skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open AI said as much when discussing their move to a for-profit LP model.

They anticipate that real advances will be made by massively scaling up the compute power they throw at any given problem. That’s driving their fundraising efforts.

If the past 5 years are anything to go by, they’re right.
Most peoples load tests involve taking a system to breaking point, then turning the load off and going to lunch.

People need to gradually reduce the load after the breaking point to check the system recovers.

Load Tests are also pretty hard to do in distributed systems. If you test the application alone, you probably won't find most of the issues. You'll need to test the application complete with all it's dependencies (databases, load balancers, failover mechanisms, external servers, etc.). You'll also probably want to test it with representative user requests, and all databases filled with representative data. That in turn typically means your loadtest system will need to be as big and expensive as your production system. Have fun explaining to the boss why you need to double the infrastructure costs. If you do it in the cloud, you can just do a loadtest for 10 mins per day and save a bunch of $$$, but you still need tooling to be able to deploy a complete replica of your system, fill it with realistic data and send it realistic requests, all automatically.

Using real user data and logs of user interactions and real user requests is best for loadtesting, but comes with it's own risks. You need to make sure the loadtest systems doesn't send out emails to users, or accidentally communicate with the real production systems in any way. It also means you have to secure your loadtest infrastructure as well as your production infrastructure. GDPR data deletion requests need to apply there too, etc.
Ignoring the actual numbers because of cost of living, an EE with coding experience would be doing far better here on Florida's eastern coast. That "studio apartments" bit is horrifying.

My coworkers and I seem to do lots better. I've seen my coworkers use a single income to buy: a condo on the beach, a new McMansion, 11 acres with farm animals and shooting, waterfront property with access to the ocean, waterfront property for an airboat into marshlands, and lots of toys. I went for a simple house, 3500 square feet on 0.38 acres and now fully paid off, within walking distance of work. I also had 11 children and bought 3 cars.

I'll take a hopeful guess that an EE with coding experience might enjoy assembly language. If so, maybe I can help get you into a more family-friendly situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284153
>Some behaviors are instinctive, some are taught, some are the result of emotional conditioning (hence people taming and domesticating animals).

You agree with me.
Hmm apparently I'm just wrong. I could have sworn there was a Wired article about this from a few years ago, but I can't find any evidence of it online or in my notes or in my previous HN comments.
I have colleagues that work in the UK office of my US headquartered employer that are making £200k+ having worked there for ~10 years.
Why spam folder or delete rather than reject? IMO, such messages should always be rejected so that the sender can see that they aren't delivered. The usual explanation for spam folders or deletion is to prevent spammers from finding out what works, but this particular case that doesn't seem to apply since it is easy for spammers to check and not doing the basics should never work. Maybe in this case the point is to force you to use google webmaster tools...
FYI https://coder.com is the hosted service for this
I miss the speed of Sublime. Not enough though.
The post notes that they had issues with recent versions.
> I mean, yeah, this is true, but who cares

Some people care. They'll continue to care regardless of whether you find caring about these issues justifiable or relevant. These same people are also aware of what they're up against: they don't hum along with delusions of grandeur, believing their singular, minute contributions will halt progression of corporate behemoths or allay consumerism. But they're also aware that, if no body actually does care, things will be worse.
Very interesting, may use this, I'd still layer in a VPN, i've had leaks in the past[1].

[1] https://vpntoolbox.com/disabling-webrtc-browsers/
This post has some claims on AES that seem out of date. For instance, most CPUs nowadays support 256-bit AES without resorting to bitslicing. And most implementations have had plenty of time to address the side-channel timing attacks from djb's paper.

The recommendation for 2048-bit RSA is also a headscratcher. I get why you'd want to prefer ECC, but if you have to use RSA for some reason is there any scenario where you wouldn't also want 4096-bit keys?

Mozilla's TLS and SSH recommendations are pretty solid though.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a... is an alternate, arguably better, source of information.
This is really good information to know, thanks.
Do you disable WebRTC and why?
Go inside your house! Letting the neighbours in your house to grab books. You are the most generous, kindhearted person in the world if you really are thinking of doing it this way.

It's a very big bird house on a pole in front of your house, just in front of the sidewalk. It's got a door with a window on it, so people can see the books. I live in a region with a cold climate and there are 7 or 8 exactly like what I'm describing in my neighbourhood. I don't personally have one but my wife wants to build one in the spring. Doesn't seem to be much of a vandalism magnet when they look so gosh-darn cute.
Maybe mention what aspect you find bad (I mean there are definitely weaknesses and unknowns), and why the explanations on his policy site don't have you convinced: https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/

It goes over the common ones like how will we pay for it, is this too soon, will this cause inflation, will people not be incentivized to work, etc.
"The opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math"
That $5-50k is amortized over decades, though.

Bird's scooters cost ~$500, probably make under a buck a ride in profits, and I suspect their average lifetime is well under 500 rides.
I disagree with "More data is strictly better". if you said that everything else equal, more data is better, I would be closer to agreement.

But when you have more data, biases become more of a problem. p-hacking becomes easier, and the easier something is to do, the more likely it is to happen.

I would frame it this way: the signal/noise ratio of data decreases as the size increases.* The overall value increases, but at a slower rate over time.

* The caveat - once you get above a certain volume of data, new processing techniques become available that aren't available at smaller volumes.
Graduated UC Santa Cruz in 2007, did odd-jobs until 2012. All of the following jobs are in San Diego, CA, USA.

2008-late 2014- Odd jobs and data entry as a temp: ~$28k

Oct 2014- 1st developer job, Touch This Media: $50k, no benefits

Jan 2016- company was in trouble, $35k

July 2016- took 3 months off for a programming bootcamp, took two months after to find a job

Jan 2017- The Control Group, $75k plus benefits, 401k, paid time off. Worked as a full stack dev

Late 2017- DiegoDev $91k, remote, front end engineer

Early 2018- raise to $96k
And here's how to do it in vim:

vim scp://remoteuser@server.tld//absolute/path/to/document

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Editing_remote_files_via_scp_in_...
I suggest you go out and talk to some actual sex workers, with an open mind. I know (socially) a few former sex workers, and they would vehemently disagree with your characterization. The world is way, waaaay more complicated than you seem to think.
> Facebook gives me the opportunity to maintain contact with my family who live on the other side of the world, as I walk the streets of São Paulo, for free. [...] The alternative (cel phone calls and sms)

I use email to keep in contact with my family. CC everyone, then reply all. No Facebook required.
19 - co-op while in well known lower end of 1st tier (not top 5) engr school - 16k/yr

20 - internship at big 5 consulting firm in NYC - 45k/yr (summer only)

21 - full time at same firm - 61k-ish

22-5 some small raises

26 - move to mid size well known federal gov consulting firm in DC - 76k/yr

27-28 - some raises to 86-90k

28 - smaller/mid consulting firm - 125k

28-33 - raises through to 175k

change to independent, and hourly rates, but will list the following as yearly; however from this point, I have to pay my own taxes, insurance, retirement, etc. still better off however, as taxes are lower compared to salary/employee, and rates are higher.

34 - 200k

35 - 260k

36 - 265k

37 - 280k

38 - 300k

39 - 285k

40 - 280k

Last couple years are the same rate, but working fewer hours to enjoy work-life balance.
Are you saying that ethanol is not actually required now, and is chosen freely to meet emissions requirements? Or are you just saying that a hypothetical situation like that would ultimately have the same effect as a requirement to use ethanol?
How is facebook preventing you from using a different social network (another library)?
Check out his podcast with Joe Rogan or Sam Harris, he definitely understands that government is not the same as business, but he also understands markets and incentives (and perverse incentives) a lot better than most politicians imo.
Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls
I run a popular tech blog on Tumblr and I've noticed the same thing.

Their faulty AI censor bot also flagged 20+ of my non porn tech posts as porn, including a photo of Mars. Sent them all in for manual review months ago, no response yet.

Conversely I'm also still seeing some actual porn on Tumblr. Its apparently not difficult to fool the AI censor with carefully crafted images.
Arts contributed $763B to US economy – more than agriculture or transport (2018)
Tumblr posts are multimedia, have tags, etc. There's no straightforward way to package all that in an email.

Also, it's just not a simple workflow to copy/paste from email. On Tumblr you just push a button and the post goes up.
Secret Agent Man (1986)
In Switzerland the swiss Post is implementing something similar => my thoughts are very similar to yours (we can even vote by letter, and an electronic vote might in comparison save me at most 5 seconds out of the avg 3 hours of debate with friends and family & reading & watching debates on TV for each round of voting).

The swiss Post organized recently a public review (with awards to identify bugs - see another older thread on HN) for the software that they'll try to launch.

On one hand the swiss Post's solution would allow me to actively check if my vote was part of the total, which I think is absolutely fantastic.

On the other hand I did access the source repository of the new potential voting system <with sparkling eyes expecting something "special"> but I didn't even start digging into it as soon as I saw that it was written in Java.

I thought that such a software, which is the foundation to the future of a nation (voting system), would have as its foundation 1) a language that leaves very little room for technical and functional bugs (e.g. something used in the aerospace industry?), 2) would be structured using an extremely well-known-for-its-reliability workflow-engine and 3) was submitted to testing covering basically ALL possible combinations at ALL levels (not just e.g. "10000 cycles of randomness" but all possible input-values, for all layers).

When I saw that it was written in Java (nothing against Java - same thing for e.g. C/C++) I immediately gave up because, even if that SW is made to be absolutely unhackable >>now<<, this won't be true anymore starting from the next releases as the $ and "attention" will inevitably be reduced more and more and the whole tower will start to crumble.

Summarized: I'd like such a system, but I would need it to implemented in an extremely strict way that is able to survive times of low budgets and/or bad employees and/or bad management and/or of course corruption, which is when coincidentally a stable solution would be needed the most.

I usually (have to) choose between dark- or light-grey when I vote, but in this case, to replace the current system, it's one of the rare occasions for which I would need a "pure white" solution :)
Out of curiosity, have you thought about trying to port "real" games over to it, as in running a ROM of something commercially released? This is already really cool, but it would be nerd-cred-for-life cool if you could say "Oh, you have a gameboy? Yeah, I built my own."
"If blessing a hashref is real OO why has so much energy been expended on Moose and its offspring?"

That's a good question. It's always mystified me. A little boilerplate doesn't bother me. As far as I can tell, it's because people didn't like writing the constructor boilerplate and getters/setters. Maybe for the "isa" pretend types?
I tried it out with Julia, for something reason it didn't recognize the syntax after installing the Julia extension...
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Using the word 'tax' here is like calling anything that you need to pay for 'tax'. If you put a bit of money in a vending machine to buy some chocolate, you don't call that vending machine tax, do you?

If you were to scope it to 'services' or 'platform', then perhaps we should call virtual hosting cost not cost but tax :p and if you rent a movie, that'd then be movie tax, or rental tax? But what about actual tax, are we going to call that tax tax? Because at this point people just start using the word tax for every generic transaction.
>I agree with gp that Windows notifications are a step worse.

Let me get this straight: you think that showing a medium sized banner ad in a window is better than a few lines of text using the OS provided notification API? Why?

If the position was reversed, I could very well imagine the opposite argument. eg. "boo epic shows this massive ad in your face, whereas steam uses a discreet notification"
The point of Elite colleges are the networking, not the education you get.
Does uBlock stop Facebook tracking? Or is there such a thing as Faceblock?
In what way is that gaslighting?
Epic can report huge user growth numbers in the hot and growing Asian market to their investors.
Edit: I am effected by this issue. I am of course not dumb enough to add a credit card to the account.

If they allow you to log on in via a third party authentication like log in via google account or log in via facebook etc I foresee a flow like this.

Create a bunch of fake accounts attached to various emails.

For each account periodically check to see if a new method of payment is attached to the account. When one is immediately buy a bunch of gifts for other users that will be sold through some side channel like facebook/whatsapp/what have you. Example make a post on any sort of forum say message me to buy a copy of $40 game only $10 for the first 5 users to message me. For each user that pays buy a game and send the legit code for the game. This trust will keep you from being taken down immediately or perhaps even at all if the user doesn't notice the losses.

This could work because a user could say log in via oauth via another service, link their account to the unknown preexisting account by setting the same email account. Virtually no services allow more than one account with the same email address its the unique key that defines the account.

As soon as they create the account the first thing they do is buy a game because most new users installed so they could buy a game from epic. They check whatever box is required to save their method of payment.

You now have an account that can be accessed via oauth via the users preferred provider and the hackers chosen password + victims email address with a saved payment method the hacker cannot access directly but can spend and monetize via side channel.
If people weren't bad actors, I bet you a ride sharing company where you can just get into a car and drive around with it would make big money.

Just charge per minute and allow the owner to track the position continuously.
I have no qualms letting people know my comp so they know that is possible, and helped many developers in my short 6 year career get better jobs/get life changing comp.

Caveat to my numbers - I am an asian male math PhD dropout from a top 15 graduate program who had hardly coded prior to his first developer job. I also have substantial open source contributions to major libraries, starting from my first developer job.

Nov. 2012 - $51k (in DC)

Sept. 2013 - $75k (new job)

May 2014 - $105k + paid relocation (in Silicon Valley)

August 2014 - $140k (laid off from last job, changed to new one in 2 hours)

Jan. 2015 - $145k (raise at same job)

July 2015 - $160k (laid off from prior job in June)

July 2017 - $280k = $160k base, $15k signing bonus, $105k RSUs in FAANG (laid off from prior job in May)

Sept. 2018 - $303k = $164k base, $14k performance/annual bonuses, $125k refresh RSUs (annual raise from performance reviews at same job - was band limited on the base salary)
I can’t speculate on mindset or motivation, but based on purely financials I’d have suggested sticking it out for a few more years to build up a larger nest egg. It’s not just the risk of not succeeding at your next venture; there’s the follow up risk that after failure you can’t get back in the game where you left off.

That said, best of luck to you. Fortune favors the brave!
I could see this being useful if you needed to get some work done and you don't have access to your usual development machine.
How do you make the leap to consulting? Any special skills allowing that rate?
>alternative information

The phrase your looking for is "dangerous lies"
I was one of those Amcare employees for a 6 month contract. The only first aid provider in a warehouse. I ended up placing 1 911 call for a seizure, and that was it. Zero mental health issues. Most everything was minor injuries, and many of those seemed like borderline workers comp fraud too.

Amazon has 8 or 9 warehouses in the Dallas Ft Worth area alone. I wonder how many 911 calls they've generated and what for.
Not to sound overly cynical but open source isn't a panacea. Yes, it adds transparency. That's a positive. But that doesn't ensure it'll work.

As for secure, if it's connected to the internet, then it's always going to be a target.

It seems to me, that - if voting integrity is priority #1 - a return to traditional analogue voting should be given strong consideration.
HN likes to link as closely to the original source as possible, which in this case looks like the imgur album rather than the reddit thread linking to it. It's probably not personal, just a de-noising instinct gone awry.
> some even convert your recorded shows into on-demand versions which (or course) contain unskippable commercials

Is there a higher paid tier that gets rid of those commercials?
How do you think rental car companies stay in business? You are still liable for the damage to the car if you blatantly abuse it, and you are still liable for property damage or accidents in states that require insurance and insure the driver.

This is just a car rental for a shorter amount of time. And in D.C. we had something called ZipCar which was pretty close to that.
Ask HN: Finding a Co-Founder in Palo Alto
Hey guys,

I am software engineer in Palo Alto and I am wondering how do you find a co-founder?

I already graduated from college so I do not have access to "college buddies" and the networking events I have attended around here were a shit show including the ones from Techcrunch lol

Also, I am new to the bay area and the technical people I usually meet all have good jobs at big tech companies.

How do you find a co-founder in the Bay Area?

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Btw, I have a degree in CS and have already successfully exited from 2 startups.

Thanks
McConnell's gig is inserting his clientele's p...olicy into US law / practice for their pleasure....
Nice job! Are you going to do more designs in the future? Maybe Verilog/VHDL based?
what would be a manner of having people creating their family and friends comments and photos on an enviroment mostly hosted on one of the group members phone, so information is mostly...let me think...information at a ceartain level of size lets say 1 Giga for example, then it would autosave the oldest data, so in this case no more then for example 10 days of data is stored, because the storage is at local device phone of a member of a group...so the old info is saved on the local server or even at a central server but contained in the access and supervision of the host member of the group...just ideas...no underlines...

I sometimes imagine I would like to see a socialmedia where no need for names, there is a map, like runescape map or mix of google maps and google earth and runescape map and at certain points you can see a mark like a map mark or something and a sign that reads I was here on summer on a rainy sunny morning and started to snow and I was there to meet someone I date in the newspapaer but when I sit on the bench was a brazilian guy and we becaome good friend really and after half hour of talk We realiza I was not talking with the guy I was supose to know , to meet in a casual newspaper date and it was so fun...

Or you see a little pink heart on the map near the lake you use to go as teenager to summer camp or vacations and it says Jenny was sitting near by this tree in the summer of that year...

or you see a little starbucks coffee paper cup on the Map point of your corners coffee place where you saw the red haired girl yesterday and the comment on that arrow says Hey, guy on blue shirt, im the red shirt...

Or just say a name like a given name like...

I was in this school when I was 6 and I remember my friend Alexandre with blue eyes...

on an little icone at the map, righ...

I think it would be a fun social network...

I hope all people and employees on social media jobs around the world be well and confident that things are going better...

...thanks...
That's the second Byzantine-related posting I've seen today. I'll chime in with Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler, which I'm reading because I'm organizing some author events for him in China. Seems very well researched and well written; a popular account rather than a historical deep dive, but lots of fun to read.
Last I heard lime was making $28 over the lifetime of a scooter.
It's the same reason that nobody likes advertisements in their push notifications on their phone: it takes your attention away from the currently active program/app you're using. Steam's huge box shows up only when you intend to open steam, while Epic's Windows notification might as well pop up while you're doing your taxes.
I share your concern.

This would be even better: Email recipients grant free access to whoever they want. A tiny price would be charged only when sending to someone who has not granted such access.