skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone ever read a cover letter? In all my years of being an interviewer, HR has never once given me a cover letter along with the resume of the person I'm interviewing. I just assumed cover letters went straight to the trash because there's no way anyone in HR is going to have the time to read them all, let alone know enough about the role to glean anything useful from them.
It is racist, and also true. Which is a pretty tough conundrum for someone who doesn't want to be racist.

The best option I can think of is to be race blind (just ignore the race component, and don't even report it), and test each individual, while recognizing the biological component.

For the most part however, society has substituted "socioeconomic status" for "race", which sounds better, but, I think, doesn't work better.
It's really not. Earth's generally full of holes big and small. Water isn't.
I wonder how much of this is the "spite spending" effect. We've barely had 6 months of normalcy. People are sitting on some savings. Many haven't left the house or traveled freely for 2 years. Maybe that's why they're okay spending more than they usually would - just a "f*ck it" after 2 years of isolation.

Certainly was the case for me. I certainly overpaid for a lot of things recently. But we had our big festival here this week and now I'm tapped out. Next year will be a year of sobriety - at least for me.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but the way "autopilot" works in a private yacht is the captain turns it on and goes below deck and gets drunk with the rest of the crew. It just maintains a heading towards a destination at that point.

You learn very quickly on the water to get out of the way of large private yachts when in open waters. There is literally no one at the helm. Even if they did notice you, they aren't in a position to halt the boats travel.
Large companies have a ton of “cash” — but it’s not really cash, it’s parked in equities of other companies. If the whole market goes down and those equities are worth less, yes, the company is less valuable overall so market cap should be lowered but is it indicative of the company’s success as a business?
Yeah, my goal is to make a company as dependent upon me as possible in order to grow my income, not make it so I'm disposable.
> How often do criminal defendants get to read the internal deliberations of their prosecuting office, and before they're even charged?

There's really no reason this info should be secret. If you can provide extra info to persuade them not to charge you, then all the better - time saved for both parties.
It is essentially vaporvare.
I think the main issue is that hall monitor types are attracted to the power, and so if a HOA gets taken over by people who like judging others without any other major obligations, they lose sight of the reason for the HOA rules and enforce to the letter of the rules rather than the spirit.
first sentence:

"and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature"
I've seen many companies fail in this way. They see dollars signs and loose their way. Companies that make it long term focus on quality and customer satisfaction not maximum sales or taking advantage of a temporary peak in demand, at the cost of quality.
> who in their right mind would want to "punish" schools for having under-performing students? If anything it's a sign those schools may need more investment.

The US government who issues funding via Title 1 using a formula. In this case they take on people who legitimately should be held back, they fail the standardized tests, the government says "we can't give you more money because you're failing" and the cycle continues. Ostensibly this system worked because schools that cant raise low income/low education people up dont deserve money. The problem occurs when they also can't hold people back until they are up to the standard.

We aren't doing enough, and I agree, these schools shouldn't be punished.
Note this Bluetooth only.
Lol recruiters have all kind of tricks. I've been used by recruiters for positions that turned out that the recruiter knew I was horrible fit for, and I later realized I was being used as a guinea pig to discover the interview process for their favored candidates.
> Fortunately, however, that’s something only pilots will have to worry about, because the first flight after heavy maintenance is never conducted with passengers on board

whew : ) but yeah, a pretty epic save
I met my wife on Twitter in that timeframe.
PHP itself is pretty fast. It's the things that people do in PHP that get slow. Most of the Yahoo frontends were rebuilt in PHP in 200x because it was fast enough and much more usable than the thing they used before(trigger warning: hf2k)

Of course, people then go and build up sculptures of objects that will be thrown away after every request, and that stuff makes everything slow (that style of code is why PHP wasn't good enough for Facebook, IMHO), but you can build trash sculpture in any language.
The end result of encryption is a completely random string of bits. If you replaced an images raster with a properly sized blob of encrypted data (0 padding could be used pre-encryption to get the right size), you would get an image of pure static.

So if you randomly generated a stream of bits and put that in a photo, that would not be differentiable from an encrypted blob inside of a photo data structure.

That means the question is where do you hide a random string of 1's and 0's without it being obvious there is a string of 1's and 0's. The related question to a noisy photo is, is there structure to the noise? Random 1's and 0's is the opposite of structure. So trying to de-steganogra-fy a photo means looking for absence of structure.

This leads to the observation you are making, which is that the photo you choose has a great effect on the effectiveness of the stenography. If you photo-shopped together an image of a TV displaying static, you could put an encrypted blob in the static with all bits and have a cohesive photo. If you were to hide a payload in a completely black (#000000) picture, any strategy used would likely be obvious.

Stenography is very much "security through obscurity" compared to encryption which is security. The nature of encryption means that stenography is primarily about plausible deniability rather than being technically effective.
I didn't write to explain what an abstraction is, and I will assume you honestly meant to congratulate me instead of trying to be sarcastic. Thank you for that.

I have had two types of developers in my teams: one type that understands the underlying technology of the abstractions that they are using, and one type that only understands the layer/abstraction they are interacting with and blissfully clueless about anything underneath.

Neither group worries about transistors or proton decay in their hardware, and both can make 'things'. However, one group is much more capable of effectively building tools and understanding issues when something goes wrong in the chain, whereas the other group is regularly hopelessly lost because they have no clue of what is happening. I'll let you guess which is which.

This is not about worrying or even being bothered with details, but about understanding what you're working with.
Having wasted my time watching that I hope this comment can encourage others to not make the same mistake. Urgh.
Shows how effective they've been at their mission so far, doesn't it?

I suspect they may have nudged their statistics beyond the point where it can be excused as hyperbole. What is a "species" anymore? Does it often happen that a mother animal gives birth to multiple species in a single litter by their standards?
Often a task ends up requiring much more work than expected, or some more important task displaces sprint work, or you need to do something like prototyping or design work or customer consultation which can't be expressed well in terms of concrete deliverables. An environment where your boss is going to call you to account for only getting 2 points done last sprint when you were supposed to do 10 creates nasty incentives to avoid these things in favor of small easily-defined tasks.
At least you can revoke the star after the merge.
I maintain that the power of an intermittent generator should be considered in terms of watt-hours per year. Which is of course just watts, but collapsing the time terms obscures that it's a mean value, which the Whr/yr refuses to do.

Perhaps we could go full acre-foot here, and use the kilowatt-day per year. So a 100,000kWday/yr installation can provide 2kW to 500 homes for a hundred days.

Those of you who are aesthetically repelled by batteries using amp-hours instead of joules will really hate this one. But it gets at the difference between maximum continuous power, and total energy delivered per installation.

So, big 'it depends'. Anywhere where the wind averages the working speed more often than the sun averages the working luminosity will make wind cheaper in relative terms, and vice versa for solar.
While I understand the motivations for the investigation, and fully agree its an investigation worth conducting.

I dont think it actually has merit, at least not in the terms framed by the article.

In most circumstances it "probably is better than a human driver", not all circumstances, and not proven (hence probably).

But if LM can push the F35 as the best jet ever while it racks up a wreckage count to make the 737 Max jealous, claims made by Tesla arent even in the same ballpark....

It would be a real shame if we lose any chance of full self driving over a misunderstanding about the system being "not perfected yet"
Here are the listed payouts from the Apple Security Bounty program, starting at $25,000. https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/payouts/
Possibly related: learning is isomorphic to compression, and the two may be in fact fundamentally the same thing.
Also, I'm happy at least something is being done. It's just not a great way.
Elon at Twitter HQ
Is it happening?
How common are these Intel NICs?
Pff, that's modern C. K&R C was a bit more of a challenge. I wonder if there's any of my old industrial code on QNX still in operation? I wrote it in the early 90's after ANSI C was available as the ANSI compiler didn't interwork with the GUI.
Stock is down 12% after hours. If it sticks in the morning (and isn't just after hours being low-information) this is dramatic, given that the market had already priced in lower expectations after similar disappointing results from other companies.
The same way the c++ compilers, runtimes and standard libraries are implemented in c++.
It's not talked about more because it's a crazy conspiracy theory that has no merit. After all these years of scrutiny the worst vulnerability required physical access and disassembly in order to preform a hardware attack.

The people who believe this conspiracy theory, like many others, peddle misinformation to prove their point. No matter how much you try and debunk it you can't change their mind.
What are LOB and MDM?
Isn't the rustc compiler the runnable spec? I don't particularly see the need to build a parallel spec just for people who don't want to read the code.
It's foolish for the pure utilitarian to leave the human factor out of the equation. Or perhaps his error is to consider dollars to be the ultimate commodity. Really, we as humans work for a much more valuable commodity than money. The fighting of the war in the first place is a human attempt at creating a good story (of a country that actually realizes peace and prosperity). The saving of one man (whether soldier or civilian) is yet another attempt at such a story. It's the human way.
Really cool idea.

After choosing a problem, the endpoint you poll at https://sadservers.com/celery-progress/xxxx repeatedly returns {pending: true, current: 0, total: 100, percent: 0} for me.
> a bit like that [thing] ... where the whole world is just [office workers] writing about the decline of productivity instead of, you know, being productive.

Hacker News?
I think it depends on the phone.

The Google Pixel series seems pretty solid for reliability. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and it's been really good so far in terms of software and build quality. I strongly prefer it to my iPhone 13 Pro, which I'm currently selling off.

But iPhone vs Samsung Galaxy? iPhone wins by a mile. I never got used to the custom interface Samsung loaded onto those phones, and hated that it included Samsung-specific apps that just duplicated those already available by default on stock Android.
> I know who loves using Siri is my 70yr old dad.

My mother loves using Siri, she always uses it when she wants to look things up. It seems quite useful for people who aren't proficient at typing quickly, easier to ask Siri.
We do. Every time this topic comes up, everyone gets angry about something that doesn’t affect them, at all.
The thing is, if nothing you learn about reality can possibly cause you to change your mind about how you describe the nature of yourself, then your description of yourself doesn't seem very useful. If your claims like "I am conscious," "I have free will," etc. are compatible with all realities, then the claims don't really seem to have any epistemological status whatsoever.
> Everyone loved Musk, Trump, Oz, etc before they became politicians.

Musk has been controversial since the hyperloop, and certainly plenty of people hated him for many years for a variety of reasons. I could recap, but that's been out for years so you can probably fill them all in. Which is my point.

I have no idea who you thought loved Oz or Trump. Oz peddled scam cures. Trump was a failed real estate baron/casino operator/etc who played less of a failure on TV.

And Oz and Trump had failing TV shows. Oz was down 17% YoY right before he announced, putting him in 10th in the timeslot and Trump was also down like 17% YoY for a few years in a ro) before they hopped into politics. But even the people impressed by "can get on TV" faded on them.

I do feel that the Republican voting population and the audience for those shows had a significant overlap. Leading people likely to vote for them to think there was a sudden shift.
I'm also surprised that they haven't focused more on giving businesses tools to communicate and sell to customers better through WhatsApp and Instagram. Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience. Instagram is the de-facto discovery and social tool in India.

Yet from a business' perspective, the experience is really poor. Most have to rely on third party tools to sell and chat with customers.
Full form should be "if statements with extra steps" :).

(Personally, I feel "linear regression" is a better substitute phrase.)
Any alternatives that anyone could suggest for young children looking to get an introduction to robotics?
OK, I'll watch your repo and track the updates and see when you release the JS/TS port and then I'll a give it a try and port it to Ruby and send it your way.

Best wishes
From the website:

> Note that this site NOT meant to be very pedagogical. I avoid texts with lots of colorful but distracting pictures from authors who try hard to be funny. Also, the subjects included are somewhat focused towards my own interests.

LIST OF SUBJECTS, IN LOGICAL ORDER ARE ON THE SIDE. (Not everything has to be done in this order, but this approximately indicates the logical coherence of the various subjects. Some notes are at a higher level than others).

> Still, an important thing for a physics undergrad student to realise is that they can't learn everything.

I mean I “get” what you’re saying, but it’s such a vague notion in this context. You can learn precisely as much as you are willing to. I’m not even a physics major (CprE undergrad, SE by trade), yet I have a working understanding of Schrödinger equation mathematics. This was not born out of elective or required study, I taught myself QM post-graduation with a textbook & MIT-OCW. I worked through the textbook up to TISE. I went back and relearned Frobenius method to understand how the 3D hydrogen atom results in these wild ass wave equations. My point is I’m in an adjacent field (that I’m already continually extending my knowledge in) and I can still find time to climb the modern phys ladder if/when I feel like it.

And then on top of that, like I said this website is a shopping list for “would-be crewmen”, so I think it’s reasonable to assume the man is listing everything he has studied, so you can “study everything”. Now maybe what you mean to say is you can’t go deep in everything. But you can become conversationally proficient across subjects, so that you can be able to ask the right questions.

In general, “you can’t study everything” seems vague or off-topic.
Not even when it opened at the last moment?

I don’t know how fast he was falling, but even in water it seems almost impossible
Why does the start date have to be at least 10 days in advance?
It is definitely arbitrary but part of me does think that surfacing such a bug is pretty important and if the monetary incentive was higher then we would have more white hat pentesters out there.
Is a 75% headcount reduction enough?
You find what you look for. If you look for humble posts they are there to be found. But you don't want to, so you won't find them.
So he should have sold this? He’s always seemed like a good person to me who would do that.

Sit on it knowing others may find it and users are at risk?

Who cares he got paid. That’s not why he did it, he found it while developing one of his apps and reported it. Good for him.

It’s nice Apple paid him. I can understand thinking it should have been more. But what ethical alternative is there to reporting it?
Is that your quote or did you get it from somewhere? It’s really good.
Yes, the question is how to permanently restrict the attack surface / time windows for audio and video surveillance attacks.
We don’t have such a service but it would be nice if a dry cleaning service will pick up once a week and drop off same day next week for another pick up.

That is exactly the service I have.
After almost 20 years of doing business isn’t it about time that Facebook starts to position itself as a value company rather than a growth company?

Realistically they had one big growth avenue and that was acquisitions but the regulatory (or rather political) environment doesn’t allow for it.

I get that it is hard to let go of that growth mindset after 20 years of crazy growth but at some point the journey ends and you have to reorient the business (imo). I am not saying stop investing but scale it down a notch, set realistic budgets, pay a dividend or buyback stock. Maybe if they had shifted their mindset away from growth at all cost earlier they wouldn’t have gotten such a bad rep.

I feel the same about Google. I wonder how much money their non-ad, non-cloud stuff made of its life time and if it has been profitable.

In the end the goal of a company (whether you agree with it our not) is not to get as big as possible but to generate as much cash for its shareholders as possible. And I think Facebook over extended with going all in on Meta.

But perhaps I am looking at this with too much hindsight.
This started out as hilariously funny...until it faded into jealousy. Times like these, i almost wish society was organized into equal pay and benefits for everyone. Yes, yes, i know i sound like communist/socilaist (n othing wrong with that by the way)...But honestly, i felt like things were not fair *before* seeing that video...But now, i feel worse. /sigh
The story I was thinking of is of Nicholas Alkemade, linked elsewhere in this discussion. He was a Lancaster tail gunner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

The story I linked to above is of Alan Magee, a B-17 ball turret gunner who fell through the glass roof of the Saint Nazare train station.

They’re not the same story, but boy are they similar!
Well, Apple has already tried Universal Purchase, Catalyst, and iOS apps on Apple silicon, but none of that has moved the needle.
I think for every spite spender there is at least one other person who is habitually cautious now. I have found it harder to get some people to go out and do things.
I'll take the other side of that bet.

Fossil and nuclear plants routinely run at 90% of nameplate capacity. If a gas plant is down more often than that, it's because that plant is a peaker, which exists to make up for things like, say, the wind dying down.

I'm sure there's a somewhat tedious discussion to be had about how France's recent adventures with their decaying nuke plants affect that 90%. Have at it if this interests you.
Oof. I was blaming myself for broking the hinge on mine (XPS 13 9350 (2016)). Didn't know this was so common.

I fixed mine by gluing it with epoxy, and filled another part that was broken off with epoxy paste (it has a consistency like playdough).
Even worse, Control Panel buttons only "suspend" BT/WiFi, you have to go into Settings to turn them off again ... and again ... and again.
If he does lay off 75% of the staff as he's indicated Twitter would be profitable overnight.
I know it's on top of mind when I'm commuting in my F35. /s

Comparing a military jet which operation requires thousands of hours of training just to get off the ground compared to a mass produced vehicle is not a valid comparison, at least in my mind. Plus what LM pushes to its stockholders is definitely not as comprehensive as the Pentagon gets.
I just saw the demo of SSH looks very similar to Teleport and StrongDM.

I think both the solution solve this problem gracefully and has been around doing this.

[1] https://goteleport.com

[2] https://www.strongdm.com
It was comedy though, right? Making fun of "Day in the life of..." videos.
This is a poor blanket statement. This is not true in California.
Erector sets were incredible, as a kid I built RC cars out of those with some over-powered motors and such. Super fun times.

I would guess Mindstorms gives more of an intro to programming, while Erector is better for mechanical engineering.

(also, hey! I was that weird kid at Handmade Seattle last year who asked to shake your hand :) )
Because the legal departments don't have veto power on anything. In-house counsel is just that - counsel, but in-house instead of some outside firm. Managers are free to ignore anything their lawyers say, just as you can ignore anything your lawyers say.

The lawyers will cover themselves by writing memos about how they "informed the client to not do thing X, but they indicated that they don't care," but because those are work product, they're confidential. They're only for future malpractice suits, should they come.
I disabled it all the day it came out.

I briefly enabled so I could text mum to say when I was nearly home. Avoids sneaking a traffic light text. Turns out it was waaaaaaaay more distracting and time consuming to get siri to text a single word, so back into the box it went
Erector was discontinued before Mindstorms were launched, and were not programmable.

Mecanno brand has programmable robots, but not the range of sensors that Mindstorms had.
> It happens every time.

Citation needed please
Something I find interesting about this discussion is that Rust seems to be held to a significantly higher standard than any other language developed in the last 30 years.

I don't think Rust needs a standard. I don't think it needs a stable ABI. I don't think it needs a second or third implementation. My argument is pretty simple: there are dozens of other language projects that have none of these things and have seen a lot of success. Yet these criticisms are rare of other languages - I don't think I've ever seen someone lament that Swift or Go or Typescript or Dart or $ANY_LANG don't have an ISO spec. That doesn't mean myself and others can't see the value in these features but it does seem to be a weird critique.

The better question is to state more explicitly the preconditions: C and C++ have a specification. Does Rust need one before it can replace C and C++ in projects? And I think the answer is "it depends but probably not for most projects."