skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived through an acquisition in the teens that I feel was an illustrative story. An old financial services provider embarked on a massive, whole organization modernization effort. The new CEO went all in and actually made the necessary investment in staff and headcount, which was remarkable in itself.

A big part of the effort involved providing customers with big data solutions and all the implied benefits that would entail. They jumped aboard the hype train with gusto. Each quarter progress was reported and margins improved with a clear upward trend. From the trenches it was clear that even with the investment made, it was still not enough to reach any of the goals.

After a year of “modernization” the company was acquired, the buyer literally salivating over the coming profit margin increase and “synergies” in selling into related markets. After another year post acquisition it became clear that the benefits were simply out of reach, and the profits did not arrive. The acquiring company was left with the low margin business it had always been. Layoffs ensued as the buyer sought to salvage something from the transaction.

Turned out the entire modernization and big data effort had been an elaborate bait and switch committed by the board and CEO of the acquired company, masterfully executed.
I think it's possible. I feel like even the most normal people can have an off day when they just want to be assholes to people for whatever reason. (I've personally done this, and later regretted.) So maybe the sales folks or bartenders are seeing those people on their off days.
Reanalysis of mRNA Trial Data
This is generalizable. "____ is useful" is rarely (ever?) true by itself. Gasoline? Solar Panel? Turbine? Wings? Extra Food? Fertilizer?
I agree, that's why I made this : https://github.com/smallbard/SharpLogic to embed it in c# (in order to use it as easily as Linq).
It's a work in progress (a very fun one!)
I work in a Rust codebase that uses a lot of functional functions, and I’ll say this: on average the imperative style takes less lines of code and less indentation. I also find it more readable personally, and idiomatic.
I think most workers in tech and in most industries can recognize many areas of waste and inefficiency at their employer that have nothing to do with interest rates.
I feel like a union would do really well in situations like the layoffs at twitter.
The CA HSR began under Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, and was planned by a Republican administration.

This is why the train detours through the highly Republican Central Valley rather than directly connecting LA and SF.
As a data scientist, I think most data is useless, but there is an addictive, video game-like quality to throwing lifeless spreadsheets into a machine and having colorful visualizations come out. It's kind of like a very boring video game for adults that makes them feel like they're working, when they're actually just enjoying colorful abstract shapes and colors. To be honest, this is probably a sizable piece of why I'm in this line of work.
It was also (needlessly) using 2 different compilers, MSVC and LLVM. This is just a bad way to compare things all around.

And, for simple operations like this, you really should just look at the assembly output. If you are only generating 20ish instructions, then look at those 20 instructions rather than trying to heuristically guess what is happening.
My wife works as a marketing consultant for major US corporations (including but not limited to FAANG). In pitching to companies, her company explicitly (and cringeingly) advertises their diversity—race, gender, nationality, languages spoken, etc and their commitment to DEI. Her company holds DEI meetings internally and with clients where they basically cite disparities out of context and get collectively (and performs timely) angry about them. To be clear, her company is not in the DEI space, it’s just a competitive advantage to get contracts. In meetings with her coworkers (1:1 or group), no one is mocking DEI at all—there are lots of True Believers and others who just don’t want to rock the boat (including my wife, for better or worse), but no one is openly critical (subjectively, people are definitely afraid to be seen as failing to toe the party line).

Previously, she worked at a non-profit which was also not DEI affiliated but was obsessed with DEI stuff. Again, no one was openly critical of anything remotely DEI related.

I’ve had similar experiences at every company I’ve worked for as a software engineer.

I’m not arguing that our experiences are THE experience, but there are definitely a lot of places that take DEI super-seriously. My thesis isn’t “DEI is taken super seriously everywhere”, but rather that how seriously it is taken isn’t evenly distributed across the country or across industries.
This x 10000 ! If I had a dime for every time I provided this exact feedback in code reviews…I find surprising that a lot of devs in tech industry are obsessed with pointless micro optimizations and they don’t care about writing maintainable, testable simple code. My final comment is always to not outsmart compilers/jvm because they tend to do a much better job that developers.

Please, don’t optimize unless you have reasons to do so and numbers backing that up.
What about them? Doesn't look to me they are part of the US.
Agree with this. I'm a huge proponent of static typing systems and good languages, so seeing Godot create their own language was a huge sticking point for me - I even created a typescript to gdscript compiler! But after a while, I realized that GDScript was remarkably productive, even though it lacks a lot of the bells and whistles that I'm accustomed to.
I've found that a lot of people in our industry (higher than 5%, probably much higher the smarter they are) have BPD or are on the spectrum which causes anger issues when things don't fit the pattern or outcome they're expecting.

I'm not saying that to disparage these people, but I've learned to be careful in how I interact with certain people, especially as that top tier of brilliant engineer are the ones I want to learn from and respect, technically. They literally don't know they're being awful, but in realizing the deficits here -- even they do not -- it helps in not dismissing certain people or just throwing them into the 'crappy' bucket.
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And a good brand for single-hand watches: http://meistersinger.com/
Facebook’s hardware ambitions are undercut by its anti-China strategy
> does that vindicate the idea that tech workers should have codified the benefits they enjoyed during the good times, through unionizing?

It seems like one is unrelated to the other. The goal is good — to get back to the good times. But the path from here to there seems unlikely to pass through a union, at least for most tech workers.

It would help to list some of the perceived benefits of unionizing. Then we’d be able to quantify an answer. Without a specific target, it’s hard to say whether a certain proposal might get there.

Later: The recent layoffs are a good example of one of the benefits of unionizing. Theoretically, companies would have a tough time reducing head count if we were organized. But that raises the question of whether 14 weeks of severance is sufficient. For me it would’ve been, but there are a great many who wouldn’t have.

Are there other benefits besides layoff protection? Discussions like these often focus on the downsides of unionization. It’s hard to recall one extolling the virtues.
It seems like a somewhat weird mismatch — the described benefits are things like curriculum improvements and hiring better instructors, which I think most people (including most professors, I think, despite the fact that they’d be on the receiving end of this) would be in favor of.

But including security cameras in the list of tools seems… odd? What would they tell you? Classroom attendance I guess. But all that tells you is that the instructor is either so bad that nobody bothers showing up, or so good that their slides, recordings, etc are enough for the students to skip class sometimes. (And if you measure the number of students in the classroom, attendance will just become mandatory, this is dumb).

In general universities should be pretty inefficient I think. They are places where young people go to learn and try things out. Including student employees. If a university has no waste, that indicates that it hasn’t given enough possibly-unqualified undergrads enough resources to accidentally misuse.
Skeptical POV: tech management culture is so consistently awful I hardly want to add another management party to the mix.
If I was China I'd invest in carriers just to make the US invest even more in their own carriers as well invest more into anti-carrier capability. This sort of strategy is common in games, where a tactic is feigned in order to elicit a costly counter from the competitor.
> A third option is to get them a very old Macbook -- they used to call MacOS "shiny BSD" for a reason, and if all you need is scratch and python, you can plug in some Ethernet and use brew to get whatever you want.

I would advise against this, because old Mac hardware does not support modern macOS and I'm about 99.9% certain brew will not run on anything other than the latest macOS (by their design). You may have some success just using their Formulae to compile everything you want from source, but at that point, I think things have become "a project" versus the shiny BSD approach

An alternative perspective is that having an old Mac is fine minus the "plug in some Ethernet," since the Internet is the biggest attack vector in that discussion
Renters are yimby, owners are nimby. Supply side regulatory capture is the problem; it is run by democracy. Thus if you look at demographic trends in rent-vs-own and turn-out (by region to account for non-proportional representation) one should be able to forecast when a nation will transition from nimby to yimby. In the UK looks to be a ways off.
It isn't about RSS readers and article notifications, it's about all the other things being built on top of RSS like podcasting 2.0. All of these apps and their new features depend on RSS; https://podcastindex.org/apps

Some discussion; https://podcasting20.substack.com
A lot of famous comedians have played one version of it (often live ans Theater plays, which I believe is also true for the original). Here is a version with Otto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iCGdURpd4

There are also several platt versions (a dialekt spoken in the north which is actually more like a separate language)
Does that make sense for them to continued to have existed for thousands of years during the ice age where nothing grew? Or if the dating is even accurate at all?
And how old were each of you when you caught on to the slightly risqué punchline?
> When European settlers and explorers first encountered the Native peoples of the Americas, they sought to force the fact of the Native people’s existence into a Biblical worldview. The First Peoples, who built the impressive earthworks, monuments, temples and pyramids throughout the Americas, were recast as members of a lost tribe of Israelites, Irish sailors, or possibly Vikings, for the ideological convenience of settlers.

> The pretence that the first peoples of the Americas were a different race than Native Americans – a view known today as the Myth of the Moundbuilders – became extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

I'm always struck by how there's nothing new under the sun. This is basically the same conspiracy theory as Ancient Aliens, with different aesthetics for different centuries.
Any organization including a union eventually gets captured by corruption.

See teachers unions that don't let bad teachers get fired even after abusing students.

The iron law of bureaucracy dampens my desire to have the feeling of safety that may come from being in a union.
External hard drive, Back in Time(Which is an rsync GUI). All manual without encryption, same as my laptop itself, just relying on physical security.

I also use SyncThing, some of my files are synced to all devices, including my laptop, which gets backed up.

I would prefer to have a NAS with redundant hard disks, so I didn't have to worry about the integrity of my backups, and I could archive some files I still care about but don't need on my laptop.

But that would be expensive, and I would then need to back up the archive files since Raid Is Not A Backup, and I couldn't just leave anything important only on the NAS and nowhere else(Although some of the stuff isn't that important).
As a recent returnee to the world of RSS feeds, I’ve been enjoying the miniflux client [1] self hosted with docker-compose. Fast, cross-platform, not fancy.

[1] https://miniflux.app/
The Criminal Politics of Pain
Very disingenuous not to even mention Kowalski on the FR Wikipedia entry. In contrast, the English version says:

"The language was developed and implemented in Marseille, France, in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel, based on Robert Kowalski's procedural interpretation of Horn clauses at University of Edinburgh."
Yeah I'm not sure why their post is so heavily downvoted.

You pay property taxes or you lose your home. You also need to build your house to an exact specification that your local government came up with, of which you have no control over.

In other contexts this isn't classified as ownership. Ownership to me is if I spend $300 on a lawn mower, it's mine forever with no future costs associated to it beyond repairs. I can do whatever I want with it, including modifying how it works or smashing it into a thousand pieces. Both of which are true if you buy a lawn mower today.

With the house scenario there's also tons of things out of your control that could be classified as "well, you own your house but things are about to get drastically different for you". For example what happens if you build a house in a nice empty area of land but you don't own all of the land surrounding your property. Over the years a couple of new houses are built around you and things are fine. But then 5 years later the town decides to build a fire station across the street from your house. Your living conditions are now ruined. A deafening siren may go off at any hour of the day or night and there's going to be extremely loud fire trucks and sirens all around you.

I don't know what would happen in this scenario but something tells me it doesn't end well for you as the home owner? Something tells me the town isn't going to offer to buy every house near the fire station over the market's value then pay to re-locate you to a different part of town (because you don't want to leave a specific school district or move to a different town / state). It also kills the market value of your house for future sales. Maybe at best they'd offer you a relatively small lump sum of money which is no where near worth the noise pollution and future loss of value on the house.
The last day of the year would not be complete without watching this!
Together with "Ein Herz und eine Seele: Silvesterpunch". :)
Late stage empire collapse.
> People who look at history often see unions becoming a solution in search of a problem.

Unions are the reason we have a 40-hour workweek, minimum wage and the Civil Rights Act. If you're not working today (Saturday), you can thank organized labor efforts for that. They've deeply impacted our work lives in ways that are not immediately apparent to those that haven't read about them.
Crabs Have Evolved Five Separate Times – Why Do the Same Forms Keep Coming Back?
That is arguing semantics. The point was about the difference between urges and actions.
Why didn’t you just leave and stop paying rent?
It's popular opinion expressed here that single family zoning is the only thing limiting supply. I'm not sure it's correct. There's a limited amount of construction capacity in every given area. Limited amount of construction labor (construction workers, engineers, managers), construction equipment and materials. It's not easy to scale it up. Upzoning is not a panacea.
Hardly. Seeing how the nyt union organizes against employees, I’d fight any unionization effort at my work strongly because I’d be worried the union would go after me if it could
Spot on. It's a shame that we haven't prioritized (and de-stigmatized) mental health, especially at a young age, so horrible children don't grow up to be horrible ego-centric adults.
This is incorrect. The properties of DER you cite do not prevent changing parts of an RSAPrivateKey structure (i.e. replacing o by an arbitrary o' is perfectly possible). The properties only prevent two different DER structures from representing the same value.

It is possible to have an RSAPrivateKey structure where the privateExponent field is inconsistent with the exponent1/exponent2 fields, effectively representing two different private keys, and where one library uses the one and another uses the other. However, that just means that only one of the two would work with the given public key.

That can be exploited only insofar as it will break interoperability depending on which library is used. In addition, an attacker would need access to the private key in order to create the inconsistent values, or would need to install a key creation software producing such inconsistent values, in which case the attacker probably can already do much worse.
I'll be honest, kindle + 1-click is just too handy to me. I like my kindle, I've seen some other readers and they don't seem to match it. The differences seem subtle, I don't know where the magic sauce is.

I try to make up for it with occasional donations which also seem like a nice feedback loop. It's astounding how well researched and packed with information some books are compared to others which I would also rate as good books.
i'm trying to skip the corporate union layer and just start a co-op with my other talented friends
well dude, the apartment has heat, and maybe you can help some of that money vanish into thin air.
While I agree with your general skepticism, I also believe there are ways these data could benefit the students. Extracting value from operational data could mean modernizing curriculum, offering more office hours, etc.
Oh, I fully agree that it isn’t limited to academia. I’m only saying that your unemployed super-woke friends aren’t as influential as Hollywood, the media, government bureaucrats, academia, DEI departments, etc. :)
No doubt. I was just pointing out that there is a very different dynamic than the colloquial definition of "ownership". Just like you don't "own" your digital Kindle library in the same way as if they were physical books. It's an entirely different framework of rights.

I will still have ownership of my car if I don't register it. I can still use it as long as it's not on public roads etc. This is entirely different than if I don't pay my property taxes. I don't maintain use (or even ownership) of the property. Just because this distinction is clearly spelled out in a legal framework doesn't negate the difference.
That's why cloud delivered detection is good as well edrs including defender atp and others.

I "attack simulated" as many ways as I could, disabling defender. If anything on our environment so much as changes a registry key, service or adds an exclusion we get alerts for it, no need for cloud delivered protection/atp to take its time analyzing behavior.

OPs writeup is great but it has nothing to do with behavioral analysis.

It doesn't even matter what bypass you found. I spent so much time defeating defender at one point, as soon as my payload breaks opsec on a cloud delivered box (e.g.:run "whoami") in about a day defender starts catching it.

I can almost guarantee this bypass can only last as long as attackers use it stealthily. Enough automatic detections will get human eyes on it.
It was the only distributor of 24 hour analogue wrist watches I could find, where the prices were reasonable, is called AAA Watch Club.[0]

Mine is specifically from the Military Time Collection, called Military Dress, I believe.[1] Unfortunately, the specific model appeared to be sold out right now.

0 - https://www.aaawatchclub.com/

1 - https://www.aaawatchclub.com/military-time-watches_5to6.html...
Hey man, I agree 100% on the point you're making. BUT if you're reading hacker news in your spare time for fun, you can definitely find a remote gig that pays a comfortable six figure income and elevates you to membership in the class of people putting the squeeze on middle America. I don't know you or your situation, so I can't provide any real advice, but I can say with absolute certainty that something is out there for you
Activate Your brain with some hand activities, like handwriting is good to boost creativity.

BTW, current technology (Wacom, sensors of pressure, tilt and tip movement), from my exp is good enough, to make genuine digital signatures, and easy available.

I think, this is question of pursue for cheapness, why we don't use digital pens widely.
People post what symptoms are. What tests they have had, what doctors have said.

People make suggestions on what conditions they should investigate. What tests should be run next. What kind sort of doctor they should see next.

Something like Sjogrens, doctors tend to very out of date on testing criteria. So often a patient has every symptom. But doctor is highly dismissive of it.

Or a test with a high false negative rate is negative. Doctor immediately stops testing. Even though better tests exist.

Another example is when I see someone complaining about double vision. They need to go get a spinal tap to measure pressure. Not a lot of doctors realize that.
> The idea that Amazon is still charging a "delivery cost" for data as if it's a 2007-era Kindle running on a built in 3G connection is ludicrous. Almost all Kindles use Wi-Fi now. There is no real cost to delivering the ebook data

???

It's not charging the author for the cost incurred to the user, but for the cost incurred to Amazon. It doesn't matter if you have a 10 TBPS per second or are on your phone on edge, Amazon still has to serve the same amount of data to the customer.

$0.15 per MB is huge, I'm not going to deny that, but it's pretty clear it is also a measure to prevent abuse by the authors.
Is the ICO is an illegal confidence scam because an ICO is a genuinely novel thing to do or just because the issuers were criminals? I would argue for the latter.

Assume a non-criminal company filed the correct paperwork to issue a bond, set normal terms for when and for how much the matured bond could be redeemed, and then somehow legally allowed it to be traded on a blockchain instead of on a traditional exchange. That's just a corporate bond, right? The fact that it's on a blockchain doesn't make it special.

Tone is hard to convey online, so let me clarify that I am arguing that all ICOs are illegal, with the absolute best case being that the issuer is "just" a scofflaw selling an unregistered security and flouting all relevant regulation.
An issue with unions is they can only really form at times where workers have leverage and wouldn't benefit much from the union. Once the labor market is tight, unions don't really have the leverage to negotiate unless they fully monopolize labor.
1000 Years of Non-linear History by Miguel De Landa was a read from a long long time ago that was a good materialistic philosphy read, that helped me see & feel the world as morpholically advancing. It gave me a sense of what shifts & changes are, how they occur, and gave a narrative for many of the changes that reshaped humanity across the last 1000 years. Used a neat lense of geomorphology that was entertaining.

Non-zero: the Logic of Human Destiny was anothrr very good materialistic philosophy read for my impressionable young mind. Talking about human cooperation & emergence of civil order. Not nearly as in depth but I think of it as also quite related to the History of Everything, mentioned in other comments here.
It's both. I'm not sure what your understanding of these terms is that you don't realise they're orthogonal, but I'm afraid it's wrong.