skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western media prints uniformly negative stories about everyone. So at least in this regard, China is getting equal treatment (news sells; non-news does not sell).
Defending? Occupying you mean?

It's a common disinformation technique to list two possibilities and imply that they're both just as likely.

But it's much more likely that Russia would blow up the nuclear plant than it's "just disinformation". Implying otherwise is just parroting Kreml propaganda.
A type system can help with injection issues. For example you could say that user provided strings are different from literals or from those that you provide. You then allow the user to concatenate them together only by passing through functions that quote the user provided ones. This should make very difficult to make injections, or at least avoid honest mistakes
I was job hunting about a year ago and got rejected several times for this reason. The worst part? Each one was a small startup just trying to get a new product off the ground.

In one interview the engineer interviewing me explained how they didn’t have any paying customers, and then went on to describe an elaborate over-engineered micro-service based architecture he was working on.

The real kicker was that instead of asking me about my 20 years building products, or our infrastructure at my last gig that handled millions of customers across the globe, he instead wanted to watch me code some goofy coding quiz he had prepared.
What happened for the past decades is that every company used 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/16 for their internal networks, because that was the prescribed private IPv4 space. But if everyone's using identical private address space, on physically separate networks, then you can't merge and route between those networks unless you NAT or renumber everything on them.

The equivalent mechanism in IPv6 is Unique Local Addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address and theoretically there should be no overlap or conflict with these addresses, that they can be safely merged together. In fact, some of the impetus has been removed to even use private network space in the first place, such as address space exhaustion, so if a company has been provisioned enough public IPv6 space for their whole network, they didn't even need to use NAT or ULA in the first place.
The die is 620x680 mil.
https://archive.org/details/guidetoriscmicro0000unse/page/26...
>And I want it to have all of the standard functionality -- hierarchical comments (like HN and Reddit), upvoting and downvoting, auto-collapsing tangential threads with less votes (like Reddit), giving more weight to users who are consistently upvoted, etc.

This is what I most certainly would not want to see. The prioritisation of "upvoted" content and comments is the number one source of all kinds of perverse problems with modern social media (echo chambers, manipulation, incentivisation of simplistic or short-form content, promoting base anger and outrage, etc)
> Unix time is seconds since 1970...

This is unfortunately common misconception. Unix time in reality is seconds since epoch minus the number of leap seconds
I don’t know what to think about my gut reactions anymore. I guess that’s a good thing, but for instance, when bird type scooters came out and the city wanted to regulate, I thought the city council to be a bunch of luddites expecting a cut somehow. Fast forward 7 years or so and those things litter the sidewalks, people ride them very dangerously and sometimes even block handicap pathways or emergency egress.
I felt the same way about them trying to clamp down on those FB/Apple/… employee buses and their use of city streets to pick up and drop off employees. I still thought that one was weird as they got more cars off the roads than anything else.
Ask on Stack Overflow and include the term "sgml". If you're not on SO, temporarily add a personal mail address to your profile (in the about field) so I can get in touch.
> I can't fathom what advantages

The advantage is that the imported Atom bits will be namespaced, so an old client can decide to ignore them and just treat the feed as RSS.

In format wars, wider compatibility tends to win, even if the overall standard is just worse. Developers are lazy.
The reason you don't get phones with custom ROMs is that those can't get a license for preloading Google Play Services, Google Play Store, Google Maps, etc., and without those nobody would buy the phone. The monopoly of the Google Play Store has allowed Google to keep a tight grip on the ecosystem of their "Open Source" OS.
There are hundreds of these driving around SF 24/7 already, and they're highly visible, so I'm not convinced they actually have issues at a higher rate than humans. Any time something unusual happens with them it's almost guaranteed to make the news. And a few times the initial knee-jerk reaction turns out to be wrong. I wonder if this whole narrative that AVs are ruining SF is going to go away after they actually get approval. I haven't heard of any protest or outrage in Phoenix, where they've had Waymo for a while now.
This was actually the very first statistics project I ever did. We had the basic high school level "Probability and Statistics class". We learned some simple combinatorics, some formulas for the normal distribution and the basics of hypothesis testing. The we were told to do some project (it was junior or senior year so they gave use fairly wide latitude).

I wrote up a survey of people and distributed to classmates who had either taken the SAT more than once or had taken the PSAT and then the SAT. I asked them if they took a prep class and what kind.

The results strongly supported the meme.

There was a big gap between people who did and did not take prep classes. There was a small but statistically significant difference between the Princeton Review and Stanley Kaplan (I don't remember which one won) and there was a large gap between people who took group classes and those who had private tutors.

I didn't collect any demographic information but it was at a fairly expensive private school in Manhattan. Mostly white kids. The minority kids were mostly from prep-for-prep.
> If given a choice between a sugar drink (cola) and an aspartame flavored drink ('zero' cola), I will take the aspartame.

I don't understand why this should even be choice. Why not drink water, and know that it's the best possible option?
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That's nothing - LabView even has a similar colour scheme !

https://physics.highpoint.edu/~bbarlow/courses/phy2100/docum...

(Orange. And Gray Tiles show up in the 'GUI' view.)
But that's reminiscent of lemmings. Which may not actually group-jump off of cliffs to their deaths, but that's the popular image that comes up.
Patents are certification that a science-educated federal employee in northern Virginia reviewed a patent application and found it generally plausible that its novel and all the right boxes were ticked. It's explicitly not their role to go beyond "generally plausible"

From there, maybe the company awarded the patent try, idk, litigating a FAANG over this (note I didn't read it). That's when you really start digging in.
Create a Free Twitter API v2 app. Use that to POST your tweets (free API allows tweet creation). Now you can do whatever you want with this tweet since you are initiating from your own App. This will take care of all new tweets.

For existing tweets, you could get an archive or pay $100/Month to extract everything through API and then cancel the subscription.
The most intuitive explanation of entropy ever:

entropy is a fancy way of explaining probability.

Things with higher probability tend to occur over things of lower probability.

Thus when certain aspects of the world like configurations of gas particles in a box are allowed to change configurations, they will move towards high probability configurations.

High probability configurations tend to be disordered. Hence the reason why we associate entropy with things becoming increasingly disordered. For example... gas particles randomly and evenly filling up an entire box is more probable then all gas particles randomly gathering on one side of the box.

If you understand what I just explained than you understand entropy better than the majority of people.
Not trying to be cheeky but wouldn’t the opposite of entropy be work?
Yes!!! The best part about this is that it significantly reduces the urge I've had for years to do it myself.
Much easier way to negotiate, have someone else do it for you.

Seriously, get on linked in, splash your resume around to headhunters, post about stuff on the internet and get noticed. I call it "Job Fishing" because it's very similar to actual fishing. There are lots of ways to get a job, but if you can get someone else to negotiate for you, your chances of making more money than you would have on your own go up substantially.
I think neither are particularly dangerous, but habitually drinking soda is itself just terrible for your teeth.
Then you're doing something wrong because it's exactly what it does for me.

> Given this schema
... some create statement for a table
> Use this as a template
... some unrelated function
> I want you to implement this
... some pseudo code
Water is flavorless.
to me its the familiar look of a standard isometric view on soldiworks
These self-driving taxis are basically just buses you can call to pick you up on demand. In areas where there's sufficient density, the most cost efficient option would probably be a self driving on demand bus. In principle, I think they can be part of the solution.

The main difficulty is making sure the self driving transit vehicles are safe enough that people feel comfortable taking them instead of individual cars. Even though you are statistically speaking less likely to get shot on Philly public transit than you are to die in a car crash on a Philly highway, many people still choose to drive because there's a shooting on transit every few months or so and other less serious disorder on a more regular basis. I assume the same is also true in other cities like San Francisco or New York.

I'm strongly in favor of walkable cities and public transit but most people are going to choose cars and suburban sprawl if it means not having to deal with rampant crime. So anybody who wants to get rid of cars and car dependent suburbs needs to be in favor of both locking up the criminals (in a manner that respects their rights to due process of course) and addressing the root causes of crime (i.e. poverty, bad schools, drugs, etc.) so we don't end up with another generation of hardened criminals.
I have a different opinion. If you had experienced with the mods on reddit, you will notice that Reddit official stance is: Mods are allowed to do anything they want with their subs. That is the line Reddit as a corporation has endorsed and is the main reason for the "landed gentry" comparison. It is also the problem that caused abusive mods being untouchable.

Reddit does not want to control its moderators in any way. Because of that, they dont even have any willingness to try to make the mods more accountable.
Suppose you regularly mailed hundreds or thousands of people. How would you do it in the 1970s and 1980s? (i.e. before your office had a PC)

Method 1: have a secretarial pool type them all out each time

Method 2: if you were lucky enough to have a photocopier, keep the list on paper and photocopy them into labels. How do you delete someone? Whiteout that square. How do you add a new address? Find a recently blanked out square

By the way… in the 1980s nearly every company bought at least one PC. Why? To manage their customer mailing lists and print labels. It was a BFD when you consider how inefficient Method 1 and 2 were.

Fun fact: Reagan got elected promising to “run Government like a business” (meaning … efficient). After 12 years of Reagan/Bush, the Clinton administration was surprised to find the previous administration was using “Method 1”… not even Method 2!! Mr. “Run Government like a business” didn’t do the modernizing step that all video adds had done in those 12 years.
There is actually some truth to that. China has very poor access to the ocean, so they are pretty easy to blockade. But this is true even if they can successfully colonize the South China Sea. There are just way too many countries around that part of the world who aren’t in China’s corner, who are mostly afraid of China after being invaded by it for thousands of years.
The top 8 are either memory errors or errors that stem from joining strings. Memory errors are largely solved by using the right language, and we've known for decades not to join strings manually. SQL prepared statements are a thing, and modern templating engines escape HTML by default, with a suitably scary name for the opt-out function. Building similar tooling for OS calls and path traversal should be pretty trivial.
God forbid people get value of the money they pay you
One thing I didn't know prior to reading the article is that one of the major suppliers of aspartame is the same company that first commercialized MSG -- another compound that has been unfairly maligned and exhaustively studied as a result.

Despite decades of research and hundreds upon hundreds of studies, there's never been a definitive link shown between MSG and its claimed negative effects. In fact, I've seen studies where subjects responded to placebo at a higher rate than they did actual MSG.

Yet it's still very common to run into people that are absolutely convinced they have a sensitivity to MSG despite the fact that all evidence suggests that no such sensitivity actually exists.
12 months in the US. And many many foreign jurisdictions will use your publication to block your patent
https://archive.ph/ZQzXP
>Military-industrial complex emerges and captures politicians (US 1950s)

So far China has completely avoided this. The military is very firmly under Party control.

>Military interventionalism shows its flaws through failed post-intervention nation-building

Germany, Japan and South Korea have been fantastic successes in nation building. Sure there have been failures too, most recently in Afghanistan.

For China, their annexation of Tibet is going fine as is their ethnic hegemonisation there and in other regions. North Korea is an embarrassment, but eh.

Dictatorships must continuously work to maintain their legitimacy. This means they need to justify denying freedoms and opportunities to their own population enjoyed in other nations. They can do that by painting foreign nations as being horrible failures but with international travel and many citizens having friends or family living in those nations, that's not viable long term.

You're quite right. That leaves external threats which require such measures, with the added bonus of painting internal dissatisfaction with the government as disloyalty and betrayal. So for Russia, utter nowheres like Ukraine and Georgia have to be dire threats to Russia's security, so intervention can stop them succeeding where Russia failed. The Taiwan situation has to be escalated, and territorial claims in the South China Sea pushed in order to manufacture tensions that justify internal repression.
Ah - I hadn't heard that and it does make some sense. But I'm not sure that the alternative version of events (where the engineers who were fired or left were still around) would look much better in that case - perhaps delay/better planning might have helped (though of course we don't know how much planning was done) but it's also entirely credible that this was essentially inevitable with such a move.
I found a Bohm through the excellent book What is Real by Adam Becker. It was one of the first books that advocated the philosophy of science that I’d encountered, and it was fascinating.

Warning: If you’re a huge fan of Bohr and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, you may not enjoy it as much.
Your drink does not need to be entertainment.
Sometimes the manager is the blocker and sometimes you just have to tell them. "Do your job better" probably won't go down well, but asking for clarification on issues/tasks you need...clarified usually isn't a problem.

Sometimes you do have to help managers help you, and that's fine. But better for the IC if the IC brings it up before it's something showing up on a velocity chart...
This is eye opening. Thanks a lot for this comment and linking the pdf. I loved E.T. Jayne's Probability Theory book, so looking forward to reading this pdf too.
It's funny you mention that ... I have both discovered and forgotten the novelty of a headlamp at least 5 times in the last decade.

At the time (1980s), I'm not sure there were very many good headlamp options but either way, I wasn't in control of the portable light purchasing decisions.

However, the man who's job it was didn't skimp much. He was a small plane pilot, so I recall being warned not "to look into this flashlight[0]." It looked not much different than you're typical consumer flashlight, but if you picked it up, it was much thicker plastic, used 4 C batteries and no joke, it hurt your eyes to look into.

[0] The flashlight has a switch and a button on it, the button lets you flicker the light for emergency visual signalling (the kind that a pilot might need for the very specific situation of "need to flash morse-code through the windscreen at the ATC tower to get landing clearance because I was struck by lightning and my radios are all fried" -- so ... bright.
Spez had a lot of time to solve problems with bad mods.
Musk himself has said he paid twice what the company was worth.

Too bad he didn't take time to figure that out before he placed his bid.

Too bad he didn't figure out that social media wasn't a good fit for his style.
It's nothing more than the chain rule...University level it is not...the engineering aspect is the non trivial part IMHO...
anyone care to share experiences where their negotiation efforts failed, and why?
There doesn't have to be a plausible mechanism for harm to decide that we avoid something. Things we consumed for millions of years can be considered mostly safe. New things should be seen as unsafe until proven otherwise.
Add a little fruit juice.
See also : https://hypothes.is

A lesser known but great tool
And honestly, that's the part that I've enjoyed the most. Musk's faux "Tony Stark" shtick was always PR. But it was widely believed PR, and it gave him an incredibly low cost of capital and oceans of free marketing.

But basically from the moment he tried to buy Twitter, he's been ruining that reputation. It started with the business press, who have more of an incentive to see through the BS, and who quickly pointed out that it was a clown show of a takeover even before the Delaware courts forced him to buy it. That alone put a major dent in Tesla's stock price.

Now everybody has gotten to see how bad he is at running Twitter. Most of us didn't know shit about launching satellites, but a lot more people understood Twitter. By objective measures, things have gone terribly, and there have been waves and waves of stories showing that Musk is not half the genius he was painted as. Which has caused a lot of questions being asked about all of his businesses.

So now we're entering an age of electric cars, with global intent to switch. But Tesla, the nominal leader, has a stock price down 40% from its peak, and with widespread questions about how well it can really do. And part of that is definitely brand damage from Musk; I recently saw a Tesla with a bumper sticker that said, "When we bought it, we didn't know he was an asshole." Surely that has something to do with weakening sales despite previously unheard-of discounts.

Maybe Musk will get it together, and mainly for the sake of others, I hope so. But if I had to bet, it would bet that his launching a bid for Twitter will be seen as a turning point where he began a long slide into irrelevance.
The wet-bulb temperature is a better indication of how deadly the temperature is as it's equivalent to the temperature that humans can obtain by losing body heat from sweating/evaporation. A wet-bulb temperature of 35C is pretty much the upper limit that humans can survive for a sustained period and 32C is considered "extreme risk".
Sure, there's a line where there are too many bugs. It's just a different line than in something where lives are at stake.
> one easy speedup hack is caching the UNIX epoch for the current day start and adding the HH:MM:SS manually

Side note, this is a really great example of why you'd want an operation such as parsing to be state-mutating when you'd normally expect it not to. i.e. why it makes sense to support passing a Parser object rather than just a parse() function, even for operations where you don't think it's necessary at first glance.
My question is whether he would actually be that way in a company. As there are substantial incentives against this.

I am not a manager, but at an IC level, why would I prevent my manager from doing something stupid that wrecks the project? Better to just go along with it and make sure I have someone to blame as it is a lot easier.
Why do you need flavor in your beverage when foods have so much of it?
The dismissal of Internet culture as frivolous and of no value is both disturbing and just factually wrong, especially when internet culture is increasingly just all culture. If somebody decided to just abruptly obliterate a large chunk of all the books and music and television produced from 2010 onwards I assume you wouldn’t be so dismissive of it, and I think the fact that you apply different standards to the Internet is indicative of a mindset that may have been valid in the 90s and early 2000s, but does not represent how the world works today.
Caves of Steel
Factorio is already quite CPU heavy so I don't want to imagine how it would behave in 3D. The factory size might be much smaller for this to be possible.

I don't really see the point of this, really, except a misunderstanding about game design, UX and programming in general. This thing might be possible with huge sacrifices, though, but I'm not very interested in making something in 3D "just because". I love 3D games, but a lot of games just don't translate properly to 3D.

Factorio is popular because its hardcore players make immense factories that usually reaches the limit of any CPU/GPU.

That's a bit why I dislike most of the gaming industry, because there are way too many people who aims for high quality 3D graphics without ever understanding software or hardware, and it shows, and it's a big step back for the industry as a whole, but GPU vendors are always happy for those people to push for high end graphics, but not people who like good gameplay.
Perhaps https://filmulator.org
It's ok. It's quite long and there's a lot of stories.
No. Entropy can be used to explain the direction of time, as a kind of symmetry breaking of all the microscopic laws that are symmetric in time. But it does not say anything about the "speed of time". Relativity does tell us the speed of time - it's the speed of light.
Frontier's charging extra for buying tickets online
You ever hear of .doc files?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_form...

Yeah. There is a reason XML was seen as the future back in the 90s.

Custom databases often get extended into custom filesystems. And these systems on top of systems get obscure features (like embedding excel sheets inside of Word) and... Thing get hairy.
Absence of publication and peer review doesn’t imply anything. That’s only common in academia and a lot of theoretical and applied research happens outside of academia. And frankly peer review has a mixed track record even within academia, though the hard sciences are better than most.

This guy is probably delusional, and reproduction in controlled environments will be essential, but more unusual things have happened. I once worked on a program based on a theory breakthrough that came from a high school dropout with a colorful life history in a very rough part of town — obviously bright but unable to engage with any of the norms of academia.