skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia: his first noteworthy anti-corruption publication was in 2010, he was charged with corruption in 2012 with a 5 year suspended sentence, in 2014 he was placed under house arrest without due process or any access to family or lawyers, in 2016 he paid a large fine to avoid negative consequences for his brother who had been wrongly implicated alongside him, in 2019 he was charged with a contractual breach and in 2020 he was poisoned which ultimately led to his death via some more wrongful imprisonment and lack of access medical care.

Looks like less than one decade of public anti-corruption work was enough for the state to attempt to murder one of the most famous politicians in the country with the rest of the world looking on. Not exactly sure how this can be seen as a regime with a notably high tolerance for dissenters.
I think people are conflating “kind” with a range of other behaviors. You can be kind while addressing poor performance, etc. You address the behavior, you might even have to fire someone, but those are not incompatible with kindness - if you’ve given someone ample opportunity, and clarity, then you’ve been kind. It’s unkind to let someone get to the point of firing without being clear that their job is at risk. It’s not unkind to take action when their performance threatens the organization, team, etc.

I think most people would agree Fred Rogers was kind - but I have to imagine he had to fire people from the show over the course of its run.
> Nobody thought "huh, might be the systems?"

The Post Office knew their system was broken from at least 2003. Their response was to bury the report and threaten the consultant.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-67921974
I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting. Are you saying that the US govt should make it illegal for people in its borders to communicate with people in those countries?
The title was worded wrong, I think engineers (at least me), would make more sense out of: "The world needs more good people, the world does not need more smart people." Engineers often confuse "good people" with "smart people". But they are not related at all. And no, we don't need more smart people optimizing ads. We need more good people helping.
It's more an advocacy against security paranoia.

You will always get automated attacks, constantly. But they're almost all doing stuff like trying to exploit a 12 year old bug in Wordpress or IIS.

They're about as sophisticated as any other scammer on the net.
The justice system is regional, spread around the country there probably weren't so many in one place that somebody might question it but then it's also for the court to only consider the evidence in front of it.

Only the Post Office (covering it up) knew there were so many and they didn't tell the court and in fact they told all the accused that they were the only one (or just a handful) so none of them knew either... its only after the campaigning and research of Alan Bates (one of wrongly accused subpostmasters, and after this week knighted for what he did in uncovering it so is now Sir Alan Bates) that it all came out, especially after a documentary was made about it suddenly the general public knew as well.

Private Eye magazine (a sort of political commentary/satirical news magazine in the UK) had been reporting it for years that there was clearly a problem as it was crippingly obvious that we didn't suddenly have a country full of hundreds and hundreds of fraudulent post office workers, but the average person doesn't read it and the MPs were happy to ignore it and believe Fujitsu over their own postmasters some of whom had been doing the job for decades prior to the mess.

The enquiry evidence that's been broadcasted recently from the key players is both fascinating and infuriating on what a mess and a coverup it was.
It might work in so far as you'll get packets through. The performance would be abysmal, though. Modern Ethernet is built around switching.
I don’t understand the relevance of this example. Without the hazard light, there’s a 99% chance the person is simply looking at their phone, needlessly delaying everyone else, hence the honking to alert them to move. What else is another driver supposed to do?

A hazard light means there is a problem that can’t be solved with honking.
The Linux bets were OpenCL 2.0 and later Vulkan.

Remember that NVidia basically stalled out on OpenCL 1.2, purposefully to encourage CUDA adoption. AMD actually moved forward, though their OpenCL2.0 wasn't that good either... it at least existed.

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AMD's APUs culminated in XBox One / PS4 APIs, which actually have a substantial market share in the console market.

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Vulkan on Linux is working out pretty well today. I don't think anyone would have picked that as the strongest API 10 years ago. Remember that in 2010s, "Vulkan" was known as "AMD Mantle" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(API)).

Even as AMD was going bankrupt in the early 2010s, they had plenty of software investments. Some of these investments (Mantle/Vulkan) even worked out.
Or it could be to indicate that a rise is expected since people are being less careful about spreading disease? Or it could be to say that the restrictions caused immune systems to not be exercised enough so now they are weaker?
This is the way. As others mention opening window is your cheapest option, but you lose a lot of your heating and cooling efficiency. We installed a whole house ERV for about $10K and saw a significant drop in CO2 readings.
Let’s make a committee to discuss! we need all the key players involved, so let’s invite all of dev and QA, ~60 people for an hour long discussion?
It's just a typo in the URL. It should be https://atomictessellator.com (two Ls)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285234687267356672.html
I'm also Firefox on Android and it didn't for me. Though I have noticed that some of the newer versions of Firefox can be kinda sucky for PDFs. Maybe it's linked to versions.
Hey, really neat idea. What is your process for choosing which companies you'd like to interview?
Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly
It's still mass, drag and cost.
Its pretty simple. The parents almost surely would've been more cautious about their daughter getting married. But turning her into a marketing content mill on the internet was done with next to no consideration of the consequences.

And yeah, I guess if you don't care about tens of thousands of men perving on your daughter every day, upload away! Good thing men are never incredibly harassing or anything.

There's videos online of me doing stuff that would probably end my father's heartbeat in about 10 seconds. I'm not a prude. I'm someone that wishes people would think instead of playing this surprise Pikachu face constantly.

This general ignorance of long-term consequences, and this behavior of men... Neither are limited to Americans. I mean, I wish, it'd be an easy solution for me to avoid both, but alas.
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Which "literal Nazis" are you referring to?

There's only one group which this could possibly refer to -- the Azov Brigade. You can say anything you want to about them -- but they definitely are not "literal Nazis", and that's their entire point.

Assuming you literally mean the literal sense of "literal" here.
Most companies don't run an Amazon style PIP program where you HAVE to cut X% annually on every team.

Therefore, keeping around people who genuinely deserve firing is a drag on delivering. As a result it is always in your interest to get improvements out of your team members, whether by upskilling, role changing, hoping they leave on their own or worst case actually laying them off.

I've worked in financial service tech for nearly 20 years across 6 companies and only 1 I would say did a "5% every year" thing, and even that got paused for years at a time when market conditions pushed that way.

Even if your statement is true, it is a matter of framing. Obviously you keep your best staff, and fire the actively negatively contributing staff. The people in the middle aren't just "for when you need to sacrifice".. they are simply the middle 50%. You obviously want to see them improve as well.
It's crazy that you are charged for traffic using AWS hosted services per default and need to actively take measures to avoid this. Also the myriad of options and the very restricted capability of some services/resources (e.g. egress gateway only with ipv6) are confusing.

I am using "VPC endpoints" (aws_vpc_endpoint in Terraform) to avoid the above scenerio (charging for traffic to AWS services). They are not mentioned in the OP article. Are they the same as VPC endpoints and what's the best practice?
>The article paints those measures as if they were a good thing and now things have regressed.

I got a totally different vibe: Japan is notoriously xenophobic and maintained extremely strict regulations on visitors that were far more stringent than western countries.

So the framing here sounds like a Japanese perspective: "we didn't want you to come, and we started to let you back in, and look what happened to us" which is probably a popular sentiment there.
Ive also seen cases where business people truly don’t believe there is an underlying reality to a problem. They evaluate approaches and people purely from a sociability stand point.

You make a good point about government, there are so many big problems including bad incentives about working hard, taking risks, etc, it’s hard for to see that as the main one.
Upwork is a disgusting place along with Fiverr, etc. The company itself, the contractors, as well as the freelancers. Everybody is lying, cheating, and scamming.

I know some people make some money there and it might be lucrative if you are located in a developing country. But I wouldn't touch Upwork if you have a tiny bit of self-respect. It is just a race to the bottom there...
> This says they'll get compensation, so that's good.

It looks like they will get compensation this time, but only after being featured on an ITV TV drama. The first time around the government drip fed compensation and massively reduced figures, including to people who served jail time for crimes that never happened. Many of the victims are old and some were made homeless because of the Post Office. It was just extra cruelty and maliciousness on top of the injustice they had suffered.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61187241
I live in EU,and a bunch of american sites just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws.

Then someone in US uses my email by accident to subscribe to some newsletter (not the first time, I also get personal emails for that person, since it's just one letter difference, and i'm guessing it's someone old, considering the emails I get), i try to click "unsubscribe", and it just redirects me to "<site> is unavailable in EU, blah blah" page, without unsubscribing.

I make sure to report that site to every goddamn spam list possible.
> Salting is protected activity, lying about your employment history to salt is also protected activity, and firing someone for salting is an unfair labor practice.

Huh... TIL
https://archive.is/Uto4T
In my own gut, I have a sense of the right amount of time to spend on design. Assume (falsely) for a moment that I'm right: How can I transfer that gut sense to you or anyone? Chapter 3 of the book is my attempt to share that gut feel [3].

Even if you clone us, our gut feel doesn't transfer to our clones. So, we can recognize under- and over-engineering in our guts, but how can we help someone else? Is there a better way than the risk-driven model?

1. Identify and prioritize risks
2. Select and apply a set of techniques
3. Evaluate risk reduction

[1] JESA Chapter 3: Risk-Driven Model. https://www.georgefairbanks.com/assets/jesa/Just_Enough_Soft...
their “point” does not stand. they don’t even have a point. they cherry-picked an ideological hot button to be mad about for no legitimate reason.

it is absurd to suggest those measures were not a good thing, and factually inaccurate to say that the article expresses or implies any opinion about them whatsoever. it doesn’t.

it’s an article about a rise in cases. it mentions when the cases started rising.
I'm not a gamer but I remember playing SimCity as a kid... Did game play change in the last ~25 years or is my browser broken? It doesn't seem to do anything? I can load a city and watch it do things but I remember being able to actually build cities myself in SimCity... Is there supposed to be a way for players to... play?
"There is no small scale human comparable in room CO2 removal bio/tech."

Of course the tech exists, it's just not common. Some submersible tech and space tech used rebreathers or scrubbers to remove CO2 and increase O2 levels. Of course the reason it's not common is that outside of those use cases you can generally just open a window.
> I don’t know of any industrial SS application that relies on anti-corrosion coating (presumably consumable) instead of the actual formulation of the specific alloy.

Oil and gas, marine, pharma, and chemical processing in general. Those are just the ones I’m familiar with. Coated SS is a cheaper alternative to titanium when they can get away with it.

Did Tesla then chose a cheap alloy and cut the corners on coating?
I can also argue that "being smart" means I recognize feelings of others, because not doing it is stupid - so that implies kindness.
Not saying this is the case here, but yellow journalism and practicing news literacy aren't new things.
We can't be reading the same article.
> Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible.

I feel like this, in some capacity, is borderline inevitable in the modern architectures with a bunch of external services, or at the very least will 100% require that your devs are connected to the Internet all the time to be able to do anything, vs systems that are 100% self hostable.

Or even just running a complex Kubernetes cluster with a service mesh and other solutions on the test/staging/prod infra vs loosely mapping to more lightweight options locally, unless you have a super beefy setup. And even then, if everything is split into multiple separate services far enough, you just won't be able to run everything locally, meaning that you need to use some of the components from shared dev environments which will inevitably lead to stepping on each other's heels.

Once you go past something like Docker Compose for local environments, things can go sour.
Also (2020)
re: other improvements, it was also common for mods to change behavior between netquake and quake world.

Specifically I remember team fortress's pyro secondary grenade in QW being just pulses of AOE damage instead of shooting more fire particles that needed tracked, and the soldier nail grenade .. doing something different to not have as many flying objects.
I don't know what counts or doesn't count as a payment processor exactly in these states (GP brought that up, not me).

In any case, the tax status of a payment (donation or payment for goods/services received) would most likely be orthogonal to that, i.e. I don't think you could skirt any of these requirements just by saying you're taking donations.
The leaders at the time are very much alive: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67925304
No, there was a DIY diode prob with a headline number high enough, but I think he said real world performance would be about 8ghz, that's only part of the problem anyway. I had a look, I can't find the forum post or the podcast he was on (amphour). Either rent an appropriate USB analyzer or scope. If you just want to verify the speed of your consumer equipment look for a software solution to measure throughput (there is significant protocol overhead). At the required speed you can't even use BNCs.
> Where is your phreaking spirit at?

You gotta keep in mind that there is a sizeable portion of any hacker culture that doesn't want to (or can't) do any part of the actual hacking that gets things figured out, but instead just want to use what was figured out in ways not intended by the original purpose of whatever was hacked. One might say the script kiddies of the physical side of things.

There are way more cooks in the kitchen than chefs.
Personal page.. sure.

Business? You're a pain to many people and don't care.

I live in EU and many US pages just block the whole EU due to GDPR laws... then someone (by mistake) subscribes me to their newsletter, and the "unsubscribe" links leads to "this page is unavalable in EU"? I'll goddamn make sure your domain ends up on every goddamn possible antispam filter I can find.
IIRC Mantle was co-developed by DICE, I think DICE may have even had the initial idea and done the prototyping.
The biggest problem with government organizations is that they're monopolies.

The lack of competition means that (1) if the organization is dysfunctional, it won't be beaten by a better one, and (2) it has little incentive to improve.
The Xhomer Project
How the 'mind's eye' calls up visual memories from the brain
J, APL.
Unfortunately "though love" as practiced is mostly just an excuse to be an asshole.
Show HN: Found a valid use case for LLMs – language study
Unfortunately I think computer books in general are on the decline. It's just very hard for that medium to keep up with the pace of change. This saddens me because it is by far my preferred method of learning new technology, but it certainly seems like video content is winning out over books. YouTube, Udemy, WWDC videos, and similar seem to be the best way to get up to date information now.

There are still some high quality publishers out there, but I fear that we're coming to the end of an era. In addition to the ones you mentioned Manning and No Starch Press produce consistently excellent books as well.
What is "ziopsycho"? There's one hit in DDG, and it's no more illustrative than your comment!
In a web context, I was thinking this when I checked out the web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1]; why would they use a thin, small typeface with light gray color on a bright/white background which makes the text less appealing to read? It must be subtle sabotage from within!

(Some may counter this with Hanlon's razor [2]; Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)

[1] https://www.eff.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Agreed. See: Scale Your Team Horizontally [1].

"I’m not ready to argue against Brooks’ Law that adding people to a late project makes it later. But today, when developers are working on a clean codebase, I see lots of work happening in parallel with tool support to facilitate coordination. When things are going smoothly, it’s because the architecture is largely set, the design patterns provide guidance for most issues that arise, and the code itself (with README files alongside) allow developers to answer their own questions."

[1] Scale Your Team Horizontally, George Fairbanks, IEEE Software July 2019. https://www.georgefairbanks.com/ieee-software-v36-n4-july-20...
With CGNAT, a prepaid sim card and some effort, you can make them block a whole legit ISP in a few days without spoofing anything.
Paul Erdős was a very interesting person. I read his biography The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.

He couch surfed and wrote papers with others his entire life and became the most prolific published mathematician ever. He also loved to teach kids serious math and not underestimate their thinking.

Also I believe his name is pronounced like air-dish.
I simply block traffic from countries where I do not do business in.

I used to see constant attempts to mess with Wordpress URLs, which I know is not legitimate because I don't run Wordpress.

Cutting out Russia & China basically removed this problem. I really hate locking up my tiny corner of the internet but I don't see another way.
It's a useful communication gesture if the topic of conversation calls for it.
Kikuchi urged people to maintain hand hygiene and to treat any open wounds. He said patients may carry GAS in their intestines, which could contaminate hands through faeces.

Not really surprised, in Japan I often find toilets have a single tap with cold water and no soap. It’s quite disgusting. Lots of train stations are like this.
Doesn't seem terribly useful. I mean it only obscures that it prints "ok". If you're looking at the logs, you probably already figured out someone is attacking you, and if you didn't, seeing "echo ok" will not help you figure it out.

If the only thing the command does is "obscure what it does", then the only thing it obscures is "obscure what it does". I guess there's no requirement that whoever writes these scripts is a genuis.
Almost one here actually spells it aeroplane though. We do write and say aluminium though.
How much authority/jurisdiction does this judge/ruling have? It seems like the kind of thing that might easily get appealed and lost.
In the German market it’s recruiting and placement agencies. Shameless self plug I collected a list of URLs https://github.com/eigenfunk/freelance-recruiting-de
I run a co-op consulting group.
It's all fun and games, until you travel outside of your country, and try to access stuff at home.
Oppty = Opportunity
Avoiding Heat-Related Illness. There's an App for That
"Heat is more deadly in the U.S. than earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined[1]. Between 1992 and 2006, heat caused the deaths of 423 crop workers[2]."
Doesn't this assume forced air with the fan running for some percentage of the time? It's possible their fan doesn't run enough. It seems many people have that issue at least during some seasons.
38911 Bytes Free? Commodore 64's Basic RAM [video]
Hey, I'd be curious to know what made you move from Laravel to Symphony.

I've not been exposed to any of the two and only dealt with PHP as part of messing with WordPress in the past.
Dangling references is about the only C problem that Zig doesn't fix with language/compiler features, everything else is taken care of and mostly in a quite elegant and minimalistic way. Also Zig doesn't need to replace C to be successful, just augment it - and for that it's a already a really good choice.
Would be nice if the article provided a bit more context / history? Is this a new thing ? Etc
Thank you! Attempt the impossible :)
Idea for AI App
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C++AMP was more a POC than anything else.

The work on ConcRT and WinRT is on the genesis of C++ Co-routines, initially proposed by Microsoft to WG21.

Anything else, Microsoft has always been more interested in doing compute via DirectX, aka DirectCompute.

I will leave the WinRT/UWP rant for another day.
One thing to keep in mind is medicine has a bias towards no action unless the action is provably better. I don’t mean that as a critique.

In the case of probiotics, there seem to be few to no downsides, but unclear or unrepeatable upsides. Therefore, many doctors simply chose not to use them.

Overall, this is largely a good attitude. You don’t want medicine to take wild swings at new and fad-like treatments. However, there are often times when they respond far too slowly to information that could help treatment.
Article date: 6 July 2021

Referenced in TFA, India’s PFBR “began fuel loading” in March of 2024:
https://www.powermag.com/long-awaited-milestone-fuel-loading...
I had a buddy in 2004 from the sister lab (doing strong AI), who was acquired by one of the big military contractors to implement "ATAK" (automatic target acquire kill). The task was mostly solved, as far as the US was concerned, as collateral (civilian) damage wasn't considered important for the deployment scenarios. (Think: total war.)
It seems that Apple intends people to mostly use WWDC videos to learn their newest tech.