skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closures are implemented as objects under the skin, but that doesn't make them equivalent conceptually to me. I suppose it's down to syntax, after all if you ignore that you can have anything you like in assembler, but it won't feel very high level.
>someone else who posted that they would not expect even half of software developers, to be actually writing code.

I don't think anyone actually said that.
That's maybe a different problem. If their assessments are stuff that looks completely unlike what you've worked on before, are you switching fields? If you're in web programming, are you switching to embedded or databases or something? Or are they just using different frameworks or styles or something that you need to catch up on?
Yeah there’s a whole back story about bringing over inoculated trees and then waiting years for them to spread and be harvestable, IIRC
Safe bivalve consumption is so water quality sensitive it seems like a no-brainer that we'd want to maximize regulated levels of harvesting+consumption.

If nobody's eating them nobody cares when their waters become too polluted to try.
mac1.metal
Pros and Cons of Suns (Flame On)
Thanks for the comment :) This made my day. I suppose at the end of the day besides reaching the highest number, reading the descriptions is what the game is about ;) I think you reached the "end" because there isn't really anything after that.

I don't have the code open source. But it's basically 1 gameloop LiveView with a big list of assigns, and 2 long lists of technologies and buildings with a bunch of helper functions.
Chocolate Keen - A Reverse Engineering of Commander Keen (Playable In-Browser)
That's probably why we are seeing a bunch of these "how to use mastodon" posts now, because people are trying to drum up engagement. This one even recommends one specific server.

I encourage everyone to try joining some mastodon server, usually the only cost is your time. But it is a very different social network and people should set their expectations accordingly.
On AMD Zen and later that is true, but on Intel the BIOS is still responsible for DRAM init (done via Intel's FSP)
this is something that humans do seamlessly and you don't realize because you're probably robot. but we look eachother in the eyes, hand wave, point, etc. not always (these are the asshole drives) but you get the point. humans are superior and always will be until it's completely computer cars on the road that are networked so they can be networked the same way humans are networked to gether.
These ratios are still much better than state prisons. I have visited both kinds.
Fair point. I would estimate digital nomads are less than 10% of the total market. I do suspect they have an outsize effect, especially the ones who are “influencers”.
The GitHub repo for the book includes all the text and all the code. I’d like to put them side-by-side, so that as I read the narrative I can run and debug the code that’s being described. Here’s how I’m doing that in VSCode.
A lot of people who don't like Musk would like to use a different platform, and there's increasing concern that Twitter goes under now. But I don't think anyone is actually leaving. They are addicted to Twitter, and everybody seems to complain that Mastodon is hard to use, even the more tech savvy.
> This sounds like a nice way to keep yourself trapped in an information bubble.

Not from a good source. As GP put it:

> I do expect The Atlantic to explain these culture groups to me in a language I understand
So, just to clarify your point, are you saying that your personal location information should not be private?

Note: I'm not making any claims about the real world where dozens of apps are continuously feeding your location information to various databases.
Ah, right, thanks for reminding me that his is actually Sanxion. For a very long time I only knew it from some cracktro.

You’re right, there’s something funky going on after 1:20 of High Times which I don’t remember from the original game. The HVSC version played in Modizer sounds better to me than that YouTube version, might be an emulation issue.
It’s essentially unheard of to have someone die because a resident made a mistake on call.

On-call medicine is so rote as to not require much, if any, thinking. Ward medicine is far less intellectually challenging than teaching.

Patients who are active/critical are not managed by a single tired resident overnight.
I think we've fixed the bugs you're referring to—could you give it another shot? You can trigger commands by pulling up the cmd-k menu at the bottom of the screen.
The cliché is "Someone tells you it is raining. Someone tells you it is sunny. A journalist's job is not to report both sides; it's to look out of the expletive window."
This is tyranny. If you're willing to pay desalination prices for water, you should be allowed to use as much of it as you want, no matter how wasteful your purposes are.
> But why would police treat a peeping tom differently when they do the same thing? It's so hypocritical.

For the same reason that, when the police restrain you against your will and lock you in a cage, it's an arrest, but if you do it, it's assault and kidnapping.
It can't go down without Ethereum going down, in the same way several blockchains contain child porn that can never be removed without taking down the entire chain.

Yet donations have been refused out of fear of being branded with the USA's sanctions for dealing with a sanctioned company.
There is no way you can complete Quake on Nightmare using Apple Watch.
> The suit, as described, leaves a lot of questions.

Here's what the suit alleges:

>To increase adoption, starting on June 15, 2021, DPH worked with Google to secretly install the Contact Tracing App onto over one million Android mobile devices located in Massachusetts without the device owners’ knowledge or permission. When some Android device owners discovered and subsequently deleted the App, DPH would re-install it on to their devices.

https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Complaint_W...

Google made a statement confirming that the app was pushed by the Play Store at the time:

>We have been working with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to allow users to activate the Exposure Notifications System directly from their Android phone settings. This functionality is built into the device settings and is automatically distributed by the Google Play Store

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/even-creepier-covid-...
The only evidence I can find on the cilantro thing is actually that people who react badly to it can’t taste the good bit that the rest of us can. There’s a 2008 NPR article about putting it through a gas chromatograph that’s an interesting read.
I said in my post I have and continue to make those calculations. You can’t be successful in any endeavor without. But notice I said the ratio is wrong. It’s not 10/90, it’s 90/10.

I also said if the goal is to rebuild twitters culture in a different mold then this is a way to do it. But it is not about identifying the 10%, it’s about identifying the people who map to the intended culture. That’s fine too. But they are driving away the force multipliers by doing this, and creating a reputation that will drive them away. That’s because force multipliers necessarily love the people individually they work with. They aren’t making the cold calculations you’re talking about, and they are generally repulsed by them. And you can’t have an excellent engineering culture based on mercenaries.

You don’t have to believe me. This is just my observations after decades of being involved in these things directly and being the one making the cold calculations.
Computer assisted proof is not a new idea. The most famous example is the four color theorem, which (as far as I know) does not have a humanly understandable proof. For this particular proof, it looks like the computer assisted part would be similar to writing down hundreds of pages of checkable inequalities. One way to do this is to use interval arithmetic, which always guarantees the answer is within the a certain given interval.

Mathematicians have split opinions about computer assisted proof. On one hand, there doesn't seem to be a real difference between one page of checkable inequalities vs 500 pages of checkable inequalities. On other other hand, computer assisted proof do not help humans gain clarity on the logical process. The fear is that the computer result will just be an "one and done" result, which people believe is true, but cannot build upon because they don't fully understand it.
NASA orders press not to photograph launch site after moon mission takes off
> secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app

The Register's article is a complete shitshow in emulating the confusing language from the lawsuit. Luckily the complaint itself [1] refers to an Ars Technica article from 2021 which finally explains a bit more [2].

[1] https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Complaint_W...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/even-creepier-covid-...
The fact they renamed human genes because they were importing it in Excel in a way it thought they were dates and was changing them says a lot.

Can you really trust the scientific results if they depend on software made by people who don't care about code quality?
Not everyone can walk and cycle. I am glad you can.
- "the ban was apparently an attempt to save face after the launch damaged the tower"
That's not really a gotcha or a surprise to anyone, most people preaching anti-white rhetoric are white.

Do you remember all those times politicians introduced laws to ban encryption in order "to fight pedophiles"? If opposition to pedophilia makes you uncomfortable ... and so on and so on.
There is a word for unelected groups that have power over you. The word is tyranny.
Redshift is a columnar database like BigQuery, so wouldn’t be based on an OLTP DB like Postgres. More I work for Google disclosures, but I think BQ kicks Redshifts butt.
100%.

I too remember the meteoric and completely organic growth of Twitter where overnight every major media platform from TV to Newspapers fell in love with Twitter and pushed it like it hard. Totally organic growth.
These should be separate in academia.

SWEs cannot write code that maps equations that may change daily completely due to modeling / assumptions change.

Too much focus on modularizing, premature optimization, useless unit testing etc. Who cares about all these if the underlying model is wrong?

If things are stable enough to go into production then the code should leave academia and be re-written properly by SWEs, not by clueless bio phds.
In this particular instance, color me naive.

You're saying a State Government can request Google installs a 3rd party app on 1 million phones? If that's true then I'm genuinely astonished. And more so that it wasn't headline news at the time.

Or maybe there's more to this than currently is apparent.
Molecular Biology of the Cell got me extremely excited about genetics and bioinformatics, highly, highly recommend this book to any software person I meet who is interested in biology.

As to the work environment, it seems to be extremely varied depending on the lab and team your on. I came from a number of years doing web development in marketing and finance before joining an R1 university research lab, and in many ways the day-to-day is quite similar in both fields. You are not the 'go-to' person for most things, but with that said, even as an individual contributor I feel my voice is heard on technical decisions where appropriate. As for pay, it's the biggest aspect that will make me leave at some point. If you do not have a PhD, or even a degree in my case, you can't expect to get paid a lot. As to the speculation on the satisfaction of the work, it is indeed deeply satisfying!

I got to have a conversation with one of the hero donors that gave a kidney biopsy after a life-saving transplant. It's hard to overstate just how impactful your work feels when talking to someone like that. Even as a small cog in the larger machine (our lab is around 50 strong with many people being at the top of their sub-fields), the end results of the effort will be massive improvements in individuals quality of life, this alone makes it quite easy to get out of bed in the morning.
Or wifi that can see through walls. Etc etc.

It’s to the point where we need a new amendment to bolster the 4th in the modern era.

Not saying we SHOULD need one. Because I agree the spirit (and honestly the letter) of the 4th covers us. But clearly bad actors are winning the fight right now.
The article is dated yesterday, but last week Musk cancelled the $8 blue check feature.
I think it was always carefully phrased (by the PL gov anyway) as "Russian-made" missile. Which could be either Ukraine or Russia.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-oil-and-gas-pipel...

Keep in mind Turkey and Caucasian nations are in Asia...
It always comes down to "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the eyes of that particular judge.

I don't think nosy neighbors should be illegal, for instance, but if they choose to plant something inside your property, then they should be in big trouble.
1. Some background process, probably part of Google Play services, installed the app. Users were not notified that the app was installed. Eventually the app, once already installed and running, would put up a notification asking if the user wanted to participate.

The app was intentionally subtle, in that it had no application icon, which would presumably make it very difficult for user to disable contract tracing if they had enabled it. If you managed to uninstall the app, it would get reinstalled silently again.

2. The lawsuit alleges that there was no legal requirement or court order. Even if there had been, the lawsuit argues that the conduct would still have violated federal and state law and constitutions.

It is really pretty shitty, and, IANAL, probably is/was illegal, with the caveats that (a) I'm not sure whether Massachusetts or Google or both should be considered responsible; and (b) they might try to argue that a user's acceptance of Google's ToS and privacy policy constitutes permission.
> Current state of autonomous driving is not sophisticated enough to predict cars crossing lanes that's turning and crossing your lane from oncoming traffic.
This is just completely false. AV software stacks absolutely can and do predict off-nominal behavior like you describe. In general they predict better than humans, too.

you're talking about using a lidar and some object detection (for car and other large objects) to predict human behavior. you obviously don't realize that the human behavior is in the other car with eyeballs, mouth, head movement, body movement. that part is 100% not being tracked. that part is 100% human behavior. and that's where 100% of car movements start. - so everything that the "AV" is predicting as what you call "human behavior" is super old information because the human in another car is full seconds ahead of doing whatever the computer is reacting to later. the computer sees objects move around and these movements are seconds after the human brain has caluclated it's behavior and already executing. the computer is not solving the human part which you claim it does.

watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJD5R_yQ9aw where a car is stopping in busy road trying to merge into the next lane. are you serious?

> Alas, essentially 100% of accidents happen with a human behind the wheel. Humans vastly overestimate their ability to avoid accidents when in control
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> The computer sees cars that are going to run red lights, at great distances, with complete certainty, and without overlooking any of them. The example you have chosen is one in which the self-driving system is indisputably superior.
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when you're merging into a right lane from a left lane for example on a two lane road the av cannot tell if the person is gonna let you in. humans are supreior because we can communicate with eachother and you can predict what the other car will do because you can see a persons eyeballs, body lang, etc and communicate with them without words which we all do as we drive. hand waves, pointing, head nods, etc. a computer has no idea. and unitl they're all networked or something it's gonna be hard.

humans communicate seamlessly and if you don't realize it, it's probably because you're a robot. but normally we look each other in the eyes, hand wave, point, etc. not always (these are the asshole drivers) but you get the point. humans are superior and always will be until computer cars are networked so they can commuicate behavior to eachother the same way humans do.

so vis-à-vis the transitions are so off an irregular that you're gonna get hit or rear ended
The bit about storage not being possible was something I wish I knew a year ago. We went to a fine dinning restaurant and bought a good-sized whole white winter truffle for the table that was shaved on to various dishes over the evening. At the end of the night we still had most of it left, so I put it in the fridge, thinking I could use it again in a couple of weeks.

Expensive mistake. It was total garbage.
So it's just another closed-source Chromium-based browser? Why even bother switching away from Chrome then?
Use Narrator, Window's built in screen reader, or, even better, install NVDA. It's free and open source. It's also the majority screen reader on Windows. (If you're on a Mac, you've got VoiceOver built in.)
This is tangentially related to what I'm currently doing.

I basically work in EdTech. The company is not an EdTech company, it's a education services company. I was hired on to develop software that we couldn't find in the market[0].

I'm the process of building this thing, we've been attending and speaking at conferences in our industry. And I'm seeing a lot of the same stories: academia is trying to do research, the research fundamentally requires software to make the research happen, the quality of the software can have a huge impact on results, but because software development is tangential to the research goals, there's little to no allocation to software developers. This leaves the researches to cobble together a solution that maybe kinda fulfills their need, not corky, and certainly not perpetually (a lot of reliance on trial software and services).

We would love to offer our software to researchers in our field. We've gotten feedback from several that what we are building is exactly the sort of thing they need. But they have no money, and even if we were in a position to give it away for free, we can't even make those connections come to fruition.

So I don't know what to do. I really am thinking of starting to give it away for free, because at least we'd benefit from more research results in our field pricing the efficacy of our approach. But that's a really slow burn.

[0] Specifics don't matter, but if you're curious, I make a VR environment for foreign language training emphasizing culture.
> Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention?

Kindof true. Platforms need a ton of maintenance - but usually the fires needing to be put out are because of other human changes.

Stuff like disk space, certificate expiration etc etc will bring down a platform without maintenance though.
Is Burnout a Form of PTSD?
Used it for a few weeks, absolute trash. There is a lot that is noticeably missing if you've ever used Slack. Org ended up on Mattermost, it has its quirks (like delayed notifications) but we're very happy.
From the lawsuit: "The exchanged data, both random and non-random, are time-stamped and stored in each device alongside other personal identifiers, including the device owner’s MAC address, wireless network IP addresses,
phone numbers, and personal emails. When this stored data is written onto mobile devices’ system logs, it becomes available to DPH, Google, application developers, device manufacturers, network providers, and other third parties with access to the logs. DPH and third parties can use the MAC address of a device owner and other personal identifiers to trace the logged data back to determine the individual identity of the owners."
> The "Russia blew up the pipeline" idea makes absolutely no sense. And if there was any evidence to support it, you know that the whole of Western media would be shouting it from every rooftop. But instead we have silence, and concerns over "national security"

Indeed. With every day that goes by without NATO publicly publishing proof of Russia being the culprit, Russian responsibility seems less likely. If Russia did it, going public with that proof would be great for America/NATO and harmful to Russia.
Since my post was upvoted a tad... I'll give more feedback about the Broad.

When I joined, it was running really like an academic center. Like literally in my lab, if I wanted to go into the lab and pipet and do library prep, the wet lab scientist would teach me and vice versa. It was lit. a place where anybody could pivot their career to anything. We worked on NIAID/NIH grants and went to conferences even as SWE's and I felt we were doin' important research - not just pipeline monkeys but actually performed important analysis like RNASeq differential analysis, ChIPSeq peak calling, metagenomics etc. on publications along with PhD scientists even if I didn't have the academic credentials. Groups within the Broad was running courses for Software Engineers to learn Biology... and you could literally take off middle of day to go across the street to Stata Center to attend lectures on ML or audit Comp Bio at MIT. Nobody would bat an eye. 75% of my group got a Masters degree on the job where we spent more time some months on classes than actual work.

The culture somewhere shifted around 2018-2019... where they brought in new management to run DSP (Data Science Platform where most SWE's likely end up). The DSP management (not the chief guy) but lieutenants ran the "tech playbook"... get PM, Scrum/Agile coaches in; make software and comp biologists line workers.A lot of my fav. people either left or got pushed out.
A lot of intuitional knowledge about sequencing and biology got lost, self-driven people left and line workers to work on Portal web development and Data pipeline management came in. To the point where I presented once to the software engineers of DSP and nobody in the room even knew the basic's like what is a long or short reads is. I left soon afterwards to a place where I wouldn't be silo'd. I wouldn't recommend the Broad to anybody now... unless you're working for an academic group. Avoid platform groups (DSP mostly; other platforms are still good) if you want to learn & grow.
A: The goal of my current project is to identify novel pandemics, even if they're caused by something we've never seen before, most likely by looking at growth patterns. At a broader scale, I'm trying to learn enough about working in this field that I'll be able to contribute on whatever future projects seem most appropriately important to me.

B: unlike my previous work, I'm back to being an individual contributor. Very few meetings, mostly coding and analysis. Current thing is trying to understand what drives per-sample variability in wastewater sequencing data.

C. Our group is currently philanthropically funded, and is focused on determining whether/how this is possible/practical.

D. I'm mostly working in (bio)python, with a few bits written in C and gluing things together with bash.

E. I was most recently working on (a) JS infrastructure to fetch and render ads and (b) working with browsers on platform features that would improve privacy, security, and efficiency.
Wickr is hardly the only platform with end-to-end encryption not requiring phone numbers. The same applies to Matrix, for example. That's not a valid rationale or explanation for shutting down a platform.