skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl went to town on having lots of logical operators and blurring (rather arbitrary) line between "flow control" and "logical operators", e.g.:

open( my $fh_file, "<", $file ) or die "Could not open file '$file' $!";

do_thing() unless predicate();

do_thing() if predicate();

do_thing() until predicate();

... and lots more.
Mitnick didn't steal anything except source code. He didn't do anything that was truly reprehensible. I feel it's premature to comment on SBF. He hasn't even been tried yet.
Thank you for this explanation of giant TV lockers for a SoCal raised guy.
founding engineer - we gave him a lot of equity; c. 8%
Its a pretty cool movie, surprisingly realistic with a focus on social engineering. No idea how accurate it was otherwise, probably not really.

Sad to see, he was way too young to go. RIP
I've always seen her point-of-view as pretty balanced. I certainly wouldn't have considered her statements as "rabid" although she is, I think understandably, pro-China.

This isn't the first time she's had issues either. Her openness about her personal situation, her relationship with Kaidi, etc, certainly skirts what's allowed to be spoken about in public.

Hopefully she's able to continue her core work without unbearable compromise.
I had used a Roku, and another cheap $100 PC of some type. I think I also tried it on a PS4. This was like 6 years ago.
It's not easy to go from catching up to leading... Maybe China can but it seems far more likely that they are destined to settle in a few miles behind the west like the rest of the Asian tigers.
I think it's even more nefarious to have games that /don't/ resemble gambling but utilize the same psychological tricks.

I got taken by legend Richard Garriott on a slippery slide of feeling like I was supporting a historic studio, making digital investments, holding onto key digital real estate, and being part of an exclusive gaming club, all while being coerced into 5 payments per month and incessantly repeating the same in game activities for hours per day. It took 8k for me to never trust game developers ever again. I can't even buy battle passes without feeling like a sucker now.
Wikipedia – An Online Encyclopedia
I don't think it's ever gone away, and stands to get even worse now. Good to have a safe word with your family in-case they ever get an important call from you or the reverse
No the “Ender’s Game” one where they think they are training but are actually killing bugs.
Well you get explicit dependencies which have ups and downs, but closures do become an issue. That said, I find hooks less magical and less prone to cycles, especially as you're staying with a top down data flow generally.
"And yet most practice the exact opposite"

And yet you just made a sweeping generalization about journalists without any corroborating information.
The CRA is designed to fix that "problematic" passage in the GPL, and push responsibility back onto the company creating open source software.

I don't think this will impact any hobbyist open source developer - it is primarily going to impact commercial 'opencore' companies. I wouldn't be surprised if this targets companies like Red Hat / IBM, etc. Or benefits them. I'm not sure yet.

Microsoft is probably laughing all the way to the bank, and this will just solidify their hold on the European market.
Thanks a lot for sharing this precious experience. Do you like what Close is doing for instance? https://www.close.com/pricing
Thanks, I never knew this site before /s
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> He's pedigreed from a great CS school and worked at multiple well known big-tech companies, so have assumed that he's a high performing, action orientated programmer prior to start up life.

This is often a formula for being very competent at execution within given rules. Top school has a formula for getting in. Big tech companies have product people to guide you on what to do. My team has UX people to design the buttons, product to tell us the inputs and outputs, operations to define those inputs and outputs in detail, QA to ensure it is correct, devops to run all the tests, etc. I really do just write code to execute a vision.

I went to a well recognized school. I work for a big tech firm as one of my jobs (haven't done multiple yet). Nowhere in there was I really making open ended decisions and frankly I would be a bit terrified of decision making as I haven't made a non code related one for years. It is my job to build the dream, not define it. There are a whole pile of automated guardrails present from devops to QA to product that prevent bugs, so while I do my best, it is hardly the same as having to be completely responsible.

I couldn't even demo the product I have contributed to for the past two years even, simply because as a backend engineer I never open the whole thing so have no idea where the buttons are on frontend (teams have both).

I once joined a much smaller team without those guardrails and I was considered an underperformer on that team for not redesigning the form to be more user friendly. I was given a sketch and I just built it, despite knowing that it probably wasn't great. But with my current employer, that is what you are supposed to do. With that employer, they were unhappy I didn't change things to improve it.

I don't think you are being unreasonable, but you picked up on some wacky signals that I don't think signal what you believe they do.

You need someone who regularly hacks projects in their spare time and has built something from scratch on their own before, ideally multiple things. You want a product engineering person, which I suspect this guy has never done.
lol. at some point in time I ran protocol buffers over kafka. Fun times.

I liked avro better though.
> Natural languages balance between regular rules (e.g. in English, we often add -ed to make the past tense of a verb) and exceptions especially for common cases ("went", "was", "had", "made", "did" because going, being, having, making, doing are all so common).

Yes, but different natural languages resolve this tension differently.

For example, Turkish is much more regular in its verbs (and in general) than English or German.
sorry to clarify - I meant im always passionate because I've been a founder at a couple of couples that have exited for low $$ms, so always felt a sense of ownership.
Tabs on the side are a hugely important part of my workflow. I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days!

Some browsers have side-tabs built in, but their implementation and/or UI is poor.

Other browsers can't do side-tabs at all, even with extensions.

Firefox is the only browser that allows extensions to do tabs on the side properly.

And I've tried all of the extensions. Sidebery is the best presently, and the best so far.
how do you become a vc as a typical tech person?
I'm not sure what you mean by a value judgement. But these things are obviously personal, broad, statistical, and not absolute. Personality types are a thing though, and some types are more prone to certain behaviors and feelings than others. Doesn't mean it's always that way or better or worse.

Probably what's being re-hit upon is that there's more to personality types than introvert and extrovert.
Is it possible to move a commit up/down by 10 lines instead of 1?
But it should also be a reminder to those not in academic fields to take preprints and even published research with a huge grain of salt. Between political pressure, incentives to cheat to get funding and status, and the “infallibility” of people in authority, peer reviewed research is not looking very good to the average Joe. Hopefully it will eventually get straightened out, but it’s looking more like an entrenched ministry of truth.
I completely agree. It's a pity that this isn't becoming standard in fields affected by the replication crisis. I would be happy to be corrected if someone has heard / experienced otherwise.
My personal favorite question so far is when someone asked if L Ron Hubbard farts to which he replied,

"No, I do not fart. As stated in The Scientology Handbook, "The spirit is not a thing, it is the creator of things." I am a spirit, not a physical body, and therefore do not have the same physical functions as a body."

I'm biased but its actually pretty entertaining scrolling down the live feed.
> First, faking a research in a way that won't be detected is hard, especially if aim for high impact paper which probably will be studied by others.

Fake is a spectrum. Soft faking is easy and widespread--"p-hacking" is the polite term.

The stakes for faking it are low because most research is low impact, most research is seldom reproduced, and even bad research is rarely retracted. For that which is reproduced there is plausible deniability--"researcher degrees of freedom". Getting a high impact study published is more important than having one retracted, so researchers follow that incentive structure.

> But that'd be evident from the outside, since science will stop producing real life results. We're definitely not there yet.

Have you taken a look at the biosciences, social sciences, and medicine? Basic research hasn't been reliable for decades.
Turkish might be a better example: it's a real, natural language and highly regular.
> The government doesn't have the resources to investigate how scientifically plausible every new technology is

They can't pick up the phone and ask one of any number of experts also working for the government if it passes the smell test?

> a simple "we want to see it does X% better" is easy to measure for someone without a scientific background

If they can't tell the claim is very likely bogus, they're liable to be taken in by a fraudulent protocol designed and executed by the sellers.
"Any more or less real programming language is more complex than an arithmetic expression language with only four operations so any 'lessons' from such a simple example is inapplicable to anything else."
stanford daily absolutely killing it
That empathy and taste also comes from repeatedly playing with each other. It’s a lot easy to anticipate where the song is going if you know what moves your band mates like to employ.
Perhaps the best way to navigate such a time of uncertainty is to recognize that you're not even aware of the spectrum of options, and to be open-minded/observing what kind of options are possible. This looks like saying "yes" to an unusual invitation, reading a book in a new genre, doing something mildly out of character - to see what kind of new thing might happen as a consequence. And it doesn't have to be serious, it's "just for research" ;-)
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Yea I'm mow super confused as to Why there is a difference.... it seems so illogical to have a toilet that can't empty itself completely when flushed...
Those look like fun activities. The list can be expanded and made a lot more fun:

* See if you can make your sibling confess to eating an extra scoop of ice-cream:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...

* Slip some substances in your parents drinks and see if they'll tell you the password to the bank account so you can buy whatever you want:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

* Jealous how this one kid at school is too influential? Let's see if you can ruin their reputation and maybe put them in the hospital:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
They're not indexable
Dear citizen. Your children are hereby rejected for all future CIA job applications. With regards CIA x
Thanks for your response. I thought I would get some insight into how a very different person reacts, but I think we are actually a lot more similar than I thought :) I can certainly relate to how you feel.

Guess it just goes to show that my definitions of introversion and extroversion deviate from the norm quite a bit.
That's not cynical at all, there is basically no other reason to do it. There were probably some devs who were naive and did it because they thought people wanted it, but it was always about monetizing digital assets.
This is one reason why I don't play these games - I don't want to grind just to play / unlock aspects of the game. Give me a subscription plan!
> we've been sprinting towards building a MVP

Have you got a firm target ideal scoped out yet .. or are you still flopping about changing spec on what should be achieved as a first plateau?
I mean, I still have parents/relatives who have no idea what Wikipedia is.
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Well not really, right? Let's suppose some well known, well respected author that has a history of correct results puts up a new paper. I (and I think most people) will assume that the result is correct. We start to apply more doubt once the claimed result is a solution to a longstanding open problem, or importantly, if the researcher has a spotty track record for correctness (in math/TCS) or falsifying results (in experimental fields).

But really we shouldn't be talking about math errors and falsification in the same category.
A world in which organizations like these are looked upon with the utmost contempt is the better one. When judging another nation's civilizational status (ie. is it a banana republic), in the future we should include how regulatorily contained these agencies are.

Checks note: Just about every western news outlet, privately and publicly funded, is quoting "NGOs" like Bellingcat, Freedom House, Transparency International or the "Atlantic Concil's Digital Forensics labs" as if they weren't the CIA cutouts that they are.

I think we're good!
Hahah. That ship's sailed man
Totally agree. Was watching son play clash Royal yesterday and was immediately thinking of card machines at casinos. Not a good situation.
> unimaginably terrible “food,”

Wait American airline operators still serve food?

My second biggest complaint about American airline operations is the lack of food service. Even the cheap domestic flights in China have food service. The closest thing to food I've ever experienced on an domestic American operation is the fancy bag of various things Southwest gives out on flights to Hawaii.
I feel like if you want that, what you have to do is make a social change such that a number of people sufficient to form a marketable niche would even understand what you are talking about.

Like, I understand what you are talking about, most of the readers here understand what you are talking about, but I also understand that almost everyone else doesn't.
I would say the important factor mentioned in the article is that heavy metals from the batteries will end up in the waterways if they're not recovered. A bunch of drones crashing on land an be a) (presumably) recovered much easier and b) even if you don't find one of the drones, it's probably going to take a lot longer to find its way into the water and it should be in lower concentrations etc.

mvdtnz' assessment of the Yarra being full of garbage already is correct, though. It wasn't too long ago that Melbourne locals were intentionally throwing hire bikes into the river because they were sick of them taking up the side walk. I think it was numbers well into the hundreds of bikes that were being dredged up.
I never implied any term with the word "market" is good. And of course most people are going to only have a simplistic understanding of most concepts. But the reason the free market was popularized in the first place is that people who study economics found that it produced prosperity, and then actively popularized the idea of a free market.

Of course, they were massively out-propagandized by special interests who benefit from government restrictions on voluntary interactions, and so the free market is extremely unpopular, with all trends —
e.g. the rising degree of regulatory of centralization as measured by per capita regulatory compliance costs, the rapid rise in social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP since 1950, etc — demonstrating that.

>>since 100 years is 1923, so any proof at that point was just leading into Depression.

The Federal Reserve, i.e. the central bank, created the Crash of 1929, and it was Hoover and FDR's government "cures" that turned what would have been a short downturn and quick recovery into a Depression.

Hoover's role:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/842709

FDR's:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ff.org/fdrs-policies-prolon...

At one point, the FDR administration was paying farmers a sum equal to $500 million today, to kill and bury five million baby pigs:

https://footnote.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2020/08/14/plowing-under...

This while people were going hungry.

The FDR administration, economically illiterate ideologues as they were, believed that the problem was low prices, and that by reducing the supply of agricultural products, they could push up the price, and end the depression.

In reality, the money supply had contracted due to cascading loan defaults, and what needed to happen is for prices to adjust downward to come in line with wages.

The FDR administration instituted a number of measures to try to control prices, to horrible effect on millions.
for those of us who grew up without a father, as technologists, especially in the 90's and early 2000's, kevin mitnick was something of a guiding light.

he gave us permission to explore the darker underbelly of technology and was emblematic of a freer (free as in freedom) time on the internet. yes, he was a convicted criminal, but he was also a complex character who loved to solve puzzles and his competitive nature ultimately drove his work.

the famous story of the fbi showing up at his house and kevin saying, "no problem, I'll report to the fbi office tomorrow"... yeah, that didn't work, but he was the type to try and that was beautiful.
> but I doubt people actually care on the left that much about being dicks to them

Based on what? Most people aren't jerks on purpose, and if anything those on the left are shown by research to be more empathetic than others.
https://archive.is/YOV9X
Give it a month.

We will have finetunes that make you squirm in your chair.
Yes. I also majored in economics and psychology whilst during my CS undergrad, and having to write a ton of essays and submitting for journals, taught me that communications is a key skill to have.
it is well documented that he did not steal from anyone (i believe this was mentioned at his federal trial, by a witness)
It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades. They cannot afford to fail too many students (relative to other institutions), as that ultimately would damage either their finances or reputation.

Absolutely everyone involved in teaching (professors, instructors, grad students) are complicit in this scam. This endemic condition demonstrates the complete lack of integrity present in these institutions. If they are willing to lie and cheat the system that grants the very entry level credentials required to get into the upper echelons of academia, it becomes a very safe bet that they are lying and cheating in countless other ways from the comfort of their ivory towers.
Alternatively . . .

https://www.britannica.com/search?query=wikipedia

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wikipedia

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I've been wondering: If someone is experiencing heat stroke, and you have access to, say a bathtub and sufficient ice, should you cool them yourself, or call 911 immediately instead?
Do they do anything fancy, or is the standard response just cooling until they are normal?
That’s the case mostly for Twitter, meta and google that only/mainly live based on as revenue.

Amazon, Microsoft, Apple are more diversified.
There should be few things more horrific for the leader of a nation than their military planners not freaking out about something.
Because here it’s public and they want to save face. When it’s private they dgaf because it doesn’t affect other potential or current clients who might be swayed away from them
Sideberry also let’s you create ‘Tab Panels’ to sort tabs into different groupings. Panels can be thought of as separate windows for trees of tabs, but all within the same Firefox maim window. I use it when I’m researching a topic and want to sort tabs into subtopics. Works quite well.

It also meshes well with Firefox Containers, another favorite Firefox feature of mine.
The first link is solo groove-based, and in the 2nd the harpist is playing what sounds like a written out accompaniment to their own melody. (Or even if it's improvised it's a kind of ostinato pattern.)

Ok, that third link is a harpist actually comping. Boy, that's tough! The pianist has to drop their left-hand and even play rather quietly in their right hand so that you can hear the chords the harpist is comping.

It makes me think of Michael McKean as the harpist bandleader in Primetime Glick, where the audience nearly never hears any harp sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMTXtmhVRr4
Eh, its still $500...
it's not an obscure logical fallacy, it's very common indeed
You mean we can’t just Trust the Science™?!

I completely agree. Seeing slack chats and emails regarding Proximal Origin and how researchers were disagreeing with it all the way until they published a paper that served what purpose are really disheartening. Instead of guiding future research toward preventing similar outcomes, countless scientists spent untold years of combined effort on a theory the authors didn’t even believe.
You are going to get a lot of weirdness mixing a, e end i up.
Hey @codegeek, have you tried SaaSHub? It's goal is to be more "objective" compared to Capterra & G2. Yet, it's questionable to what extent that is achieved.
I also use both Tab Stash and Sidebery. Tab Stash is really more for long-lasting / bookmarked tabs / handling various contexts in my mind and work to get back later. Sidebery on the other hand helps me manage what I currently have in mind and to juggle Multi-Account Containers in neat sections.

That said, I've actually ended up using just Tab Stash because yeah, having too much on your Sidebery tree gets messy and now you have to deal with two sets of stashes, and yeah, unlike Tab Stash, Sidebery doesn't let you group them up into sections.

My only complaint with Tab Stash? I wish it retained which Multi-Account Container was used when it stashed a tab. It'd be perfect if it did that.

On a sidenote, I love that Sidebery lets me scroll through the tabs via scroll wheel. It's a thing I missed since I switched to a Mac because last time I checked, you could scroll through tabs on FF Linux but strangely it's not something you can do on Mac.
The scams are still the same as how he hacked.

He called someone, claimed to be an authority, knew the lingo, asked for help and time was the critical.

Someone calls your parents and claims to be an authority figure, that there is a crisis, and they must act now.
I'm sorry, but I don't think the argument holds water. Why is the US special here? The easiest counterexamples are Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. Neither have 'legacy' admissions.
Certified mail might get through to someone important. Not super cheap, but potentially worth it.
Why can't we just use Model-View-Controller for change-detection?

Views subscribe with the model to get notifications about changes to different "aspects" of the model. When they get a change-notification they update themselves by asking the model for its latest data for a given aspect.
> Because Journalists are trained to be good communicators and summarize ideas

I don't see how a freshman is 'trained' in this sense. Could it be that good communicators and people who can summarize ideas naturally gravitate towards journalism?
On the upside, the industrial base is now being quickly rebuilt and rates of production of most kinds of relevant munitions has greatly increased, and some of the new production capacity for those is already coming online, with a lot more in the pipeline. It's good while it's happening in peacetime. By the time China's turn will come, things will be in a much better place.