skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put it on a Friday, let them stay the weekend, and pay all the expenses. My company does that for a less glamorous location than LA and I loved it. It is essentially a vacation, and if you are deciding to relocate, a good opportunity to explore potential homes/neighborhoods.

But I like exploring new places. I’m not sure how popular all expenses paid weekend vacations are.
Yep. I am a junior engineer. I got a message on Linkedin, someone was offering me like $2k/week to take interviews/technical assessments for clients overseas. I asked if it was legal and he stopped messaging me.
If they are willing to game the system by using a different person during the interview, what suggests that they would not have fake references listed to help corroborate. Seems like one of the first things I'd set up if I was running this scam.
It wasn't "settled for good", that's silly, it was still there pressurized and ready to go. Germany recently saw protests by people who wanted to open it, and some politicians saying it needed to be opened, and it is safe to assume that if things got really bad in Germany this winter they would have opened it.

Clearly, whoever has attacked these pipelines knew perfectly well that the story about Russia being unwilling to sell gas was nonsense, and also knew perfectly well that European sanctions would collapse in the face of rotating blackouts. Apparently someone very powerful cares more about fucking Russia than fucking Europeans.
The most convincing "Russia did it motive" I've seen so far (and I don't believe it but it's more plausible than other reasons I've seen that Russia would do it) is Putin doesn't want any of the elites around him thinking they can remove him and then get their money flowing quickly again.
An M1 Mac Mini is silent even at considerable load, out of the box; the fan policy can be tweaked with a free app (MacsFanControl); also I've never seen it eat more than 30ish watts (even when playing games). It's definitely not a budget solution (I mean the price is fair for the performance, unless you don't need $700's worth of horsepower), and macOS could do much better as a server solution, but it's definitely worth considering.

Mine is both a desktop/workstation, and actually doing various "server" duties like running Prometheus+Grafana, SSH jumpbox, etc. Bonus? You can actually SSH in while it's sleeping - it will wake up the system, but not the screen(s).
Have you read what you're linking to? :D

"The Siberian pipeline" article is pretty much disproving what you're claiming.
Super cool- but for me, the "default" Spanish was way too fast, and the the "slow" was way too slow. Can we have a speed slider or something?
I think that's far from clear, verging on very naive. They spent the existence of both pipelines trying doing exactly what you described but could not stop them. Clearly they meant bomb it. And, no, I'm not saying they did. As my other comment indicates Russiais just as if not more likelythe culprit.
The Real History of Animatronics
> Ukrainian sabotage -- pretty much the only actor for whom sabotage makes rational sense.

That would be a tragic miscalculation. If it comes out that Ukraine is responsible, German public sentiment will turn hard.

No more military shipments, maybe even rapproachement with Russia.

If it's a state actor, I'd think about Poland first.
It's very convenient to believe that everyone replying to you who disagrees with you has no management experience, and the one lone voice giving uncritical agreement is the one person who does.
Our company had this happen, first day the new employee was clearly not who was interviewed and didn't have the skillset. We fired her her 2 hours into the job and thankfully before we did much onboarding.

I'm unclear on what the desired outcome is. A shitty company that can't evaluate on-going employees and let them slide for 30-60 days?
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>The two groups rarely see eye-to-eye but collaborate powerfully

This resonates with me. I’ve worked with some programmers who I respect a lot but doing CRs my mind got blown because they took the hyper-efficient approach of “do the minimum but no more” and my mind is “well there’s this edge case, this can be refactored easily, you could hook this up here instead” and I’ve pretty much just accepted that my style isn’t their style. Code gets merged, business has continuity, I keep working with awesome people.

That said, I don’t really write a whole lot of code and never have. I still consider myself a SWE but I can typically make the computer do what I need it to using pre-existing things and scripts.
You're not going to convince anyone with that Oracle Solaris example mainly because there is likely a reason they couldn't retract the license: tons of code in there for which they are not the sole copyright holders.

At best they could take back the 100% Oracle-owned parts. The community would have to build to fill in the gaps.

They couldn't revoke any files that have, say, a BSD license, even if Oracle (or Sun, before them) had modified them and added their own copyright notice, simply because they would need to contact the original authors and act in concert with them; those authors would likely refuse.

I'm mainly talking about situations when the revoking party is actually 100% copyright holder to the majority of the files implementing the payload functionality, without which there is no software. I don't see how you the copyright holder would not have the right to revoke a FOSS license over it.

Based on what? None of the existing licensees have a signed contract of any kind, nor has any exchange of value taken place; allowing free redistribution and use was an uncompensated, unilateral action.

Even if there were a doctrine that existing redistributors were grandfathered forever, so they could continue making copies and giving it away, the license would not actually be available to the recipients, who are not existing licensees.

The U.S. Copyright Act indeed has the concept of termination:

https://cdas.com/copyright-termination-prime/

There are limitations to it for various obvious reasons, like that you can't terminate the copyright assignment implicit in a work for hire. (Because, doh, you were paid.)
"a couple of months" ... why not immediately?
> But it doesn't mean that the quantum state (at time t) of the system encodes the time history (t'<t) of the state.

it does if you take an everettian perspective on QM, the universal wavefunction at time T can always be unwound to time T'.
As the main author of Janus, I didn't appreciate at all them proactively suggesting Calls as a replacement for existing deployments based on Janus and mediasoup. I'd understand them aggressively marketing against other RTC cloud providers like Agora, Twilio, and others: trying to "steal" users from open source projects (who share everything and so often live on consulting) really feels like a d*ck move, instead, and basically stealing candy from kids.
These applications should be treated as Trojan horses. If they aren’t open source and you are a journalist/dissident or anyone targeted by nation states you have got to assume your WhatsApp/Facebook is being used to compromise your device.
The US gives a fine to a corporation, and ignores if an individual does it.

The country where the bribe happens apply whatever local laws and procedures say.
really? At my company, full time WFH still expects a couple trips a year to meet up with the team.
Nobody that made it to the offer stage, but we've had candidates make it through the recruiter screen using a stand-in, then fall on their face in a real interview.
Retractions are a healthy part of the process -- they shouldn't be frowned upon to the extent that they are. Me and my team just submitted a paper outlining a system we're using at scite to detect retractions more quickly from the titles themselves (instead of manual curation, or relying on publisher updates, which can be spotty / inconsistent). Happy to share details if anyone is interested, since that data will be open for free.

email: ashish AT scite.ai
Still, there are bigger and smaller infinities.
If most of the team is in LA, yes, I'd expect the candidate to travel for an interview. Of course, if everyone is distributed anyway, then it doesn't really make sense to fly them to a specific location.
It looks like Material design and it can run some emulators while running in an emulator. What else ?
I agree with this notion, domestic us restrictions on foreign business policies have paved the way for businesses and institutions of other countries to act on even worse faith.

There's parallels with this happening in the beef industry, where organizations are trying to lower the production of beef for environmental reasons. The result is they're attacking the most efficient beef farmers in the world - because they produce the most beef. If successful, the demand will only be picked up by less efficient farmers elsewhere in the world, causing a worse environmental impact.
I think it would be a very bad move to do something like this right now, when the Philippines is still run by the close-enough-to-fascist-to-make-little-difference dictator Duterte. Just as one example of why doing anything that even appears to legitimize and support him (or anything that puts you or yours in his power) is a bad idea, his way of dealing with "the drug problem" is just to kill drug users outright. To the tune of tens of thousands.

I certainly feel for the people of the Philippines, and setting up a major Apple HQ there would likely improve their opportunities somewhat, but as long as Duterte or anyone like him is in charge there, there are just so many reasons not to make any significant commitments to the Philippines.
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I'm just flabbergasted at how this can happen, or how someone thinks they can get away with it.

Our company is pretty much entirely remote, but the interview process includes an initial screen (on video, about 45 mins), and then about 4 hours of interviews, again all on video, with about 8 different people. Point being, we know who you are. Do people think humans can't recognize faces or voices? Do some companies interview without a face-to-face conversation? I honestly just don't understand how this works, or how someone could think this could work.
I thought his primary complaint at the time was that they were reprogramming in the evenings in response to the day's games, providing a lot of grandmaster human input during the tournament. I could be wrong there.

I watched his later matches against Deep Junior, around 2004 (?) in New York City. Match was tied, in the final game Junior made a mid-game move that was surprising to everyone in the analysis room. They were using a different software to analyze the potential lines and not finding the advantage for DJ. Yasser Seirawan and Maurice Ashley couldn't 100% agree that it was a bad move, but they said from what they can see it looked like a mistake by Deep Junior. Kasparov to a lot of time to ponder, and they accepted an exchange that would lead to a draw.

It was a very psychological moment in that era when machines were not clearly superior to the best humans.
In our case the issue was identified basically immediately. His access to our systems was revoked and we're in the process of trying to figure out how, if possible, we can get back the laptop we sent him. I'm not sure how pay will be handled for the few hours he was an employee.
The config format is defined and documented here:

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/main/src/workerd/...

We definitely need to provide more higher-level documentation around this, which we're working on, but if you're patient enough to read the schemas then everything is there. :)

To act as a proxy, you would define an inbound socket that points to a service of type `ExternalServer`. There are config features that let you specify that you want to use proxy protocol (where the HTTP request line is a full URL) vs. host protocol (where it's just a path, and there's a separate Host header), corresponding to forward and reverse proxies.

Next you'll probably want to add some Worker logic between the inbound and outbound. For this you'd define a second service, of type `Worker`, which defines a binding pointing to the `ExternalServer` service. The Worker can thus send requests to the ExternalServer. Then you have your incoming socket deliver requests to the Worker. Voila, Workers-based programmable proxy.

Again, I know we definitely need to write up a lot more high-level documentation and tutorials on all this. That will come soon...
They're not. We're saying the non-SI unit of light years shouldn't be used over something like petameter. Just multiply the "light year" measurement by .9461 and you're set. Or, ideally, just measure in SI units to begin with? The US is the holdout here and for no good reason
You should only do that if you have changed something. Otherwise you are falsely extending the period before the work enters the public domain.
Since iOS 13(2019) Apple CarPlay can show a second display on the gauge cluster or HUD. AFIK no automakers have supported it.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875604/apple-carplay-io...
How do higher wages discourage fraud?
>> A few weeks later on his first day the guy in the Zoom was definitely not the guy I interviewed.

What do you mean by this? Like the face is another person? can you go into more detail about "not the guy I interviewed"? maybe it's just that zooming/remote work inherently requires more trust.
Norway oil safety regulator warns of threats from unidentified drones
OT: one of the stranger interview questions I've been asked was something along the lines of, "How would you tell what the weather is without going outside?" Still to this day (10+ years later) I have no idea what the interviewers wanted for an answer, or if any answers I gave were any good. I didn't get the job, so I guess it was me. But I still think about that question at random times when looking out the window!
The US and its energy dominance agenda -- making more and more of the world dependent on US energy solutions.

Did you not read the news in the time leading up to the war in Ukraine? US government and media was complaining more about Nord Stream than they were talking about Ukraine.
I dunno, a billion dollars a year (for 8 years) for CarPlay skunkworks seems like a bit much even for Apple..
The point being made isn't that warrantless data harvesting by corporations on behalf of a hostile spy agency is the moral equivalent of a corporation assaulting the ability of innocent civilians trapped in a despotic regime to access outside information, it's that "the government told us we need to" is not a good excuse for perpetrating any social ills.

Would you like to present a case that it's somehow a positive for American companies to condemn innocent Russian civilians to an echo chamber of pro-Russia sentiment, and that freedom of information is somehow a bad thing for those unarmed women and children?
Google hits reflect popular usage, not proper usage. In many cases (like this one, and the even weirder "snuck") there is a big difference between those two...
Yep, I used to use roasted almonds but peanuts work too. I just eat too many of them :)
Apple Watch S8/Ultra 9 times faster than Epix2?
Estimating computing power of Fenix 6, Fenix 7 / Epix 2 and Apple Watch S8 and Ultra based on CPUs specs found by device tear downs. Comparing other HW aspects of the given watches as well.
I don't think this condescension is warranted for two reasons. Vonnegut operated this satire clearly within American cultural parameters and the dichotomy, though one-dimensional, is linked to many different foundational ideas in various cultures all across the world.
Don't forget "liberty cabbage": https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/04/25/968...

Tale as old as time...
North Stream 1 was also hit.
Definitely non-trivial! Deep BGP expertise is required to operate anycast at any significant scale. And RTP/WebRTC media traffic is perhaps particularly tricky, because UDP is so stateless but media servers need to maintain a relatively large amount of state for each "connection."
In my highschool there were honors courses, but no AP courses. The school district wanted to replace honor courses with AP courses so that students might earn course credits for college. However the school district was in a working class town were most adults did not have college educations. The introduction of AP courses was fiercely opposed by many of these people, ostensibly because they didn't think it would be fair that taxpayers would have to pay for college credits, when they themselves never went to college.

Crab bucket mentality. It's real.
He may not have even cared if he got fired after 2 weeks. 2 weeks of a US salary can go pretty far in some parts of SE Asia. If he can run this scam several times a year, it may provide a decent living.
You contrast Rand's heroes with those of Vonnegut as if they are all CEO-types, but they also include sculptors, architects, engineers, composers, and philosophy professors. IMO, Rand and Vonnegut are much more similar than their fans would like to admit.
From March, could have been from March ten years ago.
Why would russia want that? Russia wants to remove nato from ukraine, take the prorussian regions, and then continue business as usual... ie. selling gas to EU.
Who benefits from polar ice caps melting? Russia. They get access to a ton of previously unavailable, strategically important land.
> USians

We have a word for this in English: Americans.
I could sure use a flowchart to follow this story. Baffling level of fraud.
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I'm not sure how HR has handled it but within a few hours of him starting all of his access was revoked (email, slack, github, etc). I imagine HR fired him but I don't actually know what the official status is.
There are still problems with search and discovery though. A large scale transcription service needs to exist - potentially supported by client side transcription when GPUs become ubiquitous - at least for top podcasts. So many people have this gripe that they heard something in some podcast, but can't remember now.

Also, at JKStream (https://jkstream.com), we are trying to solve one aspect of search & discovery. You can subscribe to your favorite podcast interviewers and guests and get notified.
It's not. AWS goes out of their way to make mixing it with other providers so expensive that no-one will do it unless they absolutely have to, because they are chasing lock-in. CloudFlare basically does the opposite—their whole thing is positioning themselves as an intermediary so they can snoop on and get a cut of the action on everyone "else's" traffic... and then cut everyone else out completely, as they bring more services to market. They are positioned like a boa constrictor, coiling around all their partners and providers that sit behind them.

They are not mainly a CDN and aren't even particularly interested in competing with other companies that are mainly CDNs, which becomes crystal clear if you ever negotiate enterprise pricing with them. The CDN's just a means to an end.

Nb. despite all that their public-pricing plans are such excellent values (though, beware, last I checked the $200/m one was the only one with any kind of SLA whatsoever, and not an impressive one) that if I were creating a start-up CloudFlare might well be the very first service I signed up for. If you're a small fish it's damn hard to justify not using them. And the coils squeeze a bit tighter....
No mention of the fact that infinity is not a number. Numeric operators only work on numbers.
Color Conversion Algorithms
Your president gave a hint roughly 7 months ago.

> “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2"[1]

> “We will bring an end to it.”[1]

> “I promise you: We will be able to do it."[1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8
I remember seeing buildings like this in Las Vegas back in the 70's. I assumed it was for decoration, but apparently it's functional too.
Years ago I worked at a company where one of the first paragraphs in the contract was that you have to pay a 4 digit sum if you didn't show up on the first day. (The company was small with solid funding but had actually a massive churn)

OTOH I experienced the reverse. Shady offers where red flags kept popping up after accepting the 1st interview round. E.g. the (ext.) recruiter lying about the funding or the company revealing shortly before signing the contract that the runway is just half a year. Not surprising that some applicants aren't 100% truthful either...
Champollion's achievement was bad news for Joseph Smith. See, *The Book of Abraham."
What makes you think that ecoterrorist organizations would be the sort of organizations that are registered 501(c)(3) charities and run TV commercials of cute pandas?
I'm suspicious this is also affecting the hiring pipeline at top-tier firms. Student hiring programs rarely include an interviewer from your future team, It would be incredibly easy to pay someone a few thousand to crush the leet code rounds. The ROI of such a fraud would easily exceed 10-100x.

I'm not entirely sure there is a good fix for this, the problem would have always existed with in-person work as well - however the perceived risk/reward ratio would be different.
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It's not clear to me that the person who we talked to was not who he said he was. It's that the person who showed up was definitely not that person.
Best Buy, Home Depot Lock Up Goods to Fight Theft
Maybe not quite the same thing, but OnePlus did a McLaren edition of one of their phones a few years back. It doesn't seem like it took the market by storm but it's still popular in some circles. (The improved specs certainly helped as well.)
When I was freelancing (even before the pandemic and remote taking off), I used to get constant outreaches from people in Asia asking if I could secure contracts, do the meetings and face to face, and let them do the coding. They'd keep 80% and I'd keep 20% for a couple hours of work. I always flipped it on them and said since it's my reputation, I'll keep the 80%. None of them took me up on it. It seems like they've moved on to a new system of fraud.
There is a someone on YouTube who works driving HGVs for a large vehicle recycling company in the UK. I'm often surprised by the cars that are considered end of life. Cars which I still think of as recent models.

It would be great to see some statistics but to me most of the cars he picks up require some kind of major repair work making it uneconomical to fix. Often not the engine admittedly, the vast majority can drag themselves onto the back of the truck under their own power (and it's so much faster to do that than get out the winch cable that there is a big incentive for him to try). Usually though they aren't running correctly or have obvious issues with the clutch or gearbox. Almost none of the modern cars suffer any appreciable rot.

On the other hand I've been watching the price of 1st generation Nissan Leafs as I want one as a run around and over the last couple of years there prices appear to have increased. There are a couple of companies who will swap a 40kwh battery pack into a 24kwh leaf making it a very usable vehicle indeed, though the people doing this seem to be doing it for sentimental reason as you can buy a 5 year newer car with a 40kwh battery pack for the same net cost.

The price for a full 24kwh battery appears to be in the £2-4k range as even with 20% degradation it's still a huge amount of stationary storage.
Well made ICE vehicle could do that too. But the costs are not worth it for consumers. Big ass diesel semi trucks go over 1 million miles, then they are rebuilt and put back into service. Reliability doesn't just come because your car has an electric motor in it.
Paywall removed: https://www.wsj.com/articles/best-buy-home-depot-lock-up-goo...