skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first interview, as a self taught 19 year old high school dropout. I got asked what "ifconfig" did, how Ethernet works at a very high level, which languages I knew, and got hired.

Then I got put on a crash course of Solaris and vim (with the mentorship of a literal UNIX greybeard) and sent fixing bugs at customers' sites. One month later another young colleague and I were sent to teach the basics of Linux networking to a class of enlisted recruits in the Italian Army. Quite the experience, and highly reckless strategy for a consulting company, but you tend to learn pretty quickly if you're eager to.

The hoops I gotta go through 16 years later to get a consulting gig are just ridiculous.
> And for some reason in this country we are severely lacking in that last department.

I think its very clear. There are actors that feeding into the hate because that fuels views/engagement to their platforms and keeps them in power.
Huh. I had no idea leaded fuel was still a thing in aviation.
Don't forget the eighth 'The Fast and the Furious' movie.
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What's the inverse? Which companies actually have good internal security practices?
The engines are actually fairly efficient. Unlike an automobile engine, they really only operate in a very narrow range and are usually run at a substantial fraction of full power (60% or more).

Automobile engines are very challenging because the power demands are highly variable and they can’t be optimized for any specific load.
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Bah. I refer to grown women as "girls" because we are all children at heart and that's the level that I choose to connect with people on.

This sculpture is a tangible reflection of my mindset:
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The term I learned was "curbstoners". Learning how to spot them is important when buying off of Craigslist or the like.
You can turn off system integrity protection if you want to…
which would be a new file, or one that has been modified since it was last run. which would be handled by the first run protection.
If you have XProtect active, it should step in if you try and open the EICAR file in a text editor. It may not if you try and “run” the file because it’s not an executable binary. Have you disabled Gatekeeper?
Yesssss I've been waiting for this!
The 2 different FAANG level tech companies I’ve worked at both allowed me (as a developer) to install what I want on my laptop (despite being MDM controlled). I don’t think that fact alone is an indictment of Twitter’s security.
I have a 8-core 2008 MacPro (desktop) which is still going strong. I replaced the video card and it’s easy to swap in new hard drives. Only issue with Macs is apple stops allowing so upgrades.
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If your google-fu isn’t good you can hire a researcher. In general if you really suck at using a tool then you need to hire someone, it’s not the tool’s problem.

And yeah, I’m not sure everyone would prefer paying a human for 100x the cost at 100x the delay.
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Yikes, that's concerning.
Maybe a brake on innovation is a good thing. Social understanding and effective legislation on technological advances lags adoption by quite a long period.
My assumption is that foo fighters are a different but related phenomena.

Foo fighters were likely not weather, but a product of the aircraft themselves.

The most likely theory I've seen for foo fighters, is that the massive propellers on WWII era aircraft , spinning at high altitude in super dry air, collected a ton of static electricity, which caused a phenomena similar to ball lightning.
Only if they're still actively organizing them, and there's an active court order for them to stop doing so, which is unlikely.
Actually California natives have one good thing going for them. Prop 13. So if you or your parents have lived in the house for 30+ years you're likely to pay $2K in property taxes on a $1M house (annually). The lack of middle-class jobs is a whole different story.
Because we don't miss Java 5.
> add nothing of value for almost a decade

To have one stagnant social media company which offers you basically the same experience for 10 years has to be a defining feature. Everything else seems to change beyond recognition trying to clone whatever the new fad is.

Twitter has had stability and given users basically the experience they wanted. In any sane world the fact they can't grow a further 10x or morph into the next media juggernaut wouldn't matter if they have hundreds of millions of users who like their platform.
For playing older games that relied on that hardware, sure soundfonts aren't a great replacement. But modern games moved away from needing to use a soundcard audio engine and are just able to completely do it on the CPU, and the only real benefit of the soundcard at that point is the latency/dac/amp
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And that's exactly why are houses so damn expensive all over the world. Boom
However, they also benefit from innovation in how those widgets work, rather than being locked to historic buttons because the committee can agree on on pixel change a year
I have to strongly disagree with you on this, I can walk around in my (small) city in my mind in 3D without any problems. Anybody who's ever had a dream would concur as well. It's absolutely not true that humans can't think in 3D.

The sensory input modalities and specifics do not control or limit the internal representations; a sufficiently capable neural network will extract the most efficient rep to predict the input data, which is moving 3D objects.

That it's difficult to "render" this to 2D by painting is not very surprising.
I worked at a highly regulated financial company and they gave me root in prod and permission to install anything I wanted (on any machine I wanted). However, it was clear that EVERYTHING was being tracked, including SSL MITM attacks and the most invasive OS-level logging you can imagine, for compliance reasons.

Abuse of that trust was a fireable offense and someone did get fired for it.
This seems to be a problem everywhere around the world in big cities.

What’s propping all of these property prices up? Supply and demand rules don’t seem to apply at all. You might have thousands of empty apartments in a city yet the price only keeps going up.

Everything is broken, but housing is particularly broken.
In my experience, it’s impossible to assemble a group of 1000 programmers who are consistently able to read a license and reason correctly about whether the firm can follow it.
It will catch an infected file that simply passes through the computer without being opened or executed.
I did an internship at a bank. They locked down developers laptops to the point of being unusable.

Except all the developers just got permission to install virtual box, and ran another OS inside virtual box that they could and did do whatever they wanted to.

This didn't improve security past not locking down devices, it substantially hurt it, but it was also the only way anything got done.
Great question! And for me there are two kinds of good in partial conflict here: good for security, and good for getting things done. Having done contracts for places where I needed multiple levels of approval to install anything on my developer machine, both are important to me.
It is not at all a joke.

When you have monitors at the destination, e.g. when commuting between home and office, it is much easier to carry in the backpack or in the briefcase a NUC than a laptop. A NUC-like computer weighs much less than 1 kg, typically between 0.3 kg and 0.5 kg.

Even if you go e.g. in a business trip and you carry with you a portable 17" inch monitor (weight around 1 kg) and a compact keyboard, the weight is less than that of an equivalent 17" mobile workstation, which weighs between 2.5 kg and 3.5 kg.

So yes, a NUC is much easier to carry than a large laptop, and when you already have a monitor at the destination it is much easier to carry than the thinnest and lightest ultrabook.

I have carried NUCs daily to the office for years, because it was much more convenient than carrying the laptop, but previously I have not also used them for most business trips, because I did not have a portable monitor.

A NUC can be also battery-powered like a laptop, e.g. by using a laptop charger from Anker or similar, but I have needed this very seldom.
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As with everything nuclear, the real problem is that we stopped progressing in the
early 1970s and are still using blown up submarine reactors.

The real problem is not nuclear, but technology stagnation because of societal issues.

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About this, I wonder if the number of new works mean that we are getting over the bump of stagnation. Do you think enough is getting done on that end?
Also, I wonder what type of work can have the most impact on this side. My Government (Quebec, Canada) closed our last nuclear reactor years ago, but there's still some knowledge base around smaller reactors in Universities.

There's also plan to expand investment into private-held reactor development (https://www.cnl.ca/clean-energy/canadian-nuclear-research-in...).
Is this an avenue, considering the legislative/regulation overhead, that will ever be sustainable or it should be spearheaded by governments like it was in the 50s?
I don’t use AV and I’ve never gotten a virus on my machine regardless of OS, except when I was 12 compiling virus code from the ezine 40Hex. I don’t run untrusted executables, seems simple to me. Then I see my non-technical friends and family with 90 icons on their desktop and 6 years of files in their Downloads folder and you see how it happens.
> what in the world are you talking about

rebuking the implicit, "ergo this method is bad" part of your post, given its context. more specifically, the idea that its worse than current methods with DNS and X.509
I feel like the extent of insurance company “audits” tends to be overstated. Most of the time they want executive attestations that X, Y, and Z are happening. Whether and to what extent X, Y, and Z actually are happening isn’t something the insurance company is likely to investigate unless and until a claim is submitted under the policy. The insurance company doesn’t necessarily care that X, Y, and Z happen they care about mitigating risk. Specifically, their risk of paying out on the policy.
"nobody ever got fired for laying subordinates off"
Yeah, facts. Demographics explains most of what's going on.

Portugal's working age population is declining[1] while its 60-plus population is increasing.[2]

Old people own most of the real estate and don't care much about workers. They also tend not to like change, which immigrants bring. So they dislike immigrants despite depending on them.

(//TODO: find papers supporting these assertions: they're factoids of the "everyone knows" type.)

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/15-64...

2. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/60plu...
Based on the Zombocom reference and general lack of details, this must be a joke, but I don't get the joke. Is it meant to be a parody of something else?

And why not postal mail, for maximum novelty?

Aside, I wonder which CPU is emulated. A real 8086/8088 (for example) will behave differently than a modern x86 CPU that is running in real mode.
What a nonsense article ; this applies to every country in the most popular cities.
It surely is my friend, and I will need to manually call clone() and borrow().
> no identity is political unless you make it

> 'using they/them pronouns' is political

is the implication here that normative is non-political and non-normative is political? another example, would it be political to bring your non-heterosexual spouse to a company function where other employees may bring their spouses?

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All this will do is make it painful enough for regular users to never use the service (who even gets receipts from a restaurant anymore?) while malicious ones will be able to generate fake ones in seconds to review bomb.
Yeah, you're totally right in that complex web "apps" are different to a simple informational page. But do the metrics take that into account? It's just a raw performance score, no, not performance-per-complexity or performance-per-feature etc.?

How do you compare "fast" between "my journal entry today" and "Photoshop on the web" using one set of metrics...?
Part of the evidence this article uses is that child deaths have dropped... since we started bubble wrapping our kids. Unfortunately, I do believe that if we all kicked our kids out of the house and had them roam the neighborhoods, they'd get slaughtered. I remember playing all over my childhood neighborhood, all day, every day. I walked to elementary school. However, I also just don't remember that many cars around. I remember playing hockey in the street, and when a car showed up, it did so at a crawl, then patiently waited for us to move the goals over. Now I go back to that same neighborhood and cars are driving 40+ mph on the same road I played on. My kids bike to school today, but only on a carefully curated route in the most bike-friendly city in the country, and it still scares me a bit, honestly. If I move to Houston, they are getting loaded into the back of an SUV twice daily.
Yes, I’m filing next week.

I wanted to give them an opportunity to fix it.
FDW is not nearly as usable as you think. Joins of even 2 or 3 remote tables with more than a few hundred rows in the join are enough to make simple queries take minutes to return even if you tune all the settings and have statistics of remote tables.

Also, how do you reshard without downtime?
Most people either 1) do not know that or 2) actively ignore it.
> I also think there are also exceptions to tolerance in the case of an emergency, with the distinction that it has to be an actual emergency universally (agreed on by logical people), and also temporary unless it’s really, really bad (like everyone dies once we stop). e.g. covid in January-May 2020. If we had a super strict, solid covid lockdown when the virus first broke out, we may have actually eradicated covid. Yeah we’d be violating essential freedoms, we’d have to lock up or possibly execute people who go outside, and may even have to curtail anti-science speech. But with said lockdown we may have actually eradicated covid, IMO that is worth being intolerant of dissent for 3 months.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre argument. I don't see how the outbreak of a disease with a 1% death rate [1], or even the initial 3.4% estimate given at the start of the pandemic, could ever justify executing people for going outside. Even China never went that far, is this really something you believe "logical people" would agree upon?

1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
It's likely that a significant fraction of the perf difference between Apple' GPUs and NVIDIA GPUs is due to NVIDIA's CUDA being high optimized, and Pytorch being tuned to work with CUDA.

If Pytorch's metal support improves and Apple's Metal drivers improve (big ifs), it's likely that Apple's GPUs will perform better relatively to NVIDIA than they currently do.
Also, course syllabii, as mentioned in my first comment here.

Generally, I keep an eye (or ear) out for references which I think might prove interesting.

William Ophuls, mentioned previously, was mentioned in an aside during a seminar I was listening to (posted to YouTube from a university institute of interest). I think I spent a few hours replaying the clip and trying various search variations before I got the author's name right. As you might guess by my retyping his bibliographic note, I found his work to be fascinating in its own right, as well as an invaluable guide to other useful sources.

Books without bibliographies, footnotes, or endnotes lose a tremendous amount of value compared to those with. Unless a text is itself a significant primary source or original account this is largely inexcusable. You'll occasionally find reading lists compiled by others --- I've added, for example Gabriella Lim's bibliography to my own media and disinformation list. Hers is here: <https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Disinformat...> (PDF)

Interest and advocacy groups or institutes will sometimes list references or recommended readings. Those can be worth exploring.

But in general, listen for mentions of authors, books, etc., in different contexts and follow up on those. If the same appear repeatedly, see if they're substantive or worth exploration (some are, some aren't). It doesn't hurt to note who's good at recommending worthwhile sources. And beware of biases --- I'll often do oppositional reading, looking for critics and refutations of various works. Sometimes those are valid, sometimes not. You'll often recognise with time what objections are common, which unusual, and whether or not they're substantive or specious.

Author's names or book titles themselves become useful search terms. If you're looking for a group discussing a specific author ... search that author's name. (Many such discussions ... are of poor quality. There are some exceptions.)

Ezra Klein closes his podcast interviews by asking for three book recommendations from the guest. That's an ... interesting and eclectic list. It's been compiled here: <https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.ht...>
right, i get that - and liveview is a sick piece of kit, so congrats. just saying that for what most would use it for - it is still using some JS
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Slow and steady wins each time.
It's interesting you mention gym anxiety. I've had severe social anxiety my whole life. But the gym has been my outlet for 20 years and a great way for me to be around people in close proximity with really ZERO obligation to interact beyond gym etiquette and such ("how many sets you have left?", asking for a spot or being asked). It's a low risk social situation and helps me stay motivated to be around other people training. Get out in the world in a regular predictable way.

Due to a back injury (from pushing myself too hard, it wasn't just a shit-happens injury hencemy user name) that had me in horrible pain for the last 2 years I now get literal panic attacks in the environment I used to go to RESOLVE a panic attack. Ain't that some shit? My fear of reinjuring myself and going through the whole experience again is just too much. Even though I've learned my lesson and just desire to stay fit and functional I don't think I'll ever step foot in a traditional gym again. I like being able to sit down to make a poop in the morning without a burning ice pick shooting up my spine... I see what pro athletes talk about when a catastrophic injury and the painful and lonely recovery process robs them of the confidence to perform.

In between the pandemic and this injury the last 3 years have been very isolating. I've developed real fear of being in public from the amount of time I've been alone and physically confined. I feel like I got out of a 3 year relationship with a crazy overbearing girlfriend that no one could stand to be around and realizing how it just pushes people away.

Is getting better but doing things like progressing from a coffee to-go from a cafe, to actually sitting down for prescribed lengths of time and observing the waves of anxiety has been... interesting. You have to continually and willfully push your boundaries as you said but in safe increments the same way you increase your lifts in safe manageable increment. But it's hard to quantify how much more difficult one social setting or situation will be versus another. What's the "add 5 pounds" for exposure therapy? Haha. I'm sure it's different for every person.

I work with a therapist and it's going to be a process. Just started doing in office visits again. Social calluses indeed.

In the same way I associate discomfort and stress with progress in powerlifting (and subsequently in physical therapy) I try to tell myself that I'm not going to improve socially by putting myself only in comfortable situations.

Good luck. Looks like you've got a program that is working.
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> The moon is a very very very large dead rock. No amount of mining by humans will effect its mass,

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