skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Guardian’s reporting has had a distinct lean as of late.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/14/poisoned-legac...
Japan's justice system has it's flaws just like everywhere else, but they absolutely don't sweep crime under the rug.
The UI is beautiful, is it all from scratch? or did you use libraries, and where did you get inspiration for it from?

Sorry for the multiple questions, just not often I see something that catches my eye like that.
> To get the merit badge, we also had to document an approval process that ensured changes that hit production were reviewed by another developer.

> This isn’t something we were doing prior to SOC2. We have components that are effectively teams-of-one; getting reviews prior to merging changes for those components would be a drag.

This mindset kind of blows my mind. As a customer, it makes me want to ask all my vendors for SOC2 now.

As a comparison, we have a small in-house team that develops some nonprofit websites; no PR goes to production without being reviewed by another developer.

I’m honestly flabbergasted at such a seemingly blasé attitude about insider threats. It doesn’t have to be a top-secret Chinese operation to subvert your company. It can be as simple as a developer you know well who is nursing some simmering resentment over a perceived slight.
A few reddit comments pointed that the gun was a shotgun, the arrested suspect was in his 40s and presumably an NCO in JSDF. Nothing about motivation yet, just that he surrendered after the two shots
That depends on the state. I knew teachers in new york state and they made very good money with glorious retirement benefits and tons of vacation. Seems teacher pay is similar to police pay. In some states it’s really low but in others it’s fantastic. See salaries of cops jn CA for example.
A MSR/LFTR can simply have a heat plug and a "cooling pool" where the fuel spreads out (the pool is not actively cooled at all). So if the reaction is going off the rails, the plug melts, the liquid disperses in the pool, and neutron economy cliffdives and the fuel stops reacting automatically

A solid fuel rod just needs the right disruption, and you have a meltdown. It's inherent to solid fuel designs because they are ... solid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_Daii...

I look at that timeline and all the active systems that are necessary in solid fuel rod. LFTR doesn't need those to cool, it is a somewhat self-regulating design. There's no high-pressure steam to worry about regulating.

Additionally LFTR:

1) breeds its fuel from Thorium, a low radioactivity element, so some stockpile of heavily radioactive stuff isn't hanging around.

2) "burns" most/all of its fuel, so there isn't some stockpile of bad waste that can get washed away.

I'm not sure if pebble bed type stuff or other schemes could have similar guarantees, and it's not like an underwater LFTR wouldn't have lots of strange elements leaking, but there are so many failure events in that fukushima timeline that IMO a LFTR design would have simply shut down and no big deal.

http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline/

Again, all those pressure events and active cooling system failure points.

LFTR is generally an unproven design, but it has so many good features that I view it as the starting point of next gen nuclear. I think its scalability is the key to nuclear's relevance in the future to compete economically with mature solar/wind/battery.

To get back to your point about the politics: the current nuclear industry... the lobbyists, the regulators, the "culture" ... is gravitationally bound with the solid fuel rod design. A clean slate is needed, and wind/solar sweeping away the economically unviable and inherently dangerous old designs and their political structures is probably doing nuclear a favor in the long run.
The most surprising thing here is that he was shot. How does someone even get a gun in Japan?

Number two is he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?
AI poses to be 9999999x more useful and interesting than even the most idealized crypto real-world use cases. The push for crypto in the last decade has been motivated largely by the allure of get-rich-quick schemes, not actual utility.
Says elsewhere it was a hunting shotgun, which isn't impossible to own.
A lets say 1GW nuclear reactor is much more central vs 1000 1MW solar utility grade installs. If you say some portion of them are residential scale 24-40kW installs, then it would be incredibly difficult to remove electrical power from a nation.
*According to Californians
An Interview with Arnold O. Beckman [pdf]
+1, (Dupe)
I promise you that California is not entrenched with anyone remotely far to the left
Some of the best public elementary, middle/junior, and high schools in the country are in California. Some of the worst are as well. California as a whole has a pretty good public school system. There are certainly issues. But many of them are really just debatable trade offs. For example, the whole San Francisco ed board recall. The main issue (aside from the renaming, which really was a side show to the main event) was the proposal to eliminate merit based entry to the premier high schools. The scientific data is pretty clear that if you want to benefit the most, you should not track students based on ability (i.e., put the "gifted and talented" into special advanced programs) but rather spend your limited resources on bringing the bottom half up. However, this is "unfair" to those who could benefit from development of their above average intellectual talents. In any way you proceed, there will be winners and losers. If you have an opinion on this: vote!
The whole point of being outside of the district is not having to attend the district's schools.
On a related note, monitors do a great job of providing a nicely diffuse light source if you need a bit more pop in a dark environment. I just did this yesterday with a 5am call with an office on a 12hr time difference. My desk lamp was doing fine for the left side of my face, fired up a full screen text editor in the monitor on my right and tada!
I'm old too. I don't think we're old _enough_.

According to my grandparents, back in the late 1940s through early 60s, I guess it wasn't rare for people to work at a _single_ company _for the entirety of their career_, fostering bi-directional loyalty.
What happens now? Abe is not only an expm but also head of a political group.
well she was an expert manipulator (as seen by her company board structure) so it's not as clear cut but yea I don't think he was 100% naïve in this
The three paragraphs that follow explain, including

> This is why we need browser styles, which provide different defaults from one element to the next. Some elements should be display: block (divs, paragraphs, lists, headings, etc), and some of those elements should have margins on them to improve readability.

If you apply the rule

h1 {
display: initial;
margin: initial;
}

you’ll get an inline h1 with no margin.
I read an article recently about Australian teachers who were quitting or thinking about it. None mentioned the pay, though I think it could be improved in places. Almost all however mentioned that lack of autonomy. They had more and more responsibilities, more pressure from parents, but less allowance for how they taught.

IMO, we should be grouping tasks by those which require a trained teacher and those which can be done by a trainee or some sort of clerk. There are surely tasks like preparing curriculum for remote learning, or marking (my mum was a teacher and as a teenager, I used to mark work for her), etc that could be done by an assistant split across multiple classes or a trainee. Or could be done remotely even. Spread the workload and ensure that the key interface between teacher and students gets the teacher's full time and attention.
hiddencost said something very stupid and kcplate mocked him for saying something that stupid. The specific stupid thing hiddencost said was that capitalism was inefficient.
It's more than a lifetime pension. The health care package is gold plated.

Talking about low pay without consideration of the considerable value of the benefits package is seriously misleading.
While the gun laws are strict, you can get a licence for hunting or sport. Requirements include testing, demonstration of safe usage, separate safes for gun and ammunition and possible random police checks on your gun and storage.

Shotguns are most common. Rifles are rarer but possible with a history of ownership of a shotgun.
This puzzled me too but I don’t think it’s quite symmetric? Try taking a non-spherical object as a model “Earth” — I used my earphones case — then tilt it at a fixed angle and maneuver it around a “Sun” before and after the solstice. I think you’ll find that before and after are not quite symmetric and different corners of your object are angled towards the “Sun”. (Please correct me if I’m wrong on this I still haven’t fully convinced myself.)
Etsy also had another Markov-based chatbot named Snakebot that sat in various IRC channels, and kept a model of what "typical" messages in a given channel looked like. Then whenever someone would accidentally type a message including the letters "sb", the bot would awaken, and it would randomly generate a message from its corpus and send it to that channel. This included pinging people directly, or using teams' dedicated "alert words" (this was before the scourge of Slack's @here or @channel). After all, those were valid nodes in its Markov chain...

It would also respond to sequences of uppercase letters (including things like uppercase sequences in pasted URLs) by YELLING A MARKOV-BASED MESSAGE IN ALL CAPS.

It was horrible.
It’s aways complicated to look back at economic policies and come out with simple summaries, but the picture is in my opinion a tad darker than described. He was a pretty polarizing figure and “Abenomics” is used more as a cynically jab than praise in most public interventions we hear.

For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics#Results
That's how it works for me on Fedora 36. I use GNOME and drive four monitors including my laptop's with the 515.57 version of proprietary driver. It works very well for day-to-day use on X11, and very well for day-to-day use on Wayland.

Here are my biggest problems:

* On X11, after waking from sleep, fonts are sometimes garbled. This is easily fixed by restarting GNOME. I never have to do this with Wayland.

* On X11, I always have to manually rearrange my monitors every time I plug them in, because some part of the stack doesn't know how to remember them. They work perfectly on Wayland.

* On Wayland, GNOME's Night Light feature does not work. Night Light tints things red in the evening to help me sleep.

* On Wayland, some apps misbehave in strange ways. Electron-based apps are sometimes slow to react to input, but updates have been fixing this. Also, Calibre's Ebook Viewer perpetually hangs. I have no idea why.

Fortunately, switching between X11 and Wayland is pretty easy--just a log out and then back in after specifying which one I want.

Gaming is different. It rarely works on Wayland. Much better on X11. But I don't game very much, so this is not based on a really wide selection.
http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/06/heisenberg-developers...
The answer to this question is the same as "if parents in Lincoln Park (wealthy neighborhood) don't send their kids to school in Lawndale (poor neighborhood), why should they have to send their tax dollars there". The cities would make the argument that Oak Park and Evanston (wealthy suburbs adjacent to Chicago) are really just de facto private school systems, and should be folded into the city's school system.
Americans have stopped trusting each other. People don’t trust police. They don’t trust teachers. Two jobs that were the most respected and bedrocks of communities. These jobs traded low pay for community respect.

Americans have to stop seeing differences and fighting petty political fights and pointing fingers.
Correct. Songs in languages I don't speak do not have this effect, so I figure it's the brain processing every English word it understands front and center.
That's what hurts. The worst tyrants (classically) believe they are doing the right thing. For who(m)? That's another question.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010549
Male teachers have their own set of challenges: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/09/08/why-dont-more-men-go-into... that likely dissuade many from entering the field.
I'm guessing there would be family situations where having a babysitter who is trained as a teacher beats home life.

PG tweeted data/commentary about childcare recently and there was a bit saying that for some brackets of society, dedicated care at home was most effective. But for some brackets, the children were better off in group childcare.
Abe has apparently still not yet made it to a hospital, after being ‘ambulanced’ to a helicopter and then airlifted towards a hospital
The latest re-release of it was for pc I believe, might have a better chance replaying it on there (waiting for a sale on your platform of choice may help).
yes but the point is that they love CA DESPITE the tax burden. In other words, tax them. They will come anyway because it is great there. And the taxes will pay for ever more lovely things like nature preserves and clean air and water and decent schools (yes they are pretty dang good in CA) and art, museums, science, tech, etc. And this will be a virtuous cycle (as it already has been).
The next 10 years of software dev will be defined by the arms race of fraud generation (deepfakes, GAN images, GPT-X bots) and detector bots. What will end up happening is the detectors will catch the bottom 99% of fraudulent content, leaving the top 1% free reign over the dataspace.
Don't worry. I'm sure even the people hoarding wealth in affluent cities are still paying 40% of their income to fund rent seekers and their mandatory services.
@mcao - this is fantastic! Finally a free and a really robust replacement for Headliner and such. It's so great for podcasts. Thanks!

EDIT I now realize it's been out for 2 years now and never heard of it before!
Sorry but that's a silly question. There is no limit to how complex you can make anything in any development environment. The less competent a developer is, the more complex the solution will be. What is hard, what takes skill, is to find a simple solution to a complex problem.

Having said that, back end applications can be anything from a simple DB server to the control software of a nuclear reactor or factory. So there is more scope for back end development to be complex than there is for front end development. So perhaps an answer is that the back end development is more likely to be more complex than the front end development.
From the alleged pictures I saw, the gun kind of looks handmade.
None of the companies you trust are secure from insider threats by dint of PR review --- a thing we do, but override for urgent changes in oddball services sometimes, like most companies I've worked with over the past 10 years.
No I agree it should be older than 13. I mean at an absolute floor minimum.
Japanese police don't have a great reputation for pursuing leads, but it is most definitely one of the safest countries in the world.
You can get a hunting rifle but there's still an illicit trade in firearms like in any other country. Too early to speculate on motivations but most of the violent crimes you see reported here are perpetrated by individuals with severe mental issues.
My original point was not about being accosted. You would be surprised how quickly someone yelling about your genitals will take you from "aimless strolling" to fight or flight, regardless of their weight or your level of fitness.
People can and do possess guns, you just need A very good reason to have one.
Seconded, pacarvalho has generously offered you great advice :)

Figure out what your success criteria is and work backwards from there. And learn the core tech! Buy a book, take a course in your free time, whatever it takes.
Military officers and diplomats are pretty well compensated and have perks which include almost everything paid for. And also not having to deal with little kids creating havoc. Teachers have to deal with low pay, little benefits and being judged in their personal lives. Pretty much an awful deal.
What I will say may seem a bit counterintuitive: Early stage projects tend to not benefit from more people. It is often best to start a project with a very small number of highly experienced engineers (maybe 3 at most) and then add more people to the team as the project scales and you are in need of more functionality. Therefore, I don't believe (based on limited information) that staffing is the issue.

Starting new projects is hard. Especially hard if you haven't built from scratch before. It is very different from maintaining existing projects.

I believe the best approach would be to consult with an experienced colleague, friend or even a consultant on what you are doing/planning and how to best execute the MVP of your scope so you can get your project running. Once it's off the ground it's much easier to negotiate for more time since you start unblocking other stakeholders.

If you send me an email with more details on your project (assuming they should not be posted publicly here) I can try to suggest something more specific. My email is on by HN bio.
Sure, but I assume this wasn't out in the countryside either. I can't imagine it would be easy to get close with a shotgun or rifle.
This is correct! Ultimately everything comes down to trust, there's only so much verification available. I've encountered companies who have SOC 2 while they blatantly do not adhere to their policies consistently. All SOC 2 demonstrates is that you wrote some words down and an auditor couldn't catch you in a lie after a few spot checks. That's it!

Even security questionnaires are practically unenforceable. If a vendor lies your only practical recourse is to avoid them.

I would much rather companies like Fly spend their time building and writing about real problems, including security, than figuring out how to abuse a SOC 2 report to demonstrate they're smarter than the average bear.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Ultimately companies become compliant with SOC 2 for one reason: Sales.
It's the one department that wants it and the one department that plays no role in it.

One of the advantages of SOC 2 in my opinion is that it helps companies tell a narrative to their clients about how they operate. I understand your perspective of directly telling your customers how you are operating, and this might work for a lot of them, but some others will want to see it in the report. It also works to your advantage to only send one document at first rather than too many, because too many can open to many questions which will also slow down the sales process.

At the end of the day, since you have gone through the process once and will have to keep doing it for a while with the type II, I'd suggest keeping in touch with your sales team. Ask them what kind of questions they constantly get during calls with prospects. A lot of time it is very valuable to add controls around those questions. Anything you can do to reduce the procurement time leads to more sales, more business, and less engineering time spent answering security questionnaires that have become unbearable.

Unfortunately, there isn't a single standard that answers all questions that your sales team can provide, which is why I think SOC 2's flexibility is pretty awesome at helping close deals. The framework doesn't tell you what to do, but rather asks you how you address risks, which gives you a ton of flexibility.

Some companies can get away with very little and still flourish, others will need much stronger controls to satisfy their customers, and that's what it comes down to.

I've never considered SOC 2 as a way to ensure anything, but rather to educate the reader about how you are operating and have an accredited firm validate that you are indeed doing those things (to an extent with population & samples).

There are many ways to describe the steps that you take to ensure that you are building secure software, and I think you should get the credit for it, by having those important controls in your report, and help you stand out from the competition.
Very much so: https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20220708001407.html?i...
In this case I believe it's because the app was written principally for Windows Phone, which is dead, though I really like it on desktop Windows too. The author moved on to writing a PWA version instead.

There is a bit of a general runaround to maintaining app store presence, keeping versions up to date and stuff, if someone doesn't want to use an app anymore personally and also aren't making money on it, I definitely can't fault them for delisting it.
Right to work relates to unions.

You're thinking "at-will" employment. That's pretty much every state.
My Twitter bot @tinyspacepoo is one of a few bots that reply to @tiny_star_field, a bot which routinely tweets text resembling the night sky. My first working implementation was mutually recursive with another one of these other bots, causing them to create an infinite-ish back and forth. (I think maybe Twitter issued an http 429 rate limiting response after a while?) Even this relatively simple bot/bot interaction was unexpected and required filtering.
The period you mentioned is one of the most prosperous periods in history. It is easy to look good with everything in your favor.
The justice system may not but various other authorities certainly do.
We have a lot of teachers looking to move out of the profession too. Here's one indicative comment from a recent article:

"I am an early childhood teacher of 20+ years and I have recently cut back to 2 days a week. I do another "normal" job on the other days now. The BS that goes along with the job now is ridiculous and getting worse all the time. It takes away from actually teaching kids and doing the job I used love. At the same time the pressure to "bump up" the grades is ever growing. I will never go back to full-time teaching again and hope to quit altogether..."
https://archive.ph/ajZHO
Growing up in Australia, calling a teacher by their first name as a student was incredibly disrespectful and worthy of being sent to the principal if done repeatedly. This often resulted in students never learning their teachers’ given names. Generally, adults—teachers or otherwise—expected to be called by their title and surname, and would likely correct a kid if addressed wrongly.

I rarely see kids out and about at all these days, and if they are, I never see them interacting with adults other than buying take-away. It’s a bit concerning, really.
Hey thanks! You bet, I just added it to my profile, thanks for making the suggestion. Feel free to email me, always happy to chat.
You should talk to Zainichi Koreans that live there more. This may be a difficult point to take in a community that views most things based on numbers and data.
It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when I left my comment).
Before I got to the end of your post I was thinking about how that makes me want to take a bat to the windshield of a car - oh, you're recording me? Watch how much the police care when you try to show them; I doubt the mask would matter. Not my best instinct, but man that sounds agitating.