skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, the countries investigating the explosions, are refusing to point any fingers at Russia suggests to me that they have serious reasons to believe that it may have been an ally nation that destroyed the pipeline. Pointing the finger at the USA, even if they had very concrete evidence, would be a massive diplomatic problem - so it stands to reason that we would not hear about it. By contrast, especially in the context of the war, pointing the finger at Russia would not particularly affect diplomatic ties - especially given how Russia has already been pointing the finger at everyone else.

So, even though this report itself is rather thin on evidence, it is presenting a version of what seems to be the most plausible hypothesis.
For me, that's maybe 3-4 hours.
I feel hackathons should not have constrained problem statements but mostly open. It can have open source contributions or any tool/product devs want to build. And principal/staff engineers should code along with junior devs. I can be fun once in a while. And if possible, it should be done at a different location, not in office.
I'm guessing Supabase/Firebase + Next.js hosted on Vercel.
Not sure about polynomials, but how about "Genetic Regulatory Networks that count to 3" [1]. One of the interesting, counter-intuitive highlights from the paper: "Counting to 2 requires very different network design than counting to 3."

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23567648
I dont really think that accurately summarizes the article. The article doesn't really suggest improvements, just talk about things the author dislikes.

I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that. Can't find solutions if you don't understand the problem.
I am more radical, .NET should never have happened, rather the original Ext-VOS idea with COM instead of trying to build on top of Java ideas.

VB6 was AOT compiled and used COM as its component model, C# should have been similar but for C++ folks, basically what .NET Native came to be.

However they really botched UWP execution, when it could have been the proper .NET reboot back to Ext-VOS roots.
Those kinds of analysis are total bs. Real cost is most likely a lot lower.
> Does she hold office or set policy?

Does she influence those who do?
I work in a company which does hackatons without any goals. You can do something cool on the product, or you can attend some course or if you really want, you can keep working on features (there's no pressure to do so). It's essentially just 4 weeks in a year when you're free to choose your work. There are also some small prizes which for me do nothing, but for somebody might bring extra motivation.

I think it's great in non-obvious ways. People often choose to improve product in small ways which would be otherwise hard to justify to prioritize in the product backlog. Small quality of life (either user or developer) improvements, platforms improvements, refactorings, optimizations of the CI jobs etc.

Hackatons are often marketed as something for the employees to enjoy, perhaps for the organization to be healthy, to produce new ideas, but I also see tremendous value for the long term technical health of the product as well.
Because art/design is fun
Yes, I wrote that comment without researching the alternatives. Which is also a point: Ain't nobody (or at least somebody) got time for that.

Docker(compose) worked well for me for a long time. I'm chafing a little at the "run as root" problems, so I'm somewhat open to alternatives. I'm also a bit hesitant to relearn or run into problems I don't actually NEED to run into.
Part of it is, but I wouldn't happily pick Microsoft even today if they were as horrible as Google. As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft is the lesser (and more familiar) of two evils so I'll happily pick them.
‘Sam? Are you there? ’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
Fragrant fungi rewards Himalayan foragers
Have got you covered there… https://github.com/ericlagergren/lwcrypto/tree/main/ascon
It amazes me how good OpenAI's PR team have been at spinning nothing into people going crazy.
It belongs to WinDev, not DevDiv, hence the difference.
I'm not sure if money is the bottleneck - I think billionaires are already throwing as much funds as they can to such companies. I don't think a few extra millionaires are going to make a difference.

I'm not particularly concerned about partially starting over in a new field - I'm not that old so my skillset is not particularly tremendous. If anything, I feel coming from outside the traditional system and already having financial freedom is a positive. When I was in academia (not CS) I didn't feel the standard of the people there was particularly great and my trust in top-down organizations is generally quite low.
Microsoft changed to an OS agnostic strategy with the switch from Ballmer -> Nadella.
Was this article written with AI? Felt a bit like at least assisted. Don’t know why when reading it triggered the assumption.
Alphafold. They should pivot to biomedical company.
Similar to my two experiences with antibiotics. Relief after half a day, clear reversal of illness by the next, after that only lingering discomfort to heal from the damage caused.
https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/a-single-dose-of-psilocybin-...

Not suggesting anything.
By that logic they shouldn't visit the Grand Canyon either, because their echo might say something mean. It's the logic of banning sad songs from the radio. "Tiniest pushes" are omnipresent, calling them "dangerous" stretches that word to meaninglessness.
Did something go wrong? Algolia lists this submission as "108 points|h1x|16 hours ago|153 comments".

The other thread reference above is a different submission with "217 points by trulyrandom|18 hours ago|244 comments" and is not specific to the Golang metrics issue.
We obviously need to cultivate human beings in artificial wombs, Matrix style.

Reversing population decline is one of the hard challenges which few countries have ever even had the slightest hint of success doing - we are talking isolated episodic examples like Australia's McCrindle baby bonus and maybe Ceaucescu Romania - so we had better come to terms with growing human beings as a supplement to, if not replacement for, natural birth
This kind of hackathons outlined by the OP indeed sounds like trouble. In the current company I work at, we have every 6 weeks, 2 full days to hack on whatever we want. Zero expectations.

This has been really cool because:
- it’s during normal working hours. 9 to 5. No weekends or all nighters.
- you are entitled to cancel all your meetings
- you can work on product-related ideas or experiment with a new language. It’s 100% up to you. No expectations or strings attached.

A few cool features in our app eventually started out from days like that, but so far it has been more like a side-effect than a requirement per se.

I see a lot of positive things coming out of this. And the company for sure gets benefits. So far it has been a win-win from my POV.
I love both your comments.

But to dig further, compared to the article, op's comment not only comes off as laid back, as opposed to aggressive and anxiety-inducing, but it also provides an alternative all in the same sentence.
Just like anything in life, the outcome and enjoyment of a hackathon (or a game jam) largely depend on your attitude and expectations.

If you approach it with a chilled and positive mindset, you're more likely to have a satisfying experience.
Web browser Opera is planning to incorporate ChatGPT
Not going to create an account but can you tell me what the top “thing” on posting things is right now?
Use Maps more and Objects less
Well merck isn't without blame here, i feel like this is what the fda is for.
Switch to a remote team and work less hours. 4 hour work week by Tim Ferriss blah blah blah
SpaceX Limits Ukraine’s Military Use of Starlink Satellite Business
It is a dramatization of the hunt for OBL. It elides names, sources and methods for obvious reasons. The larger shape of the story aligns without how the administration and CIA claim the search and assassination of OBL played out. It is alleged that the CIA cooperated heavily with the filmmakers. This would make sense given the amount of torture apologia that is in the movie.
https://archive.is/4o9iE
> I'm obese and scared!

Might I say the unsayable with not too scared to lose weight?

Perhaps doctors should be ignoring the pride of their patients and telling them, after 3 years, to take their health seriously instead of waiting for the grim reaper to knock on their door? Doctors are also able to prescribe weight loss drugs, surgeries, and generally tell people what they really need to hear so we might ask why the problem persists. Maybe it's because they don't listen to advice they don't want to hear. From [1]:

> The researchers found that disagreement between GPs and patients increased with patients' excess weight and was particularly pronounced for advice given by GPs on weight and lifestyle issues. Overweight patients were more likely to disagree with their GP regarding advice given on weight loss (odds ratio, 10.7), advice given on doing more physical activity (odds ratio, 1.9), and nutritional advice (odds ratio, 2.9) compared with patients with a "normal" body mass index.

I'm not suggesting doctors be rude, and, as that study points out, if doctors are taking such steps and obese patients ignore them and it harms the relationship then should we not be considering other things to push them?

Some people propose sugar taxes and the like but I think that still pushes responsibility away from the main cause of the problem, which is the person. Obese people should pay higher taxes and/or insurance fees that are then mitigated by efforts such as slimming classes, gym attendance etc.

Or, we can continue to allow a section of society to risk their own health and mortality while putting enormous strain and cost on the health service and thus risking everyone's health and mortality. Arguing about a drug that most of them wouldn't need if they weren't obese seems a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic to me, even if they do need rearranging.

[1] https://www.drugs.com/news/patient-doctor-disagreements-more...
something like, in mysql:
create table t (
value double(10,2) not null
);
put a bunch of values, something like 15k with maybe half of them being 0.37.

Do the sum two ways:

- export them in excel and do a sum

- select sum(value) from t

and you get two different values, with a difference of something like 15.

Replace double(10,2) with decimal(10,2), and the sum(value) works correctly.

I still have no idea why this happens. I could expect a tiny difference, and code like your above will indeed give differences like this, well under 1.0, but my particular scenario had differences many orders of magnitude higher. Still can't explain.
The medical system in the US is optimized to get people in, bill them, and get them out; that's it. Managing drug interactions is a long tail process that requires critical thinking, which is not an incentiviced activity. Plenty of startups have failed thinking that they could succeed if their products resulted in improvements to quality of care.
> It's a mystery to me why most commercial software intended for business and financial calculations don't use fixed point decimals

All the reporting software I have seen in banks use decimals for adding numbers.

If you are adding small numbers together, those errors are negligible and get rounded out in the result (you usually can't pay an amount with more than two decimals). It's only a problem if somehow you are doing some calculations that need to be exact on amount large enough that the float rounding starts affecting your pennies.

Financial reporting has materiality thresholds, no one cares about pennies if the size of a balance sheet is trillons, the materiality will likely be in millions, not the least because the numbers will be shown in millions in the financial report and the numbers won't be additive because of rounding) and for a BI tool a number with 12 digits is unreadable and too much information to be useful.

If you are doing pricing, also no one really cares about pennies on a 1 million payment.

> PS. If you design software that works with money amounts, always use fixed point decimals. Don't use floats, it's just wrong!

Well, it depends. If all you do is add and substract numbers, ok, and that's what they typically do. If you need to do any other calculation (and most financial software does), this will bite you as percentages and ratios will be rounded aggressively, and multiplying large amounts will overflow.
> It happened at a team-building event at some nearby lake

Given the choice of

1) Being shipped off to a nice location where managers will demonstrate their authority by requiring you to perform suspiciously work-like fake recreation with other employees

or

2) Actual time off

I am pretty sure which one I'd pick, most of the time at least.
My perspective on moderators is identical to my perspective on cops, politicians, and anyone else in positions of power: power corrupts. The larger the community you control, the greater the power, and the greater the corruption.
There is a one way sync. So I sync from various phones to my server for Digikam / Photoprism to consume
Given that we were discussing reasons for:

* Russia breaking gas delivery contracts with several EU countries

and you’ve replied with:

* a non sequitur enumerating a series of bellicose actions Russia took in relation to non-EU countries spanning years in the past

We can consider your contract argument refuted.
> And you can’t do both. You can’t be explicit and implicit, you can’t be terse and readable, you can’t be flexible and robust.

PowerShell does quite well in this case.
A solution might be: use two different AIs. The first one you can prompt to your heart's content. The second one is never prompted by anyone except the service provider. The second one does the filtering.
As someone who used to be close to suicide for a several years and communicated with many other suicidal people, I feel very confident saying this: being unable to play with a chatbot in the way I want, being actively censored because of suicidality, being prevented from engaging in art or exploration of ideas relating to suicide, etc., has a strong and exactly opposite effect that what you presume. Social media is full of similar censorship under the false guise of protecting suicidal people but it just isolates them in a sickening way.

Seeing ""Open""AI turn into this is frankly depressing and dystopian as hell
C# is the language I would have to be held at gunpoint to learn, personally.
> Escape Velocity

I like that alternative name. The velocity makes you want to escape the job.
Biden uses SOTU to attack Big Tech's use of kids' data
Anyone know somewhere you can buy the strain mentioned (OPTI-BIOME MB40 Bacillus subtilis) in the UK?
how robust is nats persistence layer ? strenght of kafka relies on its proven ability to maintain a high load while making sure you won't loose the events you're streaming.
> After 1997 I don't see a single game being developed on the Doom Engine

Because Carmack kept developing new engines that were better. He also made it easy for people to build maps and add onto the game.

You can earn both money and followers by holding back key pieces but still sharing with the community.

Check out the book Masters of Doom.
And close or refuse to answer questions after quickly skimming them claiming that they are duplicated but actually aren’t.
Does it have to be work related? Also, do you end up showing off whatever you did during that time, or is it really a "do whatever" day where you could just do nothing?
Cool idea: how about making a .NET/CLR backend for Kotlin?
None of those Anti-Features make software not FOSS. FOSS is still a hard requirement, but an app is allowed to talk to non-foss services, or might have open source analytics, etc. These things are flagged when true.
I think what they're saying is Waiting For Godot could be played by any gender and it would still make sense, but Samuel Beckett made it a legal requirement that they be men. It seems that is viewed as sexism from the grave?
Makes perfect sense.

The trick is attending hackathons, munching on free food and trying tech you're interested in with your friends. Don't think about winning, half ass everything.

For company ones, hey work your normal schedule and at least it's a change of scenery and not the usual crap.

That said the crazy schedule doesn't cut it for me anymore, I need proper sleep and I have no time nor friends.
Fukushima and the Art of Knowin
> Both are evil but I agree that Google is less evil than Microsoft.

Microsoft is evil v1. Google and everyone post 2000 is evil v2.

They are just as evil as Microsoft but they've learned that amongst other things, you need to a) seem nicer and b) lobby politicians.

I'd argue that made them more evil.

Though it has to be said that Microsoft has learned, too, so at this point they're pretty much the same thing.
What helped me was surround myself with people I like - I mean, work wise. That’s much easier said than done.

Michael and Dalton touch on this on a recent video where they compare modern FAANG with Goldman Sachs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia7IKW0yuG0

The founder culture is so full of kool-aid that it can be tough to find those people there, too, but I found overall that that was the best place for me. Interestingly, I found the older and more successful people to be much more sane, and super happy to meet smart sane young people. I have a lot of older friends now; many are founders of large companies who are just glad to have normal conversations - the kind of people that as a FAANG middle manager would be status contacts to brag about but now are just nice folks to grab a pint with.

The good people in tech still exist, and they’re often at key positions. But at Goldman Sachs I mean FAANG you’ll have a tough time fighting through middle management. And BOY was that FAANG culture bad for my mental health…

I hope this makes some sense. Watch the video, I think it will cheer you up big time:).
Err I didn’t say that during the interviews. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with interview processes for engineering roles in tech companies, but you absolutely do not even talk about your experience in most rounds, let alone the things you think I said.

Mostly it goes like this: 5 mins join the interview and the logistics setup, 5 mins the interviewer and the interviewee give a brief introduction, just polite small talk, 45 mins algorithm exercise, 5 mins at the end for the interviewer to answer any questions the candidates might have.

There is No opportunity as a candidate to talk about themselves. Maybe if you make it to the on-site and get to talk to the HM. But again, no one talks like you think I did.
Indeed. Computing the exact polynomial going through all noisy points also doesn’t make sense because adding or removing a data point wildly changes the polynomial. So, you can’t claim any of your polynomials really describes your problem.

Even if your data isn’t noisy and the point added lies exactly on the previous polynomial (making the problem degenerate) chances are float rounding and numerical stability of your code can have that effect (https://arachnoid.com/polysolve/#x_limits)
While it's great that it's working out, it does feel like a smell about our ability as an industry to prioritize. I feel similarly about "bug bashes".
Agreed. I can actually just figure out how to do simple things in GCP console by clicking around the UI, including setting up networks, doing IAM, and getting stuff talking to each other, most of it without ever leaving the web browser or even peeking at documentation. Good luck doing that with AWS.
When I went to some hackathons 10-12 years ago they were essentially parties with networking and light coding, from time to time someone might get into an idea and actually make something but it was mostly a social event and the goal was (a very peculiar type of) fun.

Eventually they started to appear on resumes and I thought "what a strange choice, listing the times you were given beer and pizza by various tech companies." Then I went to one more recently and it was like the worst work shift I ever experienced, at least I get why they're on resumes now.
It doesn't really. It's the kind of thing that could slip by fact checkers at plenty of publications and result in a fairly innocuous correction.
"colonialism is when folks whose country I annihilated try to seek shelter somewhere around where I live"
That's a great way of minimizing the money you earn
For the curious readers: https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill/

MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet

Looking in my workshop, nearly 100% of the "stuff in solution" there have solvents you do not want to breath. Then you do a bit of skiing and you see the composition of the waxes. You do a bit of woodworking and home improvement and you look at the composition of the glues. They are full of deadly compounds. So yes, we should not worry but still handle with care.

My simple advice: if you see on the product that it should be used in a well ventilated place, do it!
Or creative writing, where factual inaccuracies are often a feature, not a bug.
Per the sibling comment, the OP-Z's sequencer workflow is nothing like the OP-1's tape. It's literally comparing a multitrack MIDI sequencer to a 4-track audio tape recorder.
Hackathons are generally an excuse to get more work for less pay. No different than pagerduty or any number of other scams the technocracy has devised to drive wages down. People would be happy to do them if they'd get paid.

However, there's another problem. No one wants to work on "regular everyday" stuff for even a 9-5 M-F hackathon. I and many other people just call this "doing our job".

Sometimes there are fringe benefits where a company may allow engineers to actually work on something they enjoy. Maybe it's a new language, or a prototype, or anything. The key is it doesn't have to be related to company work. Unfortunately, as it has been my experience several times now, this benefit is the first to go and replaced instead with tyrannical PMs and sales people cracking the whip over the engineers to get a "fun hackathon project" done.

None of this would happen but software engineers do not identify themselves as laborers being exploited. Software engineers are, honestly, some of the smartest and absolute braindead people I've ever met. I can think of no other industry where someone could be convinced to do literally 5-figure level free work in exchange for 3 pizzas and a 6 pack.
I’m wonder how the eroded fibers are from an inhalation risk perspective.
Nintendo’s Switch becomes the third-bestselling console ever
When that concrete is later demolished, what new risks are we creating?
All the times I've used Kafka, it's felt like the microservices confusion. A technical solution that can be taken to the extreme, when really it's a solution to a political problem.

If we break our application into small enough chunks then we start running into internal consistency issues, so we will introduce Kafka to resolve this.
I'm dealing with it at the moment where my customer decided to break their crud application to CUD and R because "best practice". Now they have Kafka synchronising the two applications because it's a terrible design.
I tried to take a look into the documentation but it seems to all be in Chinese?

Edit: For some reason my phone defaulted to Chinese but on my laptop it's fine. User error I guess!
To everyone not closely following .NET and think it’s some enterprise thing focused on Windows:

It’s fully cross platform now and works flawlessly on Mac/Linux for backend work.

Entity Framework Core has become a great ORM that’s getting better every year.

It’s in a great place to develop your next startup/project in.

I’ve switched from Python to C# last year and couldn’t be happier.