skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to chime in that I appreciate the detailed answer!

Edit:

> Making A-10s into drones doesn't solve any particular problem.

Just wanted to call out -- it actually does solve one problem, and one I've heard expressed as a concern, which is the potential loss of pilots involved with low-flying, slow CAS aircraft, such as the A-10. It also substantially changes the performance requirements when you're not trying to safely house a pilot -- fuel capacity, electronics, lighter or smaller craft (if we're talking future planes), etc.

Hence the reason for my suggestion: it shifts the risk envelope in terms of sending them as CAS, while offering a distinct platform from say, Predator style drones, with relatively lighter armaments.

Let me just conclude by saying my information on military hardware largely comes from Wikipedia, may not include various platforms that haven't been widely publicized, and certainly doesn't include accurate information on combat.

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to talk.
Most likely support.com sold office depot on this and operated it to give them a cut of the proceeds.
For standard Docker container deployments, there is. See: https://docs.docker.com/network/
I've played around with the internals a bit, but I've not been able to substantially improve understandability past 1200 wpm no matter what I do.

The settings for that text snippet were

$ espeak -p 100 -s 1000 -v male7

That's really the optimum for me for speeds over 650 pwm.
There's a difference between having source code and CLI commands in a hodge-podge of languages and not having translations of man pages.
I don't know if it's true, but I remember reading on HN that Samples makes all it's money delivering office supplies to businesses and that their stores are essentially just warehouses.
I believe it was freecodecamp (or something like that), because they had a github tutorial that told people to make an account and star their repo.
They also had Sega Genenis networked together with modems, maybe?
He's always reflected the praise towards the scientific community as far as I can see:

Just read the tweets on his profile... A sample: https://mobile.twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1110862796437...

It's like... Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.

If you're going to blindly criticise anyone without considering things out of your bubble, that's your prerogative.
It could be funny to see the repo/GitHub gets blocked because of this. If it did, that will be a good wake up call for somebody who still sleeping.
> This has to be the worse piece of advice....

I agree.

The attitudes at the top of the pyramid are such that they require those at the bottom to be the docile, nice guy who adheres to the golden rule, morality and humility while those at the top are continually improving their ruthlessness in competition with their peers.
Tesla: Elon Musk Uses Twitter 'Wisely' Says New Chairman
yes, they need to add a test for wget (and a comparable fix) - that will teach them how to do tdd right.
Zavvie Launches First National iBuyer Instant Offer Comparison Tool
I think it's important to have some context here though. I can't speak for the parent commenter, but I am Australian and how I interpreted it was that our democratic system is reasonably mature, functional, and relatively free from large scale corruption.

I think the last point is the big one. Political lobbying, while still a thing, isn't as rampant as in the US for example. Bad power-grab legislation like the bill being discussed still happen, as do bad laws as a result of general incompetence, but in my experience there are far less laws that happen as a result of corporate lobbying.

A good example is the Australian tax system. There is a government provided website for filing your individual income tax return. For the vast majority of people it is prefilled, takes about 5 mins, and it's also free for everyone. Contrast this with the US where companies like Intuit lobby specifically to keep the tax code complex and to require returns prepared online be submitted through one of them so they can collect their fees.
I'm not sure I get what you mean. If you're talking about Daniel Micay, if I remember correctly, what happened was that the CEO basically betrayed him and kicked him out of the company. He's not part of it anymore, and is now working on https://github.com/AndroidHardening.
> How do you like to make decisions?
> What do you believe is the purpose of a manager?

I've run several startups and done a ton of hiring interviews. FWIW, these are terrible questions to ask a CEO. They are too vague and make it sound like you are trying to fake a challenging question.

More than anything else, these questions would tell me "Here is an employee who will demand a lot of my time."

If you want to ask something about decisions, ask something like "Do you favor consensus or autonomy in decision making?" or "How do junior team members influence team decisions?" or something like that.

The manager question is kind of out of left field. It would be like someone interviewing for a developer position asking "So, what do you think is the purpose of a laptop?"

Anyway, that's ny two cents. Use at your own risk.
PG was also involved in the inception of Reddit: It was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the internet".[0]
PG had vetoed their initial idea to create a food-delivery app and then called them back and asked them to come up with something new.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ8f3Bx6Po
The man who shot the 9 cops in Dallas had a lot of their literature.
How much do you pay a chairman to say this? :)
Don’t get me wrong, the GAU8 “Avenger” 30mm cannon the A10 was built around is an utter beast, but it has simply met its match with modern tank armor. It wouldn’t be effective against the most recent few generations of tanks do to increasingly effective armor. It was designed for old Soviet gear, which it obliterates, but it hasn’t been updated and Soviet weaponry has. A modern T14 Armata would be damaged (optics, sensors, etc) but ultimately would most likely survive an A10 gun run. Now for simple infantry ground support, there really is no match for a flying tank! As you’ve alluded to, the AH64 is a very capable flying tank and is very good at the same mission. Bonus points that the hellfire missiles the Apache carries are still quite effective against all currently known armor.

Disclaimer: I flew the Shadow 200 TUAV in OIF II and did targeting for several A10 missions. Nothing quite like a BRRRRRRRRRTTTTTT cutting the thing you’ve put a laser on in half! I still don’t think it would do well against a modern Russian armor division.
The decision for me is basically "right now I'm playing video games/working on passion project, if I go to sleep I have to stop that, be unconscious for a while, and then go to work and not play video games/work on passion project".

Staying up later always wins.
Agree, an Ansible playbook would have easily suffice.
Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence
What should I call my situation? There are 2 people in a room with a door-free opening. It's probably 11x13 feet. It has drywall and a high drop-ceiling. There are a bunch of similar areas all off of a hallway.

It's kind of the degenerate transition point between open-plan and a traditional office.
That I don't know. I assumed it is the most recent graduation. I don't think they check the loan dates.
Nice write up! It coincides a bit with my progression: I first wrote a scheme interpreter, then a scheme to LLVM IR compiler, and now I'm working on a custom lisp JIT compiler (the JIT bit plays well into macro expansion). It's interesting how that path naturally unfolds.
It's intentionally made to be hard to listen to. OP spliced multiple copies together with a slight offset, varied the rate while recording, and intentionally selected a passage which repeats very similar words in proximity, which further increases the difficulty.

> Formant synthesis does not use human speech samples at runtime. Instead, the synthesized speech output is created using additive synthesis and an acoustic model (physical modelling synthesis. Parameters such as fundamental frequency, voicing, and noise levels are varied over time to create a waveform of artificial speech. This method is sometimes called rules-based synthesis; however, many concatenative systems also have rules-based components.
Spot on HillRat. You nailed it.
From schemaless ingest to SQL queries
I have a lot of trouble sleeping. One thing I've noticed is that when I'm not sleeping well not only do I procrastinate but a whole host of other negative things like overeating start to happen. The lack of sleep is clearly a cause for at least one of those things, but I suspect that many of the rest are chain reactions.
I see a sleeper cabin for two listed for $1558 (discounted from $2428 reg price) and there are often even steeper discounts available. [0]

You can get an "upper berth" sleeping ticket with meals for $968.50. Considering that's a 4-day sightseeing trip compared to a 4-5hr flight I don't think a $300 premium is outrageous, do you?

In fact, the cheapest business class ticket one-way I can find is $871. That makes the difference less than $100!

(In fact I am amazed that the prices are in fact comparable between a 4-day train trip and a 5-hr flight. Definitely something I didn't expect.)

[0] https://www.viarail.ca/en/deals/toronto-vancouver#select-des...
I use trackr. 4 out of 5 times I need to find something, the battery is dead.
$406 billion!!!

Just imagine how many humans you can bring out of poverty with that kind of money? I understand the world we live in but if you spend one tenth the amount they spent on this educating/helping the very people this plane would be eventually targeted at, I think it would cause more of an impact.

I was reading a book by Steven Pinker and in it he lays out the case for how modern society has essentially made war illegal.

And in Sapiens the author (Yuval Harari) makes the case that modern society is no longer based on static wealth that can be conquered and consumed like Gold, Silver etc., Its made of human skill and mind that create wealth that does not exist. So say China occupies the US it sure can take all the wealth that is static but it cannot force people to use their minds to create a Google or an Apple or FB(i know..i know..)..

If you believe the above you have to ask yourself:- "So then what is the benefit of spending so much money?"
> Years ago, LN was used to buy two pizzas. Today? Only two. Talk about scale!

I'm not sure I follow your point here. Are you implying that only 2 pizzas have been purchased using LN?
That is a general problem but it doesn't address the argument. We already find ISIS recruitment videos and suicide ideation groups bad but where do we draw the line? If it's so difficult to define what should not be allowed in the open then I don't know what can be unallowed, including ISIS recruitment videos in the name of freedom of speech.
TPLink Routers Are Vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution
What do you mean? Someone is designing the subsidies for getting these students' bachelor's degrees in the first place, and for the research grants that later employ some of them as professors.

What I think you mean is, the amount of money feeding demand for professors is not high enough so that salaries are at a dignified level throughout academia for for everyone capable of and willing to do the job, and so the market salaries (and fraction of the labor force in academia) don't make us feel that this valuable labor is being compensated correctly.

But what would it look like for that to be corrected, and would that actually look like an optimum?

Remember, a lot of people already avoid the professor track in awareness of the poor prospects. As you pump up demand for professor labor with nice, market-correcting grants, you draw them back in. If it took 25% of GDP to sop up all that latent demand to be a professor, and pump it up to a reasonable salary, would that look any more sane?
new career option for elizabeth holmes.
> Do they define ISIS?

ISIS is (or was) an explicit political group, an organized proto-state. It literally called itself a State. It was very clearly defined.

> As for the rest of your post, I'm baffled that you somehow think that "preventing people from trying to kill people" is somehow a negative thing that should be criticized.

"Preventing people from trying to kill people" was already against their terms of service. The whole point of this announcement is to announce the fact that Facebook is expanding their prohibited categories beyond "preventing people from trying to kill people".

> I also think that if I were consistently being mistaken for a white supremacist, I'd think about why that were happening, and probably try to distance myself from the things that were causing those mistakes. Your view appears to be that it's better to just prevent people from voicing their confusion.

As I stated earlier, multiple people have told me that desiring stronger border security and building the border wall is white nationalist. Others have told me that supporting any expansions of immigration restrictions is white nationalist. A few have even told me that opposition to affirmative action (even among groups in which Asians are the ones primarily opposing it) is white nationalism. I did not get the sense that they were saying these things ironically or in jest. Are these views tantamount to "preventing people from trying to kill people"? I live in San Francisco, which while not exactly the same environment as Menlo Park, is still in the same metro area as Facebook's HQ. There's a significant possibility that folks with similarly liberal definitions of white nationalism exist at Facebook.

Also the way you say you would "probably try to distance myself from the things that were causing those mistakes" really makes it sound like the chilling effect this has on discussion is a feature, not a bug. As significant number of people suspect that tech companies' expansions of prohibited speech is becoming a means of partisan manipulation. Statements such as yours likely reinforce this belief.

> Your view appears to be that it's better to just prevent people from voicing their confusion.

I am not trying to prevent anyone from voicing anything. The issue is that a significant number of people do confuse (or deliberately label) mainstream political views with "white nationalism" and "white separatism". Thus, Facebook's banning of these things is very likely to be seen as - and perhaps actually be implemented as - a means of suppressing legitimate political discussion. It probably would have been better to keep their prohibited categories the same, and perhaps more aggressively police certain circles and keep their policy - as you put it - "preventing people from trying to kill people"

There's already enough suspicion that Facebook is acting in a partisan manner, and more stuff like this is going to inspire ever greater calls to enforce stiffer regulation on tech companies and perhaps even breaking them up. This announcement seems like a shot in the foot for Facebook.
It definitely sounds like they had staffing or policy issues. I work from a space similar to how you described DeskHub, including a few small teams in the common area. The noise policy in the common area is very clear and allows for relatively quiet talking among groups and brief phone calls. Longer calls or formal meetings should take place in a phone booth or conference room. The staff does a great job of reining things in if it gets too loud, and the conference rooms have to be scheduled and require a staff member to let you in. It's definitely a less casual space, but I feel like they have struck a nice balance between casual and professional.
Jordan Peterson? OK, guy.
Okay, I'll bite, what's the solution then? Personally, I don't have any novel software ideas lying around that are demonstrably better than what is proposed by WASI.

One advantage in this new push to build another sandbox is that Rust is leading the charge and is the de facto language of choice when building a greenfield WASM project. Given its propensity for memory safety and WASI's emphasis on capability-oriented security, I think the WASI team has a good chance of building something with a lot of value. Nothing here is novel (except perhaps Rust's extreme prioritization of memory safety) but that doesn't mean it can't or won't be an improvement over prior attempts.

I wonder how many of the previous sandbox vulnerabilities were viable due to some quirky memory manipulation techniques? Quite a few I would imagine.
> A currency that isn't used to commit fraud isn't very useful.

I think the mistake here is to think about currency purely in a technological way (what can I do with it?). Money is ultimately a social phenomenon. People use money to do stuff in a society, and have evolved ways to make these transactions safe and convenient enough for everyday use. If you store your salary in a bank in USD, there are multiple societal mechanisms that ensure the money are not going to disappear. Can they break down? Sure. Are they likely to break down? Not very, unless all the rest of the society already did.

Now what if you stored your salary in bitcoins instead? None of these societal mechanisms work for you anymore. I am not even talking about taxation and hassles you'd have to overcome to manage a legal business in bitcoins, but what about fraud prevention? Insurance? Safety of transactions? Knowing your money aren't going to disappear overnight? This not something Bitcoin user can have. Maybe with time the society would build such mechanisms, but until it happened, Bitcoin remains a failure as common currency (as opposed to a toy, a speculative investment or a means to transfer money in a private way between parties that are for one reason or another are reluctant to use the banking system).
>You're right that some of these terms have ambiguity, but your example is silly - it's well-accepted that the term "white nationalist" stands on its own and means something different from "white and a nationalist."

You mean like how the term 'white supremacy' is in no way meant to mean a society with simply a white majority in it, but is now regularly publicly used to say just that.. Clearly not only just for adding moral weight.
> I feel this has been exhaustively explained and reexplained throughout the thread

Sorry — I'm on mobile and was just looking at this thread via /comments. Didn't realized it had been discussed elsewhere. Thanks for sharing the case info. Sounds like there haven't been (m)any cases where liability was established, which fits with my understanding of the limits of tort law (and lack of similar statutory laws).
Well either that or Espeak has broken something badly with their rate boost because wow, that's pretty terrible.
Hey there - BalenaOS is built to run containerised workloads on small devices and is quite stripped down otherwise, kinda like coreOS. So in that sense our architecture allows you to have less stuff you don't need floating around, saving you overhead. We focused on Docker containers since balenaCloud is built for fleets. It's important that our stack supports not just one but many copies of the same device running the same code, and then it can be updated in production etc, just like a set of servers. If one is optimizing for a single device, just naked Raspbian will do fine of course. Our approach has a bit of overhead up front in terms of setup, but you get a production ready setup from day one in return.
I know the hysteria is overwhelming, and this subject is clearly political, but I don't think questioning something that should be completely acceptable to scrutinize is "bogus". Medical science has been wrong before, and there have been unseen long term effects because of it. The history of science is the proving wrong of past theories and advancement of new theories. Is this really not open to thoughtful discussion?
You're missing all of the assembly languages.

You're missing all of the HDLs. (Verilog, VHDL, etc.)
A proof of concept is here: https://pastebin.com/GAzccR95
I agree with you on all points, but they are already disclosing the late 80s technology to the general public with the SR-72. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72) Allegedly, Ben Rich of Skunk Works after he retired in 1991 gave a presentation at UCLA chronicling his career and hinted at the Aurora and that "we now have the technology to send ET home" so we probably have some new type of propulsion system that makes planes interstellar. This is all speculation though.

What's really fascinating is the x-37b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 we have an autonomous space craft in orbit for years, yet I never head anything about it. It's part DARPA project so, it's probably some sort reconnaissance experiment.

I could go on and on, I just find this all fascinating.
Anecdotes: I have an M.S. and mostly think it was a waste of time

For the last 15 years or so I've worked in environments with large percentages of PhD co-workers and have come away with this conclusion. Having a PhD seems to indicate that your brain was stretched to one side or another of extreme human thought and left very little in the middle.

On the one side, you've lost the ability to make concrete contributions to almost any project and are nearly incapable of delivering anything with any focus or impact. Junior staff significantly outperform you in almost every task and you seem to think the workplace is where you can come to pontificate and consider all the rest of the humans here are grad students you can badger around to do pointless and off-focus "research" that's really designed to get lots of papers written for you to take to conferences.

On the other, you can figure out how to perform pretty much any of the work of your peers, but can keep climbing the complexity ladder into abstraction heaven and then often bring fire down from the gods to push intractable problems forward.

I've never encountered somebody with a PhD who fit both categories and at times I've been caught in confluences of multiple people of the first category who made work life so unbearable I started having nightmares about it before quitting. People of the second category are rare enough that its often just more useful to hire people without PhDs if you don't have incredibly hard research problems to work on.

The problem is so prevalent that I've known several people drop out of PhD programs because they're afraid of ending up in category one.

One other anecdote, I've often noticed that managers with PhDs will have an incredibly huge blindspot for people in the first category and allow them to run roughshod over the workplace while penalizing staff with fewer credentials who nevertheless outperform their better credentialed coworkers in nearly every work task. It morale destroying and no amount of discussion or other techniques ever seems to overcome that blindspot. I've had people quit over more senior managers continuing to prop up obviously failed employees solely because they have "PhD" next to their name.

I've never encountered this phenomenon among managers without PhDs.

I'm generally incredibly unimpressed by a PhD on a resume. I care much more for a history of solid performance and delivery. But I'm definitely in the minority and have seen dozens of terrible candidates hired because of those three magic letters.

I'm so bothered by both the academic process of getting a PhD as well as the "product" I've encountered in the real world that I decided years ago that I'd rather pursue another BS or MS instead of a PhD.

this comment nails it far more succinctly than I have
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19506719