skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once interned at Schlumberger, a company that describes this as "Internships That Don't Involve Photocopying". It was great in the sense that I was put with extremely experienced engineers and some nuggets have stayed with me.

I was helping an engineer when he was cleaning some tools and tagging them as part of a procedure. We were talking about the task at hand and I asked him if he found it boring. He said "It is boring, the most boring part of the job. But it's also the most important. You clean, calibrate, and tag the tools so that the next time a job comes, you or someone else know the tool is good and has been checked.".

When I joined my current company as an engineer, I thought about it in terms of documentation and knowledge dissemination so other contributors or my future self may benefit and I had started a technical knowledge base.

Now I'm COO (and CTO by interim: first CTO quit, subsequent CTO doing military service), we make sure to include new team members in communication with clients (emails, calls, or meetings), invite them to contribute to the exchange, involve them in the whole process of making the product, from elicitation to business viability of a feature and engineering trade-offs, to running the company and the business side of things. Many of our engineers are still students and have been with us for years, and we're doing this in the hope that they learn how to make products and run companies that would die otherwise, as opposed to be in companies that'd do well regardless of their presence. They learn to operate with a broader range than only fixing bugs (but still managing to fix the darn bugs).

I then started an "Operations" knowledge base called "Operator's Manual" shared on GitLab. I put in all the things I had to learn how to do as I took over so we wouldn't have that problem again if something happens to me or I'm fired and any employee can pick up the thing and be able to somewhat operate the company and have a starting point.

It has information about the company, hiring (from how to receive a candidate and asking if they'd like something to drink to onboarding), firing, taxes and how and where to pay them, invoices and the legal texts they must comply with, etc.

It became a "Handbook" that is augmented as we continue to learn things and build an organization. You can imagine how delighted I was when I found out that GitLab had such a handbook on GitLab on how GitLab is run : )
Watching the bidding war for a candidate who has offers from both Google and Facebook makes me think there's still a shortage of something. And those companies mostly don't hire for a particular stack.

There's a certain category of engineer that is still scarce and in-demand, it's just a matter of figuring out how to convince people you are in that category.
Hypersonic missiles are unstoppable until that are stoppable.
Particularly since it would not be unreasonable to assume that the "mi" in mimalloc is incorrectly pronounced like the "mi" in Microsoft.
We need chaos engineering for life. Keep tasting a bit of failure so as to be sure you know where you stand.
So your saying that to a layman Windows is ubiquitous to a computer, and that somehow makes the brand worthless?

When you are talking about a Hoover, sure. Anyone can make a hoover, and the name looses all meaning and becomes a victim of its own success. That’s happening to Docker right now.

But Windows is different. Not anyone can make “a Windows”, because the difference between a computer and Windows is a lot more noticeable than the difference between one type of vacuum cleaner and another.

The link between Windows and a computer does make it harder to turn into some form of platform, sure, but it’s far, far, far from worthless.
Well if people are going to start doing things with animated space whales are they crediting Disney (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6eS8WUoKeP0)?

Perhaps the easy availability of royalty free 3d models is relevant (https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/animals/fish/humpback-wha...)? Perhaps Oculus Rift museum humpback whale VR back in 2015 was an inspiration?
And white men are just smarter and harder working! /s

Listen to yourselves!
You may be referring to Kreosan?
I don't think I've seen the particular study you reference, but if it's like most others that I have seen then it's probably mostly hogwash, based on bogus numbers and wishful thinking.

BTW, the Oklahoma-to-Tennessee transmission line referenced in this article was supposed to terminate in my area, where it would connect to TVA's system. But TVA told them that they didn't need the electricity and didn't want it (see below), so nothing ever got built. Between this and the other difficulties referenced in the article, they finally gave up on the notion and sold out to someone else, and that someone else now finds itself on the wrong side of some bankruptcy issues. To wit, certain customers of theirs are having financial difficulties and are trying to get out from under their contracts, with at least one very large customer now using bankruptcy as a lever.

As far as TVA itself goes, they currently have a good mix of hydro, nuclear, coal, natural gas (some of which has recently replaced coal), a little bit of wind (with no plans to add more AFAIK), and now some solar, which is a growing part of their base. (There's also been some noise lately about maybe finishing up a nuclear station that was halted halfway and mothballed decades ago, but I don't think that's going to happen.) The article mentions a politician who apparently is anti-wind and may have caused some difficulties here. But there is also another politician who is pro-solar and who may be influencing TVA's activities in that regard.
I suspect that the drone depends on exposed antennas to navigate and communicate. So it can't be entirely shielded.
The page itself and both of the "short form"/"summary" reports downloadable are vacant claims and introduction of the organization and of Falun Gong.

After years of propaganda, I don't believe there still are so many Falun Gong followers in Mainland, let alone to have their organs harvested. Yes, most of us Chinese Mainlanders are fucking Atheists. And even if most of us more or less believe in karma and reincarnation and other forms of buddaism, Falun Gong is vastly different, especially as I know it, it's not compatible with going to buddist temples.
For those interested, this is the premise of Yuval Noah's article "the theatre of terrorism" - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/31/terrorism-spec...

As the URL suggests, the author wrote the book sapiens.

If anyone is interested in seeing something similar playing out in real time these days, take a look at Sri Lanka.
It also explains that the training is basically done when the discriminator has a roughly 50% (random) ability to discern between real and fake.
Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects [pdf]
Another article of substance from the WSJ
Asean aiming to combat marine debris
Self-attention seems to help a lot with that. (My usual example is that with anime faces, GANs which don't use either self-attention or progressive growing frequently have a failure mode of mismatched eye color: red+blue, for example.) Self-attention is expensive, so even BigGAN uses them lightly, typically only once, like at the 64px level, but there's work on making self-attention a lot cheaper and approaches like the Sparse Transformer (which OA recently used for MuseNet to let the Transformer scale to 30k-long sequences) are promising for making self-attention a lot cheaper.
Where I work there's roughly one director per 100 ICs, so it's certainly not something that everybody can achieve. I'd also expect that it would be harder to switch companies as a director than an IC.
Good. Anti-GM crusades are a load of anti-science nonsense, and if you're serious about replacing a percentage of America's meat intake (as Impossible seems to be) then it only makes sense to make the most of GM crops to get you there.
Are Some of the UFOs Pilots Are Encountering Airborne Radar Reflectors?
Be that as it may, this is a report of a filed lawsuit. It's a lot harder to get the fact that a lawsuit was filed wrong, as it's trivial to verify. They even listed the docket number.
Still props to them that they saw it would be a benefit to the platform to allow it, and did so pretty quickly.
Summary of the evidence presented in the complaint:

1) Using the same proprietary font in their logo was a really dumb idea:

> https://i.imgur.com/7pYZ8bp.png

2) Alleges he engaged in internal meetings "outside the scope of his work at Magic Leap" in order to gain useful information, while simultaneously neglecting his duties at work as he planned to start his own company in China. Before launching a product that looks and functions very similar to the Magic Leap product within a 2yr timespan (quitting in mid-2016, started in 2017, launched in 2019) while Magic Leap has been at it since 2010.

3) Their primary evidence seems to be some useless "Private Information" confidentiality form we all sign

4) The other is some Youtube interview the Nreal founder did where he openly admitted to being inspired by his work at Magic Leap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcPB4POYkpc

Where he basically said that Magic Leap was being too ambitious with an "impossible" goal of trying to put it all in one small device... and he wanted to utilize Chinese manufacturing pipelines to build the same thing but much simpler by utilizing existing smartphone and laptop tech.

5) Finally another section compared demos by both companies, both involving whales:

Magic Leap's whale demos:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0T6hLH15k

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyCoTzRzHxo

Nreal's twitter picture demo:

> https://i.imgur.com/jPIGMkf.png

That's about it. Points 2) and 3) get repeated ad-nauseam and not very convincingly IMO.
Edit: Deleting this comment. I don't know enough about the subject matter to speak as confidently as I was.
Three Days to See (1933)
Even though the NSA falls under Department of Defense, their stated mission is to collect and process global information so more or less it is functioning very similarly to a human brain, providing intelligence and guidance not only in the security area, but it's also influencing all American domestic and international policies.

Even back in 2010, the NSA was already collecting over 1.7 billion of communication records every day. As far as I know, that amount probably doubles every couple of year so just imagine the enormous size of data that they have to process. It's no wonder the NSA is the only single entity in the world that own gigantic centers of supercomputers. Without AI technologies their information analysis mission would be nearly impossible so it just makes perfect sense the NSA is after those technologies. Honestly I would be surprised if they don't already own quantum computing power.

In addition to low-level firmware codes, I imagine for all those 1.7 billion records of data to be routed back to the NSA every day without a trace, completely invisible to the rest of the world, it must have required another hidden layer of network protocol beyond the current OSI model that we have. The low-level firmware codes must work in sync and convert data following the model of this hidden network protocol for it to transfer away successfully without being detected.

For it to operate effectively, the NSA must be miles ahead of any Silicon Valley company. Their work is truly astonishing no matter how you look at it.
Apps help find unsold food to reduce carbon emissions
Charging below market price and keeping the market from clearing by blocking secondary sales is a weird strategy. If you don't want to provide enough tickets to clear the market at your chosen price, and you don't want to raise your price, fine. But why is "luck" any better of determinant of which person gets the ticket than "had a higher willingness-to-pay"?
I see two things:

- communication in relation to computing: half of computing early history was digital communication (telegraph)

- phones were just the seed: we don't really have phones, we have pocket computers with vestigial microphone tail. Phones were just the pivot to a new market.

my 0.02cents

ps: "Makes me wonder what connection I'm not making today." I'm curious if there still are connections to make. Not wanting to sound jaded or grim; but I feel we're at the end of a technological cycle. We have too much if I may phrase it like that, at least on the digital electronics. Maybe surprises will come elsewhere: say a blend of ubiquitious local assisted manufacturing on top of a different financial layer (spin off from the crypto idea) ?
There’s “reporting the facts,” and then there’s all the context and background work that constitute the journalism bit. One can do the former and still fail utterly at the latter.
The comment I'm replying to says that they don't allege he improperly took their confidential information. This isn't an accurate representation of their allegations. They do allege that, over and over. I don't have any opinions on (or much interest in) the merits of their case, but "they don't even say he took their CI" is not true. They quite plainly do. They say things like:

"in reality, the Nreal Light incorporates and derives from the Confidential Designs and other Magic Leap Confidential Information protected by the PIIA."
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But you can't use a mobile to play CTF in the first place. It would be over engineering if they made the page usable on a mobile for absolutely no reason.

Some of the stages in the CTF require you to download zip files and mount DMG/NTFS files. How do you propose to do that on a mobile?
Basically, if your search Google for 法轮大法/Falun Dafa and 寺庙/buddist temple, you will see entries posted and reposted with title "寺庙修行半辈子，不如念念法轮大法好"[1][2]/"Reading Falun Dafa for a while is better than practicing buddism in a temple for half of your life". I don't think it's fair or honest to make such claims to convert buddists. And I think it may lead to backfire from the buddist religious circle.

[1]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
[2]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Backwards compatibility and portability is not a strength for mobile devices in 2010. Existing UX paradigms don't translate, apps have to be written around the constraints of the device, etc. Apple went clean slate, and look at how that worked for them.
Intern is another term often used to prevent older, experienced workers from applying.
Electric planes start small as industry wrestles with emissions
True. I'm not sure "done" is quite the right word. I think the problem is at that point you no longer have a useful training signal, so you have to stop.
I would imagine it might actually be an indication that some ARM-based Macintosh models are on the horizon since they dropped 32-bit on the ARM side a while back.
I find WSJ to be a pretty great place for journalism, as long as you stay away from their opinion section.

Do you see it differently? And if so, why?
I have this conspiracy theory that I half believe: it was all a ruse.

Apple knew that there would be huge pushback against a walled garden appstore with Apple in absolute control, and huge pushback on them taking a 30% cut. So they started with "just write web apps". But of course, they also inexplicably made the first iPhone 2G only! Flagship phones that shipped many months before the iPhone had 3G. Why cut that particular corner, and not any others in their otherwise $$$-is-no-object new wonderphone?

You can do a much better job hiding low bandwidth and high latency in a native app, especially since app assets get downloaded once (probably over wifi) at app install time. So by essentially making app developers beg for access to their native platform, they radically reduced the anger at their wildly locked-down appstore and their 30% cut.

And it seemed a little suspicious how quickly they were able to deliver a 3rd-party SDK and developer documentation.
Why on earth does a pre-revenue startup need a proprietary font design?
> chosen for you based on where you live

That’s right. By the government [0][1].

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2014/02/19/whos-afraid-o...
Magic Leap actually have a product and it's actually pretty damn good at what it does. What they don't have is revenue. There just isn't a big enough market for mixed reality headsets.
Ended up using makemime which showed the data in base64. Good enough! Interestingly enough though the ORME.flag showed permission denied... I'll have to go back to that one later.
>> how toxic the Windows brand is -- or, if not 'toxic', at least worthless

How about the "Microsoft" brand? Looking at the "most valuable brands", Microsoft is always near the top. Example:

https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/#tab:rank
No, most numbers have only a single representation. A tenth have two, a hundredth have three, etc.
Related story: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/gmo_impossible_burger_posi...

> The levels of glyphosate detected in the Impossible burger by Health Research Institute Laboratories were 11 X higher than the Beyond Meat Burger. The total result (glyphosate and it’s break down AMPA) was 11.3 ppb. Moms Across America also tested the Beyond Meat Burger and the results were 1 ppb.

> “We are shocked to find that the Impossible Burger can have up to 11X higher levels of glyphosate residues than the Beyond Meat Burger according to these samples tested. This new product is being marketed as a solution for “healthy” eating, when in fact 11 ppb of glyphosate herbicide consumption can be highly dangerous. Only 0.1 ppb of glyphosate has been shown to alter the gene function of over 4000 genes in the livers, kidneys and cause severe organ damage in rats

Question(s): Is the lab result significant or not? Is it fairly common for other veggie products in the US to show similar levels? What is the safe level according to the FDA?
Liar, everyone here know what is the Chinese policy: stole everything, try to make it better. Everywhere you can find this behavior from electric cars to CPUs, to OS ... etc
You probably don't want anything nearly as wide as 30 degrees if you're shooting around with a HERF gun linked to targeting radar in a population area, even if you ignore factors of beam density or spread. A highly focused beam that's able to follow a target puts a lot more power on the target than a simple directional antenna with 30 degree spread.

I suspect that anything more than a couple degrees of spread would be considered undesirable for this kind of use.
This was not as dystopian an idea I thought it would be from the title. I'm all for innovative ways of cutting down on unnecessary meetings - creating an internal currency to meter/limit them is a clever idea.
Maybe an analogy to explain myself.

Cars were invented for people with sufficient use of their limbs and eyesight. After their invention, the control systems were adapted for people who, for instance, can't use their legs. I don't know of any way they have been adapted for e.g. blind people. And yet, even though they are not accessible to a large fraction of disabled people, the world is better off with cars, designed for not-disabled people and then adapted as far as possible, than without cars.

That's all I'm getting at. Its too much of a constraint on invention, but likely to be adaptable later.
> and is now opportunistically patent trolling Nreal

Are you making this up?

I don't see any patent claim being mentioned in the article.
It’s actually the opposite. States reduce choices available to customers. See my sibling comment for an example: the cable industry.
While your comment has merit, I think it’s unfair to compare Magic Leap to Theranos. One did actual bloodwork on people and fucked with your health...the other promised a whale jumping in a gym...

Business practice/promise aside, Theranos had the ability to negatively influence a person’s health. Magic Leap can only under deliver.
> Using the exact same proprietary font in their logo was a really dumb idea

It’s not the same font. Similar but not the same. Look at letter L and A. They are different
Crazy mix of the theory of the firm and prediction markets.
One possibility is that he wants to make sure that large numbers of not-as-wealthy fans think of him as their dude, and playing to audiences of rich people could tarnish his brand image. Or, he just thinks not rich people should be able to see his shows. Or, he doesn't like playing for an audience that feels entitled because they payed a lot, and he gets a better vibe in the audience if it's full of people who aren't wealthy-entitled-types. Or something else, but that's several possibilities.

Edit: I never heard of this guy before now, so I don't know if any of these guesses are the reality.
because luck is random

having money to pay is not
That's not what's being alleged though. Seems like a strange take.
I understand where you're coming from but the difference is that Theranos claims were literally impossible due to how human skin and circulatory system works. Whereas Magic Leap AR is only extremely difficult. If they throw enough billions at it they might eventually ship something that sort of works.
I don't think your argument works. The license is not relevant.. you need an API layer that allow customization via OS hooks, drivers and apps. Also, even if you had a closed source license, there is no reason you cannot share it with your partners.
Cool fact - I'd bet that no one pronounces MySQL like its author does.
Did you mean to respond to me? In a sibling to my original comment it looks like theclaw cites a page that implies the scheduler handles the "yield process" and does preempt running threads. Windows 3.1 used cooperative multitasking which is why a single program could "lock up" the whole system.
It would be nice if we actually had data instead of just arguing over peoples opinions.
I’m 45 now, and have experienced two job changes in the past 10 years (one voluntary, one involuntary), and although I had some inexplicable rejections - including one where I truly had experience in every single technology in their very long laundry list - I never really thought there was any age discrimination going on. I worry about it, but the situation doesn’t seem to be as dire as I was afraid it could be.