skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree those two positions are at odds.

You can be vehemently against social media monitoring by government agencies and warrantless wiretaps and still point out the many times law enforcement and others in a position to help ignore signs of distress.

Moreover, there isn’t proof that this type of monitoring actively stops mass shootings or other attacks. Sometimes it does — for sure (though mostly when communication is happening through email and not social posts) — but we’ve seen plenty of anecdotes where concerning public postings were pointed out to authorities and nothing was done.
Koalas Have Human-Like Fingerprints (2011)
> Programmers tend to...

Please don't generalize about people this way. It's not useful, and it's almost certainly a bad idea to hand-wave away not being able to think through something trivial with an audience.

If someone asks you to identify whether a bird in a photo is having a good day or a bad day, then it's reasonable for you to say "Wait, what?" Because that's a research problem that covers a whole host of different subjects (bird psychology, for one) and doesn't have a solution.

If someone asks you to implement efficient image segmentation, something that you probably don't know how to do unless you have a PhD in computer vision, then it's reasonable for you to say "I don't know how to do that but I can go home and research how to do it".

But OP wasn't asked to solve a hard problem. OP was asked to solve an incredibly simple problem and got angry about it.

> It's like interviewing a novelist by asking them to extemporize a speech for you.

OPs given scenario is more like interviewing a novelist by asking them to put a handful of words in an order that constructs a grammatically sound sentence. If you can't do that, then they don't want your novel.
>I think it's working exactly as intended, to siphon wealth off to the ruling class.

Intended according to who? The founders? The central banks? Creditors?

It’s all an experiment. Capitalism is. Consumer debt is. To think anyone intends the economy to work as it is (government shut down, debt across the board at record highs, defaults at record highs, economic bubbles, mass fraud, etc...) is pretty crazy...but that’s my point, good luck finding a politician to speak that way, much less being able to mobilize the government to correct these issues.

It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the idea it’s working for you. I take it youre not one of the federal government employees living paycheck to paycheck as a political pawn? Is that the way the economy is really intended to work?
Becoming Alien: The Pioneering Vision of “Star Trek”
Mars trilogy is a classic, and I will not dispute that. But I read the first part, and I felt like I got quite enough of it. The science bits, especially in the beginning, were nice enough, but I recall them becoming more handwavy as they fell more to the background. At points it felt like reading Atlas Shrugged when you really were only interested in railways and trains
Our present ain't locking us that hard yet; I'd say that people being fed gloomy visions is a big contributor to the risk of bad future materializing, because it sabotages the only thing people can use against things going along the path of least resistance - the human capacity to decide to do things differently, short-term economic interest be damned.
Oh! This is still a thing? Cool! I lost track of it when I switched over to Linux.
Not sure why it would have to look anything like Crossfire.

The EPYC Zen 2 cores have increased L3 and then communicate to RAM via the monolithic I/O core. It's very different than traditional NUMA in terms of locality but it's also likely that latencies have been increased.

A GPU with the same design would look monolithic as far as software is concerned since modern GPUs are already subdivided into hundreds of compute cores as it is.
So I think I have a few questions from this. Is it legal for a tech firm to do this? It is just a poll after all, but couldn't this count as some form of tampering with electronic devices? If this just happened, how many times before has this company done it? They said it was unsuccessful, does that mean they failed to do it or failed to do it enough to sway the polls? It just is a very weird incident and I don't know how I feel about it all.
I would guess that the _vast_ majority of guitarists learn that "G D Em C" sounds good _long_ before they understand that it's an I V vi IV progression. I started off playing guitar with three open string power chords, and I didn't have any understanding of theory for years of playing.
What's the URL for the 301 destination? (No cheating, I want to know from memory :)
Interesting. I make a part that a large diesel manufacturer uses on fixed and marine diesels to clean the crankcase air and meet EPA regs. I noticed a big uptick in purchasing right around the shutdown and then it fell off a cliff. I chalked it up to holidays but now I wonder if everyone is deferring maintenance since they can't do anything with the waste.
Seconded. I really miss my Band 2.

The whole UI was incredibly well designed for the form factor. The app design guide was a very good read.
I also liked how it wasn't trying to pretend to be a normal watch but with a screen.

I dabbled with Android smartwatches for a bit after, but they never were able to scratch the same itch.
Agreed.

"I’ve spent my career in tech, almost a decade at this point, running about a step-and-a-half ahead of the automation reaper."

I mean, yes, that is the entire job description. If you are in IT, your responsibility is to learn the best technologies, and be continually re-evaluating what to keep of your organization's current and what to improve or replace.

That is why I wouldn't want to do anything else. I love learning new things and no profession offers more opportunities to learn new things than computer technology.
My experience working at tech companies. Also, not assuming that sponsors of Let’s Encrypt don’t trust their certificates.
Speak for yourself, I am older and find applying lessons learned creates better architecture and better overall outcomes - when I was younger furiously coding was everything, now I arrange things better and the code is only one component of the outcome of the overall system.
Nobody forces anyone to buy an index fund. If it stops making sense, we'll find new ways to invest. No need to forbid anything.
The key skill is knowing how to continuously acquire new skills.
Good. I hope to have a reason to do business with them someday, would probably be very interesting.

(This comment has not at all been informed by the possibility suggested in the title of the submission...)
Wanna know why AMD drivers are so broken?

I talked once to an AMD project managery guy. He told me how they have several teams in different countries. And for each feature/bug different managers have to "bid" with weekly resource estimates. Bid too high and you dont get enough work for your peoples. Bid too low and they end up with unpaid overtime. Rinse and repeat.

And these are kernel developers...

EDIT: to be clear, I am rooting for competition to Intel and NVIDIA. I just dont think this kind of culture can work on the software side.
>XBox and PS4 Pro are bad examples to use. Those systems have far weaker GPUs, and the textures aren't truly 4k.

Textures are the same as v.high/high on PC the only thing that some PC games add is an uncompressed texture pack which are simply stupid to begin with.

Xbox One X is a great example of a system that can push 4K or near 4K gaming because it does so pretty darn well.

The memory capacity is really not an issue with 8GB, in fact the only cases where the 2080 really pulls a head of the 1080ti is in higher resolutions especially 4K.

>if you enter a game with 4k texture packs (or 8k texture packs, like Star Citizen), you can expect your memory usage to spike significantly. 8GB is still sufficient, but gamers are expecting better and better textures.

Most textures in a game are well beyond 4 or even 8K regardless of the resolution, heck a simple texture atlas is huge.

Star Citizen is a crap game to use as an example as both the textures are overall simply horrid and it make PUBG looks like a well optimized title.

Overall the 2080 gives you RTX which is RT + Tensor Cores which will become very important as WinML/DirectML games begin to ship since NVIDIA both assisted Microsoft in defining the spec and it's essentially tailored for their Tensor Cores, you get concurrent Int/FP execution per ALU which will give NVIDIA a huge boost as integer shaders (e.g. compute shaders with heavy bool logic) will become more common and you get a more mature ecosystem, better encode/decode and various other small QoL improvements.

For gaming specifically the Radeon 7 doesn't have anything to offer other than to those that care more about the brand than what they get for their investment.

I really miss the days of the HD4000 series or the days when the R300, and sadly I don't see AMD getting out of this cycle any time soon, Fiji was late and underwhelming, Vega was late and underwhelming, and now Radeon 7 is late and underwhelming.

If Navi is another mid range GPU will see 15%-20% improevemnt over Polaris if we're lucky, once we get closer to Feb 7th I'm pretty sure we'll see that in 1080p there is likely no difference between VEGA64 and Radeon 7 and the only place we see the difference is in 4K due to slightly higher fill rate and more bandwidth since AMD still can't get delta compression to work correctly.
Having a radio antenna feeding information into the computer has its own negative security implications.
>Your conditional breakpoint can change execution behavior thought flushing cache/icache in a way that doesn't reproduce.

Yes, that is definitely true. But so does calling a printing func that does IO, since it often involves system-wide locks - I'm sure many here have encountered bugs that go away when print statements are added. But debuggers are definitely more invasive / have stronger side effects, and have no workaround, yea.

Multiple systems: sorta. Past (legitimately shallow) multi-process debugging that I've done has been pretty easy IMO, you just add a conditional breakpoint on the IPC you want and then enable the breakpoints you care about. Only slightly more complicated than multi-thread since the source isn't all in one UI. Printing is language agnostic tho, so it's at least a viable fallback in all cases, which does make it a lot more common.

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To be clear, I'm not saying there's never a need for in-bin "debugging" with prints, data collection of some kind, etc. You can do stuff that's infeasible from the outside, it'll always have some place, and some languages/ecosystems give you no option. Just that it's far later than most people encounter, when a sophisticated debugger exists. E.g. printf debugging in Java that I encounter is usually due to a lack of understanding of what the debugger can do, not for any real benefit.
It's the second time I see this genre mentioned on HN, in the space of a ~month. Do you have any recommendations of what solarpunk works to read or see?
I used the regular Sequel Pro for years but just recently switched to the nightly version, which usually it's stable and has more updates. I recommend the switch to nightly. They share the same DB configurations you have created, so no need to worry that you have to import/export.
I currently work for a fortune 5 company, we're not using letsencrypt yet because my team currently doesn't have the manpower to migrate our automation and code to something such as this. Note that I want to move to LE as soon as possible, but we're not on it yet, and folks citing that something like this is easily fixable in a snap just isn't informed on how things actually are working in real world environments.
Building data systems from zero at a small company
Can you share your experience How did / would you start building data science and data engineering at a small company or startup?
There is for example a data scientist and a data engineer, the amount of data is still not large, but growing. The problems are usually to support marketing team, decision making, and introduce some ML to enhance the product. What frameworks, storages, infrastructure would you pick?
Thanks. I understand from Minnow docs that first lwIp should be set up in the MCU, and then Minnow can be set up on top of it.
But a game is not a system...There are def individual GAMES that are bananapants expensive (I'm looking at you Super Copa!) but the systems aren't as expensive.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic?
And the reality was, the intelligence we had under warrants could have helped prevent 9/11. The information wasn’t acted on and wasn’t sufficiently prioritized, but it was available
Well I meant more using no frills near future as general setting and feeling, rather than hard 100% accuracy
Except that there are more developers than ever developing more software than ever. Instead of one business app with five backend developers and three ops people and a DBA you have five business apps each with two developers.
I use it for playing around with some game ideas, really liked the ease of it. Clean, compact API.

Only nuisance is that SUPPORT_BUSY_WAIT_LOOP is defined in the defaults, so I can't use the package from my distribution but have to compile it myself – as I don't want 100% CPU usage when prototyping (where I can happily live with inaccuracies of the timers). I considered opening an issue and forgot about it. But you, Ray, seem to be reading this thread anyway. :-) Thanks, by the way!
This would be amazing. Certificates are always a pain when I work with the federal government. Many times they just self-sign which causes a ton of extra work to do something simple, such as pulling from a private registry.
Unfortunately, as far as I know LIDAR is still prohibitively expensive for this. Someone did invent a solid-state LIDAR system recently, which seems like a good sign.
Regardless of one's opinion of the efficacy of the TSA, the fact remains travelers must endure higher wait times when a significant fraction of scheduled-to-be-working TSA officers are not on the job.
Microsoft might surprise us with HoloLens 2
Sounds like a market opportunity.
Hah, that’s just golden. “We have this amazing feature X however we have to charge you a lot already because the server load of feature X is extremely high.... also feature X is not available yet”
Sure, but it’s a gradual, iterative process, and each new feature you learn builds on what you already know, there’s no sudden cliff of obsolescence. When Oracle 9i came out there was still plenty of work for Oracle 7 and 8i guys and they had time and an easy path to migrate on and a big community to help them. Same with Java. There will be guys retiring in 2035 who have done Java for their entire 40 year careers! Even today a C++98 guy could find work maintaining something while he or she got up to speed, many sites aren’t even fully on C++14 yet and won’t be for a few more years.

Whereas in webdev you’re basically starting from scratch every 2 years and competing with new entrants to the market because they literally have as much experience of the hot new framework as you do.
Why wouldn't they? The publicly exposed data is publicly exposed. Is there any reasonable sense to privacy at that point? The more interesting question is how much data do they get that is "private" without a warrant.

The following are a few examples of how the private data may be being gathered by the FBI, under existing legal structures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

There is also the possibility of voluntary cooperation by corporations, or even corporations selling commercial access to their data (Facebook, Cellular Carriers).
Money, legal, strategy, and dealmaking. Thiel was trained as a lawyer, then worked for Credit Suisse and started his own hedge fund.

If you read the Max Levchin interview in Founders At Work, the way PayPal started was that Max wanted to do crypto (back when it meant cryptography, not cryptocurrency) at Stanford, attended a lecture by Thiel, and Thiel said "Go do it. My hedge fund will invest in you." Then there were about 4 pivots, then the company Levchin & Thiel founded (Confinity) merged with its primary competitor, Elon Musk's X.com, in a deal brokered by Thiel. Elon Musk's primary contribution was supposedly trying to rewrite the software in Windows (the interview was with Levchin, it's likely somewhat biased - Thiel is more complimentary towards Musk and says he was a fearsome competitor). Then it found product/market fit amongst E-bay sellers, rode the hyper-growth wave, went public, and was eventually bought by E-bay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

> ... an almost entirely serious claim from Sanford C. Bernstein & Co....

Ah. The folks selling high-fee actively managed funds don't want you to buy from Vanguard.
> I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of Rust code (outside of std) is safe. I've written unsafe once ever, in years of writing rust.

It's very much about project choice. I immediately ran into unsafe trying to test some functions marked extern. Then again writing toy VMs and GC algos.
Thanks for keeping an open mind. I’m not even sure why it was flag killed. Having open minded discussions (no pun intended) about how the mind works is beneficial to all. It is something I think about all the time, in order to better build the things I’m building.
It's certainly not true that "what makes sense for investors" is any meaningful indication of what makes a good policy for a society as a whole, and I rather think it's usually the opposite.
"The Cloud greatly diminishes and in some cases completely eliminates that work."

It takes a hell of a lot of work to take a company's entire infrastructure and migrate it to Kubernetes and the Cloud, and then monitor and manage it. It's not trivial.

So the key is seeing your job as solving a business problem with computers, not "I administer Oracle version X.y.z running on Redhat Linux".
Flattery will get you everywhere. It's a Jekyll blog so I'm sure RSS is just a plugin away. And then I'd better write some more content...
Anyone who tries to tell me that forcing me to use them as a middleman to talk to someone is "connecting" me to that someone is an idiot or think I am an idiot.
No his point was that algorithms would get so good that they would erase the market from capitalism by being smarter than human active investors.
You can print "isitdoneyet.gov" on a PSA poster (like, on paper) and have people be able to type that into their browser. https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety... not so much.

An extra domain and a cert are essentially costless if you're managing more than a handful already, so what's the probem?
Maybe they should start...:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/home-ownership...
...said every generation ever about the next generation.
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Agreed. A leader needs to be capable of indirectly & positively influencing the team's architecture and overall technical outcome while not doing so explicitly (manage down, up and out). The team needs to drive and come to their own conclusions, but a true leader can positively impact the vision and strategic execution.
Lambda School seems to be doing quite well training a lot of them to program and taking a cut of their initial wages. This guy specifically mentions fast food as a previous job: https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1083994585557127168
All valid points. I guess nothing is perfect and you just need to decide where you're happy to compromise.
Apple to use usb-c in iphones rumor
No.

And if passive funds cause poor allocation of capital, that will increase the returns of smart active investing - a negative feedback on pure passive investing.
Floyd was Pete Schultz' postdoc, one of Pete Schultz' claims to fame is really nailing down unnatural AA stuff. IIRC, the peg UAA has been around for quite a while (at least a decade).
Yup - TablePlus is beautiful. I tried it for a few days and paid for it, really works wonderfully on macOS.
I still wish you'd called it "Camus"
> The EPYC Zen 2 cores have increased L3 and then communicate to RAM via the monolithic I/O core.

As stated earlier: the Infinity Fabric links on EPYC (not necessarily EPYC 2... but on original EPYC 1) were like 50GB/s. Assuming EPYC2 has a similar fabric, we're still only looking at technology that can push 50GB/s to any core.

GPUs like the Vega64 have 500GB/s bandwidth, and Radeon 7 has 1000GB/s bandwidth to main memory. Not cache, but literally its main memory bandwidth. Its completely, and unfathomably huge, compared to CPU architecture.

Building a 1000GB/s crossbar between RAM and GPU compute units doesn't seem like an easy problem to me. 50GB/s Infinity fabric was done before (socket-to-socket communication), AMD just shrank the tech down to fit on chiplets.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant it more as a personal preference. Considering the sensors and screen, a 2 day battery life was pretty great and certainly one of the reasons it was (and still is) better than the Apple Watch and G3, IMO.

I just meant I value a longer battery life pretty highly. So, something like a MS Band "lite" with a less feature rich sensor package, a 2 tone oled display, and 6 to 7 day battery life would have hit that sweet spot for me, personally.

I really like being able to wear the Charge 3 around the clock for a full week (I typically charge it during my lazy Sunday morning routine) without really worrying about it.
Thanks, I didn't know about their nightly builds, and it seems that nightly (true to it's name) supports dark mode. Awesome :)
This is an asinine argument that seems to be driven by the belief that there is such a thing as efficient allocation of capital in the real world. Or perhaps just sour grapes that some of the unsophisticated investors they like to take advantage of are instead putting their money index funds.

Maybe both.
You're getting awfully close to suggesting "democracy in the workplace" on HN aren't you?
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Is it not possible for one person to believe both of the following?

1. Law enforcement shouldn't monitor social media posts

2. since they obviously already do this, why aren't they using the information they're collecting to do something useful like stop mass shooters who post about it online ahead of time?
Lego-backed security?
Thanks!

I'm not sure if our product would be able to meet your needs right away, but reach out to sales@density.io if you'd like more information about what we have.
Romesberg got mRNAs up about 3-4 years ago? I presume the tRNAs are made from processed DNA, not by adding them (adding tRNAs exogenously to bacteria would be tough, and not economical at all).
So, you agree with me?
Rust doesn't have a runtime so this is almost completely application dependent.
The problem is that the value of the components of the index is heavily tilted by peoples perception of the value of the index, and not the values of the components.
Your app is so much better than the website...

I honestly didn't get what eaxtly you offer until I looked up a login on bugmenot.

for you other to gt an Idea, here is a screenshot from the app:
https://i.imgur.com/zIj2A1m.png
It sounds like an extremely lowball price, so either google wanted more control of ther collaboration or Fossil needed cash and wanted to kill the dept anyway.
I love writing code, and more specifically building things!

Being concerned about financials is rational, you don't have to stop doing anything when you have financial freedom... but you have the option to. Additional, work is more meaningful when you don't have to do it.
This problem has existed at least since the 90s, probably longer than that. I remember the joke being job descriptions asking for 3-5 years Java experience in 1996.
> so what's the probem?

muh small government