skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have both a homebuilt bakfeit-style cargo bike and a bike trailer [0]. The cargo bike works great for carrying smaller loads, but when it comes to carry large cargo like furniture or building supplies, I find the trailer more useful.

[0] - https://www.bikesatwork.com/store/product/96a-bicycle-traile...
(disclosure: my wife and I manufacture these trailers)
From L3 to seL4: what have we learnt in 20 years of L4 microkernels? [pdf]
Which would you choose:

1) move away from rising costs, in literally any direction (pick just about any other place in the world), settle into a home you can afford and move again later if you want/need.

2) Live in a rent controlled apartment, become trapped for the rest of your life in a neighborhood where you can no longer afford groceries, healthcare or a haircut because of the rising cost of living.
Between Failures is my modern holdout. Its where I went in life just after I was Calvin. Its not high art by any stretch but Wohlenhaus' genuineness just bleeds off every page.

http://betweenfailures.com/
I'm half-way through your excellent article. How do you produce such great artwork?

I believe I understand the concepts of CBOW and skip-gram. But I'm a little bit stuck. I kind of don't understand this [0]. In fact I understand it so poorly that I can't even formulate a question around it.

Now what do we do?

[0] https://skymind.ai/images/wiki/word2vec_diagrams.png

Edit: An attempt at formulating a question: is it the process of feeding the model with the [context][context][output] vector that you are depicting?
FYI: Woke hiring managers don't want people that go bezerk on Twitter either - it is a clear maturity issue in plain sight.
So you think the entire exercise was carried out for BJP to pull ahead in elections? How much do you think Indian citizens care about this? Do you think it is enough to swing votes?

Don't be too quick to find faults!
> Even if you move across the world for a position, it could happen on your first day.

That's why I'd never move anywhere for a job that doesn't have plenty of alternate options if the first doesn't work out. That's why places like SF, Seattle, and NYC are so powerful for tech, and one-company towns like a lot of the Amazon HQ2 proposals would be are not. Good luck convincing top-tier talent to move somewhere where you're the only game in town.
The difference is what that funds. In the UK, council tax is intended to fund things like rubbish removal. In the US, property tax funds schools. Other taxes make up for the low “property” tax in the UK (property in quotes because renters pay it directly too - it is an occupancy tax not an ownership tax)
Do these employees have a right to apologies from NPM and help finding a new job? No.

Should these employees expect to be treated better by a company that claims that "Compassion is our strategy"? Yes, absolutely.

Focusing on specifics of what they are asking for is the wrong approach here, it's a simple question: was this handled with "compassion"? I think between lack of acknowledgement from management, lack of understanding that vesting options can be an important part of compensation now being denied to employees, lack of help finding a job in the extensive social networks of the founding team, and laying off so soon after hiring some, all contributes to this.
Yes words can convey threats and still not be non-violent. For example, if I say. "You are lazy" that's not violent, but it is a threat that I might not want to work with you in the future. Does this feel like a physical threat? Maybe, but only to the extent that our social standing has been correlated with survival. It's a social threat, not a physical one. Only in a society where true violence is rare would we ever confuse the two.
Progressives that can't own up to anything or take responsibility — It's always the fault of someone else
U+1F644 is the codepoint for "Face with eyes looking up to sky watching cascading space debris mark the beginning of WW3", in case anyone was wondering.

https://codepoints.net/U+1F644
Rent control as any other control tend to more control. I may say unpopular opinion, but if you can't afford to life in SF - fk SF and the valley and move to the place witch fits you more.
Look at amount of angel investors in the valley, their amount is decreasing year to year. People are leaving SF/valley for a better places for better costs/proposition value. It's a general economical factor. All those will eventually, led to describing popularity/population of the area and decreasing rent as result. When a tech giant will leave sunny California, all those NotInMyBackyard will be happy to get a new block next to their place in order to get a job.
> But in real life many people show their basic disinterest in money simply by choosing to do things and pursue activities that have no financial incentive. So in fact most people are above money.

Usually the preference of staying in the comfort zone comes first, and preference for money later. People will grab money if it comes with low effort and risk. However I wouldn't say that there is generally "disinterest in money", just disinterest in money in the sense that other factors are overvalued above it.
Realized during my first postdoc that I wasn't going to make faculty in my desired geography, so took a second postdoc to buy time to figure out how to pivot. Worked at a couple hardware startups that didn't work out (one failed and one had R&D eliminated by acquiring company). After the second layoff, with a 5 month old, I looked to transition to something in my city (NYC) that was far more stable and safe.

Now I do data "science", and create data products.

The main downside is that now that I don't have a lab, but only a laptop, my eyesight has changed dramatically :)
Upside is pay and work/life balance.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/modi-space-wea... "veteran broadcaster Shekhar Gupta tweeted that the space missile had destroyed two targets: a satellite, and “what remained of the stature [and] reputation of Election Commission of India”"
LOOPY is made by Nicky Case! Author of interesting work such as: The Evolution of Trust (https://ncase.me/trust/), The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds (https://ncase.me/crowds/)
Yes, and often times they'll help match you with recruiters and even keep you on the payroll for a week or two while you shop your resume around. Obviously not all or even most companies do this, but I've seen it in the US.
Yo!

As a further aside, I do get to do some fun graphics in R and I'm pretty impressed how R has become the statistical standard and graphics too, mainly I think from one super dynamic statistician.

Now that R is entrenched I can work on moving everyone into Haskell!
BSc in Physics, MSc in Math dropout PHD in high energy physics (needed the money) to work as data scientist on a major tv broadcaster in my country
You forget another important factor - infastructure scaling. If communication alone was adequate we would see companies going to disporia models or setting up in unincorporated areas- instead they are paying premiums to concentrate in /expensive/ cities.
I've had plenty of good ideas that I haven't bothered to implement because I have no need for the solution. That doesn't mean if someone else implements the idea that I'll have hindsight bias about its value. It means it wasn't valuable enough to me to direct my behavior.
> When faster CPUs will be very hard to invent but essential to human survival? Maybe.

I'd say we're already at the point that they are essential to our survival, at least for societies as they currently exist. CPUs are also hard to invent, and hard to progress already, requiring hundreds of millions of dollars for each new iteration.

> Business is great at researching processes of manufacturing. Not so good when it comes to researching actually new stuff.

I don't believe it. Most of the things we currently use were invented by businesses, or by someone who then started a business to sell it.

> But they must become unreasonable at some point if they cost as much as the incentive for research for companies.

Again, you're assuming the conclusion. Maybe this is the case in some circumstances, but it's a assuming a lot to claim this is the case for all companies and all drugs.

And if the cost is really this high, then incentivizing more creative approaches to treatment might just be better anyway. It shows a lack of imagination if we can only use a hammer when faced with a health problem.
My Story with Pink Floyd
This American Life has a very in-depth broadcast from 2014 about the many, many, issues involved. Well worth a listen:

"A Not-So-Simple Majority:

Before the war in the East Ramapo, New York school district, there was a truce. Local school officials made a deal with their Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbors: we'll leave you alone to teach your children in private yeshivas as you see fit as long as you allow our public school budget to pass. But the budget is funded by local property taxes, which everyone, including the local Hasidim, have to pay — even though their kids don't attend the schools that their money is paying for. What followed was one of the most volatile local political battles we've ever encountered."

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/534/a-not-so-simple-majorit...
- Taboola ads are scummy

- Acceptable Ads is not supposed to allow scummy ads

- Taboola paid to get their ads accepted

- Acceptable Ads is dishonest

If you google a bit, you'll find that the ads that get whitelisted under Acceptable Ads are nothing different from the normal Taboola bullshit. In fact, the whitelist is quite simple: They allow the whole taboola network to operate.
Because it's in the end a small industry and community of people who specialize in the same things as you do, and burning bridges is never a good move.
Rent subsidies. https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/amid-risin...
Well I'll own up to thinking that this ain't a great comment that you've written here?
I often find myself yearning for a Rust REPL. I wonder if it'd be possible to run the rust compiler to lower the code down to MIR, and then run that in the Miri interpreter?
I know what you mean on keeping the physics part alive. I've written a bunch of code for doing simple molecular dynamics and varying the interaction types. I've also gone off and discovered I like number theory.

None of this pays the bills, right now I help build clouds, and I used to build supercomputers, and high performance storage systems.
Remove.bg removes photo backgrounds using AI
You just answered your own question. If I’m only working with objects, why wouldn’t I just store everything as objects?

And most ORMs suck outside of LINQ based ones since they aren’t a part of the language.
Operation ShadowHammer – The Asus Software Backdoor
A New Rust Implementation of WireGuard
There is an interesting perspective on why facebook is might be a good thing in the long run: it splits the internet.

There's an interesting, search based internet, with individual websites, small silos - think artstation -, federated networks, where people put their heart and soul into their content, and into their online homes, for fun. Well, mostly for fun.

In contrast, there is the throwaway, walled garden internet, "keep scrolling" internet - aka facebook - for those who don't want to* venture deeper. It is a matter of will. Eventually you'll follow content outside of FB by clicking on something, and it would be completely OK to follow links deeper and deeper. I know data plan issues with whitelisted FB vs non-whitelisted actual internet, but I remember a time when you paid by the minute on an 56k modem. At least something is whitelisted, unlike then.
Indeed, I've just found it myself! That's something I've wanted for literally years. Wit a bit of polish, this could be a credible one-click alternative to most proprietary solutions. It just needs to see some murmur integration.
Being able to embed this inside a Riot chat room is a nice touch as well, but that kind of integration is always a double-edged sword with Matrix clients, as it will only work on electron apps.

There is also a WebRTC bridge, it seems: https://github.com/Rantanen/mumble-web

This submission reminded me of Mumble, which I'm definitely going to use instead of trying to come up with a common WebRTC platform, that works for every one of us.
I’ve previously been told (I’m not sure if it entirely true or not - it was by a west village resident!) that the west village has ground unsuitable for high rise construction.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct :-)
Someone has to host the 1000000+ packages for nodejs and maintain npm. I always wondered why npmjs, nexus, artifactory etc. don't consider a model where they act as middlemen for licensing F/OSS or post-AWS open source-licensed packages, taking their cut and give the rest to the developers, because I think something like that is seriously needed.
Ask HN: Best questions for an engineer to ask a CEO during a job interview?
I’m interviewing right now at a lot of startups and am looking for better ways to ask “so, where is this thing headed?”

What do you always make sure to ask?
> Even if you move across the world for a position, it could happen on your first day.

True, but in many places in the world employee rights are such that this might be a significantly less bad situation. If you're a month's severance pay, perhaps your signing bonus, etc, then you might not be out of pocket by the time you get a new job. Particularly if you're working in a high demand industry.
Johnny Cash: The Man in Black
Should we also allow Microsoft to be sued for all the criminals that use windows? Salesforce is a platform (albeit a horrible one I never want to work with again) and provides services to whoever pays. Illegal actions are between the local government and the user.

Criminals lie. They could claim to be a humanitarian company while trafficking. The only way for Salesforce to know would be to manually investigate all their stored data. Not only is that practically impossible, but it would also ruin them. Business information is private.

Then again, in lots of jurisdictions today, a landlord can be held liable for the tenant committing a crime. In these jurisdictions, if your tenant assaults someone on your property, you can be liable for millions in compensation.
This is yet another way to drive former criminals back to crime. They aren't full citizens. They can't get a job to get money. They can't get a loan to buy a house. They can't even rent a place to stay because it's so risky. Since they've been effectively "unperson-ed", their only choice is going back to crime. At least if they're caught, they'll have food, healthcare, and a place to stay.

Stupid laws are stupid. If person A is legally responsible for person B's actions, they will necessarily start asserting control over person B's life. We do this to kids under the idea that they are too ignorant to know better. Why do we do this to mentally-capable adults? They are capable of independent decisions. Hold them responsible for their actions. Quit forcing Landlords, Salesforce, or whomever to play as parents and be legally responsible for other adults.
There are many ways to extend the patent or the effect of the patent: https://www.upcounsel.com/how-long-does-a-drug-patent-last
I have a PhD in physics and worked as a post-doc for a few years, until I left for industry a couple of weeks ago. The last project I was busy with is developing a massively parallelized image simulation code for scanning transmission electron microscopy. It is open sourced here: www.stemsalabim.de

My new job in industry is consulting about HPC systems in the context of computer aided engineering.
> You're assuming the worst in people

No. I'm using a pretty basic economic principle to show why your idea is a terrible one. People respond to incentives. If you incentivize crime, you get crime.

> let's give a counter example - in Portugal where they have decriminalised drugs

Terrible example. Get back to me when Portugal pays people the first time they do drugs.

> These things need to be tested to see if they help

No, they don't. You are under the illusion that all hypotheses are equal. There is absolutely nothing controversial about the idea that incentivizing behaviors leads to more of those behaviors.

The irony is your argument doesn't work without this principle. You are arguing that by incentivizing going on the straight-and-narrow, there will be a reduction in recidivism. I agree! That would work!

The flipside is that you're also incentivizing people to commit their first crime. You say that's not true. This leads to a contradiction in your argument. Therefore your argument is invalid. QED.

> ...and I'm happy to be wrong.

You're not happy, though. You keep coming back to this ridiculous idea, even though it is obviously wrong on its face.
Really? What is there even to exploit, apart from such rather extreme cases as this alleged sex trafficking?

You really think the main use of BIG data will be to facilitate things like sex trafficking?

As for immigrants delivering food - would they be better off without these jobs? What would they be doing?
We could apply distributed systems decision theory into general sociology, it might work.
> We are responsible adults

There’s nothing responsible or adult about that tweet. If she wasn’t affected by the lay offs, then she’s doing a huge disservice to the people who were laid off by associating them with a Twitter train wreck.

The adult thing to do would be to realize that “compassion is our strategy” is an empty platitude and that all companies exist to make money.
Just defended my PhD thesis in medical physics. Worked on radiation therapy treatment planning, which combines optimisation theory with the physics of Monte Carlo particle transport engines (and more macro energy deposition modeling as well) to simulate millions of different radiation dose distributions in patients and figure out which combination will lead to the right outcome based on what the radiation oncologist prescribes.

People in my field are fairly fortunate as there is a career track as a clinical medical physicist that is highly paid and pretty low stress, so most people end up going there. The work consists of maintaining and calibrating the radiation therapy machines, along with implementing new technologies in the clinic, and fixing problems that don't fall within the job description of the radiation therapists. Like what to do when a radioactive seed falls on the floor instead of going inside the patient where it's supposed to go. There's also a separate track as an imaging physicist where you maintain and QA the diagnostic imaging machines.

I'm personally doing a postdoc at the junction between optimisation, machine learning and radiation therapy. Just starting out though. Basically just extending my PhD work to automate the treatment planning process and remove the variability in treatment plan quality due to the level of experience of the people making the plans.
what the hell is that thing?
they're helpful to know you can get laid off before your options vest.

> so the lesson for me is that signs of success at work do not guarantee future rewards or even continued employment. i already knew this, but it's been useful to remember that i should never entirely trust a company, even if it seems like my goals and success are aligned w theirs

https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626980800667648
I was really hoping for a "418 - I'm a teapot" kind of situation here :(
"Tons of development" is relative. The cities that have the greatest increases in rent are the ones that have added lots of jobs/people, but haven't increased housing production to match[0].

[0] http://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/report-growth-in-nycs...
> We test [...] Newton's inverse square law

Imagine taking Newton down in the Replication Crisis Wars!
Its a mismatch of terminology to say land is scarce. Generally its about the utility of land. Rents are the difference between the least-productive land and any other (Ricardo).

City land is useful not only because people congregate, but also particularly because taxes provide services. When the taxes are levied not on the land, it makes the land more valuable (as it receives benefits it doesnt pay for) and thus creates rents.
The credit card thing is only since 2018, forgot about that. Regarding PayPal, maybe it is in their TOS, but here [0] is a Screenshot from Airberlin (from an article about the new CC rules [1]) from before 2018. 7€ extra for both PayPal and CC, 5€ for SEPA and no extra cost for GiroPay.

[0]: https://reisetopia.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Zahlungsm%C...

[1]: https://reisetopia.de/news/abschaffung-kreditkartengebuehren...
I think the problem is not really evaluating Rust code on the fly: you could just as well compile it on the fly and execute is, this is what the Haskell interpreter ghci does.

The difficulty is more in defining what it means to enter code one line at a time, what about context, scope, lifetimes, all these stuff.

If a more knowledgeable Rust team member can confirm…
> the desire to give up any and all freedoms

That's not what I said. I said "there might be something to learn".

Maybe my belief in unlimited free expression at any cost isn't the best way.

Must we must allow terrorist recruiting and incitement to violence and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and targeted intimidation?

It's a slippery slope fallacy to assume that any restriction inevitably leads to relinquishing "all freedoms".
> It was determined dynamically

So it looks like the defects that miri can detect overlaps heavily with the existing sanitizers (but I see at least one language-specific constraint that isn't covered by sanitizers). I suppose it's nice not to have the hassle/complexity of the sanitizers (especially nice not to have to deal with the ODR noise from UBSan), but is the intent that miri could find much beyond what the sanitizers could?

Regarding aligned accesses: does miri consider the alignment constraints of the most restrictive target? Or are there language specifications regarding alignment?

To my uneducated eye, it looks like many/most of these defects that miri detects require unsafe to cause (barring compiler defects). Is that accurate?
Humans evolved to be highly adaptable.
Is Michael Avenatti Any Worse Than Many Hollywood Lawyers?
Companies I have worked for (US) have always offered a 3rd-party service to assist those affected by layoffs find new employment. I have never heard of anyone actually using these services though.
Humans evolved to live in hunter-gatherer bands that were functionally anarchies, guided by a consensus established under the influence of respected leaders. If a consensus couldn't be reached the band split. Given all the changes we've made to our living situation going from 6,000/mile^2 to 60,000/mile^2 isn't really a big issue. If you want to live in the countryside nobody is stopping you but many of us actually enjoy living in cities.
Oh, please. You are not on the side of a dusty road at 5am, waiting to see if the guy riding the van is going to pick you up for working the field or helping with the construction crew or leaving you there or not coming at all.

Besides that you can't deliver your best and long-term work if everyday you come home you have to manage the stress maybe not having a job the following day. Without at least some kind of stability in the workforce you can't plan things like keeping the car, the home, the wife, etc.

> I can only speak for myself [..]

And then proceeds to talk for everyone.

No, really. Terminated for any reasons? Bollocks.
Property taxes should be relative high, so the city gets their part of the increasing land value when the city grows. So that land owners get to collect only a small-ish part of the windfall of the increased value.

It is, after all, the city that made the land more valuable by building more city around it.
If everybody who can't afford to live in the area moves then we won't have people staffing grocery stores or cooking in restaurants or teaching kindergarten.
Awesome work! Thank you