skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how effective it would be for all the same reasons that have been listed below. But I can say that a friend of mine and I just asked for this to be done for us. We work well together and wanted to stay on the same team, at least initially. With that in mind I think the platform would have some interest but I'm not sure how much or the difficulty in creating such a platform.

We told the recruiters to think of us as 'The Bipod' and that we would only go to a new job if we both were hired for the same team, at least initially.

They claimed they had done it one other time so I know it must be asked for occasionally. Long story short, my friend and I are leaving our current employer for the new employer next week. So it can be done. And I think it is nice to have some consistency in a new place of employment. It should make the transition easier for both of us.
> Because, as far as we can tell [...] conciousness is dependent on our brains.

This is neither a logical/mathematical proof, nor an empirically established fact. So how do you know? Why are you making statements of faith in what seems to be the scientific worldview, when the actual scientific worldview is that we should never make statements of faith?
> So how is retrocausal QM different from Bohmian mechanics

From what I can tell from this, there's no difference in the sense that it's experimentally indistinguishable.

It's different in the sense that Bohmian mechanics relies on a non-local pilot wave to match QM results. This frees the other assumption i.e. causality to get to the same answer.

TBH I can't see either get much attention until someone comes up with a way to make them produce different results compared to standard QM approaches. Either that or someone finds a way to make QM calculations substantially easier using these approaches. In other words, if they produce new physics or have practical value.
Is admitting that we do not know so uncomfortable that you must invent fairy tale strawman arguments to cover up our ignorance? Hubris is the antithesis of science.
> just had to figure the game out.

The environment is very different though - we have the internet, and can watch the entire game played through by experts if we want. Back then if the average player got stuck by not being able to figure something out, and didn't want to call the expensive helpline, their enjoyment was over.
Yeah, will give a command line flag to set default number of entries.
You only get two gzips, not three :) (transfer and content codings)

Unless you're serving up XML which is itself zipped, such as an Open Office document. But most clients won't be looking for that.
Tesla Model S Small Overlap Crash Test (Acceptable)
It's a combination of:

- getting dark around 4/5pm
- extremely dry and cold
- winter starts in October, lasts until late April
- massive urban sprawl so the city core is dead during the winter, and therefore the city feels lifeless.

That's particularly bleak and definitely biased, but it's not far from the truth.
We live in a society. If we don't work together to solve our issues then we'll languish and die apart.
>If the answer is no, then you've very little to worry about as long as you practice good security habits.

This is very hard to define. I have all my servers on cloud locked down and can only ssh with keys (No passwords) and everytime I look at the access log, it just makes me sweat seeing all the "drive by" ssh access attempts using standard usernames (which I don't use) and even unstandard user names (like "mother", "suser" etc).

Almost like returning home and seeing unknown footprints outside your home door. You know the door is secure, the window is bolted and you have an alarm. But still it's unnerving.

Basic practices I follow:

Don't run services with a user that has root access.

SSH only with keys

Open up ports on Azure portal only for required services.

Check "last", "uptime" "htop" everytime I login.
In 800 years you can get a population to a mean IQ of 112 (+1 standard deviation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
I suspect it suffered from a massive expectations-reality gap, like certain space games of the present day.
According to that graph, France is still a net exporter by a margin of 39 TWh. Germany has power that can be spun up and down faster than nuke, so it makes sense to bring that in on-demand.
That's true for the content stream but not gzip files themselves, which do have a minimal header.
Tencent unit seeks to withhold shareholding information
Great thread! One of my habits is to try to think of what I learnt the previous day, and if it involves some specific lines of code, briefly go through them to recap. The other is to try to learn something new every day, no matter how little the learning is, I want to feel I did learn something. Consequently, I developed this little app https://everydaycheck.com to track these habits among many others that are not necessarily related to programming.
Former Netflix Talent Chief breaks down what's changed about company's culture
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guess that explains a lot...
thought this was 100% sarcasm
I think neebz's comment was more along the lines of the company angle. Company B is hiring a team from company A. Maybe company A screwed up somehow.

The hiring manager at company B has to be thinking, "OK, what happens when company C comes along 18 months from now; am I at higher risk of losing this new team all at once?"
France plans to ban fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2040
GM has put an incredible amount of engineering into the degradation issue and there are 2011 Volts still on the road with a few hundred thousand miles on them that have had no degradation issue.

Proper temperature control and discharge and recharge management is part of it. Air cooling like Nissan and a few others have done just doesn't cut it in most climates, which is why they've had to replace many customer's batteries.
Most of my WP sites don't do a lot. Can you use the rest API to handle the contact form and search? that was I could just use a static generation from wp itself. The wp admin wouldn't even need to be publically accessible then.
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I think each team needs to be niche specific.
You can't do creative things at a desk? Where else would you do them? What if you want to sit?
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> Lets assume there is some sort of physical process involved

You're begging the question. Why is "some sort of physical process" the only hypothesis space you're considering?
I laugh when I read the petition asking Amazon to support bitcoins payments. Not because of the volatility but because of being the slowest database to date. How can Amazon or other big retailer support a tech with 7 t/s for bitcoin or 20 for eth when they have in ten of millions of customers?

There is more innovation to come to outpace the current proven technologies. In the last 18 months or so there is an explosion of new blockchain whitepapers, especially this one:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/red-belly-blockchain-to-proc...
It is inferred that the group would always work together on projects, so their availability would be the same... If you sell yourself as a group but everyone still looks for offers of their own, it kind of defeats the purpose
You could expand each regex to a regex on the whole table, and then take the intersection of the corresponding NFA/DFAs. Unfortunately, I suspect this takes exponential (or worse?) time in the worst case.
I agree. I wish the Reason team would just use BuckleScript and pure OCaml syntax. I really don't like the addition of syntactic noise that Reason has introduced.
I heard the Razer Blade was flaky.
> but I bet it depends on your language.

Not as much as you would think, I have a ryzen 1700 I use for dev, mostly PHP (not a language that threads well) in an Enterprise environment.

Those extra cores/threads come in incredibly handy for virtualization, both dev environments and things like running windows for testing

Even VS2017 inside virtual box absolutely flies when given 16GB of RAM and 4 cores (8T).

For my day to day the cores are useful even if my primary language isn't using all of them.

I'm currently in the strange situation where my desktop running the main system in virtual box is faster than our production/spare servers.
debian is pushing reproducible builds: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
We started something new today
> wind turbines kill about 300k birds per year, power lines kill 30 million (mostly through collision), cars kill 200 million

Statistics like that have to be adjusted "per capita" in some fashion. It's going to difficult to pick the right units for comparison. Maybe the basis could be birds killed per kilowatt-hours or joules worth of electricity generated (windmills), carried (power lines), and consumed (cars).
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* is assigned by the system and cannot be changed easily (stupid in itself, but exists nonetheless)
Personally, I prefer text communication to calls (and asynchronous to synchronous) to such an extent that such a policy would just result in me not contacting people for simple things.

I know I'm probably rehashing an argument many here have had before, but consider: With text, the whole of your message is visible at once, for rereading. You can include links or files, and the recipient doesn't have to take any notes or do anything special to make this communication archived and searchable. With voice, you need to set aside a specific time to make the call, and the other person needs to drop whatever they're doing to accept it. And, unless you can find some special nook to do it, everyone around you is both subtly bothered by having to listen to you, and able to eavesdrop on your conversation.

The stated reason doesn't seem to hold up either--having one initial voice conversation won't help with any tone conveyance problems down the line. Unless it is used to convince you that the other person is indeed a person, and you shift your default assumption of what their tone might be (which is itself a worrying tribalistic bias, but separate). This, however, could backfire. What if your voice or in-person conversation with the person reveals some personal detail of theirs that makes you dislike them (such as an annoying voice, or personal style, or hygiene, or, more seriously, race or gender)? You'd then be less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt in future text conversations.

Finally, I know I'm in the minority in this, but I don't get any extra benefit out of voice communications myself anyway. I'm oversimplifying somewhat, but I could say that all non-yelling "tone" is basically indistinguishable to me. Instead, voice communications often end up being a way for the more extroverted speaker to dominate a conversation through sheer force of will. My current boss does this all the time--his writing style is pretty scattered, but, whenever we Skype with someone, he'll rhapsodize at length about his abstract ideas about the current project before some of the other speakers are able to get anything in. I don't mean to be too harsh on him, because, one-on-one, his ideas and direction are often useful, but in these Skype conversations, it often turns out that it's the others' more focused additions that end up being the real product of the meeting, and his only contribution is some high-minded, well, tone-setting.
This Is How People Make Money Out of Thin Air Thanks to the Internet
The 6C version is priced directly against Ryzen (~$350), and the 8C version is only modestly more expensive (~$500), and they have a huge lead in gaming performance. That's perfectly affordable for the performance they give - virtually the same prices Ryzen launched at, in fact.

With this much of a lead in single-thread performance (~33%) a 6C Intel is actually outperforming an 8C Ryzen even in multi-thread performance and it's stomping it in games because single-thread performance is still so critical.

And the 8C Intels are just 33% faster than Ryzen across the board.

High-refresh gaming requires excellent single-threaded performance regardless of resolution, and 144 Hz is basically the new standard for midrange/high-end gaming builds at this point. A 144 Hz monitor starts at literally $150 and a very nice IPS 144 Hz FreeSync/GSync monitor can be had for $400-600.

It's not just 1080p - CPU single-thread-performance requirements scale with the framerate, it's just easier to hit higher framerates at lower resolutions. So 1080p benchmarks are a "leading indicator" of future high-refresh gaming performance as GPU tech improves and you upgrade in a year or two.

On the flip side, 4K benchmarks really mean almost nothing for CPUs. A Pentium G4560 is within a stone's throw of a 7700K at 4K because everything is GPU-bottlenecked at a very low framerate that virtually any processor can deliver. But that G4560 will fall behind in no time at all as GPU performance continues to improve and its actual performance (or lack thereof) is laid bare.
When it comes to security tools, I strongly recommend not to use pet projects maintained by a single person over well-established open source tools. If you are looking for a cross-platform, reliable, secure password manager, KeePassXC is an excellent choice.

https://keepassxc.org
Since the clues are machine parsable it should be machine solvable.
Ask HN: Would you use an app that makes security testing easy for small teams?
We notice that lots of small development teams usually don’t have someone with experience in security or with time to spend doing Static Application Security Testing.
This causes the product to be vulnerable to some form of attack.

What do you think of a platform that solves this kind of problem?
Also, at least for those of us on Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise, there is secure kernel.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2016/BRK4010
What is the advantage of this over a traditional password manager? You need to sync a file so you can obtain the state needed to generate a password, just like a password manager. Your CSV file can be stored in a publicly accessible location without losing security, but the same is true of a password manager's database. Both are useless without the master password, and both unlock everything if the master password is compromised.

It seems to me that generating a password from a master password and some settings in a file is equivalent, both in terms of convenience and security, to decrypting a password from a master password and an encrypted password store.
Isn't a consulting firm the obvious rational economic conclusion of this? Surely a firm specializing in one area would earn more than a collective group of individuals.
Seven years ago I had the chance to work on the development of a set of products for "team building", all interconnected as part of a "portal". So instead of looking at the market and hiring a new team, the purpose of the products were to constantly assess the current population of an organization and define possible group arrangements. You have to imagine Myers&Briggs combined with other similar assessments to score individuals according to their: analytical skills, logic, decision making style, proactiveness, care to others etc. This is something useful for large organizations having to reallocate people, form new teams for geographical expansion, for ad-hoc work, for projects, even for downsizing. One of the product managers at the time was trying to sell it to Universities, proposing that academic coordination could be building student cohorts with specific characteristics: high performers, collaborative, innovative/visionary, and even low performers, who'd be managed via a different pedagogical approach and faculty support.

The "portal" company ended up being acquired by an American Educational group and used by a couple of brands for some time until it was finally frozen 3 years ago.
> The filtering and interpolation mechanisms of the brain are error prone and the brain often does not know when it is wrong. You may see something and never know it wasn't real, or don't see something and never know it was there.

But it's hard to say necessarily that it's not optimal -- that is, that a digital version could necessarily do better. We are biased by our priors, just as a digital pattern matcher is biased by its training set. And in low light, we try to find patterns that we recognize in the noise, reconstruct the missing parts, etc., just as a computer would.

A digital system might eventually have better resolution and be able to do better on some scale of precision and performance, but I suspect that most attempts to improve performance by introducing "supersampling" and pattern matching and other forms of inference will always result in similar errors to the brain. Perhaps different in character due to differences in the training set and algorithms, but of a similar nature.
Agree with this completely. Takes a bit longer to get spun up on a topic but it's so worth it.
Did you go to school in Edmonton in 1890 or something? I grew up near Edmonton too and while January/Feb can certainly cross the -30 mark from time to time (and barely), -40 is unheard of. Maybe with windchill, like once or twice a year.
What's your recommendation for an open-source CMS? Preferably one with relatively simple administration that a layman (client) could still comprehend.

cc @tyingq, @zaphar, @bybjorn, @dangerface
> There tend to be a couple issues with this model. For one, what if the hiring company interviews the team and wants 7 of the 10? The team has to make a decision to either look for work where they can all be on the team, or abandon members.

Exactly. We've been approached a few times by intact teams all wanting to join. My approach has always been that I love talking to people in this situation, but that our contracts, interviews, and offers are all between the company and the individual and that while we may have an initial project in mind where they'd all work together, that that was not guaranteed to hold true over time.

I'll also ask them individually if a case like the 7/10 above happens, would they prefer to get 7 offers or 0 offers? (I don't want to be the source of telling Alex, Becky, and Charlie that I didn't think Dave was strong enough to join the company if they don't want to hear that.)
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The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the only one that's easy to understand. All others seem to bend over backwards to realistically explain quantum effects. It's so rare to find clear explanations, but they do exist.

My favorite from David Deutsch, a main creator of the idea of quantum computing:

To those who still cling to a single-universe world-view, I issue this challenge:
explain how Shor’s algorithm works. I do not merely mean predict that it will work, which is merely a matter of solving a few uncontroversial equations. I mean provide an explanation. When Shor’s algorithm has factorized a number, using 10^500 or so times the computational resources than can be seen to be present, where was the number factorized? There are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire visible universe, an utterly minuscule number compared with 10^500. So if the visible universe were the extent of physical reality, physical reality would not even remotely contain the resources required to factorize such a large number. Who did factorize it, then? How, and where, was the computation performed?
Scalable Neural Networks for Board Games (2009) [pdf]
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Thats a good idea- I do have an old Air kicking around, but it seems a shame to lose a mac in order to gain a Linux. In any case I would like something new and purpose built.
What part? At least for the library randomization, a special libc.so.X.Y.a is part of the base install, objects are extracted with ar(1), and then re-linked in a random order (sort -R/arc4random(3)) to create a working shared library.

The kernel has a similar reordering stage, best explained by Theo de Raadt: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149887978201230&w=2

The full implementation is in the tree.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00... ("I am urging the GCC developers to work on implementing the language
server."). Interesting statement from RMS, given LSP is a Microsoft technology, but it makes sense. The software on both sides of the reference implementation is under a GPL-compatible license. Also, LSP doesn't expose enough information to allow expropriation of GCC's frontend, which was RMS's concern with previous such efforts.

Really says something about Microsoft's evolution if you think about it.