skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. Give them free so they can start off the ground. When the 0.01% win (the Da Vinci example), they'll be more than happy to pay you.

Also give them free because word of mouth is on steroids then. To cover up for the big costs, charge the premium enough. That might not be feasible for everyone so in the short-term go for the classic approach. But once you can... boy you should do it
This was great, thanks for sharing. I'm currently pointing my career towards principal (security) engineer and would love any similar articles on what it's like and what makes a good one if anyone had recommendations.
That's exactly one of the problems that I have. Somehow people are okay with things taking 2 years rather than 3 months though so there isn't a lot of pressure to change.

I'm at a point where I don't know if sticking around can have a positive influence on my career, maybe I'll learn to be more zen? How will that help if I change jobs? Or, will I become used to bad engineering and sabotage myself in the future? These are the kind of questions I'm having.

Assuming I have a good set of skills and enough experience, when faced with a challenging situation like this, I should try to be a positive force and bring improvements. However, I'm failing at that constantly and I just think it could have a negative impact on myself (burnout is a fact at this point).

Really trying to find the silver lining in all of this.
Apologies for the wrong thread title. I meant "Have you ever". Sometimes I read stuff over and over and over and still reads fine but is wrong. Oh well, sorry.
I've never flown OAK, but given the choice, I will always prefer SJC over SFO. It handles its current load much more gracefully.
Somewhere I read tired health workers are better than fresh workers who need to take over patients (losing context and details in the hand offs). Not sure if that explains it though.
I do wish those numbers controlled for population size, and rates of known correlated variables (e.g. diabetes).

What I want to know is whether the probability of developing the disease given I am a X year old healthy male/female has increased.
With every organization, once you are part of a product initiative for a few years, this question of "how transferable are my skills to a different domain or company?" is a valid one to ask oneself.

Also, it is easy to get so involved in the daily busyness, that your skills might not be transferable.

I think spending some time in being curious and learning/investing in transferable skills, and building a "brand" of helping others(either online or in person) helps significantly when it is indeed time to pursue that next opportunity.
So you are feeling self-righteous and looking down on people who have the wrong hardware?

Hardware that is wrong, because the (market dominant) company behind it, does not make a open-source driver?

I mean, you do realize, that Open-Source is sadly not the norm and rather something very odd to traditional industries?

So to people who do not worship the GPL(or even heard of it and just want their software to work), you might be a bit offputting.
Which might not be the way to increase the significance of Open Source. Which is a bit sad. Because I love OS and yes I know about the GPL etc. - but even I am put of by that arrogance and ignorance. So I am not saying you need to support X or whatever, but maybe do not direct your hate of Nvidia to the users of Nvidia. Maybe they are even new to this. Because those would then just shake their head and go away, (back to windows). Hurray.
No, it is not. The article basically just says, "yeah, we don't support remoting, someone got to make it work". For users, the second part is redundant, because the only thing that matters to them is that remoting doesn't work, and they can't really fix it on their own.

That aside, I have to say that if your responses are representative of the overall attitude towards such questions in the community, I doubt things are going to improve anytime soon.
Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown Mess
Please don't use code blocks for quotations. Reading them is terrible on mobile.
I did a search for the number 14 and 16 without seeing anything that matched the claim. The closest I saw was

"These men averaged thirty-six years of age
(range: 24-60) and had been married an average of ten years (1-32 years) before marrying a second wife of a mean twenty-five years of age (14-39 years). At that time, their legal wives averaged thirty-two years of age (22-56)."
The reality is that instead of people going to a public kitchen , or a shelter, they will get even more in the hole, financial and social.

Why are you so interested in getting the vulnerable category even more indebted?

>"oh wise one"

You'll have a hard time in life with that attitude.
Ask HN: Crowdsource hypothesis verification
Like a lot of folks out there, I often have more ideas, hypothesis and theories about things than I have time to investigate in order to verify or invalidate them. Even for some that I do have time for, it proves to be quite time consuming to make a start, usually because I'm not familiar with terminology and/or concepts to lead me on a path.

Do the HNers use any forum, site, service, paid or free, to crowdsource some of these efforts? I know of HN itself and reddit as great communities.
There is a huge misconception about what is meant by the word "prion". Get this... there is only one (1) prion protein! All mammalian prion diseases are directly related to the PRNP gene.
People talk about Mad Cow, Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jacobs, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie, and a dozen other diseases like they are not all manifestations of the same underlying problem with PRNP gene variants. People talk about "prions" as a general category of proteins capable of causing chain reaction misfolding... which is indeed what happens with PRNP variants, but not a whole bunch of different proteins -- just those transcribed from PRNP (the prion protein gene). We will probably discover that other proteins do this to some extent, but it'd still be weird to call it "a prion" because it's not a proten encoded by the prion gene. Does that make sense?
And that's the wonderful thing Jamieson, even if people would abuse it, you kicking them is a few clicks away. And given that one provides something of value, the premium plans will cover for them.

So so glad to see you winning with this "strategy" — it's not a strategy IMO, it's the forward way of living and conducting business. I'll send you an email, would like to connect!

> We're growing a startup for the long haul and don't have to demonstrate any particular growth rate to anyone.

That's the ultimate level of power and freedom. I wish you well.

Ch Daniel
would make sense also like a natural gruntish with expresses something. mah or ma is another one and a lot of times the first word which has had quite a bit of study in of itself.
> if your mailing list is over 2000 people, aren't there more than $65/mo to be made

If the click-through rate is around 10% and the conversion rate is around 5%, then depending on the price point (and whether selling subs or one-time), then quite possibly no. And even if I can clear $100 in extra revenue/month, paying more than half of that to an email service seems like too much. Factor in the cost of my time in building the emails, and I have to clear closer to $200/mo for this to make sense at all.

And I don't know the precise costs for the higher tiers, but after seeing this taste of their pricing model, I decided they weren't a good fit for me. If I ever end up as a subscriber, it will certainly be through gritted teeth, not the joy that you describe.
NHTSA vigorously argued in court that they needed to keep the data secret because its release posed a threat of "competitive harm" to Tesla. The authors of this new study had to file a FOIA request and then sue when it was initially denied by NHTSA. In the absence of the data, I'm not sure what the editors of a peer-reviewed journal would have been able to review.
The keptocrats running China have repeatedly rejected rule of law, self-government, and human rights. Sooner or later, they will meet the same fate as the Soviet Union. China may have a worse fate if they don't manage conflict with their neighbors.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. It's clear it happened, a lot. I'm taking issue with the idea that the wives were "disproportionally" 14-16.
Please understand the difference between an assumption and an assertion. I don't use Brave so there is zero motivation for me to dig into this issue. That's why my language expresses an assumption with the phrase "I'm sure".

> then surely you won't have to spend too much time looking it up on Google?

The more niche the topic, the harder it will be to find, even if it is publicly available.

> Are you motivated enough to champion your own assertions?

Now you're just being a twat. Why didn't you spend this energy contributing to the discussion by picking up where I left off and finding out if my assumption was correct? I guess it was easier to attempt to get some dopamine flowing by leveraging yourself into a superior position over someone on the internet.
Is the cost of compliance truly prohibitive to new entrants? Because if it isn’t, then the claim truly is nonsense.
It's very confusing reading tech career advice when you come from a company where "staff engineer" is one level above incoming grads and "senior engineer" takes 10 years...
I'm not sure the de-orbit plan thing is successfully being enforced by any launcher.

That being said kessler's syndrome impact are usually over-exaggerated by "big space" as a reaction the disruption going on in the business.
> even if people would abuse it, you kicking them is a few clicks away

We take a pretty liberal approach to this :) there are a few companies on the platform now who just create a lot of companies and keep them all below 20 servers (that's pretty easy to monitor) but so far we haven't kicked anyone yet, and there's also a legitimate reason to do that (if you're an MSP and have multiple clients). We just send an email to clarify if we think it's an issue.

> I'll send you an email, would like to connect!

Sure thing - it's first.last @ userify! Great to meet you Ch Daniel and thanks for your nice comment!
PG&E’s response to past pipeline fires too slow, investigators say
Slightly related: in Asimov's Robot books, the humans on earth who live in enclosed mega cities (referred to as wombs more than once), struggle to be outside (basically none do go), and wonder why anyone would want to be out there.
>If a digital artist creates a painting and puts it up on their website, and you go view it, it does not become yours.

Of course the image is mine, just as an image of the painting in a newspaper or brochure would be mine, it's a copy freely distributed by the copyright owner. I'm perfectly within my legal rights to do whatever I want with it, within the confines of the browser.

I'm not claiming i have the right to sell it or anything, but I absolutely do have the right to decide whether or not it shows up.
No need to look at motives. The end result matters, and the end result makes it as crippled as Apple's solution. Luckily, Android users will continue to have other options.
The vast majority of internet advertising firms believe they are entitled to all my personal information without sufficient notice or consent.
I believe that the ability to look honestly at your own failings gives you the opportunity to learn from them, and makes you stronger, both individually, and as a community and nation.

It's almost impossible for someone who is 'strong' in the sense used in this article, no matter how unique and noble of character, to maintain that honesty and dedication to continuously improve. Ultimately it becomes difficult for them even to know what the truth is, as people around them become more and more unprepared to share it with them, and the whole structure stultifies.

Putting all the faults and failings and divisions and bickering out in the open may seem weak, but it can lead to a kind of dynamic strength and robustness that is not available to the authoritarian.
I see a lot of ridiculous titles, too. I think he addresses that in the "myth of a flat org" section. To continue his "all databases have schemas…even the ones that say they do not" metaphor: over-normalization is bad, too. It's hard prevent muddying titles with things like vanity, but a well-named title gives shorthand in large orgs or when new people come on.

Of course knowing everyone individually is best, but that doesn't scale.

Most of the places I've worked are small to medium. Titles don't matter all that much. One place tried to develop a technical ladder to coincide with their management ladder. I don't think it worked out too well, but they did establish "leads" that were more likely to hop around and mentor. It didn't really change their responsibilities. It just formalized and endorsed what they were currently doing. It really helped to narrow down for people who to go to and allowed those leads to spend time on those kinds of issues.
Fish, rice, spam, sugar and salt. With a few loco mocos thrown in for fibre.
Or Rindr, for bulls.
> There's no dearth of places to find ex-mormon/anti-mormon info.

Off-topic, but I visited Salt Lake City last year and I was surprised by a bookstore that had both a Mormon section and an Anti-Mormon section. I'd never seen an Anti-Mormon section in a bookstore before, and I certainly didn't expect to see it in SLC of all places. But in retrospect, it kind of makes sense that people would have stronger opinions about Mormonism—good or bad—in places where its influence is greater.
Privacy invasive options which kind of defeats half the purpose of ad blockers.

And those “other choices” only work within the browser. Apple’s ad blocking framework works with apps that embed web views using the SafariViewConttroller like Feedly.
Ask HN: Will anything replace the Web for simple hyperlinked text documents?
I really hate how everything on the Web has to be app-ified, for lack of a better word. I used to be able to just read content, see images, click links, and maybe type something into a form of some sort. Since then, it feels like the quality of my online interactions have dropped, as I find less content and more advertising, tracking and “apps”.

Since so many important things use websites (like my bank), I know that it won’t be going away anytime soon. However, I feel like I’m not the only one who is frustrated by how hard it is to get at the content.

Do you know of any complete replacements for the Web that focus on the basic hyperlinked text experience?
Making ads nicer is only half of Brave.

The other half is setting aside an amount of cash each month (an amount that you decide on), and paying it out to the sites you visit the most.

I like that idea better, but I don't know if it's sustainable, users don't want to pay money.
The article says developing the TPU was “very expensive for Google” at tens of millions of dollars. That’s between one one-hundredth and one tenth of one percent of Google’s 2018 revenue. Not expensive in my book at that scale.
When even bleach doesn’t work, you’re gonna have a bad time.
I used Dropbox’s 2GB for eight years before becoming a paying user.
Jeff Bezos, Please Release Your Dirty Selfies
Gundam continues to mix these gritty realistic space ideas with cool fighting robots. I wish more sci-fi shows would do this.
You replied to several comment with this anecdote about "rich people who like to start lean...They have millions in the bank yet ask their cofounder to chip in £5,000 on the idea."

What's the point of this illustration? Are you saying this is a jerky thing for rich people to do? Or is there some other lesson here? I'm honestly confused, and it's weird to see it repeated through so many threads.

> I didn't have in mind donation systems

You say to go as free as much as possible, to get people "on your side". This is precisely what happens with donationware. But people get PISSED when donationware turns paid. They don't jump for joy and open their wallets. If this is the case with donationware, why would it be different for freemium products?
And non-privacy invasive options. Your point is a very poor one. Android users can use options that are worse than iOS options, the same as iOS options, or better than iOS options. Most will use the last category, as you would expect.

Android also supports blocking ads throughout the system, not just in WebViews, which is the only option on iOS.
no, i'm running on my laptop a remote instance of pavucontrol which controls the volume of my mediacenter (on which the process effectively runs) - no sound data is being transferred, only volume changes. (though I've also used pulseaudio-dlna to cast audio over the network from linux very easily)
It seems likely that the justification is retrofitted and team's familiarity with Swift was the bigger driver.
I am surprised they didn't find Scala to be a good fit given that it has already been used with great success in Spark which I presume has similar technical requirements. Anyone can throw light on the short explanation below? Does it really apply to Scala?

"Java / C# / Scala (and other OOP languages with pervasive dynamic dispatch): These languages share most of the static analysis problems as Python: their primary abstraction features (classes and interfaces) are built on highly dynamic constructs, which means that static analysis of Tensor operations depends on "best effort" techniques like alias analysis and class hierarchy analysis. Further, because they are pervasively reference-based, it is difficult to reliably disambiguate pointer aliases."
For a long time now I have been very interested in sending my own satellite up as a hobbyist project. I have a good background in software, electronics and hardware (top to bottom robotics), but not a solid background in physics.

A few questions:

1. What's the cheapest you can put a satellite in space (in terms of launch) and for how long would it orbit at that cost? Size wouldn't really be too much of a problem (I can go as low as 3x3x3 cm at a push).

2. Are there strict limitations about what you are allowed to put up into space? (In terms of components and contamination). Also in terms of transforming - is it allowed to unfold?

3. Do the satellites have to undergo some formal testing to be allowed on the space craft? What's that process and how much does it cost? I imagine they can't risk it blowing up or falling apart?

4. Has anybody looked to sub-divide the cubesat 10x10x10 into 8 smaller satellites? If you could somehow keep them all attached in fixed locations, you could have a much larger sensor surface area at a low cost.

5. How do they get the satellites to the launch location and how long does it have to be there in advance?

I think using reaction wheels is good for rotation and I don't think propulsion will be as "easily" possible. Compliant communications would be the most difficult part in my opinion, trying to keep it low power and effective.

As for the actual mission of the project, I'm still not decided. It could be cool to host some kind of server from space, but just throwing some hobbyist sensors up there and seeing how they behave would also be good.

Thank you in advance for any help with those questions.
I don't think take a nutritional expert to assert that too much fat and sugar and not enough exercise is a health issue. Or that it takes an expert to recommend a primarily vegetable-based diet.

I do think it takes a certain level of expertise to start making claims about things like Keto without just repeating something you heard elsewhere, but a diet with lots of vegetables is undeniably healthy.

Don't be afraid to share the knowledge you feel confident in. Just hold back on the stuff in which you aren't confident. :)
For me, the best discussions lately have always happened in mailing lists, where there are no points system and patrons ignore useless threads.
That's the challenge in all engineering interviews - determining weather they did anything useful or were just on the team. I've had to tell people to stop telling me about "we" and tell me what "you" did. Some people are so caught up in trying to be a team player that they hide their contributions. Others use it to hide their lack of contribution. It's not hard to separate these once you're aware of the issue and start asking the right question "what did you do?"
> Simple - you can only approach SJC airport from the north, not the south.

Obviously we also have to require aircraft to take off to the north, yes?

Let's see how we can implement this proposal.

SJC has two parallel runways: 30L/12R and 30R/12L. The runways are 700 feet apart. [1] [2]

We could operate the airport like a two-way highway where you only drive on the right. We permanently close runways 30L and 12L, and allow takeoffs only on 30R and landings only on 12R. So you approach from the north and take off to the north.

This will result in oncoming traffic 700 feet to your left, whether you are taking off or landing.

Passengers may get used to seeing other jetliners zoom by them at 250-300 miles per hour. After all, we do something like that on the freeway every day.

As a pilot, my worry is the wingtip vortices, affectionately called "wake turbulence". These are little cyclones that come off the end of each wing, travel with the wind, and can flip you upside down! The two-way traffic will assure plenty of opportunities to get caught in one of these.

OTOH, the oncoming traffic and wingtip vortices may only be a problem on a very calm day.

On many typical days of the year with moderate winds from the north-northwest, we may have to close the airport for landings and only allow takeoffs. Conversely, when the winds reverse due to weather, we will only allow landings and cancel all takeoffs.

Perhaps this plan is not quite as simple as it first seemed.

[1] Runways are numbered by their approximate compass heading divided by ten. A runway can be used in either direction depending on wind conditions, so it has two different designations that differ by 18, or 180 degrees. When an airport has parallel runways, they get an L or R suffix for left or right. So runway 30L and 12R are the same physical strip, at an approximate compass direction of 300 degrees if you are approaching from the southeast, or 120 degrees when approaching from the northwest. Similarly, the parallel strip is runway 30R and 12L.

[2] SJC runway map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/SJC_Airp...
There is a difference between not supporting something and actively trying to sabotage it at every turn.
This is definitely a nice sentiment, and i have encountered push-back at work for wanting to provide users with good exit experiences. The analogy to shipping labels is apt, and i also like to think that keeping users hostage / locked-in to your ecosystem will lead to worse consequences in the future for your product.

I wanted to provide one bit of close critique on a small part of the post:

> And look, I’m no social justice warrior (or so I hope) to go and bash people on the internet for whatever they’ve done wrongfully.

yikes. General suggestion for technical bloggers: please don't make vague references to internet culture wars (even in passing) in your posts unless they are central to your thesis.

This kind of stuff is at best distracting, and at worst can cause major misunderstandings. For me it engenders a certain kind of distrust: is the author trying to purposefully rile me or anyone else in their audience? It feels quite unprofessional as a whole.
It would be more apt to use futuristic music from the 1970s https://youtu.be/AHNUQOhEkAo
There was already enough electronic music to form whole genres, like New Age (Space Music) and Space Disco.