skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny in this specific search for macbook reviews is that the well known websites which really have interesting information AND dig deep in the product specs AND have been there for more than 2 decades are not even on the front page. It's literally just the ones repeating the stuff I can find in Apple's landing page, but rephrased by some copywriter.
for that you d have to give people a lot more vacationt time
Path dependence is neat!
Someday a scientist will ask an artificial insemination tech what they know, and our knowledge of several more aspects of mammalian reproduction will grow.

The female orgasm is important: it greatly increases the chance of conception.

Inducing ovulation is possible through sexual stimulation, in many species.

There's always individuals with different needs than the average for their species.
No, but I'd like to go towards a world where most people can and want to slow-travel (with more holidays, better train networks or electric planes doing 2h max flights)
This is obviously artificial because after x months, you are not going to buy something much worse than previous things you've rejected just because it's the best remaining option, rather than wait one more month. But having to do that is the crux of the secretary problem.

OP has not understood the significant differences between this clearly defined mathematical problem and his own experiences, not sure why people are indulging him.
Rebooting Computing in Post Moore Era
You're given a hint '24' in the text and if you open the linked image you see a racing car with the number 42 — the answer is 42.
Ads and tracking aren’t inherently linked, it is possible to have one without the other. That’s allegedly what Apple is doing, so it doesn’t clash with the privacy commitment.

Even so, I disapprove of Apple’s forays into ads and wish them swift and hard failures in the area.
The traditional response when someone hotlinks your images is to goatse them.
it's actually a recommended best practice to not send your marketing/comms emails through your main domain, apparently helps with deliverability
It happened once. Not an issue if you don't have any relationships on there.
Yeah, Ive kind of done this.

The code changes that changed the UI - even changing some CSS - would cause a screenshot comparison failure on certain steps in the test. If it is what was expected then we overwrote the old screenshot with a new one.

It isnt exactly the same as the TDD process coz sometimes you write the code first (e.g. CSS), eyeball it and then rebuild the screenshot if it looks correct.

I'd say it's close enough though.

I wont pretend it worked perfectly. The screenshot comparison algorithms were sometimes flaky and UIs can be surprisingly non-determinstic and you need to have a process to pull the database and update screenshots accordingly. However, it's the approach I'd prefer to take in the future (I havent done UIs for about 3 years now).

I also wasnt religious about covering every single scenario with tests but I could have been. The company moved fast and sometimes they just wanted quick and not reliable.
If you look at the land usage for animal products and compare it to their calorie & protein supply, the story gets even worse.

In short:
Of all agricultural land, ~77% is used for meat/dairy production.
This 77% are responsible for only 18% of the calories and 37% of proteins, the rest comes from the plants in our diet.

The numbers may vary a bit, but the scale stays the same. It's ridiculous.

https://u4d2z7k9.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Glo...

https://earth.org/data_visualization/adopting-a-plant-based-...

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets#more-plant-based-d...
i really "want" delhi model to succeed everywhere else. i have been to delhi, i regularly do. the number of random kids on the streets during the day in many places has gone down, as per my anecdata so there is that....

in my community at least,the government run schools are essentially zero. they do have an enrollment but students dont go there, teachers dont care, parents who send their children do so when they dont have the funds to pay for private schools and it is very difficult for these children to get a good future because their education has been very poor from the get go.

in my area, the government schools pass percentage is like in 50-70% at best while private schools regularly have 90-100% in government board exams in 10th and 12th class.
> I have been working as a software engineer for 25+ years, and while I have worked with Java before I am no better at it than someone who just graduated

Don't see how that's possible. I wouldn't even think 50% of what makes anyone a good Java developer is due to anything Java-specific. And you'll undoubtedly pick up Java-specific knowledge faster than the graduate is likely to.
This comment is conjecture

Your refusal to learn what happened is not a firm of wisely handling doubt
> If you trust Instagram and Amazon with your data, but not Uncle Sam, you will find no comfort in this article. On the bright side, you can buy tissues, cry about it, and receive targeted ads when it is time to restock!

https://brownstudy.org/the-third-party-doctrine-and-the-four...
"I'm not only the biggest, best, and handsomest, I'm the humblest, too!"

From the original(?) Swedish: "Jag är inte bara störst, bäst och vackrast, jag är ödmjukast också!"

(Non-standard use of "-est" superlative forms in English for consistency, effect, and fidelity.)
I find this philosophical phenomenon itself interesting: it seems impossible to speak about sexuality-related topics without ideological bias. You can't just study human sexuality like you would study baboons and write what is purely logical given the actual observations, you always have to think about what are people going to feel about what you write. It would be interesting to define why is this particular subject so special.
Not all are, but they can be. There's typically a bias (can't remember the name, but it's a known concept) to not change the legality of past actions. But there have been and could be situations where previously-legal actions were retroactively outlawed and punished. It comes down to a decision per situation: what is a higher good: the individual's ability to rely on my current action to be legal in the future if it is legal now, or rather the ability of society to deter from things even though the laws haven't been updated yet. Prominent examples of this (sorry for the Godwin spin here) are punishments of Nazis post-war, for actions that were technically legal during the Nazi years. The argument being "being able to rely on the law not being applied retroactively is not a higher good that stopping people from doing clearly immoral things."
Sorry, but this seems ridiculous. Surely it's plausible that a tech company can see success independently of any dirt on a founder, and that his $70k thing made for easy headlines and brought him a lot of attention.

It's more likely that a self-promoter conceives of this sort of angle and with a view to pushing it as a gimmick, and that the same personality type is prone to the allegedly selfish behaviour.
I see image processors as a stopgap measure that won't exist for long.

Just like GPU's were first dedicated hardware that could only render triangles, but are now fully fledged parallel compute machines which, if asked to, can also render triangles.

Image processors will be the same - and eventually the parallel compute abilities will be merged into a GPU.

They'll be replaced with GPU's that can directly input the gigabits of data that comes from a CCD sensor straight into the GPU RAM, ready to have noise reduction, demosaicing, de-shake, stacking, de-warping, focus, white balance, etc. algorithms applied to it.
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Internet archive is possible with regular bookmarks too, using extensions like web-archives, allowing you access the archived version in a click.

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
Not picking any candidate at all doesn't matter if you are just trying to optimize your probability of picking the best one.

Choosing one which you know not to be the best is not considered any better than choosing none.
Wait until cannabis is legalized over there. Alcohol is such a crappy drug and is laden with so many problems. Not saying weed is better, but it's better than alcohol!
I absolutely cannot agree with this.

It's true that after five years in a startup, you'll have seen lots of systems. But being a senior practitioner requires deep experience as well as breadth, and enough time in the industry to recognise larger trends.

There is no magic mark for this, and it's quite possible to reach ten years and still be a weak practitioner, because you were exposed to a narrow range of problems and were never around to see your bad decisions bear bad fruit.

However, the opposite does not hold. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are, you can't short circuit repeated experience and the mix of breadth and depth required. People want to. I wanted to. But I didn't: all I became was an overbearing mid who had the rhetoric (and the OSS contributions!) to convince others I knew what I was doing. There is absolutely no comparison between myself in 2017 and myself in 2022, but we both have a job title of "Senior Engineer".

In fact, I think that in the long term the trend is for the senior bar to get _higher_. This is pushed by two things: firstly, that the technical domain gets harder, software becomes more abstract, our expectation of engineers increases particularly in "left shifted" environments where every IC must do everything from frontend to microservices to infra to security to testing.

The second force is demographic: as IC salaries have increased, there has been less pressure for senior engineers to exit in favour of the management track. That means more experienced engineers on average. Industry needs a way to describe these practitioners, beyond "very senior", and overall the range of skills of ICs will widen. Under those conditions the definition of senior engineer gets more exclusive, not less.
IonQ launches the world’s ‘most powerful’ quantum computing system on Azure
I'm one of those security experts. I've broken more cryptosystems than I can count through security & code reviews. You would be surprised how many vendors have no idea on how cryptographic primitives work or when/how to use it. This is exactly what we mean when we say "don't roll your own crypto".

There is a communications problem within all of this. If I break a cryptosystem, I do not have permission by either party (customer/employer) to go and write a blog post about it. All in the name of "protecting our users". The same goes for my colleagues around the world, as such it gets very little attention.

As for threat actors misusing it, there is a value/effort calculation in their world where it is often easier to access content through other means. Crypto is hard - for everyone, even threat actors - so you won't often see them trying to tackle it.
I am a Data Scientist turned manager so I don't consider myself a super senior dev focusing on other areas. Having said that debugger is amazing, especially for data intensive applications where it's the data that breaks the flow usually. I know there are cases where defaulting to prints is easier, but I use debugging whenever I can (if I still get to write/debug code)
Unfortunately, that approach leads to confimation bias, as well as other biases. The point being - the media and other nefarious characters knowing - once the seed of accusations are planted, for the most part we are wired *not* to let go of that. It lives on well after the real facts have surfaced.

Also, along the same lines, the human memory is fairly easy to manipulate. It's not the air tight SSD we all presume it to be.

As a rule of thumb "follow the money". The fact is there are plenty of CEOs and other champions of Crony Capitalism that would pay good money to see him fall. If Big Sugar can buy off Harvard profs and their research so they blame fat for America's failing health ...Price is definitely fair game. And look...sugar still gets a free pass from most people.

I'm not defending Price. He's got a lawyer for that. Simply pointing out that beneath the surface, the world is a dirty place. When money and the status quo is involved I'm far slower to jump to conclusions.
If it’s going to be harvested for building materials (rather than as fuel), why wouldn’t it be carbon storage?
That is what I find with much Unix and emacs documentation. It is for people who already know the tools, there aren't the hooks whilst you are learning.

The documentation I found much better was MS in the 1990s where you git an overview as well as the details.

Apple documentation used to be quite good but all their overview docs are now in archive and not updated and you just get the API.
I think you can assassinate a wonderful idea by having the _wrong_ person present it. People rarely judge a thing on its inherent qualities.
FYI, these image processors often also do autofocus. Sometimes, they don't even expose an API to the operating system to do focussing, so you can't even manually do focus in software if you want to - the best you can do is say which area of the image should be focussed, and the algorithm in the image processor will try to achieve it.

Thats suboptimal, because there are lots of bits of research into better ways to do focus. Todays image processors typically just adjust back and forth till they find a frame with more high frequency components. It kinda works, but requires them to overshoot a bit and go back, and doesn't work well for things like mirrors or windows where they may focus on the window rather than whats behind it or vice versa. They also have to adjust the focus slowly because they need to get a new frame and process it to see that the focus needs adjusting further - despite the fact the coils in the camera can move the lenses in milliseconds if commanded to.

Future image focus techniques do things like run machine learning over the image, and say "thats a car, and it looks about 25 yards away, so set focus straight to 25 yards".
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My point is that Guix, the software, the documentation and the community are not user friendly. I'm happy that you have no need for proprietary software, that sounds nice. I do have such a need. It took me a stunning amount of time to find nonguix and figure it out. The community was not helpful.

Figuring out how to use proprietary software with Guix is a miserable experience. As a new, curious user, I was told: I won't receive help, I can't discuss it, I shouldn't use proprietary software, that Guix isn't for me.

This is not a welcoming response. It's not useful. It's hostile. It's zealotry.

Instead, a welcoming response would be to say yeah, that's unfortunate but understandable, maybe help educate why free software is important, and suggest a path forward, such as pointing the user to unofficial channels. By comparison, Nix excels here -- There is no hostility.

It's like being told by a mathematician that I shouldn't use math to calculate my taxes because taxes are unethical and illegal. Yeah that's nice, but I still have to pay them. I just want to calculate my taxes.
I wish they'd just un-screw the page ranking algorithm. The quality of search has been steadily going down for quite a while now due to spam getting better and better at SEO.

I'm hopeful for this feature, but I'm not sure how scalable it can prove to be, to help manually rank pages for myriad of topics.
There are senior engineers out there that have <4 years professional experience. I myself went from IC3 (junior) to IC5 (senior) at FB in around 3 years and this is pretty common at FB from what I've seen.
‘Dirty ol’ coal’ is making a comeback and consumption is expected to return
Same here, he is my one and only LinkedIn block.

Given how anodyne (even if sometimes vapid) most LinkedIn activity is, it’s quite a feat of obnoxiousness to get yourself blocked on LinkedIn, of all places.
That one route of infection, most typically pin worms.

Intestinal worms can transmitted a number of different ways, but it's commonly the oral-fecal contamination route where feces comes in contact with food (when feces are used as fertilizer) or water (poor waste management) which is consumed.

However, hookworm larva can penetrate intact skin. Step in a puddle with bare (or exposed feet) and you can get infected.
Define long-term. If the wood takes 20 years to grow, and is then harvested and made into furniture, and that piece of furniture lasts another 20 years, that's pretty long term to me. But of course harvesting wood to be burned up is a crime.
> Orgy of Waste school of web design

What is this referring to?
> As a Christian I'm forbidden form holding any belief that isn't directly in the bible and not a provable fact.

Which is it -- "not in the bible", or "not a provable fact"? Because if it's both, that's a paradox.
No content with Javascript disabled. Hardly unheard of among a technical audience.
What's the known falsehood?
Looking at the cited source text for this quote, the Wikipedia rewrite seems to take some licence, and the original source itself cited "folk memory", likely itself coloured by stereotypes at the time (a time when Ireland was still under British rule & the population thereof still derided by most academics/ writers, who were by-and-large not Irish) and from an American perspective (the paper is a University of California Press/London publication) Irish immigration was at its highest (with all the accompanying societal prejudices that entails).

Needless to say, this probably happened, but I'd take the specific details of the events described with liberal handfuls of salt.

> Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers.

I really wouldn't. They'll probably laugh politely, we're very used to this. But this won't endear you.
Not only horrifying, but more often than not, being doxed is followed by progressively worse experiences like: malicious lawsuits, false accusations, stalking, unwanted potential harmful mail, random visitors, death threats, swattings, physical harm, etc — not only against the person doxed, but others who are of significance to them.
For the record...that's not journalism. It might be reporting. It might be marketing. It might be character assassination.

But. It's not journalism.

We need to stop giving that type of behaviour a greater title than it deserves.
No, the very first thing in the blog post is a link to the original, so it’s highly unlikely they wanted to pretend to be the author.

More like someone who didn’t care much about copyright or license decided to back up information they found useful in their personal blog.
I don't think the initial three pages are to be viewed as article summary in this case, but rather as background to the issue at hand.
The post appears to be something akin to a (very?) late draft, and of a book chapter rather than a journal article. I expect there will be an "abstract" published somewhere, but this isn't where.
Yes, this is a basic right.
BUT, and I am quoting others here since I still don't have a strong opinion for or against it, in cases of "extreme and imminent danger" (whatever it is) actions can be taken without a trial with the most notable example are information about terrorists on their way to act but with the information not valid enough to be presented in court, for example some kind of illegal wiretapping
Firefox seems to be not supported...
My go-to laptop for these situations is a small Acer "Cloudbook" - one of the first Chromebook-like computers that came with Windows. It has a Celeron, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of eMMC flash and is running Fedora. It's not fast by any standard, but with a 10" screen and costing about $100 new when bought, it fills the role perfectly.
It is just title inflation. A senior is one who has graduated apprenticeship and is equipped with technical knowledge to begin training an apprentice.

Are there those who are masters of their craft who call themselves a senior, of course.
Yo that would be perfect. All the advantage of the cloud without the privacy concerns.
Congratulations guys. I was pressed to use Office before 2010. But in parallel since 2002 I used StarOffice and actually I loved it. I then moved to OpenOffice where I started writing the 80% of my PhD (the rest was Latex) and somewhere in the process I moved to Libreoffice.

I use the last 10 years extensively Calc for quick crunching statistical data and the last 6 years I usually copy things from DBeaver to Calc for analysis (and sometimes CSV exports from SNAP). I also use Draw to draw things for presentations or Medium. And of course Impress for the company presentations.

Love it.
I'm seeing your page above the "spam/scam" page.

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You had a great argument until the last sentence
From my understanding, when a solution like DMSO with PFAS enters our blood stream it gets highly dilute. Solvation binding of solvent (DMSO) and the solute (PFAS) now has to compete with binding from all sorts of other proteins, fats, carbohydrates, etc.

In this incredibly dilute state, the previous mixture of molecules now spreads out and gets taken up by different tissues. The tissues that take up the compounds depends in the molecular properties of the compound in question, so something like PFAS which are highly lipophilic (iirc) meaning fat soluble, they will be taken up by cells pretty readily as they can easily cross the lipid bilayer membrane but will be stored in adipose tissue and continue impacting those cells and possibly be slowly released over time to impact the organism systemically. This of course will depend on initial dose concentration, duration of exposure, adioposity of the organism, along with a multitude of other factors.

The study of how compounds circulate in this way is a subfield of pharmacology known as Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME)
Im pretty sure it was implemented because of the amount of mob justice that was going on during the period of the salem witch trials.
Panasonic “Let's Note” laptop History (Japanese)
The recent discussion about GPD Micro PC scratched an itch regarding mentioning Panny's Let's Note series.

The early 2000's brought the CF-R1 and the CF-T1, et al, all fantastic for the size vs weight vs extreme toughness (not as good as real Panasonic TOUGHBOOKS).

Pro's: Durable, strong (I'm 140 pounds and I regularly used them angled on-edge against an immoveable object as a step stool), extremely light-weight. Ok, extremely light-weight.

Nice weirdnesses: The built-in CD-player that flips up under the palm rest on some of them, the hand-strap on some, circular touchpad that did what your mouse-wheel does.

Con's: Hard as all get-out to disassemble, keyboards that often feel like junk (but are definitely not junk, great quality, more than passes the spouse test (but it still often irks me)), possibly keyboard layout, many people think it feels cheap because there is no weight to the machines (tossing it across the bar usually changes their mind), expensive/selective availablity in some countries (U.S.A), dealing with !!secret information!!/official gate-keepers for manuals/unlock codes/etc.

Still, nice machines. My dichotomy is that I'm a ThinkPad fan for most of the opposite reasons.

The page takes a minute or two to render on my mobile, apologies.

My favorite (R-series) is, to me, a touch cramped/small for the keyboard.
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The reason someone is iterating fast is usually because they are trying to discover the best solution to a problem by building things. Once they have found this then they can write "working code". But they don't want to have to write tests for all the approaches that didn't work and will be thrown away after the prototyping phase.
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