skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the late response!

Yes, this is a great point: we absolutely do not want either the current instantiation of pip-audit or any potential integration to cause security fatigue. Our proposed integration plan was made with this anti-goal in mind: audits will never be “automatic” the way they are in npm, meaning that users will not be suddenly put on the spot to make security decisions about their dependencies. Instead, auditing will always be an intentional action: users will have to explicitly run `pip audit` to receive notices, which they can address synchronously.

Separately, on the data side: the JS ecosystem suffers from a deluge of low-value vulnerabilities (things like ReDoS weaknesses), which in turn produce more fatigue. The Python ecosystem avoids those kinds of vulnerabilities mostly incidentally, since Python is not (generally) run on the client side of the browser in the way that JS is. But more formally, our hope is that the community vulnerability database will help us balance fatigue concerns with “completeness” and expose sufficient metadata to allow users to make policy-style decisions about which potential vulnerabilities matter to them.
Does that reflect permanent limitations on Starlink speed? Somehow that's less impressive than it initially seemed...
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Compared to a golf course? Compared to how ever many golf courses are necessary to serve as many entertainment-hours as a movie?
I mean MOND has made "surprising predictions that have come true". Here's one that seems very relevant: https://tritonstation.com/2022/01/03/what-jwst-will-see/
I have installed /e/ on my old Xiaomi phone for months now, and it is amazing. The OS is stable, and I can install many apps from the apps store. It also being updated frequently, so at least it has the latest security patch covered. If only my phone doesn't have a charging problem (it is a hardware problem), I might have used it as my main phone.
I didnt know that is its name. Thank you for the phrase.
The MOND guys are aware: https://tritonstation.com/2022/07/21/jwst-twitter-bender/

Specifically this paper[0] is mentioned as predicting it

> Remarkably, the data roughly follow the green line, which is an L* galaxy magically put in place at the inconceivably high redshift of z=10. Galaxies seem to have gotten big impossibly early. This is why you see us astronomers flipping our lids at the JWST results. Can’t happen.

> Except that it can, and was predicted[0] to do so by Bob Sanders a quarter century ago: “Objects of galaxy mass are the first virialized objects to form (by z=10) and larger structure develops rapidly.”

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9710335
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I was living in Rome in 2016/17, and at the time yes. I'm not sure if things have changed now. Even finding a place that did "generic American style BBQ" was hard enough. There was one brand with a few stores, but it was pretty bad.

Of course you get the standard McDonalds and KFC, but those are everywhere... I'm not sure if my Italian colleagues ever visited them mind - I felt I'd be fired and kicked out the country if I ever mentioned I ate there - whenever I went they seemed to be full of teenagers.

One time we really wanted Mexican, so we traveled to the other side of the city to visit the one of two restaurants that sold burritos. It was the worst 'Mexican' I'd ever had.

The thing about Italians is they know what they like. A typical dish of Italian cuisine has few ingredients, but due to skill of the chef and the high quality fresh ingredients, they can create something amazing. That doesn't really mix well with American cuisine.
Alternative link (looks like the original is down): https://phys.org/news/2022-08-math-error-overturns-year-old-...
Yep, I know a small bit about photography and Ken's advice is better than most. One of the few places where you will hear that some product isn't worth the money, and here is a different cheaper one that's just as good. Or that here is one that is much cheaper and most people will never notice the difference. That's very helpful to the mainstream photographer, and very rare to see.

He is not the "Stereophile" type of reviewer, for example.
If the game was fixed and everyone had full information, there isn’t a reason this would happen.

But I agree if the promotion/firing is relative or dynamic in some way, then you’d race down to arbitrarily low effort.

The real problem is correlating work with value in an unbiased way. If you had perfect information on the value of each worker, I can’t see how it would be complicated to do a cost/benefit analysis.

But without reading/predicting the future you can’t usually figure out value because an unfinished product has no current value and a finished/legacy product has fixed value. In either case the worker has no marginal value.
I would be really surprised if TikTok doesn't do this.
You said something, not nothing, though.
> However, with three children who inherit their older siblings clothes, many pieces don't survive the third iteration of wear and tear.

Wow those cheap synthetics passed down among countless generations at church sure look good then.
That's akin to saying that booting someone from the US telephone system isn't censorship because they can always setup their own phone line from their living room to a phone installed on their front lawn - that anyone can come and talk to them on.

The reality of the world is that social media is a completely separate medium from social media. A monopoly on social media is not relevant to the ability to create your own URL.
For clothe diapers, just use flats. They last forever. There's really no need to size them. They're a lot easier too.
We do not know that reality exists.
> A national abortion ban can’t get 60 votes in the Senate.

David Shor: "Unless we see big structural changes in the Democratic party's coalition, then the modal outcome for 2024 is Donald Trump winning a filibuster-proof trifecta with a minority of the vote." (emphasis his)

(And, of course, the GOP could weaken the filibuster with 51 senators.)
Too bad there are no reviews of Fein and Festool vacs. I've had a Fein for over 20 years, still going strong, can still get parts. Nice and quiet too. Love that thing.
> "He looked very ashamed and told me that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day," Jobs said.

In a lot of ways it makes sense to play with this solution again. I would be really surprised if it didn't make a comeback in some ways.

For example, combine A) what Steve's "uniform" actually looked like, and B) medical/dental supplier catalogs that have been in use for work attire purchases for years. The combination could hint at a reasonable outcome that's not some kind of polyester tragedy from the 1960s.

This could be a pretty amazing employee perk that makes a ton of sense. It could look good and build on trends. There could be _just_ enough uniformity to make non-uniformity less of an issue (that'd be the real goal these days, since uniformity isn't so idolized anymore), but really, so many different & awkward questions/discussions/issues with work clothing could be avoided by sourcing from systems set up to meaningfully process those issues, rather than falling back on the same lines in an employee handbook.

IMO some amount of uniformity is definitely going to make a comeback now that we've gone full-self-expression, and it may need to slip through the door in disguise as on-brand style & system, but it also could be pretty helpful and comfortable.

Jobs' plea started with a specific article / item (vests), so that was probably doomed from the start. But "look through this online catalog, there are over a trillion combinations and none of them cost you anything" could be something different.
Yes, I have the same thought.
Theories are not necessarily absolutely true. They are models that describe and help us understand problems. In most (all?) cases they are approximations. We know that there are problems with them but they are the best tool we have to understand something. Until another tool comes along that works better, the current tool will sufficient.

We know that General Relativity is incomplete. It cannot describe the work at high energies or very small scales. It is useful as far as it goes but it is not a perfect match.

Quantum Mechanics does describe the world of the small and the hot, but we cannot apply it to the larger world. QD, too, is incomplete. We look for a new theory that can combine the features of both but it evades us, so far.

Dark Matter is a similar theory. It describes a world. It seems to describe this work better than other theories like MOND. Looking for actual dark matter will let us see if DM is a good enough theory or not. If another theory can be found that is a better match, we can switch to that. In the meantime, every time we continue to try to verify/disprove DM.
Hughes did not win in the 100Mbps category. you're comparing apples and oranges.
Sounds like a public truce to me. These companies hire defensively and pay well to take talent from each other.

When other FAANG isn’t hiring, they can all afford to dump part of their workforce, knowing that the rest of the industry won’t soak them up. There’s no where else for them to go without taking pay cuts.
If Japan wants to keep their systems running they need immigration. Or they will have to drastically alter their lifestyles.
"Good news"! Due to the climate crisis, large sections of the globe are likely to become uninhabitable, so even if world population declines, there will be an influx of refugees into habitable locations. In other words, local population density could easily increase worldwide even if there are fewer people overall.
"Musk sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares just in case he loses his legal battle with Twitter and is forced to buy the company, which he no longer wants"

I personally don't think we have a clear understanding of whether he ever really wanted to own Twitter. I think his investment plans are sophisticated and private. It's only afterwards that he reveals his intents.
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I was hoping someone could direct me to a privacy friendly smart doorbell. I read here on Hacker News that Amazon often shares our videos without our consent so I'm hoping to replace ours with one that respects our property rights or better, a device that allows me to manage my own video collection, encrypted on a cloud provider.
> Many in this thread are saying things like “if LA county has more population than 40 states why should we listen to those states?”

I think this is a highly uncharitable rephrasing of what's being said. This sort of hyper-partisan lens I think can ruin one's ability to reason through what's actually being said. It's strawman-ing, in other words.

What's _actually_ being said is "LA county's population should be listened to as much as Michigan state" (for example). No one is saying don't listen to 40 states. They're saying each person should have an equal say in how our nation is governed.

Without that hyper-partisan lens, your argument sorta just looks silly and falls apart, doesn't it? I mean, "it's reciprocal" we value your state's population equally to our own. Those states should listen to us because we listen to them. No one is throwing out anyone's interests wholesale, so we do have a right to govern together and no one should secede?

Being clear here, no one is talking about disenfranchising people of their representation. They're talking about equalizing representation. When your interests are overrepresented this might _feel_ like an attack on you, but it's the same way some subset of men felt women earning the right to vote lessened theirs or some subset of white people felt black people achieving the right to vote lessened their control. It's true in a way, but only in the sense that some portion of the population unjustly and unfairly held more power than they were entitled to. You don't want to look at your voting power that way, do you?
I'm a starlink user, I'm a bit peeved that the costs haven't come down and other annoyances, but...

This is a travesty of policy. The US has so many rural underserved areas and Starlink is instant cable-internet anywhere you go with a good view of the sky. Telecoms have been pocketing these rural development dollars brazenly and screwing over taxpayers and thumbing their noses at the FCC with their lobbying power.

Starlink comes along with a usable service ... anyway, it's sad. Some Trump telecom insider (Ajit Pai) has a more balanced view than the Biden administration.

This is bad policy.

Starlink won't need it though. They have a billion or more potential worldwide customers.
It's the only thing that works. Otherwise you have to change how you do everything. Much harder.
I don't want Starlink or SpaceX to go broke. One of Musk's great strengths is balancing companies right on the edge of financial catastrophe. Partly with the help of government subsidies. Looks like they screwed this one up.

OTOH $900M is a lot of money to give to a company. And there's no guarantee that if they survive they won't just keep overselling capacity.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted when this is entirely correct.
I can’t stand Zizek’s verbose nonsense. In this one paragraph he makes like 5 absurd statements one after the other, with such confidence and certainty that they look smart.

The closing sentiment takes the cake for me. A neat little shanty of the mindset of the communist smart men.
I use zapier to sync different calendars to a single calendar. I believe they allow 1000 zaps free per month. I'm way under that limit. Highly recommend!
One time I was in an argument about whether something could be done within a six month timeframe, and when a manager dropped in and asked a few clarifying questions it became clear that the other guy was working from the underlying opinion that nobody cared at all about the deadline and they were really just arguing about whether they wanted to do it. The timeline was clearly literally impossible, but he did want to do it.

Ended up that he told manager we could do it, manager was nuts and so signed us up, I left the team, they missed it by about two years. But he had fun, apparently.
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We still have the aether, we just call it the "electromagnetic field"
Indeed. That's why claiming that dark matter exists OR not exists is wrong. We do not know. The consensus is that it's more likely that it does.
Isn’t that just…. Taking the deal?
According to comment by head graphene developer on twitter, google devs really like what they are doing and are happy about it.

Apple also recently made changes into their Mac code supposedly to help Asahi Linux team.
Those claims aren't accurate, but this does sound spot on as to what his internal narrative would be were it put to words. Zuckerberg is known for steamrolling over anyone to get what he wants, and orchestrating a narrative that paints him as the sympathetic talented protagonist he absolutely is not and has never been.

If I worked for a someone with this sort of attitude, and I was in a position that I could walk away from this sort of megalomania, I would run for the hills.

Dignity is important to me, idgaf how many zeroes are in someone's net worth, if they started intimidating people over a zoom call I would intentionally miss the meeting even if I was initially going to attend.
Better pay? Not for new hires. Most recent reports I have seen (blind, levels.fyi) and my own experiences have shown Amazon skyrocket to the top paying FAANG, with the first two years heavily skewed toward cash and backloading RSUs. I am surprised out of all the FAANGs you picked the generally lowest paying one as the counter example.
IMO, the experience in ecosystems like npm has shown that attaching auditing directly to package management steps causes security fatigue: users who are trying to get something done are suddenly burdened with the potential security repercussions of their action, which frazzles them and causes them to mis-value the audit results.

The worst outcome is the one you see in pretty much every nontrivial JS stack: dozens of “critical” vulnerabilities reported without user interaction, all ignored because the developer has learned that “critical” really means “I can’t silence this warning that something bad might happen in a specific set of circumstances.”

When you make auditing opt-in (like we intend for `pip audit`) even “noisy” results do not cause as much fatigue, since the user has explicitly asked for them.
They are nothing alike.

The job market was very tight in 2008, people were losing their jobs then not being able to get a job anywhere doing anything. Not an exaggeration. My friend who made minimum wage at fast food place at the time said there would be at least five people a day coming in asking for a job application. The restaurant wasn't accepting any applications.

At the intangible level, 2008 had a dark cloud overhead, right now doesn't.
I've had 5 cable providers in different cities and never experienced that. usually they overprovision you to make your plan look even better.
Is it a warehouse job?
No, but we have a theory that predicts several things, including something like dark matter. It has been tested for several of it’s large scale predictions involving the movement of matter. Now we are testing it’s prediction of physical dark matter.
I love that a post on why we need the semantic web has a subheading titled “Key Innvoations”, because really the reason the semantic web died is because we need automated agents capable of dealing with the web as it is, not a web designed for automated agents.
Setting measurable performance expectations for software roles is notoriously difficult.

Setting quantitative targets often leads to developers optimizing for whatever metric you set, while compromising on the details that aren't quantifiable.

For all of the problems and biases that qualitative performance review has, I think it makes for a more enjoyable and engaging environment.
There's a macro recorder, but the code it generates isn't meant to be efficient or readable.

VBA is easy, you can just google it. It's very bad, but once you know it well, and if you stick to a functional style, you can do what you want. For Excel, get to know Range objects well, and to wring some polymorphism out of VBA, learn interfaces.
How did you learn you were autistic? I've always thought I might be but I've not invested the time in finding out.
2+2=4 is only true under certain assumptions.
We also do not know that dark matter does not exist, which is the claim of the article.
Sometimes it’s the even worse folks - the people who do things that are net negatives and need to be drug around by everyone else like they’re an anchor around the companies throat.
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Relying on VPs to do every front-line job in order to identify and fix problems would indicate that something is fundamentally broken at the company. That should never be the primary method by which a company identifies and fixes such problems.

As a former engineering manager, if someone on my team walked me through why getting PRs out to prod was an insane nightmare, I'd take note, work with them to gather evidence, and present it to my director and try to escalate it to the point where we could take action to improve it. If the VP is any good at their job, they'll listen and work with us to fix it.
Don’t sweat it. Thanks for the reply. And if it helps at all I agree that “binary” was the wrong word. I couldn’t come up with anything else that articulated what I was thinking.

What I meant is that us humans have this tendency to describe the world through dualistic models: good and bad, light and dark, mind and body, reason and emotion, nurture and nature, etc.

Inarguably this model has helped us to rationalize a lot of insights about the universe. However there are probabably a lot of ideas about our universe that can only be described through a dialectic model.

In fact, it was this type of thinking what allowed Einstein to image the paradox that gave birth to the general theory of relativity.
As someone who regularly gets invited to this sort of conversation, my advice is to never try to connect with someone via a meeting that is not about solving a shared problem.

Instead, connect with your colleagues through work, get involved with projects that expose and connect you with new people, join the virtual version of the softball team etc.

If you meet a few less people but nobody associates you with an awkward call that was transparently about your careerism, you come out ahead.
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[1] I forgot about cmb polarization, that is a successful prediction of LCDM
What about the space program?

No one seems to care about it, except particularly ardent fans. And the government only cares about satellites that benefit them.

However, discoveries and innovations are still happening. The latest one I have in mind is the James Webb Space Telescope. And private companies like SpaceX are still planning a mission to Mars. Lastly, somewhere flashed information about the resumption of the space program, such as flights to the moon.
Starship will blow the satellite count out of the water. Also, SpaceX gets to load up launches with payload space with more satellites.

What is apparent is that the other upstart satellite flotillas have zero chance of being competitive and getting off the ground, both figuratively and literally.

But at some point there were issues with getting components for the new gen of Dishys, they have less ports and flexibility than mine. Scaling dishys is still an issue along with the satellites, but it's not like growth has stalled.

This decision may minorly slow the growth of starlink, but not by much.

And if SpaceX does get Starship off the ground at anything close to their economic targets, fuggedaboutit.
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You can give him some information along with your questions, just like any social interaction. "It could help with performance if we are having issues there, but I personally hate the React ecosystem. Why do you ask?" That way you're both getting information as you go, rather than you making him wait until you've fully understood the question to get any response. That makes the conversation way more efficient too - if his underlying thought was "you seem bored, maybe this would be fun for you", then you've answered it completely already.
That's true, dry lube is no good when it's wet out.

But how good would a rope be when it's soggy and covered in road grime? I'm thinking pretty terrible.
But you have to nurse it for the rest of your life. That’s a lot more work than using a credit card or cash, or even cumbersome 1970s cheques. Or ApplePay, which is way more practical than anything else, including fund transfers and payments.
It feels like hiring has barely slowed down. It reminds me of 2020 when a bunch of layoffs happened then everything was fine
I don't, but my Zipps are loud and I like them otherwise.
Since you have the Verizon Unlimited plan, Verizon can afford to pay Disney for you (that plan, and Verizon isn't cheap).
My time to shine.

SQL > Google Sheets, Excel for large data.

Try https://superintendent.app
Our failures are known. Our successes are secret. --old intelligence agency saying

Shouting successful secret missions just doesn't seem like something they would be doing as it could lead to the "enemy" learning ways and methods and what not. The only people they have to convince are the Gang of Eight.
So are people in IRL meetings once the meetings get large enough. PMs are only focusing when it is their time to talk or take notes for stuff about their team, otherwise they are answering emails or responding to other messages.