skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original piece was about science, and it does not pay anywhere near as well as tech does. And plenty of jobs provide comfortable lifestyle, the IT is fashionable because it is all the hype now.

> I didn't see women fighting to get into those physically demanding jobs

I don't see hordes of men striving to be lumberjacks or miners either. For some reason most men want to sit in the comfortable office or a research lab too.

Although I agree with you about "life isn't fair and probably never will be" part, gatekeeping women from entering professions and not offering them equal opportunities (should be italicized) is not the unfairness we should keep. It is a degenerate mindset that must be eradicated.

But yeah, expecting equality of outcome is foolish and quotas are probably not a good idea.
Because they're signing a bunch of document saying they're not going to do exactly this, so if they are doing exactly this, well... with their own petards they shall be hoistened, and that's a given.
I do--speaking as a single-dad who spent a few years working as a consultant and would never work more than 6 months out of the year (I always took time off during school breaks, summers, etc.). When I've applied for jobs over the years, I've never once been asked to explain those gaps. Of course, they were rarely longer than 6 months ... but there were quite a few of them. I've never even had the impression an employer has ever looked at those employment gaps before.

Hell, when I started my career--as a single father--I had no experience beyond what I'd done learning how to program on my own ... and I still had relatively few questions asked beyond me proving in an interview that I knew what I was talking about.
this looks... too good to be true. there's no way a free piece of software has all of these features and actually works. but really outside of educational purposes I don't see the use case. serious users will reach for R or python or even Matlab. but it looks great for teaching a high school data analysis class (or something like that).
How would it respond to gusts?

How strictly does it need to maintain angular velocity as it goes around?

What would the maximum speed in still air be? Some fraction of the rotor tip speed?

Does the tilt-wing configuration (presumably for landing and perhaps takeoff) set the constraint on payload mass fraction, as that will require more structure than the tension-stabilized rotary mode? Or is the payload mass fraction relatively insignificant compared to the battery and solar cell mass?

Safety: is there a way for it to gracefully fail? Transition from 4 blades to 3, and let the failed one dangle down as you descend? Would this be even remotely possible?
Meh. Reno, Nevada held the title of Divorce Capital of the World for six decades. http://renodivorcehistory.org/
Just looking at the wiki pages for Real Computation is enough to see it is not a physically realizable model. For more detailed discussion of the problem you can see the essay "NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality". To quote from it "The problem, of course, is that unlimited-precision real numbers would violate the holographic entropy bound".

At every level of physics there is a bound on precision, from boring things like classical macroscopic thermodynamics and noise, to quantum noise, to bounds that emerge in speculative theoretical physics. Basically, anything capable of encoding an infinitely precise real number in a finite amount of space will collapse and form a black hole.

In case this is not convincing enough, to your question about how this noise can not be overcome: if there was a method that can overcome the noise asymptotically in photonic systems, then that method would work in electric systems too. And there is actually such a method: turning the computer into a digital computer thanks to error correction codes.

The claim that Real Computation can be realized in our universe is comparable to the claim one can construct a perpetual motion machine or some other generator of free energy. They are both preposterous given our understanding of physics. And yes, I would celebrate if either of one turns out to actually be possible, but incredible claims require incredible evidence.
I'm currently a software dev getting paid monthly, and fronting around 3 grand this month. It happens.
Via the microcontroller embedded with the wifi adapter in the cable. It can effectively operate as a separate computer which uses the host PC parasitically for power and I/O.
That sounds like the illusion of consciousness. Neural networks show that you don't need "dog" in order to do whatever you need to with the idea of a dog.
There are a couple reasons. First, Amazon has hundreds of businesses and almost 700,000 employees globally now. Every business has different culture and managers. You are not going to find a consistent good/bad/indifferent experience here, because it's highly varied. I can guarantee you a seasonal worker in a fulfillment center has a vastly different day to day experience from a software development engineer in Seattle.

The second reason is that people tend to write about negative experiences more often. You see this all the time in Internet forums where people complain about products they bought. There could be millions of happy customers of a product, but the few thousand that got a defective one or had a bad experience with customer support will loudly and vocally scream about it on the Internet, which at first glance, seeing hundreds or thousands of reports of a terrible product, might seem bad, but the millions of people who used the product and had no problems with it are not going to write about it.

Disclaimer: I've worked at Amazon for a few years now, and I've had 3 decent managers and one terrible one. The good thing about Amazon is that it is relatively frictionless to switch teams.
Fair enough, but those wavelengths are visible with night vision gear. Either you work in visible wavelengths and worry about dust, or you work in IR and draw bright lines for anyone with NVG.
Super spammy website, figures it's related to the super spammy "tech" pedlers
Do you have a source for this? How can we be reasonably certain IQ assessments aren't inherently gender-biased? Is IQ directly-correlated to scientific contribution?

Richard Feynman's IQ was famously average though his scientific contributions to society were most certainly not.
> They go against meritocracy.

So does management. The difference is, you can vote shitty union reps off the island.
Very different. Retinal waves are a developmental phenomena and use action potentials for propagation. The study at hand attempts to disrupt all action potential transmission.
I was diagnosed with lymphoma about 8 years ago. It's been undetectable since six months later, and I haven't had any treatment since the three years of chemo ended, but that's not to say it won't return.

I've always disliked the "winning/losing" paradigm, and also terms like "struggle" and "battle". To me, they all imply that there was or is something that I personally could have done to change the outcome. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to respond well the treatment, that I'd "lost" or "didn't fight hard enough."

I'm grateful to the physicians and scientists who devised my treatments, and to the doctors and nurses who cared for me. I myself played no part in any of this, though. A freak genetic accident caused an affliction, and I followed the prescribed script. I never once felt that I was battling something, or that I had to try harder. I don't feel like I've won anything. If it returns, I won't feel that I've lost anything or that I have to try harder. If it returns and I die, it won't be because I've given up or didn't fight enough. It will be because the currently available solutions to this problem are insufficient for the particular conditions of my body.

My condolences to Alex and his loved ones.
Or a neural net for detecting fake text.

How insane would it be if the birth of AGI comes from GANs
of fake news?
Can you guys not post propaganda (from anywhere) on this site please?
I hope you’re right, but the skeptic in me says that people who commit crimes tend to do so thinking they won’t get caught. It’s the problem with the death penalty or any harsh regime of sentencing; the deterrence effect is nonexistent.
True, but when you ship your application you probably want to use your own env var anyway, instead of piggy-backing on "RUST_LOG".
I don't understand, if it's a corporate Visa, there's nothing to pay back - the bill goes to accounting, not the employee.
Yes, that's what qubex said, in correcting the error in your previous comment.
It plays a huge factor in the specific degree of success, but a much smaller factor in whether or not you are successful at all. If you do everything right and fail, you are an anomaly pretty much by definition.
Huh, so all it takes is someone to break into your home when you're gone and swap a cable. Seems like privacy doesn't really exist for people who truly need it. Unless they're not using any technology.
Note sure why this one year old post is particularly relevant today. It at least needs a (2018) in the title.
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195087

Not nearly as interesting as the radioactive boyscout story:

https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...

David Hahn sadly passed away at 39:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioa...
I had the same thought, and wanted to check some strange ore from the desert. Eventually I soldered my own Geiger counter, thanks to the fabulous Safecast project. This is it: https://blog.safecast.org/bgeigie-nano/

It cost ~$650, but that's because it uses a very high-end geiger tube, and can detect alpha and beta in addition to gamma radiation. Comparable commercial devices do apparently cost a couple thousand.

Low and behold, the desert rocks weren't radioactive. However, taking the counter on an airplane was quite shocking, and gave the cabin crew real concern.
Prismo v0.4, Federated Link Aggregation Powered by ActivityPub
I don't want corporate politics and all the worst parts of MBA culture within a hundred miles of tech, yet here we are.

Solidarity is the only way that workers can negotiate on an even playing field.
It creates a wifi hotspot and the attacker can connect to that using another device from a distance. They can then do stuff via the USB port, for example send key presses.
A secretly-IoT keyboard that shares your key presses and may "type" malicious stuff when you're not looking at it; the OS wouldn't be able to tell it's not you doing the typing. Not scary at all, no sir.
Yes, something like that.

I spent a year at death's door. When I stopped hallucinating conversations with the grim reaper, I knew I would live.

I've made my peace with my mortality.

And that's a private matter and we all get there -- or not -- in our own way. But total strangers who haven't made their peace with this will have big feels about our mortality in ways that can be problematic for the person who has accepted their death (in the face of a terrible illness).
Gee, maybe in an extreme case, to fly from NYC to Tokyo, fly east out of NYC and take the jet stream and save time and fuel!
Those "factor" zeros look like infinitesimal forms, which are well studied.
Who needs access to a router, just sniffing for passwords this would work.

Put in the right machine and you can see every company memo as it is written.
This post on the HN FP highlights some gripes i have with moderation here.

1. old, but not a repost should be OK and not really need a date (dates are good when it is a repost or notorious. this is as obscure as it can get)

2. not linking to the original source, but to a insightful discussion instead. I often link to slashdot discussions which contain not one, but 3 or more source on the summary with disparate point of views, plus the slashdot discussion, which is extremely relevant (for hardcore network stuff at least). and the post get deleted by not linking to a original source.
> I'm always amazed how startups like this where R&D practically cost nothing are not profitable yet

S&M is a helluva drug. Notice something common about the "Other SG&A" in all of these?

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/mdb/financials

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/cldr/financials

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/rht/financials

At the end of the day, DCF is really what matters and DCF != profit
Don't underestimate the cost difference between running a fibre down a street versus running it into every house.
In secure locations it's common for USB ports to be physically blocked (the ones I've seen with glue/resin).
How is that a counter-example? They diverged from the overall population to an extreme level (one demographic over-represented by a 10x factor compared to the overall population) and also had an extreme level of bias (imprisoned and murdered a specific demographic).
It's basically what the NSA's ANT catalogue had in their COTTONMOUTH devices, among others [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
Impressive for someone like me, whose not that close to the tech!
Not likely, since it uses tons of Romance vocabulary. For example, right at the top we can see

space
using
people
escape
problem [Greek]
decide
control
direction

Not all constrained writing exercises are directly inspired by one another!
From the link

> Retaliation is defined as any action taken against an employee for daring to file a discrimination or harassment claim

And then for harassment: https://hkm.com/seattle/hostile-work-environment/

> Harassment in the workplace is a form of employment discrimination. Unlawful harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and as such is illegal. Unfortunately harassment can come in many forms, both verbal and physical and can be based on any of the following forms of discrimination:

> Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual orientation, Age, Disability (mental or physical), Retaliation

See above about "Retaliation"

Is there something I'm missing in there? Because that again appears to only protect one from a protected class. It does not mean if your boss is being mean or insulting to you for things outside of those protected classes. But again, am I missing something in there that is different? Do you have an example of a civil or criminal case won by a plaintiff for "toxic behavior"?

I'd be very interested in that, as that would mean the advice I've recieved from two diffent legal counsels I've contracted for advice. If you are correct, it appears I may have a civil claim against those attorneys.
Might work, but that's a very high-stakes maneuver that could backfire possibly even worse than through HR because now you have two people with the power to make your life hell and potentially no record in HR about the situation (potentially losing first strike opportunities - now your manager or manager's manager can begin to record problems caused by you before you can record problems by them). And also IME it is basically impossible to read how your manager's manager feels about your manager

Realistically if you have a bad manager your only 100% safe option is to switch companies. Switching teams internally can work depending on the place, but it does carry risk, especially if you're on a visa
In the short time I worked for a bank during an internship it was very apparent that there is training one goes through regarding this sort of thing and a very formalized processes with strong rules about how you can even contact the other side of the house. I doubt McKinsey has this structure.

This is a pretty softball take by Matt Levine.
And GCard lets you get cash advances. Okay then.
I, for one, welcome our new OpenAI overlords.
It’s be useful to know why this person wants to work more though.

Assuming it’s to have a purpose in life, then the answer is to find that purpose.

Alternatively there are plenty of open source projects that need a maintainer.
ABL (Always Be Leaving)
Now I know an ad-hominem is ipso facto against HN's rules, but look at not just the Hitler comparison, but the writing style.

Disconnected sentences. Run ons. This is more than a case of someone who's a bad writer or a non-native English speaker. I've written in non-native languages before -- organization, paragraphs, and spacing transcend language.

To not mince words, this blog post seems 50% in the format of one of those crazy political ranters that show up in your inbox, or Timecube ( http://timecube.2enp.com/ ).

Inference-wise, is there a good (>20%) chance this guy's story is legit and he's really just a very, very, jumbled writer. Yes. But is there also a good (>20%) chance this guy is kinda off his rockers? Also yes.

This is not meant as an ad-hom itself. It's merely statistical inference (like inferring someone writing about Python but mispelling it as "Pyton" all the time is probably not that proficient at Python)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be thinking about a way to play around with it sans authentication. But just to clarify, you can try it out in the browser after getting a token. The sign up doesn't even have a captcha, and it's free, so while not 100% frictionless, it's pretty darn close.
Mortality is one of those things that I grow more accustomed to the older I get. I hate it. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about death or things that cause death. Death is everywhere — the news, social media — two things I try to avoid. However, we cannot avoid death. We are all just living to die.
My stepmother died of cancer last year and asked that her obituary refer to her "long negotiation with cancer" instead of "long battle with cancer", I think because she also disliked the "battle" and "struggle" notion for similar reasons.
Sure - this isn’t to imply that that can’t happen or even that that isn’t the more common case.

It’s only to say that just because something may seem far away it may not be - even if you’re the person that will invent it only two years later (and therefore are probably in the best position to know).

Given the high stakes of unsafe AGI and this uncertainty it’s probably worth some people working on goal alignment.

This is somewhat unrelated to the recent release though.
I'm guessing it goes something like:

- The cable is inserted into the victims computer
- The electronics inside the cable creates a WiFi network
- The attacker uses a separate computer to connect to this WiFi network
- Transmit the payloads to the victim
- ???
- Profit
Im a ping 1.1.1.1 guy. Fast to type.
Well amazon hires a ton of H1Bs. When they let go, they have to go to back to their country unless they can find another company to sponsor their H1B.

So people go to extreme lengths and managers can get away with anything.

I’m super grateful for Microsoft to help me with my green card. However my life there was miserable and my manager frequently asked us to work weekends. Pagerduty was hell and I once came home at 5am from work.

F that.

I’m glad I wasn’t born in India. My Indian x-colleagues didn’t have that freedom simply due to where they were born.

I imagine Amazon is a worse slaveshop.
"Age is no guarantee of efficiency / Youth is no guarantee of innovation"
Just a small fix for those that were checking as I was

If the ground distance each way is D, airspeed is V, and wind speed relative to the ground is w, total time is D/(V-w) + D/(V+w) = 2DV/(V^2-w^2) = 2D/((V^2-w^2)/V).

For 0 < w < V: this is more than the 0 wind case.
For w >= V: the headwind is so high that you can't make any progress toward the destination).

The last result being somehow obvious ;)
You weren't particularly discriminated against due to your gender but rather fell a victim of both incompetence and immaturity.

Whether actual gender discrimination is also incompetence and/or immaturity is up to discussion. But it seems to still be acceptable in some places in the US. I hope Western Europe is doing better, but I don't know.
It does not describe every single person in a country. However, if you deny that certain countries have certain cultural identities you are lying to yourself.
Data Scientist vs. Data Engineers
Many modern anthropologists now believe that to be a myth attributable to, wait for it... implicit gender bias among male scientists in the early 1900's. You should check out the book "The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory" it's a very interesting read.
Yep, the tl;dr is that at the time my manager's manager didn't appreciate me being transparent on mistakes our department made with other depts. So in an effort to make me quit, aside from other things, he wrote a review for my direct manager and required him to say it was his review. If he didn't he would be fired.

Pretty normal stuff at a certain level with insecure managers. Not exactly the same, but Steve Jobs wrote about how they relocated him into an empty building at Apple to make him quit. I was relocated too in fact.

The red flags I look for now:

- clearly not as smart as their peers in their own or other depts, they're likely struggling and will act irrationally

- very ambitious, but risk averse

- tells people what their title is whether they asked or not

- been at the company their whole career and just went along with the flow

There's likely some others, but I'm careful around those folks, they're just trouble.
Americans are loud, obnoxious tourists. Is that racist?
Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Galaxies
One way to explain the real numbers to a child might be:

There are whole numbers (integers, terminology not accurate but it'll do for now), and then there are numbers called fractions (rationals) which are either whole numbers themselves, or they fall between two whole numbers, and we get them by dividing one whole number by another.

The real numbers are either fractions, or they are numbers that fall between two fractions. If it's one inch from the center of a circle to its edge, the distance around the circle is not a fraction. In inches it's about 3.14; it falls between 3 and 3 1/7, and no fraction you can possibly choose will ever get it exactly, it will be at best a little under or a little over.

You can get other non-fraction real numbers by finding square roots, but there are infinitely many of these numbers between any two fractions, not all of which are square roots. And if you try to take the square root of a negative number, you won't get a real number at all, and we call these numbers "imaginary".

Hearing stuff like this as a kid blew my mind, a bit like learning about black holes. It set me up to enjoy math throughout my life.
It would have to be night time or otherwise dark and there would have to be enough dust/whatever in the air and you'd have to be expecting a laser attack. And then you'd have two seconds to follow the 'shot' back to its origin.
I think the most important thing is wanting to do something. The problem in front of you shouldn't just be work - you should actually be interested in solving it.

That would probably range from something that's so easy you just want to drop the hammer and knock it out to a massive problem that you'll spend months or years chipping away at. Either way if you really are interested in working on it you'll think about it in the background and approach solutions from multiple angles. When you're excited about working on the problem you'll have no issues with working more than 10 hours per week if that's what it takes.

Everybody is different but I've found that when a problem is actually fun to work on "productivity" techniques don't really do much. It's mostly making a plan for what to do, working a bit, learning more, and either solving or starting the work cycle over again with new information.

So I think you probably need to work on more problems that you're actually interested in.
Writing CSS Algorithms
Clickhouse, a Russian product, seems to index dramatically better than splunk. Add with grafana, etc and you can build a useable and dramatically faster logging platform. Feature parity?