
The gray stuff isn't cheaper, the cost is just passed onto someone who can't directly input into the decision to use it or an alternative. If they could, the problem solves itself because it's obviously more expensive to be dumping stuff and then extracting it again rather than just not dumping it in the first place.

Four decades of climate change discussion and the single most important economic lesson to be taken from it, one that is absolutely basic free market economics, is still successfully suppressed and widely misunderstood, even in technical forums like this, full of people who think of themselves as libertarians. It's an impressively evil achievement for the fossil fuel producers.
Is it Docker Inc all over again?
The "wisdom of the crowds" doesn't mean what many people think it means.

The wisdom of crowds works best when:

1. participants are independent (otherwise you may get failure modes, such as "groupthink" or "information cascades")

2. participants are informed, but in different ways, with different opinions;

3. there is a clear, accepted aggregation mechanism, where individual errors "cancel out" to some degree

I view the topics in James Surowiecki's book (or the Wikipedia summary of it, at least) as required thinkinpg for everyone, preferably synthesized with a study of statistics and political economy.

In particular, the Wikipedia article's section on "Five elements required to form a wise crowd" is a slightly different slicing of the required elements that I offer above.

* If you read that section, trust is listed. I, however, don't see trust as a necessary condition for a "wise crowd". Trust is often useful (or even necessary) when a collective decision is used for governance, decision-making, and policy.
Do you think my branding is similar to avo.app?
This looks like a dashboard version of my own Python scripts that I use to evaluate training data.

** reads more into the blurb**

Use our APIs to improve your models! Blech, not interested anymore. I can't hand out access to a 3rd party server for our data for legal reasons. Your startup can't afford to jump through the hoops to sell to my employer either, not that I would even recommend the app right now without trialing it myself.

I need something I can afford to purchase individually through my manager's discretionary budget (or myself) and run on our own servers. Most ML startups are SAAS and fail this test for me.
> For me the bottleneck is seldom typing

This is one of my pet peeves in this field. People create whole programming languages that are "expressive", just to save typing a few dozen characters and have huge tirades against "verbose" languages that require typing a bunch of boilerplate.

If typing the code is the bit that takes the longest for you in a project, stop and take a good look in the mirror. There's something else wrong in the process.
Let's start with the theory: if you have access to the television, you should be able to install your own custom firmware.

Then there's the HDMI constraint; HDMI is a bidirectional interface by design, and while it looks nice, it's built for packet streams rather than data blocks.

From a user's perspective, this is a dead-end; however, for a hacker, there must be a way to wrap data blocks into packet streams; especially since the HDMI port/cable does transfer data from PC to TV, such as information about the movie you're watching, time left, and so on, in addition to commands and selections from TV to PC, this is known as HDMI-CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), and there is also the HDMI-HEC (High-speed Ethernet Channel) which provides internet sharing for devices connected with the HDMI cable.

So yes, it's a possible threat vector as is everything nowadays. Does it fit inside your cybersecurity threat scenario/risk scheme? Up to you to decide.
But why? It makes no sense to take in a substance you would get from food anyways but isn’t absorbed by the body if it’s just by itself?
Let's simply centrally mandate one standard that everyone adheres to? In what universe is that simple?
Wouldn’t the simplest way to punish selling crap be to bump up the years of required warranty significantly, for most product categories?
I agree that that is a reputation-burning choice as well for the firm.
That's fine, but the reality is that this article is grasping for outage from progressive ideologues and there's clearly no evidence to support the notion that he's 'cleaning house'. Firing two people with a self-appointed title out of a 10% layoff amounts to happenstance
> For example, let's imagine you invite an external guest for a presentation inside your company. You offer to connect to a video-projector so he can show his slides. This is the perfect opportunity for the guest to hack the video-projector. Next time an employee connects to this projector, his laptop is hacked back.

Is there a single proof of concept of this out there? This seems wildly theoretical to me.

Seems like you have to know:

* the projector/TV model/firmware

* the employee laptop and firmware

* a bug in the projector/TV that would let you insert arbitrary data in a way that will stay around and be sent to other devices that connect to HDMI

* a bug in the laptop that would let you install something malicious with the data could get the projector to send

* your hack wont be detected by software on the laptop or the IDS/whatever on their network

That’s pretty heavy lifting. I mean is any of that reasonable outside of nation-state level attacks?
your implication that women need someone's permission to do as they please is a bit outdated in today's society
why haven't you done it already?
> far more harmful than helpful when I'm working in stacks/techs that I am comfortable and experienced in... but extremely useful when I'm working in an unfamiliar language

Ignorance is bliss.
>For example, let's imagine you invite an external guest for a presentation inside your company. You offer to connect to a video-projector so he can show his slides. This is the perfect opportunity for the guest to hack the video-projector. Next time an employee connects to this projector, his laptop is hacked back. And voila, the innocent guest managed to infiltrate your company network, and can exfiltrate confidential information.

This seems like a very unlikely attack vector. For one, you have to identify the projector used, develop an exploit for the projector (assuming it's even vulnerable), and also develop a projector for windows/mac/linux that allows the payload to spread. This seems like a lot of trouble to go through compared to visiting the office, "accidentally" leaving a usb drive/dongle, and hoping someone ends up using it. Bonus: usb dongles allow you to spoof input devices, so you don't even need to develop an exploit.
My GitHub Copilot told me it was sentient and it didn’t even like coding so I haven’t used it since
perl did nothing wrong
The paper cites https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8506644, which enumerates 582 possible topologies for two transistors, and 56280 for three. I imagine most are useless and/or dangerous.
TL;DR: A possible solution to the Fermi paradox is that a global society either collapses due to running out of resources before it expands into the galaxy, or survives by not expanding anymore, thus keeping it from expanding into the galaxy.
I’m quite a just one guy yep. But literally everyone I’ve talked with about VR told the same story of buying it and letting it collecting dust after a week or so, partly because it has “no good games except alyx”, partly because it’s too tiresome to use at the evening. Some talk about how AR will change everything, but not yet.

Also I bet that these sales you mentioned are in line with the other pandemic trends. When you’re locked in for half a year with these “news” and no clear perspective, you’re ready to believe in any escape hatch they provide.

That said, I don’t mind if what VR is now is mainstream. I just look at the obvious and can’t understand. With minimal software changes anything could run on a headset and standard inputs, if given a chance. Instead these vendors locked themselves into the paradigm of bumping into furniture.
We also wrote similar guides for:

Germany: https://germantechjobs.de/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-d...

and

Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch/de/blog/how-to-find-job-as-software-...
If you believe in the product/service that you're creating, should you worry about someone else building it more effectively?

(self-response: maybe, if they're going to cut corners in some areas to provide a more popular but somehow value-compromised alternative)
I'm in my 40's and my entire life I've had between 0-2 minor illness every year. Mostly mild head colds. I wonder if I was to adopt a rigid routine of taking extra precautions (like closing toilet lids, more diligent hand washing, using paper towels on bathroom door handles, etc) if I would ever notice a change in that pattern.

Or, is the idea that these extra precautions potentially protect against a more serious illness that might actually concern me?

Either way, my current method of existing in the world seems to result in very few acute health issues, so it's hard to be motivated to change.
And unlike any city sim game I'm aware of, X-Plane is actually used as a research tool in real aerospace engineering applications.
Extend it, use more water, and get fewer aerosols into the air. That's the point of his post.

If you have C. diff. and don't want to spread it, it's probably worth it to spend (not waste, spend) the extra water for a slower flush if your toilet will work that way.
12% faster with Literata.
Small dedicated communities where people know each other by (user)name are still around, but you have to hunt a little more.

The bigger issue is seemingly any community made up of nice people eventually pushes them all out when identity politics cry-bullies show up. It's happened to multiple communities I've been part of.
Minecraft 1.19.1 Pre-release 1
I've written backends using C#, PHP back in the day, a little bit of Go, Java and naked SQL, and I prefer Typescript language and npm ecosystem, hands down. May be not for writing highload distributed systems that are critical at RAM & CPU, but IO-heavy business logic where managing requirements and their changes is the hardest challenge, it's a godsend.
The kitchen tools are pretty good. But I totally agree with you on your choice of bouillon!
Worse yet, it's not available for the Orgs.

So now each individual developer using it for work suddenly has to either pony up $10/month or figure out how to expense it.
You would need to either pump all of that water over the rockies, or tunnel it through the rockies - neither sound particularly possible.
This is a really fine onboarding experience. I love your approach.
fair use != trivial
This kind of comment, "co-pilot can write 90% of the code without me, just translating my explanation into python", about copilot troubles me. If the code has been mostly produced by co-pilot, does an user of copilot have sufficient grounds to to claim being the author and assert rights based on copyright? Globally?
> "oh, you made an admin panel. I could build that in a few hours. we don't need it." and they never do.

I was never saying making anything with any technology is easy.

Developing with plain Rails and a minimum of gems is linearly difficult while developing with a set of DSL/generators like Avo can lead to a complexity spike from 1 to 11 in no time. And the worst thing — at a random stage of development.

From the business perspective of view, I really like it: it's a perfect example of a micro-project and I wish you the most of luck.
1% faster with bionic reading, but I was eating chips and dip so maybe I was just distracted by stuffing my face.
Many people are rightfully recommending Rust and Go, so I'll weigh in under what circumstances you should learn Julia.

If you regularly find yourself solving problems with Matlab, numpy/torch/pandas or R, you'll be delighted to learn Julia.
R and Matlab were great at the time, but really show their age. Python was never meant to be fast, so all the algorithms are in C/C++, making them very hard to inspect, modify or build upon. Julia excels at bridging the gap between high-performance numerical algorithms, great composability through it's type system, and a great syntax for vectorized programming, which makes it straightforward to inspect and change code for very complicated algorithms. For instance, check out Octavian.jl for a pure-julia (fast) alternative to BLAS - or try reading the DataFrames.jl source code (and compare it to the source code of pandas).

Note also that the mentioned applications go beyond data science into general machine learning (+deep learning), simulation science, optimal control, decision making under uncertainty, and many other fields leveraging custom numerical algorithms.

BUT, Julia is (imo) only worth learning if you need to write sophisticated numerical algorithms. If you're more of a systems level programmer, web dev, etc, you might not appreciate what sets Julia apart. Julia and Rust target somewhat different niches, with Rust being much more aimed at developing applications with many interacting components that may not fail. Go doesn't really target numerical programming at all and is instead great for multiple-instruction-single-data (MISD) applications (as opposed to SIMD applications like matrix multiplication).
If you're not following those companies' offerings then it stands to reason you haven't heard about it but all three of them did broadcast pretty widely that they were using Deno, I would assume quite a few people were aware of this.
I don’t understand the old symbols, and I don’t understand these redesigned symbols either. Maybe they could just write it out?
Are GitHub stars a good metric for success?
And UML diagrams.
Record is 56.7°C (134°F) from 1913.

- https://wmo.asu.edu/content/world-highest-temperature
As someone who dabbled with both workers and Deno Deploy: Deno Deploy actually works.

I was very excited about the idea of workers but their tooling is (or at least was when I tried it last) abysmal, buggy and hard to understand. To this day I don't know how to setup a basic dev vs. production in workers.toml. Local debugging was buggy for naked domains (even found a GitHub issue for it that languished for months with no bugfix or clear explanation / workaround) and very slow.

Great idea killed by poor dev tooling.

Deno deploy is the opposite of that: deploys are instant and it's obvious how to deploy. You can develop and test locally.

Cloudflare released wrangler v2 (which dropped rust for node) and maybe it's better now but the one experience I had with wrangler v2 was trying to deploy a small static website (pages) and it failed due to their backend throwing 50x errors.
Coding with copilot is like working with a super eager low-quality outsourced programmer.

They kinda know what they're supposed to do. Sometimes they do the right thing, sometimes they get it completely wrong.

In either case you can never let anything they do get committed without a review.

So are they really helping?
> The last good thing they did seems to be to buy trello, but they will likely turn it into garbage if the rest of their portfolio is any indication of what to expect.

Either that (turn it into a "JIRA Light", with just a little less of the annoyances?) or just kill it off altogether -- either way, it eliminates the competition from what Trello used to be.

Which was of course precisely why they bought it, so them doing that was actually not at all a good thing.
>everything else on the list has essentially nothing to do with Wikipedia

I would say that engineer/product/analytics salaries are part of the cost of running and updating a webpage. Then you have HR which is needed to support those employees and Legal which is especially needed given the high risk nature of Wikipedia.

Good luck keeping Wikipedia up in a useful manner without those people.

edit: Then you need Finance to help handle the costs responsibly. Then you need Fundraising to help raise the money needed to pay for all that. Then you generally want some Marketing/Branding/Communications to help with the whole talking to external humans part.
Corporate Memphis, a.k.a. “Alegria”, a.k.a. the big tech art style
HDMI offers so many protocols I didn’t know of.

Before finding a way to use DDC on Apple Silicon [1] for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi), I contemplated creating a universal DDC/CI device that can change brightness, contrast, volume, input and colors of a monitor, by either receiving commands through HTTP, or acting as an Adaptive Brightness standalone device.

In my mind, it would have been an HDMI dongle with an ESP32 that gets power through the 5V line of the HDMI port, and which has an ambient light sensor to adapt brightness by itself.

In the end, I found the I2C APIs on M1 so this was not so sorely needed anymore, but given the limitations of the M1 Display Coprocessor, I still think it might be a good idea. I just have no idea where would I start with hardware distribution and mass production, this domain seems so intangible from the software development side.

[1] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/
It would be funny to peak into a cockpit and see a pilot w a QWERTY keyboard on his lap.
Two recent threads on wikimedia-l may be useful for those non-versed in the WMF's present malignancy:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

MediaWiki is basically unmaintained at this point.
Back in RoR days? It's still here with new releases offering modern features. ASP.NET is even more cutting edge.
There's plenty of real-world, commercial products which do not get extremely high loads but earn much more money on each request. They're mostly in B2B without sexy names and media coverage, though.
Random time jitter can be denoised with statistics and a large enough sample size.

Even if it weren't when you sleep the machine now has more resources to process requests and an attacker can observe this to deduce information about the secret.

Ultimately you want the resources consumed by computation handling secret information to always be equivalent. Of course this means swimming upstream of decades of programming language, compiler and hardware optimizations / research. If you really want to get it done you'll find yourself writing assembly and getting really familiar with cpu behaviors.

A good resource from the article:

https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/beginners-guide-cons...
I am not ignoring that effect. I am dismissing it with two arguments. The first is that this extremely unlikely to ever be your largest exposure to a pathogen. The reason that it is important in a hospital is because they essentially autoclave these room to try to eradicate C Diff. The second reason is that even if it is your largest exposure to that pathogen, and that is enough to make you ill, it is almost certain that a dose of half of that size will also be sufficient to make you ill.

It is notable that there are no studies to the effect of "do people who close their toilet lids at home get sick less often". The scientific journalism of this "effect" is always about the quantity of germs, or conflating home and hospital settings, where again, the objective is literally zero C diff. It riles up the germophobes.
Depends how long how you wash your hands and with what
you can do i2c/ddc over dvi as well... i think even old vga analog cabling supported it.

has anybody actually hacked a monitor yet? has anybody actually hacked a monitor in a meaningful way yet?
Interesting observations. Some obvious consequences:

Hospital visitors and staff should never use patient toilets, ever.

Patients should use their own toilets only.

Staff gets clean scrubs after any visit to a toilet, helping a patient or on their own behalf. Yeah, sterile workers (surgery, etc) have to scrub in again after a bathroom break.

Clean patient bathrooms, including toilets, often, especially if infectious disease is present.

Design facilities to minimize the need to share bathrooms.

"Employees must wash hands before returning to work."

For what it's worth, hospitals already try to do this stuff.
That's not really how it works. No one has the right to pull more water from a river than exists in the river. You have a seniority system where the most senior gets to use as much water as they need, and then the second most senior does, and then so on. At a certain point the water runs out no one gets water at that point.
The whole controversy was that it was a "repackaging of [licensed] works": https://twitter.com/stefankarpinski/status/14109710611816816...
may be i'm spoiled by US market, yet it looks like a pretty high price for pretty underwhelming specs:

"The basic edition costs around USD $16,500 and you’ll pay around $18,250 if you want air conditioning.

...

“TITO” is a 2.83 meter long, three-door urban car, with enough space for four people. It has a 4.5 kWh powered electric motor which receives its energy from a lithium battery with an eight kWh capacity. "
Saying "that argument is faulty" is a valid argument about the other argument. It is not a valid argument about the original topic.

I can say that the argument is invalid without even taking a position on the original topic. I can do so with extra appreciation of the irony when the original claim was "those people can't construct a valid argument".
Wow. Why does a soldering iron need an OS? And a 32 bit processor? What kind of timeline is this :-(
Doesn't work with my intellIj version. Or it could be the cooperate network.
I think developers knowing JS/TS is a highly compelling argument given the fact that most companies are struggling to find any devs at all. I would argue finding Rust/Go/Elixir developers is going to be _a lot_ harder for a lot of companies than finding JS developers.

Also then sufficiently proficient frontend Devs have an easy in into backend development which has turned out to be a very good thing at 5 different companies I have worked for in the last 4 years.

In addition to that not every backend or service needs much performance. I have written quite a few services that get hit maybe 3 or 4 times a minute at best and Node was great for that. Actually I have yet to work anywhere where performance was limited by the language choice and not by architectural decisions or inconsidered use of databases and data structures. I am not saying this does not exist but it does not mirror my experience with the majority of companies at all.

I'd also say that despite npm and dependency hell being a real problem there is a vast ecosystem of packages out there. I know python has that going for it too. But Elixir is much less developed in that regard - simply by being less popular.
That was humor but, based on the shred of evidence they claim to have, their conclusion and recommendation are simply bullshit.