skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on who's after you, that could just as easily draw attention, concentrate the search on both floors and escalate to a pursuit. Without the means to outrun or fight a pursuer, every animal's natural instinct is to hide...which guarantees you're close by.

When it comes to hiding/camoflauge, the goal is not to mislead-- you don't want someone to look at you and see a random shrub or find fake evidence of an escape. That raises suspicion. The goal is to make someone looking directly at you have no idea you're even there, where you were or where you're going.
How is this his logic at all? The logic is more similar to a sales person. When a company starts losing money, it doesn't try to claw back commissions from its top sales agents to keep afloat. It might lower %s / do layoffs / something else, but money paid is money gone.

The logic is that programmers tend to produce far more value than they capture -- so that gets captured elsewhere, a lot of it typically by management. Except the value can be hard to quantify when the company is old and so is the software, how much of the value is employee #3701 making fixing a bug that's making the product not work for one customer in one instance vs employees #107, #85, and #150 who in their past team's life created the original version of that system to begin with to make the new customer even consider using it? There's no point to moaning about how much you "should" get paid. Just ask for more if you feel underpaid, but be aware that because of competition and because people usually want to hear what more you'll do to justify it, you're not going to always get it.
API Gateways are going through an identity crisis
I’d argue you’d get far fewer advances in drugs with a system like that.
"stories" is the plural of "story". [ autocorrect does this sort of thing to me all the damned time. ]
You are applying what you know about the learning process in current AI. But if you simply observed behavior between a real mouse and an AI mouse, especially if the latter was trained to mimic the behavior of the former, can you tell that they react in a completely different way?
> they program to accomplish other tasks in their domain of expertise

My kids have mentioned that they might be interested in a degree in computer science because and I've encouraged them to combine that with a second area of specialization. Programmers are everywhere, but a programmer that also knows chemistry or biology or economics or art history or just about anything stands out.
"MSH-P/HC/NC/5/V/P/0 - 3% Volume Ethylene = 0.4V - 2.4V"

We built that into a custom SS body with a Delrin mounting insert, and ran the serial connections to a custom board that interfaced with up to 8x sensor locations (in conjunction with some other sensor elements). The elements were ~US$200/ea ~4.5 years ago.

These are fancy interpolated IR absorption sensors internally, so any gases of similar concentrations could throw off the readings; depends on the environment. Would be BEST to calibrate to local atmosphere conditions of the installation, but that's not really something you can sell. :P
I really love your storytelling even if I'm not sure I believe one whit! You should try your hand at writing books/blog posts/short stories if you haven't already.
except a heat pump which is far more efficient
I agree, he really sells it when he says “Yasantha” starred at the problem. Every sentence is clear and concise. It moves the story without adding anything extra. My story would still be going on — I would have hit on all of the major food groups; DMCA, Freemium model, and Publishing rights.
> Kurzweil really, really, really does not want to die

What a shit life must that be. And I say this in a very sympathetic way. However, feeling you are almost in reach of eternal life, but not being sure you'll make it in time, being constantly afraid of an accident, or illness, taking that away from you... It's a recipe for anguish and panic.

Dying is not that terrible when you know everybody else will too, sooner or later; but try accepting the idea of being among the last to die..
The other way of looking at it is that AlphaGoZero was provided with perfect information consisting of every relevant objective fact about the game of Go up front, and thus had perfectly targeted success criteria for the millions of iterations AlphaZero needed to run to get good at it.

I didn't need this to be able to start learning to read, and if the human race learned in this manner, written language wouldn't exist.

And I'm not even sure how one would begin to assemble all relevant information about the space "what words and syntax actually mean" which is a bit more difficult to define than a Go board, or a success function that could describe optimal understanding of books in order to teach computers how to intepret language like AlphaGoZero learned to estimate a mathematical optimization problem in disguise as a board game. Unless your criteria for 'learning to read' is satisfied with parsing text to perform Chinese room tricks in selected domains, or satisfied with textual insights on the level that Dr Seuss appears to have been unfavourably disposed towards green eggs and ham!
Maybe what's important is that I have no idea how to rate Feynman as a physicist.
I can rate him highly as a writer though.
I find the hierarchy of “mental content” to be kind of confusing.

He posits “the hierarchy of mental content, which, in order of increasing value, are: data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.”

Coming from a Shannon-centric view of the world - can someone explain the data/information distinction for me?
The paradox of tolerance (which some say isn't truly a paradox but I think that's beside the point of its content) was supported by Karl Popper, famously a defender of what he termed "the open society" - but interestingly a much more aggressive and partisan option was put forward by an intellecutal rival to whom he was almost completely opposed - Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse's essay is a good read, whether you agree with it or not, for a different take on the issue at the height of what Marcuse saw as widespread dulling of our critical faculties.

J.S. Mill's democracy relies on the populace being informed - any attempt to block the populace being informed is therefore a threat to democracy. If democracy is blocked, democratic means cannot be used to solve the problem. Hence, Marcuse argues, we might have to resort to apparently undemocratic means to resolve such a conflict.[0]

[0] https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetol...
Quantitative Easing was essentially the same thing, to a degree (increasing the money supply). But it was done so with the specific goal in mind, to keep key financial institutions from collapsing. It was also done during a period relatively low inflation, and was done in low enough rates that inflation did not substantially rise.

By comparison, MMT is basically telling the government to use quantitative easing to pay for everything. When you really dig down into it, the proponents of MMT know exactly how deceptive the scheme really is. They fully understand that it's allowing the government to pay for whatever it wants by printing money and letting the populace lose their savings due to larger inflation. And it fails to address immediate shortcomings: namely the fact that people will stop accepting payment in dollars if the government starts rampantly increasing inflation.
Just like a kitchen knife, purpose and intent set the tone.

I am considering it as a tool to provide another layer of protection for my small business network. That would make your summary a positive for me.
Researchers develop a machine learning method to identify fake honey
I assume the way most embedded devices guarantee security for their limited number of use cases -- pre-seed trusted root keys in hardware + validate signing against them when connecting.

My point was that app-layer security magic doesn't mean much if your first network step is "connect to closest, highest power base station and implicitly trust it."

There are wonderful things we can do on top of lower layer protocols, but the lower layers are pretty damn important too.
Correct. What we may view as a marginal tweak to create a new product, might mean better blood surgar control, fewer sticks and better health for diabetes patients.
Maybe Amazon still asks these style of questions because Bezos is looking to hire those that are brighter than he was.
> these days, you just learn yourself JS a little bit and go for a webdev job, making shit code and still earning more than most people in a given country.

With these jobs in particular, what I see is that the definition of seniority has shifted to 'knowing the latest tech'.

So a junior dev who's just got to grips with React has become a React Developer, and they are now relatively senior in that field. The experience isn't transferable to other parts of the software stack though, it's too heavily tied up in the browser. So they end up as a super-specialised frontend dev.

It'll pay pretty well until the tech becomes obsolete, unless that kind of person enjoys maintaining legacy code.
I wonder at what point will people have active systems to lower their CO2 below ambient in their homes.
Why, what’s wrong with scoot? It introduces brand confusion somehow? Someone has it exclusively trademarked?

I doubt it.
He predicted computers beating humans at chess by 2000 and it happened in 97 so sometimes he's not that far off.
I remember looking into this years ago, and the prices were in the $100-$200 range for low volumes. Was this your experience?
This is the real way the US military changed the world
Overview of image classification with PyTorch
> I was wondering what the fit with Qubes OS was.

Rootkovska has been (imvho rightfully) criticized in the past for selling isolation but dismissing the attack surface in Xen. I think Genode can help here:

https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/949297922998489088

Though I believe thegrugq / ioerror have a point when they say that hardware compartmentalization is superior than layers of SW virtualization:

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/515085244198703105

The threat model is relevant though: In that aspect QubesOS has some problem finding an audience. I personally like it (I'm an active user) ... but mostly because I have a fetish for privacy+security and I like to play with new stuff. However if you push a journalist or activist or anyone facing real risk to learn QubesOS (the learning curve is huge for the general user), it makes more sense to just invest in HW based compartmentalization instead. HW compartmentalization can easier be trained and there is less likely a chance of shooting yourself in the foot. It's not a tech that anybody whose life is under threat should be using. First rule here not to use tech in the first place, and for cases where the risk is marginal use HW based isolation ... then there is nothing for a long time followed by things like QubesOS, Signal etc. These things are just good enough to hide an affair but it's reckless selling them as serious solution to tech-illiterate folk who have something to loose.
I live in a land of ice and snow and we rely entirely on mini-split heat pumps in the winter [1]. Admittedly they do lose efficiency quickly when temps drop well below freezing, but they work well enough here.

I have also seen some pretty cool looking "passive" houses that, due to excellent insulation, are able to heat the entire house with a 3kW furnace [2]. And these are in very cold locations (e.g. Alberta, Canada).

Electric heating is the future!

[1] https://learn.compactappliance.com/mini-split-heat-pumps/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlA4_lesrU4
Well it seems you already got the memo, but #rust on Moznet is maybe my favorite IRC channel. Everyone is super knowledgeable, respectful, and helpful. For more casual conversation there's also #rust-offtopic.
Could you describe what makes this book your favourite? I read it this year because it was recommended in another thread. I didn't find anything interesting in it but maybe I missed something obvious.
Nope, that's not how tech interview coding problems work at all.

They're not brain teasers, they are real life problems that can worked through iteratively, with some hints and guidance from the interviewer.

Source: Am one of those types of tech interviewers at one of those types of tech companies
Tow truck drivers often photograph the vehicles they are going to tow, before towing. This is to document the exterior condition of the vehicle, and to show that there were signs in place.

The web site says that they are an existing towing business, and so they'll likely do the same thing.

Source: See recent videos from http://youtube.com/gtoger, who works at a company in Dallas.
As a Type 1 diabetic in the UK I feel inclined to agree and disagree. Yes, the drug price negotiation is great and keeps my insulin affordable. However, the NHS comes with its own ailments that we should admit.

For Type 1 diabetics in particular, technological support in the form of insulin pumps, continuous glucose metres, and closed-loop systems are only handed out readily to children, while in the US they are far more commonplace since they are covered by insurance. Personally, it took me 3 1/2 years of fighting to get my pump – something that I would have had in months if I would have remained in Japan. One week ago I finally got it and what a difference it makes in terms of control. However, a continuous glucose monitor is nowhere in sight and I frankly do not expect to get one within a decade. Perhaps a pseudo-continuous glucose monitor like the FreeStyle Libre if I am lucky. My diabetes team in London is great and pro technology, but I can only imagine those that are less well-informed on how to make the system (NHS) work or live out in the country. Do they receive the technology they need to manage this disease?

For those of us with Type 1 diabetes that seek technological support, do read up over at Insulin Pumpers UK [1]. Also, never feel ashamed to seek the technology that would help you live longer and less constrained by our illness.

[1]: http://www.insulin-pumpers.org.uk/
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> Don't ask me what the DMCA is in that metaphor :P

If you are basing your argument on a metaphor but can't explain the metaphor then maybe it's time to step back and reevaluate your argument. "Target it directly" is Hollywood advice, it's insane to use that as your only legal strategy.
Normally this service is provided by some dude with a compact pickup overloaded with old washing machines and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

I guess this service is targeting people with scrap removal needs but are too high class to call a "traditional" scrapper.
Can you elaborate on conversations?

(I have seen a lot written about good books on this topic.)
How is "Scoot" problematic? "Scooter" has been a generic term for, uh, scooters for decades.
People look at these huge salaries but often forget the living costs around them. I interviewed two years ago for a company in the Bay Area, was offered a 180K position. I was excited and it was very tempting. After I did the math, I realized the money I have left over each month was higher where I was at, which was not California. I decided not to upend my life for less financially rewarding circumstances. There might have been other benefits, like being a part of the tech culture there, etc, but just wasn't for me.
I wish I understood why you like Source Code Pro so much. For example, in Emacs, I just switched to Source Code Pro (on "normal" or "medium" weight). With the frame maximized vertically, I could see 60 lines of text, and the letters were small and hard to read, with lots of space between lines. https://i.imgur.com/M1BFDty.png

I then switched back to Hack, at the same size. With the same frame size, I could then see 64 lines, and the letters were all larger and much, much easier to read. https://i.imgur.com/99Hi6kh.png

If I were to set Source Code Pro to a size at which the letters were the same vertical height as Hack, I'd see something like 50-55 lines of text, instead of the 64 I see with Hack.

What am I missing? Am I doing something wrong that makes Source Code Pro look bad?
Exactly. I remember reading in an introductory linguistics book (Fromkin's, I believe) that a linguist once conducted an experiment with his child. The kid kept saying "I want other one spoon!" or something similar. The linguist was able to get the kid to say "another spoon" perfectly, but then when he told the kid to say it all the kid went right back to "I want other one spoon". He just hadn't intuited all the rules yet. Basically, L1 acquisition is just that -- acquisition; it's not really learning in the sense we think of it in terms of L2 and other subjects (though, of course, learning the standard at school is an entirely different animal).
Maybe this isn't what you meant, but I'm curious why you would put a Fly ahead of an Ant in the stepping stones.

Can you make a Turing Ant without a Turing Ant Colony?
This would explain the harsh reactions, but doesn’t explain the need to create rules for everything. The more I think about it, the more I think that the rules are just an excuse to give into an anger addiction.
That's intuitively appealing but when you look at the numbers it's almost certainly false. When CO2 goes from 400 ppm to 1000 ppm then oxygen will go from 21000 ppm to 20400 ppm, a 3% drop which isn't going to be enough to change anything.
It depends. Sometimes you do just want to know if the person has seen the problem before. https://twitter.com/Hillelogram/status/962424380935598081

To summarize, linked list questions used to be a good test of "can you write C" and are now a bad test of "can you solve problems".
But on the flip side of that slow movement, you wind up with things like Oracle... for good or bad.
I feel you. I've just starting a project from scratch using modern JS development stack including TypeScript. I've previously just done by JS without any tooling at all (besides an IDE). And I have used TypeScript stand-alone without the rest of JS bundling infrastructure.

I also used to do more dynamic back-end development (PHP) but a long time now my backend work has been C#.

The future of JavaScript, probably the future of web development in general, is with a compilation/build step. Having a fully dynamic uncompiled front-end and back-end code was probably just temporary blimp. The tooling, though, already understands your concerns and has plenty of features for editing and running without noticing the build step. I could configure the TS build environment to re-load scripts on edit and I don't even have to press refresh in the browser to see the effects.

It does all feel very heavily and complicated but sometimes I have to wonder if that's just me.
> It's fair to say that they didn't really get famous until they started selling on the internet in 1996

Simply (and with due respect) not true.

What are you defining as 'famous'? Michael Dell was definitely famous prior to the internet.

Here is an article from the New York Times in 1992 (July 1992). Besides I specifically remember him and stories about Dell from the 1980's. (I am probably much older than you are is my guess..)

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/business/the-executive-co...

Further the article states that sales were 1.7 billion in 1992 (in 1992 dollars that is way more 'today').
Yeah, been to numerous docs. I found out I had a bacterial infection from Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, which I treated, and it slightly helped. I also found out I am hypogonadic, which I started Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) for about over a month ago. Both of these could cause brain fog, depression, anxiety. I also suffer from chronic rhinitis (turbinate hypertrophy), and meds such as antihistamines and nasal steroid sprays dont treat it. I've been to over 30 docs in the past 2 years, and this is so far what I got. I treated maybe 70% of the brain fog. So many docs just said its all in my head, especially GPs from the NHS UK... Oh they were so wrong. I also went to a psychiatrist and a psychologist, the former diagnosed me with "internet addiction, adhd, and depersonalization" and the latter said that nothing is wrong with me mentally and that I need to fix my physical health issues first. Apparently brain fog is a symptom that can be caused by many different things, and most docs really dont know what to do about it. I am pretty sure if I was in the US I would solve this pretty quickly there as docs are much better.
kinda ot: I almost bought a Librem (a few times)... but going without built-in ethernet is a show stopper for me. It's a fundamental feature for a hacker-friendly laptop.
Malevolent soft power, AI, and the threat to democracy
This is dead wrong. We have instincts for extremely complex behavior (like acquiring language, navigating reciprocal relationships, acquiring mates, etc.).
Enough is the wrong qualifier. Effectively and in a way that protects individual liberties is better.
I don't want to stroke the Bezos ego more than necessary - but he's not dumb.
Geniuses don't get rich by just being geniuses (think of Tesla holed up towards the end in a shitty hotel).
What you need is a smart person who can recognize other people can be smarter - and they need help, that you can provide.
I mean this without a trace of sarcasm - it's a bit of ego with a bit of humility (whilst ensuring you retain the stock)
I've always plugged Bezos into the Edison mold.
How to Become a Millionaire in One Day?????
More like “overdone”, it’s a cellular simulation including the brain as a first step.
I forget where I first heard this, but "Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact." As soon as one side has broken the treaty by being intolerant, they are no longer protected by the treaty. There is no requirement in a tolerant society to tolerate intolerance.
That’s how, for example, TLS works too.

I don’t understand what you mean when you say that app-level security doesn’t mean much if your first network step is compromised. TLS will protect you there, as will any other decently implemented end-to-end encrypted protocol.
This company is evolution of that. They're an auto towing company that's moving into this space.
Speeding up Python with Nim
Thats kinda true I suppose. Have you tried meditating for those 15 mins?
Why? All the people I listed were highly regarded for their contributions at the time.
With HTTPS, I need to trust every government in the world to not interfere with CAs.

With GPG, I only need to trust Debian to give me Debian.

Is there really a question about security here?
Surely he'd have to tuck them in at night to verify that...
"willing to do what it takes to secure that job and maintain it"

Some (most?) of that is innate ability and intelligence. Sure, there are well-paying jobs that are unpleasant. But for many others the company literally gets to choose 1 out of 100 candidates.
Literally every single time government create a communication system the first thing they do is to make sure they can read it completely breaking the overall security. Look at all the state version of 'email' non of them used end-to-end encryption. Germany had a nice example but of course the project crashed and burned.

Also, its simply false that the market has not produced good solutions and if there was a 'unified message solution' then people would cry 'monopoly' and demand government regulation as well.

The fact is that the standard tool for most people use for messaging in Europe is an incredibly secure protocol.
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