skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, ads waste a lot of resources. But if they tend to be 'tailored to user' then the collected data has to call home first and then choice of ads gets transferred to probably already closed browser tab.
> zig's use of comptime is fairly revolutionary in a c-like language.

It's not, it's just fairly insecure. comptime is known forever, in static and dynamic languages. Better languages do know about the security and usage implications and do something about it.
Sure... but I went to a public high school, got a 1590, and did not spend day and night studying nor did my parents have any expectation of me to perform well in school. I was just really lucky to go public schools with teachers who cared and peers that cared.

It makes a huge difference.
I don't know if it's possible to write an article like this and not just be preaching to the choir; ignored by the flock that's already decided it doesn't like it.
Though I'm not a lawyer, I believe defendants in court cases are entitled to command witnesses (signed off by a judge) to provide evidence that could be used in their defense.

It makes sense in the abstract: e.g. imagine you're accused of murder, and you know someone saw you somewhere else at the supposed time of the crime, yet they refuse to provide evidence to help you. It would seem reasonable they could compel you under that circumstance to testify.

Since the FTC has initiated a court case against Meta, I assume they are provided a similar legal right to command competitors to provide evidence that they haven't behaved "anti-competitively".

The question becomes whether, in this particular instance, they're abusing that privilege by demanding information they shouldn't be entitled to from unrelated/extraneous parties.
I've already solved this, at least with regards to myself. I'm bisexual, native American, and have an invisible disability, for any form that asks.

I haven't transitioned on paper yet, but may if it proves useful.

I have no respect for these processes, and feel no guilt about my responses.
I agree, but I'm still cracking open that page when I'm reading someone else's code. I guess you work solo most of the time?
As I said, it depends on where you live. Here in Argentina having no tattoos is more anomalous than having them for people in the 35–50 range, just as you say; but in Japan they mark you as a criminal, in Iran they're a symbol of rejection of the theocracy, in PRC it's illegal to show them on TV, and Erykah Badu is banned from performing in Malaysia because she has "Allah" tattooed across her shoulders. Both the Yazidis and the Kurds have tattoo traditions that have at times been persecuted by Daesh, Iran, and Turkey; I don't know how active that phenomenon is at the moment.
Well I am not a lawyer, and if I was a lawyer I wouldn't be a lawyer in that country, but my understanding is that SimularVR is under no obligation to create any new documents or gather any new information. So for example the answer to "Fine-grained usage statistics of our software" can legitimately be "we don't have any". If I was SimulaVR I would gather all documents that currently exist, and be very careful about creating any new documents regarding any of this before consulting with a lawyer. I imagine that creating new documents in answer to this might create further obligations, but I really don't know.

Of course I'm not a lawyer and don't really know what I'm talking about, and this is not legal advice.
Once the uranium cartridge is depleted after several years, that becomes waste. There are mostly 2 ways to deals with it:

1. Like US or Sweden, you take it as-is and bury it.
2. Like France and Japan, you recycle it to make more cartridges. France has a dedicated facility for it, Japan used to send its waste to France for recycling.
Trump only got on the pro-vaccination bandwagon because his efforts to downplay and deny the scope of the pandemic initially, so as to not distract from his pro-economy election narrative, became politically untenable. It was Trump who called it Kung Flu and refused to wear a mask in public and mocked anyone who did, and encouraged people to resist and protest lockdown rules and health guidelines, and it was Trump who turned resource distribution into a partisan grift.

If you want to give Trump credit for the vaccine, you need to give him credit for sabotaging and deliberately undermining the effort as well. Trump is the reason the next pandemic is going to be far worse than it needs to be, because thanks to him, anti-vaxx conspiracy belief has been normalized and half the US has made mistrust of science and refusal to vaccinate a fundamental part of their political and cultural identity.

But yes, he got the vaccine completed in record time. Kudos to him for that.
The last time I saw a place migrate the remote offices from a less than 10Mb/s network was around 2015. That same place replaced its mainframe at 2011 because of an enormous price hike.
Rebasing is merging multiple commits to one commit right? Basically you commit your small changes to your local master branch and at some point you merge them to one commit and push them to master repo?
I’ve got a friend applying to med schools, he’s a little older (late 20s vs early 20s) so he took the spray and pray approach and applied to 60 MD and DO schools. He said by and large he’s the only or one of ~3 non-minorities in any of the MD group interviews, additionally Asians aren’t well represented there either. DO group interviews on the other hand are mostly white/asain.
It's not written as a choice Musk has. That fee only comes into play if the deal fails to go through for reasons outside of his control.
If that's true, it sounds like companies have been weaponizing the legal system to get access to proprietary information from their competitors. Surely that has got to be illegal somehow?
Paywalled, but +1 for a provocative title!
Observability strategies to not overload engineering teams – Proxy Strategy
Sure, it's not ideal. Is the solution to have different standards for different groups based solely on skin color or self-identification?
Then why not share to the FTC themselves and not META so that you can still keep it confidential from your competition?
Twitter hired KSA spies that helped kill Jamal Khashoggi. Twitter "compliance" is irrelevant because they have no internal data security.
So in this hypothetical scenario they don't know about the Internet Archive but they do happen to browse Hacker News? This probably isn't their first rodeo. I'm sure they're aware of the archives that exist.
Right? But, really, it isn't Trump he is reminding you of, it's every spoiled rich manchild who has surrounded themselves with yes men and willing fanbois and now believes their own shit. Not to mention he is getting to the age where your brain really starts turning to mush if you aren't proactively trying to prevent it. Watching a lot of Gen Xers become Boomer Lite is fascinating and infuriating.
Doing business as a software developer through the Apple store is a different beast. Putting in tickets to see why your software failed can be a nightmare if it isn't a glaring mistake. They may treat their customers well, but they don't always treat their devs with the same respect.

EDIT: I will note, it has been a few years since I've submitted to the app store, so I hope things have changed.
This is not Meta demanding to see some privilege information that exists in Simula's drawers, but rather commandeering the entire competing organization to do market research for Meta. It is clever and evil, and nothing anybody says after this will make me think that Meta is not anti-competitive nor that they have an once of ethics. As a consumer, I doubt I will ever again consider their VR products; I rather give my money to Satan, or even Google.
Language is the real AI and its been improving itself since the first word was used between two people.
Jetbrains has support for remote development environments. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks promising.

https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/
These types of things are incredibly silly. During the Epic vs Apple charade, Apple subpoenaed Steam for financial records as well which the judge forced Steam to comply with. The fact that a situation completely unrelated to me can force me to hand over what I would consider business secrets is a bit absurd.
Is it confirmed? I just recommended him to a friend yesterday. I can't believe it.
I'm just saying there are no ethical companies of that size

so it's a disengineous point to bring up.

the deeper realization is that is not fair (nor conducing to good social outcome) to try and hold an entity such as Meta (formerly facebook) to individual person standards such as being ethical.

this is more important in other discussions around rights of corporations (and other comparalby powerful institutions) in contrast with the righs of human individuals (see also: censorship by 'private persons' but this person is google or something)

but let's just bury my ancestor reply before going any deeper. gosh.
I'm sure one of his other AI Memos could be considered that. For example: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6099
Wow did not know this existed. I’ll add it to my config
Seems like a "I'll know when I see it" situation. In that, if the FTC thinks they are anti-competitive, they probably are and at least should be blocked from acquiring their competition.

Breaking them up or taking actual action against them would require deeper investigation with FTC taking the lead rather than potentially handing sensitive documents over to the offending company.

If the company wants to fight the block of acquisitions would foot the bill for everyone being supeonaed along with the FTC's expenses regardless of the case's success.
The categories come from the US government, I believe. The same reason why the data doesn't include non binary genders, for instance.
It's not idealistic, it's basic spycraft. Grab what you can before people know they need to hide it.
Loved the article. Specifically the chart of ML Knowledge vs. Software Eng knowledge. I don't know that I agree that ML is just a special type of software, but regardless I'm with you on "Model monitoring tools will merge with the DevOps monitoring stack. Probably sooner than you think."
That's squashing which could be achieved with rebasing, but rebasing is larger than that which allows you to order and edit your history.
If they turn out not to be a programmer, won't using Linux hurt them? Basically every other profession/industry either use windows-only software, or have some kind of policy to use windows (microsoft intune, etc...)
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Bull fucking shit. If CEOs can talk their way into predicting the economy, why the fuck are most companies firing large swaths of their workforce? Couldnt predict a tech recession after a global pandemic?
Why is that abhorrent to you?
With life experience and age, you really appreciate the opportunities like UMass Amherst and Northeastern for CS. But if you're a high school senior, it's really common that you don't really realize that in the moment, and feel hugely demotivated or even end up depressed at the start of university.

A lot of these people spend hours a week studying for the SATs and courses with the dream and imagination of getting into an Ivy League. You could say it's a misplaced effort, that these kids should lower expectations, and that these people should be happy with the opportunities they have, and there's merit.

But in the moment, it's a huge blow to feel like hard work just won't pay off, and it certainly caused depression among a few people I knew. This can be mitigated by good mentorship and parenting, but not all people end up with good mentors, and parents who didn't experience the process might not understand it either.
Afaik you can't see your own stories as [dead] even if they are, so called shadow-banning. I clicked the 'vouch' link now but it's still blocked. Seems a domain block starting 2017 though not sure why. You'd need to contact the moderation (link in the footer) to check further.
Funding schools based on local property tax was institutionalized as a way to ensure rich people don’t have to pay for poor people’s education.
Which is surprising considering how bad it is.
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The individual likelihood is not <1%. It's probably more like 10-15% per person. some would be low some much higher. But I wasn't the only employee there there was around 12 employees in that office. There were several who were > 50 years old and in the high risk category which could put them up to 25%.

So given this plus your statement about the £1100 for a brand new one divided by the lifespan which I think is 5-10 years for each £110 per year I would say the value my life < £1000.

The CEO himself was very high risk and had actually been in the hospital recently for a suspected heart attack (a small one that didn't require intervention).

> Imagine if there was a meteor shield the company could buy for £250

The chance of being hit by a meteor is several orders of magnitude smaller than having a heart attack so this comparison is invalid.

A better comparison is being in a car crash and yes if they didn't spend £250 per 5 years to drastically improve my chance of dying in a car crash my life is worthless to them.

The company never listened to me on any of my suggestions so I think they were not listening and just denied my request the same as ever other request of mine they denied. I once asked for a new mouse and they denied that as well some CEOs are just like that.
I can work remote from Maine for a week with limited internet access. I'm not working any extra, I'm just choosing what environment I want to work in.
> It provides guarantees to contributors and users that community participation will be welcoming and inclusive and harassment will not be tolerated.

I had no idea harassment and inclusiveness were problems so easy to solve that simply writing a manifesto would suffice. Silly schools for not thinking of it earlier.
I figured this was done purposely to drive users to native apps, where more device data could be collected than could be through a standard browser.
The U.S. also has an additional problem where it doesn’t really agree on what USPS is supposed to be.

Half the country believes it should be a public service and therefore it should serve everyone even if they’re unprofitable subsidized by government money.

The remaining half believes it should be a self sustaining service that can compete with the likes of UPS and FedEx. However, they’re unwilling to accept the necessary destruction of mailing routes this would require (its hard to see how shipping letters to any non urban core would be profitable and/or how shipping prices wouldn’t rise to far above what FedEx/UPS charge today, for all the services, because of the next group).

The final, but probably most powerful, group are private logistics companies that absolutely love the fact that they can offload their unprofitable routes and services onto USPS. USPS becoming a self sustaining service would mean that all the end-user costs would rise for FedEx/UPS as well, since they will no longer be able to offload the most expensive parts of their service to USPS anymore.
I have another spin on it. Of those demographics, asians tend to be very recent migrants (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/09/asian-ameri...) and migrants tend to be very hard-working within the first generation of migration (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/07/12/ten-way...). Some of this could be selection bias (those who choose to move are those who are motivated to seek a better life).

I did get a little confused from how we went from Asians doing well in Michigan means the PRC is going to dominate the engineering sector. There seems to be an implication that these are connected. Its my understanding that these demographic data would represent South, SE, and East Asia as part of the same demographic.

Also, his top observation:
> In the top band there are many more males than females.

Seems like it could be within a margin of error (3 v 5%). Also, there are more males in the bottom band than females (18 vs 14%). This seems spurious at best.

> 2. The Asian kids are hitting the ceiling on this test.
> 3. There are very few students from under-represented groups who score in the top band.

I also suspect that taking his next two observations together imply that he might have a bias against out-groups and in favor of his own in-group. Especially considering much of the topics in the comments section focus on the upcoming SCOTUS trial over affirmative action.
Very good project. duckyPad looks good as well.

guiltily look at few raspberry pi I have lying around
Banks can give any reason why they won't finance, and MS will do so for EM as long as the risk-reward ratio of EM as a client is high enough.

Reasons could be - TSLA is volatile. The stock would fall if EM doesn't own enough share anymore, because of the risk of him leaving as CEO. Market conditions. "For reasons of their own"
This Reuters article is disingenuous at best.

They're downplaying the harm by changing the context.

Re: "found that 18% -- not one third -- experienced any detectable cardiac effect"

This research found 1:43 harm - because that harm included detection of damage to the heart via blood:

"Troponin blood test - troponin is a protein which is released into the blood stream when the heart muscle is damaged. The troponin level provides a quick and accurate measure of any heart muscle damage. It's used to help in the assessment following suspected heart attack."

Troponin was part of the research - and in 1:43 trooponin was detected post-shot vs. pre-shot.

And 1:301 is still extremely bad, no? Certainly you can make a judgement on that? It is actually harming 1:43 but even harming a heart - which is permanent damage as the heart doesn't heal - 1:301 of harming a young person's heart is completely unacceptable - especially when they're at very little risk of any significant harm, nowhere near 1:301 from COVID itself.

Also, 100% of the teens didn't recover after 14 days: there is permanent heart damage in 1:43.

They also focus on only including myocarditis numbers to make their numbers seem less worse (1:301 is still horrific) - by excluding the case(s) of pericarditis from their numbers.

Notice how Reuters is at the top of Google, and Reuters has routinely misled people to train them of these shallow-narrow talking points - to give them enough narrative to make them think the alarming research was less true than it actually is.
Hah now imagine using Teams through Citrix workspace.

One thing I've learned about Citrix is that its a startup company with limited resources to handle all the bugs and crusty corpocrapware layers. The client craps on my HDR setup. It install a ton of crap you don't need and it relies on crap like HDX software running on your machine that last time I've checked it didn't had ARM binaries but this tech is also unavailable for the iOS clients. Meanwhile RDP can do semi-decent multimedia stuff without any of this crap.
>> The SATs, particularly the mathematics score, is very much a reflection of your parents' willingness to push you academically.

What is the equitable solution to this then? You seem to be implying that SAT score differences are not inequitable but we know from recent research this is not true.
You made me curious: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3127/2006-3127.pdf

There is almost 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers)
of roads in the United States, with just over 45,000 miles [73,000 kilometers (km)] composing the Interstate Highway System (fig. 2) (Federal Highway Administration, 2004). The total distance
of U.S. roads combined could circle the Earth at the equator 160 times; the interstate highways, almost two times.

The analysis shows that a total of approximately 1.5 billion metric tons (Gt) of aggregates, 35 million metric tons (Mt) of asphalt, 48 Mt of cement, and 6 Mt of steel is in place in inter- state highways. These estimates illustrate the large quantities of these materials used in the Interstate Highway System.

This doesn't translate exactly to how much surface is covered, but I know locally all the highways are concrete. Also, placing sensors in 4M miles of roads is no small task.
> His account is suspended after his arrest, which is most probably due to fake reports from the cyber army

If this is actually the case, then the reporting system is incredibly broken.
my service was not reachable after two days running. guess the vm wakeup from a an external request was too slow.
It reasonably could be, if you are trying to undo systemic disadvantages that different groups have.

You have to make a conscious choice to accept some adjustments higher if the foundation is systematically unfair. It might feel unfair to the folks who benefit from systematic advantages early.
Original:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=biZwR6CzVzs
You definition of zero trust can never include the endpoint devices. Those get to see everything you type on them, and have the same level of access to your services that its user has.

Instead, with a remote desktop you are only adding a bit more of vulnerabilities. It can never remove any.

(About those others, there exist some nice works about program portability, that culminated on fully distributed OSes, but those have no adoption. Instead, people prefer to hack distribution over the piles of hacks that are modern OSes. Obviously, it doesn't work well.)
I think as a society we need to admit different race, in general, have different culture, values, and strengths. I don't even think that's a radical idea, but somehow it is. I have been watching this football competition youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbljwLslYI

The fun and athleticism you see is awe-inspiring, but I haven't seen a single Asian person competing or even at the event. My guess is a math competition would look a lot different.
I know it's not helpful at this point, but you really should have had a relationship with a lawyer already. But now is the next best time. This is just the first time you're running into issues. As you grow, you're almost guaranteed to hit more. You'd also be smart to have a lawyer available to review all of your intellectual property, terms of service, privacy policies, etc.

I'm just a solo punter myself, but having my legal counsel already setup, knowing that I can call them at any time, rather than having to scramble to find someone in the moment a problem happens, gives me a lot of peace of mind.

Given how you're positioned as an Open Source company, maybe the Electronic Frontier Foundation can help you find someone good.
If your content is black and white, just use a local contrast filter and then threshold it. It's easy to do, but it does result in monochrome so you lose antialiasing. If you're at 300+ dpi though that doesn't usually matter. This is commonly done with PDF scans where monochrome output is desired for high compression. Easy to do with ImageMagick.

If you want to preserve aliasing and also color generally, I'm sadly not aware of any open source solution for that. Various scanner apps seem to do it with varying degrees of success; I'd be curious if there's a standard algorithm for it. It feels related to the de-curving algorithms that take a book page and make it flat. So you'd be modeling both the page curvature and black/white values simultaneously. Seems possible for general lighting/shadow, but wouldn't work for reflectivity from camera flash.