skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point (appears to be?) that GCHQ staff are on par with other Monday morning armchair quarterbacks; seems weak.
>Why are you so confident that it's not true?

>This study is imperfect in a lot of ways, and fundamentally and irreconcilably confounded by the fact that even though the kids grow up in different environments raised by different families, there is no way to blind their childhood experience from the color of their own skin.

That's why. Racism is something that we made up, and then tried to massage circumstances and data to "prove" it. This

>However, I do mean to argue that the existing state of the evidence points in that direction, albeit rather weakly.

is rationalization seeking to uphold that unscientific exercise.

I also put a lie to it with my existence.

Sidenote: "The best study I'm aware of on the topic" is not a convincing argument that it is, in fact, even a serviceable study on the topic. However, it is a study that is often cited as such by the aforementioned bad actors. As with much racist rhetoric (spoken by avowed racists and non-racists alike), it says more about the person who brought it up than anyone else. You seem to be encountering the infohazard I mentioned earlier.
I really wish the MIT crowd would (Lincoln Labs, Mitre, et al) would spend more time telling the generals what they don't want to hear: that the Osprey is a fucking widow-maker and they should invest in more traditional helicopters and light aircraft. Props aren't sexy but they don't melt the tarmac, set the lawn on fire, they don't have nacelle fires, they don't blow the LZ away (1) and they don't have the transient wash conditions where there's literally no way generate sufficient lift near the ground. Look for all the "hard landings" they use to avoid declaring class A mishaps (2).

Oh, and it can't land in sandy conditions. Literally they have to secure the LZ and then hose it down before they can "assault" it.

Boeing's military group has a culture that is seriously problematic when it comes to profit vs safety, and frankly safety vs performance.

(1) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40289/watch-this-cv-22...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involv...
And let's not forget India's Mars mission (orbiter, not a rover) was even cheaper at "just" $75 million [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2013/11/07/how-india...
The fact that disability isn't a choice means that disabled people can't become undisabled, and abled people probably shouldn't make a choice to become permanently disabled.

Because rural/urban living is a choice, this means people can come in and out in response to supply and demand via the price mechanism. If rural areas are viewed as undesirable, rural wages will rise until it justifies people being there.
It is difficult to get distances in time into my own mind. But for those other than me reading this and having trouble with this mentally. The first democratically elected president in Taiwan in 1996, which was arguably a high point in the democratisation process, is now in 2023 temporally equidistant to the moon landing in 1969 and us in the present.
ahh, nostalgia. I still have a few blue-envelope discs that I never returned. I really wanted to, but they killed my queue and few emails went unanswered.

"Despite our closing of the physical distribution elements of the business, we continue to see value in the Blockbuster brand, and we expect to leverage that brand as we continue to expand our digital offerings." [1]

- does anyone know what digital offering Blockbuster ended up with? any?

[1] https://www.blockbuster.com/newsPr.html
That’s what they tell me, but could RF heating contribute? I found this too which was interesting: https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E....
No. If a robot can do your job, it's time to find another.

Copyright maximalism makes the creative world worse for everyone in the long run.
You hit the nail on the head in your post—these are things _you_ consider foundational knowledge.

I graduated with my Bachelors in CS in 2016, and those classes were optional senior electives. You were required to take a certain number as well as some required ones (i.e., Computer Architecture, Analysis of Algorithms). I chose to take Database Systems, Data Mining & Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, etc. as electives but not Concurrent Programming or Network Programming because I already felt comfortable with those topics. Others chose classes in topics like mobile application programming or programming language theory.

Those topics may be foundational for you, but not for others.
We will never have nice things.
Are you somehow automatically hooking into those function calls, recording their return values, and then mocking the functions in the replays? - this is correct.
And even more times people thought they were being Henry Ford or Steve Jobs when they were actually making something nobody wanted.
Even so, from late December to 23rd January is a long time to still allow dozens of international flights everyday from Wuhan. Incompetence is ruled out because domestic flights were suspended right away.
According to https://docs.getutm.app/installation/ios/ UTM.HV.ipa with TrollStore should give you Hypervisor (i.e. native virtualization, not JIT or interpreter) and USB support. I haven't had an M1 iPad to try it out but videos suggest that particular combination is speedy, outside GPU acceleration of course.
And then my first thought after realizing it was “widows” was how awful the housing market must be to cause this level of degradation.
That depends, are you doing this for the purpose of obviously attempting to get around a court order?

If so, then that would be illegal to do what you are suggesting.

Judges to not take kindly to 'clever' programmer loopholes. If you do that, you are just going to go to jail.
Databases and networking were optional topics at my undergraduate institution, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where many of its CS grads went on to have successful software engineering careers in Silicon Valley. As for concurrency, we had a few required courses (computer architecture, systems programming, operating systems) where we learned about multi-threading and IPC. In fact, one of my assignments for my systems programming course (CSC 357 in Fall 2007) was to write two HTTP servers: one using POSIX threads and another using fork and IPC. This assignment actually helped me land an internship with Lockheed Martin, who was looking for someone with experience with writing multi-threaded code.

In general, however, fresh CS grads from even good universities need to be onboarded on software tools and certain types of systems when they have their first software engineering jobs. For example, many college students don’t know git. Basic sysadmin and more advanced Unix command line skills are also generally not taught.
The PC industry seems to be getting along just find avoiding your "solution".
for some, 'compiler construction' would count as foundational skill. But realistically nowadays it is a skill that is neither necessary, nor all that helpful in a typical day as SWE.
There was a very narrow sliver of time (maybe 95-05) where this was a skill you'd be using outside of your CS class.
While I do agree with your basic sentiment of 'CS doesn't teach the same things as 20 years ago', I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Those who like to dig to that level will do so on their own (just like not everybody likes to study analytical topology).
I'm actually just summarizing what the sources say here.

"Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work." [1]

Tool claims to prevent plagiarism, paper uses "plagiarism" language throughout. [2]

Writers of tool used substantial portions of a different tool without acknowledgement. Source explicitly calls this out as plagiarism in first paragraph [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04222.pdf

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11sqkh9/gl...

(edit) To be sure: somewhat later, authors do seem to be correcting their behavior, but only after having been called out. ( https://mobile.twitter.com/ravenben/status/16364393355693752... )
Prompt Engineering: Steer a large pretrained language model to do what you want
No, instead "make people want something"

Steve Jobs was a master of this. The first car itself was heavily marketed before release. You have to make people believe that their life will be improved by this thing. Failure to do so, even when you genuinely believe it can improve lives, will leave you in the dust while someone else eventually comes along with a nicer story.

Of course, if you don't even believe in your hypothetical rubbish product it's hard to make that storytelling believable. Even more so when you've become so deluded in your own thing that you can't tell what impact it does have.
Can confirm, we have "(official page)" appended to our LinkedIn company name.
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - npm scripts
Which employ real people to do jobs. What’s your point, that people working for large corporations don’t count for some reason? What reason is that?
I agree that those are foundational topics and having graduated from a top 10 CS program can tell you that they were all optional. There were many grads who didn't have knowledge of concurrent programming at all which always struck me as a bit odd,
> Was React not already a framework?

React has usually pitched itself as a library rather than a framework.
We have a anonymiser which identifies common sensitive /Personally identifiable data like credit card, zip code and replaces them with anonymised data.

We also provide configuration option to specify additional fields are needed to be anonymised
> It's plausible since there are claims that covid was detected in the US months before covid spread in Wuhan.

Not credible ones. In fact, the only people to bring this up are Chinese state media.
There is an app called UTM which allows running full VMs which could be useful for an iPad with a keyboard.
Plague vs. Cholera
oh my you are correct they really collect some brand names now zombies. This was a like a travel back in time! Interesting their news section is from September 2022.
> It was a problem for a lot of people who either got priced out of the housing market or have huge student loans..

It may have been, but that was not reflected in the CPI, and we are talking about inflation as it is officially recorded in the CPI reports. The CPI inflation didn't spike up until early 2021.
A ChatGPT email reply engine for fun
An email reply engine that uses #chatgpt to automatically generate personalized responses to emails. The engine even takes into account a labeling system for contacts
> YMMV but I would encourage people to find their own interests and try and look for more progressive ones without a perpetually ageing demographic.

I'm of the opposite mindset: responding to unpalatable elements of a given subculture by abandoning it entirely only reinforces those unpalatable elements. Better to persist - and in doing so, encourage others of your mindset to persist alongside you.

I don't blame people for choosing to abandon subcultures entirely rather than persist within them - persistence is exhausting, after all, and it's unreasonable to demand that people exhaust themselves for minimal reward - but I do think persistence produces the best outcome for everyone long-term.
I shed a tear that it's not mandatory on most motherboards.
4 years isn't long enough for all these things + everything else you didn't list. It sounds like a long time but it just isn't enough.

Look for competency, not knowledge
Yes, and these people are often considered non-white by racists.

My point wasn’t about skin color though.
I wasn't sure what "driven" meant despite hearing it all the time, so I looked in the dictionary:

"Someone who is driven is so determined to achieve something or be successful that all of their behavior is directed toward this aim"

That fits with this early part of the article:

"The concept behind curl development has always been to gradually and iteratively improve all aspects of it. Keep behavior, but enhance the code, add test cases, improve the documentation. Over and over, year after year. It never stops. As the timeline below helps showing.

Similarly, there was no sudden specific moment when suddenly curl became popular and the number of users skyrocketed. Instead, the number of users and the popularity of the tool and library has gradually and continuously grown. In 1998 there were few users. By 2010 there were hundreds of millions."

That very much typifies "driven".

However, there is this at the end of his about page at https://daniel.haxx.se/about.html

## Future

I never plan never far ahead.

LOL!!!
The robot can't do the job. The Robot needs the artist to train. The robot can't train on its own output because it doesn't understand what it's supposed to be drawing.

Artists don't need to collaborate with the tool running their livelihoods either.

Ruining the lives of actual creatives is making the creative world a worse place right now, so spare me the thought for the long run.
Because it takes much more than an undergraduate degree to learn the field properly. If you find a graduate who is clueful that's probably because they've been hobby programming since age 12, or working in the summers somewhere they could get good experience.
Databases, network programming and concurrency (beyond basic constructs like mutexes) are not fundamental. SQL is certainly not fundamental to the major, that's a specialty only needed by a small percent of programmers.

I would suggest looking at the CS departments page from whatever university you mainly recruit from to get an idea what the core of their program looks like.
I have never in my life heard that hack comes with malicious intent. To me hacking is a generalized term for successful unauthorized computer system access.
- or meet your future wife and have 3 kids.

the beauty of Blockbuster was actual a social part - I knew each employee and we always chat about movies he recommended. Every employee also happened to know single movie and watched it many times, probably. You could tell these people were movie maniacs. I miss those days. Click on Netflix never-ending list with recommendation of movies from 20 years ago won't do it.
Is this article gaslighting me about the meaning of gaslighting?
So can water.
Prior to like, 2017, the tax code used to impose a significant marriage penalty on couples with similar incomes; now it only imposes some smaller penalties. It is extremely recent that the tax code wasn't an active disincentive to get married for many couples. Being married is mostly not rewarded, unless one partner is a homemaker.

(Home ownership, parenting, and charity are rewarded by the tax code in a way that is unrelated to marriage.)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marriage-penalty.asp
Humans are very good at manipulating a general win to serve their private gains and abuse it to the maximum possible extent.
* if you're under a retention order for precisely the records you appear to be trying to conceal
They don’t want to prevent the adoption of new tools, they want to stop their personal creative work being appropriated without compensation or permission to make those tools.
Not sure why the scare quotes.
Counterfits are a reliability and security risk.
CS programs are designed with broad input from a wide assortment of interest groups -- specific industries or companies or whatever. Different universities tend to emphasize the "foundations" of the industries physically nearby. Sometimes this is done intentionally to create a pipeline of labor to large companies that need it -- more often it's subconscious osmosis.

There's a bell curve to aptitude and drive to learn. The curriculum at any university reflects the intersection of that median in the student body with a social narrative.
Those aren’t foundational computer science knowledge.
Command lines can be very long, so you can potentially read a million lines between executing processes.
I don't know what I want as an outcome. I think that is part of the discussion. You have come at me with a lot of really good questions. I think the discussion is the most important before we hit that hypothetical soon.

For sake of clarity I am an engineer as well. I hope you are right? As I see it now, it seems like every single job is on the chopping block before I hit retirement age. We already see a few experts arguing about this already.

I think I am doing a poor job conveying what I want or mean by compassion, as you said that is true that the Luddites or coal miners in those examples want to pause time. That is clearly a very bad idea when it comes to something like coal, but at the same time I think when I say compassion it is not that I want to tug at the heartstrings of ourselves and others. I mean it in a selfish way that when we are able to answer the question as to what people do when their livelihoods are removed from them, we get a better functioning society. When we use coal miners as an example there has been a few studies that have shown much higher usage of drugs as despair has grown in those communities. I see that and have extrapolated that out to the large white-collar hypothetical hordes of unemployed commercial artists. Perhaps all desk workers (my self included).

It legitimately has kept me up at night trying to think what sort of policy, what responsibility do we all have now? Economically nobody owes anyone anything, but is that an ethical answer?

I don't know what that looks like. Which goes back to my original answer, I don't know what I want as an outcome. I just think that perhaps, we will see less animosity and less anxiety when we have better answers to our modern Luddites.
The trick: they didn't actually need or want it until you put it in front of them, engineered to induce the want.
Speaking of Chinese food in South America, there's also the delicious chifa cuisine folks should try to sample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifa
I think PiP still doesn’t work in the app for me and sponsors aren’t blocked. I get less value from Premium than just SponsorBlock + YouTube PiP. I just have to deal with 720p videos though
>Bangkok is ethnically a mostly Chinese city

Do you have a source for that because that has not been my experience?
This is a legal topic, and therefore the reason text messaging should not be considered ephemeral by default is that it has not been considered so. Fundamental physics or programming requirements have nothing to do with it.
Just before Covid, DMK had a dedicated immigration line for Chinese passports; Chinese visitor numbers were huge already and growing until Covid, when they dropped off a cliff, and they haven't yet recovered in the same way that most other tourism has

> and the Thai tourist economy at least likes their money

Yeeees, but the government (regardless of which) has been talking about trying to move to richer tourists since forever, and discouraging large numbers of Russian and Chinese tourists who they think spend less. So yes, lots of Chinese tourists, but if they could wave a magic wand to replace those with Japanese, Korean, and American tourists, they'd do it in a heartbeat

> Bangkok is ethnically a mostly Chinese city

This is untrue, although I've heard (and would believe) that the majority of middle-class Bangkok has some Chinese heritage

> and is also Thailand’s richest region by far

Actually, until Covid's effect on tourism, that crown was held by Phuket, although Phuket also has a high Chinese influence.
That's not mistakable for anything close to understanding language, but it's still amazing
Well, I couldn't disagree more with this. :)

Both are wonderful Black comedies, imo. I agree that the story and characters are different (but that's to be expected given they are different movies after all) but the mood is similar between the two. I'll concede that Banshees is darker than Bruges, though.
> it’s a bastion of a mandarin-speaking democracy, or in software terms a hard fork of an alternate reality of what China could have been.

I don't want to reduce what you've said, but the fact is that Taiwan grew rich because of US support that helped integrate it into the global economy, and that wouldn't have come without its opposition to the mainland.

Similarly, China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR. India plans on doing the same wrt to China, but that country, like Africa, is too deeply colonized (likewise, with a despicable morally corrupt elite) to do anything of value to its own people IMO.

People underestimate the power of the Anglo-Empire which the British passed over to the Americans, one they continue to run to this day, without so much as a squeak from the mainstream.

Given that the West is banking on India to do their bidding, I doubt anyone will halt China's growth (regardless of what 'expats', who often both fetish-ize and dehumanize Asians, think).
"The Earth Transformed" Review - why humans have always been under the weather
No, the same is true. There are various buffers holding voice and video frames that are stored, and then erased/overwritten many times over the course of the conversation.
If I was going to have a pet AI who’s brain was largely in the cloud, Id put the ghost in an old machine =]
> In 2 out of 3 of your examples the “victim” is a large corporation

No, in none of them are the victims mainly large corporations.

In two out of the three, the scumbags who are victimizing are acting through a large corporation, but I’m not sure how that is material.
Yeah sure, you can message me on reddit too. Same username
Opinion polls: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963

A strong majority want to maintain the status quo or gradually move toward independence. Very few want unification. It's important to understand that China promises to invade if Taiwan declares independence (the Anti-Secession Law requires that response), which means many people would ideally prefer independence but in practice support the status quo because de facto independence (the status quo) is better than being invaded. Both sides of Taiwanese politics formally support the status quo, although the DPP has stronger pro-independence leanings.

Taiwanese identity (as opposed identifying as Chinese) has also trended up in recent decades and now most people only consider themselves to be Taiwanese and not Chinese. https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7800&id=6961
While zoning is indeed a major problem in the US, ultimately the problem worldwide is that supply isn't meeting demand. If supply was able to meet demand, then prices would be stable and housing wouldn't become an investment vehicle.